Top Lightweight Contenders Do Battle On “UFC Fight Night” Wednesday, March 31 At 8:00 PM ET/PT New York, NY, March 29, 2010 – Two of the world’s best lightweight (155 lb.) mixed martial arts fighters, Kenny Florian and Takanori Gomi, ... Read More »
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Feed SubscriptionUFC Fight Night 21 conference call with Kenny Florian and Takanori Gomi – notes and audio
On Wednesday, March 31, “UFC Fight Night 21″ will take place at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C. Highlighting the card, which will air live on Spike TV, will be the UFC debut of Japanese MMA legend Takanori Gomi (31-5), ... Read More »
A chat with MMA phenom Gegard Mousasi
Strikeforce fighter and MMA phenom Gegard Mousasi talks about representing the Iranian, Dutch, Armenian, and Japanese nations. He also entertains such obvious questions as how his boxing background helps in MMA, and what it is like to be a fighter. ... Read More »
Mizugaki returns to WEC Aug. 9 to face Curran
PRO MMA (promma.info) was notified by the World Extreme Cagefighting organization on Monday that Japanese MMA fighter Takeya Mizugaki (11-3-2) will return to the WEC cage on Aug. 9, 2009 to face veteran Jeff Curran (31-11-1) at “WEC: Torres vs. ... Read More »
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson freestyle rap video
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson shows not only is he talented inside the cage, but the man has got some skills when it comes to freestyle rap. Rampage is not the only one in his family who raps. For those who do ... Read More »
Satoshii Ishii to attend UFC 92 at White’s invitation
We told you on Thursday of Olympic judo gold medalist, Satoshi Ishii’s single-minded desire to fight in the UFC. UFC president, Dana White got word of the Judoka’s statement and reached out, inviting him to attend UFC 92 as a ... Read More »
Japanese Hip Hop – Memphis Style
by: Jack Bratcher It just so happens that Keddren Payne has a brother by the name of Quinton Jackson who is a Mixed Martial Arts fighter and used to fight in PRIDE Fighting Championship in Japan. Keddren used to accompany ... Read More »
15 Years of PANCRASE
Sports Action Network and iBN Sports Present 15 Years of PANCRASE on Pay-Per-View 90 minutes of non-stop fight footage! Read More »
World Victory Road’s SENGOKU 5 results
World Victory Road’s SENGOKU 5 took place yesterday in Tokyo, Japan at Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium. Here’s how things went down: Main Card Muhammed Lawal (1-0) defeats Travis Wiuff (53-12) via TKO (R1) Xande Ribeiro (1-0) defeats Takashi Sugiura ... Read More »
World Victory Road: Sengoku 5 – 9/28
World Victory Road’s SENGOKU 5 takes place today in Tokyo, Japan (early Sunday morning U.S. time) at Yoyogi National Stadium First Gymnasium. There is a Middleweight Grand Prix to be worked out and Kazuhiro Nakamura returns after an unsuccessful stint ... Read More »
Frank Trigg faces Olympic Gold-Medalist, Makoto Takimoto, at Sengoku 4 on August 24 in Japan
by: Jack Bratcher When Frank Trigg steps into the ring on August 4th to face PRIDE veteran and Olympic Judo Gold-Medalist, Makoto Takimoto, he will be coming back from a nine month layoff. On the other hand, Takimoto’s last fight ... Read More »