Emanuel Newton is not looking past upcoming (March 28, 2013) opponent Mikhail Zayats.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't have Attila Vegh in his sights. "The Hardcore Kid" lost one of 2012's most controversial decisions to Vegh in the Bellator summer series light heavyweight tournament semifinals last July.

The loss still stings the California native to this day.

Newton proved he belongs among t...

When Robbie Lawler returned to the UFC after nearly nine years away, the calendar insisted he was only 30 years old. How could that be? Lawler is one of those guys who seems to have been around forever. He competed in the old Extreme Challenge shows. He fought in the UFC soon after Zuffa bought it from original owners SEG. He challenged Tiki Ghosn and Evan Tanner and Pete Spratt and others who h...

Robbie Lawler has been in the fight game long enough to know that there are those fans that are either fickle or that focus strictly on the UFC and nothing else. So with Lawler’s eight year plus absence from the Octagon to fight with various promotions, including PRIDE, Elite XC, and Strikeforce, there is the distinct possibility that when he returns to face Josh Koscheck at UFC 157 this Saturday...

One of the long-running narratives about Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2012 was the enormous amount of injuries to big fighters and how it tore apart otherwise exciting cards into flimsy nonsense held together with spit and bubble gum.

UFC 147 was a joke of a pay-per-view (PPV), headlined by the rematch hardly anyone cared about or wanted, with a supporting "Prelims" under card that fe...