By: Jake Rossen
The author of “The Tipping Point,” self-help guru Malcolm Gladwell,
stirred up lots of press last year when he proclaimed that anyone
who...
(PRESS RELEASE) Washington DC (September 2009) – Eight months ago,
the Ultimate Warrior Challenge (UWC), the premier Mixed Martial
Arts (MMA)...
By: Loretta Hunt
Those not interested in the Kimbo
Slice-Roy Nelson
showdown going down on “The Ultimate Fighter 10” this Wednesday on
Spike TV need not read...
Marcelo Alonso captured this brief gallery in Macao, China, of Art
of War 14, which featured another win by Rolles
Gracie.
By: Greg Savage
When rumors of Quinton
Jackson’s withdrawal from their highly hyped Dec. 12 bout
reached Rashad
Evans, he hoped against hope the news was...
Tim
Kennedy submitted Zak
Cummings with a second-round north-south choke in the main
event of Friday’s Strikeforce Challengers card.
This week, readers weigh-in on Quinton
"Rampage" Jackson's decision to delay his bout with Rashad
Evans to film a movie and boxing's war with MMA.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- What started out as simply a potentially great
fight has evolved into a blood feud between MMA Big Show
Welterweight Champion “Relentless” Roger
Bowling (6-0) and former UFC bad boy...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- SATURDAY, October 17th, 2009 BUD LIGHT Presents
PureCombat again...As we take over the Tulare International
Agri-Center for...
Sherdog.com was spread across the globe to capture the week in
mixed martial arts through the art of photography. Featured in this
week's slate...
By: Jack Encarnacao
On a night in which the Ultimate Fighting Championship went
head-to-head with one of boxing’s biggest stars, one of the most
feared punchers...
Sherdog.com's Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the Shinjuku Face
in Tokyo to photograph Jewels "Fifth Ring."
By: Brian Knapp and Dave Mandel
Tim
Kennedy walked right through Zak
Cummings and his undefeated record in the Strikeforce
“Challengers Series 3” main event
(PRESS RELEASE) -- There are several mixed martial arts promotions
putting on shows around the Central Valley.
By: Jordan Breen
In the wake of his loss to Junior dos
Santos, Mirko “Cro
Cop” Filipovic told the world that the places in his mind once
filled with a focus...
Antonio
Silva submitted Jim York in the
first round to headline Sengoku “Tenth Battle.” Daniel Herbertson
was ringside at the Saitama Super...
By: Sherdog.com Staff and Esther Lin
All 22 fighters made weight Thursday in Tulsa, Okla., ahead of the
Strikeforce Challengers event set for Friday at the SpiritBank
Event Center.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- JC Cuffee improved his amateur record to 2-0
this past Saturday at the Barbarian Fighting Championships with a
1st Round...
By: Scott Holmes
There was barely a peep out of Kimbo
Slice during last week’s debut of “The Ultimate Fighter 10,”
but the folks at Spike TV were kind...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Kimbo Slice, the former YouTube sensation, and
current aspiring UFC fighter, makes his first trip into the famed
UFC...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- USA Judo is pleased to announce that the On The
Mat Jiu-Jitsu National Championships will be held in conjunction
with the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- "The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights" on Spike TV
continues to be the undisputed champion of young men on Wednesday
nights....
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The highly anticipated STRIKEFORCE® and M-1
Global co-promoted heavyweight showdown between Fedor Emelianenko
(30-1) and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- HDNet will feature LIVE coverage of "HDNet
Fights Presents: FieLDS K-1 World GP 2009 Final 16," at the Olympic
Gymnasium...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Mixed Martial Arts history is about to explode
in South Florida and FightZone TV's Jay Adams will be their to call
all of the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Premier Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promoter
STRIKEFORCE and SHOWTIME Sports, have teamed up with the American
Forces Network to...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Boston Brawler and Front Row Productions are
proud to announce a special MMA autograph session and book signing
at the...
By: Tony Loiseleur
TOKYO -- After knocking off two quality welterweights in Akihiro Gono
and Nick
Thompson, it appears that Dan
Hornbuckle is in line for a shot at...
Sherdog.com's Tony Loiseleur reported from the Saitama Super Arena
near Tokyo with live play-by-play and results of Sengoku "Tenth
Battle."
