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Final Line-Up Confirmed For Bellator 83
By FCF Staff
Bellator has confirmed the entire line-up for the promotion’s upcoming December 7th card at Caesar’s Atlantic City, which will feature Rad Martinez versus Shabulat Shamhalaev in the finals of the latest featherweight tourney.
Other main card bouts… Read More
Full Fight Cards For This Weekend’s Bellator Doubleheader at Mohegan Sun Arena
By Press Release
LOS ANGELES – The full slate of bouts for Bellator’s doubleheader return to Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. on Feb. 15 and Feb. 16 has been completed with two stacked five-fight main cards and exciting preliminary… Read More
Darren Elkins Discusses Decision to Move to Team Alpha Male, Put Retirement Thoughts Behind Him
By Kelsey Mowatt
After defeating Chas Skelly at UFC 196 in March, which followed a training camp with the renowned Team Alpha Male, Darren Elkins has decided to move his life to California.
Recently the featherweight contender… Read More
BattleGrounds MMA: Roan Carneiro Wins Welterweight Tourney
By FCF Staff
Here are the results from BattleGrounds MMA’s first event, which saw Roan Carneiro win a one-night, welterweight tournament and $50,000.
With the three victories, Carneiro improved his overall record to 19-9.
The event was hosted by… Read More
BattleGrounds MMA Weigh-In Results: Welterweights Ready for Tourney Action
By FCF Staff
Here are the official weigh-in results for BattleGrounds MMA’s event tomorrow night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which will feature a one night, welterweight tourney. The competition’s winner will take home a $50,000 prize.
Friday’s event will feature… Read More
BattleGrounds MMA PPV Lineup Set with Final Tournament Fighter, New Bouts
By BattleGrounds MMA (via press release)
TULSA, OK (Sept. 29, 2014) –Prolific, 25-year-old finisher Randall “Buddy” Wallace (9-2) of Oakdale, Calif. will replace David Mitchell (15-4) of Sacramento, Calif. in the highly-anticipated BattleGrounds MMA one-night, eight-man welterweight (170… Read More
Opinion: MMA and Professional Wrestling
By Jesse Heitz
Earlier this month, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson made his foray into professional wrestling for the TNA promotion. He made his debut as a member of the “face” or hero… Read More
Opinion: Retirement and Un-Retirement
By Jesse Heitz
Over the last few days, the MMA world saw one of its familiar faces in UFC Heavyweight Challenger, Shane Carwin, bid adieu to active competition. Meanwhile, former long-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Tito “The… Read More
Opinion: A Welcomed Heavyweight Reshuffle
By Jesse Heitz
At UFC 155, the heavyweight landscape for the UFC shifted. Junior Dos Santos, then reigning as the UFC Heavyweight Champion, was defeated by former Heavyweight Champion, Cain Velasquez in what turned out to be an exceptionally impressive… Read More
Opinion: Can Frank Mir Come Back Yet Again?
By Jesse Heitz
The MMA world learned this week that yet another Zuffa card has been bitten by the injury bug. This time it’s the Strikeforce: Cormier vs. Mir event, which has subsequently been thrown into limbo. While the shakeup… Read More
Opinion: Our Tendency To Overhype
By Jesse Heitz
After much reading over last weekend, and the general current of MMA rumors, which as everyone is well aware, heavily featured a great deal of Brock Lesnar chatter, I have been left in a state of contemplation.… Read More
Opinion: The UFC and the Absurdity of a Fedor-Lesnar Fight
By Jesse Heitz
UFC President Dana White made waves this week when he publicly gauged fan interest in a bout between Brock Lesnar and Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko. This move has struck many as bizarre and unusual, if not… Read More
Opinion: Is MMA Still Light Years Away From Becoming An Olympic Sport?
By Jesse Heitz
In watching the closing ceremony of the 2012 summer games, I was struck by an exchange between the venerable sportscasters, Bob Costas and Al Michaels, the men charged with trying to conduct traffic for NBC’s Olympics broadcast.… Read More
Opinion: Part 2 – Crime, But No Punishment In MMA
By Jesse Heitz
In the previous installment of “Crime, But No Punishment for MMA Fighters”, the focus laid on the MMA flagship promotion, the UFC, and its refusal to punish its fighters for criminal transgressions in contrast to other sports… Read More
Tarec Saffiedine: “I Believe a Win Against Roger Bowling Would Put Me Right There For a Title Shot”
By Kelsey Mowatt
At a time when fans are debating who will be first to challenge Strikeforce’s newly minted welterweight champ Nate Marquardt, Tarec Saffiedine is hoping to secure his title shot on August 18th, when he fights fellow contender… Read More