MMA: Mixed martial arts

By David Andrest So many things go into a MMA event,  even more when it’s broadcast on one of the largest television networks available.  Breaking down the evening into parts, let’s review and talk about the good, the not so good , and what Strikeforce/CBS needs to do to keep the momentum building  from toni...

By Leland Roling Featherweight bout: Casey Olson (10-3) vs. Chris Culley (4-5): Olson comes out of the same high school as Ben Holscher in Clovis High. He was a two-time All-American and state champion for Fresno City College and two-time NCAA Qualifier for Fresno State in wrestling. He'll bring his very c...

By PJ Swenson(jon@sharkspage.com) Q] How big is this upcoming event for Strikeforce with the CBS broadcast, the Fedor-Rogers heavyweight showcase, the Middleweight Shields-Miller title fight? Do you think this will be their biggest mixed martial arts event to date?

By Todd Jackson That is a very bold statement considering the story history tells.  This is not the first time an MMA event was held live on CBS.  EliteXC tried their hand in impressing the sport upon casual viewers and sadly they failed handily.  Strikeforce has something they didn't have and that is Fedor. ...

By Jim Genia Rounding out the CBS card is another heavyweight match-up, this one between Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champ Fabricio Werdum and Brazilian behemoth Antonio Silva. Silva is big in a circus-freak kind of way, but he should be no match for Werdum’s submission game. This one is ending by tap out.

By Greg Riot The Lyoto Machida vs. Shogun Rua light heavyweight title fight at UFC 104 is excellent proof of the evolution of the sport and should be used as a shining example of a fight to show people who don’t think MMA fighters are highly skilled athletes.

By Ed J Pickle McNasty III Total Wins = 305Wins by Knockout = 88 (29%)Wins By Submission = 116 (38%)Wins by Decision = 101 (33%) Light Heavyweight: (Frank Shamrock, Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, Chuck Liddell, Quinton Jackson, Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, Wanderlei Silva, Dan Hen...

Miller is absolutely right, in most cases a late takedown does not result in effective grappling or striking but is just a last ditch effort to try to appeal to the judges and score points. The problem with that being scored has nothing to do with the ten point must system, if either Machida or...

By Tim Wow! Machida vs. Rua UFC 104 had the best judges in the history of MMA.  Oh, wait! Maybe the judging was the worst.  Or was it more of the same?  I guess that is a matter of opinion.  Then again, so is the judge’s decision isn’t it?  Some of the analysis and some of the breakdowns have been very insigh...

By Todd Jackson See, this isn't your run of the mill, flashy casino style event.  This was MMA at its purist.  Master Shane Dunagan would not have it any other way.  He prides himself on the exciting fights he puts on.  These fights are a direct result of his hard work to pair up fighters that are equal in talent an...

By Steve Cofield The dancing world seems to have accepted Chuck Liddell into its ranks. The UFC star is still alive on Dancing With The Stars. How do you think the mixed martial arts world would've accepted Anthony Njokuani if he tried out for "The Ultimate Fighter" knowing his background was in break-danci...

By Tom Grant The 10th season of The Ultimate Fighter has pitted two bitter rivals against each other as coaches, Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans. Couture's adaptive style flew in the face of the prevalent wisdom of the time; be excellent at one thing and impose your will. Fighters like Tito Ortiz, Chuc...

By Mitch Ciccarelli So it came to everyone’s surprise when it was announced that Slice would be earning an opportunity to enter the UFC—the premier MMA organization in the world—by competing on an all-heavyweight season of the hit reality series The Ultimate Fighter.

“Will boxing have to cede its place on the stage to other fighting forms, like mixed martial arts? Mixed martial arts is entertaining. The kind of skill level you saw in the ring tonight - there’s nothing in mixed martial arts which is within light years of what Mayweather and De La Hoya are ab...

By Darren Wong Following Chuck's recent defeats, some of the imitation and emulation of Chuck Liddell has stopped, but that hasn't stopped some of Chuck's nuthuggers from telling me that they still believe that Chuck Liddell is still the best fighter in the world, but just needs to make a few small adju...

By MMAEruption 7) Diego Sanchez vs. Kenny Florian 2 - Kenny Florian's improved quite a bit since he appeared on The Ultimate Fighter, where he fought at middleweight. But just how much has he improved? The best way to find out is to put him up against Diego, who creamed him at the original TUF finale.

By Anti Newb World Order Everything about the UFC is aimed towards this certain demographic of sheeple who dont cuestion the packaging of the product. When Pride was around we used to get fightcards with like 7-8 fights guaranteed in a 3 hour pay per view !  Nobody really complained when all of a sudden it dropped d...

