By Brian Hemminger
Pure Adrenaline is a cool MMA podcast show that airs weekly on Tuesday nights.  I met some of the guys down in Louisville when I was covering Bellator 23 and they invited me to be on their show this week.
They have an archive page where you can listen to all previous 29 episodes [...]

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Maximum Fighting Championships has loaded up their latest event with former UFC fighters for their MFC 25: Validation event on May 7th in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  The event will air live on HDNet.
Main card:Jesse Taylor (14-5) vs. Thales Leites (16-3)Wilson Gouveia (12-7) vs. Ryan Jimmo (12-1)Emanuel Newton (12-6) vs. Dwayne Lewis (11-4)Luigi Fioravanti (17-6) vs. Pete Spratt (20-17)Solomon Hutcherson [...]

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NYC Super Fight! For over a decade, NY Fight Fans have wondered who would win if Sean Hinds  Chris Romulo fought. On May 14th – they get their answer.
The Church Street Boxing Gym’s Friday Night Fights NYC Series brings the “Mega” back into “Mega Fights” on Friday May 14th, 2010 with 4 championship fights in [...]

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By Brian Hemminger
Every once in a great while, a fight not only lives up to the hype, but it exceeds it.  To some, the knockout is the most exciting finish, to others, the submission.  Occasionally, a fight can nearly end by both, yet both fighters literally will themselves to keep forging on.  These tests of [...]

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By Brian Hemminger
If you were like me this week, you were breathing a sigh of relief when the heavyweight fight between Tim Sylvia and Wes Sims for Adrenaline MMA V in Youngstown, Ohio was cancelled.
Bernie Profato, the Ohio Athletic Commission executive director ruled the bout “non-competitive” and informed Adrenaline promoter Monte Cox that it would not be [...]

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Remember the very tough Ultimate Fighter Reality TV show contestant Matt “The Immortal” Brown (11-7) ?  Well, he is back and will be facing Ricardo Almeida (11-3) at UFC 111.  Matt Brown is on a three fight win streak defeating Ryan Thomas, Pete Sell and James Wilks.  Not only has Brown shown brut toughness in [...]

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Extreme Fighter Kenny “Ken-Flo” Florian (12-4) is set to face Takanori Gomi (31-5) at Ultimate Fight Night 21.  Florian has been triumphant in 7 of his last 8 fights.  That one loss was to “The Prodigy” BJ Penn.  Kenny, a former soccer player is also a Brizillian Jiu-Jitsu Black belt and is coming off a [...]

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Strikeforce is showing up in Miami on January 30th with a pretty cool schedule of fights, two of which are title fights.
Nick Diaz  (20-7-1) vs Marius Zaromskis (13-3) for the Strikeforce Welterweight Championship
Nick Diaz, a former IFC and WEC welterweight champion, is a very dangerous BJJ practitioner who trains out of Stockton CA, under Cesar [...]

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NEW YORK (January 6, 2009)– Knockout artists “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler (16-5) and Melvin “No Mercy” Manhoef (24-6-1) will square off with each other in a middleweight (185 pounds) contest at the STRIKEFORCE:  Miami mixed martial arts (MMA) event at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on Saturday, January 30.  Wrestling powerhouses Joe “Diesel” Riggs (32-10) and [...]

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Fresh off a win at WCF 8, WEC Veteran Mike “The Beast” Campbell is set to headline WCF 9 when he takes on tough NY native, Marc Stevens. Campbell is 7-2 overall, and is 2-0 in the WCF with 2 first round TKO wins. Campbell moves down to his optimal fight weight of 155 lbs. [...]

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