LAS VEGAS - John Alessio choked out fellow UFC veteran Pete Spratt in
the night's main event, and Kim Couture was on the wrong end of a
unanimous decision in her professional MMA debut, during Friday's "Free
for All, A Night of Combat" event.
The fights took place at
the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV in Las Vegas as part
of a combination boxing/MMA event.
Approximately 18,000 tickets were distributed for the night of free fights. Full Article
6 Number of fights on the card (6) to feature middleweights. It is perceived the UFC middleweight division is lacking, well if these guys put on a good show maybe that perception will become fuzzy...then again, the reason many feel this way is a guy named Anderson Silva...but hey, he’s dabbling in the light heavyweight division now...
When I came across this picture of Jean-Claude Van Damme hugging Fedor Emelianenko on CagePotato's It's BFF Friday!!! post I just could not stop laughing at Van Damme's face expression. There are more pictures there, as well as a video of JCVD hugging Fedor at Yarenokka. FightLinker wrote about that episode as well here......
MixFight.ru posted a photo gallery of the Red Devil team members from 2008 Russian Combat Sambo Championship. There are pictures of Kirill Sidelnikov, who fought in PrideFC and who Fedor speaks very highly of as someone to watch for out of Russia, Dmitrii Samoilenko and Fedor Emelianenko doing a quick seminar between the fights.
I've been wondering for a while now why and how Alessio Sakara has been getting fights in UFC. You just have to question Joe Silva and Dana White's thinking here. With numerous fighters getting cut from UFC due to 1 or 2 bad performances, this guy rides the coat tales of his highly questionable boxing career in Europe and a decision...
Las Vegas, NV (USA) -- In what many are calling the best lightweight matchup of 2008, Kenny "KenFlo" Florian will square off against Roger "El Matador" Huerta in a battle that will move the winner one step closer to a 155-pound title shot. Huerta will take on Florian this summer when the Ultimate Fighting Championship presents UFC 87: SEEK AND DESTROY live from Target Center in Minneapolis Saturday, August 9, 2008.
Look, it's obvious Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson has an audience and he's generated an incredible amount of press, but the street fighter turned marketing bonanza is not Mike Tyson, he's not a champion, he's not much of anything but a green heavyweight with amateur ground skills.
He's also the fighter -- and he is that if nothing else.........
If you’re new to mixed martial arts or the fight game in general, WEC 34 could be the perfect tutorial for those fans getting hardcore into the sport. It not only had some great knockouts and stand up striking wars, but also some of the better grappling and technical battles that we’ve seen stacked on one MMA card. For being the .......
A night after numerous fights on CBS were stopped in a hurry, there wasn't much stopping at all at WEC 34 from Sacramento's ARCO arena. To simply say the night was long is an understatement, but...the night was long.
30 Donald Cerrone was by far the fastest man of the night, when at only (0:30) of round one he submitted Danny Castillo with an armbar. The victory by Cerrone was umm-uh, not surprising.....
Markham, ON, Canada – Round 5, manufacturer of North America’s first official MMA collectable figures, announced the line up for Series 2 of their Champions Line at a UFC celebrity studded launch event in Toronto, Canada. The event took place in the home town of Round 5’s head office and was sponsored by Yahoo! Canada , featuring guest appearances by UFC Heavyweight Champion, Randy “The Natural” Couture, and Former Lightweight Champion Sean “The Muscle Shark” Sherk, and hosted by marketing firm Pressure Creative + Design. Full Article
Michael Rome over at BloodyElbow.com has a piece rounding up all the quotes that have been blurbed by various people involved on EliteXC and the commission's end of the Young vs. Carano fight as well as some quotes from Young herself. Head over to BloodyElbow for the complete lowdown on the quotes, but I'll summarize.
Kaitlin stated that she never had an open wound, and that Dr. Sherry Wulkan cleared her to fight......
