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Tim Sylvia, Josh Barnett Returning To Pro Wrestling On New Year's Eve
While his DREAM date with Brett Rogers was canceled due to a visa issue, Tim Sylvia has found work on New Year's Eve after all as he's been booked for a pro wrestling match with Jerome Le Banner, reported by Heavy MMA. The bout will be part of the Inoki Genome Federation's contribution to the DREAM...
More DREAM New Year's Goodness: If You Want Barnett, You Got It!
This DREAM New Year's Eve event is turning out to be like Wrestlemania, a UFC Super Bowl weekend, and a Smackgirl card all rolled into one delicious little burrito of goodness. You want some cool MMA? Here's Fedor Emelianenko vs. Satoshi Ishii! But where is my women's MMA? Megumi Fujii vs. Karla...
Mirko Cro Cop vs. Jerome Le Banner Being Considered for DREAM NYE Event
Mirko Cro Cop's retirement is busier than most people's holiday schedules. While he should be out fishing and making horrendous action sequels, Mirko calls retirement fighting once or twice every year. Yep, he is just that bad. Shaft has nothing on Mirko. We caught wind from our good friends over...
Josh Barnett, Bobby Lashley Return To Pro Wrestling At Japanese Event
It wasn't in the Strikeforce cage, but former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett returned to action Friday in Tokyo, Japan, competing in a pro wrestling match against former K-1 star Jerome Le Banner. In the main event at Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2011 in front of almost 8700, Le Banner won the match by...
UFC's Brock Lesnar on the WWE '12 Video Game - Snapshot of the Day
Here's a photo of the former UFC heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar from the WWE '12 video game. After the jump, check out Lesnar on the latest promo, a gameplay video that shows a bout between him and John Cena, and a review of the video game. I'm not really a pro-wrestling fan anymore, but the...
Kurt Angle: 'Dana White Asked Me to Fight Kimbo Slice'
Anyone who knows much about Kurt Angle knows that he is a very colorful storyteller. Basically, the truth might not be as important as the story to Kurt, who is a pro wrestler for the TNA organization. It's an old pro wrestling adage (coined by Dick Murdoch, I believe) - "If a story's worth...
Koscheck Embraces His Inner Heel Against St. Pierre at UFC 124
Josh Koscheck has never been popular with UFC fans. Not in 2005 when he was one of the original cast members of The Ultimate Fighter and stood out as a stereotypical bullying jock. Not in 2009 when he repeatedly claimed to have been the victim of eye pokes that were suspiciously hard to see on the...
Josh Koscheck, Dana White, James Toney, the UFC and the Last Word on the Great Pro Wrestling in MMA Debate
Luke Thomas ended his diatribe against those who insist on using Pro-wrestling terminology to discuss MMA with the following: "I don't know Pro Wrestling terminology and I think I'm probably a lot more informed because of it." That's where I have to part ways with my good friend and colleague. I...
More on the Great "Keep Your Pro Wrestling Out of My MMA" Debate
I posted last week on the comments of Luke Thomas and Jordan Breen regarding attempts to view MMA throught a pro wrestling lens. I wanted to share two reponses in this installment. First Geno Mrosko from Cage Side Seats focusing on the ad hominem parts of Luke's argument: Is he trying to piss off...
Luke Thomas and Jordan Breen Make the Case Against Viewing MMA Through a Pro Wrestling Prism
This is a little old, but I wanted to cover it on BE. Luke Thomas appeared on the Jordan Breen Radio Show on August 26th and made an argument that viewing MMA through a pro wrestling lens is a mistake. There's been a good bit of response to Luke's comments, most of it focused on his unfortunate...
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