MMA: Mixed martial arts

By Kid Nate Forty regulatory bodies were in attendance for the annual event. The California State Athletic Commission and the Nevada State Athletic Commission, both known for regulating a large amount of MMA events in their states, did not attend.

 CA - He hasn't lost since a TKO due to a cut eight years ago, and a win could help cement his place as the number one heavyweight fighter in MMA history.

By Steve Cofield Jackson added Wednesday that he doesn't think much of Griffin when compared to his most recent victims, Chuck Liddell or Dan Henderson: Rampage also explained why he lost twice to Wanderlei Silva, alleging the fight game was crooked in Japan:

By CagE The rigorous training dramatically improved Koscheck’s skills. No longer does he rely primarily on his wrestling. He can stand and trade if he feels comfortable. His striking was clearly better against Diego Sanchez and Dustin Hazlett. It even seemed better in his loss to GSP. If Kos chooses...

By ben Early message-board speculation is pointing to Joe “Hybrid” Duarte, a 24-year-old San Diego-based fighter who claims on his website that he’s been selected for Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir. Duarte is 3-0 in pro MMA, 9-0 in pro boxing, and 19-1 in Muay Thai. According to his bio page, he walks ar...

By Eric Shapiro Check out the BRAND NEW MMAFrenzy.com store for all your MMA clothing and gear needs! According to MMA Weekly, welterweight standouts Thiago Alves and Diego Sanchez will clash at UFC 89 in Birmingham, England: “…American Top Team knockout artist Thiago “Pitbull” Alves is slated to retu...

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By Jesse Holland Prior to the Dewees signing, Affliction replaced the scrapped Nogueira-White bout on FSN with the light heavyweight match between Vitor Belfort and Terry Martin. So stiff in fact, that UFC President Dana white has whipped up his own little card for the 19th as well. UFC Fight Night 14 will a...

By Kris Karkoski Anderson Silva will make his light heavyweight debut in the UFC Fight Night 14 main event against James Irvin. Brandon Vera vs. Reese Andy, Hermes Franca vs. Frank Edgar, and Anthony Johnson vs. Kevin Burns are also slated for the main card of the Spike TV event.

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 - There's no one in MMA journalism who gets more information out of UFC President Dana White than Yahoo.com's Kevin Iole. In his latest mailbag article, ...

Kim Couture Says MMA Rules Should Be the Same for Women and Men, I Say She's Right - The FanHouse - AOL

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By Kris Karkoski The one-hour live undercard will feature at least two fights. In FSN’s main event, Aleksander Emelianenko (13-3) from St. Petersburg, Russia will make his American debut as he takes on Texas native Paul Buentello (23-10) in a 3-round heavyweight bout. This battle will follow a light heavy...

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 CA - MMA fighters and fans are totally hardcore. And that I respect. The sport’s best performers work tirelessly and are obviously talented. ...

By Luke Thomas Here's the skinny: the local CBS radio affiliate here in the Washington, D.C. area (106.7 WJFK) has hired me to do a weekend radio show devoted strictly to MMA. The show is called "MMA Nation" and will be live, 2 hours from 4 p.m. EST to 6 p.m. EST, podcasted and available by stream over the Internet.

 CA - The Ultimate Fighter show gets a lot of credit for starting the MMA/UFC revolution, but I think a lot of it came from the fans themselves with their ...

By Pat The former Pride heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko has dominated the MMA heavyweight class over the past 6 years.  He will face Tim ‘Maine-iac’ Sylvia the 6′8, 260 pound giant.  This event will also be featuring Josh Barnett (21-5) vs. the only fighter to have ever knocked him out, Ped...

Affliction Officially Announces Arlovski-Rothwell, Trump Partnership - MMAFrenzy.com

Donald Trump Grounds And Pounds The MMA World In New Partnership With Affliction! - Lohud.com

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By Kid Nate This audio interview on MMA Rated is a classic as well (the ranting about Jake Shields is classic too). Here's some highlights (and additional background from TKO Extreme): Coming on the heels of Fickett's on-again off-again fight with Jake Shields for the Elite XC title finally being ca...

By Mark Chalifoux Kelly Crigger is the author of the new MMA book, Title Shot: Into the Shark Tank of Mixed Martial Arts. He’s doing the first guest post for this blog and has a great “behind the scenes story” from the writing of his book. Crigger is a freelance writer for several MMA magazines, including Real Fi...

By Eric Shapiro Infamous Ultimate Fighter 7 outcast Jesse Taylor is rumored to return to the UFC at UFC Fight Night 14, against fellow TUF cast member CB Dolloway.Brandon Vera, who will meet Reese Andy at UFN 14, confirmed that he did in fact turn down a fight with Lyoto Machida, but was open to fighting Dan H...

