During a press conference held yesterday in Japan Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic announced that he has left the UFC and has signed with the upstart DREAM organization.
The promotion is a joint effort between FEG, the company behind K-1 and HERO’S, and former PRIDE executives.
Following four-straight wins in PRIDE, including victories over Wanderlei Silva and Josh [...]
Carlos Condit def. Carlo Prater via submission - Round 1, 3:48
Jamie Varner def. Rob McCullough via TKO - Round 3, 2:54
Miguel Torres def. Chase Beebe via submission - Round 1, 3:59
Manny Tapia def. Antonio Banuelos via split decision
Leonard Garcia def. Hiroyuki Takaya via TKO - Round 1, 1:31
Josh Grispi def. Mark Hominick via submission - [...]
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Ricco Rodriguez will fight highly-touted heavyweight Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva at EliteXC’s “Street Certified” event on February 16th in Miami.
Rodriguez (27-7 MMA, 5-2 UFC) fought in the UFC from 2001 through 2003. After wins over Andrei Arlovski, Pete Williams, Jeff Monson, and Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Rodriguez defeated Randy Couture to win the [...]
The WCO (World Cagefighting Organization) event which was supposed to be taking place earlier this evening has officially been canceled.
According to Sherdog’s Josh Gross the “Valor” backed promotion, which attempted to garner attention by slating names like Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Ricco Rodriguez, Vernon White, Joe Riggs and Mark Kerr, apparently had insufficient funds to pay [...]
For those who primarily follow UFC mixed martial arts, tonight is a great opportunity to get acquainted with the WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting) which will be airing WEC 31 live and free of charge starting at 9pm ET on the Versus channel. The card for tonight’s show looks pretty sick and will be featuring [...]
The electricity was at an all time high inside Boardwalk Hall Saturday night, as everyone from die hard MMA fans, friends and family of fighters, members of the armed forces, and one UFC lightweight Champion gathered to witness BattleCage Extreme III on an unusually warm October evening.
The night started off at a reasonable pace with [...]
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HDNet taking it slow in the MMA [...]
It’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees in the information age. So I thought I’d take a quick look at the big picture, where the industry was last year, where it is this year, and where it looks like its heading next year:
2006 - GROWTH - UFC buyrates triple; EliteXC, IFL, [...]
Today Mark Cuban announced his own MMA promotion which will air on HDNet appropriately titled “HDNet Fights”. The promotion’s first event will take place Saturday, October 13th in Dallas.
The event will be headlined by a main event bout between Eric Paulson and Jeff Ford. The 10 fight card also includes UFC veterans Sean Salmon, Pete [...]
Mark Cuban, the latest entrant in the chase to sign Fedor Emelianenko, has hired former UFC champion Guy Mezger to head up his MMA project:
Cuban has hired MMA veteran Guy Mezger to run the day-to-day operations of his MMA project, and will rely on Mezger to handle tasks such as talent evaluation.
“We have already [...]
