Ken Pishna of MMAWeekly writes that Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney acknowledged he would consider holding a Bellator Lightweight Championship Bout between Roger Huerta and Eddie Alvarez in Mexico, should Huerta make it that far in the tournament. He has to make his way past three other fighters to get there, but most of the media […]
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Coker Talks Strikeforce-Dream Alliance
John Morgan of MMAJunkie has written a short, interesting piece on the challenges of the alliance between North America’s Strikeforce and Japan’s Dream. Things didn’t go so well for the Japanese promotion at January’s “Strikeforce: Miami” event. DREAM sent over welterweight Marius Zaromskis, who was promptly drubbed by Nick Diaz. DREAM will get a […]
M-1 Disappointed with Media Coverage
Dave Meltzer of Yahoo! Sports gives us an update on the fight status of Fedor Emelianenko and talks about the on-going renegotiations that are taking place between his M-1 management team and Strikeforce. Kogan allowed that M-1 Global was disappointed in what happened with the promotion of the last fight, but was quick to say […]
Kimbo-Mitrione Set for UFC 113
The UFC has officially announced that Kimbo Slice will meet fellow TUF 10 heavyweight Matt Mitrione at UFC 113 in Montreal, Quebec on Saturday, May 8th, ending most of the speculation that Slice will headline an April 17th UFN card designed to counter-program Strikeforce on CBS. KIMBO RETURNS AT UFC 113 ON MAY 8TH […]
MMA’s April Chess Match
Mike Chiappetta of MMAFighting.com discusses the latest news regarding a possible UFC on Spike event for April 17th, designed to counter-program the Strikeforce on CBS card on the same day. The UFC is in the process of laying the groundwork for an April 17 show to counter the Strikeforce on CBS offering, MMA Fighting has […]