(PRESS RELEASE) -- W1 MMA Promotions is very excited to officially
announce that it has teamed with JAKT Apparel Company. JAKT has
become the...
By: Loretta Hunt
Roger
Huerta said he’s found the will to fight again.
By: Jason Probst and Emmett Hunt
Veteran referee “Big” John McCarthy has not been issued a license
to officiate events in Nevada after applying with the state’s
athletic...
Nate
Diaz submitted Melvin
Guillard in the headlining bout of Spike TV’s UFC Fight Night
19.
By: Tim Leidecker
UFC
103 should have come with the tag “The Graduate,” as it turned
into a prime test for many of the promotion’s young stars,
including Tyson
Griffin, Paul Daley and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Twenty-four of Las Vegas’s top mixed martial
arts amateur fighters will clash in seven weight divisions at
7p.m., Saturday,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Spike TV’s hit series “The Ultimate Fighter” has
propelled mixed martial arts into the American mainstream while...
Antonio
Silva and Jim York stepped
on the scale Tuesday near Tokyo to make their bout official for
Sengoku “Tenth Battle.”
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Maximum Fighting Championship will introduce
the key competitors in the stacked lineup for its most power-packed
fight...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Former NFL and NCAA football superstar Herschel
Walker will enter a new chapter in his career as a professional
athlete when...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Spirit Mountain Casino presents “Sport Fight
XXVI – Domination” on October 2, 2009, an exciting, action-packed
night...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- With the explosion in MMA Events and the rapid
expansion of FightZone TV's roster of Promoter Partners, FightZone
TV's...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tuff-N-Uff’s “Future Stars of MMA” card Friday
night delivered a night of non stop thrills and action as amateur...
Vitor
Belfort dispatched of Rich
Franklin and Junior
“Cigano” dos Santos outgunned Mirko “Cro
Cop” Filipovic in memorable bouts at UFC
103.
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By: Greg Savage and Dave Mandel
DALLAS -- Vitor
Belfort continued his resurgence Saturday with a victory over
Rich
Franklin in the main event of UFC
103
Sherdog.com reported live from the American Airlines Center in
Dallas with live play-by-play of UFC
103.
By: Loretta Hunt
Paul
Daley’s first-round thrashing of Martin
Kampmann at UFC
103 Saturday put a damper on the promotion’s plans to match the
Dane up with Mike...
By: Jason Probst
As the first boxing writer I know of to warn the sport about
everything mixed martial arts was doing right, all I can say is, “I
told you so.”
By: Loretta Hunt
A lightweight contest between Phillipe
Nover and Sam Stout was
cancelled Wednesday at UFC
Fight Night 19 in Oklahoma City, Okla., after Nover...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Since 2005, the Art of War Fighting
Championship® has strived to establish itself as China's premier
mixed martial arts...
By: Mike Sloan
Regardless of how Rich
Franklin’s battle with Vitor
Belfort unfolds at UFC
103 Saturday, the fans who will cram into the American Airlines...
Knockout artists Vitor
Belfort and Rich
Franklin took to the scales on Friday in Dallas to make
official their headlining pay-per-view bout at UFC...
As if Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t hate the UFC enough as is, he can
expect this Saturday’s UFC
103 event to take a big chunk out of his...
Participating in Thursday's UFC
103 press conference were UFC President Dana White, Rich
Franklin, Vitor
Belfort and Junior
"Cigano" dos Santos.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- This past Saturday, September 12th, the Belterra
Casino Resort & Spa was the scene as shooting star fight
promotion MMA Big...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The 19th edition of “UFC FIGHT NIGHT” on Spike
TV Wednesday, September (8:00-10:05pm ET/PT), headlined by an
exciting...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Georges St. Pierre, Dan Henderson, and Brian
Bowles join the panel while Kruck's Korner highlights Houston
Alexander -...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Midwest's newest promotion is coming to the
beautiful Harrah's Casino and Hotel in Council Bluffs Iowa, and is
being...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Titan Entertainment announced the full 12-bout
lineup Friday morning for its inaugural COMBAT SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIPS
via its...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The all-action British fight film ‘Sucker Punch’
crashes the in-store Asda chart at number 13 Nationwide this week
on DVD.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Championship Fighting today announced that
Internet Fighting Legend, MMA Superstar, and current competitor on
this...
