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

UK’s Paul Kelly guilty of heroin trafficking

English fighter Paul Kelly was convicted of heroin trafficking by a Liverpool jury on Friday and awaits sentencing. The prosecution was able to convince a jury [...]

Guess what, homie? Nick Diaz is in the process of creating his own mixed martial arts promotion based out of Stockton, Calif. That means that this MMA stuff is about to get real, because Diaz isn’t a phoney when it comes to this MMA “game,” so why would his promotion, called War MMA, be any [...]

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

XFC champ Newell stripped of title

Newly crowned (and now former) Xtreme Fighting Championship lightweight champion Nick Newell’s future with the promotion is uncertain after an interview with XFC president John Prisco from today.
According to [...]

There’s plenty of punishments that an athlete can receive in professional sports. They can be benched for a game, suspended by an athletic commission, lose a sponsorship or maybe even be declared a public enemy by the fans. You get the point.
But the best way to get somebody’s attention is to hit them where it [...]

The year 2012 saw the rise of a Canadian MMA star in Maximum Fighting Championship—lightweight Mukai Maromo. His TKO win over Adam Lynn last August was a dazzling display of his Muay Thai talents, and it made him a lock to fight for the vacant MFC 155-pound belt.
Yet, in his first fight of 2013 for [...]

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

Bellator 96 main card set

The Spike TV televised main card of Bellator’s inaugural Summer Series event of 2013 has been announced, and will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between champion, Michael [...]

One of the best storylines from last week’s UFC on Fox 7 were the three competitors from Team Alpha Male cleaning house in their respective fights.
Former title challengers Joseph Benavidez and Chad Mendes continued to roll forward in impressive fashion since their failed bids and T.J. Dillashaw notched another finish of his own to again [...]

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

UFC on Fox 8 gets flyweight title fight headliner

The July 27 UFC on Fox 8 event will be headlined by a flyweight title fight between champ, Demetrious Johnson and challenger, John Moraga.
Also announced [...]

Nobility can be an odd concept. It is most often a play on status and not necessarily something that goes hand-in-hand with legitimacy. As it relates to MMA, we often perceive any fighter in the UFC as being the sport’s royalty based on brand recognition.
It confuses our comprehension towards any other promotion, such as Bellator [...]

You know how in movies and video games there are those characters who rank second only to boss and must be defeated in order for the story’s hero to move forward to the final challenge?
It could be someone like Gogo from the film Kill Bill that Uma Thurman’s character had to get through in order [...]