Martial Arts News

Four of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's top heavyweight fighters gathered on a recent conference call to answer questions from the media in advance of UFC 160 set for next Saturday in Las Vegas.

Ultimate Fighting Championship has suspended and fined 28-year-old Nate Diaz for calling his opponent a homophobic slur on Thursday via Twitter.

MANILA, Philippines Filipino fighter Eduard Folayang hopes his new found ground skills will come in handy when he takes on Iranian-American veteran Kamal Shalorus in ONE FC: Rise to Power this May 31st.

Kate Jonasee, a student at West End Aikido , is now embarking on her second annual car give-away. Her automotive shop, K-Tech Automotive, located a block from downtown Sebastopol and next to the Sebastopol Arts Center and Ives Park, has found a wonderful way to give back to the community .

There's no question that the legendary career of Wanderlei Silva is nearing its end.

THE latest TKMMA show has been hailed as the best ever by director Jay Bacchus, after more than 800 fans packed into the Handy Cross Sports Centre on Saturday night.

In what will go down as one of the most expensive 'social smokes' in history, Strikeforce transplant Pat Healy was stripped of $130,000 in bonus money after failing his post-UFC 159 drug test.

Matthew Lambert of 16 Central St., No. 1, was arrested on a warrant on Thursday and charged with three counts of second-degree assault and four counts of simple assault.

Liz Carmouche has been a trailblazer in her short-but-eventful mixed martial arts career.

With the state legislative session nearing its end, there is a renewed push to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York.

Mixed martial arts - the cage fighting you see on TV - might be kicking the spotlight away from the traditional form of the sport, but karate school owner Carl Byrd says there are still places in Gastonia where you can learn the traditional, Korean-style karate.

Pat Healy forfeited over $130,000 in bonuses earned from his UFC 159 victory against Jim Miller after testing positive for marijuana in a post-fight drug test, leading UFC bantamweight Bryan Caraway to retroactively receive Healy's $65,000 'Submission of the Night' bonus.

MMA is a sport that we all love and support in small niche communities, like Bloody Elbow, but remains to be looked at with a negative stigma by the mainstream public.

About four years after the first attempt to stop Ketchikan Fight Club from using the city-owned Ted Ferry Civic Center, some officials are bringing the topic up again.

The debate about the toughest division in mixed martial arts usually comes down to a conversation about the lightweight and welterweight divisions.

Mixed martial arts has become one of the most popular sports in the world. Millions of people from across the globe watch events on TV and live events have drawn tens of thousands of fans - but not in New York.

According to a May 15 report from Wombat Sports , women's amateur wrestling will soon receive a showmanship makeover to increase the sport's marketability.

As an awkward kid who moved around a lot and was an easy target for aspiring Cobra Kai-style jerks at every new school, I always found it pretty easy to identify with Daniel LaRusso.

A couple of South Florida city leaders fighting wouldn't be unusual, but two Northwest Miami-Dade mayors are taking it to a new extreme - with a real "mixed martial arts" match in front of an audience.

South African Irshaad Sayed has never competed in an MMA fight in his homeland, but the inaugural RUFF bantamweight champion is fast forging a reputation in China and making his fortune in the process.