In Japan, “highly likely” is really the best answer can expect to get when it comes to booking fights. Things are continuing to shape up for the upcoming “Fight for Japan” event run by former Pride FC and DREAM officials, with one fight in particular beginning to draw more interest. Shinya Aoki was scheduled to [...]
“The Philippine Wrecking Machine”, Mark Munoz, is preparing to meet C.B. Dollaway later this week at UFC Live 3 in Louisville, Kentucky, headlined by Martin Kampmann meeting Diego Sanchez. Munoz, whose last fight was a win over Aaron Simpson at UFC 123, steps back into the octagon to face a man on a three fight [...]
Ever wonder what fighters do when they aren’t fighting in the cage? Apparently, they have epic cooking competitions, as Urijah Faber demonstrates in this video. “The California Kid” stepped up to the random challenge of poaching an egg against Curtis Schurkamp, & Tommy Schurkamp, the latter of whom stated, “He just fails at everything he [...]
What is with fighters and social networking sites these days? Do they know how many PR guys they are putting out of jobs by doing their work for them? Manny Gamburyan announced last night on his facebook page at around 7 PM EST that he would be returning to the UFC octagon at UFC 128 [...]
Last night was a historic end to one of the best MMA companies ever. At WEC 53, we crowned two new champions, Dominick Cruz who will become the first UFC bantamweight champion (even though we all know Jens Pulver was the real first champ), and Anthony Pettis took the lightweight title from Benson Henderson. Both [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); Head coach of American Top Team Ricardo Liborio talks with The Fight Nerd about the recent success of Hector Lombard in Bellator, Jorge Masvidal in Sengoku, UFC/WEC merger, what he knows about the Din Thomas VS Ricardo Mayorga match that never happened at Shine Fights earlier this year, his earliest memory of mixed martial [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); The Fight Nerd caught Renzo Gracie trying to leave the MMA World Expo 2010 without saying hi to him – I was having none of that, friends! So we got two minutes with the legendary Gracie and asked him as much MMA stuff as possible in that time, including training Georges St. Pierre for [...]
Jose Aldo has been absorbed into the UFC and will be their first featherweight champion and make his next title defense on January 1 as a part of UFC 125, as Dana White has now stated that World Extreme Cagefighting will become one with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The announcement was made as a part [...]
According to MMAJunkie.com, Former World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight champion “Razor” Rob McCullough (19-6 MMA, 0-0 BFC) is Bellator bound. The 33-year-old fighter has signed an exclusive deal with the organization and will compete in Bellator’s season-four lightweight tournament. The eight-man tourney kicks off in early 2011 and will determine a future title challenger. McCullough, a [...]
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, [...]
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