Tweet Check out photo’s from the Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine weigh-ins at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Check out the photo gallery below of all the main card fighters. Thanks to Tracy Lee for the photos and be sure to check out her CombatLifestyle.com webpage to view all of her pics from the weigh-ins […]
Luke Rockhold vs. Keith Jardine (Photo by Tracy Lee)
Check out photo’s from the Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine weigh-ins at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Check out the photo gallery below of all the main card fighters. Thanks to Tracy Lee for the photos and be sure to check out her CombatLifestyle.com webpage to view all of her pics from the weigh-ins as well as a ton of other photos from various events.
Robbie Lawler vs. Adlan Amagov (Photo by Tracy Lee)
'King Mo' Lawal vs. Lorenz Larkin (Photo by Tracy Lee)
Tyron Woodley vs. Jordan Mein (Photo by Tracy Lee)
Tarec Saffiedine vs. Tyler Stinson (Photo by Tracy Lee)
GQ released some new photos of women’s mma star Gina Carano for the magazines upcoming January 2012 issue. The video is some bonus footage of that shoot. Carano is set to star in the upcoming action flick Haywire directed by Steven Soderbergh.
GQ released some new photos of women’s mma star Gina Carano for the magazines upcoming January 2012 issue. The video is some bonus footage of that shoot. Carano is set to star in the upcoming action flick Haywire directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Tweet The Strikeforce promotion held it’s open workouts on Wednesday for this weekends Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine event, which is set to go down Jan. 7, 2012 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Check out main card fighters middleweight champ Luke Rockhold, Keith Jardine, Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal, Lorenz Larkin […]
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The Strikeforce promotion held it’s open workouts on Wednesday for this weekends Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine event, which is set to go down Jan. 7, 2012 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Check out main card fighters middleweight champ Luke Rockhold, Keith Jardine, Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal, Lorenz Larkin and Tyron Woodley out.
Welterweight fighter Johny Hendricks made a big statement to the rest of the UFC’s 170-lbs division by finishing Jon Fitch via knockout in twelve-seconds of the opening round of their UFC 141 main card bout. The win now puts Hendricks at 7-1 overall in the Octagon since joining the UFC back in August 2009.
Check out a slow motion view of the action after the jump.
Welterweight fighter Johny Hendricks made a big statement to the rest of the UFC’s 170-lbs division by finishing Jon Fitch via knockout in twelve-seconds of the opening round of their UFC 141 main card bout. The win now puts Hendricks at 7-1 overall in the Octagon since joining the UFC back in August 2009.
Check out a slow motion view of the action after the jump.
Tweet Fighters for DREAM’s Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 event in Japan hit the scales today in Tokyo. Main event headliners Fedor Emelianenko (106 kg/233.2 lbs) and Satoshi Ishii (97.4 kg/214.3 lbs) were both on weight for their heavyweight bout, while the two DREAM title fights were made official as fighters hit […]
Fighters for DREAM’s Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 event in Japan hit the scales today in Tokyo.
Main event headliners Fedor Emelianenko (106 kg/233.2 lbs) and Satoshi Ishii (97.4 kg/214.3 lbs) were both on weight for their heavyweight bout, while the two DREAM title fights were made official as fighters hit their marks as well.
Lightweight champ Shinya Aoki (70 kg/154 lbs) meets Satoru Kitaoka (70 kg/154 lbs), while featherweight title holder Hiroyuki Takaya (65 kg/143 lbs) takes on Takeshi ‘Lion’ Inoue (64.8 kg/142.6 lbs).
The only fighter to miss weight on their initial attempt was bantamweight grand-prix semifinalist Rodolfo Marques Niniz who weighed in at 62.2 kg (136.8 lbs) on his first attempt.
The nine hour event, which includes mma/kickboxing/pro-wrestling matches begins at 10pm EST tonight and will air live on HDNet from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Official Fight Card
Heavyweight Bout: Fedor Emelianenko (106 kg) vs. Satoshi Ishii (97.4 kg)
DREAM Lightweight Championship Bout: Shinya Aoki (70 kg) vs. Satoru Kitaoka (70 kg)
DREAM Featherweight Championship Bout: Hiroyuki Takaya (65 kg) vs. Takeshi Inoue (64.8 kg)
Featherweight Bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri (65 kg) vs. Kazuyuki Miyata (64.7 kg)
Welterweight Bout: Hayato Sakurai (75.8 kg) vs. Ryo Chonan (75.5 kg)
DREAM/K-1 Special Rules Bout: Yuichiro Nagashima (73.5 kg) vs. Katsunori Kikuno (73.5 kg)
Women’s (115 lbs) bout: Megumi Fujii (52 kg) vs. Karla Benitez (52 kg)
K-1 Max Bout: Yuta Kubo (63.8 kg) vs. Nils Widlund (63.6 kg)
K-1 Max Bout: Masaaki Noiri (64 kg) vs. Kengo Sonoda (63.5 kg)
Bantamweight Tournament
Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal Bout: Masakazu Imanari (60.8 kg) vs. Antonio Banuelos (61 kg)
Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal Bout: Bibiano Fernandes (61 kg) vs. Rodolfo Marques (62.2 kg)
Bantamweight Tournament Reserve Bout: Hideo Tokoro (61 kg) vs. Yusup Saadulaev (61.6 kg)
Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner of Imanari/Banuelos vs. Winner of Fernandes/Marques
IGF Rules Bout: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Peter Aerts
IGF Rules Bout: Atsushi Sawada and Shinichi Suzukawa vs. Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata
IGF Rules Bout: Josh Barnett vs. Hideki Suzuki
IGF Rules Bout: Jerome Le Banner vs. Tim Sylvia
Tweet Former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres (40-4) is back with the Ultimate Fighting Championship after he was released earlier this month for a controversial Tweet about “rape vans.” Torres was on hand for today’s UFC 141 pre-fight press conference in Las Vegas, with UFC president Dana White explaining to the gathered media that the […]
Former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres (40-4) is back with the Ultimate Fighting Championship after he was released earlier this month for a controversial Tweet about “rape vans.”
Torres was on hand for today’s UFC 141 pre-fight press conference in Las Vegas, with UFC president Dana White explaining to the gathered media that the fighter had taken responsibility for his actions, as well as making amends by visiting and donating money to local rape centers.
News, as well as the photo, were provided by MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani who Tweeted (@arielhelwani) the news on Wednesday afternoon.
Dana says Torres is back. Torres has donated money to local rape centers, visited them. Dana says Torres was very remorseful.
Dana says Torres handled his business like a man and no one told him to do it. Torres very emotional.
Torres returns to the UFC after three weeks since he was fired by the top promotion. He is currently 1-1 in his last two and is 3-1 in his last four. Torres was last in action in November at UFC 139, defeating an overweight Nick Pace (who weighed in at 141 lbs for their bantamweight bout), by unanimous decision at the San Jose event. Previous to the win, Torres suffered a decision loss to Demetrious Johnson in May at UFC 130.
