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Veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) referee Steve Mazzagatti has been asked to step up and officiate the UFC 143 main event fight between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit, set to go down on Feb. 4, 2012, from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Joining him will be the oft-maligned Cecil Peoples, who will assume the position of judge alongside Patricia Morse-Jarman and Junichiro...

Featherweights Nam Phan and Jim Hettes will collide in main card action on the UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem card this Friday night.

Hettes is a UFC newcomer with a perfect nine-fight record, closing out each match by submission (six in the first frame). His debut was an exhilarating back and forth scrap with Alex Caceres, in which the pair morphed into a blurry tangle of limbs with Hettes slickly...

Featherweights Nam Phan and Jim Hettes will collide in main card action on the UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem card this Friday night.

Hettes is a UFC newcomer with a perfect nine-fight record, closing out each match by submission (six in the first frame). His debut was an exhilarating back and forth scrap with Alex Caceres, in which the pair morphed into a blurry tangle of limbs with Hettes slickly...

Featherweights Nam Phan and Jim Hettes will collide in main card action on the UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem card this Friday night.

Hettes is a UFC newcomer with a perfect nine-fight record, closing out each match by submission (six in the first frame). His debut was an exhilarating back and forth scrap with Alex Caceres, in which the pair morphed into a blurry tangle of limbs with Hettes slickly...

After outpointing Billy Evangelista on Saturday, K.J. Noons is already getting asked about a potential matchup against Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez.

Two talented and entertaining featherweights will meet inside the Octagon this Friday night (Dec. 30, 2011) as The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 12 veteran Nam Phan takes on undefeated submission wizard Jim Hettes in the opening bout of the UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem main card.

Phan, after an onerous start to his UFC career, finally earned his first victory in the promotion in his last bout, a revenge...

Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez and former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Gegard Mousasi each made $150,000 for their efforts last Saturday at the promotion's event in San Diego, each nearly topping what the show generated in ticket sales.

The California State Athletic Commission released the numbers for the entire show Tuesday and MMA Fighting reported on them, reveali...

Four fighters from this past weekend's "Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal" event now face indefinite medical suspensions.

MMAjunkie.com recently requested and received the list of suspensions from the California State Athletic Commission.

Headliner Jorge Masvidal, main-card fighters Jorge Masvidal and Billy Evangelista, and prelim fighter Devin Cole all face indefinite suspensions.

Strikeforce: "Melendez vs. Masvidal" took place this past Sat., Dec. 17, 2011, from the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California, and featured the new face of the promotion, Gilbert Melendez, defending his lightweight championship against Jorge Masvidal.

And if the ratings are any indication of the what's ahead for the recently resurrected promotion, there may be hope just yet.

That'...

Strikeforce fighter payouts for those who competed at the "Melendez vs. Masvidal" event this past Saturday night (Dec. 17, 2011), which aired on Showtime from the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, Calif., were released to MMAmania.com this evening by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC).

Unsurprisingly, lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez led the payout pack, earning $150,00...

Trash talking is the norm in a fight, but that's not what happened on Saturday night. K.J. Noons reveals the deal he struck during the third round of his fight with Billy Evangelista.

It was a battle of two men who'd both come off tough losses to title challenger Jorge Masvidal, and it looked like it last night (December 17, 2011) when former EliteXC lightweight champion and Strikeforce welterweight title challenger K.J. Noons took on 10 fight Strikeforce veteran Billy Evangelista in the opening bout of the Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal main card.

Noons seemed to have ta...

Strikeforce: "Melendez vs. Masvidal" took place last night (Sat., Dec. 17, 2011) from the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California, featuring Gilbert Melendez successfully retaining both his lightweight championship and his status as the face of the promotion.

Jorge Masvidal was "Gamebred," though. Big ups.

Cristiane Santos also made it a night to remember (for the rest of us, at leas...

Last night was the final Strikeforce event of 2011 and featured two title fights. Earlier this week Strikeforce and Showtime announced an extension to their deal with one of the points of interest being that Gilbert Melendez will remain a Strikeforce fighter. As the last of Cesar Gracie's champions in Strikeforce, it is assumed that a majority of the marketing will go towards 'breaking' Gilbert M...

SAN DIEGO - Strikeforce lightweight K.J. Noons is no

stranger to a little in-cage conversation, but it's generally laced with

a few R-rated phrases and a mother reference or two.

So when Noons and Billy Evangelista started jawing at each other in the

third round of their back-and-forth "Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal"

contest, it didn't seem out of the realm of possibility that expletive...

Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not heading into writing this with the intention of being negative, but I fear that's the direction it'll go.

Normally I kick these post-event articles off by talking about the main event, but I'll get to that in a few minutes. First up is the sham of a "championship fight" between Cristiane Santos and Hiroko Yaminaka.

Cyborg ...

After tonight, we can make the accurate claim that being filmed by MiddleEasy in 3-D will enable you to successfully defend your championship strap. According to statistics, every fighter filmed by MiddleEasy in 3-D has enjoyed a 100% success rate in their future fights. It's been scientifically proven. There's no arguing about it. Your debating abilities hold no weight here at MiddleEasy. We o...

As with every major show, Bloody Elbow will be here to bring you live results, play by play and commentary for Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal. The event kicks off at 10:30 p.m. ET on Showtime, directly following the conclusion of the finals of the Super Six World Boxing Classic between Andre Ward and Carl Froch.

The main event for the card sees Gilbert Melendez defend his Strikeforce lightwe...

As with every major show, Bloody Elbow will be here to bring you live results, play by play and commentary for Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal. The event kicks off at 10:30 p.m. ET on Showtime, directly following the conclusion of the finals of the Super Six World Boxing Classic between Andre Ward and Carl Froch.

The main event for the card sees Gilbert Melendez defend his Strikeforce lightwe...

As with every major show, Bloody Elbow will be here to bring you live results, play by play and commentary for Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal. The event kicks off at 10:30 p.m. ET on Showtime, directly following the conclusion of the finals of the Super Six World Boxing Classic between Andre Ward and Carl Froch.

The main event for the card sees Gilbert Melendez defend his Strikeforce lightwe...