Mixed Martial Arts Links (10-01-11)

Posted on | October 1, 2011 | No Comments

Mixed martial arts fighter Mike Easton is doing it for the District
Washington Post
JT Torres, a world-renowned jiujitsu black belt, had meant to kick Easton in the chest during amixed martial arts training session this early September morning. He missed. It certainly would have been easy enough for Easton to quit, but he feels he …
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Sonnen shows refreshing, refined side
ESPN (blog)
The Marine hero and emerging mixed martial arts star is an impossible person to challenge in the way Sonnen went after division king Anderson Silva. Outside of being the man with the belt, Silva did nothing really to earn Sonnen’s contempt. …
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ESPN (blog)

For MMA Fans When Does It All Become Too Much
thescore.com (blog)
I’ve always believed that, at least on the fan level, mixed martial arts is a sport for nerds. Driven as it is by the internet and the special brand of obsessive fascination that goes along with that medium, it appeals to the geek within all of us, …
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Review: Supremacy MMA (PS3/360)
GamePro.com
Disappointingly, Supremacy MMA is a shallow, brainless, meatheaded take on mixed martial arts, hiding an almost-decent fighting game under a mountain of awkwardly violent combat and poorly executed gameplay. by McKinley Noble Before we talk about this …
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GamePro.com

Shooto Champion Siyar Bahadurzada Signs with UFC
Yahoo! Sports
It’s sometimes funny how quickly fortunes can change in the mixed martial artsworld. The latest example of that is when Team Golden Glory fighters were excised from the Zuffa list of talent due to an issue in negotiating with the team’s management.…
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Yahoo! Sports

Brock Lesnar and the 10 Most Intense Fighters in MMA Today
Bleacher Report
Condit is also the owner of perhaps the best mean-mugging face in all of mixed martial arts, coupled with the fact that he regularly walks out to Rage Against the Machine—he’s a very scary dude. The “Ruthless” one has made a career pre-dedicated to …
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Bleacher Report

Power Ranking the 10 Best Gyms in MMA Today
Bleacher Report
Mixed Martial Arts has undoubtedly become the world’s fastest growing sport over the past decade and shows no signs of slowing down. Organizations such as UFC, Strikeforce and Bellator have catapulted MMA into a league of their own. …
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Bleacher Report

UFC champ Cruz controls what he can
Yahoo! Sports
But as it turned out, UFC closed the network deal with Fox instead of NBC, meaning Saturday’s show will mark the end the five-year run of Zuffa-branded mixed martial arts events on the network. The relationship was originally built on the backs of the …
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Blogs

UFC 136 conference call updates and LIVE blog today (Sept. 30 …
By Brian Hemminger
UFC 136 conference call updates and LIVE blog today (Sept. 30)
MMAmania.com

The UFC storms Parliament Hill | Fightlinker – UFC, Strikeforce, and …
By fightlinker
Now it’s teeming with MMA events and the UFC is going after the federal law that many provinces have used to keep MMA out: Current federal law says anyone who engages in or aids, abets, umpires or reports on a prize fight “is guilty of an …
Fightlinker – UFC, Strikeforce,…