Brock Lesnar, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s massive heavyweight titleholder, was forced to withdraw Monday from his highly anticipated Nov. 21 title defense in Las Vegas against Shane Carwin. UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to Yahoo! Sports. White said Lesnar has been ill for more than three-and-a-half weeks and unable to train. With the bout at UFC 106 less than a month away, Lesnar was forced to postpone the title defense. “He said he’s never been this sick in his life,” White said. “He said it’s been going on for a long time and he just hasn’t been able to shake it.” White said he does not believe Lesnar had the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu. The fight matched two of ...

UFC 105 Trailer Couture vs Vera

DC radio personality Chad Dukes, a friend of MMA but admittedly not a hardcore, has some harsh words for the self-appointed elite fans of the sport regarding Saturday's controversial decision: Uninformed MMA fans are some of the worst people on the planet. These are jerkoffs drawn to the raw violence of the sport, do not appreciate its complex nature, and do everything to ruin it for everyone else around them These are people that scream "...get him in the headlock!" or better yet "...rip his arm off and beat him with it!" Both of those I heard at the last UWC fight at the Patriot center. These are the ...

If the Lyoto Machida-Shogun Rua fight at UFC 104 had gone the way everyone expected -- Machida handily defeating Shogun to retain his title -- the UFC would have faced a quandary with its light heavyweight division. Machida would be perceived as so dominant that there wouldn't be any particularly interesting fights for him, and the stacked UFC light heavyweight division might have started to feel a little stale. That's why Machida's controversial unanimous decision victory on Saturday night was a great thing for the UFC: It sets up a Rua-Machida rematch that will be a bigger fight than the first one, and it buys time for the UFC to ...

UFC 106 LESNAR VS CARWIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1BWwu5iJmY&feature=player_embedded