Author: Robert Joyner

Two-time STRIKEFORCE World Lightweight Champion (155 pounds), Gilbert “El Nino” Melendez (18-2), has signed a new, multi-year agreement with the San Jose, Calif. based world championship Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion. “STRIKEFORCE is my home, they’ve always been like family to me and I’m looking forward to continuing my career with them,” said the talented, […]

  As he enters the twilight of his tenure in the mixed martial arts game, Sean Sherk has ascertained what the goal is before hanging up the little four ounce baby gloves and calling it a career.  The goal: a second bite of the championship apple, another reign with the UFC lightweight title. Sherk recently spoke about the intoxicating […]

Aussie brawler James Te Huna comes into UFC 127 looking to shake off  ring rust and re-establish himself in the UFC 205 division.  A broken arm incurred in his UFC debut against  Igor Pokrajac has proven to be a vexing problem for the Aussie 205’er.  The severity of the break and resulting complications during his convalescence […]

  With the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix (SFHWGP) just around the corner, there as been a drumbeat of questions from the British contingent of mixed martial arts fans. With a field that includes nearly half of the Top 15 heavyweights in the world, British MMA fans have been anxious to find out what viewing options […]

We all know that there’s a big problem with judging in MMA, and we all know that Kizer is pretending that there’s nothing wrong with having a bunch of people with no martial arts training and no understanding of the sport judging it on a professional level. There’s only one way for me to bring the […]

Visit purefight.org for more Videos   UFC middleweight contender Alan Belcher sat down with Mark from Purefight.org to give an update on his recent training injury:      “I had a detached retina, I just lost the vision in my right eye. It just happened all of the sudden, pretty much overnight. I was training […]

      Ahead of her participation in this Friday’s Strikeforce 135 Tourney, Miesha Tate sat down with Bleacher Report for an extended (around 30 minutes or so) interview.  She discusses how she got into the sport, where she is training now, and what she hopes to do once her fighting days are over.  Worth a […]

  Rising up from his stool to enter the fray for the fifth round, Chael Sonnen stood upon the precipice. After having been written off by most everyone but himself, Sonnen was a single round away from the promised land.  One round away from exorcising the demons of being a  perennial bridesmaid,  a lesser light in […]

In our post from the other day, we took a look at the legal claims by Roy Jones Jr’s Square Ring, Inc that Roy Nelson and Zuffa’s acts constituted a violation of SRI’s contractual rights.  The response makes a general blanket denial on most of the major points put forward by Square Ring, Inc., imbued […]

UFC 117 has a lot to offer to the viewing public.   A match up of the widely hailed P4P king versus the brash upstart oozing braggadocio.  A battle of hard hitting heavyweights with Brock Lesnar in the offing.   A Hall of Famer looking to add another notch on his belt denoting his wins […]