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Full Listing of Rumored Potential Fedor Opponents for Affliction: Trilogy

With more and more names being thrown out in the Fedor lottery after Josh Barnett's positive steroid test we're fast approaching California Gubernatorial Recall levels of hilarity. Here is a rundown ...

The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History: 1993-1996

Beau Dure at USA Today has posted the first two installments of our top 50 fights in MMA history series. Again here's the criteria: Some of the 50 fights we'll list aren't necessarily the best MMA bo...

UFC 6: The Legend of Tank Abbott Is Born

Dave Meltzer continues his UFC retrospective as we approach UFC 100, this time focusing in on UFC 6. Meltzer explains the significance: The show took place July 14, 1995, in Casper, Wyo., and featu...

I'll Give Ken Shamrock One More Fight

I spoke on Ken Shamrock yesterday in response to him talking smack about his adoptive brother Frank.  I also mentioned that Ken Shamrock had a fight the same night(last night), and prayed that ...

WARGODS Live Results And Commentary

The night has arrived!  Wargods! In case you didn't already see Tank Abbott vs. Mike Bourke is BACK ON! I'm going to do my best to not be too funny and ironic with my coverage of this show ...

Tank Abbott vs. Mike Bourke Dropped From WARGODS (...or is it?)

From Sherdog: A heavyweight co-main attraction between David “Tank” Abbott and Mike Bourke has been scratched from Friday’s Wargods “Valentine’s Eve Massacre” ...

Why I Will Be Liveblogging Ken Shamrock's WARGODS: Valentine's Eve Massacre

There is a phenomenon in our sport that I like to call "Car Crash MMA."  These are shows where the result is guaranteed to be so bad that they become "must see" events.  YAMMA Pit Fighting...

MMA History XII: End of the UFC Glory Days

I've tried to avoid talking about the business or legal history of the sport since that's been dwelt on ad nauseum by plenty of other writers. But now we reach a point in MMA history where it just can...

MMA History VII: A New Phase in the UFC

So for this installment I've decided to cover the UFC in 1995 and in the next installment I'll cover what happened in MMA outside the UFC in 1995 (except for Rickson Gracie's return visit to Japan whi...