Archive for February, 2007
The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the fighter salaries for this past Saturday’s Pride 33: The Second Coming event.
Wanderlei Silva: $150,000
Dan Henderson: $50,000
Mauricio Rua: $50,000
Takanori Gomi: $20,000
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: $20,000
Nick Diaz: $15,000
Joachim Hansen: $15,000
Hayato Sakurai: $10,000
Frank Trigg: $10,000
Kazuo Misaki: $10,000
Sergei Kharitonov: $10,000
Alistair Overeem: $10,000
Travis Wiuff: $10,000
Rameau Sokoudjou: $10,000
Mac Danzig: $10,000
Jason Ireland: $10,000
Mike Russow: $10,000
James [...]
Well, another Pride Fighting Championships event is in the books, and I must say that Pride 33 was all-around the best MMA event I have seen in several years. Other promotions should take notes from Pride; this is how an event should take place. We saw a total of 9 fights in a [...]
Renzo Gracie’s New York Wolfpack easily defeated Igor Zinoviev’s Chicago Red Bears 4-1 Friday night at the IFL event in Atlanta, and took sole posession of first place in the IFL with the team victory. Matt Lindland’s Portlan Wolfpack also defeated Carlos Newton’s Toronto Dragons 3-2.
The evenings superfight saw Robbie Lawler defeated Eduardo Pamplona [...]
Zuffa has announced the full fight card for the World Extreme Cagefighting event scheduled for March 24 in Las Vegas.
WEC 26 will include three title fights, one each in the bantamweight, featherweight, and welterweight divisions.
In the featherweight division, WEC champion Urijah Faber will faced undefeated Dominic Cruz. The vacant WEC bantamweight title [...]
Forest Griffin confirmed on his myspace.com blog that he will be fighting Ryoto Machida at UFC 70 in Manchester, England this April. Griffin is, of course, coming off a loss to Keith Jardin at UFC 66 while Ryoto Machida is coming off a victory over Sam Hoger at UFC 67.
In the Heavyweight division, the [...]
I don’t normally due full previews of Pride Fighting Championships events, but seeing as how their next event is this Friday Saturday in Las Vegas, I thought I’d give a little preview. Plus, there are some really excellent fights on this card and several well-known fighters to the American crowd.
Wanderlei Silva vs Dan Henderson [...]
The International Fight League released their expanded television schedule today for their shows on Fox Sports Net (FSN). Weekly, Friday night shows begin this Friday with the January 19th event in Oakland between the Condors and the Tiger Sharks. The IFL is also going to be airing their “IFL Battleground” series on MyNetworkTV [...]
