Here’s the latest episode of ESPN’s MMA Live:

Strikeforce will be holding another show at the Playboy Mansion on September 20, 2008. No official fights as of yet, but Joe Riggs is saying in interviews that he’ll be there and we’re also hearing Josh Thomson and Renato “Babalu” Sobral’s names mentioned as well:
The California-based Strikeforce organization today officially announced its upcoming return …

NBC Sports has a nice archive of the fights from ‘Strikeforce on NBC’. Among this archive is the excellent battle between Gilbert Melendez and one of our favorite fighters, Clay Guida:

Strikeforce on NBC fight archive

Cafe Reese on Portland’s NW 23rd Avenue has become our office annex over the past month. What’s not to like about the place–impeccable service, great food and coffee, plus an extensive selection of Oregon wine and beer. Indoor and outdoor dining allows us to enjoy Oregon’s all too short but brutally gorgeous summer. …

Another band we’ve heard a lot of talk about possibly being the feature musical act at Affliction 2: Suicidal Tendencies. With all due respect to Hatebreed, whom all of us here at SavSci World HQ love, Suicidal would be our choice. ST gets extra points for being a band full of serious badasses, …

While we’ve been impressed with the 180 degree turnaround that HD Net has made in the quality of their DREAM coverage (particularly the announcing of Kenny Rice and Bas Rutten which has been stellar in their recent efforts) we miss the great prefight videos done by Daisuke Sato. HDNet can’t show these for copyright …

This is classic:
Barnett is known for making humorous interjections before his fights while the referee is going over the rules with both fighters in the center of the ring. It is much more common for a mixed martial artist to use this opportunity to “stare down” their opponent and try to intimidate them. In a …

The US clearly got the best of their former Cold War adversaries in the rap production department. The horrible sound mix of this clip makes Aleks’ rhymes sound even worse. And they’re pretty bad to begin with…

Jason Mayhem Miller and Josh Barnett are neck and neck for the funniest fighters in MMA. Both fighters’ MySpace blogs are essential reading–here’s our favorite recent post from Mayhem’s blog:
Wearing my mayhem monkey shirt I get more attention than when I just wear my lime green undies. Recently I was rocking my shirt walking …

Expect the announcement of Affliction 2 to take place soon. In the meantime, we’re hearing a couple of rumors about the musical entertainment at the next event and we’ll run through them over the next few days. One name that we’ve heard mentioned quite a bit might not be as iconic as Megadeth …