LEMOORE, Calif. - Former WEC lightweight champion "Razor" Rob
McCullough returned to the site of his first professional MMA
contest in Lemoore, Calif., and earned a much-needed stoppage win over
current Tachi Palace Fights featherweight champion Isaac de Jesus.

The 160-pound catchweight contest served as the main event of Friday
night's "Tachi Palace Fights 5: Stars & Strikes" event at the Tachi
Palace Hotel & Casino.

MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan was on
hand as part of the broadcast team for the GoFightLive.tv stream.

MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan is a guest on today's edition of "The Mouthpiece MMA Show."

The MMA talk show airs on Boston's Sports Station - AM1510 "The Zone" - at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT). Morgan and co-hosts Tim O'Connor and Mark Daniels discuss the fallout from UFC 116, look forward to Friday's Tachi Palace Fights card, and touch on many other recent topics in the world of MMA.

Bostonians can listen to the show on the AM dial, or listen online at www.1510thezone.com.

MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan is a guest on today's edition of "The Fight Show with Mauro Ranallo."

Morgan joins Ranallo to discuss this past weekend's stunning UFC 116 event, look forward to a few upcoming shows and look at some of the latest headlines from around the MMA landscape.

Catch the segment at 4:15 p.m. ET (1:15 p.m. PT) on Hardcore Sports Radio,
which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 98 or online at HardcoreSportsRadio.com

Following his near-victory and then eventual submission loss to UFC champ Brock Lesnar this past weekend at UFC 116, Shane Carwin blogged about his body "seizing up" after an active first round.

Carwin maintains his "cardio was fine, but my body was not."

In a bonus installment of "Ask the Fight Doc," MMAjunkie.com medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin discusses what could have caused such a turn of events and how epinephrine surges physiologically are quite similar to anxiety attacks.

A special edition of ESPN's weekly "MMA Live" show airs late tonight, and featured guests include MMAjunkie.com medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin and Strikeforce heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum.

The show is available at ESPN.com.

Additionally, you can also watch the half-hour version of the show on ESPN2 late tonight (early Friday morning) at 1 a.m. ET (10 p.m. PT).

Following the unfortunate and recent death of South Carolina MMA fighter Michael Kirkham, the MMA industry again has turned its attention to pro-fighter licensing requirements.

Kirkham's death is still under investigation, so it's not clear if the tragedy could have been avoided.

But after reading the guidelines put forth by South Carolina and other state athletic commissions, MMAjunkie.com medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin proposes some enhanced standardized requirements that may just help future competitors.

MMAjunkie.com and 1620 The Zone - ESPN Radio's affiliate in Omaha, Neb. - again team up to discuss this past weekend's "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum" event and Saturday's big UFC 116 show.

MMAjunkie.com editor-in-chief and Dayton Daily News MMA beat
writer Dann Stupp joins the "Unsportsmanlike Conduct" show today at 3:30
p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. CT local time) with hosts Kevin and Mike'L.

A free stream of the show is available at www.1620thezone.com.

While the MMA world will be focused on Las Vegas this Fourth of July
weekend for UFC 116, the UFC won't be the only
fight game in town.

"Tuff-N-Uff: The Future Stars of Mixed Martial Arts" has a card
scheduled for Friday, July 2, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las
Vegas. A pair of eight-woman championship tournaments are the featured
attraction of the evening, and the night's card broadcasts in its
entirety on GoFightLive.tv.

MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan
and "MMA:30" host and X107.5 FM radio personality Dave Farra have been
hired to call the action.

Tachi Palace Fights featherweight champion Isaac de Jesus has
agreed to step up 15 pounds in weight and meet former WEC lightweight
champion "Razor" Rob McCullough in the main event of "Tachi Palace Fights 5: Stars and Strikes" on July 9 at The Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore,
Calif.

McCullough was originally expected to face Thomas Denny in the featured
bout of a card loaded with other notable competitors, but the "Wildman"
was forced to bow out of the contest for for personal reasons.

The full nine-fight card is set for broadcast on GoFightLive.com, and
MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan will take to the broadcast
table to help call the action.

Aside from Court McGee being crowned "The Ultimate Fighter 11" champion, the biggest news coming out of this past weekend's UFC event was Matt Hamill's clearance to fight despite an active Staph infection.

Hamill appeared at The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale weigh-ins on Friday with a noticeable lesion on his lower back, and following his win over Keith Jardine on Saturday, he and Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer confirmed the infection.

In his latest "Ask the Fight Doc" installment, MMAjunkie.com medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin wonders how that was possible and why so many others were unnecessarily put at risk.