Two reserve matches added to K-1 World GP Final, to take place after the four quarterfinal matches:
–Hong-Man Choi vs. Ray Sefo
–Melvin Manhoef vs. Paul Slowinski
Glad to see Choi back in action. Last we heard from him he was being excused from his Korean military service due to a brain tumor. The tumor was [...]

Via Suki MMA:
DREAM’s Yoshihiro Akiyama, aka the fighter in the “TV Guide” gi that everyone hates, recently took a trip to Las Vegas. He chronicled the event on his blog, and appeared to have a good time in “Sin City”. The one thing that is hard to understand is why he’d fly all [...]

Only in Japan would you find a story like this reported in the national sports media. Pro wrestling promotion Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) wrestler/owner Sanshiro Takagi, and wrestler Yusuke Inokuma are apparently involved in the operation of a curry restaurant located in Nakano, Tokyo (which is one of the smaller sections or “wards” of [...]

The Japanese sports media is reporting that the next event for the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) pro wrestling promotion will take place in Hiroshima at the 6,000 seat Sun Plaza Arena on January 31st. No participants have been announced for the event as of yet.
One of IGF’s biggest foreign attractions, Josh Barnett, will be [...]

From Nightmare of Battle:
Mousasi wants Musashi to change his ring name to his real name, Akio Mori, if Mousasi is victorious. In Japanese, Mousasi and Musashi are pronounced the same (Mu-sa-shi).
Kawajiri and Mousasi return @ Nightmare of Battle

Here’s episode 29 of ESPN’s MMA Live:

Nice feature article on our guy Tim Credeur in today’s Lafayette Daily Advertiser:
Before Tim Credeur became an ultimate fighter, he served his country as a member of the U.S. Navy.
So, it’s only fitting that Credeur’s nationally televised debut in the UFC will come in the organization’s Dec. 10 “UFC Fight for the Troops” show live [...]

Former EliteXC heavyweight champion Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva has been added to the fight card for Sengoku Non Ran scheduled for 1/4/09 in Tokyo. Silva will fight PRIDE/K-1 veteran Yoshihiro “Kiss” Nakao. Nakao is well known for his staredown kiss of Heath Herring at a K-1 event, which is where he got his nickname.
This [...]

MMA Weekly recently interviewed SAVSCI favorite Darren Uyenoyama, which included this great quote:
When asked which he felt was a harsher MMA environment, business or fighting, Uyenoyama admitted they both have their good and bad points.
“They’re both pretty cutthroat, but at least in the fighting you can see the person that’s trying to attack you,” he [...]

Hopefully this won’t spoil the film if you ever choose to see it, but here’s some fight scenes from the Mirko Cro Cop opus ‘Ultimate Force’. Not realizing that he isn’t a character in one of the “Star Wars” films, Mirko inexplicably communicates with “the force”.