Posted on 22 February 2012
The Nick Diaz saga continues, last month following his unsuccessful bid to become the UFC interim welterweight champion, losing to Greg Jackson product Carlos Condit. Several days later the news broke that Diaz had tested positive for marijuana use for the second time in his career, the first time came in 2007 following his submission [...]
Posted on 22 February 2012
This past Tuesday on FUEL TV the debut of “Countdown to UFC 144″ aired. The show is the lead up to this Saturday’s giant UFC 144 event, which features Frankie Edgar vs. Ben Henderson in the main event, followed by Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Ryan Bader in the co-main event. The countdown show also featured [...]
Posted on 22 February 2012
With the much anticipated match-up between Alistair Overeem and heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos on the horizon, FUEL TV has brought us Overeem’s first dance in the cage.
Posted on 22 February 2012
The UFC is holding their official pre-fight press conference today (Feb.22) for UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson in Saitama, Japan. Expected to be in attendance are UFC President Dana White along with main card fighters Frankie Edgar, Ben Henderson, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Ryan Bader, Yoshihiro Akiyama and Jake Shields. The press conference is expected to begin [...]
Posted on 22 February 2012
UFC officials announced today that verbal agreements were in place for a welterweight bout between Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy and Duane “Bang” Ludwig. The bout is set to go down at UFC 146 in May. Hardy is currently riding a four fight losing streak, which to most would have sent them packing, but UFC officials love [...]
Posted on 22 February 2012
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia has been taking to the internet and social media in attempt to rejoin the promotion. Sylvia has posted a couple of videos on the MMA website The Underground, as well as taking to Twitter to plead his case. The crux of Sylvia’s argument for another run under the [...]
Posted on 21 February 2012
Former UFC middleweight title-challenger Nate Marquardt is once again swimming in Zuffa waters, just not in the UFC. Marquardt, a longtime top-ranked middleweight got released from the UFC last June when he pissed hot for the second time in his octagon career. UFC figurehead Dana White wasted no time in letting him go from the [...]
Tags: Nate Marquardt, nick Diaz, Strikeforce, tyron woodley, ufc tonight
Posted on 21 February 2012
This Saturday evening here in North America (Sunday morning in Japan) the UFC heads back to the land of the rising sun for UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson. The main PPV piece of the card is a whopping 7 fights which will will last 4hrs. The second fight on the main card is a featherweight [...]
Posted on 21 February 2012
For a decade, Japan became the business center of mixed martial arts; this all began in 1997 with the inception of Pride Fighting Championships — Pride was the brain-child of Xavier Cullars who proposed to arrange a shoot-fight between Rickson Gracie and the leader of the UWF-International (UWF-i) boom Nobuhiko Takada. Takada was a sixteen-year [...]
Tags: history of mma in japan, Mezger, Rutten, Sakurai, Shamrock, Yvel
Posted on 21 February 2012
Las Vegas, Nevada - Former unified UFC & PRIDE light heavyweight champion ‘Rampage’ Jackson is pumped to finally be fighting again in Japan – where he made his legend – after an absence of exactly six years. Jackson last fought in the Land of the Rising Sun in February 2006, defeating elite judo competitor Yoon Dong-Sik [...]