The Ultimate Fighting Championship launched a needed go-home push for UFC 104 “Machida vs. Shogun” this Saturday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles -- its first show in California in more than two years. ... Read More
UFC castaway Sean Salmon, in his first appearance since his stunning revelation that he threw a match, defeated Yuki Sasaki by unanimous decision at Fight Festival 26 on Saturday at Toolon Kisahalli in Helsinki, Finland ... Read More
The Dream promotion crowned new lightweight and featherweight champions this week, capping an Oct. 6 fight card from Yokohama that drew passionate crowd response and encouraging television ratings. ... Read More
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Carlton Haselrig, a former Pro Bowl offensive lineman with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was suspended for 150 days by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board after he failed to show up for his Ring of Combat 26 bout with Gian Villante on Friday at the Tropicana Resort and Casino. ... Read More
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Ron Kruck speaks with Salmon and Bernie Profato from the Ohio Athletic Commission about Salmon's recent on-line column-
Friday, September 11 at 9:00 p.m. ET ... Read More
Lost in the noise of reaction to Sean Salmon’s MMAJunkie.com essay last week -- one in which the fighter claimed he deliberately “put [an] arm back in” the grip of Allan Weickert to escape without injury in a June 6 bout -- is the man who may be more affected by the admission than anyone: Weickert himself.
The Ohio native has become a peripheral character in Salmon’s current melodrama, which includes the Ohio State Athletic Commission calling for a hearing on the matter October 14 and the New Jersey Commission forbidding Salmon from his planned competition in the state on September 11. (His replacement? Weickert himself.)
Weickert spoke to Sherdog/ESPN.com Monday afternoon about a victory that will forever be attached to an asterisk. ... Read More
Following a submission defeat to unheralded Allan Weickert June 3 in Ohio, Sean Salmon wrote an essay for MMAJunkie.com that contained language most fans considered profane: namely, that he allowed Weickert to win.
“In the second round, I took him down again,” described Salmon. “He went for an armbar, I defended it (only to prove to myself that he couldn't get it), and then I put my arm back in to give him the win so that I could return to England, healthy.”
Former UFC freelancer Sean Salmon, best known for his startling resemblance to John McCarthy and a KO loss to Rashad Evans that will play in clip reels indefinitely, authored a column for MMAJunkie this week destined to stir trouble: fighting Allan Weickert this past June, Salmon wrote that he purposely “put an arm back in” a submission trap so he could get the fight over with and return to England healthy. (Naturally, everyone wants to return to England healthy: maintaining it where butter and gravy are the two main food groups is another story.)
Salmon said that he was warned by Wolfslair, his training camp, not to return if he got damaged in the fight. To Salmon, that was somehow code for “throw your combat morality out the window.” The whole thing makes roughly as much sense as Ashton Kutcher’s career, but there it is. ... Read More
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