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Archive for September, 2007

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 months, you’ve noticed the rapid explosion in popularity of Affliction Clothing shirts among the MMA crowd. It seems like most fighters and their fans are wearing the Affliction brand and the abundance of Affliction apparel prompted Joe Rogan to announce “if I see [...]

Georges St. Pierre recently appeared on “The Hour” with George Stroumboulopoulos (yes, that is his real last name) on CBC Television in Canada.

California Doesn’t Mind the Weed

September 27th, 2007

By now, you may or may not have heard that all the fighters at UFC 76 passed their initial drug tests except for one: Kazuhiro Nakamura.
Nakamura tested positive for marijuana after his loss to Ryoto Machida by unanimous decision. Nakamura smokes weed? Really? I never would have guessed by his ring entrances from [...]

In a recent interview, Antonio “Minotauro” Nogueria states that his next fight will be in December at UFC 79 against Cheick Kongo. Of course, I don’t speak Portuguese so I translated the interview into English online. If it doesn’t all make sense, its not my fault.

My next fight must be in December, with [...]

The International Fight League announced today that they will present the first live Mixed Martial Arts event to be aired in prime time on US broadcast television.
The IFL World Grand Prix semifinals will be held on November 3rd in Chicago, IL and be televised live on MyNetworkTV starting at 8pm EST. The [...]

UFC 76 Fighter Payouts

September 25th, 2007

Here are the fighter salaries from UFC 76: Knockout.

Chuck Liddell - $500,000
Mauricio Rua - $150,000
Lyoto Machida - $50,000
Jon Fitch - $44,000
Forrest Griffin- $44,000
Tyson Griffin - $24,000
Rich Clementi - $24,000
Diego Sanchez - $22,000
Kazuhiro Nakamura - $20,000
Matt Wiman - $16,000
Keith Jardine - $14,000
Christian Wellisch - $14,000
Thiago Tavares - $9,000
Jeremy Stephens - $6,000
Michihiro Omigawa - $5,000
Anthony Johnson - [...]

MMA Is Not For the Weak

September 25th, 2007

I found this over at MMAHaven.com today. This has to be the worst guillotine choke I have ever seen. This guys neck must be made of Silly Putty. Either that or his father was Stretch Armstrong.

The Most Brutal Guillotine Choke in MMAUploaded by Bulletproof2

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