Does anyone else think the Condit-Diaz rematch will be back on sometime next week, then cancelled again by the end of the month?

Oh wait, never mind. The Diaz-Condit rematch is off now. Prepare for a good, solid three months of this nonsense. (Fightlinker)

Dana White says we shouldn’t expect Georges St-Pierre to return to action any time soon. (MMA Bay)

UFC 143 had a PPV buy-rate of roughly 400,000, vastly exceeding most people’s expectations. (MMA Payout)

Ben...

It may be ironic, considering Brandon Vera’s beef with Thiago Silva stems from the Brazilian failing a post-fight drug test after their UFC 125 bout, but “The Truth” says he once considered taking performance enhancing drugs.

He made the revelation today while speaking to Mauro Ranallo on The MMA Show.

“Yes, the thought has crossed my mind. The only reason I didn’t do it was because I didn’t want to disappoint anyone, I didn’t want to win because of PEDs,...

Today’s “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo” podcast featured an interview with Malki Kawa, the agent of Carlos Condit, who said his client talked to Dana White and agreed to rematch Nick Diaz after their fight at UFC 143. He says that if Cesar Gracie and the rest of the Diaz camp is saying “no, it’s not happening” then they may be posturing, because as far as he’s concerned, the rematch is happening.

“It’s probably some contract issues, maybe some...

The MMA Show Podcast with Mauro Ranallo is back at it again with a stacked show featuring the latest and greatest in the world of mixed martial arts.

And remember, you can now watch a LIVE VIDEO STREAM! Click Here to WATCH LIVE The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo at 2pm EST.

The show will start off with Firas Zahabi, who will discuss the rumors that Georges St-Pierre may vacate his title to fight Nick Diaz and also what he’s...

To hell with putting up a picture of a fighter, I’m putting up an OK Go video this morning.

If you don’t know why, keep readoing.

And here we go again, Carlos Condit has accepted a rematch against Nick Diaz. (MMA Fighting)

Georges St-Pierre may be willing to give up the welterweight title for a chance to fight Nick Diaz sooner. (MMA Bay)

The UFC has announced two more non pay-per-view events. UFC on FX 4 will take...

The fate of Carlos Condit, and possibly the future of Nick Diaz in MMA, hinges on one fellow: UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.

Speaking to The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo, Condit’s agent Malki Kawa said that he’s open to the idea of a rematch between the UFC interim welterweight champion and Diaz, who said after the razor-close decision loss at UFC 143 he will retire from the sport — but only if St-Pierre is out longer than anticipated.

“If...

Today’s “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo” podcast featured an interview with Cesar Gracie, the coach of Nick Diaz who came out on the wrong end of a decision in the main event of UFC 143. Gracie talked about why he thought Diaz won the fight, what he thought about Carlos Condit’s strategy, and whether or not he thinks Diaz will in fact stay retired.

“When we say retirement, we’ve seen people retire many times. It doesn’t have to be...

The MMA Show Podcast with Mauro Ranallo is back at it again with a LOADED SHOW featuring the latest and greatest in the world of mixed martial arts.

And remember, you can now watch a LIVE VIDEO STREAM! Click Here to WATCH LIVE The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo at 2pm EST.

Ranallo is joined by Greg Jackson, the trainer of Carlos Condit, to start off the show. He’ll talk about Condit’s performance at UFC 143 and why he doesn’t...

That transcript is oddly fascinating.

Cesar Gracie says that the judging in Saturday’s Nick Diaz-Carlos Condit fight was a “perfect storm of incompetence.” (MMA Fighting)

In related news, Condit’s camp in not interested in a rematch. (Fightlinker)

If you want to read a transcript of everything that was said in Nick Diaz’s corner during the fight, check this out. (Bloody Elbow)

It’s official, Jon Jones and Rashad Evanswill meet for in a light heavyweight title fight at UFC 145....

Carlos Condit is the UFC's newest champion. The promotion will have eight belt holders in 2012 for the first time in the promotion's history.

With the introduction of flyweight this year, 2012 will be the first time in the promotion’s history that there will be eight UFC champions. Read on as The MMA Blog takes a look at the path to the title in all eight weight divisions.

Flyweight

The blueprint to crown the first-ever UFC flyweight champion is...

UFC 143 will be remembered for many different reasons.  The debut of Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, the two point foul Alex Caceres received and the retirement of Nick Diaz. Okay, I was joking about the last one, but there are still a few instances that will bring this event to the mind of a fan in the future.

When you look back on important dates in UFC history, UFC 143 will appear because of the opening 60 seconds of the pay-per-view broadcast. For...

When the main event of UFC 143 began on Saturday night, I knew I was in for an interesting next half hour or so. I was at a local establishment where half of the patrons were Nick Diaz fans and the other half were Carlos Condit fans.  Once the fight was complete and the decision had been read, I was shocked at the amount of people, both around me and on twitter, that were outraged with the way Condit fought. Even...

Nick Diaz looks away as Carlos Condit is crowned the UFC interim welterweight champion.

