“King of the Cage’s” first official show in Texas will be in Lubbock, TX on April 16, 2011 at the Lubbock Civic Center. This show will be King of the Cage’s 223rd official show! Out of the hundreds of MMA promoters all around the world, no company on earth has promoted more professional MMA fights [...]
Former King of the Cage Champion and polished wrestler Tony Johnson Jr. has found a home with Bellator Fighting Championships and will make his promotional debut on April 16 at Bellator 41 in Yuma, AZ against undefeated heavyweight Carlos Flores. Bellator 41 will air live on MTV2 starting at 9pm EST. “Tony is a fighter [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); The Fight Nerd caught up with Bellator FC veteran and current reigning King of The Cage flyweight champion, Jimmie “El Terror” Rivera, who was fresh off his five-round decision victory over Jared Papazian in his first defense of his KOTC title. The Tiger Schulmann’s MMA student is looking ahead to a rematch with the [...]
A few months ago, I shot some fights at King of The Cage: No Mercy, expecting to see Ron Sparks batter Ray Mercer into a bloody pulp. Instead, we got weeks of Mercer trying to duck out of the fight, ultimately promoting Abel Cullum VS Jimmie Rivera to main event status, and what a fight [...]
This time on Weekend Warriors, we take a look at a battle in the historic King of The Cage company with Abel Cullum taking on Ryan Diaz for the KOTC Flyweight title. These two 135 lb. warriors leave it all in the cage, as for the nearly five rounds on May 17, 2008 at “King [...]
Durban, South Africa has successfully secured a first, not only for South Africa, but also for the African Continent. On November 25th, 2010, the ICC Durban will host one of the most highly anticipated Mixed Martial Art shows in 2010. “Platinum” will feature International and National fighters, including Ken Shamrock, Donovan Hawkey, Abjul Hussain, Craig [...]
The news just keeps on coming! Yesterday, I announced the latest prize to the already massive prize pool to this Saturday’s Fight Nerd Video Game Open: Fall Brawl 2010 event, that being tickets to the MMA World Expo next month! Today, I can announce that Klutch Wear will also be contributing shirts to the event, [...]
At least, technically I made the cover, but not really at all. A few weekends ago I was in Mashantucket, Connecticut for King of the Cage: No Mercy, and was shooting my usual photo gallery for the website. Lo and behold, I get an e-mail from Lauren Ober of “Seven Days”, a magazine based out [...]
The Fight Nerd travels in style to King of The Cage: No Mercy! On September 17, 2010, we made the trip to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, we being the nerd, Peter Lampasona of MATCombatSports.com and Luis Toledo, writer for thefightnerd.com and organizer of meetup.com’s MMA in NYC group. Enjoy our harrowing journey from point A [...]
Sleep is for the weak. I proved that this weekend by traveling to Connecticut on Friday night then to New Jersey the following night to cover King of the Cage: No Mercy and M-1 Global Selection Americas 4 respectively. If you recall, KOTC: No Mercy was supposed to be headlined by Ray Mercer vs Ron [...]
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