It’s official: the Huntington Beach Bad Boy has returned to the UFC. The news was announced at a press conference earlier today by UFC president Dana White. While no date for Tito’s return has been set, White indicated that they plan on getting him back in the cage by the end of the year, possibly against another old school favorite, Mark Coleman.
Tito’s career with the UFC looked like it was over in May of 2008. He had just finished his UFC contract up with a loss to Lyoto Machida and relations with Dana White were at an all time low. …read more

The last few days in the mixed martial arts world has been absolutely insane. A positive steroid test from Josh Barnett on Wednesday started a chain of events which can only be described as domino-like. In today’s post I’ll try to sum everything that went down for you:

Tito Ortiz returning to the UFC: The great thing about Dana White as UFC president is that he gets so giddy he lets things slip all the time. While tweeting about an appearance on a radio show Friday evening, he added an “Oh yea and welcome back tito :)” to the end. On …read more

For all the drama and disdain thrown around between Tito Ortiz and UFC president Dana White, it now looks like the two have buried the proverbial hatchet. Last night on twitter (where all the cool kids are), Tito Ortiz tweeted “yeah, me and @danawhiteufc made up. I’m expecting to be inside the Octagon again soon. thanks for the support guys – I appreciate it”, and just in case you were thinking this might be a hack or joke, Dana White followed up with “Doesn’t mean he’s back it means we aren’t smashing each other anymore and we don’t hate each …read more

As if having a pro wrestler as the heavyweight champ and four former NFL players on this season of the Ultimate Fighter wasn’t enough inter-sports mixing already. Now we have none other than NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal harassing UFC president Dana White for a chance to fight in the Octagon.
Here’s what Dana White had to say on the subject during an segment on the Dan Le Batard show: “Shaq’s pretty serious, Shaq text messages me all the time and is twittering me all the time saying … he wants to fight Brock is what he says. And I said go …read more

Tito Ortiz is once again claiming he’s close to returning to the cage. After flirting with Affliction and EliteXC for several months while contractual hold-ups with the UFC and back surgery kept him on the sidelines, he is now claiming that Strikeforce is looking like his new home … sorta.
According to Tito Ortiz, he will be starting a new promotion with Strikeforce called Punishment Fighting Championships, which Tito will both manage and compete in. I have no idea how the hell that’s supposed to work, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the ‘new promotion’ is just a differently branded Strikeforce …read more

From the way Dana White and Mirko Crocop were selling his fight with Mostafa Al-Turk at UFC 99 this past weekend, you might have thought it was the beginning of another UFC run for the famous Croatian striker. But instead, fans who anticipated a steady stream of great battles against foes like Randy Couture and Antonio Minotauro Nogueira will have to settle for whatever Japan can scrounge up, because Mirko Crocop will not be fighting for the UFC again any time soon.
The reason why is slightly complicated. There are two sides to every story: Dana White’s involves a long angry …read more

UFC President Dana White was on Jimmy Fallon last night. Personally I don’t care for Jimmy Fallon doing a late show. He should seriously stick to skit comedy because he just doesn’t have what most late night show hosts have going for them. I wasn’t going to stay up and watch the show for 5 minutes of Dana White and I knew someone would post it on Youtube. He talks a bit about the history of the UFC and more about the UFC 2009 Undisputed which cam out yesterday. I just got mine today and I’m just working …read more

UFC.com announced that The UFC, WEC and UFC President Dana White are now on Twitter. Now, I’m not sure how many F’ words Dana is going to be able to fit in a tweet of 140 characters or less, but I’m sure there will be a few every now and then. Dana has actually been on twitter for a couple of months and already has over 5000 followers but only follows 23 other twitterers.
He keeps it quite tame compared to some of his video blogs.
The WEC is also on twitter and has been for about the same amount of time …read more

Chuck Liddell started his professional career as a mixed martial arts fighter back when the UFC was still just getting off the ground. It still wasn’t a  sport that was even considered a sport by many and sadly fell in to the same category at pro-wrestling and such. It wasn’t considered to be a serious sport like boxing, but I think that was mainly because at that time it was still just breaking away from the early brawler type fights and there wasn’t a lot of fighters that showed technical skill.
As the sport grew and more fighters came in the …read more

After UFC President Dana White verbally attacked a Sherdog.com writer with some harsh comments and poorly chosen words, he came back a few days later and apologized to an extent.
He also said that he was going to stop doing the video blogs and take himself out of the lime-light. In this UFC 97 Video blog, Dana returns, though this time he speaks with a much quieter voice and keeps it pretty brief.
Does this mean that Dana will continue to do more video blogs in the future and being the mouth of war in the MMA world? We’ll find out …read more