This Week In MMA: News, Articles, Podcasts, Rankings and Videos

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News:

UFC parent company Zuffa purchased Strikeforce.

Check out the Heavy.com March pound for pound rankings.

UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch took place on Feb. 26 at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia and the fighter drug tests results came back clean.

UFC on Versus 3 took place on March 3 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky and here are the medical suspensions from the event.

Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson took place on March 5 at the Nationwide Arena in Colubus, Ohio. Click here to see the fighter salaries, here to check out the medical suspensions and here to see the viewership numbers.

UFC is back on Facebook. Two UFC 128 prelim bouts to stream live on the UFC’s Facebook page.

UFC 129: St. Pierre vs. Shields will start an hour earlier on April 30 than past UFC pay-per-view events.

Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva drug tests are in. Click to see the results.

UFC welterweight Dan Hardy nominated for a Golden Gods Award for “Most Metal Athlete.”

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz will climb into a race car and race for charity.

The UFC inks a four-year deal with Rogers Sportsnet to air UFC programming in Canada.

Sengoku loses its primary sponsor and future is in doubt.

Articles:

Jorge Santiago: Of course I can beat Anderson Silva.

Jon Jones and Mauricio “Shogun’ Rua feel like the underdog heading into the UFC 128 main event.

UFC 128 is fast approaching. Meet the WEC newcomers on the card.

Podcasts:

HeavyMMA Podcast episode 33 featured special guest Steve Cofield.

This week’s Skrap Pack Radio had UFC featherweight Kenny Florian as a guest.

Jeff Cain’s Main Event featured UFC 128 heavyweight Brendan Schaub.

Videos:

Watch Jon Jones’ professional mixed martial arts debut.

Urijah Faber teaches the Korean Zombie some English.

Mike Pyle previews his UFC 128 match up with Ricardo Almeida.

Shawn Tompkins breaks down the UFC 128 main event between Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Jon Jones as well as Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland.

Randy Couture takes a look at Shogun vs. Jones and Faber vs. Wineland.