The dark match remains the least appreciated course in mixed
martial arts. While everyone salivates over the main event
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Easter Sunday is rarely compared to the full
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Sponsored by Harley Davidson Motorcycles will be
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- The XFC announced today that the
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By: Tim Leidecker
Where are the big super fights -- Fedor
Emelianenko-Randy
Couture, Anderson
Silva-Robbie
Lawler and Urijah
Faber-Norifumi
Yamamoto
(PRESS RELEASE) -- "FIGHTING POLITICS" has been official picked to
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Former UFC welterweight champion Carlos Newton
knocked out Nabil
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to...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- In a recent Sherdog.com feature story, manager
Mike Roberts said that Chad Mendes didn’t want to fight “chumps.”
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- For the past four years, Fight Nite in the Flats
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arts and...
By: Jake Rossen
Schedule the ninth season premiere of Spike’s “Ultimate Fighter”
franchise on April 1 -- April Fools’ Day -- and you’ve got me...
By: Gleidson Venga
Sherdog.com’s Gleidson Venga spoke with Wanderlei
Silva last week about his UFC 99 matchup with Rich
Franklin, but some material didn’t make...
Check out this brief gallery from Brazil, where Sherdog.com’s
Marcelo Alonso was on hand to take in the action at Jungle Fight
Sherdog.com was spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s
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By: Freddie DeFreitas and Al Quintero
GATINEAU, Quebec -- Fighting in his home country for the first time
in more than 13 years, Carlos Newton
made a triumphant return
This week, readers weigh-in on a wide range of topics, including
catch-weight bouts in mixed martial arts and early-UFC favorite
Fred
Ettish
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tournament reserve fighter Keijiro Maeda was
supposed to be a footnote to the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in
Yokohama
By: Jack Encarnacao
For better or for worse, mixed martial arts fans had the sport of
boxing on their minds this week, as the first pay-per-view event to
feature...
By: Marcelo Alonso
After the hurricanes of 2007 and 2008 passed through Chute Boxe and
swept away some of its biggest champions in Wanderlei
Silva and MaurÃcio...
Check out this brief gallery from Brazil, where Sherdog.com’s
Marcelo Alonso was on hand to take in the festivities at WOCS
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Heavyweight mixed martial arts (MMA) forces,
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Bellator Fighting Championships announced today
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Wanderlei
Silva has lost four of his last five fights, and you wouldn’t
have wanted to miss a single one of them
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
The fight community is well aware of Jason “Mayhem”
Miller. Last Sunday, the rest of the world was introduced to
the larger-than-life...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Elaina Maxwell has joined PureCombat on a
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- The 13 bout MMA event will take place on
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Lyoto
Machida, who will challenge UFC light heavyweight champion
Rashad
Evans on May 23 at UFC 98, had a visitor last Sunday at his
academy in...
By: Brian Knapp
Anthony
Johnson has some choice words for John Howard.
One of the welterweight division’s fastest-rising stars, Johnson
was scheduled to lock...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- MMABookings.com is a new website, that will
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- For the first time ever in Atlanta the world
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Fred
Ettish spent more than his share of time on hell’s doorstep.
The product of a broken home, he suffered through persistent taunts
from his...
By: Lutfi Sariahmed and Nathan Padgett/Coomer Media Group
After only two pro fights, the vultures have started to circle, or
at least inquire about former pro wrestler Bobby
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By: Joe Myers
Every major professional sport has its own collectibles and
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- One month after his 23rd birthday, Kyle Maynard
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By: Lutfi Sariahmed
It’s been one of the best UFC bouts you have yet to see -- or if
nothing else -- the longest hyped grudge match to come around in a
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By: Jason Probst
Chad
Mendes might be one of the new faces to watch in the
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By: Loretta Hunt
Gina
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- On the 21st of March, in Vilnius, at the club
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Sherdog.com’s Stephen Martinez photographed Shooto’s “Tradition 6”
exclusively from the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
(PRESS RELEASE) -- For the past four years, Fight Nite in the Flats
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Spirit Mountain Casino debuts one of many MMA
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Undefeated Heavyweights Adam Medansky and Jeff
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Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the Yoyogi National
Stadium Second Gymnasium in Tokyo to photograph Sengoku “Seventh
Battle”
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- One of the most asked about topics in my career
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By: Jake Rossen
This is how MMA has poisoned me: It’s been seven years since I
willingly plunked down cash for a boxing pay-per-view. (I don’t
think Foxy...
By: Marcelo Alonso
Mauricio
“Shogun” Rua has adopted a new approach and surrounded himself
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Former World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Bobby
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This week, readers weigh-in in a wide range of topics, including
the suspension of Karo
Parisyan and the mysteries of the Thai clinch
Sherdog.com was spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s
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By: Jordan Breen
I have already espoused at length -- both on radio and in print --
the strengths and sweetness of Sengoku's featherweight tournament.
