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 ...

UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn has talked more about a possible move to welterweight should he get past Frankie Edgar at UFC 112 and retain the 155lb belt. Penn first made mention of a return to 170lbs in a recent video interview for his personal website and it is something that is still on his mind. "If everything goes well on April 10, I would definitely consider moving up to 170. Not that it's 100 percent guaranteed - there's still a lot of good contenders in the 155-pound division, but I'm thinking about it,” he said on the UFC 112 conference call. Anderson Silva was also on the conference call and Penn cited his recent ...

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 ...