By bfowlkes Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is one of MMA’s most charismatic stars, but the UFC light heavyweight champ has also become one of the world’s best fighters since moving from Pride to the UFC. In this exclusive interview, “Rampage” discusses his evolution as an athlete, his upcoming title fig...

By Steve Cofield Every MMA fighter should take note of this odd case with former UFC welterweight champ Matt Hughes. this morning to 20 years in federal prison by United States District Judge Robert L. United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said, "The evidence proved that Leist,

By news In a Rematch of their Recent Controversial Title Fight on CBS, EliteXC Middleweight Champion Robbie Lawler will defend against Scott Smith, while Jake Shields squares off against Nick Thompson for the vacant EliteXC Welterweight Belt, Live from The Stockton Arena in Stockton, Calif.

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By Michael Rome It sounds like someone at CBS realized that they need stars to draw for MMA, but they realized it a bit too late.  It is also very interesting that they went to Carano, rather than Slice.  Slice still has to be considered the face of the promotion, but Carano emerged from the May show as Pro Elite...

“The Half-Guarded Truth” By: Mike Coughlin HalfGuardedTruth@hotmail.com For the week of 06/22/08 “June MMA Rankings” Alright, cats and kittens, this is a new one for me. For some time, as kind of an “exclusive” for The Board~! here at figurefouronline.com, I’ve been doing the Five Star Ra...

By Steve Cofield Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia  Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo Andre Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell Renato Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Negao Aleksander Emelianenko vs. Paul Buentello Vitor Belfort vs. Terry Martin Mike Pyle vs. J.J. Ambrose Trenell Young vs. Mark Hominick

Raymond Daniels vs. Jeremiah Metcalf Added to Strikeforce “Melendez vs. Thomson” - MMAFrenzy.com

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By ben Big news for people who care what weight class Phil Baroni fights at: MMA Weekly reports that in light of his three consecutive losses — to Frank Shamrock, Kala Kolohe Hose, and Joey Villasenor — the New York Badass is dropping from middleweight to welterweight, and will make his 170-poun...

By Eric Shapiro “Thank God, Affliction is doing what they are doing and putting together … honestly, I’m not saying it to say it, it is the best card with heavyweights that has ever been put together by any organization in, at least North America, and probably in the world ever. You’ve got three ex-UFC champ...

By yacman1 Every MMA fighter needs to be and wants to be a well-rounded fighter. It's become necessary to compete on the highest levels of the sport. But it remains a goal for more than it is a statement about their current status as a fighter. Is this intended to, or even indirectly an insult to any fighter...

By John Chandler Being a pretty well-known fighter and with the interest in MMA among the general public growing more and more every day, you’d think that Leben’s fellow inmates would probably ask him to show them some stuff, right? Well that’s exactly what happened:

By Dave Meltzer Dana White today confirmed rumors that UFC would be running a live Spike TV special July 19, head-to-head with the debut of the Affliction company's pay-per-view debut, and announced the hook would be middleweight champion Anderson Silva moving up to light heavyweight to face James Ir...

By Luke Thomas Ninety days after the state's legislative session ends, which by Paton's estimations should be no later than July 1, Arizona will officially adopt the unified rules of MMA. Expect fight cards in Arizona beginning in October to enforce the unified rules under the boxing commission's sup...

By Kid Nate But I think we’ve seen time and time again that good mixed martial artists have been able to defeat high-level jiu-jitsu guys. Take even the other night in London, where Kevin Burns, in his first UFC fight, was able to get a triangle choke on Roan Carneiro, who is a high-level black belt in Bra...

By Kid Nate Not only does this fight feature two fighters I barely care about, it's a rematch. Blech. Kin is a pretty one dimensional striker from a karate background who somehow gritted out a decision over MMA and proresu legend Ikuhisa Minowa in the opening round. Galesic was building up a nice rep in En...

DREAM,EliteXC, and Adrenaline MMA have fight cards this weekend - Lohud.com

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By Larry Vollmer Mayweather is retiring as the Welterweight champion boxing champion and according to the rules I have read, a welterweight boxer fights around 147 lbs . The closest division to this is the UFC lightweight division, which is 155 pounds. The problem is that Mayweather has boxer’s strength,...

By Kris Karkoski Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer reported the news late yesterday on the heels of UFC President Dana White’s announcement that former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell would headline the fall event. There is speculation that Silva’s move to light heavyweight could be...

By Brett Jones WHY: To announce a partnership between Affliction and Donald J. Trump, who will outline his involvement with Affliction and "Affliction Banned," the star studded mixed-martial-arts show July 19th 2008 on pay-per-view television, featuring the return of Russian combat fighting ico...

