[By: Kris Karkoski | Nov 13, 2008]
UFC Officially Announces UFC 94: St-Pierre vs. Penn 2

The UFC has officially announced UFC 94: St-Pierre vs. Penn 2, which features the highly anticipated rematch between welterweight title-holder Georges St-Pierre and lightweight champion BJ Penn.

Now, nearly three years removed from their first meeting, the pair of top UFC fighters will meet again, but this time the welterweight championship will be on the line when they clash on January 31st in Las Vegas.

[By: bsbiz | Aug 22, 2008]
UFC Not Returning To Montreal Until 2009; GSP vs. Penn Likely For Superbowl Weekend In Vegas

Unfortunately for our neighbors to the north, the UFC will be unable to make it back to the city of Montreal before 2009, according to Yahoo! Sports, who spoke with UFC president Dana White.
Additionally, the much-anticipated rematch between Georges St. Pierre and BJ Penn will take place during Super Bowl weekend on January 31st in [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | Aug 18, 2008]
Chuck Liddell vs. Anderson Silva, Forrest Griffin vs. Wanderlei Silva Possible In December

The UFC’s year-end event is typically the promotion’s most-stacked card of the year and this year should be no exception.
In the headline bout of the December 27th event, UFC 92, “The Ultimate Fighter 8″ coaches, interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and former heavyweight champion Frank Mir, are set to square off for the UFC’s [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | Aug 14, 2008]
Georges St-Pierre

UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, who is expected to take on UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn in his next bout, may not return to the octagon this year in favor of taking some time off.
St-Pierre announced his tentative plans in a recent blog post on RDS.ca (translated by Fightline):
Many state that my next opponent should [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | Aug 8, 2008]
BJ Penn: I'm Moving Up To The Welterweight Division

BJ Penn’s next two opponents may both be determined tomorrow at UFC 87 in Minnesota.
The winner of the featured lightweight clash between Kenny Florian and Roger Huerta is expected to receive a shot at Penn’s 155-pound title while Penn has hopes of fighting for the promotion’s welterweight championship against the winner of the UFC 87 [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | Aug 6, 2008]
UFC Likely Returning To Montreal in November or December

The UFC will return to the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada in November or December for it’s second event in the country, according to Sportsnet.ca:
“”I literally just left a meeting where we were talking about that,” UFC president Dana White told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. “We’re looking to come back to Montreal.”
White said the [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | Jun 6, 2008]
Dana White: Penn-St. Pierre

UFC President Dana White was questioned in a recent interview with ESPN The Magazine about the much-talked about “superfights” between the champions of two different weight classes, most notably BJ Penn, the UFC’s lightweight champion, versus Georges St-Pierre, the promotion’s welterweight champ, and St-Pierre versus Anderson Silva, the UFC’s dominant middleweight champion.
White openly discussed the [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | Jun 2, 2008]
UFC 84 Fighters Test Clean

All fifteen fighters tested by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for steroids, performance enhancing drugs, and drugs of abuse have tested clean. MMAFrenzy.com confirmed the negative test results with NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer this afternoon.
UFC 84 “Ill Will” took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 24th.
Tested by [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | May 27, 2008]
Fifteen UFC 84 Fighters Drug Tested

MMAFrenzy.com (www.mmafrenzy.com) has confirmed with the Nevada State Athletic Commission that sixteen UFC 84 fighters were tested for performance enhancing drugs and drugs of abuse.
The 11-bout pay-per-event took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 24th.
The tested fighters were BJ Penn, Sean Sherk, Keith Jardine, Wanderlei Silva, Tito Ortiz, [...]

[By: Kris Karkoski | May 27, 2008]
UFC 84 Fighter Salaries

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the official fighter salaries for UFC 84 “Ill Will”. The 11-bout pay-per-event took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 24th.
Each of the event’s winning fighters, excluding Wanderlei Silva, received a win bonus equal to their “to show” salary. Silva did not [...]