By: Brian Knapp
Rich
Franklin hears the sand running through the hour glass. The
window of opportunity remains cracked for the soon-to-be
35-year-old former UFC...
By: Tim Leidecker
The Zuffa LLC circus has only 72 hours to tear down the Octagon at
the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City and reconstruct it for
UFC
103...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- While the ratings for most television series
erode over time, “The Ultimate Fighter” on Spike TV continues to
defy the norm....
(PRESS RELEASE) -- On the heels of the biggest mixed martial arts
event in the history of South Florida, Shine 2: American Top Team
vs. The World
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fedor, the #1 Ranked MMA Heavyweight in the
World, To Be Seen for the First Time by Broadcast Television
Audience.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino shocked the
mixed martial arts community in Central California and throughout
the state on...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- A mixed martial arts (MMA) fight that area fans
have been clamoring for will finally transpire on Friday, Sept. 25,
when...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- HDNet will feature LIVE coverage of "HDNet
Fights Presents: Adrenaline MMA IV," from the Mid-American Center
in Council...
By: Scott Holmes
What happens when you put four former NFLers, an IFL champ, a
streetfighting legend and Wes Sims into
one house? Reality gold, that’s what!
(PRESS RELEASE) -- FightZone.TV Proudly Presents the best MMA
Events from around the country to over 20 million+ Homes. Airing on
Sun Sports...
Junior
“Cigano” dos Santos prepped for his fight with Mirko “Cro
Cop” Filipovic at Team Black House in Los Angeles, Calif.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Ultimate Fighting Championship® organization and
Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. today announced an extension of their
closed...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Boston raised guitarist is a big MMA fan and
is a black belt himself. With a collection of 16 albums and five
top 20...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- When Titan Entertainment officials put together
a the first-ever fight card for the Combat Sports Championships...
By: Loretta Hunt
In an editing bay tucked away somewhere in Las Vegas, Kimbo
Slice’s future has been decided.
Don’t lie to yourself. You crave another season of “The Ultimate
Fighter.” The disgusting alcohol-fueled pranks
Tuesday’s UFC Fight Night 19 weigh-ins in Oklahoma City, Okla., saw
Nate
Diaz and Melvin
Guillard successfully make weight to put the stamp on...
(PRESS RELEASE) – World Extreme Cagefighting® featherweight
champion Mike Brown has built a reputation as a hard-hitting,
gritty fighter...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Few head coaches have been more committed to
winning the 2009 M-1 Challenge Championship Cup than Team USA
West's Colin Oyama.
Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida will defend his light heavyweight
championship under a Silver Star sponsorship in UFC 104 at the
Staples Center...
Eric Schambari will be fighting in the middleweight division at the
C3 MMA Championship fight at the First Council Casino in Newkirk,
Oklahoma,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Texas based mixed martial arts fight promotion
company, Shark Fight Promotions, successfully hosted yet another
stellar MMA...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- On Saturday October 10th, W1 MMA returns with
its most explosive event yet as THE SCORE presents W1: HIGH
VOLTAGE, live from...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Rich “Ace” Franklin, Frank “Twinkle Toes” Trigg
and Rob “The Saint” Emerson will be sponsored by Silver Star...
While the world wonders how the former street fight champion of
YouTube, Kimbo
Slice, will fit into the already bizarre realm of reality TV,...
By: Tim Leidecker
Fight fans looking for their free UFC fix on SpikeTV have had to
wait almost half a year since the last UFC Fight Night.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Extreme Cagefighting® announced today a
television agreement with Setanta Sports in Australia.
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
Fighters getting in touch with their inner thespian is hardly a new
idea.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Lyle “Fancy
Pants” Beerbohm entered the cage for his bout with Josh Martin
at the inaugaral Arena Rumble card in Spokane
(PRESS RELEASE) -- After compiling a 3-0 team record and a 13-2
individual record en route to a Group D title in the 2009 "M-1
Challenge...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The highly-popular mixed martial arts website
FiveOuncesOfPain.com broke the news late last week about an
upcoming...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Brock
Lesnar has faced some of the best heavyweight fighters in the
world. The Ultimate Fighting Championship® heavyweight...
