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Paul Buentello Talks High-Altitude Training And Fighting For His Job
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Paul Buentello talks to Cagewriter’s Steve Cofield about the high-altitude training regimen he’s gone through over the past several weeks to prepare for his fight against Cheick Kongo in Denver this weekend. Buentello knows he isn’t getting any younger and is solely focused on winning fights and keeping his job in the UFC.
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| (Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:06:17 +0000) |
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Roger Huerta Draws Chad Hinton In Opening Round Of Bellator Tourney
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The opening round match-ups for Bellator FC’s season two lightweight tournament have been announced.
Chad Hinton will get first crack at tournament favorite Roger Huerta while 2009 Submission of the Year winner Toby Imada will face off against Ferrid Kheder. The other pairings include Janne Tulirinta vs. Carey Vanier and Pat Curran vs. Mike Ricci.
Season two
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:45:02 +0000) |
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Strikeforce ‘St. Louis: Heavy Artillery’ Tickets On Sale Next Week
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It’s official. Strikeforce “St. Louis: Heavy Artillery” is scheduled to take place at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday, May 15 and will air live on Showtime at 10PM ET (tape delayed on the West Coast). The event will be headlined by two heavyweight bouts — Alistair Overeem vs. Brett Rogers and
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:32:03 +0000) |
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Predators Movie Trailer With Oleg Taktarov
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Here’s the official trailer for the new Predators movie starring Adrian Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walter Goggins (Shane from The Shield, best TV show ever) and UFC pioneer Oleg Taktarov.
HT: IGN
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:59:28 +0000) |
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Gegard Mousasi & Jake Shields On The Last Fight On Their Contracts In Nashville
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It looks like Fedor Emelianenko isn’t the only marquee fighter Strikeforce has to worry about retaining. Both Gegard Mousasi and Jake Shields each have one fight left on their current contracts which they’ll fulfill on April 17 in Nashville. If Mousasi beats King Mo he’ll remained tied to the organization due to the “champion’s clause”
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| (Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:07:47 +0000) |
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Strikeforce ‘Nashville’ Press Conference Highlights, Interviews & Pics
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Strikeforce held an open workout and press conference yesterday at Legends gym in Hollywood, California for their upcoming Strikeforce “Nashville” event. Here’s highlights, video interviews and pictures courtesy of Strikeforce, Showtime, Sherdog and FIGHT! Magazine.
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:25:05 +0000) |
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ESPN MMA Live 97: UFC on Versus Preview, Roger Huerta
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On this week’s edition of ESPN MMA Live, Jon Anik and crew preview UFC on Versus 1 and talk about Roger Huerta signing with Bellator.
ESPN MMA Live Archive
If you have trouble playing the video, you can also watch it on ESPN.com.
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:23:04 +0000) |
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Frank Mir Won’t Quite Reach Brock Lesnar’s Size
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Following his loss to Brock Lesnar last year, Frank Mir started packing on the pounds. At one point, he wanted to be as big as Lesnar if they ever fight again, but it appears reality has set in for Mir. He just doesn’t have the genetics to reach Brock Lesnar’s size, at least not in
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:18:27 +0000) |
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WEC 47 Ratings Take A Dive Without Urijah Faber
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The trend continues. Without Urijah Faber headlining, the WEC just doesn’t pull in the ratings like they do when he’s on the card. Even Jens Pulver, Miguel Torres and Brian Bowles couldn’t push WEC 47 above the 400,000 viewers mark.
This past weekend’s WEC 47 event on Versus scored a 0.46 household rating and 373,000 viewers,
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:52:42 +0000) |
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GSP A Changed Fighter With ‘All The Pressure’ At UFC 111
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Fanhouse posted a video today of GSP from late last year talking about he’s changed and improved as a fighter since his win over Thiago Alves at UFC 111. As always, GSP has a unique take on how he approaches the sport.
As scary as an improved Georges St. Pierre is, Michael Bisping says all the
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:26 +0000) |
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The Latest EA Sports MMA Details From The GDC
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EA has been busy showing off the progress they’ve made on their upcoming EA Sports MMA title at the Game Developers Conference. Here’s a quick rundown of the latest details.
Total Strike Control: Similar to Fight Night Round 4, the game’s entire striking system will be controlled by the right analog stick, but for those of
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:55:44 +0000) |
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Stephan Bonnar Loses Appeal In Australia
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With clear evidence that the cut sustained by Stephan Bonnar in his fight against Krzystztof Soszynski at UFC 110 was caused by an accidental headbutt, it seemed like a no-brainer for the Combat Sports Authority of NSW to overturn the victory the ref awarded to K-Sos. Surprise, surprise, it wasn’t.
