IFL: International Fight League

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Throwdown '2' was Unleashed upon the Las Vegas Magic convention this week, and again Throwdown Dwarfs the competition! www.throwdown.com for more ... video.aol.com

The Guru-Greg Jackson Joins Gary ALexander on this episode of Throwdown TV. Greg talks about morphing martial arts into an honest form of mixed ... video.aol.com

Rampage Jackson, Wu Tang Clan’s Prodigal Sunn, and Jay White join Gary Alexander to talk music, fighting, and getting cracked in the balls ... video.aol.com

The TDTV Crew hit the Affliction Post Fight Presser and we give you a front row seat as Fedor, Tim Silvia and the Fighters talk about the events ... video.aol.com

the Throwdown TV crew hit up the Warrior Training centers (home of Forrest Griffin) TUF Premier Party. We also had a chance to grab some footage ... video.aol.com

Throwdown TV got the Exclusive directly from former UFC lightheavyweight Champion, Tito Ortiz! Check out part 3 of this amazingly candid interview ... video.aol.com

BJ Penn sits with Throwdown TV’s Gary Alexander and talks about fighting GSP at 170 and how no matter what he wants to smash Matt Hughes. He also ... video.aol.com

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Throwdown TV was with Rampage Jackson as he picked up his Monster Truck from Street Image in So-Cal. throwdown TV got the EXCLUSIVE as we spent ... video.aol.com

The Throwdown TV Crew caught up with Nate Diaz @ Grapplers Quest in Las Vegas and talked about Misconceptions about his brother Nick and Himself ... video.aol.com

The Throwdown TV Crew hit the WEC and talked with BJJ Black Belt HERMES FRANCA. video.aol.com

Tito opened up the Punishment Big Bear Compound for an exclusive interview. Tito breaks down PPV numbers and salary from the UFC PPV numbers as ... video.aol.com

By rss@youtube.com (themiz2003k) Lets run down some of the MMA happening within the next month, shall we? Author: themiz2003k Keywords: MMA UFC STRIKEFORCE IFL SHOOTO ULTIMATE FIGHTER FIGHT 13 DREAM M1 FEDOR THEMIZ2003K Added: March 11, 2008

By Luke Thomas Jeff Curran vs. Dustin Neace Kid Nate: Let's get that career back on track Jeff! Curran by submission. Eugene Schelfaut: Will I remember to look for this fight? Jeff Curran by submission, Round 1. Leland Roling: Jeff Curran via submission, Round 1

By Leland Roling Doerksen's submission grappling ability and respectable boxing ability could easily find their services in promotions such as Strikeforce, MFC, DREAM, or even Sengoku. Sengoku has contracted him for two bouts, both wins for Doerksen at Sengoku 6 and 10 respectively. He's managed to pu...

By Leland Roling His opponent, Zak Cummings, will get the opportunity to prove he belongs in a major organization, but it'll be a huge test for him as Kennedy is truly coming into his own as a top middleweight fighter. Cummings' experience isn't great, but he did manage to take a split decision againsnt form...

By Tom Ngo After Strikeforce acquired much of the financially plagued Pro Elite’s assets earlier this year, it was a fairly smooth transition for CBS to hook up with Strikeforce and continue their penetration into the mixed martial arts market.

By fightlinker So does the UFC want Pat Miletich because they want Pat Miletich or because Strikeforce wanted Pat Miletich? Strikeforce is just the latest in a long line of UFC competitors Pat has been linked with … he was one of the main faces of the IFL (no idea why that failed…) and had some bullshit assoc...

By Luke Thomas Kid Nate: Jesse Taylor is a very big welterweight with solid wrestling who's dramatically improved his submission grappling since being cut by the UFC. Hieron has more experience and better wrestling skills. He's also a more polished striker and should be able to outclass Taylor but it wi...

By Press Release This six foot tall southpaw has waged war in virtually all of the major mixed martial arts promotional firms such as Strikeforce, UFC, Pride, WEC, IFL and the now defunct EliteXC. Díaz has openly touted his desire and willingness to step into the boxing ring to take on any fighter willing to...

