Archive for October, 2009

Strikeforce signs Marius Zaromskis

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Sherdog is reporting that DREAM welterweight champion Marius Zaromskis has signed a multi-fight deal to compete for Strikeforce in the US:
Dream welterweight champion Marius Zaromskis has come to terms on a multi-fight contract with Strikeforce, according to officials within the promotion.
An emerging superstar at 170 pounds, the 29-year-old Lithuanian could make his promotional debut [...]

Brett Rogers anti-dogfighting PSA video

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Props to Brett Rogers for doing a PSA for the good folks at ‘Knock Out Dog Fighting’. He’s the latest in a long line of bigtime MMA fighters and boxers to lend their support.
Knock Out Dog Fighting website

War Machine leaves MMA for porn

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Wow…stories like this make this job so easy. The fighter formerly known as Jon Koppenhaver, who has since legally changed his name to ‘War Machine’ has left MMA for..uh…adult entertainment. We’ll let the folks at MiddleEasy.com give you the 4-1-1:
Woah man the MMA world is like one twisted episode of Days of our [...]

Josh Neer released from UFC contract

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

The UFC has sent ‘The Dentist’ packing. Josh Neer has been released from his UFC contract following his unanimous decision loss to Gleison Tibeau at UFC 104. Neer has lost three of his last four fights–including the loss to Tibeau he dropped a unanimous decision to Kurt Peligrino and lost a split decision [...]

Fite Nite ‘Terror En La Vila’ TONIGHT

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Here’s the promo video for the next Fite Nite event called ‘Terror En La Villa’ which translates to ‘Terror In The Village’ set for Halloween night, October 31st. We’ll be there for round by round coverage and you can watch it LIVE via streaming video. Start time is 7:30 PM local time, which would [...]

Lyoto Machida needs hand surgery, no immediate Shogun rematch

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

You can forget about a quick Shogun/Machida rematch at UFC 108–Lyoto Machida added to the UFC’s growing injury woes as he’ll need hand surgery following his UFC 104 bout. Word is that its not too serious, so he won’t be out longterm but it does put the kibosh on a quick rematch in the [...]

Halloween costumes for MMA personalities

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Here at SavSci, we live by Ministry’s mantra that ‘every day is Halloween‘. Over at Watch Kalib Run, they’ve come up with a list of suggested Halloween costumes for MMA personalities. Here’s one of them:
Anderson Silva - Brett Favre. I hope I don’t have to explain this one…
You’ll have to go over there [...]

Metallica plays My Apocalypse live in Toronto 10/27/09

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Here’s Metallica playing ‘My Apocalypse’ live in Toronto:

UFC 105 preview video

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Here’s the preview video for UFC 105: Couture vs. Vera:

Queensryche plays Best I Can live in Englewood, NJ 10/24/09 video

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Here’s Queensryche playing a song of their classic ‘Empire’ album live: