Mixed Martial Arts Links (6-17-11)

Posted on | June 17, 2011 | No Comments

MMA Fighting Stances: Mixed martial arts intelligence from the cage and ring
USA Today
by Sergio Non By Sergio Non, USA TODAY DALLAS — If the only thing that mattered were results inside the ring, Josh “The Baby-Faced Assassin” Barnett likely would be amixed martial arts legend by now. He’s arguably the most skilled heavyweight in the…
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USA Today

Wanderlei Silva and The Most Brutally Aggressive Fighters In MMA
Bleacher Report
In honor of “The Axe Murderer’s” return to the UFC, we at BR thought it would be fun to take a look at the most aggressive fighters in MMA. For a fighter to qualify for this list, they needn’t be an all-time great. They don’t even need to be …
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Bleacher Report

Why Mixed Martial Arts is being hit below the belt
YourNabe.com
This combination of rigorous disciplines is what would be allowed under the proposal to allowmixed–martial arts in New York state. As someone who appreciates mixed–martial arts and recognizes the financial benefits to taxpayers, I find this split …
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Promoters hope Newport News show is first of many Mixed Martial Arts events
Daily Press
By Marty O’Brien, mobrien@dailypress.com | 247-4963 Nature abhors a vacuum, and so too do area Mixed Martial Arts promoters Giovanni Lemm, Nick White and Julia Blair-Wiseman. The trio aims to fill what they feel is a void of regular high-quality MMA…
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Daily Press

Women compete in mixed martial arts contest in Fletcher
Asheville Citizen-Times
Olympic silver women’s wrestling medalist Sara McMann is among the athletes in this weekend’sMixed Martial Arts contest at the WNc Agricultural Center. / Special to the Citizen-Times What: United Fight Nations BlackEye Productions IV Mixed Martial …
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Jay Glazer continues to make MMA inroads into the NFL
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
By Doug Farrar FOX Sports NFL reporter Jay Glazer has another life as an Mixed Martial Arts expert, and he’s been training more and more players in the ways of the Octagon in ways that have definite positive impacts on their NFL exploits. …
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Yahoo! Sports (blog)

New WARRIOR Poster Is Intense
We Are Movie Geeks
Haunted by a tragic past, Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for Sparta, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. …
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We Are Movie Geeks

Monson excited to return to Zuffa fold, looking forward to tough bout against …
The Times and Democrat (blog)
A two-time Abu Dhabi Combat Club submission wrestling champion, Monson will be hosting a seminar at Black Force Mixed Martial Arts Academy on Bacon’s Bridge Road in Summerville Oct. 15. Cost of the seminar is $100 and class size is limited to the first …
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Fight Path: Adversity, Ford Expedition no match for Strikeforce’s Mike Bronzoulis
MMAjunkie.com
by Kyle Nagel on Jun 16, 2011 at 9:45 am ET Mike Bronzoulis had already taken a rough and often-delayed road to get to his professional mixed–martial–arts debut in October 2007. He had been through his parents traveling often, so he was forced to often …
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Blogs

Josh Barnett – An Assassin Comes Home | Strikeforce
By Thomas Gerbasi
That’s a claim not many who began their MMA careers with Barnett in 1997 can claim. For proof, just look at the list of 14 fighters that were on the bill when Barnett made his UFC debut in 2000, and there’s only one still active on the …
Strikeforce