Ninja Headlines Cage Rage PPV Card In London Tomorrow At ProElite.Com
November 30th, 2007
In a perfect illustration of EliteXC’s willingness to integrate its fighters with other organizations, former EliteXC middleweight champion Murilo “Ninja” Rua (murilorua.proelite.com) of Brazil will try to stump local favorite Xavier “Professor X” Foupa-Pokam (xavierpokam.proelite.com) when they collide in the main event of “Cage Rage 24: Feel The Pain’’ tomorrow/ Saturday, Dec. 1, at Wembley [...]
Three title fights headline Versus’ fourth live World Extreme Cagefighting event Dec 12
November 30th, 2007
VERSUS, the network that celebrates real competition in all its forms and the cable television home of World Extreme Cagefighting® (WEC™), today announced details of the network’s fourth live event on December 12. With three world titles on the line as well as the return of a true mixed martial arts legend, this WEC event [...]
Bodog Fight Returns To Russia
November 28th, 2007
With the sold-out success of Bodog Fight: Clash of the Nations, a return to Russia was inevitable for Calvin Ayre’s hard-hitting mixed martial arts promotion. Following last April’s incredible live event at the ICE Palace in St. Petersburg, Bodog Fight presents Bodog Fight: Russia vs. USA Friday, November 30 at the MegaSport Ice Arena in [...]
Rob Zombie’s Halloween to sponsor HDNet Fights “Reckless Abandon”
November 26th, 2007
DALLAS, TEXAS—Mark Cuban’s HDNet FIGHTS has inked a promotional deal with Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN UNRATED to sponsor “RECKLESS ABANDON,” scheduled for December 15th at Dallas’ American Airlines Center. The ten-bout mixed-martial-arts event will feature two of the sports top middleweights, Frank Trigg and Jason “Mayhem” Miller, in separate co-main event fights.
ITV4 begins carrying “IFL Battleground” on Saturday night
November 26th, 2007
NEW YORK, November 26, 2007 - The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world’s number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, and Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) today announced that ITV4 has begun carrying IFL programming on Saturday nights. It is the IFL’s second European broadcast partner, joining TV4 in Sweden.
“The United Kingdom [...]
New York City Undefeated Unique Combat Fighter Jennifer Santiago in Action
November 25th, 2007
New York— Jennifer Santiago- age 24, 2003 and 2004 Golden Gloves champion and undefeated contender of Chuck Norris’ new World Combat League is fighting in front of thousands of fans this Saturday at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City to preserve her undefeated record. In early 2008, she will be staring in the first [...]
BodogFight To Air Two New Webisodes From “The Vault”
November 21st, 2007
Bodog Fight: The Vault offers up all-new hard-hitting webisodes this Tuesday and Saturday on Bodog TV’s multi-award winning website, bodoglife.net/fight. Tune in Tuesday, November 20 for an exciting middleweight bout between Scott Henze (20-9-2) and Steve Connelly (12-3), filmed September 29 in Evansville, Indiana.
Henze was looking to rebound from a devastating loss to former [...]
EliteXC Fighters Give Away Turkeys In Five U.S. Cities Tuesday
November 21st, 2007
Los Angeles-based ProElite, Inc.’s Live Fight Division, EliteXC, sponsored a charity event Tuesday in which turkeys were distributed to needy and underprivileged people who’d otherwise go this week without a turkey dinner and all the trimmings. Two days before Thanksgiving Day, six of the most popular stars in EliteXC donated their time and muscles as [...]
Bonecrunch Fighting Expands - FightZone TV To Televise Nationally
November 21st, 2007
Expanding rapidly to meet fan demand, Bonecrunch Fighting is proud to announce the addition of veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and trainer Josh Odom to the league. Odom’s Tallahassee Warriors are the eighth team in the Bonecrunch Fighting league.
A standout athlete growing up in Tallahassee, Odom earned an Ed Parker Kemp Karate black belt [...]
UFC 78 “Validation” Rocks the Brick City
November 20th, 2007
By Danny Serratelli, ringside, Brickcityboxing.com: The UFC returned to New Jersey for the first time in several years with UFC 78 billed as “Validation” and they rocked the house. The house this time was in the Brick City, Newark New Jersey’s new Prudential Center Arena, also known as [...]
