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Larry Vollmer Jr. is a Web programmer for LoHud.com, the Web site of The Journal News. He spends his days staring at thousands of lines of code and his nights throwing highkicks and hitting the mat with submission grappling specialists. After work and training, Larry gets the latest news on the world of mixed martial arts from the fighters themselves while watching and rewatching matches on his DVR.
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UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on July 5, 2008, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The title bout between Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Forrest Griffin, coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest, will [...]
This week’s "Hits from the MMA blogosphere":
To check out "Pals to tussle over Strikeforce lightweight belt" from Sergio Non’s Submissions and Strikes blog for USA Today, click here.
To check out "Melendez ready for war against Thomson" from Carlos Arias’ Keep Punching blog for the O.C. Register, click here.
To check out "Thomson ready to take on [...]
CBS and EliteXC announced that the next CBS Saturday Night Fights would be broadcast live from the Stockton Arena in Stockton, Calif. on Saturday, July 26 on the CBS Television Network.
The first installment of Saturday Night Fights left MMA purists yearning for more. We got the point. They wanted to lure the casual [...]
Did Dana White keep good on his promise to Jesse Taylor?
When Dana gave Taylor the boot from “The Ultimate Fighter 7” finale, he told Taylor, in so many words, to grow up and get his head straight. Then maybe he would get a chance to fight in the UFC down the road
Well it appears that [...]
The Ultimate Fighter 7 champion Amir Sadollah issued a sincere note to his fans today via his myspace account:
I just want to say I am blown away by the amount of support and love I’ve gotten from all you guys. I appreciate every bit of it, and Ive gotten so much of it in fact, [...]
To check out “Amir Sadollah’s Ultimate Fighter Blog (Episode 12)” for the OC Register, click here.
To check out “Pre-fight analysis for ‘The Ultimate Fighter 7’ finale” from Larry Vollmer Jr.’s Inside the Octagon blog for The Journal News, click here.
To check out “The Diaz Bros. Bring the Ruckus” from Jared Barnes’ Brawl Sports blog for [...]
Spike TV’s “GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley” (GTTV) today announced they will world premiere [...]
After the most controversial finale in “The Ultimate Fighter” history, we get to see a rematch between Amir Sadollah and CB Dolloaway to determine “The Ultimate Fighter 7”, live from the Palms Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Televised Bouts:
-Evan Tanner vs. Kendall Grove
-Diego Sanchez vs. Luigi Fioravanti
-Spencer Fisher vs. Jeremy Stephens
-Amir Sadollah vs CB Dolloway
Here [...]
Jesse “JT Money” Taylor has issued an apology, of sorts, via his myspace blog.
If you watched TUF7 last night, you saw Dana White give Taylor , originally a finalist, the boot after Taylor kicked the window out of a limosine and caused a ruckus inside a Las Vegas casino.
The apology reads:
I want to apologize peoples. [...]
Yahoo Sports writer Kevin Iole is reporting that co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta has resigned his position as president of Station Casinos to take on a more active role in expanding the UFC’s international endeavors.
Fertitta is expected to focus on developing the international business of the company as the UFC expands into Germany and other [...]
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