Brandon Vera Isn’t Sokoudjou’s Favorite Person Right Now

(Brandon Vera in Maxim. It was either this or another picture of Sokoudjou.)

As expected, Brandon Vera’s frank account [...]

UFC 89 Gets Sokoudjou vs. Cane, Carwin vs. Wain

(Props: JarryPark)

I was worried that UFC 89 (October 18th; Birmingham, England) was going to be one of [...]

Exclusive: Jesse Taylor Talks Regrets, Missed Opportunities, and New Beginnings

Jesse Taylor is responsible for several firsts in Ultimate Fighter history. He’s the first fighter to voluntarily pee his [...]

Must-See: Highlight-Reel Knockouts

CagePotato reader “Facey” put together this highlight video featuring MMA’s biggest stars showing little regard for the health [...]

Tuesday Morning Link Dump

(Wait, so if he isn’t banging Patrcyja, who is he banging? Uh oh.)

Grab a cup of coffee and settle in…

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Marc Ratner Keeping The MMA Dream Alive in NY

(MMA in MSG by ’09? Let’s hope so.)

UFC VP of Government and Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner isn’t giving [...]

Paul Daley Puts Pro Elite’s Business in the Streets

Paul “Semtex” Daley is as talented a fighter as he is mercurial a personality, so it should be [...]

End of Forrest/Rampage Fight to Be Re-Created in Video Game Form

SpikeTV passes along this alert:

Tonight at 9PM on Spike TV, during a presentation of A [...]

Video: Kenny Florian “Hell-bow” Clinic

From the latest episode of ESPN.com’s MMA Live, Kenny Florian demonstrates a technique for clinch-domination that you should [...]

Brandon Vera: Genuine Class

When James Irvin was asked about the four guys who turned down a match with Anderson Silva before he accepted [...]

Celebrity Ass-Kicking of the Day: Jose Canseco

Props: Five Ounces of Pain

It’s great when former pro athletes and celebrities (or in this case, pseudo-celebrities) think that [...]

Could Xtreme Couture Bring The Old Vitor Belfort Back?

(Belfort working with striking guru Shawn Tompkins at Xtreme Couture.)

Xtreme Couture helped Wanderlei Silva get back in the [...]

Tim Sylvia Had a Rough Childhood

Affliction just posted this “Countdown” video to their skull-heavy YouTube page, introducing the main event fighters in their [...]

Update: Baroni Won’t Press Charges Over Nutting

(Animated gif courtesy of Fightlinker.)

From Fighters Only Magazine:

Phil Baroni says he will not be pressing charges [...]

Marcus Davis Fought Swick With One Arm

I was incredibly disappointed by Marcus Davis’s loss-by-smothering against Mike “Not Quick” Swick at UFC 85 — partly because I’d [...]

Baroni Wins WW Debut, Gets Headbutted by Asshole

Phil Baroni’s first match as a welterweight was a resounding success, as the New York Badass dominated Scott Jansen to [...]

Denis Kang Talks Canceled Dream Fight

Bless his heart, Denis Kang does his best in this MMA Rated interview not to bash Dream for dropping [...]

Good News For British MMA Fans

MMA Payout reports that Affliction: Banned will air on a delayed basis on Bravo TV in the [...]

Friday Link Dump

- MMA’s most stereotypical fan located? (MySpace)

- Great Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira mini-documentary (MMA Scraps)

- Anderson Silva is [...]

Tale of Two Baroni Videos

Two very different stories emerge in these two very different Phil Baroni videos. The only thing they even have [...]

Kim Couture Is Healing Up Nicely

From MMA Junkie, here’s a preview clip of tonight’s episode of Inside MMA (9:30 p.m. ET, [...]

Exclusive Interview: Lyoto Machida

(Photo courtesy of Sherdog.)

After Lyoto Machida scored the biggest win of his undefeated career by out-pointing [...]

Gary Shaw Now “Behind The Scenes” With Elite XC

(Shaw offers a financial advice seminar urging fans to invest in track suits.)

On yesterday’s Elite XC conference call Pro [...]

Joe Silva on Being the UFC’s Matchmaker: “It’s Very Frustrating”

UFC fighters constantly reference matchmaker Joe Silva when talking about the future of their careers, and yet we usually hear [...]

Jeremy Jackson Arrested for Sex Crimes

Jeremy Jackson was already a footnote in MMA history for his appearance on The Ultimate Fighter 4, where he was [...]

Fight of the Day: Chuck Liddell vs. Jose “Pele” Landi Jons

After winning his first pro MMA bout — a decision over Noe Hernandez at UFC 17 in May 1998 — [...]

Brandon Vera Still Upset About Werdum Fight. Still.

(Having that same Olive Garden vs. Uno’s argument again, eh? We’ve all been there.)

Brandon Vera may have changed weight [...]

Tim Sylvia Wants Certification Class For Judges

You can add Tim Sylvia’s name to the list of MMA fighters who were displeased with the decision in [...]

Arkansas MMA Fans Get Punked By ‘Bruno’

A couple days ago, BloodyElbow passed along a news story about two local MMA events in Arkansas last [...]

What’s Up, Shogun?

Tatame.com.br checks in with Mauricio Rua — translation by CagePotato’s Luiz De Souza.

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Shogun Wants to Fight in December

Mauricio [...]