source | MMAJunkie.com Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney recently offered to let conditional free agent Ben Askren walk away from the company provided UFC officials would guarantee him a title shot upon his move to the octagon. White wasn’t impressed. “They’re playing f—ing games,” White told MMAjunkie.com. “I don’t care …
Duke Roufus stopped by “The MMA Hour” and talked a little about the current games going on with Ben Askren and his current Free agent status. ENJOY! source | MMAFighting/THE MMA HOUR “I feel like at times [Askren]’s being used as a pawn from one promotion to the other, personally,” …
Chuck Liddell gets to play himself on Fox’s ‘Bones’. “I’m playing myself on there,” Liddell said of his cameo. “It’s a very bad idea.” In the episode, the team investigates the murder of Charlie McCord, a high school principal with terminal cancer. Eventually, they discover a video of McCord punching …
Rousimar Palhares has been BANNED from UFC® following his submission win over Mike Pierce. This may sound harsh but this is his second offense. In 2010 there was an identical offense at UFC 111 vs. Tomasz Drwal. Here was the statement released by ZUFFA LLC source | UFC®/ZUFFA LLC® As …
Fighter in brazil quits in the middle of fight. Jumps out of cage and storms off. Evilasio Silva (8-12) defeated Claudinei Angelo (4-5) at JF Fight Evolution in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, on Oct. 5.
Championship Fighting Alliance 12 Date: October 12, 2013 Venue: BankUnited Center Broadcast: AXS TV Joshua Sampo vs. Sam Thao – for CFA flyweight title Efrain Escudero vs. Luis Palomino Valdir Araujo vs. Romario Manoel da Silva – for vacant CFA welterweight title Ashlee Evans-Smith vs. Fallon Fox – women’s …
CFA 12 source | MMAJunkie.com A lightweight matchup between “The Ultimate Fighter 8” winner Efrain Escudero (20-7) and former Championship Fighting Alliance featherweight champ Luis Palomino (21-8) has been added to next week’s CFA 12 event. CFA officials recently announced the bout will serve as the co-main event of CFA …
source | MMAFighting.com Originally scheduled to meet on Oct. 9, Rony Jason and Jeremy Stephens will fight a month later, after both fighters sustained injuries in training. UFC announced Wednesday the featherweight bout between Jason and Stephens, originally expected to take place at UFC Fight Night 29 in Barueri, Brazil, …
media gathering Tom Ngo with 5thround.com has the story. ENJOY! by Tom Ngo | 5thround.com UFC president Dana White (pictured), who would be dealing directly with boxing’s biggest draw in contract negotiations if that came to fruition, states he’d welcome Mayweather with open arms into the world of MMA. “I’ve …
Mike Tyson hits 2 bullseye… WHILE BLINDFOLDED! No joke, check it out. GO IRON MIKE!
source | fighthype.com “I want to promote MMA fighters also. We lookin to promote MMA fighters, so it’s the first time you’re hearing it on FightHype,” “You know, Al Haymon is looking to manage MMA fighters. Even though Al Haymon hasn’t came on record and said it, but I want …
source | The MMA Hour/ MMAFighting.com Pro wrestling Hall of Fame announcer Jim Ross, no longer affiliated with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), spoke Monday on The MMA Hour about potentially working in MMA, notably the UFC. “The most challenging part to me would be to engage in talent development, …
Timmy Gorman wasn’t able to hide his injury on TUF 18 and was forced to leave the show before his first house fight. However looks like we’ll be seeing more of him. He took to the UnderGround give us an update. ENJOY! source | MixedMartialArts.com From: Timmy Gorman Member Since: …
By Julia O’Donoghue | source: Nola.com The Louisiana State Boxing and Wrestling Commission passed an emergency rule today prohibiting fighters with breast implants from participating in matches, unless they get clearance from the doctors who performed their plastic surgery. “If they want to look good, then they don’t have …
Looks like Anthoyn Pettis continues to change how we see MMA. This time he’s having an impact on the UFC game itself (coming out early 2014). MMAMania.com had the story. ENJOY source | MMAMania.com Creative Director Brian Hayes breaks it down for IGN.com: “There’s a lot more variety in terms of …
Finally things are starting to make sense. source | Middle Easy A couple of weeks ago I talked to Keith Kizer, the head of the NSAC, about marijuana and MMA. We went on for over a half hour, and at the end of the conversation my animosity towards him dissipated. …