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By edit0r Speaking of UFC promos, the first episode of "UFC Primetime: St. Pierre vs. Penn" will debut January 14th on Spike TV. Each 30-minute episode — there will be three in total, airing Wednesdays at 10:30 — will profile the UFC's current welterweight and lightweight champions as they prepare fo...

By edit0r Hey, welcome back! Did you have a nice holiday? Well, you didn't come here to talk about your mom's stuffing. Let's start the work-week off right with some Rampage vs. Wandy video-hype. Above is an original HL by MMA Scraps, which shows how their first two meetings went down in PRIDE — includin...

By edit0r Speaking of fighters who never lived up to the promise of their pre-UFC performances, Rich Franklin's BFF Jorge Gurgel has been cut -- despite winning a $60,000 Fight of the Night bonus at UFC 91 -- and picked up by Strikeforce. Gurgel's decision loss to Aaron Riley earlier this month was ju...

By ben Above is the trailer for Fighting Politics, a new documentary about Matt Lindland’s path from collegiate wrestler to mixed martial artist, his questionable dismissal from the UFC over an unapproved sponsor, and his life’s second act as a politician in his home state of Oregon. Notable M...

Then they gave him OPPORTUNITIES to become a title contender against Tyson Griffin and Hermes Franca and he failed on it. What, they should keep him around? Next your going to say that they gave Cro Cop the PRIDE fighter two-step by ...

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By ben — Sengoku 7 (1/4/09; Saitama, Japan) will feature the organization’s first-ever middleweight championship match between Kazuo Misaki and this year’s middleweight grand prix winner Jorge Santiago. Takanori Gomi is also slated to face lightweight tournament winner Satoru Kitaoka. (...

By ben — Though most of us want to see him return to the UFC eventually, Nick Diaz’s next fight will likely be in Japan. Diaz’s manager Cesar Gracie told MMA Weekly that he’s already been contacted by Fight Entertainment Group (Dream’s parent company) and Sengoku, and Diaz will be competing eithe...

By ben Put it this way: they’re two different organizations. PRIDE is more Japanese style and that’s what I grew up doing with my judo. I love the Japanese culture and doing the Gi judo. On the other side, UFC is the place you want to be right now, especially for my weight class. You get all kinds of exposu...

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By ben This 18-minute compilation is the only PRIDE highlight reel you’ll ever need, featuring the most brain-rattling finishes by Aleksander and Fedor Emelianenko, Alistair Overeem, Mirko Cro Cop, Dan Henderson, Quinton Jackson, ...

By ben — ‘Just Bleed’ guy in prison until 2012 for receiving stolen property (Son’s mugshot [top] courtesy of TMZ.com; in retrospect, the abuse he took at UFC 4 was entirely deserved.) This story is too bizarre and shocking not to pass along. You may remember Joe Son as the UFC/PRIDE fighter and prac...

By ben Here’s where the matchmaking gets kind of brilliant. The co-main event will be another light-heavyweight contest, between UFC Hall of Famer Mark Coleman and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. If you’re up on your MMA lore, you’ll remember that Coleman handed Shogun his only loss in PRIDE — a TKO due to...

By ben Related: We know the rumor changes every week, but Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is now saying he’ll return to the Octagon at UFC 92 (December 27th, Las Vegas), and will fight Wanderlei Silva as long as Silva agrees to the bout. Regarding his two previous losses to Silva in PRIDE, Jackson told T...

By ben Though he never held a title in K-1, Le Banner holds notable kickboxing wins over Peter Aerts, Ernesto Hoost, Gary Goodridge, Don Frye, Mark Hunt, and Hong Man Choi. He is 3-1-1 as a mixed martial artist, with his last MMA fight resulting in a first-round knockout victory over Jimmy Ambriz a...

By ben MMA highlight-video master Genghis Con — whose nuts we’ve hugged in the past — went on the UG yesterday to plug his new video, which documents the “Beef” between Georges St. Pierre and Matt Serra. It’s as amazing as you’d expect, but while poking around his previous works, we came upon “Grand...

