The Weekly Wrap: Oct. 23 - Oct. 29 In the definition of a star-making performance, Cain Velasquez put down the UFC's top draw on Oct. 23 to become the organization's heavyweight...

WEC 48 Post-Mortem: Aldo’s Starring Role, Korean War and More File Photo: Sherdog.com It does not take a coach or a book to understand that fighters train to peak at the right time. Camps build...

The Weekly Wrap: March 6 - March 12 A card that featured five of the game’s 10 best bantamweights saw a changing of the guard at the top of the division and the first submission...

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Urijah Faber and Mike Thomas Brown won their bouts, but that doesn't mean that 2010 hasn't already had some featherweight shake-up.

The Weekly Wrap: Dec. 26 - Jan. 1 The final MMA event of 2009 drew the biggest crowd of the year for the sport. The annual “Dynamite” presentation on New Year’s Eve in...

10 Most Memorable Championship Shockers: Part 1 Being champion carries with it an aura of respect, one that expands with each impressive outing and often seems to accompany the titleholder to...

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings In a year during which the featherweight division has played a pivotal role, perhaps it is fitting that the division's hottest prospect will...

UFC 105 Primer D. Mandel/Sherdog.com We know the story, and we know how it often ends: Randy Couture, who has somehow avoided the debilitating effects...

The Weekly Wrap: Oct. 24 - Oct. 30 Yet again in 2009, the judges’ call in a five-round main event led to some hot-tempered backlash. Outrage aside, Mauricio Rua’s performance against light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida at...

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings This update is exclusively on the slighter end of the scale. The marquee matchups of early October have come strictly at lightweight and below. Dream 11 on Oct. 6 saw Shinya Aoki finally capture Dream’s...