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Affliction has officially announced that top ten heavyweights Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett are set to face off against one another at Affliction’s October 11 event entitled “Day of Reckoning.” The event will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV. FiveOuncesOfPain.com was the first to break [...] - [Read more]

Is it possible for Zuffa-owned World Extreme Cagefighting to have a bad card? Sunday night was yet another shining example of why the WEC is the best representative of our sport to the mainstream public. Despite being held in a small concert venue at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, WEC 35 looked [...] - [Read more]

WEC 35 is live tonight from The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV featuring three title fights. Here are the results as they happen: Main Card: Jamie Varner def. Marcus Hicks via TKO in round one Brian Bowles def. Damacio Page via submission (guillotine choke) at 3:30 of round one - [Read more]

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As the boom of mixed martial arts promotions and shows continues, one fact has become more and more apparent: Zuffa and the UFC are the gold standard, both in show production and fighter talent. As a result it can be sometimes painful to watch fighters of superior talent fight in promotions lacking the roster depth [...] - [Read more]

In a new submission on the website GracieFighter.com, an accusation is made that Nick Diaz still has not received payment from DREAM following his first round submission over Katsuya Inoue at DREAM.3 on May 11. GracieFighter.com, which is owned and operated by Diaz’s trainer, Cesar Gracie, indicates that Diaz’s most recent wins at “Return of the [...] - [Read more]

MMA Junkie is reporting that middleweight Joey Villasenor is set to make his return to the EliteXC cage on Sept. 20 at a to be determined location against a to be determined opponent. Villasenor thinks the card could possibly in front of his home crowd and against a fighter, Murilo “Ninja” Rua, who he’s lost [...] - [Read more]

Last night there were two MMA events that featured some exciting fights as well as some competition involving well known names in MMA. In Hawaii, ICON Sport: Hard Times featured a fight involving the always extravagant Phil Baroni as well as a possible Fight of the Year candidate as Bao Quach took on Mark Oshiro. [...] - [Read more]

The past four weeks have been insane when it comes to all of the shows we’ve seen in MMA. It seems like with each passing week the audience becomes a little more burned out. As much as I love the WEC, at some point you need a break. That being said, tonight’s card on VERSUS (9 [...] - [Read more]

On Friday, we debuted Part I of our exclusive interview with new ProElite Chairman Chuck Champion. Champion was gracious enough to sit down with Five Ounces of Pain for an extended interview. In Part I, we asked Champion his thoughts on the resignations of Doug DeLuca and Gary Shaw; whether Shaw’s son, EliteXC Vice President Jared [...] - [Read more]

Ariel Shnerer of The Fight Network is reporting that a rumored middleweight matchup for UFC Fight Night 15 in September between Thales Leites and Dean Lister has been postponed. According to Shnerer, the bout is off the Sept. 17 fight card because of a knee injury sustained by Lister during training. UFN 15 will emanate from Omaha [...] - [Read more]

One of the cool things about being a part-owner of a widely read MMA site is that I can pretty much post whatever I want. While some may label non-news posts on this site as self-serving, myself, Matt Cava, and Adam Morgan put a lot of time and money into this site for very little [...] - [Read more]

Sherdog.com is reporting that current UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture has suffered another legal setback in his quest to win his contractual freedom from the parent company of the UFC, Zuffa. Dallas Mavericks and HDNet owner Mark Cuban, acting on Couture’s behalf, had been trying to arrange for a motion for a summary judgment declaring Couture’s [...] - [Read more]

A pregnant woman injured during former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s alleged hit-and-run incident last month has miscarried, according to her fiance. The news comes courtesy of a report in the Daily Pilot. While Costa Mesa Police initially indicated there were no serious injuries sustained during the series of accidents on the 55 freeway, it [...] - [Read more]

If a bout between Matt Lindland and Vitor Belfort is signed for Affliction’s second-ever show on Oct. 11 and it’s for a title, it won’t be for the yet-to-be institute WAMMA middleweight title belt. After reading a report on FiveOuncesOfPain.com that cited a Belfort interview with the Brazilian website Tatame.com that quoted Belfort as saying the [...] - [Read more]

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Marcus Hicks interview after the jump. - [Read more]

FiveOuncesOfPain.com established new records in its site history during the month of July for unique visitors and page viewers, breaking its previous record established during the month of June. Despite the summer traditionally being a slow month for the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, Five Ounces of Pain has experienced a surge in growth, thanks in [...] - [Read more]

MMA Weekly is reporting that the CSAC is not done gathering results from the drug tests from the recent EliteXC and Affliction cards and that it appears that more positive drug tests are on the way from fighters involved with the two shows: The initial test results for the remaining fighters on each show, however, indicate [...] - [Read more]

Part 2 after the jump. - [Read more]