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The Unpopular Opinion: CBS Saturday Night Fights Edition

Us here at MMA4Real try to be politically correct for the most part and call everything down the middle.  However, there comes a time when you have to call it how you see it and maybe give your o...

Gina Carano Training Photos

Gina Carano and Randy Couture Photos by Esther Lin/STRIKEFORCE Showtime Sports has a photo set up with photos of Gina Carano's training, includ...

Do We Use The Term "Legend" Too Loosely In Mixed Martial Arts?

I saw this elsewhere and I thought I'd present the question to you all some of my input and whatnot.  Mixed Martial Arts as we know it has only been around a little over a decade, and actually wa...

Cage Cast 26: The Cyborg Cometh

  What a weekend for MMA. History was made as we watched the first female MMA champion crowned. On top of that we were also privy to the first female fight headline a card. Really a triumph for f...

Substance vs. Style: E:60 Tom Farrey wants the Style

  MMA fans routinely pull their hair out when watching mainstream media report on MMA figures. Today is no exception.  E:60, ESPN's investigative journalism news-magazine, recently did ...

MMA History XX: Kazushi Sakuraba and Frank Shamrock Emerge at Ultimate Japan

A couple of installments back, I talked about the epic Frank Shamrock vs Enson Inoue fight from Vale Tudo Japan 1997. Before that bout, the UFC had told both fighters that the winner would get to face...

Bloody Elbow Book Review: Frank Shamrock's Mixed Martial Arts for Dummies

It's been a long time since Victory Belt put out a new training manual and it's a couple more weeks before I get my copies of their next tomes, I thought I'd do a review of Frank Shamrock's Mixed Ma...

UFC attempts to re-write history

There is an old saying that history is written by the victors.  In the run up to UFC 100 and at the UFC Fan Expo Zuffa attempted to blot out the impact of Frank Shamrock and Tito Ortiz, two fight...

UFC's Stalinist View of MMA History Erases Frank Shamrock and Tito Ortiz

Sherdog documents the atrocities: The UFC’s first middleweight champ and arguably its biggest star in the late 90s, Shamrock never lost a fight in the Octagon. However, the UFC excluded all of ...

The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History III: 1997-2000

Here's our third installment of the USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA fights in modern history. Sergio Non has written up the next block at USAT's Fighting Stances blog. To start, here's our crit...