Competitions

Strikeforce “Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” in San Jose, Nov 16th

Posted by Double A on October 19, 2007 at 11:58 pm

This is pretty cool.. Strikforce somehow got authorization to bring back the tournament style match-up.. much like the old UFCs and Pride format.   This is an interesting turn of events. Check out StrikforceUSA.net From Strikeforce: October 18, 2007 By Michael Afromowitz (muaythaimes@aol.com) Mixed martial arts star Falaniko “Niko” Vitale (24-7) and has been the first [...]

IFL To Hold Three Tryout/Draft Sessions in October

Posted by Double A on October 19, 2007 at 11:19 pm

“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 [...]

Strikeforce Playboy Show on Yahoo Sports

Posted by Double A on October 2, 2007 at 1:05 am

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 UFC [...]

Clinch Gear Outfits U.S. National Grappling Teams

Posted by Double A on September 6, 2007 at 2:04 am

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 [...]

GrapplingTournaments.com

Posted by Double A on July 12, 2007 at 10:45 pm

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 [...]

Shamrock vs Baroni – Friday June 22nd

Posted by Double A on June 21, 2007 at 12:49 am

Getting Sponsors for Fighting

Posted by Double A on June 7, 2007 at 10:54 pm

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 little [...]

OnTheMat NorCal Hero’s Tournament – May 26, 2007

Posted by Double A on May 20, 2007 at 11:34 pm

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 [...]