It’s 11:30 p.m. and I’ve been at my gym, Body by Jose at Lifestyle Health and Fitness Center, since 10 A.M. this morning. I am thinking about my pregnant girlfriend at home and waiting for Nick Diaz to come by for some combat sports recovery work. Read More »
At 32 years of age and after competing in professional mixed martial arts for more than a decade, Mike Kyle is apparently calling it quits. The news comes following Kyle's first round submission loss to former 205-pound champ Gegard Mousasi on Strikeforce's final card held Saturday night in Oklahoma City and broadcasted live on Showtime. Read More »
Mike Swick returns for his second fight this year following a second round knockout of DaMarques Johnson in August. Swick will take on fellow welterweight Matt Brown Saturday as part of the UFC's main card airing LIVE on FOX. Read More »
NuvoTV, the premium network best known for their reality programming, recently rolled out a new series that takes viewers into the inner circles of American Kickboxing Academy. ProMMAnow.com gives you the lowdown on this new mixed martial arts television series. Read More »
Yesterday we took a look at the Anderson Silva documentary "Like Water", today we will be reviewing "Such Great Heights", an MMA documentary about UFC fighter Jon Fitch during his training camp for his title fight against UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 87. The film takes a look at the inner-workings of American Kickboxing Academy as Fitch trains for the biggest fight of his career. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com resident old school MMA guru Dan "The Wolfman" stopped by American Kickboxing Academy recently to do some training and caught up with none other than "The New York Badass" Phil Baroni. Phil discussed his upcoming fight at Ring of Fire 43 against Chris "The Hammer" Holland which takes place June 2. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com reporter Dan "The Wolfman" Theodore stopped by American Kickboxing Academy this past week to do some training and caught up with UFC light heavyweight fighter Kyle Kingsbury, who will be fighting newcomer Glover Teixeira this Saturday at UFC 146 in Las Vegas. Read More »
In his second blog leading up to his March 9th fight at Tachi Palace Fights 12, Casey "The Underdog" Olson talks about dropping to 136 pounds for the first time since 1998 when he was a senior in high school. Read More »
Lavar "Big" Johnson served notice to the UFC heavyweight division in his Octagon debut Saturday night with this first round knockout of the incredibly durable Joey "The Mexicutioner" Beltran. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com talks with undefeated heavyweight and 2004 Olympian Daniel Cormier about his hand injury and upcoming bout with Josh Barnett in the Strikeforce heavyweight tournament finals. Read More »
Clothing sponsors are nice. Mouthguard sponsors are useful. But when you're the UFC heavyweight champion of the world, your sponsorship packages reach a whole new level. Read More »
A welterweight match-up between former title challenger Jon Fitch and former Oklahoma State University wrestling champion Johny Hendricks has been added to UFC 141 scheduled for Dec. 30 in Las Vegas. Read More »
Diego Sanchez has been forced to withdraw from his Sept. 24 co-main event bout against UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes due to a broken hand. Filling in for Sanchez will be Josh Koscheck. Read More »
The UFC is already scheduling fights that will take place 3 months from now on the UFC 139 event that could take place in San Jose, California, in November. We list the fights that have been verbally agreed upon by the fighters as well as those fighters that are rumored to fight at the event. Read More »
Although Nate Diaz has a fight coming up next month with Takanori Gomi at UFC 135, the Cesar Gracie brown belt still competed in the annual Gracie Open grappling event. And we've got the video! Read More »
Due to an undisclosed injury American Kickboxing Academy's Jon Fitch has had to withdraw from his rematch against B.J. Penn which was scheduled for July 2 at UFC 132 in Las Vegas. Read More »
Heisman Trophy winner and 1992 Olympian Herschel Walker talks about his win over Scott Carson Saturday night at "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg" in San Jose. Read More »
Oregonian sports columnist John Canzano says he wants to like MMA but can't because it "aims to be a circus." ProMMAnow.com Editor Jack Bratcher analyzes his argument. Read More »
Dave Camarillo, founder of Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu and grappling coach at American Kickboxing Academy, needs no introduction. If you did not know Dave before this year began, you definitely know him now. Read More »
The third and final installment of “UFC Primetime: Lesnar vs. Velasquez” is in the books. The hard training is over and now it is just a matter of staying healthy until fight day and peaking at the right time. Read More »
If you didn't catch the second part of the "UFC Primetime: Lesnar vs. Velasquez" series this past Wednesday on Spike TV, we got ya covered (don't we always). Read More »
One of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's most enjoyable productions, UFC Primetime, will return in a weekly three-part series entitled "UFC Primetime: Lesnar vs. Velasquez." Read More »
