Sherdog Technique of the Week: 'S.E.S'
Innovative Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Javier Vazquez is back
once again with his side-mount escape series. Watch the former King
of the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Massachusetts has become the 42nd state in the
country to bring regulated mixed martial arts (MMA) competitions,
including...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva has signed a
sponsorship deal with Silver Star Casting Company for a clothing...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- M-1 Global and Strikeforce announced today that
the international audience reports from broadcasters all over the
world...
By: Jake Rossen
Years before the UFC and mixed martial arts learned to walk erect
in polite society, judges were considered useless.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tuff-N-Uff raised its own game on Friday,
November 27th, 2009 by matching the best talent amateur MMA has to
offer.
This week, readers weigh-in on the Lyoto
Machida-Mauricio
“Shogun” Rua rematch and fight rewinds on the UFC
106 pay-per-view.
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...
By: Jack Encarnacao
From the pre-fight histrionics to the post-fight verbiage, Tito Ortiz made
sure his first fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship after an...
Sherdog.com's Stephen Albanese recently witnessed a Strikeforce
Challenger Series show in Fresno from a perspective that differs
from the norm in mixed martial arts photography. Slideshow
» |...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Shark Fight 7 features a total of eight action
packed bouts, including the organizations first light heavyweight
title fight.
By: Brian Knapp and David S. Holloway
When the room went dark, Charlie
Brenneman thought his career was over.
Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the JCB Hall in Tokyo to
photograph Shooto: Revolutionary Exchanges 3. The card featured the
return of Pride veteran...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Xtreme Fighting Organization, one of the
most respected MMA promotions in existence, is bringing one of the
biggest fight...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- With less than three weeks to go until the
biggest event in the region’s history, Wreck MMA has announced a
couple changes...
By: Greg Savage
Urijah
Faber will return to the cage to take on Raphael
Assuncao at WEC
46 Jan. 10 but he still has his sights on regaining his
featherweight title.
By: Greg Savage
Former Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le is set
to face Scott Smith
Dec. 19 in San Jose, Calif., and while most fans expect him to...
By: Jason Probst
With its present lineup of five champions, the UFC has a group that
ranks far superior than any of its predecessors in the history of
the organization and the sport. In addition, they rank higher in
their...
By: Loretta Hunt
Roger
Huerta is back on the market. The UFC lightweight has entered
into the matching period of his recently completed contract with
the...
Forrest
Griffin outpointed Tito Ortiz on
two of the judges’ scorecards to take a split-decision win at
UFC
106.
Dave Mandel was cageside at The Palms in Las Vegas to photograph
the 44th edition of World Extreme Cagefighting for Sherdog.com.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Newly-crowned World Extreme Cagefighting®
featherweight champion Jose Aldo had dreamed of winning a world
title since he was...
Sherdog Technique of the Week: 'Head of the Snake'
Innovative Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Javier Vazquez is back
with another setup for the devastating triangle choke. Watch the
former King of...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Kimbo Slice, the wildly popular mixed martial
arts heavyweight and member of the cast of “The Ultimate Fighter:...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- MMA Big Show, one of the fastest-growing fight
promotions in the United States, will present “ONSLAUGHT” this
Saturday,...
By: Tim Leidecker
No one can argue that UFC
106 was not badly hurt by the cancellation of the heavyweight
showdown between Brock
Lesnar and Shane
Carwin.
By: Greg Savage
Antonio
Rogerio Nogueira discussed his knockout of Luis Arthur
Cane Saturday night at UFC
106 with Sherdog.com.
By: Jack Encarnacao
It was a banner night for Great Britain on Nov. 14 as the Ultimate
Fighting Championship staged UFC
105 in front of its biggest U.K. crowd to date.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- In an explosive performance, top welterweight
(170 pounds) prospect Tyron “T-Wood” Woodley extended his perfect
record...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Check out "GENESIS Fights & West Coast Fight
Team Presents: "Season's Beatings" Dec. 12th, 2009" on AMC
Kickboxing and...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tuff-N-Uff presents “The Future Stars of MMA!”
on Friday, November 27th at 7:00 pm in the Mardi Gras Ballroom of
the...
