Chris Nelson Archives: 07/2008

EliteXC and FSN (Fox Sports Net) have formally announced an agreement to air four 1-hour MMA specials beginning in mid-September. The shows will air on…

Numbers from MMAWeekly: Robbie Lawler: $90,000 (which included a $45,000 win bonus) def. Scott Smith: $14,000 Nick Diaz: $60,000 (no win bonus) def. Thomas Denny:…

Steve Cofield says Affliction is close to inking yet another ex-UFC champ: Sources have told Yahoo! Sports that free agent Tito Ortiz will fight Renato…

Undefeated WEC Middleweight Champion Paulo Filho has been shoring up his already nasty Brazilian jiu jitsu game in training for his September 10 title scrap…

Just 11 days after posting about his speedy recovery from an early-July arthroscopic knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipović has…

One month after the sanctioning of MMA in New York was brought to a grinding halt by the state’s Assembly Tourism committee, there’s new hope…

MMA STOMPING GROUNDS: What’s one thing you want people to know about you that they might not already know? ST. PIERRE: Fighting is not my…

MMAPayout connects the dots using a couple clues dropped by FSN and ProElite brass last week: George Greenburg, VP of Programming for FSN, dropped a…

“Hellboy” raises his newly-won DREAM Lightweight Championship belt aloft for the Osaka crowd to see after his first round TKO of Shinya Aoki at DREAM.5…

DREAM.5 QUICK RESULTS Daisuke Nakamura def. Andy Ologun via Submission (Armbar), R1 – 3:41 DREAM LWGP Semi-Finals Shinya Aoki def. Caol Uno via Decision (Unanimous)…

Confirmed by MMAWeekly: UFC FIGHT NIGHT 14 AWARD BONUSES (as disclosed by UFC officials) Each fighter earned $25,000 for the following awards. Fight of the…

We’re just a few hours away from Anderson Silva‘s 205-pound debut against James “The Sandman” Irvin on SpikeTV, and as always BloodyElbow.com will be here…

— More photos at MMAMania.com. MMAWeekly.com was on the scene: Fedor Emelianenko (230) vs. Tim Sylvia (263) Andrei Arlovski (241) vs. Ben Rothwell (264) Josh…

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Tatame spoke with both undefeated Brazilian light heavyweights after their UFC 89 fight was announced yesterday, and while neither had anything particularly revelatory to say…

Not a good week for mixed martial artists and automobiles. Thankfully, Hideo Tokoro‘s incident yesterday didn’t result in his arrest and, according to Kamipro, was…

Check out SpikeTV’s schedule for July 19th: 4:00 PM EST / 1:00 PM PSTUFC UnleashedMartin Kampmann vs. Drew McFedries (UFC 68)Marcus Davis vs. Jason Tan…

Sherdog has a new video interview with Mark Hominick, who fights former IFL’er Trenell “Savant” Young on the under-undercard of Affliction’s debut show this Saturday.…

“I never spoke to Drew Fickett in my life. He went on a big rampage for four days in a drunken stupor, making all kinds…

“If the money is right, I would love to do a boxing match,” Sylvia said. “I believe I can beat any heavyweight boxer out there…