All the recent news regarding the world of professional mixed martial arts aggregated from around the net, as well as news being scooped by MMAjitsu.

It seems that the higher up’s over at clothing manufacturer & mma promotion Affliction have not been getting along with the Coutures since Randy re-signed with the UFC back in September. Affliction president Todd Eugene Beard has allegedley been threatening and intimidating Randy’s wife Kim Couture.  A restraining order was issued last Wednesday that restricts Beard from attending UFC 91 this Saturday as well as making an appearance in the hotel where the official weigh-ins are to take place.

Kim Couture won the order Wednesday against Affliction Inc. clothing company owner Todd Eugene Beard. Kim Couture alleges in court documents that Beard has a violent criminal history and engaged in “threatening” actions.

Read the full article over at San Francisco Chronicle.

Main event:

UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre 170lbs (16-2) vs. Jon Fitch 170lbs (19-2)

Main card (Televised):

265 lbs.: Brock Lesnar 265lbs (1-1) vs. Heath Herring 250lbs (28-13)
155 lbs.: Kenny Florian 155lbs (9-3) vs. Roger Huerta 155lbs (20-1-1)
155 lbs.: Manny Gamburyan 155lbs (8-2) vs. Rob Emerson 155lbs (7-6)
185 lbs.: Demian Maia 185lbs (7-0) vs. Jason MacDonald 185lbs (20-9)

Under card (May not be broadcast):

170 lbs.: Luke Cummo 167lbs (6-5) vs. Tamdan McCrory 170lbs (8-1)
265 lbs.: Cheick Kongo 235lbs (11-4-1) vs. Dan Evensen 244lbs (10-2)
205 lbs.: Andre Gusmao 205lbs vs. Jon Jones 205lbs (6-0)
170 lbs.: Steve Bruno 170lbs (11-3) vs. Chris Wilson 170lbs(13-4)
170 lbs.: Ben Saunders 170lbs(5-0-2) vs. Ryan Thomas 170lbs(9-1)

Observations:

1. Heath Herring looks as cut and ripped as I’ve ever seen him
2. Brock Lesnar looks like he had to cut DOWN to make the heavyweight 265lbs limit, and he’s shorter than Herring. He is massive.
3. Fitch does not look like has a significant size advantage over Georges St. Pierre

Check out the weigh-ins for yourself here.

After taking a two month break from training it looks like lightweight champion BJ Penn is back and making good use of his time management skills, preparing 5 months early for his next fight. Speculated to either be against Georges St. Pierre for a super fight at the beginning of next year, or against the winner of Saturday nights fight between Kenny Florian and Roger Heurta for another lightweight title defense.

According to one of his trainers Penn is strength training for the first two months, to possibly muscle up and make the 170lb weight class properly - muscular, lean and fit. The 12-minute video shows a bit of his weight training regimen, some of his legendary ju-jitsu skills (arm keylock demonstration), and him shouting out instructions to a couple of his students rolling and grappling in his gym.

“Right now I’d rather fight George St. Pierre (over Hughes), because I know its a big fight and I feel that it’ll move the sport of mixed martial arts forward to have a super fight like that take place. I think Matt hughes will be a great fight after the George St. Pierre fight. Who cares if he’s a wounded animal? I have to kill him.”

In a recent seminar Strikeforce middleweight champ Cung Le talks about possibly entering the UFC for 3 fights, his training regimen, and his strategy to possibly beating Anderson Silva.

“My promoter is willing embracing going into the UFC like how Gracie went in and fight Matt Hughes, but is Dana willing to do that?…We’re at the 3 (fight) mark, we’ll see how it goes”

The latest news coming from the infamous Rampage Jackson hit and run case has taken a tragic turn. It turns out one of the women injured during the incident was pregnant, and has since miscarried the baby.

A Huntington Beach woman who was more than 16 weeks pregnant and who police said was injured in a hit-and-run crash with mixed martial artist Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on the 55 Freeway two weeks ago has had a miscarriage, her fiance said Friday.

They are still investigating the incident, no formal charges have been filed against Quintin Jackson.

Local newsite dailypilot has the breaking news here.

Tatame.com recently spoke with Vitor Belfort and it looks like he will face Matt Lindland for the Affliction middleweight belt on the promotions second event on October 11th. Belfort broke his hand over his KO victory against Terry Martin during Afflictions premier event.

“The doctor will analyze it, but I may stay four weeks out. I’ll come back in October 11th to fight Matt Lindland for the belt”