UFC 137 marked the long awaited return of one of my favorite fight­ers on the planet Nick “THE FUCKING MAN” Diaz. I’ve been a huge Diaz fan since he knocked out Rob­bie Lawler in one of the most amus­ing face plants I’ve ever seen. All week lead­ing up to this fight I heard how BJ Penn (whom I’m also a huge fan of) had bet­ter jiu jitsu and...

When the Kinect first burst on the scene we all knew that the phys­i­cal fit­ness games were going to see some major changes with regard to total use of the body. Dance Cen­tral and EA Sports active were only scratch­ing the sur­face of the Kinect’s poten­tial as an exer­cise tool. Zumba and a ton of oth­ers have also come along and been well...

The New Year has just started but the Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship is already hard at work putting things together for some solid fight cards this spring. Just eight days removed from the first card of the year in UFC 125, con­tracts are being sent to some of the biggest fight­ers in MMA for UFC 129 and UFC 130. Mak­ing its sec­ond trip up to...

Brand new post from MMA Valor for this weeks episode of TUF. TUF 12 Episode 8 Recap: Kos in a Commotion The show starts out with talk regard­ing the wild­card selec­tions: Dane Say­ers and team GSP were shocked that Marc Stevens got the nod over Say­ers. Georges St-Pierre says the rea­son Say­ers didn’t get selected was his lack of a pedi­gree....

It’s hard to believe that The Ulti­mate Fighter has been grac­ing our tele­vi­sion sets on Spike TV since 2005. I credit TUF with being the show that made me a Mixed Mar­tial Arts fan. Hon­estly, I really didn’t know much about the sport before then, since obvi­ously it was not as main­stream as it has grown to be now. My knowl­edge of the UFC was...