Despite all the focus on Steroids and HGH in the media and the repeated problems in 2007 for even Mixed Martial Arts, Nevada Mixed Martial Arts events were clean for the months of January and February in 2008.

The WEC brought their show outside Las Vegas for the first time since Zuffa purchase them and provided the fans in New Mexico with plenty of MMA action. The Santa Ana Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico was filled with 4,648 fans that saw two titles change hands and only two decisions the whole night.

Owned Entertainment, Inc. announced today that auditions will be held April 5th and 6th 2008 at Cung Le’s new gym Universal Strength Headquarters in the San Jose area. Those with fighting and/or acting experience in the Northern California Area are invited to attend between 1:00PM and 7:00PM.

At BCX II Steve D'Angelis took the BCX Featherweight Title away from Matt Zaccaria. Now Blair Tugman wants it and he'll get his chance on April 19th. at BCX IV. Can he do it? Be there and see.

Tim Boetsch who replaced Tomasz Drwal and dominated David Heath in UFC 81, is again playing the replacement role. Tim will be taking the place of the injured Stephan Bonnar and fighting TUF alumnus Matt Hammill, according to MMAWeekly.

Patrick "The Predator" Cote has suffered a sprained knee that will keep him off UFC 83 "Serra vs. GSP 2" card that was scheduled in Canada. Cote's Manager, Stephen Patry, informed The Fight Network that results from an MRI exam revealed the injury after falling on some ice last week.

BREAKING NEWS: In a press conference earlier today (4:30 pm local time in Japan, 1:30 U.S. CST on 2/13/2008), Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic has announced his decision to leave the UFC. Furthermore, he has signed with K-1 once again.

MMA veteran Josh “Bring the Pain” Haynes (Las Vegas), who has competed for a dozen professional mixed martial arts organizations, including the UFC, will compete at 185-lb. against Leopoldo Serao (San Francisco) at the International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI) event at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas on Friday, February 29. Haynes replaces popular IFL star Benji Radach (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), who suffered a neck injury in training and will be out of action indefinitely.

Stephan Bonnar has been forced to pull out of his fight with Matt Hammill due to fully torn ligaments in his knee. Bonnar was scheduled to fight Matt at UFC Fight Night on April 2nd in the televised portion of the card on SPIKE TV.

Andrew Simon, CEO of HDNet Fights, announced today that HDNet will feature exclusive coverage of Kim Couture's debut fight. Kim is the wife of MMA legend Randy "The Natural" Couture. Her debut will occur in a Boxing/Muay Thai Smoker, a mixed martial arts event, to be held at the Xtreme Couture Gym in Las Vegas, NV.