This weekend in Moline, Illinois, ProElite held their second event, which Team Fight Nerd was in the house for. The show saw Tim Sylvia grind out a decision win over Andreas Kraniotakes, and Ryan Martinez, Jake Heun, Cody Griffin and Richard Odoms move ahead in their heavyweight grand prix and into the semi-finals. Meanwhile, Andrei [...]
Hello ladies, gentlemen and beasts around the world. Tonight we are at the I Wireless Center in beautiful Moline, Illinois for ProElite 2: Big Guns.” Tonight’s event will feature the opening round of an eight-man heavyweight tournament featuring rising prospects in the division. The main event will be a showdown between former UFC heavyweight champion [...]
This weekend, “ProElite 2: Big Guns” takes place at iWireless Center in Moline, Illinois, which kicks off their heavyweight grand prix tournament of rising prospects. The full card includes: MAIN CARD: Andreas Kraniotakes vs. Tim Sylvia Andrei Arlovski vs. Travis Fulton Evan Cutts vs. Reagan Penn Mark Ellis vs. Ryan Martinez (heavyweight-tourney opening round) Ed [...]
ProElite today announced it has signed a new, multi-fight, multi-year television deal, unveiled on last night’s LIVE broadcast of “Inside MMA”. The fight promotions company will air LIVE coverage of “HDNet Fights: ProElite – Big Guns” on November 5 at the iWireless Center in Moline, IL. Furthermore, German-born heavyweight Andreas “Big Daddy” Kraniotakes has agreed [...]
Pedro Rizzo has withdrawn from November’s ProElite event against former UFC champion Tim Sylvia. Rizzo announced on his Twitter that he recently suffered a partial tear of his left triceps tendon while training in Holland, stating, “So I would like to apologize to … ProElite and specially to Tim Sylvia because I can’t be in [...]
According to a report from Cage Potato, Proelite is making matches for their sequel, and some things are changing quickly, namely who their two biggest names will fight. The original report from the site said that former UFC heavyweight champions Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia would meet in the main event of this next event, [...]
Besides the UFC’s return to Brazil this past weekend, Proelite ran their first show under their new management in Honolulu, Hawaii, and here is the video evidence for those of you who missed it (since the event began at 1 AM EST on Sunday morning). The event is actually entitled “Proelite: Arlovski VS Lopez”, but [...]
Haters gonna’ hate, the saying goes. Chuck Mindenhall of ESPN wrote a scathing article last week on his site entitled “The cans are starting to align for Fedor“, which discussed why he believed that the potential opponents named for Fedor Emelianenko’s next fight were worthless, especially Randleman since Mindenhall called him “A warm body with [...]
Looks like Pro Elite will be making their return to the East Coast later this year, perhaps as a way to apologize for promoting a card around Kimbo Slice back in 2008. No, I won’t let them live that one down. According to Ariel Helwani at MMA Fighting, Vice President of Fight Operations T.Jay Thompson [...]
Taking place from the Waikiki Beach Sheraton in Honolulu, ProElite held a press conference for their upcoming event in August with Andrei Arlovski, Kendall Grove, Joe Riggs, Regan Penn (younger brother of B.J. Penn), Rich Chou, T Jay Tompson and CEO Paul Feller, as well as a few surprises. Several announcements were made at this [...]
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