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A Shortage of Contenders for Lyoto Machida's UFC Light Heavyweight Title

Sergio Non breaks down the division: • Because Rashad Evans and Thiago Silva lost so convincingly to Machida already, the winner of their UFC 108 showdown will still need another victory over a ...

This Week In MMA Link Dump

This week was a packed full of MMA related news and such.  We covered the fallout from UFC 105 last week.  A new WEC featherweight champion in Jose Aldo, and tried to find out if he's the ne...

Cage Cast 44: WEC 44 Recap and MMA News Recap

WKR latest episode of Cage Cast recaps WEC 44 and the other big news in the MMA world. You can download the episode here, subscribe to our RSS feed here and check us out on iTunes. The streaming vers...

Lyoto Machida vs Shogun Rua rematch slated for Montreal on May 1

UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida will once again put his 205-pound title on the line against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua when the Brazilians collide at The Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Cana...

USAT/SBN November MMA Consensus Rankings: Light Heavyweight

<!-- BEGIN RANKINGS TABLE --> Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1 Lyoto Machida 100 UFC 1 2 Mauricio Rua 92 UFC 4 3 Rashad Evans 91 UFC 2 4 Quinton Jackson 84 UFC 3 5 Forrest ...

Scoring UFC 105's Randy Couture vs Brandon Vera

Mike Chiappetta takes a stab at it and comes away scratching his head and wondering what fight the judges were watching: Vera stopped most of Couture's takedowns. He landed the only damaging blows of...

Dave Meltzer: UFC 104 Trending Toward 475,000 Buys

In this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscription required), Dave Meltzer reported that updated trending data since his original report suggests UFC 104 did better than expected, clockin...

Taking the Stand: Defending the Ten-Point Must System

Dave Meltzer lays his solution to the ten-point must system "problem": I’ve previously advocated a system that is basically identical to the one Nelson "Doc" Hamilton suggested earlier this yea...

The Idiocy of "Beating the Champion" to Be the Champion

Some of the most reflective thought in MMA goes on in Sherdog.com's Doggy Bag and while this isn't the headiest material ever discussed, it is essential: A quick note on Machida vs. Rua: people nee...

UFC 108 Just Took Some Body Blows

You'll remember I posted up that Lesnar/Carwin had been moved to UFC 108 since Lesnar had to pull out of the scheduled UFC 106 fight against Shane Carwin.  UFC 108 was expected to feature An...