Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to pay-per-view (PPV) for the fourth time this year on Saturday night (April 27, 2013) with UFC 159: "Jones vs. Sonnen," which goes down at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

A light heavyweight championship contest will serve as the featured bout of the evening in "The Garden State" as reigning champion Jon Jones puts his title on the line ...

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By Brian J. D’Souza

A revolution is something that changes the system in a radical way. It’s an advancement that brings new ideas to the forefront. In many ways, this was what UFC 1 was. Organized by Rorian Gracie, Art Davie, and Bob Meyrowitz of Semaphore Entertainment G...

Tomorrow night, one of the most riveting seasons in the history of The Ultimate Fighter comes to a close, and a lot of its success has to do with the two men coaching: Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen. And while the focus turns to the fighters at the Finale, in two weeks,

the men in charge will themselves compete for a UFC title in the main

event of UFC 159. Being the coach of the winning competito...

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The Ultimate Fighter doesn't always leave people looking their best. The selective editing necessary for a reality show can make people seem perhaps worse than they were perceived going in, and that's something we've seen with many of the coaches from season to season.

It could be argued that his tim...

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The Ultimate Fighter doesn't always leave people looking their best. The selective editing necessary for a reality show can make people seem perhaps worse than they were perceived going in, and that's something we've seen with many of the coaches from season to season.

It could be argued that his tim...

There is never a good time for a UFC main event injury, but they are hardly unusual in this day and age.If you have to pick a worse time and place scenario, what happened this past week with Alexander Gustafsson's cut that caused him to not be cleared to fight Gegard Mousasi at UFC's show on Fuel that airs on Saturday afternoon, it would be near the top of the list. Gustafsson, the UFC's current ...

Knuckle Up's Eugene S. Robinson goes mobile again in his most disjointed show to date (and that's saying A LOT) wherein he details the parameters ofthe hardest job in MMA (Joe Silva's), the possibly sad depression era spectacle of whatever the hell Ken Shamrock's doing to put food on thetable and shock at another card biting (possibly) the dust.The misery sister and host of KNUCKLEUP<http://www.y...

The schedule once again freed from any major events, the past weekend was relatively quiet, right up until the moment it wasn't. Of course, then word leaked out of the Easter Day bombshell that could sink one of this month's most anticipated fights, and more than a few Easter egg hunts were likely ruined inside the Zuffa offices.

But while we all wait in limbo to find out the fate of Alexander G...

A fight 10 years in the making is on the verge of finally happening this summer in England. Ian Freeman and Ken Shamrock have agreed to fight for Ultimate Cage Fighting Championships on July 27 in Doncaster.

Despite being 49 years of age, UFC Hall of Famer and MMA pioneer Ken Shamrock is returning to competitive mixed martial arts action. 'The World's Most Dangerous Man' will face fellow UFC veteran Ian Freeman in a bout for the Ultimate Cage Fighting Championships at Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, England on July 27.

Sherdog.com was the first to report the news.

Shamrock has lost 10 of his last 14...

It's been a while since 49-year-old UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock was really "the World's Most Dangerous Man" but that's not stopping a British promoter from booking him to fight a fellow pioneer of the sport, 42-year-old Ian Freeman. Sherdog reports:

Sherdog.com confirmed Wednesday with Ultimate Cage Fighting Championships official David Mangham that Ken Shamrock and Ian Freeman have verbally ...

Two of MMA’s elder statesmen are expected to do battle this summer in England.

(AND FOR ONLY FIVE DOLLARS MORE, I WILL PERSONALLY COME TO YOUR HOME AND SCREAM AT YOUR KIDS WHILE YOU WATCH MY FIGHT ON TEVO.)  It’s hard to say what exactly inspires aging MMA fighters with the sudden desire to give the sport another go. In Aleksander Emelianenko’s case, it was money, probably to be [...]

A few updates on what's been going on in the MMA & UFC Twitterverse

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There's a ton of tweets below, but first, don't forget to follow me on twitter: @antontabuena

Oh, and these guys are probably worth following as well: The Official BloodyElbow Twitter Account, Luke Thomas, Kid Nate, Brent Brookhouse, Richard Wade, Chris Barton, Damon O, Scott Broussard, Tim Burke, Matt Bishop, Fraser Coff...

Over this past weekend, South Korean UFC fighter Chan Sung Jung, "The Korean Zombie," penned an open letter to UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. You may have seen it in yesterday's column. Within the letter, Jung politely decried St-Pierre's walkout gi, which featured imagery of a Japanese Rising Sun -- a controversial symbol for cultures who suffered under the weight of Japanese milit...

Mark Coleman, the first world-class wrestler still in his prime to compete in the UFC, made official a couple of weeks back that his fighting career was over due to the hip replacement surgery he had on March 4.

It was more a confirmation of the obvious. Coleman, 48, hadn’t fought in three years, since his lost to Randy Couture at UFC 109. He’s been in a lot of pain for two years before that. He...

There are three hard-and-fast maxims in modern mixed martial arts (MMA) reporting (at least here at MMAmania.com):

1. Never write anything that comes out of the mouth of Ken Shamrock because you are doomed to repeat the mindless follow-up stories that will undoubtedly follow and lead to nowhere; 2. Alessio Sakara will get hurt, but never cut, so write a post right the first time so you can recyc...

The build-up to Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz at UFC 158 centered around a grudge match angle. Dana White pushed the idea that Georges was driven to deep anger over Nick's disrespectful behavior.

Mike Chiappetta at MMA Fighting has the quote from Dana White suggesting that the grudge match angle worked well:

Grudge fights are big business, especially when a superstar is involved. We already ...

MONTREAL -- Grudge fights are big business, especially when a superstar is involved. We already knew this. For evidence, we can point to Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir highlighting the monstrous UFC 100 or Rashad Evans and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson drawing over 1 million pay-per-view buys for the culmination of their feud, or going back even further, the Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock trilogy.Apparently...

Well, that was a big waste of time.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre successfully defended his 170-pound title on Saturday night in the main event of UFC 158: "St. Pierre vs. Diaz," after five rounds of action at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

I think most of us saw that coming (re-watch the highlights here).

He wasn't better on the fe...