Mixed Martial Arts Links (10-14-11)

Posted on | October 14, 2011 | No Comments

Bellator champ Makovsky gets turn in spotlight
USA Today
After fretting over defeats as a collegiate wrestler for Drexel University, Makovsky learned to stop worrying and love the experience of being a fighter after suffering his first loss in mixed martial arts. “I understand that even if I lose, …
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USA Today

M-1 Global MMA event set for Grand Canyon University Arena
AZ Central.com
Guram Gugenishvili’s, the current heavyweight champion of Russian-based M-1 Global, one of the bigger international mixed–martial arts organizations. Garner and Grishin will fight for the interim heavyweight title in the main event of M-1 Global …
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MMA NEWS:CHICAGO CAGEFIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIPS– CCC 4 PREVIEW, 10/15/11
Sports Chat Place
Chicago Cagefighting Championships presents another night of exciting mixed martial arts action as the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois hosts CCC 4. This event will take a page from the ill-fated first Affliction show as CCC 4 will feature a …
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Sports Chat Place

Regulatory stalling puts Vancouver off the UFC’s schedule for the foreseeable …
Vancouver Sun
The city of Vancouver’s slow motion move towards regulating mixed martial arts has finally pushed the Ultimate Fighting Championship to abandon the city, if recent comments by the organization’s Director of Canadian Operations are to be believed. …
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Pound for Pound: Eye of the Edgar
Crave Online
Yet Edgar keeps disposing of the top competition in what is unilaterally regarded as the most competitive division in all of mixed martial arts. If you didn’t think he was worthy of pound-for-pound status, he certainly made his case in his title …
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Ken Hershman leaves Showtime, reportedly in favor of HBO
MMAjunkie.com
Hershman, has long been considered a supporter of MMA and will apparently replace Ross Greenburg, who recently stepped down from his role as president of HBO Sports and was not necessarily a believer in the sport. Despite his past support of MMA, …
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Lahaina teenager on path to mixed martial arts career
Lahaina News
But during his incarceration at Koolau, Florian, who will turn 18 on the 18th of this month, was inspired by MMA (mixed martial arts) and UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) programs he and other inmates watched on television. …
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Takedown Entertainment Enters Production Phase With SportFight Television Pilot
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Oct 13, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Takedown Entertainment Inc. (www.takedownentertainment.com ) /quotes/zigman/603284 TKDN +2.63% , the new face of mixed martial arts (MMA), is pleased to announce it is producing a Television Pilot for …
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Focused Askren has no time for Olympics
Yahoo! Sports
But the Bellator champion is focused on improving as a mixed martial artist. He’s 27 and has never taken a break from competition, walking right from the 2008 Olympics, where he didn’t place, into mixed martial arts, where he’s gone 8-0. …
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Yahoo! Sports

RECREATION Lab’s business plan of attack: Instruct, inspire
The Free Lance-Star
Lebrun’s The Lab Mixed Martial Arts Academy now has more than 150 students. Those who train under Lebrun said his engaging personality and passion for martial arts are what helped the business expand. “This is a mixed martial arts palace compared to …
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Blogs

Superhero’s secret identity revealed as MMA fighter | Fightlinker …
By fightlinker
Meet Phoenix Jones. He’s a real life costumed ‘superhero’ fighting crime on the streets of Seattle, Washington. Now meet Ben Fodor. Ben is an amateur MMA fighter with a record of 11-0, and the brother of Strikeforce Challengers headliner …
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