Dana White has simply got to be one of the most quotable big-name bosses in recent history. The man has gone on several epic rants in his day, and it seems that not a month goes by where he doesn’t loudly voice one widely-controversial opinion or another. It’s a trend that won’t be stopping anytime soon, and recently, Dana White put Frank Shamrock of all people in his crosshairs and fired away. Here are all the details. ...

For someone who once approached the upcoming video game “EA Sports MMA” with an incredible amount of hesitation, now more and more I’m thinking that October 19 can’t get here soon enough. In order to generate interest and encourage fans to open their wallets and put down a pre-order, EA Sports is revealing the entire roster of the game on a week-by-week, division-by-division basis. The Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight roster has already been revealed, and recently the Middleweights took center stage. EA Sports also recently revealed a teaser image of a famous venue that has yet to see a Mixed Martial Arts event. ...

"The Croatian Sensation" Pat Miletich (29-7-2) spoke with Five Ounces of Pain and told them he and Frank Shamrock (23-10-2) had verbally agreed to fight but there are some issues still on Frank's side. Pat said that right now there are some hold ups due to Frank and that they verbally agreed to fight in March but it may be April, May or never. Here is the full statement for Pat: ...

The breakdown in negotiations between boxing champions Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. over Pacquiao's apparent resistance to submit to an Olympic-style blood test has presented MMA with a golden opportunity to further differentiate itself from the often frustrating sport of boxing. ...

Today in an interview with Fight Magazine Frank Shamrock (22-9-1) stated "I don’t want to fight  Jake Shields because he has no personality, he’s a boring fighter, and when he got on to CBS, and it was his chance to be a star, he leg humped ["Mayhem" Jason Miller] all night long, and killed our ratings. That’s why I don’t want to fight Jake Shields". ...

CBS Senior Executive Vice President Kelly Kahl compared Fighters.com Heavyweight Champion “Last Emperor” Fedor Emelianenko (30-1) to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods Tuesday on a media conference call promoting Emelianenko's matchup versus fifth-ranked “Grim” Brett Rogers (10-0) at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates 33 miles northwest of Chicago November 7. ...

Saturday at Throwdown Headquarters in Las Vegas, Fighters.com caught up with Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Cung Le (6-0) to talk about his acting career and deliver a message from former Strikeforce Champ Frank Shamrock (23-9-2), as told to MMA Frenzy. In an interview, Shamrock called Le "boring" and claimed he was "beating the hell" out of Le until Shamrock broke his arm. Le took issue with how exactly Shamrock's arm was broken and sent a personal message back to Shamrock. Thanks to the Throwdown crew for allowing me to interview Cung Le at their headquarters.   ...

On 29 March, Cung Le (6-0) forced Frank Shamrock(23-9-2) to quit in his corner with a broken arm from Le's relentless kicking offense. Le won the Strikeforce middleweight title. Though his two children were sick, Le took time to talk to Fighters.com. Fighters.com: Your MMA career has always been leading to the battle of San Jose with Shamrock. Now it's over. Is there relief, a sense of accomplishment? Are you thinking about what's next? Cung Le: Relief and accomplishment. I'm just trying to take a break, but no break yet. I'm not thinking about what's next. There's a lot of negotiating and setup in an organization to schedule a fight; and, I'm just letting Strikeforce handle that. Fighters.com: It didn't look like Shamrock had much of a strategy more than "let's see what happens". Did you perceive he was trying to set-up anything or had a notion of a particular weakness? Cung Le: My coach, who used to coach Frank, said [Shamrock] looked as good as he's ever seen him. He was looking for openings and I just didn't give him any. Fighters.com: Did Shamrock do what you expected? Cung Le: Yeah. The only problem was that my coach told me he dips when he punches; so, a couple of times I got caught because I thought he was going to take me down. Fighters.com: It seems like your kicks snap more from the knee than the kicks taught to most mixed martial artists, which are more the roundhouse Muay Thai kick. Do you notice that? How do you analyze that? Cung Le: That's my secret! I'm not giving that up. Fighters.com: Let's be objective. How's your ground game? Cung Le: I'm just trying to be the most complete martial artist. No one comes to see me submit people. People want to seek knockouts and kicks. I can submit people. I took Sam Morgan to the ground and had him in a crucifix. Fighters.com: Shamrock was grinning. Do you think he didn't take you seriously? Cung Le: I was having a good time too; but, never was it not a fight. Fighters.com: Shamrock is going to ask for a rematch, if he hasn't already. Is there any reason to rematch him immediately? Cung Le: I will give him one because he gave me this opportunity. I owe him that. Fighters.com: After the fight you mentioned your helicopter flight out of Vietnam under gun fire. Was that something you thought about immediately or something you planned to say? Cung Le: Definitely, it's apart of my training. It helps motivate me. Fighters.com: Have you been back to Vietnam since leaving? Do you enjoy returning? Cung Le: I've been back twice. My dad lives there. I enjoy it. It's very emotional for me. Fighters.com: Under the ProElite umbrella, you have fellow middleweight champions Robbie Lawler and Kala Kolohe Hose. Would you like to call either of them out? Cung Le: No. I haven't even thought about fighting them. Fighters.com: Have you faced anyone in MMA tougher than your toughest San Shou fight? Cung Le: Frank Shamrockis my toughest opponent. San Shou is different. The referee stops you after each take down. MMA is much harder. Fighters.com: San Shou is an exhibition sport at this Summer's Olympics. Any plans to go to Beijing? Cung Le: No. There's a lot of politics. They decided they want to play politics and I decided I didn't want to be involved. Under me we got four bronze and two silver. Under the current coach, no one placed. Fighters.com: Now that you've got some downtime, how do you split up your time between training, your gym, your acting career, and family? Cung Le: I'm just trying to find some down time! I've got two boys that are sick; you can hear in the background. I'm sure everyone knows about my divorce and I got full custody. I've got a lot of great people around me. I don't mind doing interviews. Media and my fans are what got me here. Congratulations Cung on being Fighters.com featured fighter! ...

