Discovering ‘Jumpin’ Jeff Farmer and a treasure trove of IPW videos is like discovering the Ark of the Covenant. What’s really amazing is that despite my encyclopedic knowledge of pre WWE takeover pro wrestling I’d never heard of this short lived Arkansas based promotion. A number of the wrestlers involved went on to [...]

Here’s some more Akiyama excellence–UFC fans are well aware of Akiyama’s toughness following his UFC 100 fight against Alan Belcher. When you get your orbital bone broken in the first round and fight through it to go the distance you’re a tough dude. In this fight from K-1 Hero’s in 2006 Akiyama withstands [...]

Here’s a great video of the next UFC middleweight champion Yoshihiro Akiyama taking on Denis Kang at a K-1 Hero’s event in 2007. Notice how sharp Akiyama’s standup is, particularly the sweet uppercut he ends the fight with. Also, be amused at the Beatlemania like shrieks of the girls in the crowd as [...]

A few people asked why Butterbean didn’t throw his name into the fray to take Josh Barnett’s place in the ill fated Affliction: Trilogy fight against Fedor Emelianenko. We’re thinking that he would have had he not been otherwise engaged this past weekend, fighting in Korea at the second event of the upstart MXM [...]

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Over at MMA Opinion, I’ve been asked to be part of a roundtable discussion about MMA journalism. I, along with several other MMA journalists, were presented with some questions and the series will compare our responses and hopefully facilitate some discussion. As is my nature, when you give me a bunch of essay [...]

Not much new, other than the fact that they’re in the US looking to deal and are anxious to get a fight done ASAP. Interesting they threw Barnett’s name into the mix:
“We are now with Fedor in the U.S. and we hope to make a decision about his next fight within the next [...]

This will explain our current ‘featured quote’ on the main SAVSCI page:
“New Tactics…New Gameplan…You’re Mine.”

We’ve been so busy covering MMA news that we missed some important metal news: Dutch metal masters HAIL OF BULLETS released a new ‘mini-CD’ on 7/17. No, its not a really tiny CD–is what used to be called an ‘EP’. Here’s the press release from their website:
HAIL OF BULLETS to release new [...]

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