MMADriven - Part 2

Penn ready for a date with GSP — and destiny

By Mike Chiappetta
NBCSports.com
B.J. Penn seems to have been born without the basic emotion of fear. Or at least, his sense of adventure and challenge is so great that he is able to push it aside and press forward. Penn’s belief in facing down challenges is such that he has routinely crossed weight classes and drove [...]

Affliction adds top names to ‘Day of Reckoning’

By: mmaweekly
Affliction Entertainment on Monday officially announced many of the fights that will appear between their return to pay-per-view on Jan. 24 and the undercard bouts that will air on HDNet the same night.
As previously announced, the main event will pit top heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko against Belarus product Andrei Arlovski in a five-round title fight.
Also [...]

Anderson Silva vs Chuck Liddell is confirmed

According to the London tabloid The Sun, the UFC is returning to the O2 Arena on Feb. 21 - just two weeks after Georges St. Pierre and B.J. Penn are set to duke it out during Super Bowl weekend.
Oh, but wait. It gets better.
Middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva and light heavyweight Chuck Liddell are rumored to [...]

Florian Stomps Stevenson, Ready For BJ Penn

MMA Live Breaks Down Lesnar’s Win Over Couture

Despite impressive win, Lesnar still a work in progress

By Franklin McNeil espn
LAS VEGAS — There was never a doubt in Brock Lesnar’s mind that he would become UFC heavyweight champion one day. That day came Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena before a sellout crowd of 14,272.
Lesnar, a powerfully built 6-foot-3, 265-pound mountain of a man, stopped defending titleholder Randy Couture at [...]

IIIIIT’S TIME!!

It’s almost fight time and I’m still having trouble picking a winner for this fight. For some reason, this has been a tough fight to visualize and even harder to pick a winner. If we were just looking on paper it may not be as bad. Here we have a 16-8 veteran [...]

Lesnar: I hope Randy brings it all

By Tom Hamlin, MMAWeekly.com
The whole scene is very Rocky IV, minus Russian Ivan Drago.
Former NCAA wrestling champion Brock Lesnar travels to chilly northern Minnesota, hours away from the outside world, to train for a fight anticipated to be the biggest pay-per-view event in UFC history. In place of Drago posters, Lesnar totes opponent Randy Couture’s [...]