The Bellator 64 weigh-ins have been completed from Windsor, Ontario in preparation for Bellator’s Friday night event at the Caesars Windsor, which features the welterweight title fight between undefeated champion Ben Askren and challenger Douglas Lima. Also, a  Bellator season six featherweight tournament semifinal fight will take place as Marlon Sandro meets “Popo” Bezerra. Additionally, the Bellator bantamweight tournament kicks off with a pair of matchups as Travis Marx takes on Masakatsu Ueda and Rodrigo Lima squares off against Hiroshi Nakamura.

For years, fans and pundits alike have questioned the unprecedented gain in mass by Alistair Overeem; it would seem that the enduring question has finally been answered. After the UFC 146 Press Conference, which took place last Tuesday, all fighters were given a random drug test, one that “The Reem” ostensibly failed.

After dispatching one of Team Faber’s most dangerous fighters last week on “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” Dominick Cruz set out to take Team Faber’s top pick out of the tournament. Cruz chose his fighter, Myles Jury, to step in against Al Iaquinta. And at the end of this week’s episode, entitled “All The Pressure,” the show had a new personality. During the video taped build up leading into the live fight we saw Mike Rio injure his knee and continue pressing through training. Meanwhile both Iaquinta and Jury prepared for their fight by working on-on-one with the coaches.

Tonight Bellator kicked off their season six welterweight tournament, live from the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. The evening saw four men advance to the semi-finals of the tournament. Among them were Karl Amoussou, Bryan "The Beast Baker" in his welterweight debut, David Rickels, and UFC veteran Ben Saunders.

"The Ultimate Fighter Live" episode three, "Old School vs. New School" aired Friday evening and saw Team Cruz take a 2-0 lead as number one overall pick Justin Lawrence knocked out Brazilian jiu-jitsu veteran Cristiano Marcello with a solid left hook at 3:16 of the second round. With the win, Team Cruz selected the next fight, which will pit Myles Jury against Al Iaquinta live next week.

Emanating live from Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Tex., Bellator 62 presented the opening round of the Bellator season six lightweight tournament. By all accounts, Bellator presented yet another thrilling card which delivered on all fronts, including: a brutal knockout, an orthodox submission, a war of attrition, and a major upset. Tournament favorite and season four finalist Patricky “Pitbull” Freire would find the success he has obtained in prior Bellator lightweight tournaments to be fleeting when he stepped into the cage against Lloyd Woodard.

With a rash of contreversial decisions in several recent high profile bouts, MMA judging has come under considerable fire from fans and insiders alike. MMA and boxing judge Barry Lindenman may have a solution. Going off of the general assumption that of the five standard scoring criteria for MMA bouts, clean striking and effective grappling carry more weight than cage control, effective aggressiveness and defense, I would like to propose a possible revision to the current judge’s scorecard.

"The Ultimate Fighter Live" coaches and bitter rivals Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber picked their teams this past week from the field of 16 finalists who won their elimination bouts to enter the house. Missouri native Justin Lawrence was the first overall selection by Team Cruz, while his teammate James Vick, of Fort Worth, Tex. and Team Faber’s Daron Cruickshank, of Wayne, Mich., were slated to face off in the first fight of the night.

The quarterfinals of the Bellator season six middleweight tournament have wrapped up as four tournament participants have advanced to the semifinal round. Maiquel Falcao, Vyacheslav Vasilevsky, Bruno Santos and Brian Rogers all earned dominant victories at Bellator 61 from The Horseshoe Riverdome in Bossier City, La. live on MTV2 and in HD on Epix.

Never one to keep quiet, former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has recently taking to his twitter boisterously airing out his dirty laundry with the promotion. “The UFC makes billions off us all over the world [and] pay us chump change,” said the outspoken fighter. Rampage went as far as to say “Well I'm hoping the [UFC] just let me go so I can do my thang.” Well, it seems that UFC President Dana White is granting not just one, but two of Jackson’s wishes.