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Colorado wrestling promoter endorsing MMA

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

...rough way to make a living: There just isn't much of one unless you get an Olympic medal and some endorsements. (This on a good day: If you can name 2008's gold medalist...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 01, 2009

ESPN exclusive: Walker on his fight for respect

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

...s taking a high-risk leap into a sport in which bones crack with regularity. At 47...I played NFL football, I've been on Olympic teams. And I'm thinking, I'm a...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009

Cormier wins Strikeforce debut

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

Whenever Olympic-level grappler Daniel Cormier got tied up with Gary Frazier on Friday, Frazier looked helpless. When distance...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009

Friday fight stuff

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

...headlines against Zak Cummings, but the main event for most is the debut of Daniel Cormier, the Olympic-caliber amateur wrestler who has been sweating at AKA. • Surprise, surprise: "Pandorum," a sci-fi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009

Olympian Cormier headed to MMA

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

...MMA competition than he has faced outside of it: Cormier was forced to exit the 2008 Beijing Olympics prematurely because of severe dehydration; and a spot on the 2003 world team was preceded by the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 12, 2009

Evaluating the UFC-Strikeforce talent gap

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

...perhaps even Josh Barnett. The notion that Strikeforce employs air-conditioning repairmen and the UFC enlists only Olympic-caliber athletes is pushing the envelope; I'd almost sooner see Emelianenko go on a free-agent...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 04, 2009

'Spider' Silva rebuffs 'Shogun,' speculates on Jones Jr. fight

Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com

...in the amateur boxing, that went to the Olympic Games and it lost." (Fractured English courtesy the...exactly. On wrapping up a career in the sport: "My contribution to MMA is reaching the end...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 01, 2009
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