Fighting on a Prayer BOSTON -- The first time Jorge Rivera remembers teetering on the brink of forfeit was in a jail cell near Beantown.

Pros Pick: Lesnar vs. Carwin The sport of mixed martial arts will crown its next top-ranked heavyweight on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Pictures: Moosin MMA Peter Lockley was cageside at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., to photograph Moosin’s “Sylvia vs. Pudzianowski” event.

Sylvia Makes Pudzianowski Tap to Strikes WORCESTER, Mass. -- Tim Sylvia crashed Mariusz Pudzianowski’s party on Friday, forcing the Polish strongman to tap to strikes in the second round atop a surprisingly eventful “Moosin: God of Martial Arts.” » Report

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Weekend Rundown: Ishii Scores First MMA Victory Satoshi Ishii, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist in judo, submitted Tafa Misipati with a first-round armbar in the X-plosion “New Zealand vs....

The Weekly Wrap: April 10 - April 16 From its inception, the Ultimate Fighting Championship's voyage to Abu Dhabi was a quixotic idea.

The Weekly Wrap: Feb. 13 - Feb. 19 Just about everything was going right as the Ultimate Fighting Championship marched toward its debut in Australia this Saturday.

Leites-Lister Carries MFC 23 One-time UFC middleweight championship contender Thales Leites will collide with Dean Lister in a showdown between two high-level Brazilian...

Pros Pick: Ortiz vs. Griffin 2 For a fight that was not supposed to rest atop the marquee, the rematch between former light heavyweight champions Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin at...