“The Hunt is on this October” as IFL Coaches To Evaluate Talent At Combine-Style Workouts in N.Y., Chi., L.A.
IFL DraftNEW YORK, September 25, 2007- The International Fight League will conduct IFL 2008 Draft, a series of combine-style workouts for aspiring professional mixed martial artists to be held in conjunction with L.A. Boxing on successive Saturdays [...]
Just finished watching the Strikeforce show at the Playboy Mansion on Yahoo Sports. They have a video of the event up on their page.
Overall, it was a very good show. A lot of celebrities in the audience and a fairly knowledgeable crowd. I didn’t hear any booing as is now customary on most [...]
Last week was the season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter show.. this time the coaches are Matt Hughes and Matt Serra who will be fighting at the end of the season sometime in December.
One of the fighters who I have always heard about but didn’t know much about, Mac Danzig, is in the latest season [...]
On UFC 75 tonight, one of the match-ups is between Michael Bisping and Matt Hamill. They were both on the Ultimate Fighter Show and both fought for Tito Ortiz. They both are great fighters and never had the chance to fight each other on the show and now they have the chance in [...]
Dan Henderson is fighting Quinton “Rampage” Jackson tonight at UFC 75 in England. Dan is one of the founding members of TeamQuest along with Randy Couture and Matt “The Law” Lindland.
Dan manages TeamQuest – teamquestmma.com in Temecula, CA. There were no prices but but most of these places are fairly affordable [...]
Clinch Gear – www.clinchgear.com has been selected by USA Wrestling to provide the official loose fit shorts for the national Grappling, Sombo and Beach Wrestling teams, which compete in the World Grappling Games September 6-9, 2007, in Antalya, Turkey.
Clinch Gear designed its loose fit Performance Board Shorts in custom red and blue colorways. Artwork includes [...]
Check out his gym in Vegas: http://www.xtremecouture.tv
The prices are fairly reasonable:
$25 for the day (go to Vegas… for the price of a crappy shirt you can train at XtremeCouture)
$125 for the week
$90 for the monthly membership/ 2x a week
$150 for the monthly membership/unlimited
There is also a VIP package but you should check out the [...]
I probably won’t get to see it live.. but will probably stay up late to see if I can find somewhere on the ‘nets.
Here are my picks that I set up on MMAPredictions.com :
UFC 74 Picks. After the weigh in.
Randy Couture vs Gabriel Gonzaga: Gabriel Gonzaga
Roger Huerta vs Alberto Crane: Alberto Crane
Josh Koscheck vs GSP: [...]
For the longest time, it was always hard to find MMA anywhere unless you had a satellite dish or cable and it would only be the UFC every couple of months or Pride Fighting. Flash forward to a few years ago with the inception of The Ultimate Fighter Show, now you can watch MMA [...]
Human Weapon on the History Channel is a very good show. Check your local listings. It stars MMA fighter Jason Chambers and former pro football player/wrestler Bill Duff. They travel around the world and learn different styles of martial arts and at the end of the episode, they take what they have [...]
Just came across this website from the ProElite page. Hire A Hero helps connect people with a military background with military-friendly employers.
The MMA connection is that former Donald Trump Apprentice winner Kelly Perdew, a West Point Graduate and former military intelligence officer and now CEO of ProElite.com is looking for his own apprentice, but [...]
Seems to be a fairly new website about grappling tournaments. It looks like OnTheMat.com is associated with them along with USA Grappling and World Grappling Games.
Here is a list of some upcoming tournaments taken from GrapplingTournaments.com
2007 Tournament Schedule
OTM Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championship – Long Beach Convention Center – July 28th 2007
US Open of [...]
July 20 – 22 At Xtreme Couture MMA in Las Vegas Cost: $500 plus lodging Space is limited to 40 students
Spend a weekend in Las Vegas training with the Pros. You will learn from UFC Champion Randy “The Natural” Couture and Elite XC veteran Mike Pyle.
There will be [...]
It’s hard for fighters who are just starting out to have a day job and try to train at night. In a perfect world, we would have Xyience beating down our door trying to give us a $100K sponsorship, but when you are Joe Blow and not in the UFC, that makes is a [...]
What: It will be a MMA Seminar with with me Enson Inoue When: Sunday June 3rd, 2007 Where: R1 Center (formerly rAw Training Center) in El Segundo, CA Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Cost: $30 at the door cash only
Directions to r-1 Gym: http://www.r1gym.com/wst_page6.html
http://onthemat.com/norcalheros.html
The OTM NorCal Hero’s Tournament
Saturday, May 26 in Union City
Brought to you by OntheMat.com in association with One World Martial Arts
A No Gi Tournament for the Bay Area!
I have literally traveled around the globe to cover submission grappling and as a lifelong resident of the Bay Area I’m proud to say that some of the [...]
Don’t know how this guy is able to post these videos or if he actually owns them but he shows clips of 1-2 different moves from some of the top MMA fighters and trainers.
I definitely recommend checking them out just for the sheer instructional value that you are getting for free. Trainers include Pat [...]
Frank posted some videos of the tryout for his team. They are pretty interesting as far as what are some of things that you have to be able to do to be a part of his team.
1st Part of tryouts – Conditioning
2nd Part of tryouts – Fighting
I haven’t been too keen on the Bodog Fight stuff since I saw one of their specials on ION and was not that impressed with the caliber of the fighters. I think the new season has really stretched out more and got some bigger names and in this case it is Jake Shields. [...]
Marc Laimon and his Cobra Kai JiuJitsu school in sunny Las Vegas is now online with fun webisodes including some mini tutorials and interviews with fighters. A lot of fight fans may recognize him from different seasons of SpikeTV’s The Ultimate Fighter show. In particular, this past season, Marc and Matt Serra got into a [...]
GrappleArts – Building a Better Grappler has some good articles for people just starting out in learning the submission game.
Check out:
Beginning Grappling
Starting BJJ Classes
A lot of good tips on proper etiquette and things you will need as you start to train.
Sport’s Illustrated has a very interesting article on Chuck Liddel’s workout in preparation for his title fight defense against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, May 26 at UFC 71.
Interestingly, he acclimates to the later fight time by waking up at 11A.M. and going to bed at 2 to 3 P.M.
BJ Penn, former UFC Champion and Season 5 TUF coach, has some online tutorials at his website www.bjpenn.com on MMA training. It is all Flash-based, but hopefully in the future it might be downloadable to an iPod or something.