By: Dave Mandel
All fighters competing on Saturday’s UFC
106 card in Las Vegas successfully made weight on Friday
afternoon. »
Report »
Pictures » Video
The time has come to turn our attention to the undercard at
UFC 106 “Ortiz vs. Griffin 2” this Saturday at the Mandalay Bay
Events Center in...
By: Mike Sloan
For a fight that was not supposed to rest atop the marquee, the
rematch between former light heavyweight champions Tito Ortiz and
Forrest
Griffin at...
By: Jake Rossen
Tito
Ortiz has not won a fight in three years, has not held the
light heavyweight title in more than six and has not competed since
May 2008.
Tito
Ortiz and Forrest
Griffin squared off and addressed the press on Thursday in Las
Vegas, where the light heavyweights will do battle at UFC
106.
Dave Mandel was cageside in Las Vegas to photograph Jose Aldo’s
destruction of Mike Thomas
Brown at WEC 44.
Stephen Albanese photographed Kerry Vera as
she trained to face Kim Couture
at
Strikeforce Challengers 5. Slideshow
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St. Judes Childrens Research
Travis Lutter and Keith Florian are coming in to support a Cancer
Event, and as a way to raise money, they are holding seminars at
one of each...
By: Scott Holmes
We begin this week with Coach Rashad
Evans and Matt
Mitrione having a little powwow over the physical fallout from
Mitrione’s fight last week.
A recent frenzy of Zuffa-sponsored shows reaches its climax this
Saturday, as UFC
106 “Ortiz vs. Griffin 2” features some of the best pure...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- A tradition will continue with a new twist as
the NAAFS presents Caged Fury 8 in East Liverpool, OH on Wednesday
November...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The first ever UFC card on Spike TV featuring
Randy “The Natural” Couture drew an average audience of 2.9 million
viewers...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- A little more than eight months since undergoing
knee surgery, UFC lightweight prospect Joe “J-Lau” Lauzon (18-4, 5
KOs,...
World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight champion Mike Thomas
Brown and top contender Jose Aldo
shook hands in a mutual show of respect as they met face-to-face
one last time before it counts. »
Weigh-in Report »...
Dave Mandel photographed WEC featherweight champion Mike Thomas
Brown as he prepped to face Jose Aldo at
WEC
44.
In what marks another potential turning point for World Extreme
Cagefighting, incumbent featherweight champion Mike Thomas
Brown looks to cement...
Stephen Albanese photographed Tito Ortiz
during an open-media training session at Ortiz's secluded cabin
near Big Bear Lake in Southern California. » Slideshow
|...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Extreme Cagefighting® featherweight
champion Mike Brown isn’t one to offer predictions. The quiet
34-year-old from...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Texas based mixed martial arts fight promotion
company, Shark Fight Promotions, has announced that weigh in’s for
the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Extreme Cagefighting® announced today a
multi-year television agreement with Globosat in Brazil. Beginning
with a live...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tachi Palace Fights announced two significant
signings on Monday, November 16 that will help bolster its growing
roster....
(PRESS RELEASE) -- USA Grappling is pleased to announce the 2009
U.S. Grappling World Team, which will compete in the FILA World
Grappling...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Mixed Martial Arts Expo, LLC - The Original MMA
Expo since 2005 - announced the application for the sanctioning of
a Pro-Am...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Fifty of Hawaii’s top young MMA fighters will
look to put each other’s “LIGHTS OUT” this Saturday, November 21st
as...
Sherdog Technique of the Week: ‘Anaconda Choke’
Armored presents: The MMA Technique of the Week with Ricardo
Liborio.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- While the combat sports community is focused on
the likes of Randy Couture, Brandon Vera, Dan Hardy, and Mike Swick
this...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) comes
to Virginia for the first time in its history on Monday, January
11th for...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- “UFC Fight Night” on Spike TV heads to the
suburbs of Washington D.C. on Monday, January 11, 2010 at 9:00pm
ET/PT for...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Ultimate Fighting Championship®(UFC®)
announced today that the bout between former UFC light heavyweight
champion...
Dave Mandel was cageside at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester,
England, to photograph UFC
105.