Top Strikeforce welterweight contender Drew Fickett (33-5) locked in his title bid versus champ Jake Shields (20-4-1) in the form of a guillotine choke around the neck of intended Nick Diaz (15-7) opponent "The Korean Icepick" Jae Suk Lim (9-4) at 1:14 of the first round in San Jose Saturday night. Fickett was signed to challenge Shields on tonight's Showtime-televised card; but, Shields injured his back heaving a sledgehammer during training. Fickett drew Lim after Shields's partner, Diaz, was denied a license by the California State Athletic Board. The title fight has reportedly been rescheduled for 14 June in Hawaii. The absence of Shields and Diaz, popular Nor Cal warriors,  agitated thousands of hungry fight aficionados at HP Pavilion. They packed in to feast on a middleweight mixed martial arts title fight between Strikeforce champion Frank Shamrock (24-9-1) and Cung Le (6-0), heroes from opposite sides of the Capital of Silicon Valley. What they were fed was two-and-a-half rounds of brisk San Shou sparring and two-and-a-half minutes of MMA. Le remained undefeated when Shamrock quit with a broken arm after the third round, relinquishing his belt to the Vietnamese kung-fu stylist.  "He kept blocking," Le explained,  "so I kept aiming at that part of the wrist." With local street cred on the table, both fighters answered the opening bell cautious of the other's prowess. Shamrock circled in a crouching stance while pumping a lazy jab in Le's general direction, while Le waltzed warily from a safe range. When the hammer did fall, beginning with a Shamrock kick to Le's midsection countered by a Le left hand, it was in single-strike spurts followed by congratulatory high fives. They grinned at each one-off as the crowd chanted "Boring!" Shamrock closed round one with a knee busting Le's lip, but lost the round in range of Le's snapping kicks. Le opened the second frame knocking Shamrock's mouthpiece out with a left high kick. As Le learned Shamrock wasn't interested in taking him to the mat, he became more comfortable launching left and right middle kicks to setup punches to Shamrock's head, catching Shamrock with a right hook towards the round's final bell. Le topped Shamrock in round two as well. Midway through the third round, a fight broke out and the champion and challenger traded flurries against the cage. A hard left kick to Shamrock's core backed the champion into the fence and Le followed with a spinning back fist as Shamrock advanced. Shamrock walked through the worst of Le's attack and pounded punches in a flurry marked by a right fist that staggered Le against the cage. Le countered with another lightning strike body kick followed by a flurry of hooks as the bell signaled an end to the round and, as Shamrock chose not to answer the fourth round's bell, the end of the fight. "This is a dream come true," Le said after the fight.  "Coming from Vietnam under gunfire and now world champion, I love it." In undercard action, top ten lightweight "El Niño" Gilbert Melendez (14-1) shook-up and opened the anticipated can of whoop ass on last minute opponent Gabe Lemley (11-7). Referee Herb Dean showed mercy on the seemingly awe-struck Iowan and called an end to Melendez's G'n'P onslaught at 2:18 of the second round. Melendez returned like a typhoon from a loss to "The Endless Warrior" Mitsuhiro Ishida (16-3-1) in Japan, the first of "El Niño's" career. Strikeforce newbie Wayne Cole (11-6) surprised "MAK" Mike Kyle (9-7-1) in an armbar 45-seconds after the opening bell. Kyle, win-less since 2005, was rusty from a two-year absence from professional competition. In a sloppy, but entertaining 4:45 minute punch-up, middleweight Joey Villasenor (25-6) of Jackson's Submission Fighting popped late replacement Ryan Jensen (11-4) with a right hand, knocking the former UFC fighter out in his third consecutive first-round stoppage loss (all against tough competition). Team Oyama welterweight Tiki Ghosn's (10-7) takedown defence kept his scrap with young Luke Stewart (5-1) where Ghosn could pick at Stewart's stand-up.  The veteran nickle-and-dimed his way to a unanimous decision of 29-28 twice and 30-27. Stewart picks up his first "L" after five stoppage wins, all in Strikeforce affairs. Team USA grappler Darren Uyenoyama (4-1) broke bantamweight Strikeforce regular Anthony Figueroa's (4-2) two-fight win streak by sweeping from half guard into a guillotine choke, enticing the tap at 1:27 of the first frame. Undefeated Jesse Jones (2-0) exposed Jesse Gillespie (1-1), transitioning in back control from a rear naked choke to G'n'P for a 35-second TKO. Lightweight Billy Evangelista (6-0) knocked out Marlon Sims (3-3) at :39 of the third round to end the night. ...