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 combatant selected to throw down [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
So many people involved in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts would like to be a fighter but then there are those who don’t like being hit in the face and prefer being on the business end of promoting MMA. Now here is your chance.. to be become a fight promoter.
Fight Promoter University
Here [...]
Here is an excerpt of what is pankration taken from Reference.com:
“Pankration is a sport or martial art introduced in the Olympic games in 648 BC. It combined striking and grappling, and a match would be won by submission of the opponent. A contestant could signal submission by raising his hand, but sometimes the only form [...]
This is the 2nd event for the International Fight League (IFL) on FSN. I remembered to Tivo it this time!
The match-up this week pits Renzo Gracie’s Pitbulls against Maurice Smith’s Tiger Sharks.
vs The first match of the night is the lightweight division with the Pitbull’s Erik Owings taking on Tiger Shark’s [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know Strikeforce held the first sanctioned MMA fight in California with the headline fight between Frank Shamrock and Cesar Gracie.
Strikeforce has returned now with Vitor Belfort versus Pride fighter Alistair Overeem. Originally, the fight was going to be between Belfort and Kevin Randleman, but Randleman [...]
Being a native of California, I was excited to hear that MMA was now legalized and the first event was to take place at the Shark Tank in San Jose with Frank Shamrock and Cesar Gracie headlining the show. Cung Le was even going to make his MMA debut. This historic event took [...]
The first MMA event will be held in San Jose, California on March 10th at the San Jose HP Pavillion. The headline event will feature Frank Shamrock versus Cesar Gracie. This will be Shamrock’s coming out of retirement match.
The undercard will also feature San Shou fighter Cung Le’s MMA debut.
Tickets for “Shamrock [...]
Here is the link to the California Athletic Commission page:
http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/rules.htm
The first MMA event will be held in San Jose, California on March 10th at the San Jose HP Pavillion. The headline event will feature Frank Shamrock versus Cesar Gracie.
A lot of you probably have been training.. hitting up the gym.. lifting weights.. maybe watching what you eat.. grappling or boxing a few days a week… so where do you go from here?
Well, I came across a very interesting website called iCompete.org www.icompete.org which may be a big help for the aspiring MMA-er or [...]
I have found two more MMA podcasts on iTunes.
The first one is from the Relson Gracie BJJ Academy. They have different interviews with BJJ guys. Most recently they had a very interesting interview with a wrestling coach who gave some good insight into wrestling and its integration with jujitsu. FightWork’s website is [...]
I happened to come home for lunch yesterday and saw on cable that they were playing some old K-1 fights. It was Michael McDonald versus Remy Bonjasky. These guys are some of the best kickboxers/muay thai fighters out there. Every punch, every kick, every knee looked painful. They had back to [...]