IFL: Jay Larkin named Chief Executive Officer
November 18th, 2007
NEW YORK, November 20, 2007 - The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world’s number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, today announced a change in its senior leadership, naming Jay Larkin acting Chief Executive Officer. Larkin, who had joined the IFL as President and Chief Operating Officer on September 21, 2007, replaces [...]
Paulo Filho returns to defend his title against Chael Sonnen
November 15th, 2007
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – Seen by many as the premier middleweight in the world today, Brazilian powerhouse Paulo Filho returns to the World Extreme Cagefighting® (WEC™) organization on December 12 to defend his WEC Middleweight Championship against seasoned veteran Chael Sonnen in what has the makings of a Fight of The Year showdown. All [...]
StrikeForce MMA: Live Yahoo Stream
November 15th, 2007
Following the smash success of its live stream from the world-famous Playboy Mansion, Strikeforce will again deliver to fans around the globe, world championship mixed martial arts action, LIVE on Yahoo! Sports (www.sports.yahoo.com), from the HP Pavilion in San Jose on Friday. Available to all internet users located beyond a 150 mile radius of San [...]
MMA Veterans Launch WAMMA-First Sanctioning Body for Sport
November 15th, 2007
With Mixed Martial Arts growing into a mainstream sporting power, a team of business and combat sport veterans today launched WAMMA, the first sanctioning body for the burgeoning sport. The World Alliance of Mixed Martial (WAMMA) will create the first weight division ranking system for MMA fighters, establish unified rules for the sport, ensure the [...]
IFL Forms Video Sharing Partnership With YouTube and Google Ads
November 14th, 2007
The International Fight League the world’s number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, and YouTube, the world’s leading video sharing Website, today announced a video sharing partnership designed to expose IFL content to a larger worldwide audience. It is the first partnership YouTube has formed in the sport of mixed martial arts, and follows [...]
IFL Puts Unprecedented Five Titles on the Line at World Grand Prix Finals at Mohegan Sun
November 13th, 2007
The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI) today announced several additions to the card for the 2007 IFL World Grand Prix finals, the individual all-star competition for the world’s number one mixed martial arts league. Five Championship bouts, believed to be unprecedented in North America, will take place on Saturday, December 29, at the Mohegan [...]
Bodog To Re-Open “The Vault” With New Webisodes
November 13th, 2007
Bodog Fight: The Vault is delivering on its promise to provide mixed martial arts fans with hard-hitting, heart-pounding non-stop action each Tuesday and Saturday. Those who watched the inaugural episode Tuesday, Nov. 6 on Bodog TV’s multi-award winning website, bodoglife.net/fight, saw Julie Kedzie punish Kelly Kobold for three rounds en route to earning a unanimous [...]
Noons Upsets Diaz, Kimbo’s Smashing In Debut
November 11th, 2007
photos by Tom Casino/EliteXC
On a night when Kimbo Slice made his eagerly awaited professional Mixed Martial Arts debut, KJ Noons stole the show with a shocking first-round TKO over heavily-favored Nick Diaz to capture the EliteXC lightweight world championship Saturday on SHOWTIME. The event, which took place at The American Bank Center Arena, was [...]
Oddessa’s Odds On EliteXC Fights On Showtime - Weigh-In Photos
November 10th, 2007
Photos: TOM CASINO/EliteXC
The well-respected Oddessa Line, which is carried worldwide by most Offshore, European, and Las Vegas Sportsbooks and Casinos, has posted odds on Saturday’s EliteXC excellent cage fight card at the American Bank Center Arena at Corpus Christi, Tex., on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT/delayed on the west coast).
Jake Shields Re-Signs With EliteXC
November 10th, 2007
Photo by TOM CASINO/EliteXC — CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (Nov. 9, 2007) – The decision, it turns out, was a no-brainer. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to even call it a decision.
“The plan was always to stay with EliteXC,’’ said Jake Shields, who has re-signed with Los Angeles-based ProElite’s Live Fight Division. “For some [...]
