The hammer has come down on former Pride champion and MMA legend Wanderlei Silva. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has banned Silva for life from MMA and handed down a sizable $70,000 fine. He was called before the commission in regard to an incident in May where he reportedly ran away from a Nevada State Athletic Commission representative […]
The hammer has come down on former Pride champion and MMA legend Wanderlei Silva. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has banned Silva for life from MMA and handed down a sizable $70,000 fine. He was called before the commission in regard to an incident in May where he reportedly ran away from a Nevada State Athletic Commission representative […]
There were few other fights that the UFC could pull together that would excite fans more than Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz did when the bout was first announced earlier this year. In the blue corner you have the former Strikeforce welterweight champion making his return to the Octagon after what would have been a […]
There were few other fights that the UFC could pull together that would excite fans more than Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz did when the bout was first announced earlier this year. In the blue corner you have the former Strikeforce welterweight champion making his return to the Octagon after what would have been a […]
Thiago Silva has been released and Anthony Johnson suspended indefinitely by the UFC after separate revelations emerged Friday afternoon illustrating histories of domestic violence from both fighters. On Friday, Silva’s ex-wife, Thaysa Kamiji, posted two videos. Globo Extra (h/t Zane Simon of Bloody Elbow), claims the first apparently depicts Silva carrying a gun and searching his house […]
Thiago Silva has been released and Anthony Johnson suspended indefinitely by the UFC after separate revelations emerged Friday afternoon illustrating histories of domestic violence from both fighters. On Friday, Silva’s ex-wife, Thaysa Kamiji, posted two videos. Globo Extra (h/t Zane Simon of Bloody Elbow), claims the first apparently depicts Silva carrying a gun and searching his house […]
Wanderlei Silva is hanging up his gloves after one of the most storied careers in MMA history. The famed light heavyweight made the announcement via a YouTube video on Friday afternoon. “I am stepping down from the ring. After today, Wanderlei Silva will not fight again,” he said. “My career is over. Because I don’t […]
Wanderlei Silva is hanging up his gloves after one of the most storied careers in MMA history. The famed light heavyweight made the announcement via a YouTube video on Friday afternoon. “I am stepping down from the ring. After today, Wanderlei Silva will not fight again,” he said. “My career is over. Because I don’t […]
The tide of public opinion is now more like a flash flood. If you get caught in it, grab on to something, anything at all, and hang on for dear life. It is powerful, but will abate shortly. That might explain the sounds of supplication wafting off Park Avenue Friday morning. You could almost hear […]
The tide of public opinion is now more like a flash flood. If you get caught in it, grab on to something, anything at all, and hang on for dear life. It is powerful, but will abate shortly. That might explain the sounds of supplication wafting off Park Avenue Friday morning. You could almost hear […]
The biggest fight of 2015, on nearly every kind of scale one imagines, is probably Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier. After that, it’s Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz. It wasn’t always this way, of course. But then Jones and Cormier slugged it out in the lobby in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. […]
The biggest fight of 2015, on nearly every kind of scale one imagines, is probably Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier. After that, it’s Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz. It wasn’t always this way, of course. But then Jones and Cormier slugged it out in the lobby in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. […]