Published: June 20, 2011
The Ultimate Fighting Championship made the right decision in bringing UFC 134 to Brazil. The event that would pit current UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva of Brazil and top contender Yushin Okami of Japan in the main event has sold out in 74 minutes. This is the first UFC event to be held in Brazil [...]
Published: March 28, 2011
UFC Fight Night 24, which happened at the KeyArena in Seattle last Saturday, March 26 is definitely one of the most successful UFC Fight Night in the history of MMA.
The live event raked in 14,212 attendees with a gate earnings of $1,182,850 according to several reports.
Furthermore, bonus awards amounting to $55,000 were given to some [...]
Published: January 23, 2011
UFC Fight Night 23: Fight for the Troops 2 may be considered a successful event based on the turnout crowd at Fort Hood in Texas.
Matt Wiman scored a unanimous decision victory over Cole Miller by employing a smarter striking game plan. He practically manhandled Miller who was expected to dominate the ground game. Wiman [...]
Published: January 23, 2011
The Ultimate Fighting Championship once again holds a mixed martial arts event in a US military base. This time, the UFC is bringing UFC Fight Night 23: Fight for the Troops 2 on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at Fort Hood which is just outside of Killeen, Texas.
Kenny Florian and Mike Swick pulled out of [...]
Published: November 30, 2010
There has been a lot of fighting over the years for Randy Couture and while the scoring system has improved, the 13-year veteran who specialized in mixed martial arts, feels like the quality of MMA judges is still a work in progress. He even thinks that Quinton “Rampage” Jackson split decide win over Lyoto Machida [...]
Published: November 19, 2010
Quinton Jackson, a.k.a Rampage left a Memphis-area junior college in 1999 and strated fighting for his supper. He was introduced and became a star as a mixed martial artist in low-level leagues in America, who went straight to Japan for five years before, in 2006, which then returned to become a star in Ultimate Fighting [...]
Published: October 31, 2010
There has been a lot of spontaneous blogs and forums regarding of how much is being made on mixed martial arts. About 30-foot cage from the 25-footer for fighters in the World Extreme Cage fighting who are moving to the Ultimate Fighting Championships as part of the merger in the UFC.
Of course, they wouldn’t abandon [...]
Published: October 23, 2010
Having an interview for some reasons could be a good way for a fighter to be publicly available and be an interest to people to build his fight. Lesnar does his interviews, as all UFC fighters are required to do. Unlike other fighters, they remarkably open their private lives in details to the public. Few [...]
Published: September 22, 2010
UFC Middleweight fighter Vitor Belfort suffered an injury and has just pulled out of his scheduled match against Yushin Okami at UFC 122 on November 13 in Germany. Details on Belfort’s injury have not been disclosed.
The matchup between Belfort and Okami was supposed to be the UFC 122 main event that would determine the [...]
Published: September 16, 2010
Nate Marquardt won his UFC Fight Night 22 main event match against Rousimar Palhares as expected but in unexpected fashion. Marquardt won by a bizaare first round technical knockout due to strikes. With the win over Palhares, Marquardt is back on track for another shot at the UFC middleweight championship currently held by Anderson Silva. [...]