By: Greg Savage
UFC President Dana White checked in with Sherdog.com after UFC 105,
the company’s biggest European event to date, to discuss the
controversial main event between Randy
Couture and Brandon Vera
as well as...
By: Tim Leidecker
UFC
105 “Couture vs. Vera” was a solid event. First and foremost,
it provided a stage for the company’s U.K. talent, as Englishmen
were...
By: Greg Savage
In this exclusive video, Brandon Vera
discusses his narrow loss and his feelings right after the
controversial decision was read.
By: Greg Savage
British welterweight Dan Hardy
dispatched Mike Swick at
UFC
105 in Manchester, England and, in doing so, earned a shot at
170-pound champion Georges...
Sherdog.com reports from the Manchester Evening News Arena in North
West England with live UFC
105 results and play-by-play. Former UFC heavyweight and
205-pound champion Randy
Couture will take on...
By: Jack Encarnacao
In MMA’s return to network television, Fedor
Emelianenko showed millions of American households what all the
fuss was about.
By: Mike Sloan
When hall of famer Randy
Couture meets Brandon Vera
in the UFC
105 main event this Saturday at the Manchester Evening News
Arena in Manchester,...
Are you so hardcore that a weekend of UFC action isn’t enough to
quench your thirst for MMA? Well, Sherdog.com has you covered with
a free...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Womensgrappling.org is pleased to announce that
the next Women's Grappling Camp will be held from January 25-29,
2010 at Big...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- November 14, 2009 - Phil Davis won the Gold
Medal at the BJJ NO GI World Championships held last Saturday
November 7th,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Silver Star Casting Company has inked a
sponsorship deal with Forrest Griffin who will wear Silver Star
during his walkout at...
His chiseled physique streamlined by yet another move to the light
heavyweight division, UFC hall of famer Randy Couture looked primed
for battle Friday at the...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- On this Friday's "Inside MMA" Kenny Rice and Bas
Rutten are joined by Fabricio Werdum and Jeff Curran who discuss
their...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- USA East’s path to the semi-finals was the most
dramatic, tying 2008 statistical second best Finland in the “Group
C”...
Randy
Couture, Brandon
Vera, Michael
Bisping, Mike Swick and
more worked out for the media Wednesday to promote this weekend's
UFC
105 event.
Dave Mandel photographed Denis Kang as
he prepared to face Michael
Bisping at UFC
105.
UFC
105 main event fighters Randy
Couture and Brandon Vera
addressed the media on Thursday at a pre-fight news conference to
usher in...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- RITC Fights please visit www.rageinthecage.com,
Muay Thai fights website www.badbloodaz.com,, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
&...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- X-1 World Events, Hawaii’s premier fight
promotion, presented “SCUFFLE ON SCHOFIELD II: HOMEBOUND HEROES”
this past...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- It is exactly one month prior to the start of
the 2009 FILA Grappling World Championships, set for the Fort...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Planet Ink Studios and Wreck MMA are proud to
announce a change in the co-main event of Wreck MMA: Fights for the
Troops.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- MCC's Annual show gets bigger and better with 3
title fights, a stacked card from top to bottom, with 13 total
fights. For...
By: Scott Holmes
The quarterfinals have been set going into this week’s episode of
“The Ultimate Fighter 10” and that has Coach Rashad
Evans thinking about...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Philadelphia, PA-MMA promoter Tara Galvin of
Extreme Force Productions teams up with established
fighter/promoter Fran...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Spike TV will telecast live undercard bouts from
UFC 106 on Saturday, November 21 at 9:00pm ET/PT from the Mandalay
Bay...
Mixed martial arts on free television serves as the universal
dinner bell for anyone who enjoys well-regulated violence, and this
Saturday on Spike TV,...
The time has come to build up a strong arsenal of excuses to cancel
your weekend plans. All that matters come Saturday is UFC
105 “Couture vs....
