Live ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view events are coming online to China. Company officials on Tuesday announced that live PPV events, beginning with next month’s “UFC 109: Relentless” event (headlined by Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman in Las Vegas), will air online at Sohu.com.
Sohu  is one of the country’s largest Web portals.” China is one of [...]

Following months of speculation on the fate of a postponed bout between middleweight champion Anderson Silva (25-4, 10-0 UFC) and challenger Vitor Belfort (19-8 MMA, 8-4 UFC), the pieces are finally in place for an April fight. Fabiano Farah, Belfort’s manager, confirmed with MMAjunkie on Wednesday that Belfort meets Silva at UFC 112 on April [...]

The sport’s highest-profile free agent in recent months, Dan Henderson, is now Strikeforce bound. MMAjunkie today confirmed with Strikeforce officials that the former PRIDE title-holder and recent UFC fighter has agreed to a new deal with the California-based organization.
Strikeforce has since made the signing official, which included a quote from Henderson in which he wished [...]

While “UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin II” was routinely criticized for what some considered a lackluster main event, the show still delivered a $3 million live gate at the box office. UFC president Dana White said at the event’s post-fight press conference that 10,529 fans watched UFC 106 live at Mandalay Bay Events Center in [...]

Following a month-long nomination stage, finalists for the 2009 World MMA Awards were today officially revealed.
The UFC and its leading man, Dana White, again dominated many of the 18 categories while the coveted “Fighter of the Year” category has been slimmed down to finalists Georges St. Pierre, Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Mike Thomas Brown and [...]

UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (25-4 MMA, 10-0 UFC) will likely make his next title defense on Jan. 2 when he meets Vitor Belfort (19-8 MMA, 8-4 UFC) in the main event of UFC 108.
The Los Angeles Times first reported the matchup and cited UFC president Dana White as confirming the news. A source close [...]

Anderson Silva’s next middleweight title defense will have to wait until next year. The UFC’s longtime title-holder and one of MMA’s top pound-for-pound fighters will soon undergo elbow surgery and will miss the remainder of the 2009 fight season.
ESPN’s “MMA Live” mentioned the injury in a recent Twitter message, though Silva’s manager, Ed Soares, didn’t [...]

Despite his success in the 205-pound division, including a first-round shellacking of former champ Forrest Griffin at Saturday’s UFC 101 event, Anderson Silva’s next challenge will likely come in the middleweight division. Sticking with a recently revealed game plan, UFC president Dana White said Silva’s next fight will “probably” be against Dan Henderson, whom the [...]

After back-to-back disappointing middleweight title defenses, the world began to doubt the dominance of Anderson Silva (25-4 MMA, 10-0 UFC). But after the fight and Saturday night’s performance at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, the criticism is expected to stop.
While lightweight champion B.J. Penn (14-5-1 MMA, 10-4-1 UFC) defended his title in the main event of [...]

Middleweight champion Anderson Silva has won all nine of his fights in the UFC, the first seven either by spectacular strikes or submission. It made him arguably the most thrilling star in mixed martial arts. Seeing no one capable of standing and striking with Silva at 185 pounds, White got him to move up 20 [...]