Kevin Iole at Yahoo Sports has a great article about how UFC heavyweight Antoni Hardonk broke up a robbery attempt in SoCal recently:
Antoni Hardonk, a heavyweight who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, had just finished a training session last month in Los Angeles near Los Angeles International Airport.
He was talking with his attorney, Nima [...]
…and there was much rejoicing.
There will be no Limp Bizkit performance at UFC 100. Via MMA Junkie:
Rap-metal group Limp Bizkit’s previously announced July 10 performance at Mandalay Bay Casino & Resort has been canceled.
Ticketmaster.com was the first to announce the cancellation of the event, which was set to coincide with a weekend [...]
And this video clip from AOL Fanhouse was before the UFC’s recent ‘pay to play’ edict for their fighter’s sponsors. Russian fighting god Fedor Emelianenko gives his thoughts on the UFC’s treatment of fighters:
One of the funniest fan created MMA videos we’ve ever seen. History has obscured the fact that Adolf Hitler was a big MMA fan and when informed that Dana White couldn’t sign Fedor he went ballistic as this video shows:
Via The Garv:
BMOP Fedor Emelianenko is popular with the local kids in his hometown of Stary Oskol, Russia:
Here’s a sitdown with BMOP Fedor Emelianenko and his translator from Fox Sports:
Here’s the interviews with Fedor Emelianenko and Josh Barnett from the STRIKEFORCE Lawler vs. Shields event:
Nightmare of Battle is reporting that Aleksander Emelianenko, brother of…well, you know who…will face Blagoy Alexandre Ivanov aka ‘the guy that beat Fedor in Combat Sambo’ at the debut event of a new Korean MMA promotion called ‘Fighting Mixed Combative’.
It has been revealed on Aleksander Emelianenko’s site that he will face the man [...]
While we’re on the subject of Josh Barnett–who is on a very short list of our favorite fighters have at SAVSCI–here’s a highlight clip of some of his pro wrestling matches in Japan. Josh Barnett clocking a guy in the head with the ring bell = epic win.
From Kansas City, MO here’s the baddest man walking the face of the earth along with another badass in Gegard Mousasi:
