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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...
The Top 50 MMA Fights in History: Pre-history and Rickson Gracie Edition
Luke and I had the distinct pleasure of helping Beau Dure and Sergio Non at USA Today put together a list of the top 50 MMA fights of all time. Here's the rationale: Some of the 50 fights we'll list ...
MMA History XVII: The Lion's Den Roars
In the 1990's a few fight camps dominated MMA. I've already blogged about Carlson Gracie's Jiu Jitsu camp and Rico Chiaparelli's R.A.W. Team in this series on MMA history. There were three major Ame...
Happy Belated Birthday Gene LeBell
Carrying on with what I started with Helio Gracie, here's another tribute to a living legend. Yesterday was the 76th birthday of a man who may not be the grandfather of modern MMA but is certainly a g...
Ken Shamrock: Legend of the Sport
I come not to bury Ken Shamrock but rather to praise him. Sure his MMA career has been pretty sad since, oh 2004, if not 2000. But I'm here to talk about the man's glory days. There's a reason peo...
Happy Belated Birthday Helio Gracie
Yesterday was Helio Gracie's 95th Birthday. If one man can be said to be the Grandfather of MMA, Helio Gracie is that man. A Brazilian, Helio and his brother Carlos kept traditional jiu jitsu a...
Welcome to MMA, Here's the History of the Sport
In the aftermath of the biggest weekend in MMA history, our traffic here at Bloody Elbow has roughly doubled. Many of you folks are just learning about the sport for the first time. In the interest ...
MMA History XVI: Rico Chiapparelli and the RAW Team
After a little break, here we go again with another installment of my MMA History series. So far I've slogged all the way to 1997 in sixteen installments. As I've talked about in previous installment...
MMA History XV: Pancrase, RINGS, and Shooto 1996
It's been way too long since I talked about Japan in this here history of MMA. But one thing to keep in mind is that MMA was evolving so fast that I've only been covering 1996 (and a tiny bit of 1997)...
MMA History XIV: Boom and Bust in Brazil
When I started this series I promised to focus on what happened INSIDE the cage/ring and not all the political and business bullshit on the outside. But I've come to a point in the story where it's ju...
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