Since Pride shut its doors in 2007, the MMA world has been dominated by American promotions. With leading Japanese promotion DREAM struggling to stay afloat, the focus of the MMA world has shifted to the West and Asia, the world's most populated continent and the birthplace of martial arts.Victor...
Since the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, former Shooto heavyweight champion and Pride veteran Enson Inoue has been tireless in his charity efforts, repeatedly traveling to northeast Japan to directly help those in need. Inoue's work has helped countless people and brought much needed...
When "The Ultimate Fighter" Reality Television Show 2 (TUF 2) started to air, one fighter seemed to stand out almost immediately. He acted differently; he ate differently; perhaps he even looked different. His name was Luke Cummo. Said another way, Cummo was simply not your cookie cutter MMA...
We all know how it usually goes. A fighter enters the Octagon for the first time and begins to feel the pressure. Though they fight as hard as they can, they find the crowd noise alarming. They can't breath like they usually do. Something is just missing from their performance. In other words,...
Everybody wants to win at what they do, and mixed martial artists are of course no different. But Marcus Davis understands what make athletes rememberable. It's not just the wins. It's the battles. Everybody who saw it remembers when Joe Montana delivered that strike to Dwight Clark in the...
Before he was able to pay his bills with fighting, Jason "Mayhem" Miller says he had a stretch of quite interesting jobs. "I was fired continuously from jobs like being a porn store clerk. I worked at an illegal chop shop. I was a bouncer at a Vietnamese bar where I continuously got pepper...
Gary "Smiler" Turner headlines Cage Rage 23 this weekend against former British boxing heavyweight champion Julius Francis -- who in 1999 was Mike Tyson's first opponent in the UK. Turner, a former K-1 kickboxer, appears to have successfully made the leap towards becoming a MMA competitor this...
Right now, Houston "The Assassin" Alexander couldn't be happier. After all, he's 2-0 in the UFC and is fast becoming a crowd favorite for his devastating power and willingness to mix it up on the feet. But Alexander is about a whole lot more than that. He's about music. Specifically, he's a very...
Most martial arts fans know of Cung Le's Sanshou kickboxing prowess. After all, the man is undefeated in that style of kickboxing. That said, the undefeated record only tells part of the story on his Sanshou prowess. Just check out one of those ESPN reruns for the rest of it. Le simply brings an...
These days, Kenny Florian is a household MMA name. Due to this, it's sometimes hard to remember that he's only been competing in mixed martial arts events for a little over five years now. And five years doesn't seem like much when compared to the nearly nine years of professional MMA experience...
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