Titan Fighting Championships 18 occurred over the weekned in Kansas City featuring a main event between Jens Pulver and Brian Davidson. But it was the co-main event amongstJake RosholtandJohn Ottthat served as a prime example of why rules need to be reconsidered within MMA and what should decide how ringside doctors can prematurely stop a fight.

Earlier this month, the UFC announced that they would be resigning number one ranked Mid-Atlantic featherweight Rafeallo Oliveira to move back up to his original spot on the scale at 155 pounds and face Gleison Tibau at UFC 130 this Saturday. The AMA exponent, who has had dual citizenship between his native Brazil and the Mid-Atlantic regional circuit since his original dismissal from the UFC, will be coming in as a massive +270 underdog against Tibau. The consummate homers of the New York/New Jersey area pulling for Oliveira, aside, there is a reason why Vegas doesn't lose money in the long run. Oliveira will be coming back to the big show after bouncing between 145 and 155 against on...

Mixed Martial Arts is an ever growing sport, industry, and lifestyle with an ever-growing fanbase and participants joining everyday. Alongside this growth in size, the sport itself needs to mature and branch out into a legitimate combat sports with its own commission and rules for events.

New York Mixed Martial Arts is the feature length debut of documentarian Kahleem Poole-Tejada about the political struggle to sanction the young combat sport in the Empire State. The film, set to debut on the opening of the Bronx Week Film Festival on May 16, is characterized by many daring choices from the director that will strongly resonate with large portions of the audience but may risk alienating those that were expecting a more conventional documentary. New York Mixed Martial Arts is produced by Stephen Koepfer, founder of the Coalition to Legalize MMA in New York, and has a specific agenda of promoting the sanctioning of the sport as related bills approach a vote in the State Legi...

This Saturday, among the many spectacles of the UFC 129 Pay Per View was one sight that most die-hard MMA fans probably still aren't used to: an advertisement for a Strikeforce card on a UFC broadcast. Since acquiring their leading competitor, Zuffa Entertainment has began taking steps to push the Strikeforce brand onto the main stream with minimal changes to the actual product. One particular bit of business as usual that stuck out in the Strikeforce ad was the announcement that the card would be co-headlined by "the return of Gina Carano" to mixed martial arts after starring in the Lions Gate film, Haywire. At least as far as the organization's female divisions are con...