With fans and interested observers divided on whether Nick Diaz or Carlos Condit should have been crowned the UFC interim welterweight champion — and with champion Georges St-Pierre not able to unify the title until November — it only makes sense to have a rematch.

After all, it was a close fight that was for a title, and it’s not like it would be setting precedence...

After the UFC on FOX 2 show put an end to a streak of dynamite shows by the UFC, the company definitely bounced back on pay-per-view with UFC 143. Like most really good shows, there are plenty of questions and a little bit of controversy coming out of Saturday’s show. We had a very close main event, an incredibly impressive return to the octagon and two fighters who have now put themselves into prime position for a title shot.

With all...

What are people’s thoughts on Condit’s win?

Dana White says he’s up for an immediate Carlos Condit-Nick Diaz rematch if Condit is up for it. (MMA Bay)

To paraphrase the great Georges St-Pierre, Ronda Rousey was not impressed with Carlos Condit’s performance. (Fight Line)

Ed Herman has now won three fights in a row and wants a shot at Anderson Silva’s middleweight title. (Bleacher Report)

Dustin Poirier, on the other hand, isn’t expecting a title shot against Jose...

Mauro Ranallo is feeling under the weather so there will not be a new edition of The MMA Show Podcast today.

We are hoping to be back tomorrow with a brand new episode to bring you all the best from the world of MMA including reaction to UFC 143 from this past weekend.

For today, why not head back into the archives and check out previous episodes of The MMA Show Podcast.

Click Hereto download any previous episodes of The...

Cain Velasquez is returning to training soon and should be making his comeback in the coming months.

It’s no secret the American Kickboxing Academy is a little banged up right now.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is out. Former Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson is finally making return to the hexagon this April after having not competed at all in 2011. Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix finalist Daniel Cormier has a lingering hand injury that isn’t healing as fast as...

On Friday’s edition of The MMA Show podcast, Mauro Ranallo was joined by the founder of The American Kickboxing Academy Javier Mendez to discuss plenty of topics surrounding the gym.

One topic that came up was the way fighters train at AKA.  Mendez went into a story about an argument he once had with Strikeforce lightweight Josh Thomson on over training. 

Fight Factory did a very interesting piece on AKA and went inside the operation that Mendez has been running,...

Today’s “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo” podcast featured an interview with Roy “Big Country” Nelson, who takes on Fabricio Werdum in the co-main event of UFC 143 this Saturday. Nelson stopped by to talk about the fight, what kind of shape he expects to show up in, and where a win over Werdum would put him in the heavyweight pecking order.

“Fabricio beat Fedor, who was undefeated for 10 years. And then Overeem got a title shot for beating...

It’s weirdly fitting that, as the UFC takes to pay-per-view on the eve of the Super Bowl, the fighter who should lead the charge is Nick Diaz. That’s not because Diaz embodies any of the same qualities that we’ve come to associate with pro football’s circus weekend. Quite the opposite, in fact, which is what’s so great about it. 

If Nick Diaz were to suppress his hatred of jock culture long enough to actually play football, he’d probably be terrible...

Carlos Condit was the only fighter to rock a suit at yesterday’s UFC 143 press conference.

A middleweight bout pitting “Jacare” Souza against Derek Brunson has been added to the March 3 Strikeforce event. (MMAjunkie.com)

Also, a previously reported matchup between Scott Smith and Lumumba Sayers has become official for the same Strikeforce event. (Yahoo! Sports)

Mike Massenzio will fight on home soil as he takes on Karlos Vemola, who will make his 185-pound debut at UFC on FOX...

The MMA Show Podcast with Mauro Ranallo is back at it again with the latest and greatest in the world of mixed martial arts.

And remember, you can now watch a LIVE VIDEO STREAM! Click Here to WATCH LIVE The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo at 2pm EST.

Our first guest is American Kickboxing Academy trainer Javier Mendez, who will stop by to talk about Josh Koscheck’s fight against Mike Pierce at UFC 143 and what else is happening with...

Man, give it up for the guys at Complex.

Not only did they get Arianny to disrobe — which isn’t actually that hard — but they had the good sense to dress her up like a dominatrix. Am I alone in feeling like Ms. Celeste looks very, very at home in fetish gear?

They also convinced her to dress up like a Russian sailor. I’m not really sure what that was about.

(Via Kineda)

Like so many others, Ryan Martinez says mixed martial arts turned his entire life around.

Living in the fast lane might be fun for a while, but when you miss your daughter’s first steps because you are in prison, like Martinez was, it’s not so amusing anymore.

“Fast money, man,” Martinez told Mauro Ranallo on The MMA Show as to why he was incarcerated in the first place. “Fast money isn’t always good money. (Ending up in jail) came from...

Today’s “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo” podcast featured an interview with Pat Barry, who is set to take on Lavar Johnson in what should be a heavyweight slugfest May 5 on the main card of UFC on FOX 3. Barry talked about when he got the call to take the fight, how excited he is to be on big FOX, and how he expects the fight to play out.

“Everybody knows what I do. I come in for the...