Heading into his scheduled welterweight bout with Jon Fitch at UFC 117 on Saturday night, Thiago Alves failed to make weight. He came in a half pound over the 171-pound limit for a welterweight fight and declined to cut any more weight. He instead fought Fitch at a catchweight and forfeited 20 percent of his fight purse. After dominating Alves for three rounds, Fitch was okay with Alves’ blunder. "It was only half a pound and the thing with California, like when I fought Diego (Sanchez) here I missed weight too my first try, the scales are digital and they round up to half a pound. He could have been a fraction of a quarter of ...

OAKLAND, Calif.: Chael Sonnen talked a whole lot before his fight with Anderson Silva at UFC 117.  For 24 minutes, the challenger lived up to every word of hype he built up prior his meeting with the champion on Aug. 7, but in the end, Sonnen ended up on the losing end of a spectacular fight. Sonnen irritated many a person with his talk about Silva.  Many thought his mind games were getting old and they expected him to be utterly demolished by the middleweight champ. This, however, did not happen. Chael Sonnen did everything he said he was going to do to Silva for the duration of the fight up until the very end. ...

[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 ...