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Ortiz's cutting class, Koscheck's politics and more
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comIf you believe Tito Ortiz's postfight confessional Saturday, it has become virtually impossible to defeat him without Ortiz starting the job himself. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009Breaking down the UFC 106 main card
Tomas Rios, Sherdog.comIn what otherwise might have been an injury-depleted disaster, Saturday's UFC 106 event was rescued by the matchmakers. Perhaps the finest piece of handiwork: a rematch between rivals Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin.
Story | Conversation | November 18, 2009Old soldiers: Couture-Coleman set for UFC 109
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...6 in Las Vegas. Couture prefers Greco-Roman tie-ups in the clinch, set up by his boxing; Coleman dives for legs. Both have rated among the most successful modified wrestlers in the sport. It...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009Stan Verrett: UFC Update
Sportscenter...like he needed to do for MMA what Muhammad Ali and Oscar de la Hoya did for boxing--help stars benefit from the brands they create. As for the fight itself, Ortiz has something to...
Blog | November 17, 2009Fighter Profile - Davis Sylvester
Andrew Plante...3-2 Fighting weight: 125 School/Camp fighting out of: Marcus Hicks MMA Fighting Style: BJJ and Boxing Hobbies: Bodybuilding, fishing, business and coaching young sports College: Lamar University and Palamor College Next Fight in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009ESPN primer: WEC 44
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...for free. If the strategy is to do the exact opposite of the greedy financiers who stifled boxing in the 1990s, then the strategy is working. Wednesday's WEC event on Versus -- Zuffa's third...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009Pros' Picks: Couture versus Vera
Mike Sloan, Sherdog.comWho wins when Randy Couture faces Brandon Vera at UFC 105? Their peers have an idea.
Story | Conversation | November 13, 2009Five Questions: UFC 105
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...have to do it with arterial spray. 4. Is Dan Henderson still in Michael Bisping's head? Boxing trainer Freddie Roach has a telling explanation of the nature of knockouts "changing" fighters in Sam Sheridan...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009Breaking down the UFC 105 main card
Tomas Rios, Sherdog.comStop us if you've heard this one before: With his best days seemingly behind him, Randy Couture is set to face a decades-younger phenom -- in this case, Brandon Vera. It will be a familiar plotline at UFC 105, but some stories never get old.
Story | Conversation | November 11, 2009Fight switch: Cro Cop shakes up camp
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...not athletically, then mentally. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic knows this, which is why the Croatian has dropped boxing coach Marjan Zizanovic and sparring partner Igor Pokrajac from his circle of training associates, per the reports...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009Foreign intrigue: Dubai plans MMA, but at what cost?
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...adopting that decidedly promoter-like trait of talking first and delivering later, also promised that women's boxing figurehead Laila Ali would be in Dubai soon to pick up a possible 25th career win. (No...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009Russian Roulette, network exposure and more
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comThe expectations created by Fedor Emelianenko's media profile make it impossible for him to perform in a way that pleases everyone: If he had crumbled...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 08, 2009Vera, Filipino fighters address typhoon
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comI'm growing bored with HBO's "24/7" series -- it's about boxing, which I find numbing -- and it has been done over and over again. There are a finite...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009Steele Cage II: Reloaded
Andrew PlanteSteele Cage is an MMA promotion local to the DFW area and is run by famous boxing referee Richard Steele. I had the pleasure of attending their very first show in the area back...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 30, 2009The case for professional wrestling
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.comEarlier in the week, I dutifully reported the infection of MMA personalities and techniques in professional-wrestling theater: Sunday's TNA pay-per-vi...
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