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It has been sort of weird in the build up to the main event at UFC On FX 8: Belfort Vs Rockhold, with a convincing win either fighter could find themselves in a title fight. One thing I have noticed is both Vitor Belfort and Luke Rockhold have been doing very little talking about the…
Luke Rockhold: UFC on FX 8 Fighter Profile
Former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold has not lost in over five years. The 10-1 fighter didn’t even get to see what the second round looked like until his ninth fight. That fight was against Ronaldo Souza for the Strikeforce Middleweight Championship. It would seem athleticism is embedded in Luke Rockhold’s DNA. The professional fighter…
UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen is tomorrow, and with it comes a main event that has left many heads a-scratchin’. Light-heavyweight champ and heralded superstar Jon Jones will defend his belt against… Chael Sonnen? The same Sonnen who’s been competing at middleweight for while now? The same Sonnen who fell short against 185-pound king Anderson…
Renzo Gracie black belt Roy Nelson began his MMA career in April of 2004 at the Rage on the River promotion in Redding, California. Over the course of the four man heavyweight tournament he submitted Bo Cantrell with a hammerlock and won a hard-fought split decision over Jerry Vrbanovic. Four months later in Guam, he…
UFC Light-heavyweight Champion Jonny “Bones” Jones is not only ranked the number one light-heavyweight in the world, but he is fast on the heels of Anderson Silva on most pound-for-pound rankings. Sporting a record of 17-1 with his only loss coming by way of DQ, Jones’ name is sure to pop up in any discussion…
British striker Michael “The Count” Bisping made his amateur debut at the age of 15-years old, competing in Britain’s first “no holds barred” event, Knock Down Sport Budo. The event was organized in large part by Paul Lloyd Davies, the man who had taught Bisping Yawara Ryu Jujutsu since the age of 8. Bisping would…
Alex Silva Wants to Go from Being a BJJ World Champion to MMA World Champion (EXCLUSIVE)
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The most significant moment of Alex Silva‘s fighting career to date came when he won a gold medal at the Mundials but he believes that achievement would be instantly overshadowed if he could fulfill his latest ambition, to become a world champion with Asia’s biggest MMA organization. Silva has already tasted success in BJJ, he…
UFC On FOX 7: Henderson Vs Melendez takes place this Saturday night in San Jose, California and you can watch the whole card on FOX. In the main event, Defending Lightweight Champion Benson Henderson will take on incumbent Strikeforce Defending Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez to see who will sit atop the UFC lightweight division. There…
Jamie Varner Ready to Face New Challenge in the Form of a Spartan Race (EXCLUSIVE)
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Former WEC Champion and current UFC Lightweight Jamie Varner spends a lot of time in gyms, but he is typically training for a three-round fight with one of the top lightweight fighters in the world. This time Varner is training to run in an eight-mile obstacle race called Spartan Race. Varner will weave his way…
Rebellion Media is looking to hire developers for its MMA websites (the word “developers” is apparently secret code for “computer dudes”). You can find the job posting here. Here’s the description for the position: You’ll be building out a technology platform to power editorial and community focused websites primarily in our rapidly expanding Sports division.…
UFC Commentator Jon Anik has been covering the company’s events just over a year now, and one thing is apparent from our recent talk with Anik – the world’s foremost MMA promotion has gone out of its way to make Anik’s transition into the booth full-time as seamless as possible. Anik went from doing work…
At UFC 158 on Saturday, Dana White announced that female bantamweight queen Ronda Rousey would be a coach on the eighteenth season of The Ultimate Fighter opposite the winner of the upcoming Miesha Tate/Cat Zingano bout, and in addition, the TUF House would be packed with both male and female competitors. As Joe Rogan so…
ONE FC’s Eddie Ng Has Left His Dark Days Behind Him To Become an MMA Superstar in Asia (EXCLUSIVE)
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Eddie Ng is rapidly becoming one of the most recognizable faces in Asian MMA, a media darling who has the looks, personality, and, most importantly, the skills to be a genuine superstar. Originally from Hong Kong but now based in Singapore, he spent his formative years in a small town in the North East of…
Bellator MMA Season 8 Review
Season Eight of Bellator MMA is just about over with only three weekly episodes left before the close of the season. It was their first season on their new home SpikeTV, and simply by taking a look at their ratings, this season cannot be considered anything less than a success. Their highest rated episode was…
UFC certainly delivered last night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, with a card that had fans on the edge of their seats. Jake Ellenberger earned knockout of the night over Nate Marquardt, Carlos Condit and Johny Hendricks clashed in a war that earned “Fight of the Night”, and Georges St-Pierre retained his welterweight title…
