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Bantamweights Ivan Menjivar (24-9) and Azamat Gashimov (7-1) have been booked for the upcoming UFC 154 event that’s set to take place in Montreal. The match-up was announced by UFC officials. UFC 154 goes down on November 17th at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event is expected ...
2004 Olympic Silver medalist Sara McMann (6-0), is set to make her promotional debut in Strikeforce against Liz Carmouche (7-2). The match-up was first announced and confirmed by MMAFighting.com. Sara McMann vs. Liz Carmouche slated for Strikeforce: Cormier vs. Mir Headlined by a Heavyweight tilt...
A middleweight match-up between top contenders Tim Boetsch and Chris Weidman has been added to the main card of UFC 155. The bout was confirmed by UFC officials. Headlined by a Heavyweight championship scrap between reigning champion Junior Dos Santos and former title-holder Cain Velasquez, UFC 1...
Evolve MMA, one of the region’s most prominent band of MMA academies, had a disenchanted outing at ONE Fighting Championship’s recent ‘Pride of a Nation’ event that went down on August 31st at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Manilla, Philippines. Mitch Chilson and Rodrigo Ribeiro were the only repr...
A Lightweight tilt between China’s Zhang Tiequan and Jon Tuck has been added to the main card of UFC on Fuel TV 6 (Also known as UFC: Macau). The match-up was first announced by MMA-In-Asia.com. Headlined by a Middleweight clash between former champion Rich Franklin and Cung Le, UFC: Macau is set...
Several regional MMA promotions took center stage this past week, including the Guam-based Pacific Xtreme Combat. An event that was anticipated by many, PXC 33 saw a total of 6 finishes on its fight card. Mark Striegl marked his promotional debut with a submission win over Robert Wusstig. The Fil...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
After spectacular performances in front of their home crowd at the recently held ONE FC 5: Pride of a Nation event in Manilla, Philippines, ONE Fighting Championship announced that Eduard Folayang, Eric Kelly and Honorio Banario will all be involved in championships match-ups at the company’s upc...
30 August 2012 – Manila, Philippines: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC), announced today that all fighters have made weight and are ready for ONE FC: PRIDE OF A NATION which takes place tomorrow evening at SMART ARANETA Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines. The entire card, which is headlined b...
The line separating professional wrestling and mixed martial arts continues to blur. While one is a fictitious, drama filled form of entertainment that has been coined as “sports entertainment” and the latter is a legitimate fight, the similarities between both forms of entertainment are impossib...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
SFL “Challengers” is a reality television series that follows a group of MMA fighters as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, where their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. This unscripted drama follows 16 aspiring MMA fighters (...
LFC 10, the tenth instalment of Hong Kong-based Legend Fighting Championship, took place on August 24th at the AsiaWorld-Expo. On a night that saw 6 finishes and 4 fights going the distance, the promotion crowned its first ever Middleweight Champion in Liu Wenbo, when he decisioned South Korea’s ...
After showcasing 4 events in just under a year, ONE Fighting Championship is now, arguably, one of the top MMA promotions in the world, and is the premiere Mixed Martial Arts organization in Asia. That’s right ladies and gentleman – The Singapore-based promotion earned these credentials after a m...
Shawn Smith, my colleague here at MMASucka.com contributed an article this week talking about the ‘Aura of Invincibility’ and in this wacky sport that we all adore no family has had this more than the Gracie family. Before Kazushi Sakuraba beat UFC icon Royce Gracie at his own game, dragging him ...