Mixed Martial Arts

Fox Sports 2 likely to launch in August alongside Fox Sports 1

2013-05-14 05:00:00

News Corp.'s Fox Sports will launch not one, but two new national sports cable channels in August, according to people familiar with the plan. In March, Fox Sports said it would debut Fox Sports 1 on Aug. 17. At the time, the company downplayed talk...

Online poker website launches in Nevada; legal for residents only

2013-04-30 09:17:00

Poker fanatics in Nevada now have an online play-from-home option to gamble.� The first legal online poker website launched Tuesday in the Silver State, home to the casino city of Las Vegas. The site, UltimatePoker.com, went up�just two months after...

UFC: It's Jon Jones' 'conviction' vs. Chael Sonnen's title desire

2013-04-25 11:30:00

Chael Sonnen has been in Jon Jones’ ear for more than seven months now. Saturday night, the entertaining Ultimate Fighting Championship title contender will meet the organization’s dominant light-heavyweight champion face to face. “...

Watch Benson Henderson propose after win in 'UFC on Fox 7' [Video]

2013-04-21 07:30:00

Benson Henderson not only won a split decision over Gilbert Melendez during "UFC on Fox 7," but he decided to propose to his girlfriend after the fight. Henderson admitted that he was nervous about whether he should pop the question after successfully...

Boston bombings: Don't blame boxing

2013-04-21 00:00:00

As details have begun to flow about the lives of the Tsarnaev brothers, the media and the public have seized on some obvious bullet points: that the perpetrators were Muslims; that they were of Chechen descent; that they seemed alienated (one of the...

UFC's Benson Henderson defends belt, wants Georges St-Pierre

2013-04-19 17:20:00

Benson Henderson aspires to one day soon fight Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. The UFC� lightweight champion will need to know he can take a mighty punch and deal with a strong ground-and-pound fighter before...

This time, UFC's Cain Velasquez aims for lengthier title run

2013-03-22 17:20:00

Cain Velasquez envisioned a lengthy reign as Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight titlist after first taking the belt in October 2010. It didn’t work out that way. An injury followed just over a year later, with his first title defense...

Ronda Rousey joins 'The Ultimate Fighter,' fuels show's comeback

2013-03-21 15:57:00

Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White might not strike the public as an avid reader of Entertainment Weekly, but White has noticed this week’s issue. The magazine declared his organization’s “The Ultimate Fighter”...

Promoter: Singapore possible destination for Manny Pacquiao fight

2013-03-20 14:45:00

It’s “very possible” Manny Pacquiao’s fifth fight against Juan Manuel Marquez will take place in Singapore, Bob Arum, the boxers’ promoter,�said Wednesday. Arum, speaking at a luncheon to promote his first card in China,...

Ronda Rousey returns windfall for UFC

2013-02-26 09:19:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. Ronda Rousey’s dramatic first victory by a woman in the Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon was a financial bonanza for the fight organization. In addition to a sellout crowd of 15,525 at...

'Die Hard' is soft. 'Safe Haven' is strong. UFC vs. Bellator.

2013-02-19 08:21:00

After the coffee. Before getting back into work mode. The Skinny: I watched "The Following" last night and fear it has started to take a bad turn. I don't want to play spoiler but I do hate it when a character does something they never would do in the...

UFC's Dan Henderson confident age not an issue vs. Lyoto Machida

2013-02-06 14:59:00

Dan Henderson can feel age advancing when he awakes in the morning and the aches of climbing from bed hit. But the 42-year-old Murrieta fighter soaks up enough energy in training camp to speculate there is no reason he can’t defeat former Ultimate...

Ultimate Fighting Championship programming is a mainstay on Fuel TV, which sources say will become Fox Sports 2. Here, Jon Jones, top, is seen successfully defending his UFC light heavyweight title against Chael Sonnen in Newark, N.J., during the pay-per-view UFC 159 event.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Ronda Rousey will put her Ultimate Fighting Championship women�s bantamweight title on the line against Cat Zingano sometime �at the end of the year."

2013-04-17 22:21:00

Fifteen mixed martial arts bouts, all of them involving men, are on tap Friday night at the Dakota Event Center. The all-ages show begins at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. They're available at Maverick�s, Shrunken Head Tattoos and Snap Fitness.

2013-03-28 00:00:00