Ricardo
Arona returned to MMA with a win over Marvin
Eastman on Saturday at Bitetti Combat. Paulo Filho,
Pedro
Rizzo and Murilo “Ninja”
Rua...
By: Jake Rossen
Roger
Huerta’s final 15 minutes as a professional athlete could come
on Wednesday. That’s the date Huerta, only 26, fights Gray
Maynard in...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Red-hot lightweight prospect Calvin “The Boston
Finisher” Kattar may not have lived up to his nickname last night,
but he...
(PURE COMBAT) -- Before Joe Morales tried his hand in mixed martial
arts he was a United States Marine sniper. It was Morales’ job to
find and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Cage Fighting Championship is proud to announce
our Second Queensland event, C.F.C 11 October 9 2009 at the
Southport Sharks...
This week, readers weigh in on knockout terminology, UFC stars
fighting outside of the Octagon and the inclusion of a super
heavyweight division...
Featured in this week's slate are Sherdog.com photographers Dave
Mandel, Terry Goodlad and Marcelo Alonso.
Gray
Maynard will face Roger
Huerta at Spike TV’s UFC Fight Night 19 on Sept. 16 in Oklahoma
City.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fight of Your Life Communications (FOYL) agreed
to terms with mixed martial arts (MMA) star Alberto
Crane. FOYL will provide...
By: Marcelo Alonso
LAS VEGAS -- Wide stance. A different scream before each attack.
The Vitor
Belfort I saw at Xtreme Couture Mixed Martial Arts was
different from...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Undefeated lightweight (155-pound. limit)
sensation Billy
Evangelista (9-0) will square off with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
black belt...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- It's a classic rivalry that has transcended into
nearly every sport: The United States vs. Russia. And on Friday,
Sept. 11 at...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Ron Kruck speaks with Salmon and Bernie Profato
from the Ohio Athletic Commission about Salmon's recent on-line
column-...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- As the saying goes, everything’s bigger in Texas
– including the fight cards. With the superfight between former
middleweight champion Rich
Franklin and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Two-time United States Olympic wrestling team
member and former NCAA Division I national championship runner up
Daniel...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin based Duke Roufus MMA
Academy, considered by many to be one of the top Mixed Martial Arts
schools in the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Championship Fighting today announced
their full fight card for their September 26th show at the Shriners
Auditorium in...
(PRESS RELEASE) --This weekend Lou Neglia holds his Ring of Combat
amateur MMA show at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Atlantic
City, NJ. At...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Adversity in sports has a tendency to bring
teammates closer together, and for the much-maligned Team England,
the hurdles...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- This fall, the TapouT Crew will be appearing in
Spencer's, Dillards, and more to host a variety of meet-and-greet
events for...
Vitor
Belfort will take on Rich
Franklin at UFC 103 in Dallas, Texas.
By: Loretta Hunt
Sean
Sherk was scrutinized last week for withdrawing from UFC 104.
Some speculated that he wasn't injured but instead was skipping a
drug test....
By: Karl Maple and UFC.com
Sherdog.com recently caught up with Michael
Bisping, who meets Denis Kang on
Nov. 14 at UFC 105.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Titan Entertainment Owner and President Joe
Kelly announced Wednesday the formation of a brand new full-time
mixed martial...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Hot mixed martial arts prospect Calvin “The
Boston Finisher” Kattar (7-1-0) plans to live-up to his nickname
and finish...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- PureCombat again takes over the Tulare
International Agri-Center for another phenomenal event when it
presents FEARLESS.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Shanon Slack (1-0) made his professional debut
this past Saturday night at the Iron Will Fighting Championships in
Johnstown,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- One of the best lineups in the Maximum Fighting
Championship’s illustrious history has been set for MFC 22: Payoff.
By: Brian Knapp and UFC.com
Mirko
“Cro Cop” Filipovic has no clue why Fedor
Emelianenko signed with Strikeforce and decided against testing
himself inside the UFC.
By: Luke Thomas
I’ll give a warning now: This opinion piece doesn’t delve into
heady material. In fact, what I’m about to argue should be obvious....
