Archive for March, 2006

New Season: Ultimate Fighter 3

March 31, 2006

Thursday, April 6 at 10:00 PM ET/PT is the season start of Ultimate Fighter 3. This season’s coaches are Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz. If you are new to the sport then you might not know about the HUGE rivalry between the two. Essentially, Tito doesn’t like Ken and Ken doesn’t like Tito. Part of [...]

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IFL will be shown on FSN

March 30, 2006

The new International Fight League (IFL) a team-based fight league that will be premiering Saturday April 29 in Atlantic City at Trump Taj Mahal will be getting cable TV air time on Fox Sports Net (FSN) on May 21st. Los Angeles – March 28, 2006 – Underscoring the fast-growing popularity of mixed martial arts, Fox [...]

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Shamrock vs Gracie on Google video

March 24, 2006

Shamrock vs Gracie can be found on the homepage of Google Video or you can go to the page directly here. It is just a highlight reel with the option of purchasing the entire show for $4.99, however I think you need a Windows machine to be able to order it. I am a Mac [...]

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MMA: Alive and Well

March 17, 2006

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 place this [...]

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Gogoplata and Omoplata

March 7, 2006

taken from the MMA.tv forums. BJ Penn was attempting these towards the end of his fight against GSP. Gogoplata – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqKYeaUkK0o&search=gogoplata Omoplata – http://secondcitysaint.com/images/random/ifc.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLfwXgwuPrE&search=omoplata

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UFC 58: USA vs Canada

March 7, 2006

For the play-by-play I suggest checking out MMAblogger.com. This UFC was definitely a favorite of mine. The headline fights was Rich Franklin vs David Loiseau and the return of BJ Penn vs George St Pierre. Let me start with BJ Penn and George St. Pierre. This was a three round fight that went to a [...]

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Online Workout Timer – Thanks MMABlogger

March 4, 2006

MMABlogger.com had this on their website. It is a link from the Speed Bag Forums to an Online Workout Timer. This will come in handy for all of those athletes with home gyms. You can use it as a timer for circuit training, bag training or timing grappling rounds. I suggest checking out both websites. [...]

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