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 ...

BALTIMORE — Even if Shane Carwin becomes the UFC's interim heavyweight champion this weekend, he probably still won't quit his day job. The 35-year-old mechanical engineer with a very sympathetic boss works at the North Weld County Water District in northern Colorado. He also has a wife, a son and a newborn daughter who need attention. In his spare time, he's a fast-rising mixed martial artist preparing to fight two-time former champion Frank Mir for a title belt. At UFC 111 in Newark, N.J., on Saturday night, the big-punching former college football player will get the shot he was denied twice last year by champion Brock Lesnar's lingering intestinal illness. No matter what happens at the Prudential Center in ...

It appears the wait for a heavyweight title fight for Shane Carwin has finally been set, except it will be for an interim title, as current champion Brock Lesnar remains on the mend. Carwin will now likely face Frank Mir in an interim heavyweight title match at UFC 111 on March 27 in Newark, N.J.The rumored bout has started to take shape sources close to the negotiations disclosed to MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday night. Possibility of the bout was first reported by AOL Fanhouse. The likelihood of this fight came about most likely in two parts following the UFC 107 weekend that just past. First, UFC president Dana White said the company was looking to make a decision in the ...