This...
By: Jack Encarnacao
It was almost like mixed martial arts' version of "Law and Order"
this week, as several dramatic appearances before the Nevada State
Athletic...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Muhammed
Lawal sported a bandaged right hand after his unanimous
decision victory over light heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo
Kawamura...
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson captured this exclusive photo
gallery in Tokyo, where the athletes of Sengoku gathered to discuss
Friday’s event
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- UFC Heavy-Weight fighter Gabriel
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fite Nite's first event of 2009 will gather 24
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By: TJ De Santis
In part two of this exclusive interview, the most famous referee in
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enemy of...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Muhammed
Lawal thoroughly outworked light heavyweight King of Pancrase
Ryo
Kawamura en route to a unanimous decision
By: Greg Savage
Despite continued criticism from both media and fans alike,
B.J.
Penn and his camp remain committed to their goal of an
equitable resolution to...
By: Wesley Endow and Stephen Martinez
TOKYO -- Champions Shinichi
Kojima and Masakatsu
Ueda retained their respective 123- and 132-pound titles at
Shooto “Tradition 6” on Friday...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- WARRIOR, a Lionsgate Studios feature film will
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- At the Final press conference in Pensacola
yesterday, Bobby Lashley read some excerpts a the podium os what
Jason Guida has...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- CFC 6 on Saturday 25th April at the Circus
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fighters such as Scott Stribbling,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- King of Champions today announced the complete
card for its exciting mixed martial arts (MMA) event, “SHOCKWAVE
2009.”
(PRESS RELEASE) -- For those MMA enthusiasts that would like attend
a private training seminar given by Ken Shamrock, we invite you to
join us...
By: TJ De Santis
In part one of this exclusive interview, the most famous referee in
mixed martial arts, Big John McCarthy, discusses the state of MMA...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- At a closed weigh-in Thursday, all fighters reportedly
made weight for Sengoku 7th Battle. Muhammed
Lawal and Ryo
Kawamura then held a...
By: Jordan Breen
The MMA universe is expanding, and more rapidly than you think
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Knockout Promotions and Qwest Arena today
announced its fight week schedule and full fight card for the
Xtreme Fight Series...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tony Passos, one of the best BJJ instructors on
the east coast Black Belt under De La Riva
By: Tony Loiseleur
With Dream’s grand prix already underway, Sengoku will kick off its
own featherweight tournament on Friday
(PRESS RELEASE) -- When Xtreme Fighting Championships (XFC)
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By: Loretta Hunt and Dave Mandel
Charles “Mask” Lewis Jr. had all the faith in the world
Following a hearing Tuesday with the Nevada State Athletic
Commission, B.J. Penn
continues to push his case
By: Jordan Breen
I’m wary of producing another feature cobbled together from the
same monotonous, interchangeable material about how a fighter got
into the sport
Heikki Hujala was ringside at the Töölön Kisahalli in Helsinki
to photograph Fight Festival 25 for Sherdog.com
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By: Jack Encarnacao and Joe Harrington
WILMINGTON, Mass. -- “Rampage in the house. I just saw him”
Joe Harrington was ringside at the Aleppo Shriners Auditorium in
Wilmington, Mass., to photograph World Championship Fighting 6 for
Sherdog.com
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Multiple time jiu-jitsu champion and recent US
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Hoover who...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Champion Grappler Jeff Owen makes his MMA
Debut against another World Champion Naga Grappler Hollywood Cole,
Both...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Everlast is proud to announce the signing of
Gray
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Thirty-eight fight veteran Jason Guida,
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Esther Lin was given full access to Muhammed
“King Mo” Lawal at the Boxing Club in La Jolla, Calif., where
the gifted prospect trained for his bout against...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- North American Challenge is BACK in North
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installments
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Biff
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- In front of a packed house of 4000 people at
World Championship Fighting 6, Dan Ferrer
won the first ever WCF Title fight, defeating...
By: Jake Rossen
Saturday evening is going to be an interesting one for the
statisticians
By: Jordan Breen
Sengoku’s featherweight grand prix is better than Dream’s. There, I
said it
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This week, readers weigh-in in a wide range of topics, including
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Thomas...
Sherdog.com was spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s
most enduring images
By: Jack Encarnacao and Joe Harrington
WILMINGTON, Mass. -- World Championship Fighting crowned
featherweight Dan Ferrer as
its first champion in front of its largest crowd to date at WCF 6
By: Markus Wikholm and Heikki Hujala
HELSINKI, Finland -- On paper, the 25th installment of the premier
mixed martial arts promotion in Finland, Fight Festival, offered a
diverse...
By: Greg Savage
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- “This is going to be the new MMA 2.0,”
declared Showtime Vice President Ken Hershman at Thursday’s press
conference...
