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That was the question asked today by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon on ESPN. The fact is, amongst the various American sportswriters (for better or for worse), Kimbo Slice is the symbol of MMA. Both Kornheiser and Wilbon called MMA “savagery” on TV. Audio here. Share This

Press release Los Angeles, February 26, 2008 – Today YAMMA Pit Fighting (YPF), a new mixed martial arts (MMA) organization created by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) founder Bob Meyrowitz, announced that their first matchup will pit Russia vs. U.S.A, as Oleg “The Russian Bear” Taktarov and Don “The Predator” Frye will go toe-to-toe in the organization’s [...]

The brand new web site for the DREAM promotion is DreamOfficial.com. The DREAM web site is basically a modified format from the old DSE web site for PRIDE. The domain name for the web site was registered on behalf of the promotion’s backers by Network Solutions. Card line-up for 3/15 Saitama Super [...]

Jan “The Giant” Nortje makes quick work of Bob Sapp For those of you in the Reno area, supposedly there is going to be an MMA event at the Grand Sierra Resort on April 5th. The promoter is High Roller Productions. Anyone have details on this show? Share This

Guest column by MMA Weekly South Korea correspondent John Evans If you are looking for legitimate MMA news, skip ahead now, because this article is primarily about tall, thin, hot women, promotion marketing, and me. Share This

Guest preview written by Adam Underhill Only thirteen days away on Saturday March 8th 2008, in conjunction with the Los Angeles-based entertainment and media brand ProElite Inc, British promoters Andy Geer and Dave O’Donnell present to the mixed martial arts world Cage Rage 25: ‘Bring It On!’ from the Wembley Arena in London, England. An interesting [...]

The Japanese press calls him “nise Hong-Man,” but his real name is Masayuki Okude and he won his main event fight today on the ZST 16 show in Tokyo at Shinjuku FACE. The swooning is already commencing. Share This

Kimbo Slice proved to be a huge success at the box office and for Showtime’s television ratings. What exactly is driving the Kimbo phenomenon? Is race as big of a factor as it is being made out to be by certain individuals in the MMA community? Court is back in session this week with [...]

Chuck Liddell’s book, Iceman, has slipped to #16 on the NYT Best-Sellers list, but it is the third week in a row that the book has made it onto the list. The Fightworks Podcast: Interview with Robert Drysdale Fightlinker: Who’s the Yoko Ono of MMA? Kim Couture? Steve Cofield: UFC needs to voice stance [...]

Jan “The Giant” Nortje just about finished Bob Sapp’s fighting career tonight. Sapp reportedly was scheduled to fight for the DREAM debut event on 3/15 at Saitama Super Arena. K-1 and DSE cannot be happy about this outcome. I’m starting to regret the fact that I brought up a possible analogy between Bob Sapp and Kimbo [...]

As it reportedly stands: CT scan - negative MRI - negative MRA (angiography) - showed some slight hemorrhaging of blood on the right side of his brain due to cumulative head trauma over many years of wrestling matches The good news is that doctors don’t think Nagata will need surgery, but it’s unknown when he’ll come back to pro-wrestling. Share [...]

Another possible UFC lawsuit? According to our friends at Pro Fight Store, there’s discussion that Zuffa may file a lawsuit against Croatian fighter Goran Reljic. The reason? He participated recently at the BJJ Bristol Open. Reljic won both the heavyweight and absolute divisions. Update: In the comments section, claims that the rumor is false. One [...]

So there was a press release on Thursday announcing that Yahoo will stream UFC PPvs online for $44.95 USD/show. (Good luck with that, boys.) Naturally, UFC pushed this deal hard on their conference call. Reaction to the news has been mixed. Fightlinker is cautiously optimistic, while Luke Thomas is sounding the [...]

It will air on Tokyo Broadcasting System on the same day (3/15) from 7:00-8:54 PM JST. The event takes place at Saitama Super Arena and is the start of the 2008 Lightweight GP tournament (start time is 3 PM JST). Share This

Special guest opinion/editorial by Leland Roling of MMA-Analyst.com One of the bigger stories so far this year has been the emergence of two scandals that have earned the attention of hardcore fans and the MMA community as a whole. The purchase of PRIDE from Dream Stage Entertainment in the early part of last year sent waves [...]

In a round-about way, that’s the question Mauro Ranallo and Bryan Alvarez discussed today in regards to marketing in MMA (audio here). Speaking of marketing, I made an appearance on MMA Predictions radio a few days ago to talk about the possibility of WWE buying UFC and how WWE would market MMA differently than Zuffa currently [...]

Chuck Liddell’s new book, Iceman, is listed #9 this week on The New York Times Best-Seller’s list for hardcover nonfiction books. This is the second week that Liddell’s book has made the list at #9. Pro Fight Store sent us two links regarding a possible M-1 event happening soon in France (links here and here). MMA [...]

Announced today: #1 contender’s match (Featherweights): Miki Shida vs. Marlon Sandro (Nova Uniao) Middleweights: Izuru Takeuchi vs. Hiromitsu Kanehara Middleweights: Alavutdin Gadzhiev (Russia) vs. Hikaru Sato Lightweights: Takafumi Ito vs. Hacran Dias (Nova Uniao) Lightweights: Kenji Arai vs. Shinsuke Shoji (Krazy Bee) Bantamweights: Michihisa Asano vs. Yukito (U-FILE camp) Middleweights: Ichiro Kanai vs. Takenori Sato Welterweights: Asaki Honda vs. Tomoyoshi Iwamiya Share This

An attorney has been finally named on behalf of Randy Couture — Joseph S. Peek. Findlaw search on Peek. Peek filed a motion to dismiss the case and a court date has been set for the hearing on March 25th. Meanwhile, the court date for Zuffa’s motion of a preliminary injunction against Couture has been moved [...]

Got a problem with the production values of the Showtime event? Have a problem with the dancers and the rap music? Irritated by the quality of the commentating by Showtime’s broadcast team? Here’s his response. Share This