By ben — Matt Lindland’s next Affliction fight will be against UFC/BodogFight/Strikeforce vet Trevor Prangley, at “Day of Reckoning” on October 11th in Las Vegas. It’s been a long layoff for Prangley, who hasn’t competed since Strikeforce’s “Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” middleweight t...

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By ben Lightweight Grand Prix Opening Round: Kazunori Yokata def. Bojan Kosednar via unanimous decision Eiji Mitsuoka def. Rodrigo Damm via submission (rear naked choke), 3:13 of round 1 Satoru Kitaoka def. Clay French via submission (achilles lock), 0:31 of round 1

By guest Also, Strikeforce will be venturing out of California for the second time on October 3rd, as the Broomfield Event Center near Denver will play host to “Payback,” featuring a main event of Duane “Bang” Ludwig vs. Sammy Morgan; the two fighters previously met at Ring of Fire 16 in April 2005,...

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By ben During this recent Q&A session (shot by the MMA Analyst), Mauricio “Shogun” Rua claimed that his next fight will likely be against Quinton Jackson in December. Rua and Jackson previously met at PRIDE Total Elimination 2005 (4/23/2005), where Rua won by first-round knockout after s...

By ben Werdum and Andrei Arlovski throw down at UFC 70.) Assuming he wins his next match, Werdum will then face either Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira or Frank Mir, who are expected to fight in late December. Werdum hopes Big Nog comes out victorious, telling Tatame:

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By ben Lightweight GP Final Kawajiri/Alvarez vs. Uno/Aoki Lightweight GP Semifinals Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Eddie Alvarez Caol Uno vs. Shinya Aoki Lightweight GP Reserve Joachim Hansen vs. Kultar Gill Welterweight Fight Motoki Miyazawa vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka

By ben — Frank Trigg has signed a non-exclusive three-fight deal with World Victory Road, and has agreed to make his debut with the organization at Sengoku 4 on August 24th, against an opponent to be named later. The 37-year-old fighter hasn’t competed since his submission victory over Edwin De...

By ben — A first-hand account of Jesse Taylor’s Palace Station rampage, courtesy of Matt Riddle. (MMA Junkie) — Brazilian PRIDE/Cage Rage vet (and Thiago Silva’s roommate) Edson Draggo just wrecked himself in a motorcycle accident. (Sherdog)

By ben more…) (Ring girls: Who needs ‘em?) Here’s the second half of CagePotato’s head-to-head bitchfest on “Ill Will,” brought to you by the two similarly-named editors of this site. If you missed part one, click here. *** QUESTION: What does Wanderlei Silva’s future hold? Fowlkes: Keith Jard...

By ben Adding to the drama is the fact that the two fighters have previously met. Barnett suffered his first career loss at UFC 30 (2/23/01) against Rizzo, who knocked out the Seattle native in the second round. Said Barnett: Video of Barnett vs. Rizzo at UFC 30 is after the jump…

By ben Anyway, this is great news for the lightweight GP’s credibility, although the newly-staggered nature of Aoki’s bracket will sap a little bit of the tournament’s drama. DREAM.4 will also feature Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic’s match against (possibly) Jerome LeBanner, as well as the second...

By ben Tournament Experience: Rickson won both the 1994 and 1995 Vale Tudo Japan eight-man tournaments. Kazushi Sakuraba, Mark Kerr (1-0-1), Gary Goodridge (2-0), Enson Inoue, Yuki Kondo Mark Coleman, Quinton Jackson, Mirko Filipovic, Mario Sperry, Alistair Overeem, Heath Herring

By ben Though he wasn’t the one who did the actual stomping of Wanderlei Silva’s head during the infamous PRIDE 31 Chute Boxe/Hammer House riot, Phil Baroni did jump into the ring to defend Mark Coleman against the attacking Brazilians, and Wanderlei seemed to feel that the New York Bad Ass was e...