Here’s the latest episode of ESPN’s ‘MMA Live’:

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 [...]

Good article by Steve Cofield on the shoddy officiating at ‘Ultimate Chaos’:
Organizations like Strikeforce, WEC, Affliction and the UFC have to cringe a bit everytime some small MMA show is waged in states like Alabama and Mississippi. As the big boys push to cross the sanctioning finish line in New York, a disasterous result in [...]

HT: Around the Octagon:
Don’t think we’ve ever seen Mir in this kind of shape. With all due respect to Brock Lesnar–who is a beast–lest we forget, Mir is 6′3″ 250 pounds himself. Not exactly a tiny guy. His striking has improved drastically, and he’s among the best submission fighters at any weight. [...]

Just posted–Lyman Hoyt takes a look at the horrible officiating at ‘Ultimate Chaos’ and the way late stoppage of Yvel/Rizzo:
ULTIMATE TRAVESTY: POOR OFFICIATING PLACES FIGHTERS AT RISK @ SAVSCI

Nikkan Sports is reporting that Japan’s judo gold medalist and newly minted Sengoku MMA fighter Satoshi Ishii will be training at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. He’s recovering well from surgery to repair a minor hernia and expect to resumes training hardcore soon. There has been some concern in the Japanese fight sport [...]

The essential Japanese MMA blog Nightmare of Battle is reporting that Strikeforce may have the inside track toward signing Takanori Gomi. Affliction’s Tom Atencio indicated in a postfight interview after ‘Ultimate Chaos’ that his organization was close to signing Gomi, but that may not be the case:
From Gomi’s latest interview in MMA magazine Kamipro [...]

Sengoku is doing their own version of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ called the ‘Sengoku Gold Rush Project’. The lightweight fights aired yesterday in Japan, and the always excellent Japan MMA blog Nightmare of Battle has them linked. Here’s part 1, and you can get the rest by visiting the link underneath:

SENGOKU GOLD RUSH PROJECT [...]

June 28, 2009
Tom Atencio, Vice President
Affliction Clothing
Seal Beach, California
Dear Mr. Atencio:
Let me congratulate you on behalf of the entire SAVAGE SCIENCE staff on your victory at ‘Ultimate Chaos’. It was a source of inspiration for 40 somethings everywhere.
As I’ve told you in the past, we’re big fans of Affliction Clothing and really like what [...]

Affliction VP Tom Atencio aka the new hero of 42 year olds everywhere was interviewed after his victory at ‘Ultimate Chaos’. Among the topics covered was his crack back on Dana White, who had referred to Atencio’s opponent Randy Hedderick in very derisive terms:

MMAWeekly: One of your first comments after the fight was addressing [...]