Here’s something interesting that clearly underscores the mainstream acceptance of MMA. It really doesn’t have anything to do with the sport, other than it being used as an example in a political opinion column by a writer named RS Davis. What’s significant is that there’s no disclaimers, no “human cockfighting” blasts–the writer uses …
This has been the plan for months, but Olympic judo gold medalist Satoshi Ishii made it official today:
Satoshi Ishii, who challenged Fedor Emelianenko after winning a gold medal in Judo the Olympics in Beijing, will cross over full-time into mixed martial arts.
Ishii has notified the All Japan Judo Federation for a release so that he …
That would be awesome were it to transpire….DREAM middleweight GP winner Gegard Mousasi says that he’s going to fight Vitor Belfort at the next Affliction show. He also throws some fuel on the “Fedor to fight Josh Barnett” rumors…..
DREAM middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi expects to face Vitor Belfort on Affliction’s next MMA show in …
The DREAM Official website posted a new interview with Fedor Emelianenko. Nothing really earth shattering or anything new from what was said at DREAM.6. Fedor wants to fight in Japan on New Years’ Eve but gave no specifics. Assuming reports that he’ll be fighting on a rescheduled Affliction card in January are …
Much in the Japanese media suggesting that there will be a rematch of the DREAM.6 battle between Mirko Cro Cop and Alistair Overeem on New Years’ Eve. This means that Fedor will likely be facing another “sideshow” type opponent a la Hong Man Choi. More info as we get it.
Good article in today’s Vancouver Sun about DREAM middleweight GP winner Gegard Mousasi:
Going into the DREAM middleweight tournament, most American fight fans had probably never heard of Gegard Mousasi, an Armenian-born mixed martial artist who now calls Holland home.
The 23-year-old had made a name for himself as a striking coach for the great Fedor Emelianenko, …
Kruck says that Fedor is in the house because he’ll be fighting for DREAM on New Years’ Eve, possibly against the winner of the Cro Cop/Overeem fight.
We reported last night on the updated DREAM card with three new matches added. DREAM has added another match to the event:
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Masanori Tonooka
Here’s the previously added bouts:
Minowa-man vs. Masakatsu Funaki
Hayoto “Mach” Sakurai vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
Ktaro Nakamura vs. Adriano Martins
Akiyama is a judo stud who has made a very solid transition to …
Our sources “in the know” are now suggesting that Affliction will be co-promoting the January show and future events with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions…..obviously nothing is a done deal in the fight game until it happens, and this could change at any moment. For now, this is the plan…..this was also …
Affliction VP Tom Atencio has indicated that a major announcement will be made on Saturday’s Casamayor/Marquez boxing match. While Affliction is a minority sponsor of the event, the setting of the venue is curious and has led to speculation on a couple of fronts. Bottom line, the setting of the announcement seems to …