By: Jack Encarnacao
The Ultimate Fighting Championship reshuffled the deck for two of
its biggest upcoming events, as a knee injury to Frank Mir
Sherdog.com’s Stephen Martinez was ringside at the Shinjuku Face to
capture Shooto’s “Gig Tokyo Vol. 1”
Sherdog.com’s James Meinhardt photographed X-1 “New Beginning” at
the War Memorial Gymnasium in Kahului, Hawaii
It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that we must regretfully
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Charles...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Knockout Promotions and promoter Kasey Thompson
announced today that UFC LEGEND Brandon “THE MURDERER” Melendez has
been...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The UFC and Spike TV will hold an open casting
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Season 10 of the...
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- After 3 months of fundraising and coordination,
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Sherdog.com’s Dave Mandel photographed Frank
Shamrock, Nick Diaz,
Cung Le
and several other high-profile Strikeforce fighters Thursday at a...
By: Jason Probst
With the uptick in mixed martial arts talent of late, the process
of fighters passing on knowledge, nurturing talent and shaping the
next...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Square Ring Promotions officials announced this
morning that, despite the reported CSAC (California State Athletic
Commission) suspension of...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Bellator Fighting Championships, the first mixed
martial arts (MMA) promotion to secure an exclusive agreement with
any...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- HDNet will present the first airing of "HDNet
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Night of Champions was a tremendous success. Many people felt that
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Between Forrest
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Mir/Brock
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Sherdog.com’s Jeff Sherwood captured this exclusive photo gallery
of PureCombat’s “Backyard Brawl”
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Canadian Boxing Federation has spent many
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Sherdog.com is pleased to offer free video-on-demand of last
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- A Celebrity filled poker tournament to benefit,
Last Chance For Animals, a national non-profit organization
dedicated to...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Top contender and former UFC light heavyweight
champion Quinton
"Rampage" Jackson is expected in attendance this Saturday...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Just a few weeks after UWC - MAN "O" WAR invaded
the GMU Patriot Center Arena breaking all MMA attendance records in
the Mid...
By: Jordan Breen
One glove.
It's one of the most powerful and provocative images of the past
century...
Daniel Herbertson was on location at the Saitama Super Arena near
Tokyo to photograph Dream 7 for Sherdog.com
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The day of reckoning is rapidly approaching as
Warrior One MMA will be LIVE at the Robert Guertin Arena on March
28th for W1:...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The first Sovereign Nations Mixed Martial Arts
(SNMMA) championship will be contested Saturday night, March 21 at
“Beatdown 4” when Branden Lee
Hinkle battles...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The second event for the 2009 season of the "M-1
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Living legend Ken “The World’s Most Dangerous
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By: Jake Rossen
There had to be a guilty moment in which Rashad
Evans breathed a sigh of relief when teammate Keith
Jardine was knocked down in defeat
Check out part two of Sherdog.com’s exclusive UFC 96 photo gallery,
which features images of the preliminary bouts and the always
popular UFC...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- American import David
Gardner cited boredom as the motivation behind antics that cost
him his welterweight super fight against Shinya...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- More than two centuries after the United States
achieved its independence from England, friction between the two
nations is...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- SMP, Inc., announced today that production has
begun on eight episodes of the second season of the TV show “MMA
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- It's that time again. On March 14th, the world’s
best combat grapplers travel to Colorado to test themselves in the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Six camera production shoot for television, 12
fights, Jeff Piecoro from Fox Sports and Phil Baroni on Commentary
(PRESS RELEASE) -- North American Challenge is BACK in North
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installments
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Danny Davis has unleashed the Vyper Fight League
(VFL), an all new fighting organization to begin hosting events at
the Davis...
By: Sherdog.com Staff
Quinton
"Rampage" Jackson may have thrown everything he had at Keith
Jardine, but he left the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio,
with $385,000...
By: Brian Knapp
The words -- though he may have suspected the news they brought --
cut Keith
Jardine to the bone
Check out this exclusive photo gallery from the Nationwide Arena in
Columbus, where Quinton
"Rampage" Jackson outgunned Keith
Jardine at UFC 96
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Japanese mixed martial arts fighter Masakazu
Imanari, 33, prevailed by the narrowest possible margin of
victory against Atsushi...
By: Jordan Breen
Call me curmudgeonly, but I've never found magic charming.
Inevitably, you're either too keen for the illusion, or worse,
you're beguiled and...
