MMA LINKS (3-22-11)

Posted on | March 23, 2011 | No Comments

‘Lil Nog’ still seeking path to the top
USA Today
But while heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira has title belts from Pride Fighting Championship and UFC, the smaller sibling still lacks mixed martial arts gold for his waist. He can’t win a title on Saturday when he faces late replacement foe Phil …
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New guard
FOXSports.com
When the book is written on the history of mixed martial arts, there will be a handful of eras that will have to be referred to in it. Every sport goes through them. And this past weekend gave us the beginning of an era in MMA via one fight: Mauricio …
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Released from UFC, Todd Brown contemplating move to middleweight
MMAjunkie.com
by John Morgan on Mar 22, 2011 at 8:15 pm ET After an unsuccessful two-fight run in the octagon, Indiana native Todd Brown (15-3) has been released by the world’s largestmixed martial arts promotion. MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed …
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MMAjunkie.com

Greg Jackson’s camp a land of disbandment
ESPN (blog)
By Chuck Mindenhall For more than half a decade in mixed martial arts, Albuquerque, NM, has been a place of harmony for its practitioners. Making your way west to Greg Jackson’s camp has become a sort of pilgrimage to reinvention (at least) or …
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Martial Arts Gym Offers Free Training to Children
Famuan
Tallahassee’s newest mixed martial arts gym, Warriors Path Fighting Systems, offers more than just training for fighters. The gym will offer free tutoring service to the community, from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Charles Haskins, head coach and …
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Ratings rebound for UFC 128 prelims
USA Today
The broadcast last weekend generated a ratings of 1.03 and .92 among men ages 18-to-34 and 18-to-49, the core demographic groups for mixed martial arts. UFC 128 preliminary fights on Spike included Edson Barboza vs. Anthony Njokuani and Luiz Cane vs. …
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The Salamander Key to Premiere in Moscow March 24th
ComingSoon.net
The movie stars Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen and mixed martial arts‘ (MMA) Fedor Emelianenko. The action film marks Emelianenko’s debut on the big screen. In the film, a group of international scientists disappear on a remote island in South-Eastern …
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Live chat with UFC president Dana White
Seattle Times
Dana White is a co-owner and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, the largestmixed martial arts promotion company in the world. Since taking over day-to-day operations of UFC in 2001, White has turned it into a wildly successful business and …
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Seattle Times

Jon Jones Is More One-Man Revolution Than MMA Evolution
MMAFighting.com
There is a constant meme that gets passed around regarding how mixed martial arts will look 10 or 20 years from now. In that crystal ball version of the future, all the athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, better. They are more creative, …
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After win, Woodstown native LaRosa has big plans
Gloucester County Times – NJ.com
The Woodstown native has been considered the top 125-pound women’s Mixed Martial Arts fighter in the world for much of the last half-decade, but hasn’t been able to hook on with a stable organization since BodogFIGHT closed down in 2008. …
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Mixed Martial Arts Is Coming to Pattaya | Asian Correspondent
The first ever fully dedicated mixed martial arts (MMA) show will be taking place in Pattaya later this month. Scheduled for Saturday March 26th at the …
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