Bellator Fighting Championships is ready to kick off it’s fifth season starting today with the Bellator 49 weigh-ins.
Today’s activities will take place live from the Palladium Ballroom at Caesars Atlantic City in New Jersey. Watch live streaming video of the weigh-ins and pre-fight press conference via video stream after the jump, all beginning at 5PM EST (2PM PST).
Bellator 49 is scheduled for Saturday, September 10, at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The main card is scheduled to begin at 9PM EST (6PM PST) and will air on …

The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts held their weigh-ins for this Saturday’s, September 10, BAMMA 7 event, which is set to go down at The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England.
Two main card fighters failed to make weight for the event, with one fighter pulling out of the fight earlier in the day.
If you would have guessed that one of those fighters was Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley, then you would be right. Daley failed to make weight for his welterweight bout with Jordan Radev, tipping the scales at 176 lbs, …

Interviews with all four of the Strikeforce World Grand Prix Heavyweight tournament semi-finalist fighters which include Josh Barnett, Sergei Kharitonov, Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva and Daniel Cormier.
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Heavyweight Jeff ‘The Snowman’ Monson (42-12) is still sticking by his word that he will face Russian fighter Fedor Emelianenko on November 12 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
M-1 Global director of operations, Evgeni Kogan, wouldn’t confirm the upcoming fight but stated “We are getting ready to release big news very soon,” too MMAFighting.com on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Monson talked to MMAFighting.com about the matchup, something he’s been trying to get for years but up until now has been turned down by Fedor’s M-1 Global management.
“I think basically it’s that he lost a …

Program Lineup Through Thursday September 15
Fri Sep 9 – 8:30PM ET – MMA – Ring of Combat XXXVII – $9.99
Fri Sep 9 – 6:30PM ET – Boxing – Gala de boxe PRO-AM – $9.99
Sat Sep 10 – 6:30PM ET – Boxing – Casino Carnage – $9.99
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Wed Sep 14 – 7:30PM ET – Boxing – Wednesday Night Rumble 2 – $9.99
Ring of Combat XXXVII
Ring of Combat returns September 9 with ROC XXXVII. This event has …

Press Release – SAN JOSE, Calif. – STRIKEFORCE® will make its second trip to the Buckeye State this year when it brings the STRIKEFORCE WORLD GRAND PRIX: HEAVYWEIGHT TOURNAMENT semi-finals to U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati on Saturday, Sept. 10., live on SHOWTIME at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). The World Heavyweight Grand Prix finalists will be determined when former UFC® heavyweight champion “The Baby Faced Assassin” Josh Barnett takes on Russian sensation Sergei Kharitonov, and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva battles tournament alternate Daniel “DC” Cormier.
The card will …

Press Release – London, England – Thursday September 8th, 2011:
Europe’s largest and most prominent Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion, The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA), announced today that BAMMA 7 will stream live on Facebook. Fans everywhere can watch the BAMMA 7 preliminary card headlined by Rob Sinclair and Leonardo Santos FREE of charge on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bammauk. Sinclair and Santos will battle it out for the World Lightweight title.
The main card will also be available on Facebook FREE of charge to everyone outside of the UK and …

Program Lineup for GoFightLive Through Tuesday September 13
Fri Sep 9 – 6:30PM ET – Boxing – Gala de boxe PRO-AM – $9.99
Fri Sep 9 – 8:30PM ET – MMA – Ring of Combat XXXVII – $9.99
Sat Sep 10 – 6:00PM ET – Boxing – Gleason’s Gym – Amateur Boxing Show – $FREE!
Sat Sep 10 – 6:30PM ET – Boxing – Casino Carnage – $9.99
MuayThai Premier League: Stars and Stripes
The MuayThai Premier League debuted its first-ever event Stars and Stripes, and if this show is any indication on the rest of …

Strikeforce heavyweight Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (16-2) is set to face Olympic Wrestler Daniel Cormier this Saturday, September 10, in the semi-finals of the World Grand Prix Heavyweight tournament.
Silva had been set to face Alistair Overeem till he was pulled from the tournament and replaced by Cormier, leaving ‘Bigfoot’ to change his game plan mid-camp from fighting a striker to fighting a wrestler.
Despite all of this, Silva feels that he’ll make it to the finals and is hoping that he’ll be standing in the cage across from Josh Barnett.
What do you …

UFC middleweight Nick ‘The Jersey Devil’ Catone (9-2) has suffered an undisclosed injury and has withdrawn from his upcoming UFC 136 bout versus Aaron ‘A-Train’ Simpson (9-2).
News of Catone’s injury was reported by MMAFighting.com after they were informed by sources close to the fighter.
UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard III is scheduled to take place on October 8 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
Catone and Simpson had been scheduled to meet on the Preliminary card of the event, no official word has surfaced from the UFC as they are undoubtedly …

An interesting light heavyweight matchup will pit fan favorites, and former UFC champions, Tito ‘The Huntington Beach Bad’ Ortiz (16-9-1) against Rich ‘Ace’ Franklin (28-6, 1NC) on the upcoming UFC on FOX event in November.
News that the fight was in the works was broke by Tatame.com on Thursday night, who was told by one of Ortiz training partners, Ricardo “Demente” Abreu.
“Ortiz’s next fight will be against Rich Franklin, at UFC on FOX 1. He’s out of town travelling and I haven’t spoke with him for a couple days. As far …

A day after Strikeforce welterweight Nick Diaz was pulled from his UFC title fight with Georges St-Pierre at UFC 137, and replaced by Carlos Condit, the Stockton, California native has been re-booked on the same event against a new opponent.
Diaz will now face former two division champ B.J. Penn in the co-main event of the Las Vegas event. Penn was originally scheduled to meet Condit at UFC 137.
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Press Release – How does a fighter get a nickname?
Sometimes it’s a play on his first or last name, maybe a takeoff on where the fighter is from or his ethnic heritage, other times it’s simply an innocent comment taken to the extreme.
After three fights and a dramatic rise to becoming the organization’s hottest prospect, Dhiego Lima stood without so much as a hint of what colorful nickname might suit him best. It had to be a bang-on hit, a perfect fit.
So with the creative juices flowing in the MFC …