Gegard Mousasi is keeping with a personal credo to mind his own business. The 24-year-old Strikeforce light heavyweight champion recently parted ways with M-1 Global, the promotional and management company that
assisted his rise to prominence in the mixed martial arts world. The departure was first reported Friday by Sherdog.com. Mousasi’s longtime manager, Apy Echteld, on Friday told [...]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – For World Extreme Cagefighting, the recipe for near-guaranteed success is simple: Bring Urijah Faber to ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif. Sunday night’s WEC 46 event was no exception to that rule, and while But what about the [...] When UFC light heavyweight Steve Cantwell was forced to withdraw from a UFC 108 bout in Las Vegas with Vladimir Matyushenko, most MMA observers simply chalked up the loss as another victim of the “curse” that plagued the card. But when UFC president Dana White said Cantwell was in danger of never fighting again, the [...] It didn’t take much for the Fedor Emelianenko discussion to begin again. With a simple post-UFC 108 statement that he had talked to M-1 Global officials “more recently than you would think,” UFC president Dana White set the rumor mill in motion that Emelianenko, and perhaps fellow M-1 fighter Gegard Mousasi, could be on their way [...] While Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi (27-2-1) MMAjunkie.com recently spoke with Mousasi’s manager And the [...] With its recent contract renewal with broadcast partner Versus and an edict that the organization will not fold into the Ultimate Fighting Championship, World Extreme Cagefighting executive Reed Harris said the promotion is gearing up for international expansion. While a recent guest on MMAjunkie.com Radio, Harris said Mexico, Canada and even parts of Europe could host [...] WEC general manager Reed Harris knows about stress. Harris can’t make a public appearance without answering a question about a potential merger with the UFC (it’s not happening), an update on the DirecTV situation (he thinks Versus will be back on very soon) or why the WEC thinks it should be on pay per view (increased [...] Following a June loss to young gun Josh Grispi, 10-year MMA veteran “I started right here, and I’m not going to be that guy who keeps saying he’s retiring,” Pulver told the Sacramento, Calif., crowd at the time. With the state of Massachusetts finally set to regulate MMA, the UFC UFC vice president Marc Ratner today told theBoston Heraldthat the organization plans on visiting Boston as soon as July. “It was just a big celebration here,” Ratner told theBoston Herald. Earlier this month, M-1 Global exec Jerry Millen made waves by claiming Fedor Emelianenko would be willing to fight Brock Lesnar for free. UFC president Dana White recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio that he’s prepared to call Millen’s bluff. “They’ll do the fight for free?” White asked. “That’s [expletive] weird because I offered them millions of dollars to [...] |
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