Archive for October, 2006

The Abu Dhabi North American Trials

October 24, 2006

Head over to the FightWorks Podcast and listen to the interview with Brian Cimins who is coordinating the Abu Dhabi North American trials. This tournament really is on par as the Olympics of submission grappling. A lot of top name fighters have made their way through this grappling event. It is a special “invite-only” event [...]

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Strikeforce: Triple Threat

October 19, 2006

Strikeforce is having another show December 8th at the HP Pavilion in San Jose with an All-Star group: Paul Buentello, Cung Le, Daniel Puder, Gilbert Melendez, Josh Thomson and Bobby Southworth. I have also heard that Frank Shamrock will be fighting Phil Baroni at this same event, but they don’t have it posted on the [...]

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DragonDoor.com – Training Articles

October 18, 2006

There are a lot of sources out there for training techniques but there rarely is a one-stop shop for all this information. This is where Dragondoor.com comes in. They have been around for a long time and have an extensive article section with solutions to all kinds of questions regarding strength training and conditioning especially [...]

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UFC 64 “Unstoppable” – Post fight thoughts

October 18, 2006

Check out Sherdog’s play-by-play if you didn’t catch the fights. UFC 64 was one of the better cards since the Canada vs USA card earlier this year. We had the return of Franklin to defend his title against Anderson Silva. Somehow Anderson Silva got a free pass for a title fight simply by beating Chris [...]

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Ultimate Fighter 4 – Episode 9 – Semi-Final Match-Ups

October 14, 2006

In this episode, Matt Hughes drops in unexpectedly, much to GSP’s surprise. GSP didn’t want to stick around because he didn’t want to train or be around Hughes since GSP as the #1 contender will have to fight him. They had all the fighters come into the gym and interviewed them individually to see who [...]

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Ultimate Fighter 4 – Episode 7 – Drop to a Knee

October 4, 2006

Tonight is the last welterweight match-up between Pete Spratt and Matt Serra. Pete Spratt is getting his second chance after losing against Chris Lytle. Drago came back to the house to celebrate his win over Charles McCarthy. Drago gets waaay to hammered. Its already hard enough to understand the Long Island accent but with him [...]

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