By Kid Nate Let's review. First Jones used the wrestling phase of the game -- a fake shoot -- to get O'Brien in position to catch him with a spinning elbow -- a second phase of the game, striking -- then when O'Brien reacted by shooting for the take down, Jones used his wrestling to stuff the shoot and set up...

By ckfighter The 5 reasons the MMA world hates Brock Lesnar was such a hit, that I decided to make another 5 reasons list. This time I’m setting my sites on another hated figure (at least to the UFC MMA fans) in the MMA world, and that figure would be the one and only Kimbo Slice. Now, one thing i should clear up. T...

By Leland Roling I may actually lay down on Saffiedine in this match-up. He has five out of his six wins via submission in the first round, so he has the grappling acumen to pull off quick submissions. Ikemoto isn't exactly an easy guy to defeat, and looking at his overall record isn't going to help you determin...

By Zach Arnold Despite being the UFC Heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar is a man who has a lot of people gunning for him in the MMA business. Every time you read an article about another fighter talking about him, it’s almost as if Lesnar is looked upon as this cancerous tumor on the business. It doesn’t [...]

By Kid Nate He's easily the most popular Japanese fighter to fight in the U.S. for an American promotion in the history of modern MMA. Dave Meltzer explains: Akiyama is, with the exception of only Kid Yamamoto, the biggest television ratings draw of Japanese MMA fighters, he is also hated in the country.

By Thomas Hackett There have been a ton of autobiographies from MMA champions released in the last year or so. Here at Total-MMA we have reviewed releases from legendary champions like Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz, Matt Hughes, and my favorite of the bunch, Chuck Liddell. Forrest Griffin, a good-but-not-leg...

By Thomas Hackett A couple of weekends ago, I had a ton of fun at a “Modified MMA” tournament hosted by the good people of Warrior-One, an MMA retailer and training center just north of Seattle. The event offered an opportunity for a hopeful fighter to begin to bridge the gap between jiu-jitsu matches and MMA,...

By hutt Over the past weekend, the Art of War 12: Invincible show in Beijing, China featured some of the biggest stars in MMA and BJJ. The show was announced by Michael Buffer, referreed by BIg John McCarthy, and had an unbelievable number of other stars. The people that I can personally confirm incl...

By Luke Thomas It's an interesting dynamic that the best concepts are usually hashed by the simplest of downtime conversations. Rooted by a desire to shatter a negative perception about mixed martial arts, ESPN staffers Kieren Portley and Anthony Mormile, their working relationship rooted in 2005,...

By TIM VREELAND At current I watch Affliction, Dream, Sengukou, Strikeforce, WEC and, UFC primarily. Though other MMA events occur I see them when I can.  Soon after HW champ Randy Couture leaves UFC to pursue a fight with Fedor. Fedor Emelianenko Alexsander Emelianenko Anderson " Spider" Silva

Lyoto Machida and his family, which includes his father who is a Shotokan master from Japan, have adapated the martial art to form Machida Martial Arts Karate. His unorthodox approach to the MMA game has made Machida one very difficult fighter for opponents to get a handle on. That on top of a...

By Alan Conceicao After a start that most every MMA fan would be assumed to be happy with, along comes Bobby Lashley, and with him, the end of the event’s entertaining portion. Lashley’s sideshow bout with Ken Shamrock was take away at the last minute when he tested positive for an army of roids for his bout wit...

By Staff How does Boxing compare to MMA? What will the bout order be? ROY JONES JR: We are going to mix them up till the main event fight. We’ll do an MMA event then a boxing match then an MMA fight then a boxing match. Would you fight Anderson Silva? On MMA…

By Michael Rome 3)  Most top fighters don't fight each other:  In MMA Weekly's current top 10 list at 205 pounds, Lyoto Machida has fought exactly one guy there, and it's a guy I don't think has any business being considered one of the 10 best fighters in the world.  

By Steve Cofield The Kimbo knockout loss to a guy like Seth Petruzelli, who is probably in the No. 30-40 range worldwide at light heavyweight, should have been a warning to boxers, instead it's motivation for a guy like Rahman. Bizarre. Next we're going to hear about 65-year-old Jimmy Snuka being ready fo...

By Bob Fucile Other fighting styles utilized in the clinch are Muay Thai, Greco-Roman wrestling (see Dan Henderson,) Sambo (see Fedor Emelianenko,) and Judo. Ground game: Fight styles typically employed are wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (founded by the Gracie Family,) Judo and Sambo. 

