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 ...

World Extreme Cagefighting general manager Reed Harris told Cagewriter that Zuffa fighters will no longer be allowed to wear Hoelzer Reich clothing in their fights. (Zuffa owns botht the UFC and WEC.)...It does not matter what the iron cross, SS or any of the other symbols meant before they were used by Nazis, or how brief the association was with Nazi Germany. The evil committed by Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich ensured that those symbols will always come to symbolize the worst of humanity.   This is good news and I'm very proud of the work that our own Brent Brookhouse did pushing this story along. I'd also like to commend ...

A few weeks ago we brought up the scary news that one of the McMahons (of World Wrestling Entertainment fame) sniffing around the UFC. But according to a variety of people who actually pay attention to that high flying elbow dropping hick soap opera, it’s the good McMahon: Shane McMahon. I’ll let the guys on Fightlinker with PhDs in Wrestlemania tell you what separates Shane from his dad Vince and all the scummy, morally reprehensible shit that goes down in the WWE and just concentrate on the meaty question in this story: is there any truth to the rumor that Shane will be joining the UFC? Here’s what Dana said over the weekend: * On ...