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In a recent press conference DREAM officials have announced three more fights for DREAM.5 and have officially stated that heavyweight Mark Hunt will be on the card. The word according to the wonderfully named Nightmare of Battle: Yoshihiro Akiyama will take on Katsuyori Shibata who challenged him last week, Joachim Hansen will fight Black Mamba [...]

What a weird night of fights. As evidenced by the boiling temperatures coming from most of the Jackson vs. Griffin threads – and the tepid preliminary bouts – most of this edition of Ram’s blings will be focused on the main event and the hot sports opinions being bandied back and forth. The Presentation It’s times likes [...]

In a recent interview, current UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn talks to Fighters Club TV about possibly returning to the welterweight division for the big New Year’s show: Right now we’re trying to set up a welterweight fight with me and maybe the winner of (Jon) Fitch and (Georges) St. Pierre, maybe at the News Year’s [...]

In a new column on MMAJunkie.com by Steve Sievert, current WEC featherweight Jens “Lil’ Evil” Pulver claims a matchup with Alexandre “Pequeno” Nogueira makes the most sense for both fighters: “He’s been in a lot of wars and has been around for a long time,” Pulver said. “He’s still a top fighter, and with both of [...]

Running a bit late with this entry after suffering through half the day without my internet connection. I’ll make this one quick, which is something that unfortunately can’t be said about last night’s “The Ultimate Fighter 7” Finale. Who the hell do you think you are, Free Programming? The Broadcast About halfway through the broadcast, I felt [...]

I might feel better in the morning, but just a few minutes after EliteXC: Primetime ended I can’t help but feel something near and dear to me has been perverted in some way. Much like someone just used my dog to smash my brand new car and then lit the whole thing on fire. It [...]

On a slow news day, leave it up to the Japanese to give us gold. In an exclusive story, our good friend Caleb Newby of Nokaut.com is reporting one of the oddest news bits in a long while: Mirko Cro Cop will face Ralek Gracie, a black belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu, in a special rules grappling [...]

Looks like the votes have been counted and the fighters have been paired up for the second round of DREAM’s Middleweight Grand Prix. Some intriguing matchups in the mix: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Melvin Manhoef Gegard Mousasi vs. Dong Sik Yoon Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza Zelg Galesic vs. Taiei Kin The most intriguing matchup by a long [...]

After serving 11 days of his 35-day sentence, Chris Leben was released from county jail yesterday. The word according to ‘Adam’, who posted the announcement on Leben’s MySpace site: Chris has been released from jail over the weekend. This is all the information I have right now and I’ll be sure to update everyone on his [...]

MMAmania.com is reporting that Chris Leben has been sentenced to a jail stint that may jeopardize his next scheduled bout: …middleweight fighter Chris Leben was today sentenced to 35 days in jail. No other details were available at this time. As explained by T. Jay Thompson, a friend of Leben’s, the UFC contender turned himself in to [...]