The first episode of The Ultimate Fighter 16 is just around the corner and US Combat Sports is ridiculously excited to announce that TUF 16 cast member Sam Alvey will be contributing a weekly article every Saturday to give you inside information about each episode. Considered as one of the favorites on this year's cast, "Smile'N" Sam will discuss the results of each episode as well as his viewpoints on the fights, the inevitable household antics, and everything else of interest from the weekly reality show. Hailing from Wisconsin and now training at Team Quest in California, Alvey has been one of MMA's hottest prospects since making his professional debut back in J...

XFC 20: High Octane is scheduled for September 28th at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum as the XFC puts on its fifth show of the year and its fourth in the state of Tennessee. Lightweight favorite Eric Reynolds has already agreed to put his December title fight at risk by taking a fight on the September card, and will now deal with a late opponent swap. After sustaining an injury to his bicep, Danny Salinas has been forced out of the main event fight, and in his place will be the Italian Blackzillian Lorenzo Borgomeo. Borgomeo has competed in the XFC once before, with success over Clifton Weston. Now, nearly four years after his last appearance with the promotion, Borgomeo is back to challenge...

Frank Gomez (10-6, Jackson-Winkeljohn) suffered a heart-wrenching technical loss to Premier MMA's Aaron Cerda (4-3) at Jackson's MMA Series 9, held for the first time at Tingley Coliseum on the New Mexico State Fairgrounds on Saturday, September 8, 2012. Gomez, father of a newborn baby girl, was originally slated to face Mikey "The Burque Bulldog" Lovato as the main event, but Lovato suffered a knee injury just a week before the event. Cerda, a third degree black belt in Kajukembo and martial arts practitioner of 10 years, had been working for the last several weeks with other fighters in his gym who had potential matches on the card; so with only six days' notice,...

While there could have been more butts in the seats on Thursday night in Green Bay the action inside the cage was frantic as the Rogue Warrior Championships invaded the Oneida Casino. Highlighted by a number of definitive stoppages – five within the first round – Rogue featured impressive wins from Mike Rhodes, Gerald Meerschaert, Darrill Schoonover and five others. Check out the best photos from the night from USCS Reporter Jeff Tackmier.

The Combat Sports Club (CSC) has found a new medals designer for this year’s Southwest Grappling Championship. All winners, 1st-4th, at this year’s tournament will receive new custom medals. They are thick and heavy like Olympic medals with wide stitched in ribbons. We’ll also have a participation medal for all non-medaling KID division competitors to reward them for their hard work and sportsmanship. The double elimination tournament is October 20th at Cleveland High School. Cleveland has ample parking and a spacious floor which allows closer viewing of the matches. We’ll have ten mats and will be done by 6:00pm.