Sad news that legendary WWE heel Walter “Killer” Kowalski passed away earlier today. Kowalski suffered a massive heart attack on 8/8/08 and never regained consciousness. The WWE sent out the following comment:
World Wrestling Entertainment is saddened by the passing of WWE Hall of Famer Walter “Killer” Kowalski. Kowalski, who was an in-demand performer …
A few days ago KJ Noons sent out a rambling, whining rant about how EliteXC didn’t treat him fairly, didn’t pay him enough and didn’t appreciate him, yadda yadda yadda all of which is why he can’t fight Nick Diaz. Nick Diaz’s camp responded on GracieFighter.com with a pretty hilarious crackback. It’s worth …
Fight Ticker has a good synopsis of the latest “Randy Couture working out a deal to return to the UFC” rumor:
This will be a new contract, not a return to the old one. It will likely pay him more and give him more benefits, but it will lock him into the UFC for the long …
The New York Times magazine column “Consumed” has a post today about the growth in brands seeking to tap into the popularity of the sport by promoting the “MMA lifestyle”, whatever that is. The writer is pretty clueless about MMA and all of the usual cliches are here including the “Stairway to Heaven” of …
One of the things we really respect about Gina Carano is how smart she’s been about leveraging her MMA fame into other lucrative gigs. Her latest is an appearance as a video game actress in the forthcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 game from EA. For those of you who haven’t paid …
3 days or so after we confirmed that the Cro Cop/Overeem fight was a done deal, Overeem is saying the same over at Sherdog:
Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem confirmed to Sherdog.com that he will meet former Pride Open Weight Grand Prix winner Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic at Dream 6 on Sept. 23 at the …
We’ve just posted the inaugural edition of The SAVSCI Interview. In the first edition our Grady Roy catches up with UFC fighter Tim Credeur.
Our plan with The SAVSCI Interview is to provide a longer form interview where the fighters can talk at length about subjects of interest to us and to them. There’s …
Here’s some pictures of the Affliction paint scheme on the #00 car that Mike Skinner will drive at California this weekend:
There’s been talk of a potential matchup between Tim Sylvia and French kickboxer Jerome LeBanner at the third Affliction show, to take place in early 2009:
Although the second Affliction show is still over a month away, future plans include a third show that will most likely take place in January of February 2009. One fight …
World Victory Road has posted a few matchups for their 9/28/08 Sengoku 5 card:
Ryan Schultz vs. Jorge Masvidal
Yuki Kondo vs. Yuki Sasaki
Evangalista “Cyborg” Santos vs. Siyar Bahadurzada
