Finally, it’s OFFICIAL! The WAMMA heavyweight title bout between Fedor Emelianenko and Josh Barnett is now official for Affliction “Trilogy” at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. on Saturday, August 1. Affliction revealed today the poster for the event headlined by the two top ten ranked heavyweights. Additionally, Gegard Mousasi, Ben Rothwell, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, [...]
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When Rashad Evans climbed into the cage at UFC 96 in March following Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s victory over Keith Jardine and began jawing nose-to-nose with Jackson, many saw it as a stunt devised by the public relations and marketing wizards at the Ultimate Fighting Championship to drum up interest in a future pay-per-view fight. Then [...]
If Fedor is considered one of the best pound for pound fighter’s in the world then why is he not fighting in MMA’s top organization, the UFC? It’s a question that get’s asked constantly and rumor has it that it is because of his Russian Management aka “Russian Gentlemen” and the UFC can’t come to terms. [...]
Sources at NWI.com have confirmed that Miguel Torres will next defend his World Extreme Cagefighting bantamweight title as the main event of WEC 42 on Aug. 9 at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Depending on the source, WEC 42 has been rumored to be on either Aug. 16 [...]
One of the best pound for pound fighters on the planet Gegard Mousasi has confirmed to www.M-1Global.com that his next opponent will in fact be none other than “The Phenom” Vitor Belfort. The two are expected to face off at the third Affliction event that has been rumored for August 1. Mousasi revealed his next [...]
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