Now it’s official: Ronda Rousey has signed with the UFC, becoming the first woman to step in the Octagon.
The Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion will begin fighting for the promotion in 2013, probably in the early months. The name for her first opponent is not confirmed yet, but there are rumors about Strikeforce competitor Liz Carmouche (last victory with Kaitlin Young at Invicta Fc 2). As you know, our hopes are for a Dream Fight against Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos.
On the other hand, losing the women’s division, the entire promotion of Strikeforce will end his glorious history following its show in January 2013. As consequence, many fighters then will
Dream is alive and will be combined with the GLORY 4 Tokyo Heavyweight Grand Slam kickboxing show that had been scheduled in early December.
The show’s name is: “DREAM 18 and GLORY 4 Tokyo – New Year’s Eve Special“. The fight card is expected soon.
“As a company, we want to create the most spectacular martial arts show Japan has ever seen,” GSI (Glory Sports International, which produces DREAM show) chairman Pierre Andurand said. “After taking over DREAM 18, it just made natural sense to look at the opportunity to revive the traditional New Year’s Eve date and create a mega-show. We looked at the pros and cons, and it was clear that a combined show is the way to go. We are extremely proud and excited to deliver this mega-show to the Japanese fans and to the world at large.”
The GLORY kickboxing event will see a one-night 16-man tournament of heavyweight kickboxers. The winner gets a $400,000 prize. Fighters expected to appear are Semmy Schilt, Daniel Ghita, Remy
This Saturday Georges St Pierre will make his return in the Octagon after almost a year and half (against Jake Shields at UCF 129).
It was a hard recovery from a bad knee injury (torn ACL), but now GSP is back to fight! Watch the second episode of UFC Primetime:St Pierre vs Condit!
The main event fo M-1 Challenge 35 on Thursday, November 15, 2012 from St.-Petersburg, Russia is Alexander Emelianenko vs Jeff Monson.
The younger brother of Fedor Emelianenko is a three-time Russian national Combat Sambo champion and three-time world Combat Sambo champion. He has an overall record of 21-5-0 and comes from 4 wins in a row: a submission against Tolegen Akylbekov, two TKO with Tadas Rimkevicius and Ibragim Magomedov and by unanimous decision with Konstantin Gluhov) Jeff Monson (age 41) is a 2 time winner of the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship, and a No Gi Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion. In the last of his 60 fights (46-13-1), he won by a fast north-south choke against Denis Komkin..
In addition to this match, the fans will see four M-1 Challenge title fights, one M-1 Selection final and
Selection of the best mma videos from the world’s most important fights of the week 45: (Mon-Sun) from November 5, 2012 to November 11, 2012. Mma Fight of the Week: Brett Cooper vs Darryl Cobb Mma Knockout of the Week: Rich Franklin vs Cung Le Mma Submission of the Week: Thiago Silva vs Stanislav … Read more
On Saturday, November 10, the UFC will mark its first ever trip to China as part of their final FUEL TV card of the year.
The main event will see former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin (29-6, 1 NC) against former Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le (8-2).
Cung Le (age 40) is a former International Kickboxing Federation light heavyweight world champion, having a professional Sanshou record of 16-0 before moving to mixed martial arts (Le also held an undefeated kick-boxing record of 17-0). In his last match he got a victory against Patrick Cote at UFC 148, but is the match with Wanderlei Silva that made history: at UFC 139 Le had a good start with his kicks, and landed a spinning backfist that dropped Silva. During the second round, Silva bombed Le with huge punches and knees that completely broke Le’s nose. Le was stunned, bloody and fell to the ground, and the fight was stopped by the ref (= Wanderlei Silva vs Cung Le). In the same night there was a “Fight of the Year” and currently our most
Fedor ‘The Last Emperor’ Emelianenko has always been a thorn in the side of Dana White.
The UFC president has almost ever taken what he wanted to take. Almost. It’s also no secret that Emelianenko retired without ever fighting for the UFC, in spite of the several attempts that Dana did to make him sign to fight in the Octagon.
During the years, White has been critical of Emelianenko’s regard as one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, but now that the Russian has retired, he can be more honest about his value.
“Do I think that Fedor is one of the greatest heavyweights ever? Yes, he’s one of the greatest heavyweights ever. I’ll give you that,” White said.
But while White considers UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva as
Bellator 80 takes place on Friday, November 9, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. It hosts the remaining semifinals of Season 7: Featherweight Tournament Semifinal, Wagnney Fabiano vs Rad Martinez, and Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal, Vinicius Queiroz vs Alexander Volkov (see the other two semifinals Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale and Mike Richman vs Shahbulat Shamhalaev).
The featherweight tournament quarterfinals were contested at Bellator 76, with Martinez advancing by outpointing a game Nazareno Malegarie in a hard-fought three-round match (= Martinez vs Malegarie). On the other hand Fabiano submitted hard-hitting Russian
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