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U.S. wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock makes Olympic history Tuesday after winning gold in the women’s 68-kg freestyle final. She’s the first Black woman to win Olympic gold for the U.S. in the sport, and only the second woman in U.S. Olympic history. Helen Maroulis brought home gold for Team USA duri...
David Taylor III said that his goal was never to be just an Olympian, clarifying via tweet on April 7th, 2021, that his focus is on bringing home the gold as an Olympic champion. Based on his laser-focused annihilation of each of his opponents by technical fall en route to the Olympic 86kg final ...
Cuba’s Mijaín López Núñez dominated Georgia’s Iakobi Kajaia to win his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, surpassing the legendary “Russian Bear” Aleksandr Karelin as the greatest Greco-Roman wrestling Olympian of all time. An unblemished path to his fourth gold Mijaí...
Mijaín López Núñez, the 38-year-old Cuban Olympic Wrestling finalist, will be looking make history in these 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. López Núñez will be competing in the Olympic Wrestling finals for a record-breaking fourth gold medal. He has already won three Olympic gold medals previously in M...
The 2020 Summer Olympics have already begun with soccer and softball kicking the games off, and while the opening ceremony is tomorrow night, it will once again not include any MMA athletes. That needs to change. With all due respect to power walking, but if that can be an Olympic sport then why ...
Iranian heavyweight Amir Aliakbari (10-1) has terminated his contract with ACA MMA, allowing the former Greco-Roman wrestler to complete his UFC move. Contractual troubles Aliakbari announced that he had signed to the UFC in May 2019, whilst still under contract with struggling Russian Promotion ...
“My name is Jacob Kasper. I walk around at 220 pounds and have measurements very similar to Jon Jones. I was a Division 1 All-American this year, and 5th at the Olympic Trials. I have no striking background, I just think I could give a good look for Daniel Cormier, and help out a fellow […]
As announced last month, KSW 43 will feature – amongst other things – a heavyweight title fight. Michal Andryszak was confirmed for the bout, but his opponent was not named. Well, according to mmanews.pl, his opponent will Sunderland’s Phil De Fries. Michal Andryszak vs. Phil De Fries One of the ...
Last week, it was revealed that KSW 43 would take place at the beautiful Hala Stulecia venue in Wroclaw, Poland on April 14th. Today it was revealed that the event will be headlined by Wroclaw’s own Olympic hero Damian Janikowski (2-0). Roberto Soldic (13-2) will defend his newly-earned welterwei...
Embed from Getty Images Rizin Fighting Federation has announced a very intriguing women’s bout for their stacked year-end show. Pancrase veteran Rin Nakai will face stand-out wrestler & legitimate prospect Kanako Murata. The bout was announced on Rizin FF’s official twitter account early Monday. ...
On this episode of The Underground Podcast, Chris and Jeremy welcome Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Travis Stevens. Stevens discusses his experience at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, what it meant to finally medal in his third Olympic games, his thoughts on the current landscape of competitive B...
It’s time for another episode of the Eye of the Storm MMA Podcast! Host Justin Pierrot is back, and this time he’s doing more than just recapping UFC Fight Night 92. Joining him today is MMA and political writer Karim Zidan of BloodyElbow.com, Sports on Earth, and OpenDemocracy.net! The situation...
Japanese MMA promotion Rizin Fighting Federation will hold a 16-man openweight tournament which will begin at a September 25 event in Tokyo. The tournament will feature the return of two retired MMA legends in the form of Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic and Wanderlei Silva. ‘Cro Cop’, Wanderlei Silva j...
UFC bantamweight Ali Bagautinov travelled back to his home country of Russia to be a part of a special Olympic event. Bagautinov was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in anticipation of the start of the games this week in Sochi, Russia. Ali Bagautinov carries Olympic torch in Sochi The photo belo...
Boxing and MMA are normally like oil and water, however that’s not the case for Olympic Boxing Gold Medalist Howard Davis Jr. He created Florida based Fight Time Promotions in late 2010 and this weekend the organization will hold their 18th event. US Olympic Gold Medalist in Boxing Promotes MMA T...
On Sunday morning we learned that Olympic wrestling has been saved. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) held a secret electronic ballot in Buenos Aires to determine the future of the sport. There were 95 votes cast and 49 of them were in favor of keeping wrestling in the games. Olympic wres...