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Interview With Marcos da Matta, American Top Team BJJ Instructor
This is a guest post by Ben Thapa aka Tree Frog of the BE grappling team. For a smaller guy, Marcos da Matta has done big things. The 38 year old instructor to ATT stars like Thiago Alves, Brad Pickett, Rich Attonito and Gleison Tibau has amassed an 8-1 record in MMA and won gold in the Brazilian...
MMA History for the Holidays
For Boxing Day, a celebration of Britain's feudal past, I thought I'd share my aging MMA History series. I wasn't as diligent as planned in 2010, only adding two installments, but I swear I'll do more this year! Read a few you might learn something! I: UFC 1 Pancrase meets BJJ II: The...
Impact FC results and quick recap for 'Uprising 2' on July 18 in Sydney
Impact FC staged another "Uprising" late Saturday night/early Sunday morning when it brought a cast of MMA notables to its July 18 pay-per-view from the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia. Leading the charge "Down Under" was former UFC and PRIDE heavyweight Pedro Rizzo, bagging and...
MMA Legend: Murilo Bustamante
Sherdog has a nice piece up checking in with former UFC middleweight champ Murilo Bustamante who'll be fighting for the first time in several years at tonight's Impact FC: The Uprising Sydney. They cover his epic 1996 match with superheavyweight wrestler Tom Erikson: Bustamante entered an...
Impact FC "The Uprising: Sydney" Live Play-by-Play, Results and Commentary
With yesterday's Filho-centric weigh-in shenanigans in the books, upstart Australian promotion Impact FC is ready to hold their second show and first-ever live pay-per-view tonight in Sydney. Sure, the card is headlined by a clash between two MMA legends who arguably shouldn't be fighting anymore...
The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History VII: 2005-2006
Here's the seventh installment of our USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA fights in modern history. Beau Dure has written up the next block at USAT's Fighting Stances blog. To start, here's our criteria: Some of the 50 fights we'll list aren't necessarily the best MMA bouts, but all of them are...
MMA History XI: Carlson Gracie's Mighty Camp
Though I've talked in my last two installments about how strikers and wrestlers were making a big impact, they were still challengers to the pre-eminent styles: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Japanese Shoot Wrestling. At the time skilled grapplers with real fight experience were few and far between. Even...
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