By 8count News To get to the top of the sport a fighter must have all the necessary physical qualities in addition to very well rounded skills. Today we see some excellent athletes in the sport but as MMA continues to evolve we'll begin to see even more.

By Josh Nason In dealing with the aftermath of a 2/6 incident at the Strikebox event in Montreal where fans peppered the ring with cans and bottles in a match between James Thompson vs. Steve Bosse due to perceived rules infractions, the Commission has decided to enforce the laws that allows only boxing...

By Eugene Deane The Ring vs. the Cage 1. Cage for wrestlers, ring for BJJ and striking If the fighters are against the cage, then it is harder to get a genuine submission due to less movement, and I feel the cage therefore encourages simply pressing your opponent against it and pounding them to a TKO/KO.

The Book of Knowledge BJ Penn, with Erick Krauss, Glen Cordoza Victory Belt Publishing http://victorybelt.com/books/bj-penn-the-book-of-knowledge $34.95 Reviewed by Joe Babinsack The Hype Machine is chugging on all cylinders, and certainly doesn’t need me, but I wanted to chime i...

By Kid Nate It's no secret that I'm a total mark for Victory Belt's body of work. Co-authors Erich Krauss and Glen Cordoza have also done books with Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Randy Couture, B.J. Penn, Karo Parisyan, and Anderson Silva and I've enjoyed them all.

By Kid Nate Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Kazushi Sakuraba, Frank Shamrock, Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture and Bob Sapp get the most attention. Yes, Bob Sapp has a full chapter dedicated to his career. Flipping through the table of contents I was a little non-plussed to see th...

By Flyin' Hawaiian One of my friends, not a knowledgeable MMA fan himself, shouted out: “You know who my favorite UFC fighter is? Kimbo Slice.” No, you can't. If you think you can KO any of the fighters you’ve seen on TV, you’re a moron. Myth No. 3: "I am going to fight in the UFC."

By Jeff Wackerly Randy Couture, Brock Lesnar, Matt Lindland, Quinton Jackson, Dan Henderson, Uriah Faber, Rashad Evans, Matt Hughes, Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell, Kevin Randlman, Renatu Soberal, Sean Sherk, Frankie Edgar, Tyson Griffin, Mike Brown, Chris Leben...

By Sokonojudo We have some cash, are slowly building a name, and have a tentative time range for an event. Here is what I think a company should do next: Book a very solid main event. I know that MMA isnt boxing and you need a solid undercard but here is where I see alot of promotions start to struggle. Elite XC put...

By Kid Nate Like B.J. Penn's MMA Book of Knowledge and Randy Couture's Wrestling for Fighting, Judo for MMA is very well done -- great pictures, excellent organization, and very clear step-by-step instructions for executing each throw, strike, takedown or submission.

By Steve Cofield Anyone who says they want to emulate Ric Flair during their MMA career is down with me. One of Kaplan's best friends from the taping TUF 8 was Tom Lawlor, who did some pro wrestling before getting into mixed martial arts. The average hardcore MMA fan or fighter may not like what his motivati...

By Steve Cofield Oddly enough, Trigg forgot to mention Silva. I believe Fedor is the best but it's not without debate. And Trigg is dead wrong, Penn, St. Pierre and Silva all have skills sets on par with Fedor. Give the UFC announce team, Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan credit, they not go into shill-mode screamin...

By Eric Shapiro The most suspicious of matches stopped last night was the heavyweight headliner Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson. The question I now ask is, was the bout stopped simply because Thompson’s ear looked uncomfortably sanguinary for network America? Or because EliteXC (Gary Shaw, cough) real...

By Michael David Smith Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post has written a column that is ostensibly about the CBS network's decision to broadcast mixed martial arts but is in reality about his own ignorance. It's a column I would simply dismiss and move on if it were written for a community college media studie...

By Sam Caplan What I love about the WEC fights are that they are true MMA fights. They can go anywhere (standing or on the ground) at just about any time and the momentum changes are frequent. Just because a guy dominates the first two minutes doesn’t mean he’s going to be dominating the final seconds of the b...

By Neal Taflinger Dr. Cindy Bir wasn’t a fan of mixed martial arts before she started working on the new installment of “Fight Science.“ “Fight Science: Mixed Martial Arts” sets out to measuring the power and accuracy of MMA fighters’ punches and kicks, exploring the mechanics of grappling, and examining t...

By Steve Sievert(cycling.notebook@earthlink.net) Fighters first The stats, provided by CompuStrike, gave fans an at-a-glance look at the percentage of connects landed by each fighter and tracked takedowns and submission attempts. It's a helpful tool, especially for fans new to the sport.