Archive for June, 2011

The Ultimate Fighter 9 semi finalist Cameron Dollar looks to extend his five fight winning streak when he faces Carlo Prater in the main event at Legacy Fighting Championships. This is the Texas promotions debut event for HDNet, and its seventh event overall. It takes place in Houston at the Arena Theater on July 22nd. Dollar has seen success since his loss to Jason Dent on the season finale for Season 9 – Team UK vs. Team US. Winning five straight, all finishes, with three fights in 2010 and two so far in 2011. After defeating Kit Cope and Ian [...]

Saturday night the UFC will continue its run of aired Preliminary fights with UFC 131: Carwin vs. Dos Santos, adding a bit of a twist. In addition to the traditional airing of fights on Facebook, the prelims will be shown on YouTube. Which could help lessen the strain on the Facebook stream, and give people who don’t use the social networking service a chance to see the fights. Michihiro Omigawa takes on Darren Elkins in the opening fight starting at 5:50 PM ET / 2:50 PM PT. The middle of the undercard includes Joey Beltran vs. Aaron Rosa, Dustin Poirier [...]

Gina Carano’s (7-1 MMA, 1-1 SF) return to action will have to wait. Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker today announced that Carano’s “medical clearance was revoked,” leaving her ineligible to compete in a previously announced June 18 contest with Sarah D’Alelio (4-1 MMA, 0-0 SF) at “Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum.” With the contest scrapped, a lightweight bout between K.J. Noons and Jorge Masvidal has been promoted to the evening’s Showtime-broadcast main card. “Following a medical examination yesterday afternoon, Gina Carano’s medical clearance was revoked by her doctor, and consequently, she will not be able to fight on June 18,” Coker today [...]

The official poster for “Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson”  has surfaced and there is an interesting thing to note. The event is being co-promoted by Strikeforce and Fedor’s management company, M-1 Global. The news is a bit surprising considering the rocky relationship between M-1 and Zuffa brass. For those living under a rock, Zuffa purchased Strikeforce. The relationship between M-1 and Zuffa has had a negative effect on negotiations in the past when the UFC was trying to sign Fedor. We will all have to play close attention to how the relationship continues to develop. It will be essential that the [...]

The New York State Assembly’s Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development committee voted yesterday on a bill to regulate MMA in the state. After the vote, MMA is now one step closer to being voted into regulation in New York. The bill passed by a 16-3 vote. Now there is one final hurdle for the bill to pass. The bill needs to make it’s way to the full asembly floor for a vote and to be passed. UFC President Dana White is reaching out to those in the MMA community and asking for their help: Getting the State Legislature to allow [...]

Tickets will be going on sale this week for the UFC’s August 6th pay-per view card, “UFC 133: Evans vs. Davis.” UFC Fight Club Presale Starts Wednesday, June 8 – 10am ET UFC Newsletter Presale Starts Thursday, June 9 – 10am ET Public On-Sale Starts Friday, June 10 – Noon ET Here is the UFC 133 fight card: MAIN CARD Phil Davis vs. Rashad Evans Rich Franklin vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Vitor Belfort Jorge Rivera vs. Alessio Sakara Alexander Gustafsson vs. Vladimir Matyushenko PRELIMINARY CARD Brian Ebersole vs. Dennis Hallman Johny Hendricks vs. Mike Pierce Riki Fukuda [...]

Dana White was at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) today and made a big announcement. The UFC president announced that UFC pay-per views will now be available for a live stream on XBOX Live. More events like weigh-ins, press conferences and perhaps Q&A’s will be available on XBOX Live, too, as part of a new deal with the UFC and Microsoft. This is just the latest step by the UFC in their strong campaign with social media. Whether it be Twitter bonuses, Facebook preliminary fights or now streaming events on XBOX Live, the UFC is ahead of it’s competition. It’s really [...]

Four-time World Jiu Jitsu champion Royler Gracie was reportedly scheduled to have a rematch against 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu founder Eddie Bravo. Bravo upset Gracie by triangle choke when they first met each other at the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in 2003. However, the anticipated superfight has hit a road block. In an open letter to his fans, Royler Gracie explains his thoughts and the situation regardging the ADCC superfight. You can read the entire letter and ADCC Vice President Guy Nievens response after the jump.