Despite turning down an offer to coach The Ultimate Fighter because he didn’t think he could make 170, Hector Lombard has announced he’s moving to welterweight. According to a report by Ariel Helwani on Tuesday's (June 18, 2013) edition of "UFC Tonight" on FUEL TV, "Lightning" has formally announced that he will cut the additional 15 pounds from middleweight to compete at 170 pounds for the first time in his 38-fight career. Presumably Lombard will look to lose the bulk of that...

(yep, this is also my new official 'UFC facepalm' graphic) UFC COO Lawrence Epstein confirms that Boston's stupid insistence on Social Security numbers from foreign fighters may knock some fights off the card: “There’s no doubt it’s going to be a burden,” UFC Chief Operating Officer Lawrence Epstein told the Herald. Because of the rule — believed to be the only one of its kind in the nation — “there’s a possibility” that some international fighters won’t be...

Pardon me for assuming the worst when Massachusetts's Department of Public Safety threatened to nix the UFC's Boston show over stupid paperwork issue, but I'm getting used to assuming the worst whenever the government is involved. Like in New York, where MMA legislation has stalled out in the State Assembly for the fourth year in a row. You may remember last month's installment of As The New York Assembly Turns, where Grand Overlord Sheldon Silver had decided to toss women's rights...

When Dana White first called Randy Couture a backstabbing anti-man for teaming up with Bellator, the Natural just smiled and laughed it off, saying Dana gonna Dana. But now a month later it seems like one of White's attacks actually did get under Randy's skin: banning him from cornering his son Ryan. "I don't take any of that personal. I don't really tune into it. In the day-to-day running of my life, it's a small thing. But, when you start talking about somebody's kids and their...

Paul Kelly, once a mainstay of UFC cards in the UK, has just been sentenced to 13 years in prison for running a giant heroin drug ring with his childhood friends that supplied most of the gear for local gangs in Liverpool: Surveillance of McGirr, 28, and Kelly led to the arrest of one of their couriers who had £100,000 of import purity heroin under his car seat. That courier’s replacement, their schoolfriend Paul Rogers, 28, was later arrested moving heroin worth up to...