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No story here, just former UFC champs Mark Coleman and Kevin Randleman looking like the Green Hornet and Kato on the Japanese pro-wrestling circuit. (from FightOpinion.com)
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Video of Quinton Jackson taking on Cyril Abidi in a K-1 kickboxing match in July of 2002.
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How many Rory Markhams would you trade for a Pat Miletich?
The International Fight League has inked a deal with the Topps trading card company to produce a series of cards featuring IFL coaches and competitors.
The cards should be available this fall, according to an IFL press release.
"We have looked for the right entry point for the MMA category from a collectible standpoint," says Topps vice-president Ira Friedman, "and feel that the IFL model is the best fit for both now and for the long term.
IFL and positive long term prospects aren't concepts commonly joined together, but if it works out, good for them.
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Vernon "Tiger" White says that Chuck Liddell was in drug rehab prior to his recent loss against Quinton Jackson.
The MMA veteran told BloodyKnux.com that he heard from a "close friend" that Liddell had been treated for drug addiction leading up to the fight.
"I'd heard he'd been in drug rehab for an addiction, and got back in the cage too soon," White said. "He shouldn't of taken a fight with Jackson so lightly."
Pressed for verification, White said,
"I heard it from a close friend, so maybe I shouldn't have commented on it. After seeing him nod off on that talk show it seems very reliable. His publicist should be shot for letting him in public in that condition."
White, whose been fighting MMA for seemingly ever, was knocked out by Liddell at UFC 49 in 2004.
Rumors of the Iceman using drugs aren't new, having been spurred on by footage like this:
And this:
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Shirts vs. skins -- Morrison's MMA debut.
Tommy Morrison won his "MMA" fight on Saturday, but he didn't hang around to field questions from reporters.
The boxer, who may or may not still have HIV, was still "sucking air" when he was "hustled into a minivan" immediately following his first round KO win over a sheetrock hanger, according to CBS Sportsline.
The quick exit is understandable, given that Morrison was heavily booed after what was essentially a boxing match with five ounce gloves set in a cage. The match was originally made with the understanding that there would be no grappling, but an hour before the fight, John Stover learned that he would be allowed to kick or knee either.
CBS writes:
...even with the rules tilted in his favor, Morrison struggled to put away Stover, a 36-year-old sheetrock hanger from Pine Ridge, S.D. Early in the bout, Stover tied Morrison up and ran him into the fence. Morrison looked at the ref, his eyes wide, as Stover threw a series of ineffective right hands at the side of his head.
That's a far cry from the Morrison who said before the fight that he was concerned about literally killing his opponent.
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In one of the more bizarre mainstream media articles about MMA, a Minneapolis Star-Tribune writer Katherine Kersten paints the sport's popularity as an expression of some sort of surpressed male bloodlust.
Ignoring the fact that people have long enjoyed watching two guys beating on each other (the 1926 Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney fight drew 120,000 fans) and apparently borrowing heavily from Harvey Mansfield's Manliness, Kersten writes:
But our postmodern society is uncomfortable with the very idea of manhood. Far from applauding honor, we often deride it...
Many factors account for this. Our cynical age does not believe in heroes. It constantly questions noble motives and searches for feet of clay. Feminism too -- in its more radical guises -- denigrates traditional male virtues, devalues fatherhood and questions society's very need for men. On top of this, our therapeutic culture elevates emotion and self-expression -- "letting it all hang out" -- over reason and self-restraint, mocking the traditional male "stiff upper lip." We are obsessed with youth, which tends to reject authority and places little value on self-mastery.
Is it any wonder, given all this, that our young men seek to define manhood for themselves?
The society they live in is increasingly removing the restraints on primal self-expression, and undermining the vision of manhood that turned male aggression to good purpose. As a result, some young men are answering the call of the savage instincts deep within us.
Ultimate Fighting is a sport for our times. Its hallmark is "letting it all hang out." Its combatants, bound by few rules, do whatever it takes to win. Kicking and punching an opponent when he is down are among the sport's central features.
She also expresses shock that "They use roundhouse kicks to the head and "submission holds" such as the guillotine choke, which stops the flow of blood to the brain."
Perhaps the best comment on the whole thing was left by a visitor to Kersten's blog, who wrote that he Star-Tribune is exposing its liberal bias by employing Katherine Kersten as its token conservative -- "She makes us all look stupid."
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HONARABLE MENTION: Chris Horodecki (10-0) has truly been amazing. Only 19 years old, he has beaten the best that the IFL has to offer. I would have mentioned him first, but he's more of a prospect, rather than a finished product.
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