If you watched UFC 36 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on March 22, 2002, you saw Josh Barnett defeat Randy Couture for the UFC heavyweight title. You also saw an impressive youngster name Frank Mir make short work of old-school veteran Pete Williams on the undercard with a shoulder lock.

You may have concluded that night that Barnett and Mir were destined to collide. And you were correct. It just ...

The co-main event is a rather delicious matchup between two Heavyweights ready for battle this weekend at the HP Pavillion. Opposite the aging, wily veteran is the aging, but spry mixed martial arts neophyte. Can will, skill, and speed overcome just skill?

Frank Mir (16-6) vs. Daniel Cormier (11-0) Heavyweight

Of course, I'm kidding about Mir being merely skilled (though we can all agree that h...

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...

Hardcore fans will remember UFC 22 for one fight - Frank Shamrock's historic bout against Tito Ortiz for the UFC Middleweight Championship. However, this same event introduced the MMA world to two other fighters that would go on to become icons - Matt Hughes, and the fighter this article is about, Jens Pulver.

Pulver had his first sanctioned MMA fight at the Bas Rutten Invitational in April, 199...

In 1995, 25-year old Chuck Liddell had known about the UFC from its early days, but never considered fighting until a friend of his, "San Diego Chargers" fullback Lorenzo Neal, offered to sponsor him to train. At the time, Liddell held two national kickboxing titles and accolades in other organizations, and was at a crossroads in his life. It was either make it in fighting or get a desk job, and ...

This is a list of the fighters currently signed to contract in the UFC's heavyweight division. All fighters have been organized by their number of appearances in the UFC. Fighters with the same number of appearances are organized by number of wins, fighters with the same record are organized alphabetically. Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests (NC). All...

Now available on Pay-Per-View, the Ultimate 100 Knockouts show presents three hours of the most spectacular finishes ever seen in mixed martial arts from Liddell to Gomi, Cro Cop to Silva, they’re all here, spanning not just the UFC, but the best knockouts from the WEC, PRIDE, Strikeforce, and Affliction as well.Click to order the Pay-Per-View this weekendAs a sampler, here’s a look at just 20 of...

With a distance of roughly 1,800 miles between Macao and Tokyo, the countries of China and Japan aren’t exactly next door neighbors, but on November 10th, Japanese MMA will be well represented on the first UFC event to take place in China, as standouts Takanori Gomi, Yasuhiro Urushitani, Riki Fukuda, and Takeya Mizugaki all take to the Octagon for what promises to be an historic event not just fo...

Zombie Prophet and I are teaming up once again to bring Bloody Elbow new and exciting content. This week, we're focusing on some rare and impressive knock outs. Featured below, ZP has gathered a collection of big knock out victories from many different arenas. In the first half of the knock out highlights we look at the action from the 90's Superbrawl tournaments, Cage Rage, Rumble On The Rock ev...

The featured attraction of tonight's UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir lineup is a heavyweight title fight between reigning champion Junior dos Santos and perennial contender Frank Mir. The live pay-per-view begins at 10:00 p.m. ET and will follow the FX preliminary card at 8:00 p.m. ET and Facebook preliminary card stream.

Every once in a while, a young up-and-comer will consistently rise above, slau...

UFC 146 is tonight and Frank Mir is set to face off with current UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos for all the heavyweight marbles. While many fans remember Frank Mir best for his antagonizing of Brock Lesnar or like to joke about his chin, what gets lost is that Mir has had an extremely successful MMA career.

Mir has weathered time, a motorcycle accident and an evolving Heavyweight div...

The featured attraction of tonight's UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir lineup is a heavyweight title fight between reigning champion Junior dos Santos and perennial contender Frank Mir. The live pay-per-view begins at 10:00 p.m. ET and will follow the FX preliminary card at 8:00 p.m. ET and Facebook preliminary card stream.

Every once in a while, a young up-and-comer will consistently rise above, slau...

(Come on...hasn't Mark Hunt suffered enough?)

Tomorrow night in San Jose, Josh Barnett will face the greatest challenge of his post-PRIDE career when he meets Daniel Cormier in the finals of Strikeforce's World Heavyweight Grand Prix. (FYI, we'll be liveblogging the Showtime main card starting at 10 p.m. ET, so don't make any big plans.) Barnett's comfort-level in the cage and catch-wrestling ...

One of the top heavyweights of this era, two-time UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir has been quietly battling his way back to the top for a shot at a record-tying third belt, defeating Mirko Cro Cop and Roy Nelson in recent bouts. On December 10th, he will travel to Toronto for a UFC 140 rematch with “Minotauro” Nogueira, and a win will be precisely what he needs to end 2011 on a high note and s...

The early days of the UFC were like the wild west, a landscape of very few rules where the man with the biggest gun ruled. 

But a little over three years into the promotion's life, they knew something had to change. They realized there was a legitimate sport to be made from the bare-knuckle brawling scraps that remained from the first handful of events and while a fight between a 180-pound man s...

In its heyday, mixed martial arts (MMA) was big business in Japan. Pride Fighting Championships (Pride) was packing stadiums full of 40, 50, or even 60,000 people on a regular basis. Big crowds, huge arenas, and larger-than-life fighters were the norm as every aspect of each event went decidedly over the top.

It was a great time to be a fight fan but like all good things, it wouldn't last foreve...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship makes its long-awaited return to the country of Brazil this Saturday (August 27). It's a country that -- along with Japan -- helped form the sport we all know and love. Mixed martial arts' (MMA) brutal origins in vale tudo are an integral part of its history as are many of Brazil's native sons. As we head towards UFC 134: "Silva vs. Okami," Viva Brazil! will ser...

When attempting to become a well rounded mixed martial artist, you will often focus on wrestling skills. Being able to dictate where the fight goes, almost automatically you will begin learning how to grapple and learn submissions to complement that wrestling arsenal.

But what exactly did we learn from Mark Coleman’s loss to kickboxer Maurice Smith way back when at UFC 14? And how about when t...

Frank Mir lucked into a heavyweight title shot when Andrei Arlovski suffered a hand injury and couldn't meet Tim Sylvia at UFC 48: "Payback."

He made the most of that stroke of good fortune when he scored a technical submission over the goliath-like fighter, breaking his arm in less than a minute.

But as quickly as Lady Luck smiles upon someone, she frowns.

Mir broke a limb of his own -- his...