Jakks Pacific has revealed their UFC Fan Expo exclusive figure, and it will be the UFC’s latest cut, Kimbo Slice. The figure is based on Kimbo’s look from season 10 of “The Ultimate Fighter”, and comes with special Fan Expo packaging, cloth skull cap and Team Rampage jersey. It will retail at the event for [...]
Steve Carl, Iraq War veteran and 13-1 in MMA and fighting in the Bellator season 2 welterweight tournament, talks with The Fight Nerd about his next match against Dan Hornbuckle, who he wants to fight in the finals and how he will handle the champion, Lyman Good, as well as his thoughts on the controversial [...]
Looks like Shine Fights, who have been promoting their third MMA show featuring the Boxing VS MMA match of Din Thomas VS Ricardo Mayorga, may have just lost that main event. Broward County Circuit Court Judge Marc C. Gold heard eight hours of testimony over two days in his Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., courtroom before granting [...]
Many martial arts movie aficionados may recall the deleted scene from “Enter the Dragon” where Bruce Lee fought against Sammo Hung in one of the earliest MMA fights recorded film. Sure, it was choreographed, but it was our first time seeing the Jeet Kune Do gloves that would eventually influence the design of MMA gloves [...]
With the current economic situation as one factor, and the general lack of a fighter’s union or any kind of association to help with combat sports athletes health insurance, many fighters are left taking care of serious injuries without the proper coverage and aid they desperately need. One day it could be stitches on the [...]
Over on his excellent blog, Jim Genia has put together the most comprehensive list of failed loves in the MMA World. Rather than try to add to it, here it is in it’s entirety, give it a read and see if Jim missed any or caught a few you don’t remember or were not even [...]
Over on the EA Sports MMA facebook fan page, the video game company has put up new pics in honor of the upcoming Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery event, featuring some of the fighters participating in the event. Some of the new faces in the pics include Lyle Beerbohm, Vitor “Shaolin” Ribiero, Kevin Randleman, Andrei Arlovski and [...]
Earlier in April, Shine Fights held a press conference in New York to hype their May 15 pay-per-view, headlined with the MMA Debut of former boxing champ, Ricardo Mayorga against UFC veteran Din Thomas. After arriving 50 minutes late, Mayorga began talking trash. The following is nearly every altercation the two had during the rest [...]
Notorious video game franchise, Gamestop, does some good things every now and then when they are not busy buying back games at hilariously low prices so they can mark them back up 600%. It is rare, but it happens. This is one of those cases where it is not just one magnanimous offer, but two. [...]
Ultimate film bad-ass Danny Trejo talks to The Fight Nerd about his lead role in the upcoming film “Vengeance” (the trailer for the film is at this linkie here), which features Rashad Evans and Houston Alexander as well. Trejo is also in several other big movies with MMA fighters this year, including “The Expendables” with [...]
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