By Larry Vollmer The Strikeforce welterweight championship bout between Nick Diaz and Jay Hieron could be nixed  from this Saturday’s  “Carano vs. Cyborg” card at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. Diaz failed to appear for a pre-fight drug test Friday scheduled by the California State Athletic Commiss...

By xtremecouture From MMAMania.com Foul-mouthed fightmonger Nick Diaz will face International Fight League (IFL) veteran Jay Hieron for the newly-created Strikeforce welterweight championship at the “Carano vs. Cyborg” event from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., on Aug. 15, MMAmania.com has learne...

By fightlinker Strikeforce is one promotion willing to co-promote with M-1 Global. Scott Coker, Strikeforce’s CEO, told Sherdog.com that it was his understanding that Emelianenko and M-1 Global have “four or five offers on the table,” including ones from boxing promotions and television networks. Co...

By fightlinker Strikeforce has done an awesome job of shoring up the holes in it’s August 15th event with the corpses from Affliction’s demise. Yesterday they announced that they had saved Babalu vs Mousasi (the only other fight I gave more than a casual shit about), and now they’ve snapped up Jay Heiron a...

By Leland Roling Main Card (Middleweight): Tim Kennedy (9-2) vs. Nick "The Goat" Thompson (38-10-1) Main Card (Middleweight): Luke Rockhold (4-1) vs. Cory Devela (9-2) Check out more of our Strikeforce Challengers: Santos vs Villasenor coverage

 OH Following Tuesday's stacked show, we return with Staff Sergeant Kennedy, a former IFL and HDNet Fights middleweight who returns from an 18-month layoff (and tours of duty in Afghanistan) to fight Nick Thompson on Strikeforce's June 19 card. ...

By fightlinker Wes Sims is best known for a pair of salty fights with Frank Mir, the first of which ended with Sims illegally stomping Frank Mir and the second resulting in Frank Mir’s only KO highlight other than the Nogueira fight. Oh, and he also had a run in with default Strikeforce light heavyweight con...

ESPN  Ca In the light-heavyweight opener, TUF 2 and IFL refugee Mike Whitehead outworked a past-his-prime Kevin Randleman for a tedious unanimous decision victory. In a welterweight pairing between two men who've fought everywhere, Joe Riggs battered a ...

 OH Making his return to the cage is former UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman as he steps into the world of Strikeforce against TUF and IFL vet Mike Whitehead. Randleman hasn't won an important fight since his KO victory over Mirko Filipovic back in ...

 CA loss to Keith Jardine at UFC 57 in February 2006. After that loss, Whitehead went on a 13-fight win streak that lasted over two years and included victories over Mark Kerr and Krzysztof Soszynski as part of a five-fight run in the defunct IFL. ...

 MN Following his brief moment in the UFC, Whitehead would go on to fight on numerous smaller cards before settling in and fighting for the IFL for an extensive period of time before the league finally went under. Mike Whitehead's career record stands at ...

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Kennedy fought in the IFL just two weeks later and picked up a first-round TKO over Elias Rivera. He hasn't fought MMA since that event, which took place 18 months ago. Meanwhile, Devela and Rockhold both look to continue climbing up the Strikeforce ...

Pyle is a near-10-year veteran of MMA, having fought for some of the world's top organizations. The Las Vegas resident has fought and won for Affliction, WEC, Strikeforce, Sengoku and the now defunct EliteXC and IFL organizations. ...

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2-ranked Arlovski, which included crushing TK0 victories over former IFL standouts Ben Rothwell and Roy Nelson, as well as a decision over former UFC heavyweight Fabricio Werdum. Rogers (9-0) made his promotional debut on April 11, stopping Ron ...

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 OH by MMAjunkie.com Staff on May 15, 2009 at 10:20 am ET Veteran fighter Mike Whitehead, who's formerly competed with the UFC, WEC, IFL and Affliction, will be a guest on today's edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio, where he'll discuss his June 6 Strikeforce ...

By Leland Roling Other notables: Former UFC Heavyweight Eddie Sanchez will be featured in a non-tournament bout along with former WEC fighter Kevin Knabjian and KOTC and Strikeforce veteran Anthony Lapsley. Brandon Vera's wife, Kerry Vera, will make her MMA debut against an undefeated Leslie Smith (4...

