Along with the semifinals and finals of the lightweight GP, the highlight of DREAM.5 will be the return to action of Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto. Yamamoto aka “The Killer Bee” is on a short list of the pound for pound best fighters in the sport. Here’s a highlight video–watch this and just think how …
Remember the *sick* gogoplata from the mount that Shinya Aoki used to submit Katsuhiko Nagata at DREAM 4? The guys at Submissions 101 now have a YouTube video explaining the move in detail. If you *didn’t* see Aoki’s amazing submission they’ve added the footage of it at the end of this video. …
One match is official for World Victory Road’s Sengoku 4 card to be held at the legendary Saitama Super Arena outside of Tokyo on August 24. Australian boxer/kickboxer turned MMA fighter Peter Graham will take on well traveled Frenchman Moise Rimbon. Graham is 0-1-0 in MMA, losing to Kazuyuki Fujita by submission at …
Here at THE SAVAGE SCIENCE, we’re ‘glass half full’ type of people. For that reason we’ve decided not to rail against Delaware Representative Robert J. Valihura, Jr. despite the fact that he can see no apparent difference between “Toughman Competitions”–where overweight, drunken longshoremen and truck drivers pummel each other wearing headgear and oversized gloves–and …
Another YouTube find, this time the highlights of World Victory Road: Sengoku 1 set to the music of guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani. If you have any doubt that fighters are the toughest athletes in the world, forward this clip to the 5:40 mark. Yoshida gets suplexed wickedly by Josh Barnett and gets up …
Modestly precludes us from saying that figuratively–the staff here SAVAGE SCIENCE World Headquarters in beautiful Portland, Oregon is hot literally!
The record-shattering heat across the Northwest will continue today as the ridge holds strong across the region. This is forcing the extreme heat north and east and this heat will continue to advance over the next …
Interesting article about the boxing and MMA scene in a town that doesn’t immediately come to mind when listing America’s ‘Fight Towns’–Savannah, GA:
Savannah has a rich boxing history. Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Robinson fought here, and so did another of the sport’s all-time best, Joe Louis, in an exhibition.
But local interest in the sport …
Unlike most states, who are waking up to the 21st century and regulating MMA, the state of Delaware is looking to ban it claiming its no different from ‘Toughman Competitions”:
On Tuesday, state Rep. Robert J. Valihura Jr., R-Beau Tree, introduced legislation that would ban “combative fighting” in Delaware.
House Bill 501, which is being called the …
Short but interesting story about Rob Hinds, an Illinois MMA ref who’s moving up to the ‘big leagues’ later this year when he’ll make his UFC officiating debut:
Rob Hinds has stepped into the cage to referee some big fights in his day. His biggest might still be to come, as he gets set to make …
The Association of Boxing Commissions is meeting this week in Montreal and on the agenda is some fine tuning to the unified MMA rules. No major changes are on the docket, but some needed clarifications will be dealt with:
The Montreal meeting of 58 sanctioning bodies from Canada and the U.S. aims to clarify …