Affliction Officially Announces Arlovski-Rothwell, Trump Partnership - MMAFrenzy.com

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By Eddie Goldman(noreply@blogger.com) We discuss the positive and negative aspects of this show, including the belittling of the role of grappling in mixed martial arts. We spoke with middleweight Joey Villasenor, who scored a first-round TKO over Phil Baroni. BJJMart.com, your premier source for all Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gea...

By Michael Rome A very good show overall, and I really wish the CBS show had fights like the last 2 tonight.  Realistically, this show probably got a .8-1.0 rating, which is very good for Versus, and I think Urijah Faber has definitely cemented himself as a star, and as quite the standup fighter too.

By Josh Alper The reaction to Elite XC's inaugural show on CBS has been mixed to negative and after spending the night cageside, I can't argue with that. The stoppages in each of the last two fights was much to quick and the controversy about an uncalled tapout by Kimbo Slice looms as an issue that Elite and...

By Kid Nate Interesting piece on MMA Weekly today with various MMA figures coming down for or agains Kimbo representing the sport on CBS. We've all seen Dana White come out against, and B.J. Penn (whose brother J.D. works for EliteXC) come out for Kimbo. But this article has some new people piping up.

By Larry Vollmer EliteXC will make mixed martial arts history Saturday night when they air the first installment of “Saturday Night Fights” on CBS. This is the first mixed martial arts card offered on basic cable television. The card is pretty stacked from head to toe and whoever makes the match ups in for El...

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By Larry Vollmer Co-hosted by mixed martial arts legend, Ken Shamrock, and award-winning ESPN announcer, Lon McEachern, “Strikeforce on NBC” is a 52 week series. Each episode runs 30 minutes and is comprised of fighter profiles as well as Strikeforce MMA fights and highlights.

By Luke Thomas As a longtime promoter in the sport, Osbourne has a keen understanding of how to promote MMA shows particularly at the local level. As such, his analysis of Affliction's efforts should be taken very seriously. Notable quote: This promotion scares me the most. It's good to see a company care a...

By FightMetric What does this mean: The success or failure of an organization's live gate is based almost entirely on its ability to engage local casual fans. A strategy like Rio Heroes' or BodogFight's - to advertise on all the major MMA blogs - is doomed to fail. I think Strikeforce proved the model a while...

By MMAmania That was no more evident than when in his next bout Mir weathered a brutal attack from the massive Brock Lesnar at UFC 81: “Breaking Point” to pull off a crafty fight-ending submission (kneebar). It appears that the two back-to-back wins, as well as a visible re-dedication to training, has...

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By bfowlkes MMA legend Randy Couture finds himself in a strange position these days. An ongoing legal battle with the UFC threatens his future as a fighter, and his affiliation with clothier-turned-MMA promoter Affliction has prompted the UFC to keep him and the “banned brand” off any of their broad...

By Luke Thomas April 26, 2008 Marcus Foran/FiT NHB (5-2, 185 lbs) Armbar Submission (4:04 2nd Rd) over Tenyeh Dixon/Ground Control (2-3, 184 ½ lbs) Thomas Schulte/FiT NHB (17-6, 155 lbs) Armbar Submission (1:20 1st Rd) over Zach Light/Team Rampage (7-6, 155 lbs)

By Kid Nate When I pick fighters , my pick is base on a fighters power, speed, technique, and adaptability to changing situations. I talk about all this in my profile interview, but for some reason BET did not air my true viewpoints about martial arts.

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By Greg Clark From Miami street brawler to Bangbus bodyguard to EliteXC six-figure contracted fighter, here is the documentary of the life of the one they call Kimbo Slice. Special appearances by Bas Rutten, Joe Rogan and my favorite hall of fame Tool, Tito Ortiz who does nothing more than rag on Kimbo. Here's the video that launched his career and legend in the Internet fight scene. Here's the one loss that happened against Kimbo by way of 6'3" 265Lb Sean "The Cannon" Gannon... Gannon has a 1-1 MMA record and fought in the UFC a couple of years ago. Here's the circus sideshow with Kimbo fighting former Boxing Heavyweight Champion, Merciless Ray Mercer. Here's Kimbo Slice's first MMA fight against 10-10, Bo "The Can" Cantrell in Kimbo's EliteXC debut. gt;   [read the full post]

Kimbo Slice Vs Tank Abbott canceled - Cage Fury Fighting Championships 6 Off October 5th, 2007 Fight Shows none Comments Cage Fury Fighting Championships’ October. 12th MMA fight card in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is canceled, CFFC president Felix Martinez said in a statement released...