By: Brian Knapp
Quinton
“Rampage” Jackson did not score any style points, but he won a
war of attrition with a man who has made a living off of them
By: Tony Loiseleur
SAITAMA, Japan -- The wily Masakazu
Imanari stole a close split decision from Atsushi
Yamamoto in the Dream 7 main event
By: Brian Knapp
Brandon
Vera broke Michael Patt
with leg kicks at UFC 96
By: Joseph Zigler and Jeff Sherwood
TULARE, Calif. -- Jason Von
Flue choked Steve
Ramerez unconscious Saturday in the main event of Pure Combat’s
“Backyard Brawl”
(PRESS RELEASE) -- SMP, Inc., announced today that production has
begun on eight episodes of the second season of the TV show “MMA
Worldwide”
By: Jack Encarnacao
A month that will showcase featherweights to an unprecedented
degree was kicked off by the division’s top-ranked fighter
Want some quality MMA this weekend, but don’t want to shell out 50
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- The FEG mixed martial arts production, DREAM,
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tickets go on sale to the public this Monday
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Daniel Herbertson captured this exclusive gallery on the eve of
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By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- Decorated Greco-Roman wrestler Joe Warren,
in advance of his professional mixed martial arts debut, had some
choice words
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Roy Jones Jr., Eight-Time World Champion,
returns to Pensacola to fight for the first time since January 1999
- when he...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- If you missed last nights premier, our new show,
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While the masses obsess over the UFC 96 “Jackson vs. Jardine” main
card this Saturday at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus
By: Greg Savage
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Looks can be deceiving. Pick any
old, tired cliché that describes the dissonance one experiences
when a...
Sherdog.com’s Daniel Herbertson captured an absolutely bizarre
scene in Tokyo, where Japanese star grapplers Shinya Aoki
and Masakazu
Imanari...
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Wild Bill's Fight Night, one of the most
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By: Mike Sloan
The UFC returns to Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday with an intriguing
bout
By: Jordan Breen
The featherweight division has roared to prominence over the last
two years. With that rise to combative consciousness
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
There are no off days when your client list includes the likes of
Georges
St. Pierre, Nathan Marquardt, Rashad
Evans and Leonard
Garcia
Daniel Herbertson photographed GCM’s “Cage Force EX” for
Sherdog.com
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Saenz Productions and the world famous Greg
Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts is proud to presents the Duke City MMA
Series 1
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Rival forces from different worlds will meet
when women’s mixed martial arts (MMA) sensation, Cristiane “Cyborg”
Santos...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Ultimate Fighter Assistant Coach Robert Drysdale
announces the first annual Drysdale Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu All-Star
Camp to...
As much as any sport, mixed martial arts fans have a high rate of
participation in the martial arts that make up the sport they love
to watch
Brent "Mankill" Knopp defends his heavyweight title against the
dangerous and powerful Leo Hoover who KO'ed his last Genesis
opponent in 12...
As the calendar draws closer and closer to UFC 96 “Jackson vs.
Jardine” this Saturday at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus
By: Jason Probst
For every fighter, there’s that moment when you hit the crossroads
in a real match and get formally initiated into the ranks
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
Not long after Mike Thomas
Brown successfully defended his featherweight title from
Leonard
Garcia at WEC 39 last Sunday, the TV cameras turned to...
Al Quintero photographed XMMA’s “'Inferno” for Sherdog.com
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Championship Fighting is proud to announce
a special autograph signing to ticket holders for the March 14th
event.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Hard Knocks Fighting Championship Ltd. and the
Silver Dollar Casino have partnered to host School of Hard Knocks
March 28th,...
By: Tim Leidecker
Despite a lack of star power, February was a solid month for mixed
martial arts. The Nate
Marquardt-Wilson
Gouveia
Sherdog.com’s Dave Mandel was given full access to heavyweight
prospect Shane
Carwin, who takes on Gabriel
Gonzaga on Saturday in Columbus at UFC 96
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
He rode into the UFC on a horse called hype and backed it up with
four straight wins, including a brutal first-round battering of
current interim heavyweight champ...
By: Jake Rossen
As he usually does, Keith
Jardine will jog into Saturday’s Octagon appointment -- this
time against Quinton
Jackson -- against a soundtrack of...
By: Brian Knapp
Mike Thomas
Brown knows what fans want
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Brent "Mankill" Knopp defends his heavyweight
title against the dangerous and powerful Leo Hoover who KO'ed his
last Genesis...
By: Joe Hall
It took Mike Thomas
Brown roughly two minutes to win the WEC featherweight title
from Urijah Faber
in November, and it took him about the same...
By: Marcelo Alonso
Viewed as one of the top light heavyweight mixed martial artists in
Brazil, Alexandre
“Cacareco” Ferreira left Brazilian Top Team
By: Sherdog.com Staff
This week, readers weigh-in in a wide range of topics, including
female mixed martial rankings and Sherdog.com’s “tabloid”
journalism
Sherdog.com was spread out across the globe to capture the sport’s
most enduring images
By: Mike Harris
Many a fighter will maintain publicly that he trains no harder for
a title fight than he does for any other fight
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Catch the Action Saturday March 7th as we
announce a new lineup for SpringFist III 2009. Orange Counties
rising stars collide...