A month full of MMA is already stirring movement in Sherdog’s rankings. Check out the latest update as we move into the second half of a very busy November. ... Read More
While UFC 104 was marked by main event controversy, up-and-comer Cain Velasquez left little doubt about his status as an elite heavyweight prospect. ... Read More
The Weekly Wrap walks readers through the last seven days in MMA, recapping and putting into context the week's top story, important news and notable quotes. ... Read More
This update is exclusively on the slighter end of the scale. The marquee matchups of early October have come strictly at lightweight and below. Dream 11 on Oct. 6 saw Shinya Aoki finally capture Dream’s lightweight title, as he won the rubber match in his trilogy against his Norwegian nemesis Joachim Hansen. ... Read More
The UFC’s global business model, while surely complex, appears to be taking some of its cues from Wal-Mart and Starbucks: plop your brand down in any far-flung corner of the world and ignore the disgruntlement of the natives. They’ll get used to it.
Following a wild and woolly weekend of MMA, I was back on the Sherdog Radio Network Tuesday with the usual formula of listener-led discussion and commentary.
All things Cerrone-Henderson were on the slate: my scoring, FightMetric's statistical assessment of the fight, the criteria of the Unified Rules, and in-depth discussion of the fundamental "value" of a submission in the scoring of an MMA bout.
Cerrone-Henderson aside, topics du jour included the recently announced fights for Takanori Gomi and Jorge Santiago, the slated Yoshihiro Akiyama-Wanderlei Silva bout, athletic commission bureaucracy, the postponement of the WEC flyweight division, The Simpsons and even a little War Machine. ... Read More
TOKYO -- In chronicling the UFC’s measured march into the seemingly impervious Japanese market, I find myself getting a chance to write about two subjects I normally keep separate: video games and mixed martial arts.
“UFC 2009 Undisputed” game developer Yukes and publisher THQ officially introduced the Japanese version of the game on Tuesday, ahead of its scheduled Oct. 15 release date. Meanwhile, Japanese premium cable provider WOWOW announced the premiere of the Japanese-dubbed “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 9, which featured fighters from the United States and the United Kingdom.
Though I’m used to seeing most of the same faces from the Japanese fight media whenever I cover events or pressers, this double-billed presser brought out a great many people in suits that I’d never seen before. One of my reporter friends here, Shu Inagaki -- who coincidentally does commentary for the Japanese UFC broadcasts and is a script supervisor on the redubbing of TUF for Japanese television -- mentioned to me that the collected suits were people from the local video game industry and press. It was surprising to me, given how they outnumbered the usual suspects in local fight reporting. ... Read More
TOKYO -- Yoshihiro Akiyama announced Tuesday that he will be facing Wanderlei Silva next in a middleweight bout at UFC 110 on Feb. 6 in Las Vegas or at UFC 111, which is rumored to mark the promotion’s debut in Sydney, Australia, in late February. ... Read More
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