[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="340" caption="Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images "][/caption] Although UFC president Dana White has no choice but to showcase controversial middleweight king Anderson Silva as the featured attraction at UFC 117 , that doesn’t mean he isn’t worried about it. “You have to,” White told a small group of reporters following WEC 48 on Saturday night. “He’s ...

As Renzo Gracie prepares to fight Matt Hughes on Saturday at UFC 112, he says he's going to use the skill that his family is famous for around the world -- Brazilian jiu jitsu -- to win the fight. Gracie, who is a grandson of Carlos Gracie and a grandnephew of Helio Gracie, said in a chat with MMAFighting.com readers that he believes his superior Brazilian jiu jitsu skills will more than make up for Hughes' excellent wrestling. "Better jiu jitsu is what will make the difference in this fight -- I can ...

In just six days, the UFC will hold its first-ever event in the Middle East. For those of you who assume there's a Bojangles Coliseum available in every city in the world, let me assure you that that's not the case. (Bojangles should be so lucky.) Instead, the historic event required that a brand-new open-air stadium be built from scratch in about 20 days. Meanwhile, my neighbor Chris has been trying to build a deck in his backyard for three years. And before you think that this stadium is just some slapped-together P.O.S., check out this article on the massive undertaking published yesterday in UAE's English-language paper, The National: For Lee Charteris, the director of operations for the ...