The Combat Sports Authority of New
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:27:44 +0000) |
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EA’s Randy Chase Talks EA Sports MMA, Confirms Japanese Rules Option
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EA’s Randy Chase talks to Gamespot about their upcoming EA Sports MMA title due out later this year. I’m not gonna lie, I missed half the interview because I was staring at the TV in the background with the fighter selection screen hoping a fight with Nick Diaz and Cung Le would break out. Sadly,
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:37:02 +0000) |
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EA Sports MMA Screenshots: Diaz, Le, Smith, Venues, Entrances
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The EA Sports MMA team has released a bunch of sweet new screenshots for their upcoming title. For the first time you’ll see Nick Diaz, Cung Le and Scott Smith with their signature fighting styles along the different venues and a quick look at Bobby Lashley’s ring entrance. We should be getting some new gameplay
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:19:47 +0000) |
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James Toney Says He’ll Knock Out Randy Couture Wherever The Fight Goes
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“If they think I’m going to go in there and get choked out or lay down and get my armbarred and all that, they got another thing coming to ‘em, you know what I’m saying? Like I said, yeah, you’re right, MMA is not like boxing because boxing is tougher, you know what I’m saying?
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:35:38 +0000) |
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Ricardo Mayorga Headlines Shine Fights’ ‘Worlds Collide’
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New York, N. Y. – February 24, 2010 – ‘The craziest man in boxing” is bringing his unique brand of insanity to MMA.
Some people call him “El Matador.” Others refer to him as “the Madman from Managua.” Sometimes, they use rougher language in referring to Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez, but everyone agrees that Ricardo Mayorga
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| (Published: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:37 +0000) |
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Fedor & Aleks Emelianenko Compete At The Russian Combat Sambo Championships
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Here’s a highlight video of the 2010 Russian Combat Sambo Championships Fedor and Aleks Emelianenko recently competed in. With them both in the tournament, it seemed probable they would end up fighting one another at some point, but Fedor apparently injured his hand (nothing too serious) and had to withdraw. With Fedor out, Aleks was
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| (Published: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:25:38 +0000) |
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Cox Sending Sylvia-Sims To Canada (Update)
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What’s a promoter to do when an athletic commission says hell no to his main event? Well if you’re Monte Cox, you take that fight elsewhere. That’s what he did with the Tim Sylvia vs. Ray Mercer fight and that’s what he’s doing now with the Tim Sylvia vs. Wes Sims fight Ohio rejected two
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| (Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:59:15 +0000) |
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Strikeforce Challengers VI Results
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Strikeforce Challengers VI took place earlier this evening at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California. Sarah Kaufmann and Takayo Hashi headlined the event in a women’s welterweight (135lbs) title fight. Trevor Prangley met Karl Amoussou in the co-main event. MMA Junkie has a full recap of the show.
Results after the jump.
Results
Sarah Kaufman
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| (Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:34:15 +0000) |
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Brock Lesnar Kinda Defends Frank Mir, Still Wants To Give Him Another Beatdown
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“You know I don’t know what he [Frank Mir] thought… he’s still trying to pull his foot out of his mouth and when you say something like that and your wife has to go out and apologize for you, you know you pissed somebody off. I think his wife made the apology before he did
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| (Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:15:26 +0000) |
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Strikeforce April 17 Card Will Air On CBS
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When M-1 announced that Fedor was no longer on Strikeforce’s April 17 card it seemed highly probable that CBS would broadcast the May card he’s supposedly fighting on instead, and Showtime would take the reigns for the April card headlined by Dan Henderson and Jake Shields. Well, apparently not. Both MMA Junkie and Sherdog are
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| (Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:11:47 +0000) |
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UFC 115 Match-Up Switcharoo: Cro Cop vs Pat Barry, Ben Rothwell vs Gilbert Yvel
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UFC 115 was expected to feature two heavyweight battles in the form of Mirko Cro Cop vs. Ben Rothwell and Pat Barry vs. Gilbert Yvel. However, it appears the UFC has decided to shake things up and switch the match-ups around.
Pat Barry so badly wanted to fight Cro Cop at UFC 110 he was willing
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| (Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:55:20 +0000) |
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Coker Says No To Canseco And UFC Cast-Offs
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Strikeforce is definitely keeping Herschel Walker around, but thankfully, not to fight Jose Canseco.
“That’s not going to happen,” Coker said. “I know he wants to fight and he trained with Cesar Gracie, but I don’t think he’s training with Cesar anymore.”
Nice, what did that last all of a week? Anyhow, if Canseco was eying Strikeforce
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| (Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:30:40 +0000) |
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