By: Loretta Hunt
How do you fight an opponent you have great respect for? Brandon Vera
will tackle that added challenge when he faces Randy
Couture at UFC
105
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Although tickets to the Randy
Couture exclusive UK book release/signing event have sold out
within 10 days of going on sale,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Twenty-four of Las Vegas’s top mixed martial
arts amateur fighters will clash in seven weight divisions at
7p.m.,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Featuring Lake Area BJJ fighter Paul Soileau as
he takes on Gladiator's Albert Stainback. Also featuring the main
event of...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- – Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is a heavyweight
legend looking to climb to the top of the mountain one more time
following his...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Full Broadcast Averages 4.04 Million Viewers,
Winning its Time Period in Adults 18-34 and Men 18-34 and
Significantly...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- FightZone TV enters their fourth year of
broadcasting the best of MMA events from around the country and UK
with the premier...
Sherdog.com is pleased to offer a free live stream of Nov. 14’s
Called Out MMA 2 card.
Stephen Albanese photographed Brandon Vera
in his own element as he sharpened his game in preparation to face
UFC hall of famer Randy
Couture at UFC
105 in Manchester, England. Slideshow
» |...
Mamed
Khalidov stopped Jorge
Santiago with punches at Sengoku “Eleventh Battle.” Daniel
Herbertson was ringside at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in...
By: Tim Leidecker
The favorites prevailed, but light heavyweight champion Gegard
Mousasi, newly minted middleweight titleholder Jake Shields
and pound-for-pound...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- On November 14, UFC veteran and world jiu-jitsu
champion Alberto Crane is scheduled to fight fellow world class
jiu-jitsu...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Mixed Martial Arts Expo - the original MMA Expo
since 2005 - announced today the addition of a 2.5 day seminar for
MMA...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Charles Jebara, President of Tokyo Five
announced earlier today that,“Tokyo Five will show its support for
Andre and Ross...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- – With the return of UFC® superstar Tito Ortiz
engaged in a rematch with former UFC light heavyweight champion
Forrest...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The stakes will be high when STRIKEFORCE closes
out a spectacular 2009 with the return of one of the most prolific
and exciting fighters in Mixed Martial Arts - unbeaten former...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Roger Hollett showed he is on his way back to
the form that made him the MFC light heavyweight champion with an
impressive...
Fedor
Emelianenko outgunned the previously undefeated Brett
Rogers at Strikeforce and M-1 Global’s “Fedor vs. Rogers.”
Sherdog Technique of the Week: ‘The Chiropractor’
The rear-naked choke is the platinum standard among submissions,
because it is so hard to defend once it is correctly applied. While
the choke is a...
Sherdog.com reported from Sears Centre Arena near Chicago with live
play-by-play and results of Strikeforce and M-1 Global’s “Fedor vs.
Rogers.”
By: Loretta Hunt
Four contenders were whittled down to two Saturday at
Strikeforce/M-1 Global “Fedor vs. Rogers,” though questions
still remain surrounding...
By: Loretta Hunt
Jake
Shields has his eyes on two prizes. Strikeforce's newly minted
middleweight champion would like to add the welterweight title to
his...
By: Kris Hartrum
TOKYO -- EliteXC veteran Mamed
Khalidov stopped middleweight champion Jorge
Santiago on first-round strikes in a non-title bout at Sengoku...
Fedor
Emelianenko and Brett
Rogers took to the scale on Friday to make official Saturday’s
Strikeforce and M-1 Global “Fedor vs. Rogers.”
By: Joseph Zigler
FRESNO, Calif. -- Billy
Evangelista defeated UFC veteran Jorge Gurgel
by unanimous decision Friday in the Strikeforce “Challengers Series
4”...
By: Jack Encarnacao
It has been more than a year since mixed martial arts was showcased
on network television in primetime.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Can champion Mike Brown successfully defend the
World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight title for a third
consecutive time...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- HDNet will broadcast exclusive LIVE coverage of
"HDNet Fights Presents: World Victory Road - Sengoku 11," from
Tokyo,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- As a preview to MMA’s return to broadcast
television on CBS this Saturday, Nov. 7 with STRIKEFORCE/M-1
GLOBAL: FEDOR VS....
