1. Kazunori Yokota defeats Mizuto Hirota by Decision [LW GP Semi]
2. Satoru Kitaoka defeats Eiji Mitsuoka by Submission (Heel Hook) in R1. [LW GP Semi]
3. Jorge Masvidal defeats Bang Seung Hwan by Decision. [LW GP Semi-Res]
4. Satoru Kitaoka defeats Kazunori Yokota by Decision.[LW GP Finals]
The Middleweight Grand Prix Fights
1. Jorge Santiago defeats Siyar Bahadurzada by Submission (Heel Hook) in R1. [MW GP Semi]
2. Kazuhiro Nakamura defeats Yuki Sasaki by Decision [MW GP Semi]
3. Joe Doerksen defeats Izuru Takeuchi by TKO (Strikes) in R3. [MW GP Semi-Res]
4. Jorge Santiago defeats Kazuhiro Nakamura by TKO (Punches) in R3. [MW GP Finals]
The Non-Grand Prix Fights
1. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira defeats Moise Rimbon by Decision.
2. “King Mo” Muhammed Lawal defeats Fabio Silva by TKO in R3.
3. Sergey Golyaev defeats Takanori Gomi by Split Decision.
Jorge Santiago is now the Sengoku 2008 middleweight champion. He is presented 50,000 US Dollars for winning the Grand Prix. Satoru Kitaoka is now the Sengoku 2008 lightweight champion.
For The Ultimate Fighter's eighth season, cast member "Diamond" Dave Kaplan is blogging each week for Strikes & Submissions. His take on on the fifth episode: Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about myself, and also the modern-day gladiators and social misfits that make up the cast of TUF 8.
Ohio Athletic Commission Executive Director Bernie Profato vividly remembers his introduction to big-time MMA.
For the first time in the organization's history, the Ultimate Fighting Championship ventured to a major Midwest market. The March 2007 event, UFC 68, featured a title fight between reigning heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia and UFC hall-of-famer Randy Couture.
"When I went to that first UFC event at Nationwide, when I got home after the event, my wife thought something was wrong," Profato said. "She wanted to take me to the doctor. She asked, 'Are you on drugs or something?' It was just such a high, and it felt like it took 10 days to come down from it."
The face of women’s MMA, Gina Carano, was a guest this morning on The Boomer & Carton show on New York City’s all sports station WFAN 660 AM.
The EliteXC superstar and former American Gladiator talked about life as a female fighter, her take on the Kimbo Slice debacle at ‘Heat’, manly knuckles and the verdict
Former PRIDE stand-out Denis Kang (30-10-1) and longtime UFC fighter Marvin Eastman (15-8-1) headline "Raw Combat: Redemption," a solid line-up of talent competing next weekend in Canada.
The event takes place Oct. 25 at the Stampede Corral in Alberta.
For Kang it's an absolute must-win fight to return to the middleweight division's elite.
Today in New York City, Donald Trump and executives from Affliction Entertainment and M-1 Global held a press conference officially announcing the production of a new MMA-related reality show titled “Fighting Fedor”, which will pit 16 heavyweight fighters from around the world against each other for a shot at fighting former PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko.
It will be the first time that Affliction and M-1 have partnered together since co-promoting “Banned on July 19. The concept was originally announced by M-1 Global earlier this year, but very little details were confirmed until this afternoon. Everyone involved, including Vadim Finkelstein, who currently serves as M-1 Global’s active president and Emelianenko’s longtime manager, feels that the project will be nothing short of a success.
“There are many international fighters that [people in] the United States don’t know about,” Finkelstein said at today’s press conference. “They include fighters from different countries and fighters that have very interesting and wonderful styles and are very exciting. We’re now opening the doors [for] the next generation of fighters. We anticipate that this project will be a great success.”
A bout between Olympic wrestling silver medalist Matt Lindland and Renato "Babalu" Sobral are one of a few fresh bouts proposed for Affliction Entertainment’s return engagement
Chris Leben sat in a Clackamas County jail in northwestern Oregon for three weeks and pondered his past, present and future. Arrested on a probation violation related to a previous DUI conviction, Leben forfeited his chance to fight Michael Bisping at UFC 85 in June. As bad career moves go, few could have been worse.
"Cyborg Soldier," former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin's first professional movie gig, was released today on DVD.
The movie, a First Look Pictures sci-fi flick, also features TV star Tiffani Thiessen ("Saved by the Bell" and "Beverly Hill 90210") and Bruce Greenwood ("I, Robot" and "National Treasure: Book of Secrets").
The movie focuses on I.S.A.A.C. (Intuitive Synthetic Autonomous Assault Commando), played by Franklin, who is the first prototype of a confidential "human weapon" program who goes on the run from secret military agents.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has further added to its growing roster of European talent by inking a deal with top U.K. lightweight Abdul Mohamed (16-6-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
Sources close to Mohamed told MMAjunkie.com of the signing on Monday, though terms of the contract were not undisclosed.
Mohamed is expected to make his debut at UFC 93, which takes place Jan. 17 in Dublin, Ireland.
Big John McCarthy has said so long to the Fight Network … and it doesn’t sound like it was on the best of terms.
His farewell post is a heartfelt goodbye to the coworkers he’ll miss (including original President/CEO Mike Garrow, color commentator Mauro Ranallo and radio host/producer John Pollock), as well as...
Longtime mixed martial arts referee John McCarthy has resigned from his post as a commentator and analyst with The Fight Network amongst whisperings that the company is getting ready to collapse and many employees are leaving because of wrongdoings involving the current ownership.
McCarthy announced his departure from the network in a blog post on The Fight Network’s official website this morning. His closing comments to those working above him only emulate the current rumors floated around about the organization, which has seen the likes of Brian Knapp and Loretta Hunt leave their duties on the website in order to join the ranks of Sherdog.com.
“Well this is my farewell from the Fight Network,” McCarthy said in his post. “While I will not miss what has happened or transpired at the company, I am really going to miss some very special people that I have come to know and respect in my short time with them. To all of the higher ups that have taken over The Fight Network over the last year I only have this to say....shame on you.”
Now that the smoke has cleared, the dust has settled and the fallout from EliteXC “Heat” this past Saturday has almost subsided (with the exception of the Petruzelli “bribe” situation) I wanted to take a look back at the hate that has been spewed at one Kimbo Slice. Ever since Saturday night, numerous outlets have taken huge shots at Kimbo Slice, going so far as to call him “the ultimate fraud” to saying that he he simply “sucks” and that he has “no place in MMA.”
The controversy from EliteXC “Heat” has continued to spread as F4WOnline is reporting that Ken Shamrock was also being paid by EliteXC to stand up with Kimbo Slice:For what it’s worth, we heard in the days leading up to the fight that Ken Shamrock was being paid to stand with him as well. It’s a pretty shady way of doing business, and while it’s not outright working the fight it is attempting to give one man an advantage — or a perceived advantage, as did didn’t help Kimbo one goddamn ...
UFC Middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva told the Brazilian cable channel SporTV: “I’ll retire next year, I already gave my all. I don’t need to prove anything for anyone and within one year I’ll put my gloves aside.”
