The Texas-based Shark Fights organization has put together a talent-laden card as it enters the pay-per-view market for the first time in company history.

And while there are a number of intriguing matchups on the Sept. 11 even, the main event provides a pair of UFC veterans with big-fight experience.

In our most recent MMAjunkie.com/"Inside MMA" poll, we asked readers to predict whether Keith Jardine or Trevor Prangley would claim victory in Amarillo, Texas, in the Shark Fights 13 pay-per-view headliner.

Stephan Bonnar, finalist in the original season of "The Ultimate Fighter," returns to where it all began.

Well, kind of.

While he'll compete at a different venue that the night of his legendary April 2005 battle with Forrest Griffin, Bonnar will fight Igor Pokrajac in Las Vegas on a live finale of "The Ultimate Fighter." This time, it's the soon-to-debut 12th season.

All mixed martial arts promotions are forced to deal with the reality of injuries, and the upstart Shark Fights organization is no exception.

While the Texas-based promotion will host its first-ever pay-per-view event with next week's Shark Fights 13 card, the organization will need to secure a pair of late replacements.

Shark Fights head Brent Medley on Friday confirmed with MMAjunkie.com Radio that both Drew McFedries and Marcus Hicks have been forced to withdraw from the event and replacements are currently being sought.

While DVD sales have long provided a consistent revenue stream for the UFC, the company's sister promotion just recently joined the market.

Now, a little less than two months after releasing its first title, "WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber," under an agreement with Image Entertainment, Inc., the promotion has announced a follow-up.

On Tuesday, Sept. 7, a selection of some of the best fights under the WEC banner from 2008 and 2009 will be released on a "Best of WEC" DVD.

More European talent is headed toward UFC 122 in Oberhausen, Germany.

MMAjunkie.com today learned from multiple sources close to the event that Karlos "The Terminator" Vemola is moving from heavyweight to light heavyweight and is expected to meet Seth Petruzelli.

UFC 122 takes place Nov. 13 in Oberhausen's Konig Pilsener Arena and airs stateside on Spike TV via same-day delay.

Short-notice and last-minute are two terms that describe the bulk of John Gunderson's career. By now, the UFC lightweight is used to opponent switches. He grumbles for a minute, then moves on. It doesn't much change his job in the gym.

Gunderson is from the school of year-round training. There are no fight camps - just a never-ending loop of gym sessions broken up only by his daughter's soccer games.

He admits he was disappointed when he couldn't fight "The Ultimate Fighter 8" winner Efrain Escudero, who instead ended up taking a fight with Charles Oliveira on the main card of UFC Fight Night 22 on Sept. 15 in Austin, Texas. But Gunderson also thinks Escudero's replacement, veteran Yves Edwards, is just as good a name, and a better overall opponent.

A trio of championship bouts will anchor M-1 Global’s next season of “M-1 Global Challenge,” which debuts on Oct. 28 at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, the promotion announced this week.

Amarillo, Texas, represents a fresh start for Keith Jardine, but it is also a chance for him to begin his road back to the UFC.

Ross Pearson is set to take on Cole Miller at UFC Fight Night 22 in Austin, Texas Sept. 15. The young British lightweight hopes to keep his perfect UFC record intact because he has some big plans for his MMA career.

With still a week remaining until Combat USA hosts its “State Finals” event at the Oneida Casino, the card has already proved successful, at least financially. USCombatSports.com has learned that the finale of the seven-month-long tournament has sold all tickets for the card on September 11.

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Tiequan Zhang will soon become World Extreme Cagefighting's first-ever Chinese fighter.

As MMAjunkie.com first reported in August, China Top Team fighter Tiequan Zhang has signed a multi-fight deal with the organization and will debut at WEC 51.

The hard-hitting Alex Karalexis has been booked to welcome "The Mongolian Wolf" to the cage at the Sept. 30 event, which takes place at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo.

One day after holding a thrilling featherweight title fight in San Antonio, Texas, Bellator Fighting Championships officials are now turning their attention to "The Big Easy."

Bellator today announced the four main-card fights for next week's Bellator 28 event, which takes place Sept. 9 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans.

The contests include Rich Clementi vs. Carey Vanier and Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Anthony Leone, a pair of "tournament qualifier" which were previously reported by MMAjunkie.com, as well as two new bouts in Matt Horwich vs. Eric Schambari and Marcus Andrusia vs. Eric Larkin.

Hardly a day goes by that UFC president Dana White isn't asked about his promotion's progress on helping the sport of mixed martial arts gain regulation in the state of New York.

One of the few remaining North American outposts that doesn't regulate MMA, New York has appeared close on several occasions to reversing its position on the sport, but ultimately, the legislature has yet to act.

Much of the opposition has been led by New York Assemblyman Bob Reilly, and he doesn't appear to be softening his stance.

The picture of the lightweight division grew clearer on Aug. 28 in Boston, as there is no longer any debate. MMA’s lightweight king hails from Toms River, N.J.

Karo Parisyan hit rock-bottom on Nov. 19, 2009.

Four-time collegiate All-American wrestler Eric Larkin will make his Bellator Fighting Championships debut against Marcus Andrusia on Sept. 9 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans.

For years, many mixed martial arts fans have wondered aloud why their favorite sport isn't a part of the Olympic Games.

After all, with boxing, judo, wrestling and tae kwon do already slated as modern Olympic events, what's the problem with adding the arts together?

That's an argument for another time and place. UFC president Dana White has far more pressing concerns on his mind. And besides, he envisions an international tournament staged far more frequently than every Olympiad.

“The Ultimate Fighter” Season 9 winner James Wilks will meet International Fight League veteran Claude Patrick in a welterweight duel at UFC 120 “Bisping vs. Akiyama” on Oct. 16 at the O2 Arena in London.

If UFC contender Josh Koscheck thought he had it bad in his first trip to Montreal, imagine how it will feel fighting hometown hero Georges St-Pierre.

On Thursday, the UFC's "Ultimate Insider" series officially announced that previous reports of a return trip to Montreal's Bell Centre were indeed true, and the massive arena will play host to UFC 124 on Dec. 11.

Early reports had suggested the fight would take place in Las Vegas, but UFC officials looked to capitalize on St-Pierre's popularity in his hometown. Ticketing information for the event has yet to be released.

Veteran lightweight Yves Edwards has been around the block enough to know that a UFC contract isn't an achievement in itself. It's what you do when you're inside the octagon that counts.

Edwards fights John Gunderson at UFC Fight Night 22 on Sept. 15 in Austin, Texas. Don't get him wrong, he's happy to be back. But don't expect any big proclamations about how he's going to take over the 155-pound division.

"I've only tied my shoes," Edwards recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "I haven't even left the house yet."