The satirical news website ‘The Onion’ has an article paying homage to the classic videogame ‘Mike Tyson PunchOut’:
AUSTIN, TX—A new documentary titled Punched Out!!: The Mike Tyson Story, which follows the legendary boxer’s career from his debut as a challenger to the infamous DREAM FIGHT!! against Little Mac in 1987, will premiere at the 2009 [...]
Here’s episode 42 of ESPN’s MMA Live:
The hardest working man in MMA journalism, Michael David Smith interviews the monstrous Shane Carwin prior to his match with Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 96:
Shane Carwin’s MMA career has been perfect: 10 fights, 10 wins. Five wins by submission, five wins by knockout. Not a single opponent has even made it out of the first [...]
Here’s the latest installment of the ROH video wire:
We’ve got the footage of Monday morning’s K-1 World Max Japan 2009 and we’ll do the ‘virtual round by round’ on Tuesday night at approximately 7 PM Pacific. Don’t forget that HD Net will be showing the event Friday night so at this point you might want to wait to watch it then and [...]
Boxer Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham talks about his battle to regain the cruiserweight title at Ringside Report. He also talks about his work with the great ‘Knock Out Dog Fighting’ organization. While there have been a number of high profile MMA fighters who are involved with the group including some of the biggest names [...]
MMA fighter Leonard Garcia talks with South Texas newspaper ‘The Monitor’ in advance of Sunday’s WEC featherweight title matchup against Mike Brown. Excellent interview where Garcia candidly discusses, in addition to other things, his legal troubles stemming from his friends’ involvement in a drug distribution ring:
Q: Everyone talks about how you’re the nicest guy [...]
Here’s the press release from Round 5. There’s a joke in here somewhere but I’m not sure what it is:
A FIGURE WITH “CONVICTION”: CARANO TEAMS WITH ROUND 5 TO CREATE COLLECTIBLE
Face of Female MMA Latest Star To Develop Figurine
MARKHAM, Ontario, Canada, February 24, 2009 – Known to many as the “face of female mixed [...]
In something of a surprise move, former DREAM MMA superstar and judo badass Yoshihiro Akiyama has signed with the UFC:
Former K-1 HERO’S and DREAM fighter Yoshihiro Akiyama (12-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), widely regarded as one of the sport’s top-15 middleweight fighters, has signed an exclusive deal with the UFC, the organization today announced.
Although no official [...]
Here’s today’s inexplicable MMA media appearance–former UFC fighter Drew Fickett being ’sued’ on the “Judge Judy” show:
