Police identified the victim as 44 year old MMA fighter Timothy John Kelly from Halifax. Timothy last competed for ECC 10 September 26th where he won a majority decision over Corey Boone. Top MMA News extends it’s sincerest condolences …
Pic courtesy of UFC President Dana White via his official Twitter account.
One-time lightweight title challenger Joe Stevenson will meet George Sotiropoulos in a featured matchup at UFC 110 on Feb. 21 at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia
December 15, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Culture
Former PRIDE 205 pound champion and current UFC middleweight Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva recently released a trailer from the first season of his upcoming reality show entitled “Fighter Life“.
There is no word as to when and where the series will make it’s debut, but from the looks of the attached clip, “Fighter Life” looks [...]
December 15, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Culture
“The Last Emperor” beat out a bunch of people I can’t pronounce to win the honor in the male category. Take that Mr. 2009 Canadian Athlete of the Year!
December 15, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Culture
(Bowles didn’t just shock the world — he threw a toaster into the tub while the world was trying to relax in it with a glass of red wine and the latest Nora Roberts novel.)
After scoring one of the biggest upsets of the year in August — knocking out the seemingly-indestructible Miguel Torres in the first round of their bantamweight title fight at WEC 42 — Brian Bowles is ready to defend his crown. The WEC announced yesterday that Bowles (8-0) will next compete at WEC 47, which is slated for March 6th at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. His opponent will be 15-1 contender Dominick Cruz, who has won his last four WEC fights by decision, and whose only career loss came in a featherweight bout against Urijah Faber back in March 2007. Cruz most recently won a unanimous decision over much-hyped up-and-comer Joseph Benavidez at WEC 42, earning the event’s Fight of the Night award.
Miguel Torres is also slated to compete on the card against a yet-unnamed opponent. And even though he basically retired in June, Jens Pulver will be fighting at the Columbus event as well. WEC 47 — which will take place during the weekend of the annual Arnold Sports Festival — will mark the organization’s first show in Ohio.
Semi-related: No matter how his fight against Ed Ratcliff turns out this Saturday at WEC 45, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone plans to drop to featherweight for his next fight.
December 15, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Culture
Fedor Emelianenko posing with Vladimir Putin, Jean Claude Van Damme, Italian PM Berlusconi and his brother Aleks.
One thing that M-1 Global does seem to have succeeded in doing is making Fedor Emelianenko much better known in his Russian homeland. Fanhouse reports:
In a ceremony to honor Russia’s top athletes, Fedor Emelianenko was honored as the best male athlete alongside top-ranked tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova, who was the best female athlete of 2009. Over 500,000 votes were cast for the awards, according to Russia Today.
More on Fedor’s exposure in Russia from Sherdog:
“The main event of Fedor vs. Rogers reached an impressive 5.46 million viewers in the United States on the CBS Network,” said the release. “The fight was also broadcast in Fedor’s native Russia by ‘Channel 1,’ Russia’s largest television network, and reached 16 million viewers in Fedor’s home country. In addition, ‘Fedor vs. Rogers’ was broadcast to millions of viewers in Korea on SBS, one of the three major national South Korean networks, as well as television networks in China, Latin America, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ukraine, Finland, Africa, Turkey, Israel, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Malta. Live internet streams of the ‘Fedor vs. Rogers’ bout generated ground-breaking viewer numbers in Japan and all over the world and these numbers continue to grow through Video on Demand.”
In Russia, Emelianenko’s bout was broadcasted on a four-hour delay at 12:00 p.m. by the free, government-run channel, which reaches approximately 120 million homes.
Jake Rossen rightly pointed out that there is some fudging of the numbers going on, but it’s indisputable that Fedor is better known in his homeland only a few months of working with M-1 and Strikeforce than he became in a decade of fighting in Japan.
December 15, 2009 Culture, Greed and Avarice
Tripp Mickle of the Sports Business Journal reports on Madison Avenue Sports & Entertainment’s latest acquisition of MMA agency, Maxum Royalty:
Madison Avenue Sports & Entertainment, the agency started by former NHL executive Ed Horne and defense attorney Joe Tacopina, made its first acquisition two weeks ago, buying a mixed martial arts agency that represents six [...]
December 15, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Movies
Here is a video short from Showtime as they promote this Saturday night’s StrikeForce “Evolution” event from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California as undefeated former middleweight champion Cung Le returns to action to face heavy handed striker Scott Smith. Share this on Facebook Buzz up! Share this on Reddit Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Post [...]
December 15, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Food, Greed and Avarice, Muskegon, Poem
You could almost hear UFC President Dana White uttering his now famous catch phrase, “So you want to be a fighter” after clicking on his official Twitter page to view a recent picture of “The Nightmare”, Diego Sanchez, taken in the days following his recent one sided beatdown suffered at the hands of UFC lightweight [...]
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