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Despite reports to the contrary, a EliteXC welterweight title defense by Jake Shields against former UFC and WEC veteran John Alessio to take place on Sept. 20 in Albuquerque, N.M. is not a done deal. FiveOuncesOfPain.com learned of this development after contacting Jack Shields, Jake Shields’ father and manager. According to Jack Shields, his son has received [...] - [Read more]

I have read a lot of articles in recent days discussing the not-so-secret secret meeting between Randy Couture and Fedor Emelianenko in Los Angeles this past Monday. When Couture’s camp leaked the pictures, it was unclear just exactly what the two parties were meeting about. However, recent reports confirmed the two did discuss a potential [...] - [Read more]

When: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 Where: Thomas & Mack Center; Las Vegas, NV Watch: Pay-Per-View Here’s the latest on the Affliction: Day of Reckoning event: Main Card Josh Barnett vs. Andrei Arlovski @ HW (official) Matt Lindland vs. Vitor Belfort @ MW (official) Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira @ LHW (official) Ben Rothwell vs. Pedro Rizzo (official) Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon @ [...] - [Read more]

When: Oct. 25, 2008 Where: Allstate Arena; Rosemont, Ill. Watch: Pay-Per-View This is the first UFC event held in the Chicago area. Here’s the latest on UFC 90: Televised Main Card (projected) - Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote @ 185lbs (UFC Middleweight Title) Thiago Alves vs. Diego Sanchez @ 170lbs Tyson Griffin vs. Sean Sherk @ 155lbs Fabricio Werdum vs. Junior dos [...] - [Read more]

Make sure you tune in this Friday to HDNet at 9:30 p.m. ET for a fresh edition of “Inside MMA” with hosts Kenny Rice and Bas Rutten. FiveOuncesOfPain.com’s very own Gary Herman will be a guest panelist on the show along with UFC middleweights Martin Kampmann and Amir Sadollah. - [Read more]

Ultimate Fighter Season 7 winner Amir Sadollah is preparing for his first fight since defeating C.B. Dalloway in the finals on June 21. Sadollah said that he’ll be fighting again in September or - more likely - October. At this point, the opponent is not known. One question Sadollah did answer for certain though is which [...] - [Read more]

MMAjunkie is reporting that Josh Burkman vs. Pete Sell is set for UFC 90 in Chicago for the card’s untelevised preliminary bouts. Burkman has lost 3 of 4 bouts since cracking some journalists’ top 10 lists and a loss here could very well send him out of the UFC. Sell, 0-4 in his last UFC [...] - [Read more]

In an interview with nokaut.com, Jake Shields seemingly confirms his next title defense will be against journeyman John Alessio: Darrick: You just found out that you will be defending your title against John Alessio in about five weeks. What are your thoughts about this match? Jake: I’m excited to be back at it. I trained [...] - [Read more]

Ben Rothwell has confirmed rumored reports that he will be fighting Pedro Rizzo during Affliction’s “Day of Reckoning” pay-per-view event on Oct. 11 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Rothwell revealed the fight to CagePotato.com earlier today. FiveOuncesOfPain.com spoke with Rothwell’s manager, Monte Cox, last week and Cox indicated that Rothwell was not expected [...] - [Read more]

Tom Hamlin of MMAWeekly.com has a good followup to a SportsIllustrated .com report last week that indicated that former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz was about to finalize a contract with Affliction. The report was later amended after Ortiz failed to show up the next day for a press conference in Las Vegas to promote [...] - [Read more]

We usually just focus on hard news here at 5 Oz. and avoid gossip. But sometimes the news is slow and sometimes there are just certain things too good not to pass along. Let me preface this post by stating that I find gossip pertaining to the lives of celebrities to be mundane, trivial, and inconsequential. [...] - [Read more]

FiveOuncesOfPain.com received word from the Nevada State Athletic Commission that all fighters that competed during WEC 35 on Aug. 3 that were drug tested all tested negative for street and performance enhancing drugs. According to NSAC, the fighters tested were Carlos Condit, Hiromitsu Miura, Brian Stann, Steve Cantwell, Jamie Varner, Marcus Hicks, Brian Bowles, Josh Grispi, [...] - [Read more]

FiveOuncesOfPain.com received a press release this afternoon announcing that Strikeforce will hold its first-ever show in Denver, Colo. on Oct. 3 at the Broomfield Event Center. A request for comment from Strikeforce Vice President Mike Afromowitz was not immediately returned but the release indicates that one of the featured matches on the show will pit hometown [...] - [Read more]

I know many of you out there do not care for reading updates about my wife’s fighting career, which is fine. Most of you keep your opinion to yourselves and just ignore the post and simply look for the posts that are of interest to you. I appreciate that. However, there are a few knuckleheads that [...] - [Read more]

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Renato “Babalu” Sobral may be a very busy man over the next couple of months. Sources have confirmed that Babalu is set to face Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Bobby Southworth on Saturday, September 20. The September 20th date is only three weeks prior to the second Affliction show where Babalu is supposed to be facing Tito [...] - [Read more]

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MMA Junkie is reporting that American Fight League is close to announcing a pay-per-view set for this fall sometime according to Sean McClure, Director of Public Relations for the AFL. Not only that, but both former WWE star Bobby Lashley as well as top female fighter Tara LaRosa have been booked for the show: “We’ve determined [...] - [Read more]

While not yet a household name in mixed martial arts, middleweight Tim Kennedy has all the tools needed to go far in the sport. Despite an impressive 9-2 record with notable victories over Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Dante Rivera, Ryan McGivern, and Hector Urbina, Kennedy has yet to breakthrough into the sport’s upper-echelon at 185 pounds. The issue [...] - [Read more]

With Elite Xtreme Combat expected to promote four shows between Sept. 20 and Oct. 20, it has had the promotion’s fight team working overtime coming up with potential matchups as well as signing new fighters to contracts in order to fill up the myriad bout slots. FiveOuncesOfPain.com has learned that one new fighter about to sign [...] - [Read more]