(PRESS RELEASE) -- For the first time in history, a mixed martial
arts event will be held in conjunction with a major motorsports
event. Racing...
As a special holiday gift to kick off 2009 in style, W1 MMA is
proud to announce that tickets for W1: INCEPTION are now available
via presale...
Back by popular demand, Dan Severn will host his next MMA Camp in
Coldwater Michigan's "Michigan Sports Camps" on January 30th, 31st
and...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Despite last-minute absences, late replacements and the
lack of certain marquee New Year’s Eve fighters, Fighting and
Entertainment...
By: Marcelo Alonso
UFC welterweight champion Georges
St. Pierre -- roughly a month away from his ballyhooed rematch
with lightweight king B.J. Penn --
wants to...
By: Loretta Hunt
Corey
Hill got his Christmas wish a week early: he spent the holidays
with his wife and three kids at home, instead of in the hospital
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Gladiator Challenge, in association with the Los
Angeles Fitness and MMA Expo, today announced the complete card for
its next...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The first ever Bazzie Awards were celebrated
this past Friday on "Inside MMA" on HDNet. The Bazzie Awards, or
"Bazzies" as...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- As dusk descended on the eve of New Year's Eve,
Japanese fightsport fans braved falling temperatures to crowd
Shinjuku...
By: Tim Leidecker
Japanese legends Kazushi
Sakuraba and Kiyoshi
Tamura will finally collide when they meet in the main event at
K-1 “Premium 2008 Dynamite”
Check out this exclusive photo gallery from Tokyo, where
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson witnessed Tuesday’s K-1 “Dynamite”
press conference
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Jerome
LeBanner was noticeably absent from a Tuesday press conference
to promote K-1 “Premium 2008 Dynamite,” scheduled for New...
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson photographed this exclusive gallery
of Shinya Aoki,
who held an open training session to promote his bout with...
(PRESS RELEASE) --On Saturday, January 24 at The Palace of Auburn
Hills, Joseph Donofrio and Donofrio Entertainment proudly return
with "TURF...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Carter
Williams recently agreed to a multiple fight deal with
PureCombat and this signing is PureCombat's biggest yet in its...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Around the world, New Year's Eve means wild
parties and midnight countdowns, the lifting of glasses and the
ringing of bells....
By: Jake Rossen
Like other deadline-conscious publications, The New York Times has
been known to assemble obituaries for public figures prior to their
demise
Way back when the UFC played “Daddy” Warbucks and bailed out Pride
Fighting Championships owners from a red ink typhoon not unlike
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson captured this exclusive photo
gallery of "The Gracie Hunter" Kazushi
Sakuraba as he trained to face Kiyoshi...
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Quinton
"Rampage" Jackson wants to wear the UFC light heavyweight
championship again, but what he desires most is another crack at
the last man...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- As usual in the sport Hall "Lago Figo" in Genoa
Saturday the 13 of December 2008 had place the second stage of the
Golden...
By: Joe Hall
Rashad
Evans and Frank Mir
walked out of the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday night in Las
Vegas as new champions
By: Brian Knapp
Yushin
Okami may not have earned any style points with his latest
effort, but he reaffirmed his place among the world’s premier
middleweights
By: Jack Encarnacao
The Ultimate Fighting Championship launched the go-home push for
what has traditionally been its biggest show of the year, the New
Year’s Eve...
The UFC will ring in the New Year with a trio of headline-worthy
bouts at UFC 92 “The Ultimate 2008” this Saturday at the MGM Grand
Garden...
Check out this exclusive photo gallery from Las Vegas, where the
UFC held its weigh-ins to make Saturday’s card official
Another year nears its end on the biosphere, and, while everyone
else maxes out every piece of plastic in sight and makes New Year’s...
By: Luke Thomas
In the NFL, New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker is
penalized during a game for making snow angels in the end zone
after a touchdown
By: Mike Sloan
UFC 92 is one of the most stacked cards in the organization’s
history. It’s a showcase of some of the world’s greatest fighters
By: Jason Probst
When they meet for the third time Saturday night, Wanderlei
Silva and Quinton
Jackson will write the third act of what has proven an...
