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 [...]
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 [...]
At yesterday’s EA press conference, EA Sports president announced two major facts about EA Sports MMA, the publisher’s upcoming mixed martial arts game. Two of the headlining fighters in the game, Fedor Emelianenko and Randy Couture, will share the cover. And we finally have a release date: October 19th, 2010. This is also days before [...]
It’s action figure madness this month, courtesy of Jakks Pacific. Following up the news of their Kimbo Slice variant with fuzzy chest hair, Jakks has revealed prototype pictures for Wave 6 of their UFC Deluxe Action Figures. MMAfigs.com got the scoop, showing off pics of Bas Rutten, Clay Guida, Randy Couture, Georges St-Pierre, Tito Ortiz, [...]
The Striking Truth” is the exclusive documentary about UFC Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and dynamic MMA fighter David “The Crow” Loiseau. The film examines what it is like to become a champion and how it changes your life with GSP, and follow Loiseau as he works to climb back up the ranks in the fight [...]
MMA Legend Bas “El Guapo” Rutten, who we caught up with at Moosin a few weeks ago, is among the award nominees as Heineken and the Grand Central Oyster Bar in New York celebrate the annual Holland Herring Festival with the “Salute to Dutch Sportsmen.” At the event, set for Thursday, June 10, sports media [...]
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 [...]