Prior to the bout with Kawamura, Randleman had been on the shelf for a year and a half after going 4-7 under the PRIDE banner. Whitehead is a former participant on the UFC series The Ultimate Fighter. He has fought for the UFC, the IFL, WEC, ...

Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Kevin Randleman will return to action in his debut for Strikeforce on June 6th according to a report from Sherdog.com. His opponent on the event will be Ultimate Fighter season two vet and former IFL fighter Mike ...

By ben After announcing that he would fight anybody at any time in Strikeforce, then turning down a fight against Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante, then threatening the lives of all the keyboard warriors who pointed out the contradiction, Kevin Randleman has changed his mind and accepted a place o...

By Leland Roling According to Sherdog.com, former UFC heavyweight champion and PRIDE veteran Kevin Randleman will make his Strikeforce debut against IFL veteran Mike Whitehead on June 6th's "Lawler vs. Shields" Strikeforce event taking place in St. Louis:

 NY Whitehead, a veteran of the UFC, WEC, IFL and Affliction, last fought in October 2008, winning via guillotine submission choke against Leo Pla at an M-1 Challenge event in Kansas City. Prior to that victory, he lost to Sobral at the inaugural ...

 OH - David McKinney It's an all-pro show; the majority of the guys on the card have fought in the UFC, Strikeforce, EliteXC, or IFL. I feel blessed because I haven't fought in any of those shows. I think they are going to do well, and as long as the fans show up and keep ...

Having competed in both the IFL and elitexc, Heun's contract was acquired by Strikeforce when proelite folded in the fall. Outside of his last fight where he TKO'd Edson Berto at an elitexc event last October, Heun also recently appeared on mtv's ...

 CA - Brian Oswald, Brian Oswald Maybe that is why so many people within the mixed-martial-arts community have been searching the desert for an oasis of competition to emerge. With the recent failings of the IFL and Elite XC, coupled with the uncertain future of Affliction, ...

 OH by MMAjunkie.com Staff on May 01, 2009 at 5:00 am ET Former IFL star and recent Affliction signee Chris Horodecki, who fights in June at "PFP: Unarmed Combat," is a guest on today's edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio. So, too, is UFC and Strikeforce ...

 - Sam Caplan, Sam Caplan While the Cesar Gracie jiu-jitsu black belt made major headlines with his win over Shamrock, it was Smith who arguably earned unofficial "Fight of the Night" honors thanks to his dramatic comeback victory against former IFL standout Benji "Razor" ...

Cavalcante last fought for EliteXC after a two-fight stint in the IFL. He went 3-0 with three first-round knockouts for EliteXC, which included a TKO of Travis Galbraith during his most recent bout in July. Hamman replaces "Babalu" in June 6 Strikeforce fight with Cavalcante MMAjunkie.co...

A student under UFC and IFL staple Vladimir Matyushenko, Hamman (10-1) avenged his only blemish to Poai Suganuma with a firm TKO in 2:34 for ShoXC last August. Suganama had taken their first match by a controversial 15-second knockout. ...

Facing then-King of the Cage light heavyweight champion Travis Galbraith, Feijao improved his win streak to three after recording a TKO at 3:01 of Round 1. The former IFL veteran went 3-0 while competing under the EliteXC banner with all victories ...

 MN - Jason Bent Team Mir,' but he is a veteran of the sport as the 31 yr. old was a member of the Los Angeles Anacondas of the now-defunct International Fight League (IFL). He also fought on the inaugural Strikeforce card when he met Mike Kyle on the undercard of the ...

 OH Heun, a former IFL fighter who turned pro in 2006, went 2-0 for EliteXC with a decision victory over Marlon Matias and a TKO win over James Edson Berto. He's won his past three fights and eight of his past nine. His only losses came to notables LC ...

Los Angeles Times Former UFC veteran Scott Smith will take on IFL veteran Benji Radach with what will likely be an epic slugfest. Radach is coming off a solid win over Murilo "Ninja" Rua in which he overwhelmed him with heavy hands to pull off the upset win while Smith ...

