PART 1 PART 2 The Fight Nerd goes on a road trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the second M-1 Global Americas Show. Joining him is Peter Lampasona as they trek across two states to get to the event. In part 1, we document the perilous journey with the rest stops along the way, [...]
That’s pretty self explanatory, but for those who need things to be reinforced because their attention span has been ruined by TV, here are 11 photos of Matt Hughes with guns. Why? Because the only thing scarier than a pro MMA fighter is a pro MMA fighter armed to the teeth. Matt Hughes is no [...]
Congrats are in order to former King of Pancrase and UFC heavyweight champion, Bas Rutten. “El Guapo” tied for second in the “Greatest Dutch Sportsman” award in media balloting conducted by New York’s historic Grand Central Oyster Bar last week. Baseball’s Bert Blyleven received the most votes, while Rutten and baseball’s Jim Kaat were tied [...]
Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley will have company very soon in the world of pro wrestlers jumping to MMA. According to a report from TMZ, recently retired WWE sports-entertainer Dave Batista has made claims that he will be entering the world of MMA. The tabloid news site caught Batista in Hollywood where their paparazzi camera [...]
As E3 wraps up, we take a look at one more fighting game, but this one not MMA related. Rather, this is one of the first motion-controlled games on the market related to hand to hand combat (no, I do not count Wii Sports Boxing). Sony announced their new Playstation Move peripheral earlier at the [...]
The Fight Nerd, in conjunction with Tomopop.com, takes a look at Wave 2 of the UFC Deluxe Action Figures from Jakks Pacific. This wave includes new figures of Mike Thomas Brown, Nate Marquardt, and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and re-releases of Chuck Liddell, Royce Gracie, Forrest Griffin, and improved versions of Rashad Evans and Brock Lesnar. [...]
E3 continues to bring us new goodies from the MMA gaming world. This time around, we get a glimpse of some of the gameplay footage of EA Sports MMA with the heavyweights doing battle. Digital versions of Randy Couture and Fedor Emelianeko do battle inside a Japanese style ring, and there must be a winner! [...]
E3 has been huge for MMA video games, especially with tons of news about the EA Sports MMA video game, which debuted their cover and unveiled an innovative new “Live Broadcast” mode for online gamers to compete against people for real prizes in a pay-per-view style event. But this time, it is GameStop who has [...]
Sales of UFC Undisputed 2010 have fallen short of THQ’s expectations, but the publisher is working on a new entry in the franchise anyway. In an E3 analysts meeting held yesterday, THQ announced UFC Trainer, which is, according to GameSpot, “a more combative take on the fitness genre than the likes of Wii Fit or [...]
EA Sports MMA, which just announced who will be gracing the cover of the game, will have your usual ranked and quick play matches for online gamers, but they have introduced a new and innovative “Live Broadcast” mode to the game. This feature allows players to compete for real-world prizes in-game and build up personas [...]
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