Strikeforce and M-1 Global held a news conference Thursday to
address the press as Fedor
Emelianenko and Brett
Rogers stood face-to-face in...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- HDNet will broadcast exclusive LIVE coverage of
"HDNet Fights Presents: World Victory Road - Sengoku 11," early
Saturday...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tonight’s 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards just
added a little more punch, as UFC® heavyweight contender Cain
Velasquez...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Texas based mixed martial arts fight promotion
company, Shark Fight Promotions, announced today that local fan
favorite...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Grapplers Quest, “The World’s Largest Grappling
Competition,” has selected The Texas Station Gambling Hall and
Hotel in...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Legendary Nicaraguan boxing great, Ricardo
Mayorga has his sights set on being a mixed martial artist and is
the latest...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Shea Bailey Promotions Inc. and KO Kings
Promotions is proud to present its first installment of "Atlanta's
Fight Night" for...
By: Mike Sloan
Fedor
Emelianenko, the man most agree is the world’s best
heavyweight, returns to action Saturday in Hoffman Estates, Ill.,
against the less experienced but still dangerous...
Strikeforce and M-1 Global put their heavy hitters on display for
an open workout to promote the CBS-televised “Fedor vs. Rogers”
card.
By: Scott Holmes
If you’ve been following “The
Ultimate Fighter” this season you’ve most certainly been asking
yourself two things.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- “Relentless” Roger Bowling, the undefeated MMA
Big Show Welterweight kingpin, has signed a contract with San
Jose-based...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- RITC Fights please visit the new Muay Thai
fights website www.badbloodaz.com, www.rageinthecage.com,...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- HDNet's "Inside MMA" will provide LIVE,
exclusive coverage of the weigh-ins for "STRIKEFORCE: Fedor vs.
Rogers," Friday,...
Strikeforce/M-1 Global “Fedor vs. Rogers” will stare down the
UFC and draw its line in the sand this Saturday, as heavyweight
kingpin Fedor...
By: Sherdog.com Staff
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Hector Lombard headlined the first Cage Fighting
Championship show on 28 July 2007, where he fought top Australian
fighter...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Paradise Warrior Retreat (PWR) is proud to
announce that Showtime and ESPN Sportscaster Jenn Brown will be the
special guest...
By: Lutfi Sariahmed
MMA's master of mayhem, Jason Miller
is probably better known in the United States for his work on MTV’s
“Bully Beatdown” than for his...
Dave Mandel photographed Long Beach Fight Night 6 at Hall of
Champions Gym in Long Beach, Calif.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Main Event features two local, MMA super
stars! UFC Veteran Josh “The Peoples Warrior” Burkman will face
Ultimate...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Jason “Mayhem” Miller has already shown the
world that he’s no fan of bullies. Now, the host of MTV’s smash-hit...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tokyo Five Jeans are proud to announce that they
will sponsor TUF 9 Finalists Andre Winner and Ross Pearson for UFC
105 in...
The Sengoku period in Japanese history was marked by social
evolution, political drama straight out of “The West Wing” and more
military...
Takanori
Gomi, Takeshi
Inoue and Rumina Sato
scored impressive victories at Vale Tudo Japan 2009.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- World Extreme Cagefighting® announced today that
the long-awaited lightweight title unification bout between
reigning champion Jamie Varner
and interim champion...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- A rivalry has been brewing in the bantamweight
division for many years in Central California and on December 3 it
will finally boil over, as Porterville, Calif.’s Shawn
Klarcyk and...
By: Jake Rossen
Even at its weakest, network television is still the circulatory
system for most entertainment: It’s familiar, it’s accessible and
it...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- LIVE Ultimate Fighting Event
Friday the 13th of November, 7:30 PM
Lake Charles Civic Center
Lake Charles, LA...
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Mixed Martial Arts Expo - The Original MMA Expo
since 2005 - announced today the first round of MMA celebrities
confirmed...
This week, readers weigh-in on the Lyoto
Machida-Mauricio Rua
decision at UFC
104 and how MMA stacks up with the NFL in athlete safety.
Stephen Albanese photographed Dan Hardy in
his own element as he sharpened his game at True Warrior Fitness in
Southern California. | Slideshow
» |...
Daniel Herbertson was ringside at the Shinjuku Face in Tokyo to
photograph Shooto "GIG Tokyo 3."
Sherdog.com was spread across the globe to capture the week in
mixed martial arts through the art of photography.