Sherdog's Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings The Saitama Super Arena has hosted a healthy amount of great lightweight bouts. Few were ever as intense and competitive as Benson Henderson’s title capture against Frankie Edgar to cap a rousing ...

5 MMA Stories to Monitor in 2012 From the rise to superstardom of Jon Jones and Junior dos Santos to the retirement of Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar and everything in between,...

Matches to Make After UFC 141 Alistair Overeem evidently takes the whole first impression thing to heart.

UFC 141 Preview: The Main Card For its final offering of 2011, the UFC shows consideration for the social lives of the fight fan, scheduling its heavyweight extravaganza on a...

Matches to Make After Strikeforce ‘Melendez vs. Masvidal’ Gilbert Melendez outstrikes strikers, outwrestles wrestlers and outgrapples grapplers. There can be no clearer sign of one’s completeness.

Melendez Bests Masvidal, Keeps Strikeforce Crown Behind a relentless stream of two-, three- and four-punch combinations, Gilbert Melendez kept his stranglehold on the lightweight championship with a one-sided unanimous decision over Jorge Masvidal in the...

Strikeforce ‘Melendez vs. Masvidal’ Results and Play-by-Play Sherdog.com will report from the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego at approximately 8 p.m. ET with play-by-play and live results of Strikeforce “Melendez vs. Masvidal,” which is headlined by a lightweight title showdown pitting champion...

Melendez, Masvidal Cleared for Strikeforce Title Bout Jorge Masvidal stands at the foot of one of the lightweight division’s most intimidating mountains.

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Underdog ‘Chatuba’ Wins 3, Claims Bitetti Combat WWGP Crown RIO DE JANEIRO -- It took eight rounds, five of them as an underdog, but Andre “Chatuba” Santos proved that Saturday was his night.