The UFC is treating Versus well with its debut card on the network. With any luck, all the fighters will make it through the week in one piece so they can fight on Sunday night. It sets up some dynamite matchups at the top of the card with potential fireworks in store. The main event [...]
It doesn’t need a cheesy tag line like so many fight cards. If WEC felt pressed to name WEC 47, it might go with the “Little Guy Final Four.” Bantamweight champ Brian Bowles defends his title belt against Dominick Cruz while Miguel Torres faces Joe Benavidez. All four fighters came in at weight along with [...]
Some media outlets called it the upset of the year. It was shocking to see Brian Bowles take out Miguel Torres at WEC 42 and it did upset the former bantamweight champ. Torres realized he had gotten into a comfort zone, was surrounded by yes men and was fighting with the wrong approach.
“I’ve used the [...]
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Quoteworthy:
“The flipping off of (Hirota), I didn’t really like that. I saw the arm break and it didn’t make me feel good but the opponent could have tapped too. I think it was probably right on that line and he didn’t want to tap and Aoki was pushing and pushing and the arm broke [...]
After losing a decision to Sam Stout — one that also won him a Fight of the Night Bonus — Joe Lauzon did two things: congratulated his opponent and ate doughnutsIn-N-Out Burgers.
Great job Sam. You whooped my ass tonight. I thought I had the Kimura in the first round and thought it was over… [...]
Akihiro Gono may have had a rough year, but he ended it with a bang, winning with a second-round armbar over Hayato “Mach” Sakurai at Dream Dynamite! in Japan. The win helped Sengoku move ahead in the Sengoku vs. Dream battle.
After Gono made an entrance to remember, complete with a blond bouffant and a popular [...]
The final lineup and fight order for tomorrow’s “Dynamite!! 2009: DREAM vs. WVR” event is set.
The event, which is a star-studded affair featuring K-1 bouts and MMA fights with competitors from DREAM and World Victory Road’s Sengoku event series, takes place on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
The event airs [...]
While Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi (27-2-1)
may have been a last-second addition to the year-end “Dynamite!! 2009″
event in Japan, “The Dreamcatcher’s” 2010 is already being mapped out.
MMAjunkie.com recently spoke with Mousasi’s manager
and M-1 Global exec Apy Echteld, who said the 24-year-old will appear
for both Strikeforce and DREAM in the first half of 2010.
And the [...]
A recently rumored contest between Strikeforce light heavyweight
champion Gegard Mousasi (27-2-1) and UFC and PRIDE veteran Gary
Goodridge (23-19-1) is apparently on.
While DREAM, World Victory Road and K-1 officials have yet to make an official announcement, MMAjunkie.com today spoke with Mousasi’s manager and M-1 Global executive Apy Echteld who confirmed “The Dreamcatcher” is currently en route [...]
Japan’s big year-end show is just days away, and the event airs live in North America early on the morning of Jan. 31.
HDNet carries a live feed of FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009, a co-promoted show that pits some of DREAM’s top fighters against those from its rivals in World Victory Road’s Sengoku event series.
The HDNet Fights [...]