Tournament-style MMA promotion Bellator FC announced this week that they will be returning to Caesar's Palace in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the inaugural event of their fifth season. Bellator 49 on September 10 will mark not just the start of the fifth season, but also the beginning of the promotion's third welterweight tournament. At its last stop in New Jersey, Bellator headlined the event with a feature bout between middleweight champion Hector Lombard and Falaniko Vitale. The intimate venue of the Caesar's Palace showroom quickly sold out, which led to speculation that the casino would provide a more expansive stage for the return trip. The welterweight division is n...

This Saturday, July 9, in Wildwood, New Jersey, Ultimate Fighter veteran and Jersey MMA staple Jeff Lentz will face off against South Carolina prospect Robert Owens on the New Breed Fighters card, The Jersey War. The card will also feature a bout between Ohioans as Brandon Sailing looks to return to the win column against hot prospect Chris Curtis. Below is a breakdown of those bouts: Jeff Lentz versus Robert Owens- With the sheer activity in the sport of MMA that goes on in July, a main event this important to the regional circuit snuck up on even the most die hard of local fans. The sadly unheralded main event between Jeff Lentz and Robert Owens represents one of the best match-ups that c...

Former top Mid-Atlantic prospect Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman announced tonight that his bout with T.J. Grant at UFC Live 4 has been canceled due to his opponent's illness. According to what was supposed to be Brenneman's first vlog leading up to the event, he discovered that Grant would be unable to fight just after arriving in Pittsburgh for the bout. "As you can tell this is pretty devastating to ," Brenneman said. " able to fight after the unbelievably hard work I've put in. I also have a ton of fans, friends and family coming in to watch me fight and it's a heart breaker not being able to perform." With only a few days left until t...

Earlier today, lawyer and combat sports enthusiast Justin Klein broke the news that the bill to sanction MMA was not put on the agenda for the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee, today, and therefore will not have time to be voted into law before the end of the of the legislative session. The State Assembly will be working overtime into this week to deal with some unfinished legislation, and a spokesperson for Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman D. Farrell said it was "not impossible" that the MMA bill could be voted on in the extended meetings. However, it stands as highly unlikely that the sport will be sanctioned in the Empire State in 2011. In the end, the defea...

Dallas will be home on Saturday night to another group of world class athletes beside the 2011 NBA championship Mavericks as four highly touted mixed martial artists look to advance in the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix. Former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett will take center cage against Brett Rogers.