 SC In fact, it’s one of the few promotions that UFC President Dana White has praised. “It only took 20 years to become an overnight success,” Coker joked. “About three years ago, there were so many leagues in the space – Bodog, IFL, Pro Elite, UFC, ...

The Genesis fight card is one of the most interesting and dynamic ever to be brought to the Midwest and is loaded with veteran Ultimate Fighting Championship(UFC), Strikeforce, International Fight League (IFL), and King Of The Cage (KOTC) fighters. ...

 OH The recruiting netted four fighters who previously competed in the UFC or "The Ultimate Fighter" (as well as Strikeforce, the IFL and other major organizations). Headlining the Ohio fight card is Carneiro (12-8) vs. Jhun (22-23-2), ...

We have already hosted IFL, Strikeforce, and M-1 events. When is Zuffa gonna bring something up this way? Seems like the UK gets the most events next to Vegas. Oh well, that usually means they are on Spike for free! I'm happy with one annual fight in ...

 OH Diaz, Strikeforce has officially announced a middleweight contest between "The Ultimate Fighter 4" cast member Scott Smith (16-5) and IFL/UFC vet Benji Radach (19-4). Although not announced, reigning EliteXC middleweight champ Jake Shields (22-4-1) is ...

By John Chandler UFC President Dana White has often scoffed at the attention paid to Slice, but he draws a distinction between Strikeforce’s interest and EliteXC’s handling of the inexperienced heavyweight. Unlike promoter Affliction, which has put on two pay-per-view events focusing on the heavywe...

I've watched the IFL, Bodog, EliteXC, etc. and I saw alot of good fights but I never rooted for the company or the men behind it. I was just happy guys who weren't in the UFC were able to make money somewhere else. Strikeforce is run by MMA guys who ...

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 - Feb 7, 2009 fight leagues such as the UFC, Strikeforce, Dream, Shooto, Bodog Fight, King of the Cage, Cage Rage, Pride FC, Pancrase, Elite XC, IFL, ZST and more. ...

By James Iannotti HDNet continues to distance themselves from all other networks as the number one spot on television to view mixed martial arts and combat sports. Remember that the network also boasts working relationships with Strikeforce, Adrenaline MMA and recently bought the entire video library...

By James Iannotti Pride FC and UFC veterans Falaniko “Niko” Vitale and Frank “Twinkle Toes” Trigg will face off in a middleweight bout that will surely deliver some solid mixed martial arts action. 170 lbs.: Lumumba Sawyers vs. Drew Dober 155 lbs.: Jordan Goodwin vs. Alan Gomez

By Luke Thomas Most of the major promotions, including Affliction, Adrenaline MMA, M-1, Strikeforce and International Fight League (IFL). WAMMA is working on a deal with EliteXC. A major stumbling block to the alliance's long-term success is that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) -- the promoti...

By SamCaplan A bout featuring heavyweights Mike Kyle and Wayne Cole has been scheduled to replace a postponed EliteXC welterweight title match between Jake Shields and Drew Fickett that had been planned for Saturday's co-promoted card by Strikeforce and EliteXC.

By Tim Ngo Bob Sapp was featured on tonight’s Strikeforce at the Dome as the main event against Jan Nortje, a man with a less than impressive MMA record. HDNet Fights is continuing to put on event after event in High Definition and will continue to do so next Friday with the IFL as well as Kim Couture’s MM...

We are excited about the opportunity to showcase our brand of mixed martial arts on HDNet," said Scott Coker, President of Strikeforce.  "HDNet delivers television content to viewers in the highest quality format possible and Strikeforce has worked diligently to produce the finest, w...

So, all these other promotions such as BodogFight, Strikeforce, HDNet Fights, and M-1 really appear to be squeezed out by UFC and EliteXC. These other promotions are then fighting for the scraps and are looking like minor leagues right now.  At best, I believe there may be room for a thir...

By Sam Caplan Segment One - EliteXC’s female MMA controversy: Segment Two - UFC lightweight fighter Kenny “The Finisher” Florian: Segment Three - Former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez: Segment Four - New Strikeforce middleweight fighter Joe “Diesel” Riggs: