Although bitter rivals Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Rashad Evans fulfilled their coaching duties on The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights a while back, Rampage recently voiced his displeasure with having to deal with Evans during filming. “I would’ve preferred to have did The Ultimate Fighter against [Lyoto] Machida—to fix the problem back in the day from square one,” Jackson told Fighters Only. Jackson ...

NEWARK, N.J. – If Shane Carwin keeps this up, he’s going to give mixed martial arts a bad name. This is the sport that takes a lifetime to master. It requires hours upon hours of daily training. It humbles even the greatest of athletes and the strongest of men. You don’t do MMA as a side job and win championships against the best in the world. At least, that was the conventional wisdom before Carwin came along and blew that school of thought to bits. Carwin still holds down a full-time job as an engineer and is a married father of a newborn daughter. That’s plenty to make the average man weary at ...

Bobby Lashley is still primarily known as a professional wrestler. But in an interview Friday morning after the announcement that he has signed with Strikeforce, he said that he's completely committed to mixed martial arts. And Lashley, who will make his Strikeforce debut on January 30, says that while he knows he's not ready to fight the best heavyweights in the world just yet, he hopes he'll be able to soon. Lashley said in the FanHouse interview that he hopes he can win a few fights in Strikeforce and earn a fight against the best heavyweight in the world, Fedor Emelianenko. Michael David Smith: What made you decide to sign with Strikeforce? Bobby Lashley: The ...

UFC president Dana White was noticeably absent from The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale post-event press conference, and it may have been for the best. The Nevada State Athletic Commission utilized instant replay to determine the outcome of a mixed martial arts contest for the first time in its history on the TUF 10 Finale card, and White's favorite whipping-boy official, Steve Mazzagatti, was responsible for utilizing the technology. But NSAC executive director Keith Kizer was at the gathering, and he believes Mazzagatti handled the situation precisely as instructed by the commission's regulations. "It's completely up to the referee," Kizer said. "When Mazzagatti came around and looked at the replay, they were actually showing a perfect angle. ...