For those of you who weren’t able to see the K-1 HERO’s card from this past weekend, here is the main event. In a surprising upset win, Yoshihiro Akiyama defeated Denis Kang via TKO in the first round.
Marcelo Garcia, who many consider to be the best pound-for-pound grappler in the world, also made his [...]
Buckle your seatbelts MMA fans because after a relatively uneventfull August, we are in for a wild ride the next few weeks. Here is just a brief rundown of the “major” events over the next month.
08/25 - UFC 74: Respect
08/25 - EliteXC - ShoXC
09/05 - WEC 30
09/08 - UFC 75: Champion vs Champion
09/15 - [...]
Reports are surfacing today that former PrideFC fighter Denis Kang has signed a contract with K-1 Heros and will be fighting Kazushi Sakuraba on September 17th in Japan.
MMANews.com has a rough translation of a report in Portal do Vale Tudo:
After counting a little of its work as to manager in interview to the Vestibule of [...]
This will be a sad day for many long-time Mixed Martial Arts fans. The California State Athletic Commission is reporting that Royce Gracie failed his post-fight drug testing after his match with Kazushi Sakuraba at the K-1 show on June 2nd.
Mixed martial arts icon Royce Gracie, best known as the slender gi-wearing Brazilian who [...]
Remember Johnny Morton’s tough knockout in his MMA debut at the K-1 show? You probably also remember the fact that he refused to take a post fight drug test. Well, we now know why.
In order to receive a license to fight, Morton, 35, was required to undergo a pre-fight urinalysis. According to Garcia, [...]
For those of you who didn’t get to see the K-1 USA: Dynamite show over the weekend, don’t worry; you didn’t miss much. Much was made about the K-1 show ahead of time and all the troubles they had trying to get the fight card off the ground, and overall the show was less [...]
Loretta Hunt from The Fight Network reported today on the Fight Network radio show that the K-1 Hero’s card scheduled for June 2 in the LA Coliseum is in serious trouble.
To start with, Hunt reports that the K-1 show has not yet received a license from the California State Athletic Commission to even [...]