Four days after he defeated Tito Ortiz at UFC 84 , I'm sensing a growing backlash against Lyoto Machida . Machida is 5-0 since joining UFC and undefeated in his 13-fight mixed martial arts career. But, as I alluded to after watching him Saturday night , Machida tends to back away during his fights, rather than force the action. Some people find that boring. Dan Stupp thinks Machida is bad ...

I had a seat about 10 feet from the Octagon for Saturday night's UFC 84 show, and what I'll take away from it, more than anything else, is the sound. Punches land to faces with thuds. Kicks land to sides with thwacks. The Octagon itself turns into a drum when a fighter is slammed to the canvas. I'll also remember the sheer noise of it all: The fighters' entrance music, the music played ...

It's Saturday night of Memorial Day Weekend. Plenty of people are out partying while I'm here at home in front of the TV. Upset about it? Not at all. I'm looking forward to a night filled with high-quality fighting at UFC 84 from Las Vegas. I hope you are too because it promises to be a helluva night. The main event, B.J. Penn defending his lightweight title against the former holder Sean ...

Saturday night's UFC 84 begins what might be the best stretch of three straight weekends that American MMA fans have ever had. It's a great card in Vegas on Saturday night, and it comes just a week before EliteXC and World Extreme Cagefighting both have the biggest events in their histories, and two weeks before yet another major event, UFC 85 . It's a good time to be an MMA fan. Here are the ...