Mixed Martial Arts Links (5-30-11)
Despite loss, Hamill earns MMA legend’s respect Dayton Daily News By Dann Stupp , Mixed Martial Arts 12:06 AM Monday, May 30, 2011 LAS VEGAS — Soon after his UFC 130 main-event loss to former light-heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, a stoic Matt Hamill sat on the dais of the night’s post-fight news … See all stories on […]
Wrestling Links (5-21-11)
Wrestling’s Romeo and Juliet: Miss Elizabeth and Macho Man Randy Savage USA Today By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY As wrestling fans mourn former minor league baseball player turned WWE wrestling star Randy “Macho Man” Savage, who was killed in a car accident in Tampa, it’s also time to remember one of the secrets of his popularity in … […]
Black House – Zingano Join MMA Forces
Black House – Zingano Join MMA Forces
Boxing Links (5-16-11)
Boxer pleads innocent in Danish terror trial The Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Chechen-born amateur boxer accused of preparing a letter bomb for a Danish newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad pleaded innocent to terrorism Monday at the start of his trial in Copenhagen. … See all stories on this topic » Boxing […]
The Baron, Jim Raschke to Appear at Gotch Open House May 19, Talks to TDR
Many of you know him as “Baron Von Raschke” go back a little further and you’ll discover that one of America’s most hated pro wrestling villains was actually a very accomplished amateur wrestler as well. Jim Raschke enjoyed an extensive career as chronicled below: Amateur wrestling 1958 Nebraska State High School Heavyweight Championship (Omaha North […]
Professional Boxing Returns to Holyoke for only second time in 50 years
Whitley-Hall Headlines “Homecoming” June 25 HOLYOKE, Mass. (May 12, 2011) – Professional boxing returns to Holyoke for only the second time in the past half-century, the first since 2000, on June 25 when American Fighting Organization (“AFO”) presents, “Homecoming,” at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Holyoke. Boxing’s roots in Holyoke date […]
Tom Brands to appear at Gotch Celebration in Humboldt, Iowa, Talks to Takedown
He may have been born in Omaha, Nebraska but the head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes will always be an Iowa kid at heart living with the history of Frank Gotch in his backyard. Raised in Sheldon, Iowa not too far from Humboldt, Brands was not only aware of Gotch, he studied him. Brands told […]
GEORGE FOREMAN & BERNARD HOPKINS CONFERENCE CALL HIGHLIGHTS
“Big” George Foreman Discusses The Possibility Of Bernard Hopkins Breaking His Record As The Oldest Fighter In Boxing History To Win A Significant World Title “You must get a knockout. This fight and the record will not be broken on a unanimous decision. There must be a knockout. “He is the last, truly, thinking man’s […]
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