By John Moody (Check the Video page for recent interviews with Frankie Edgar and Lorenzo Fertitta) Mike Straka, host of 'Fighting Words with Mike Straka' on HDNet, sat down with Fighters.com recently to review some pending topics in the UFC, Strikeforce and sport of MMA at large.  Straka has been a regular on the MMA beat for several years and was the creator and host of the former FoxNews.com MMA show - Fox Fight Game.   In this sit-down, he opines on the fate of Brock Lesnar as a coach on the Ultimate Fighter show, Mark Cuban's passion for MMA, the potential for the UFC to create a 24hr cable channel and much more. Click through to watch the video. ...

HDNet Fights, owned by Texas billionaire Mark Cuban, filed suit against Zuffa in district court in Dallas Wednesday. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment concerning the contractual status of Randy Couture under his Zuffa promotional contract. Cuban wants the Texas courts to clarify when Couture's contract expires and therefore when HDNet Fights can offer a contact to Couture. The law suit is a direct challenge to the murky terms of Couture's contract with Zuffa, specifically the "retirement clause". Couture maintains that the term of his contract and non-compete commitment with Zuffa ends in  October 2008. Zuffa maintains Couture cannot end his contract with two fights remaining regardless of the contract's term unless he retires, in which case the term of the contract is suspended until Couture decides to fight again. ...