RIZIN FF: Shoot Boxing Rules For Akebono vs. Sapp II; King Mo To Face... (PRESS RELEASE) -- TOKYO, JAPAN – RIZIN FF officials announced today that the highly anticipated rematch between Akebono and Bob Sapp will be contested under Shoot Boxing rules on Thursday, Dec. 31, and that BAMMA fighter Brett McDermott has been named the new opponent...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings For all its bombast, Bellator MMA’s “Dynamite” mega-card was at its core a bare showcase for the organization’s thriving light...

Sherdog’s Top 10: Japanese Fighters From Caol Uno to the incomparable Kazushi Sakuraba, the Land of the Rising Sun has a long history of enriching mixed martial arts.

Sherdog’s Top 10: Dirtiest Deeds Not everything in sports is as clean as a whistle. Throughout the years, countless circumstances have left viewers outraged by dirtier tactics...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings For the first time in nearly a decade, Anderson Silva is gone from the middleweight rankings.

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Glover Teixeira rises in the light heavyweight rankings after spoiling the homecoming of Ovince St. Preux.

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings By now, it is painfully clear: There’s Ronda Rousey, and then there’s every other woman at 135 pounds.

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings It looks like the bantamweight division will have to get used to T.J. Dillashaw.

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings A flurry of activity from the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Bellator MMA and Invicta Fighting Championships has created shifts and changes in...

Sherdog’s Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Yoel Romero moves up the middleweight ranks in this edition of the Sherdog.com official MMA rankings thanks to his brutal finish of Lyoto Machida.