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Many top MMA fighters love boxing, but even they admit that the sport is on the ropes. This past weekend’s Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight came with a fraction of the hype for a long-anticipated showdown between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. And when it was finished, fans slapped their collective foreheads. Today, while promoting their respect [...] Olympic gold medalist and former world champion boxer Ray Mercer will put on the four-ounce gloves once again on April 16 and face The matchup was announced on the most recent edition of HDNet’s “Inside MMA,” and the [...] While the California-based Strikeforce organization has spent the past year building its roster of athletes, one of the most burning questions on MMA fans’ minds regarding the promotion has been, “When will heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem return?” Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker confirmed on Thursday’s edition of New fans of MMA are tasked with learning a daunting list of jargon when first approaching the sport, but in recent years, a new term has made its way to the fighting lexicon: counter-programming. With the UFC now reportedly set to go head-to-head with “Strikeforce: Nashville” on April 17 according to report from The Wrestling Observer, [...] Former Major League Baseball great Jose Canseco has often found himself as the center of a controversy. And from steroid-use tell-all novels to “Celebrity Boxing” appearances, the 45-year-old Canseco has never been one to shy away from the spotlight. Such was the case in 2009 when Canseco traded in his outfielder’s glove for a pair of the [...] Diehard MMA fans remember well the day when Paulo Filho (18-1) appeared to fight more than one opponent in the WEC cage. Filho, 31, was once the top-ranked middleweight in the world, going undefeated in seven years of competition, but things quickly took a turn for the worse. And though he rebounded from that bizarre November 2008 [...] Centennial, Colo. – Feb. 22, 2010 – For the first time in UFC® history, UFC fans can head to their local movie theater and take in all the action in the Octagon™, live and broadcast in high definition on the big screen starting with UFC 111: St- Pierre vs. Hardy on Saturday, March 27 at [...] Earlier this week Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White said Australia will become an annual host site for the promotion. And following’s Saturday’s successful UFC 110 event and Australian debut, which drew a promotional non-U.S. record crowd of 17,831 attendees to Sydney’s Acer Arena, White said the roots are now in place for continental dominance. With fans [...] |
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