By: Mike Sloan
The main tripleheader of one of the greatest UFC events in recent
history -- at least on paper -- is the third installment of the
Wanderlei
Silva-...
By: Tim Leidecker
The UFC’s latest Dutch signing, Stefan
Struve, will face the stiffest test in his young career as he
takes on one of Antonio
Rodrigo Nogueira’s top students in...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Gladiator Challenge today announced the complete
card for its next action-packed mixed martial arts (MMA) event,
REVOLUTION,...
By: Tim Leidecker
In Japan, they call it “samurai spirit.” “Kampfgeist” is the German
equivalent. Italians refer to it as “grinta.” They all have the...
By: Mike Sloan
On one side you have former Pride heavyweight champion and current
UFC interim heavyweight champ Antonio
Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira....
By: Loretta Hunt
The belt almost seems secondary.
Because it’s not often that Frank Mir
doesn’t step onto the mat and feel that he isn’t the best there...
By: Mike Harris
Preparing for their main event light heavyweight title fight at UFC
92 “The Ultimate 2008” this Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
in Las Vegas, champion Forrest
Griffin and undefeated challenger...
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
In the world of fight sport you rarely are privy to a trilogy where
the first two fights have gone in one direction. But fans will see
just that at UFC 92 this Saturday when Quinton
Jackson takes on...
By: Jake Rossen
You nickname a guy the “Axe Murderer,” and you can pretty much
figure out what comes next.
Sherdog.com’s Marcelo Alonso was granted all access to Antonio
Rodrigo Nogueira’s UFC 92 training camp
By: Brian Knapp
It happened 2,922 days ago Monday. Fedor
Emelianenko lost a fight.
Eight years later, his controversial and disputed defeat to
Tsuyoshi
Kohsaka...
By: Wesley Endow
TOKYO -- Deep featherweight champion Dokonjonosuke
Mishima stopped Toshiaki
Kitada by second-round technical knockout
In a week littered with events to wet the beak of any fan,
Sherdog.com was spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s
most enduring images
“These men are the reason why the UFC has the greatest fighting
athletes in the world”
By: Jack Encarnacao
A pair of All-American wrestlers from Arizona secured UFC contracts
at “The Ultimate Fighter 8” Finale on Dec. 13, as lightweight
Efrain
Escudero and light heavyweight...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Wargods, an up-and-coming mixed martial arts
organization, is proud to announce that they will be teaming up
with Ken...
TOKYO, December 18, 2008 -- It was announced today that Hong-Man
Choi will fight Mirko Cro Cop at FieLDS Dynamite 2008. Set for New
Year's Eve...
By: Tim Leidecker
With little more than a month to go before Affliction’s second
event, “Day of Reckoning” scheduled for Jan. 24 in Anaheim, Calif.,...
By: Jordan Breen
The ongoing saga of Beijing Games gold medal judoka Satoshi Ishii
and his anticipated MMA debut has taken another twist
(PRESS RELEASE) -- LionHeart announces the February 6th matchup of
undefeated Paul
Bradley and 5 time UFC veteran Roan
Carneiro at the World...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Promoter Sven BOOGIE Bean is happy to announce
the promotion's next installment RING OF FIRE 33: ADRENALINE!
Esther Lin was present in Los Angeles to photograph Affliction’s
Wednesday press conference, where fighters such as Andrei
Arlovski, Josh Barnett
and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The colossal Affliction “Day of Reckoning” fight
card has now been finalized with explosive bouts set for both...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Mix Fight M-1 today announced the complete card
for the first ever M-1 Challenge. Team Red Devil Russia will face
Team...
Congratulations to LionHeart's Biff
Walizer who won at Battle at the Nation's Capital this weekend.
Biff defeated Rick
Screeton by tapout due...
By: Marcelo Alonso
Two-time absolute world jiu-jitsu champion Rodrigo “Comprido”
Medeiros began training with Brock
Lesnar roughly five months ago
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson was on location at the Shinjuku
Face in Tokyo to photograph Shooto’s “2008 Rookie Tournament Final”
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fiteselektor, the Dubai based Mixed Martial Arts
(MMA) event will start it’s FITESELEKTOR GLOBAL TALENT TOUR in
January...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Steve
Cantwell displayed his usual top-level fighting style as he
defeated newcomer Razak
Al-Hassan during the UFC Fight...
