Archive for September, 2008

Gina Carano on Late, Late Show clip

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Here’s Gina on with Craig Ferguson:

Fedor interview on DREAM website

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

The DREAM Official website posted a new interview with Fedor Emelianenko. Nothing really earth shattering or anything new from what was said at DREAM.6. Fedor wants to fight in Japan on New Years’ Eve but gave no specifics. Assuming reports that he’ll be fighting on a rescheduled Affliction card in January are [...]

Kurt Angle’s TNA contract up next year?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Kurt Angle continues to spin the UK press for all they’re worth. Today’s Angle story is in the Daily Star. According to the story, Angle’s TNA contract is up next year and he’s claiming that he’s going to be doing some MMA:
“When my contract comes up I’m going to be doing some [...]

Gina Carano on Late, Late Show

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Can’t blame CBS for taking advantage of a little cross promotion–Gina Carano will be on The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson tonight.
EliteXC fighter Gina Carano, “The Face of Women’s MMA”, will be appearing tonight on “The Late, Late Show with Craig Fergusson”, which airs on CBS beginning at 12:35am ET/PT.
Carano’s appearance on [...]

Jeff Jarrett apparently mad at Kurt Angle

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

More Kurt Angle–he said in an interview with the UK Sun last week that he was sick of the creative direction of TNA due to the countless stipulations, run-ins and gimmick matches. Here’s the moneyshot quote:
We’re in an MMA world. Fans want to see mano a mano. One on one. Let’s go at it.
We [...]

Kurt Angle claims he’s signed a MMA deal…

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Claims by Angle that he’s going to be fighting in MMA are an almost monthly occurrence. He was on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show claiming that he’s signed a deal and “that his MMA career would pick up in late 2009″. From the comments he made he’s intimating that he’s signing [...]

World Victory Road Sengoku 5 results

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Unfortunately we’re not having much luck with a Sengoku 5 feed. Here’s the results so far and we’ll keep you posted throughout the night:
–Jorge Masvidal defeated Ryan Shultz by 1st round TKO
–Kiuma Kunioku defeated A Sol Kwon by unanimous decision
–Siyar Bahadurzada defeated Evangalista Cyborg by first round TKO (Cyborg appears to have suffered a [...]

World Victory Road Sengoku 5 status

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

We’re hoping to get a feed of the WVR Sengoku 5 event which should be starting right about now. There’s been an issue with our usual Japanese based source but we have lined up a feed from Korean TV which is on a two hour delay. Unless something changes and since there isn’t [...]

Brock v. Randy article in Winnipeg Sun

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

The Canadian sports media by and large does an excellent job of covering MMA. Here’s an article in the Winnipeg Sun about Brock Lesnar’s forthcoming fight with Randy Couture and a premonition he had about fighting “The Natural”:

“And then I had a split-second thought of, ‘I wonder what the hell it would take [...]

Gina Carano in Reno Gazette Journal

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Article in the Reno Gazette Journal about University of Nevada graduate turned MMA fighter Gina Carano. Apparently one of Gina’s ex-boyfriends got her in to the sport:
Carano got into fighting when her then-boyfriend started going to the gym to train for fighting. She said he had been drinking too much and she was impressed [...]