(PRESS RELEASE) -- September 8, 2009 – The bright lights of Las
Vegas won’t be the only ones shining bright Friday, September 18th
as...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Considered by many pundits to be the odds-on
favorite to win the 2009 M-1 Challenge, Team USA West announced
Monday four...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- As has been the case for much of the season, USA
East -- winner of Group C in the M-1 Challenge -- has once again
made...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- NE Grappling would like to invite you to our
next event, NE Grappling Challenge VIII, which is scheduled for
September 20,...
By: Marcelo Alonso
More than two years have passed since Rameau
Thierry Sokoudjou knocked out Ricardo
Arona at the final Pride Fighting Championships event in Japan
Tyson
Griffin prepared for his UFC
103 bout against Hermes
Franca at Xtreme Couture HQ in Las Vegas.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- This event will be nationally broadcast live on
www.fight-stream.com.
Sherdog.com’s Dave Mandel was cageside at the James L. Knight
Center in Miami, Fla., to photograph Shine Fights II.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- RITC 134 - MW Title Bout and IFL Veteran Gabe
Casillas.
Mike
Pyle will return to the Octagon to face Chris Wilson
at Spike TV’s UFC Fight Night 19.
Sherdog.com's Terry Goodlad profiled trainer Shawn Tompkins in this
Sherblog exclusive gallery.
By: Sherdog.com Staff
This week, readers weigh-in on the prospects of the UFC and what’s
next for Randy “The
Natural” Couture and Todd Duffee.
Sherdog.com was spread across the globe to capture the week in
mixed martial arts through the art of photography.
Mark Obstfeld was on location at The Troxy in London to photograph
the Ultimate Challenge UK.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Today at 7pm EST on MMA Nation Radio - CBS Super
Station 106.7 The Fan: Pat Runez, Rampage Jackson in the A-Team
Movie, UFC...
By: Jack Encarnacao
In a classic battle at UFC
102, Antonio
Rodrigo Nogueira bounced back from the worst performance of his
career with a commanding outing against...
Sherdog.com's Daniel Herbertson was ringside to photograph a battle
of UFC veterans as Ryo Chonan
took on Jutaro Nakao
at Deep 43.
By: Tim Leidecker
When it came to top matchups around the globe, the United States
had the market all but cornered in August. Not so in September....
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Shine Fight Promotions (Shine Fights) phenomenal
card, Shine 2: American Top Team vs. The World, will now be
available to the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Special Guests: TUF 8 "Bad Boy" Junie Browning
and George Roop Desert Diamond Casino Friday September 11, 2009
Doors...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- What’s so funny about Mixed Martial Arts? Tune
in this Sunday at 6:00 PM to www.ibnsports.com to find out as the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Texas based Shark Fight Promotions and ESPN 1440
will make history on September 12th when Shark Fight 6 – Stars
& Stripes...
Tyrone Z. McCants was on location in New York to photograph a press
conference to promote Fedor
Emelianenko versus Brett
Rogers.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Shine Fight Promotions (Shine Fights) weigh-in
and pre-fight press conference for, Shine 2: American Top Team vs.
The World,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Knockout Promotions returns to Boise with the
BIGGEST night of MMA in Idaho history - CCF # 20 - "ARMAGEDDON"
Friday,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- On September 12th, “MAYHEM” will commence at the
Belterra Casino Resort & Spa in Indiana, as rising fight
promotion MMA...
By: Loretta Hunt
Randy
Couture is looking to lighten his load.
By: Greg Savage and Dave Mandel
LOS ANGELES -- UFC 104 headliners Lyoto
Machida and Mauricio
“Shogun” Rua met the media Tuesday, but that was after the
Brazilians had...
By: Jake Rossen
There was once no greater prize in sports than boxing’s heavyweight
championship of the world.
Nate
Marquardt, Thiago
Silva, Jake
Rosholt and Todd Duffee
claimed impressive victories at UFC 102 “Couture vs. Nogueira” in
Portland, Ore.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Championship Fighting today announced more
fights for their September 26th show at the Shriners Auditorium in...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Jonathan Cimins, nephew of Grapplers Quest
Founder, Brian Cimins, was diagnosed with Autism at only eighteen
months of age.
By: Mike Whitman
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Todd Duffee
walked into the Octagon for the first time as one of the sport’s
hottest prospects. He walked out a UFC record holder.