Once a staple of the UFC heavyweight division, two-time champion
Tim
Sylvia now makes his living outside the promotion he called
home for years
This week, readers weigh-in in a wide range of topics, including
Gilbert
Yvel’s appearance on Affliction’s Jan. 24 card and the future
of UFC middleweight champion...
Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo to
capture Deep 39 Impact through the lens of his camera
By: Jake Rossen
Former NAIA collegiate wrestler Bobby
Lashley made his MMA debut the right way this weekend: in
near-obscurity
By: Tim Leidecker
The UFC was in for some very heavy labor last week as the promotion
ran two events in just a three-day time span
Sherdog.com’s Dave Mandel was cage-side at the I Wireless Center in
Moline, Ill., to photograph Adrenaline MMA 2
By: Brian Knapp
Lightweight finalist Phillipe
Nover was hailed as everything from a young Georges
St. Pierre to the next Anderson
Silva in the weeks leading up
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Friday evening at Kaunas Sport hall (Lithuania)
international mixed martial arts competition “Real Fights 4:
welterweight...
By: Brian Knapp
Ryan
Bader showed he was more than a one-dimensional fighter, as he
stopped four-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Vinicius
Magalhaes on...
By: Mike Fridley
Krzysztof
Soszynski was supposed to be the next “Ultimate Fighter”
In a week filled with big and small events alike, Sherdog.com was
spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s most enduring
images
(PRESS RELEASE) -- As the show continues to gather interest from
around the world, BodogFight veteran, Tara Larosa
has been selected as co-coach with...
The end of another season of “The Ultimate Fighter” should be a
time for us to reflect on what, in hindsight, was more like a full
season of...
Check out this exclusive photo gallery from Friday’s weigh-in,
which made official Saturday’s UFC “The Ultimate Fighter” season
eight finale
By: Jack Encarnacao
If there was ever a way to restore your luster after a tough loss,
this was it. Josh
Koscheck
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Shooto’s 2008 rookie tournament culminated Saturday at
Tokyo’s combat sports nightclub of choice
(PRESS RELEASE) --The 2008 NAAFS National Amateur season came to an
exciting and controversial close at Night of Champions in
Cleveland, OH.
The Fight Expo has partnered with MAKE-A-WISH to launch their
"Meet-A-Fighter" campaign to make the dreams of terminally ill
children come true...
By: Chris Yucus
Business is business, and neither Efrain
Escudero nor Phillipe
Nover will let their friendship stand in the way of their
promising mixed martial...
By: Joe Myers
“The Ultimate Fighter” reality series has made mixed martial arts
stars out of many of its alumni, from UFC light heavyweight
champion Forrest
Griffin to UK poster boy...
By: Loretta Hunt
The antics of Junie
Allen Browning jettisoned him onto on the main card of “The
Ultimate Fighter 8” Finale this Saturday, but coach Frank Mir
By: Mike Fridley and Dave Mandel
At the age of 40, Pat Miletich
made a statement Thursday against Thomas Denny
By: Brian Knapp
Not long after Yoshiyuki
Yoshida was carried out of the cage at UFC Fight Night 16
“Fight for the Troops,” post-fight talked turned to the...
By: Joe Hall
Josh
Koscheck rebounded from his late-October loss to Thiago Alves
with a win Wednesday over Japanese welterweight Yoshiyuki
Yoshida
By: Mike Sloan
Quite a bit has changed since the last time Mac Danzig had
to punish himself during a grueling training regime
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
When Ben
Rothwell debuted in Affliction back in July against Andrei
Arlovski, it was a chance for the recently christened top-10
heavyweight to...
Sherdog.com's Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the Differ Ariake
Arena in Tokyo to photograph Pancrase “Shining 10”
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The world’s biggest combat sports event,
DYNAMITE!!, is tipped to become a live online global phenomenon
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Central California is know for its farmland,
dairies, the Fresno State Bulldogs and is one of the nation’s
hotbeds for wrestling
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Joanna Krupa, voted 'Sexiest Woman in the World'
is to host the new reality TV show, 'Ultimate Women Combat' to be
broadcast...
