For a lot of you, the name Sadaharu Tanikawa might not be familiar. That’s probably for a good reason. Tanikawa was a pro wrestling and fighting reporter in the 90’s who forged close ties with K-1 founder Kazuyoshi Ishii. When Ishii was forced to step away from K-1 due to his money laundering issues, K-1’s
I think I’m one of the few people that actually likes watching C.B. Dolloway fight. He’s no longer the boring smothering fighter that he used to be in my eyes and his training is paying off – you know that when he connects he actually hurts people with his awkward wrestley-striking. On December 20th, C.B. Dolloway
The theory that most (if not all) of the fights that were held inside the Pride FC ring in Japan were fixed is a theory that has been thrown around for years now. There’s actually a great documentary/book called ‘Freakonomics’ that gives statistics as to how nearly every sumo match that’s taken place in Japan
I envision Russian karate includes a copious amount of waiting in line and all belt tests are filmed with dashboard cameras. Russia, that country must put 80% of their scientific endeavors into improving the technology of documenting live car crashes on the highway. Seriously, go to YouTube and the site is littered with Russian dashboard
What a lazy Sunday for Sh*t People Tweeted @MiddleEasy During UFC 161. Quite frankly since most of the fighters on the card didn’t rush for a finish, we at MiddleEasy felt like there was no real rush to publish this feature. Fighters, the truth is MMA fans are smart enough to discern when a fighter
[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on LiverKick.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] We’re just a few hours away from GLORY 8 Tokyo on May 3 in Tokyo, Japan, which features GLORY’s eight man 65kg tournament, as well as a number of single fights and a Road to GLORY 85kg tournament. GLORY 8
[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on LiverKick.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] I’m not joking, Josh Barnett and Jerome Le Banner will square off on August 27th at the Ryogoku Kokugikan — Japan’s Sumo Hall, and this bout between the titans will be for a world championship. Who is promoting this bout?
I don’t know if you realize, but M-1 Challenge 26 goes down tonight, and is live on Showtime at 11PM ET. The Russian promotion is straying from their typical European circuit to hit up California and I don’t blame them, European weather is about as consistent as my Blackberry, which seems to have a life
It doesn’t matter if you were harassed by police the night before, the Friday morning MMA link party is happening right now and there is absolutely no excuse for you to miss it. The cups are on the table and the bathroom is down the hall to the right. Please, no fighting or breaking stuff
[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on MMA-Japan, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] Lion Takeshi will once again step into the white ring under the DREAM banner when he faces Koichiro Matsumoto, a DEEP veteran who is no slouch. Matsumoto is the current DEEP featherweight Champion while Takeshi was the 143 lb champion
If you are like me today, stuck at home alone on a dreary rainy day with no one to bake homemade cinnamon rolls for in your brand new thigh high socks then you should just turn today into an all out MMA-a-thon. I’ve found there’s really nothing better to make a day like today fantastic
In the past 20 years we had the opportunity to see unknown fighters became into Idols, and Idols became into unknown persons… but what we can denied, it´s the fact that we all enjoyed amazing fights, and the raising of a whole new culture of fighting. Like in any other human activity, we´re are
Ask any MMA fan, The night Seth Petruzelli knocked out Kimbo Slice in 2008, everyone remembers where they were. It was like the MMA world’s version of the JFK assassination. I was on the floor of my North Dallas apartment that doubled as a habitat for every type of roach on the face of North
George St. Pierre is on a global tour so the entire world can swoon over him. Most men won’t admit it, but he universally ranks high on the ‘hetero-man-crush’ spectrum. He does it seamlessly alongside his domination of every website’s pound-for-pound rankings in the galaxy. He even knows the right things to say to Filipinos
In the past 20 years we had the opportunity to see unknown fighters became into Idols, and Idols became into unknown persons… but what we can denied, it´s the fact that we all enjoyed amazing fights, and the raising of a whole new culture of fighting. Like in any other human activity, we´re are destined
I would usually write an intro to the interview here but instead, I’ll copy an email I received from MiddleEasy interviewer, Noel, regarding this Kaitlin Young interview. “Make it awesome. Inspiration of banner could be Elmer Fudd meets Aldous Huxley. I think I wanna write like 3 sentences for her intro paragraph, you can just