Each day, The MMA Corner will provide a recap of results, event announcements, fight matchups, and injuries/cancellations from throughout the world of MMA.

Cris Cyborg’s Doctors Shoot Down Move to 135 Pounds

Cris Cyborg and Ronda Rousey are going to need to compromise in order to fight one another. Cyborg met with some members of the [...]

Who’s next for Alistair Overeem?
That sounds like a million-dollar question in desperate need of a billion-dollar answer.
Overeem stands on the outside looking in after defeating Brock Lesnar at UFC 141 and failing a pre-fight drug test for elevated levels of testosterone prior to UFC 146. Nobody can guarantee that he will fight the winner of [...]

Darren Elkins has been with the UFC since early 2010 competing at lightweight. Since his hiring, the UFC has added three weight classes below the lightweight limit in the form of the featherweight, bantamweight and flyweight divisions.
Since the addition of the featherweight division, Elkins has made the drop following a 1-1 stint at 155 pounds. [...]

As much as we love MMA, most fans willingly admit that the sport is far from perfect.
Poor judging, refereeing and even matchmaking have caused major problems for MMA, but perhaps the most daunting problem in our sport, like so many others, is the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED’s) among fighters.
International sports stars like Alex Rodriguez, [...]

Although the UFC is set to have a collision between welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and interim champ Carlos Condit, there’s another welterweight battle that could steal the show at UFC 154.
Martin Kampmann meets Johny Hendricks in the co-main event at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in what is more than likely a fight [...]

Since the No-Gi Worlds went down last weekend in Long Beach, Calif., there has been a growing discussion about the highly-controversial finals match between Jonathan “JT ” Torres and Augusto “Tanquinho” Mendes. The black belt lightweight final ended with Mendes earning a questionable advantage point as time expired to give him the win. Then, also [...]