For anyone who doubts the power of MMA to unify the masses, simply
look at Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night “Fight for the Troops” benefit
show...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- There’s never been a time Mike Swick
wasn’t serious about fighting
By: Andy Cotterill
Jonathan
Goulet arrived on Sunday at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North
Carolina, tired but in good spirits for his welterweight bout
against fellow striker...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Pride veteran Nobuhiro Obiya defeated Yoshihiro Tomioka at
Deep 39 Impact on Wednesday at Korakuen Hall
They've brought you the World's Best PRO MMA Gloves, Scientifically
Superior Fight Shorts, the Most Advanced Rashguards and now due to
popular...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- M-1 Global President and CEO Vadim Finkelstein
announced today that M-1 Global has awarded an M-1 Challenge Team
Franchise to...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- LionHeart announces the West Coast MMA debut of
2008 NCAA Wrestling Champion Phil Davis.
Davis will face Josh Green at
The...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Last month’s Palace Fighting Championship 11
“All In” was just the beginning of a new tenacious approach to
matchmaking
By: Jack Encarnacao
Two years after a swift loss via guillotine choke to Renzo Gracie
in the IFL, Pat Miletich, one of MMA’s most tenured sages, spoke to
Sherdog...
By: Tony Loiseleur
“Take a look at the replay and talk us through the finish of the
fight.”
Though UFC pay-per-view analyst Joe Rogan’s words were simple...
By: Sherdog.com Staff
World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight champion Jamie Varner
seems to have adjusted to life with a belt wrapped around his waist
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson was cage-side at the Differ Ariake
Arena in Tokyo to photograph Greatest Common Multiple’s “Cage Force
9”
(PRESS RELEASE: www.BufferZone.net) -- The UFC's own "Voice of the
Octagon, Bruce Buffer, has formally announced that the 3rd
installment of the...
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson captured this exclusive photo
gallery of UFC welterweight contender Yoshiyuki
Yoshida as he trained at Tokyo Yellow Mans in preparation for
his bout with...
By: Mike Harris
Memo from the American Kickboxing Academy to welterweight Josh
Koscheck: Unlike your last fight against Thiago
Alves, which you lost just six...
By: Jake Rossen
In a sport where an evening of hyperextensions and blood-faucet
noses is considered getting off lightly, it should come as little
surprise that...
By: Marcelo Alonso
After taking a month off to treat a back injury, Thiago
Silva has returned to training in preparation for his bout with
fellow unbeaten Lyoto
Machida
Since it's release, 'FIGHTER, a documentary' has been quietly
changing people's perceptions about mixed martial arts fighting,
its athletes and...
By: Sherdog.com Staff
This week, readers weigh-in on a wide range of topics, including
Gina
Carano versus Cristiane
“Cyborg” Santos, Wanderlei
Silva vs. Quinton
Jackson and exactly where...
In a week filled with big and small events alike, Sherdog.com was
spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s most enduring
images
(PRESS RELEASE) -- On a sunny Sunday morning after his stormy win
in last night's K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 Final, Remy Bonjasky met
with media...
By: Loretta Hunt
When Bill Douglas was promoted to the position of assistant
executive director of the California State Athletic Commission last
week, he...
By: Wesley Endow
TOKYO -- Katsuya
Inoue defeated Koji Oishi by
unanimous decision to become the lightweight King of Pancrase in
the main event at Pancrase...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Remy Bonjasky won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2008
Final tonight, scoring KOs against two fighters, then taking the
Championship Belt when his final opponent,...
Back by popular demand, Dan Severn will host his next MMA Camp in
Coldwater Michigan's "Michigan Sports Camps" on January 30th, 31st
and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- South African heavyweight champion Rico “The
White Lion” Hattingh entered the main event of XFC’s “Salute to Our...
By: Jack Encarnacao
World Extreme Cagefighting bantamweight champion Miguel
Torres boosted his already formidable stature with a
deconstruction of scrappy contender...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Cage Force crowned featherweight and bantamweight
champions Saturday at Differ Ariake
By: Rob King
ENOCH, Alberta -- Emanuel
Newton may not have won over the fans, but he did win what he
came for
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson captured this exclusive photo
gallery of Shooto 2006 rookie champion Akiyo
Nishiura’s original art work
By: Tim Leidecker
In the eleven days since the official announcement was made by
co-promoter MLK that the UFC will be coming to Germany next summer,
the U.S....
