Dave Meltzer of Yahoo Sports! has written a good summary piece detailing last year’s PPV figures across MMA, boxing, and wrestling in which the UFC claimed six of the top ten buyrates and eleven of the top fifteen. UFC’s numbers are even more impressive when one considers that several of the company’s biggest drawing cards missed most of the second half of the year for various reasons.   Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar fought only once in 2009, since he was sidelined with an illness eventually diagnosed as Diverticulitis. But Lesnar stayed on his perch as the king of PPV, headlining the year’s biggest event, UFC 100, which drew 1.6 million buys. Lesnar’s win over Frank Mir trailed only three events in PPV history, all boxing matches: the 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather fight, and Mike Tyson’s 2002 match with Lennox Lewis and 1997 fight with Evander Holyfield.   Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, who appears to be the company’s second-biggest draw, also didn’t fight after July due to an abductor muscle tear in his victory over Thiago Alves. Middleweight champion Anderson Silva didn’t right after Aug. 8 due to elbow surgery.

Dave Meltzer of Yahoo Sports! has written a good summary piece detailing last year’s PPV figures across MMA, boxing, and wrestling in which the UFC claimed six of the top ten buyrates and eleven of the top fifteen. UFC’s numbers are even more impressive when one considers that several of the company’s biggest drawing cards missed most of the second half of the year for various reasons.

To tap into the thousands of sports fans already in town, World Extreme Cagefighting officials have opted to hold weigh-ins for next month’s WEC 47 event in conjunction with the Arnold Sports Festival. Rather than holding the weigh-ins at WEC 47 host site Nationwide Arena, the weigh-ins will be hosted nearby at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, WEC officials today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com.

To tap into the thousands of sports fans already in town, World Extreme Cagefighting officials have opted to hold weigh-ins for next month’s WEC 47 event in conjunction with the Arnold Sports Festival. Rather than holding the weigh-ins at WEC 47 host site Nationwide Arena, the weigh-ins will be hosted nearby at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, WEC officials today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com.

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MMAFrenzy.com today announced that it has acquired FightTrends.com , a leading MMA fashion and gear blog, with the site becoming the first part of the newly-launched MMAFrenzy.com Network . Below is an interview with FightTrends.com founder Cody Sweet, who has joined the MMAFrenzy.com team to remain as editor of the site.

This has been going on for months but it’s only really gotten bad in the last 2 weeks. I’ll move a certain way and the muscles in my lower/mid back will feel like a jolt of electricity went through them.