Perennial top welterweight contender, all-around badass and unabashed malcontent Nick Diaz will step into the cage tonight to face champ Georges St.-Pierre at UFC 158, and with those top-level boxing and jiu-jitsu skills he possesses comes the prospect that if he wins (or loses for that matter), the Stockton bad boy could easily fail every…
John Makdessi: “To make it my fight, I need to just flow.” (EXCLUSIVE)
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UFC 158: St-Pierre Vs Diaz takes place this weekend, and for John Makdessi the training is all in his mind. The long hours at TriStar, the miles of road work, and the grueling strength and conditioning sessions are over; the last thing for Makdessi to do is focus on having his mind right when he…
Vietnamese-Australian Bantamweight Thanh Vu on His Rapid Rise to Prominence in Asia (EXCLUSIVE)
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Thanh Vu was plying his trade on small local shows in Australia until the call came from ONE FC last year. Since signing with Asia’s leading MMA promotion he has tasted victory on the biggest MMA show to ever take place in Malaysia and is set to fight in front of an even bigger crowd…
Jon Anik: Calling Silva/Stann Fight “Was One of The Top 3 Favorite Moments of My Career” (Exclusive)
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What unfolded in the main event at UFC On Fuel 8: Silva Vs Stann was something that will be talked about in mixed martial arts for a long time to come. Wanderlei Silva and Brian Stann touched gloves at the beginning of the first round, and came forward for nine minutes and eight seconds of…
Fallon Fox was born a man, but switched genders years ago. Fallon Fox is also a fighter who competes in the Florida-based regional promotion Championship Fighting Alliance, and because she throws down with women – and because people recoil at the idea that someone who was once physically and hormonally a man is getting in…
You can usually count on two things from rough-and-tumble middleweight Alan Belcher: a sharp, well-rounded game, and a ton of respect for whoever stands on the other side of the Octagon from him. But things are different this time around – thanks to a war of words between him and UFC 159 opponent Michael Bisping,…
Jessica Penne: Up Close with the Invicta FC Champ (Exclusive)
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On October 6, 2012, Jessica Penne stepped into the cage at Invicta FC to do battle with Japanese Jewels champ Naho Sugiyama. Eight minutes and 20 seconds later, Penne was tapping her foe with a triangle choke – earning the 105-pound scrapper both the win and the Invicta FC’s atomweight title. So who is Penne…
Kenny Florian was apart of the ground zero season of“The Ultimate Fighter” series, and has seen it all in the sport of mixed martial arts. He gained his popularity as a fighter, but his popularity has skyrocketed now that he can be found commentating UFC On FX and Fuel TV cards and hosting UFC Tonight.…
I was doing play by play during the co-main event, and admittedly it is difficult to do the write up of the fight and score the bouts at the same time. When Lyoto Machida and Dan Henderson fought at UFC 157: Rousey Vs Carmouche to a decision I had pretty much the same score as…
TUF Vet Sam Alvey Chats with Jen Robles: Life in the TUF House
Sam Alvey’s been around. A product of Team Quest, Alvey has stepped into the cage for a Bellator tournament, the sixteenth season of The Ultimate Fighter, and for a wide spectrum of regional organizations. Rebellion Media’s Jenn Robles caught up Alvey just a few days before his wedding to McKey Sullivan (a winner of “America’s…
Over the course of nearly 20 seasons of The Ultimate Fighter, things have gotten a little stale. I mean, what are we going to see now that we haven’t already seen three or four times already? Enter: TUF 17, whose opening episode was a breath of fresh air. It was shot differently, giving it a…
UFC 156: Jose Aldo is a “Different Beast,” Says Former Opponent
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When Frankie Edgar steps into the Octagon to face Jose Aldo in Saturday’s UFC 156 main event, Edgar would be wise to remember a simple mantra: dictate the pressure. Take it from Mark Hominick, who knows first-hand what it’s like to deal with Aldo’s unrelenting forward assault. “When I was in the cage with him,…
For the past four years, if you wanted to see Uriah Hall, you’d most likely find him teaching a kids’ class at the Tiger Schulmann’s MMA school in Manhattan. Occasionally, you’d even see him in the cage in Atlantic City, more often than not winning via some form of knockout. Nowadays, however, if you want…
Ramsey Nijem: Ultimate Fighter Finalist, Ultimate Fighter Fan
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UFC lightweight Ramsey Nijem made a major impression in 2011 after running through the competition on The Ultimate Fighter 13 as an undersized welterweight while also keeping fans interested outside of the Octagon with his sense of humor and humble approach to competition. However, just because Nijem spent time on TUF doesn’t mean his appreciation…
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