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Aug 10

Absolute Action MMA "Takeover" - live free video webcast MMA

This Pro-Am event features the best MMA fighters that the southern Ohio/northern Kentucky border have to offer! If you can’t attend in person, watch HERE for free LIVE from the Turfway horse racing park the night of the event. Approx

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Aug 10

Matyushenko signs four-fight contract with UFC | Caged Insid

Although he may have struggled with his last fight against dynamite up-and-comer Jon Jones at UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko, UFC vet Vladimir Matyushenko has signed another four-fight deal with the UFC. The announcement was made earlier today by Matyushenko’s  management group, Alchemist Managemeny.” His fight contract sta

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23
Aug 10

UFC 118 Pick Em Contest

Predict the winners of UFC 118 and win a signature fighter shirt from Silver Star.

…So you think you know your MMA? You think you can predict who is going to win a fight and how? Time to prove it. We present to you The MMA Manifesto Pick ‘Em contest sponsored by our friends at The Silver Star Casting Company, the cool people who make the funky entrance shirts the fighters wear on their way to the cage. The contest will be run for every major MMA event for 2010, with the winner of each event getting a signature fight shirt from Silver Star and the grand prize winner at the end of the year (based on accumulated points for all the events) getting a Silver Star shopping spree (value to be determined at a later date). One entry per person. Any questions, fire us off an e-mail….

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23
Aug 10

Is This the First Step To An MMA Senior Tour?

Is This the First Step To An MMA Senior Tour?

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TheGARV: Looking at the UFC today, there’s a fighter, Roy Nelson. Does he remind you of anyone? He’s not exactly the most chiseled fighter out there.
Ferrozzo: Well I think that as long a guy’s got a jaw and he wants to train hard and he’s able to train. See, that’s the thing, I never had an athletic body. But I train hard. I mean, I went 18 minutes with Tank. I know it’s a fight and I take it seriously. I’m not going to show up the day before and say let’s get it on. I take it very seriously. And if I prepare for Tank I’m going to put a team back together. We’re going to train for 60 days, twice a day. When I walk into the ring I’ll be able to do a 20 minute fight.
TheGARV: You said that you got into the UFC for one reason, to beat Tank Abbott.
Ferrozzo: Exactly. When I first saw him in Buffalo I wanted to go kick his ass because he was in the crowd. I was told that if I touched the guy I would never fight in the UFC. It took a couple years to get there but that night I fought him, it was fate.
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22
Aug 10

Should the UFC Pay Their Fighters More?

Should the UFC Pay Their Fighters More? a.k.a. The Great Salary Debate - Do You Care?

…of pro boxers have other full time jobs to support themselves. The avg boxing salary is 10k a fight, but on the way up in the ranks is approx 100 per scheduled round. Now an undercard fighter on an HBO show may get 30k, but we are taking an avg here.Lets get even more into this, teachers here in America teach and mold our children to be better people and obviously to succeed so they can go out into the world and be successful. I personally believe teachers to be one of the most important jobs in the world, do you know what the avg. teacher makes? Between 30-40k a year. So someone like Rich Franklin who is arguably (or was) one of the UFC’s stars is making about 10x as much as he was when he was a teacher. HMMM, kinda weird. Cops? Probably one of the other more important jobs in our country today, they risk their lives to keep us safe. The avg police salary is just over 49k per year.Comparing UFC pay to that of the big 3 in pro sports is kinda dumb, but again it’s all relative. Yes, your superstars are making…

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Aug 10

UFC: Will Dana White bring back Tim Sylvia

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…is also currently enjoying a much deserved three fight win streak.
When interviewed recently by sbnation.com Sylvia stated that he wasn’t totally prepared to become the UFC champion when it happened at UFC 41, on Feb. 28, 2003, however, the “Maine-iac” stated that he made the best of the opportunity.
“I wasn’t ready for it, but it happened. It was like ‘I just got in the UFC and already I’m getting a title shot?’ I was thinking I’d work my way up, fight a few guys first before I got a title shot. But I was hand picked. Ricco (Rodriguez) picked me because he thought he could beat me and retain his title. And the UFC thought he was going to be the next big thing. We took the fight knowing that we had a good shot at beating this guy. And low and behold-it happened. It wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. After that fight I’ve never worked a single day at a job ever again. You know? It set me up for the rest of my life and made training full time a lot easier,” said Sylvia.
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Aug 10

BJ Penn: I’m just going to get my belt back (Video)

BJ Penn has been more than confident in his recent interviews that he will be the one with his hand raised, and belt around his waist come UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 in Boston, Mass.

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Aug 10

UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen Salaries | Caged Insider

UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen was an exciting card to say the least. So it would make sense that there would be some big payouts, as the UFC likes to reward fighters for great performances. Both Anderson Silva and Matt Hughes toppled the salary payouts walking away with $200,000 each for their fights.

…UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen was an exciting card to say the least. So it would make sense that there would be some big payouts, as the UFC likes to reward fighters for great performances. Both Anderson Silva and Matt Hughes toppled the salary payouts walking away with $200,000 each for their fights. Here is the disclosed salaries from the California State Athletic Comission (CSAC).
Pay-Per-View Bouts
Anderson Silva $200,000 (no win bonus) def. Chael Sonnen $35,000
Jon Fitch $54,000…

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Aug 10

UFC 119: " Hannibal Rising " Ryan Darth Bader Vs. "Little No

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…Ryan “Darth” Bader, 11-0, has been literally “devouring” opponents on his way up the ladder of The Ultimate Fighting Championships 205 lb weight division since 2008, when he won The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Season 8 competition by stopping Vinny Magalhaes at the ‘08 TUF Finale show.
Magalhaes was merely the appetizer however, as Bader then went on to further consume the main course, which consisted of Carmelo Marrero and Eric Schafer at UFC ” Fight Night,” and UFC 104 respectively.
Bader’s biggest win so far however, came for the undefeated 27 yr. old fighter when he traveled to the” land-down-under,” Sydney Australia, where he knocked out the durable kick boxer, and recently UFC exiled, Keith Jardine at UFC 110.
It was a picture perfect combination from Bader, who first wobbled the “Dean Of Mean” with a head snapping left jab which knocked Jardine backwards against the octagon wall,…

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Aug 10

UFC 119: Nogueira is out, CroCop Filipovic Vs. Frank Mir

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…remarkably however, the victory’s which Mir owns, are indeed great ones.
Mir proved just how lethal his Brazilian Jui Jitsu skills are by performing a perfectly executed knee-bar submission on the current heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, at UFC 81 in 2008.
In his very next fight, at UFC 92, in Dec 2008, he knocked out Big Nog Nogueira to win the UFC interim heavyweight championship, which he eventually lost in a unified heavyweight rematch with current champion Lesnar.
Mir has only one other loss of late, which came this past March at UFC 111.
It was another ” Lesnar style” thrashing, only this time from suspected steroid user Shane Carwin.
Mir has improved his skills immensely and can now be called somewhat well rounded.
Crocop, on the other hand, remains a one dimensional kick-boxer.
My prediction is an early referee stoppage victory from Mir. I feel that he has the advantage here wherever the fight should go.
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