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...

Pat Barry's manager is claiming that it was an eye poke and not Shawn Jordan's power that put his client down for the count: On Monday, Barry's manager, Brian Butler of SuckerPunch Entertainment, sent shots of the fight and the apparent eye poke to Bleacher Report, along with photos of the fighter's damaged eye a day after the fight occurred. Butler made it clear that he is taking it upon himself to bring this to light, and Barry is never a fighter that wants to appear as if...

After all these fight cancellations and event mishaps, a simple twitter beef between Jake Ellenberger and Rory MacDonald is a welcome change. The two are gonna scrap on the July 27th UFC on FOX 8 card, but until then they'll have to keep things to 140 characters: I gave the first and second rounds to Jake Ellenberger, but Rory really came back strong with that 'internet spelling won't save you in the cage' comment. There's something we all wish we could drop on grammar nazi's and...

A little bit of calm reassurance from the UFC's Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner: The UFC show on Aug. 17 at the TD Garden in Boston is happening, according to UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner. An article in the Boston Herald on Tuesday indicated the event was in jeopardy. "The show will definitely be taking place," said Ratner, who noted he was working on the paperwork issue that the newspaper wrote about. He was trying to get all fighters on...

After a two-month hiatus, Bellator returns this Wednesday night to kick off their 2013 Summer Series tournaments.  Unlike past summers that focused on only one weight class, this season brings us two abbreviated four-man brackets in the heavyweight and light-heavyweight divisions. All of the light-heavy entrants are returning from the recent Season 8 tourney, though none made it past the semifinals.  Seth Petruzelli may have been taken out of that season early by Jacob Noe,...