Mixed Martial Arts Links (5-2-11)

Posted on | May 2, 2011 | No Comments

Stadium show a record-smashing success
Dayton Daily News
By Dann Stupp, Mixed Martial Arts Insider 1:36 AM Monday, May 2, 2011 TORONTO — A little more than four years ago, the Ultimate Fighting Championship hosted its first event at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The event, UFC 68, set a North American MMA …
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Randy Couture Loses To Lyoto Machida In UFC 129, Calls It Quits
Huffington Post
Randy Couture is and will forever be one of mixed martial arts‘ seminal early figures, its building blocks. Fifty years from now, when we have better perspective, maybe we can write a fair and true portrait of his importance, but it’s fair to say it …
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Trg’S Andy lally Competes in georgia mixed Martial arts event
The Race Site
Lally uses Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as a part of his training regimen. “I train at Creighton MMA in Georgia,” Lally said. “I’ve got some incredible instructors that I train with every day when I am home. I’ve been training at an MMA gym for a while …
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MMA News: UFC 129 Results Feature GSP vs Shields Fight Ending Win Streak
Gather.com
In MMA news, Saturday’s UFC 129 results from Toronto featured the main event match of GSP vs Shields. In the battle between challenger Jake Shields and champion Georges St-Pierre, one fighter would finally lose their impressive win streak. …
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Sold-out crowd packs Portland armory for first MMA event in Maine
Bangor Daily News
By Alex Barber, BDN Staff PORTLAND — The Mixed Martial Arts era in Maine has officially arrived. And with big success. A sold-out crowd of more than 2000 people packed into the Stevens Avenue Armory for the first sanctioned MMA event in state history …
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MMA: Matyushenko Beats Brilz at UFC 129
Opposing Views
Vladimir Matyushenko is a long time veteran of the sport, a 31 fight and 14 year veteran and one of the most respected fighters in mixed martial arts. The Janitor also proves he still has some tricks up his sleeve and left in the tank, finishing Jason …
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Opposing Views

UFC: Like it or lump it

Globe and Mail
Those who believe all combat sports are immoral, even those who choose to seemixed martial arts as “human cockfighting,” a degradation of Marquess of Queensberry orthodoxy, would have seen nothing to change their minds at the dome. All of the gloss, …
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Globe and Mail

Japan’s Olympic judo champ Ishii reigns in US
AFP
TOKYO — Olympic judo heavyweight champion Satoshi Ishii, now a mixed martial arts fighter, has swept all before him in his return to the sport at the US national championships. The 24-year-old Japanese won the open-class title in a field of 13, …
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Aldo Retains Featherweight Crown
ESPN
Earlier in the week, White had said there was a possibility former lightweight contender Kenny Florian, who also serves as an analyst on ESPN’s “MMA Live,” would get the next title shot. But Florian has a fight scheduled in June. …
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Martial arts league says North Dakota bar picked up satellite feed without …
The Republic
AP BISMARCK, ND — A mixed martial arts league is suing a Bismarck restaurant and bar for allegedly broadcasting a fight without permission. The Ultimate Fighting Championship says in federal court documents that Reza’s Pitch Burgers & Beer “unlawfully …
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