By: Brian Knapp
Brian
Bowles may not have a marquee name yet, but he has a fan in
World Extreme Cagefighting bantamweight champion Miguel
Torres
He’s a lean mass of sinew and muscle with a reputation for cracking
heads and limbs that has him popping up in pound-for-pound debates
left...
Sherdog.com is proud to present a free live stream of FuryFC 7 tonight at 4 p.m.
PST/7 p.m. EST!
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Strikeforce World Middleweight (185 lb. limit)
Champion, Cung Le, will
seize the spotlight during an all-new “Strikeforce...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- It was as if the calendar had been turned back a
few months, with the mercury rising to 20 C/68 F in early December
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Fight lab will be participating in the
California Firefighters 2008 Spark of Love Toy Drive
By: Brian Knapp
Manny
Tapia felt the wrath of Miguel
Torres and lasted barely more than a round
By: Scott Holmes
The light heavyweight and lightweight finals for the eighth season
of “The Ultimate Fighter” are set
By: Krzysztof Soszynski
I would like to start by thanking you for taking your time and
interest in reading about my experiences on “The Ultimate Fighter.”
I wish I...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The show will feature eight women who will train
and fight it out to become the World’s #1 Woman MMA Fighter
By: Mike Fridley
A decorated wrestler who starred at Oklahoma State University, WEC
light heavyweight contender Mark Munoz
may have been surprised when he found himself under...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- With just 48 hours remaining before the K-1
World Grand Prix 2008 Final, this year's eight finalists took a
break from...
The largest martial arts event in the world - FiELDS K-1 WGP 2008
Final taking place at the Yokohama Arena in Tokyo Japan - will be
broadcast...
Grappling X has received a lot of calls and emails asking if we
could also host a submission grappling tournament for the kids on
December 6
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Cagefighting Alliance (www.WCAfights.com)
has formed a Mixed Martial Arts Organization that will establish
their fight...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fighting out of Team Link in Massachusetts,
Armenian Ultimate Fighter Season 8 Alum Karen
Grigoryan made quick work of previously undefeated BJJ Black
Belt...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The hype leading up to MFC 19: Long Time Coming
goes another step on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 3 when
Maximum...
By: Brian Knapp
The first time the late Carlson Gracie Sr. laid eyes on Miguel
Torres at his Chicago academy, he asked, “Who’s the little
Mexican kid?”...
By: Andy Cotterill
Perhaps no one in Canadian mixed martial arts history commands as
much respect and induces as much nostalgia as Carlos Newton
Erin MacDonald photographed Phoenix Fight Promotions' "Wanted,"
which was headlined by T.J. Grant's
submission of Beau Baker
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The hilarious Ready 2 Rumble franchise is
flexing its muscles and planning a major, star-studded return to
the ring in spring...
(PRESS RELEASE) --We are pleased to announce, UFC fighter Thiago
Tavares has signed with American Top Team
Everybody loves some midweek MMA, and all you closet bantamweight
fans out there get some extra love this time around as WEC 37 airs
live...
Heikki Hujala was ringside at the Töölön Kisahalli in Helsinki,
Finland, to photograph M-1 Challenge 10 for Sherdog.com
(PRESS RELEASE) -- East coast regional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
powerhouse the UWC - Ultimate Warrior Challenge announced today the
signing of a fight between H.I.T. Squad's Chase Beebe
and Team Lloyd...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Inside Punch has now debuted its 10th show on
Comcast Ch 1 On Demand in Atlanta! The show is the only one of its
kind that...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- In the book "Principles and Practice of Sports
Management," University of Massachusetts Professor Lisa P.
Masteralexis...
By: Jake Rossen
The holidays are full of repetition. Turkey on Thanksgiving, turkey
on Christmas; socks from mom, socks from grandma; Charlie Brown
learning,...
By: Tim Leidecker
After holding back the past few months, promoters in Europe, Japan
and the United States plan to fire on all cylinders in an effort to
put together
Sherdog.com's Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the Korakuen Hall
in Tokyo to photograph Shooto's “Tradition 4”