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Somewhere, Mark Pavelich is having the last laugh on Mr. Fickett. Share This

Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) reports that Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto had successful knee surgery on Monday. According to the report, two doctors examined Yamamoto’s knee and found out that he had a complete ligament tear as opposed to a partial tear. Therefore, surgery was required for healing. Yamamoto will not be available to [...]

Celebrity Mixed Martial Arts fighters Cung Le, Josh “the Punk” Thomson and the American Kickboxing Academy receive achievement award for their work with Kristine Crawford and For Pits’ Sake, Inc. to combat dog fighting. Los Gatos, CA (PRWEB) August 4, 2008 – The unique structure and impact of For Pits’ Sake, Inc.’s “Knock Out Dog Fighting” [...]

If you can catch a replay of the WEC 35 show on Versus, do so. Get a DVD of the show if you have to. Share This

Rick Morrissey in The Chicago Tribune: Watching two guys breathing on each other for a minute or more while they try to extricate themselves from a tangle of arms and legs on the ground leaves me frustrated. Share This

This, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. What makes this report so strange is that no one from Affliction has contacted the media about this fight being booked at all. Read what the LBPT article says: Affliction announced over the weekend that its next show will feature a showdown of two of the [...]

From a statement released on Saturday: -Straight from the mouths of my friends Tom Attencio and Todd Beard; No one is being asked to take a pay cut. They would never ask anyone to take a pay cut and don’t intend to. Tom was only referring to any fighters that may have been thinking that they [...]

Give Zuffa credit — they have done an excellent job in heating up press coverage for tonight’s WEC event on Versus. The New York Times: 30 seconds with Brock Lesnar New York Newsday: In legalization fight, MMA has champ in corner with Melvina Lathan Charles Jay (MMA Memories): MMA adversary removed from NYSAC [...]

Let’s start here with this story at The Daily Pilot… Share This

We interviewed him on Wednesday night. We asked him about a report from Dave Meltzer, claiming that Affliction VP Tom Atencio would allegedly ask fighters to take a 50% pay cut to work the Las Vegas show in October. Barnett replied by saying that he was not going to take a pay cut [...]

Expanding upon comments he made to us in our interview with him last week, Elite XC’s Jeremy Lappen was interviewed by Michael David Smith and asked about what the future direction of the company is. In short, Mr. Lappen believes that the company is on the right track: Yeah, I think we’re doing very well as far [...]

Poll of the day: NBC Sports currently has a poll with the following question: After watching Fedor Emelianenko crush Tim Sylvia in spectacular fashion, which fighter do you think is most capable of beating him? Randy Couture was first with 47%, no one second at 27%, Andrei Arlovski third with 14%, Mirko Cro Cop fourth with 5.8%, [...]

From the desk of the CSAC: Jeremy Freitag - $2,500 Anthony Ruiz - $2,001 + $3,000 win bonus Shayna Baszler - $8,000 Cristiane Cyborg - $3,000 + $3,000 win bonus Jake Shields - $35,000 + $10,000 win bonus Nick Thompson - $25,000 Nick Diaz - $60,000 Thomas Denny - $8,500 David Douglas - $2,500 + $1,500 win bonus Marlon Mathias - $2,500 Brandon Tarn - $2,000 Drew [...]

I don’t know too many details about his new school, but the school is set to have its grand opening in August. The location is: Florian Martial Arts Center 6 Webster Street Brookline, MA. 02446-4938 Share This

He reportedly tested positive for the pain killers methadone and oxymorphone. Update: The CSAC just announced that Justin Levens, who fought on the Affliction 7/19 show, failed a drug test for… testing positive for Oxymorphone. Justin Levens, who was scheduled to compete at the Roy Englebrecht Promotions event sponsored by Affliction on July 19, 2008, [...]

This Sunday on Versus. WEC Welterweight Title match: Carlos Condit vs. Hiromitsu Miura WEC Light Heavyweight Title match: Brian Stann vs. Steve Cantwell WEC Lightweight Title match: Jamie Varner vs. Marcus Hicks Micah Miller vs. Josh Grispi Brian Bowles vs. Damacio Page Brock Larson vs. Carlo Prater Bias Avena vs. Dave Terrel Shane Roller vs. Todd Moore L.C. Davis vs. Hiroyuki Takaya Scott [...]

July 30th, 10 PM on Versus channel. Here is a podcast show talking about the upcoming season. Share This

Any time you have headlines screaming ‘Pro fighters tasered, beaten in hotel room’, obviously your eyebrows raise up a little bit. One person is currently in a coma. Keep up-to-date on story developments at TKO Xtreme. Steve Cofield has stirred things up by reporting on Affliction wanting to book Tito Ortiz vs. Renato Babalu [...]

Ratings down 40% for second EXC on CBS show. I don’t think anyone is surprised. Share This

Written by Mark Davies of StrictlyMMA.com The UFC is threatened in a way that it rarely has been. Affliction is a credible challenger, with discernible advantages in several areas. The deep-pocketed rival, and the mainstream attention it is getting, presents a challenge that even the late, lamented, PRIDE Fighting Championships never did. Affliction, Elite XC, the [...]