LESLIE SMITH TO FACE RAQUEL PENNINGTON AT INVICTA FC 4 (PRESS RELEASE) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Dec. 3, 2012) – Power puncher Leslie Smith (4-2-1) of Pleasant Hill, Calif. will square off with submission specialist...

TICKETS GO ON SALE MONDAY, NOV. 26 FOR STAR-STUDDED, 12 BOUT WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL MMA EVENT (PRESS RELEASE) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Nov. 23, 2012) – Just three months after its first world championship bout, women’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Invicta Fighting Championships will return to Memorial Hall in Kansas City and crown a champion in its strawweight (115...

Lightweight King Mizuto Hirota Defends Crown Against Seiichi Ikemoto at Deep 57 Deep lightweight champion Mizuto Hirota successfully defended his title against Dream veteran Seiichi Ikemoto in the main event of Deep 57...

Strikeforce Live Results and Play-by-Play Sherdog.com will report from U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati at approximately 8 p.m. ET with play-by-play and live results of Strikeforce"Barnett vs. Kharitonov," which features the semifinals of the...

Hirota Takes Kikuno’s Crown; Matsumoto Retires at Deep 55 TOKYO -- Mizuto Hirota is back.

In his first bout since suffering a gruesome arm break at the hands of Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki 20 months ago in 2009's K-1 Dynamite, the former Sengoku Raiden Championship and Cage Force lightweight champion rebounded with a...

UFC Vets Curran, Varner Emerge Victorious at XFO 39 HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. -- Two former Zuffa fighters trying to fight their way back into the big leagues picked up wins on Friday at Xtreme Fighting Organization 39 within the confines of the Sears Center Arena. Local favorite Jeff Curran notched a one-sided unanimous decision win (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) over unheralded late replacement...