MMA News & Rumors

An injury to his left hand suffered this past Saturday against Brett Rogers could force Fedor Emelianenko out of action up to the middle of 2010, according to Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker. (Fanhouse)

For the third consecutive UFC pay-per-view event, Spike TV will air a portion of the night's preliminary card. (MMA Junkie)

The one-hour broadcast will feature a potentially exciting welterweight contest between strikers Marcus Davis (16-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC) and Ben Saunders (7-1-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC), as well as a middleweight bout between Kendall Grove (10-6 MMA, 5-3 UFC) and Jake Rosholt (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC). (MMA Junkie)

With the loss of a planned main event between UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and challenger Vitor Belfort, the UFC will instead pit former UFC interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-5-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and undefeated contender Cain Velasquez (7-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) in the main event of UFC 108. (MMA Junkie)

“When they raise my hand, I want Randy to look over and be like, that mother (expletive),” he said. “I want Randy to be proud of me for turning into the fighter that I always talked about becoming. I want him to know, that little bastard is on his way.” (MMA Weekly)

“Cane is undefeated and has a good striking and clinch game, he has a brilliant career but… I’m sorry Cane, Rogério will stop you”, bets the heavyweight Nogueira, commenting Cane’s style. “He’s a tough guy. I already saw him in the UFC and at Minotauro Fight 5”, Minotauro reveals. “I saw his style, he’s very aggressive, he goes for it all the time, has a tough Muay Thai, a good pounding. I couldn’t see him making the guard, but he has a good ground and pound, a heavy hand”. (Tatame)


What are the options? Shields is in a strange dilemma. At middleweight, there are more options that are better for helping Shields win impressively in the middle of the division. He could submit guys like Scott Smith, Joey Villasenor, Robbie Lawler, and Frank Shamrock, but now he's the champion. He'll have to contend with fighters who could beat him badly in Matt Lindland and Ronaldo Souza. On the other hand, he could take the one major fight Strikeforce has for him at welterweight in Marius Zaromskis, which isn't exactly a pushover fight. If he wins, then what? He's a champion in two divisions at the same time with nobody to really fight but middleweights. (Bloody Elbow)

The return of MMA to the CBS airwaves netted the network 5.46 million viewers for the Strikeforce/M-1 Global main event between Fedor Emelianenko and Brett Rogers, official today announced. (MMA Junkie)

“I wasn’t planning to fight this year,” Le admitted to MMAWeekly.com. “I was getting ready to do a movie, a project that I’ve been working on from scratch – working with a writer on a script, getting a director – and the project got pushed to next year. (MMA Weekly)