Friday, September 14, 2012

Combat sports

  • Combat Sports & Fitness to Move to Former Bimore Location

    Enumclaw's Combat Sports & Fitness announced on their Facebook page Friday morning that they will be moving into the former site of Bimore just off State Route 410 by the end of the year.

    enumclaw.patch.com

  • Muay Thai takes combative approach to fitness

    Muay Thai, a form of kickboxing known as "the art of eight limbs," has a long history in Thailand as a combat sport. But Jonathan Udkow credits muay Thai with helping him to lose 40 pounds and run marathons since he started practicing it four years ago.

    www.sfgate.com

  • MMA News: Dana White, Jon Jones, Anderson Silva, Michael Bisping, Jose Aldo ...

    Every other major sport has instant replay. Fighting needs to do it. Especially with how bad the officiating has been: judges and reffing.

    www.opposingviews.com

  • UFC Needs Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre to Fight: Fan's Take

    Mixed martial arts continues to be one of the fastest rising sports in the world. Ever since Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar tore down the house in their 2005 fight, the sport has been on the fast road to being the most popular combat sport ...

    sports.yahoo.com

  • Exercise hard, and harder, with combat sports

    And these people were getting ready for a session of Krav Maga - a combat sport developed in Israel back in the 1930s and used by the Israeli military for years.

    www.thejakartapost.com

  • Chad Dawson and Andre Ward: The Saviours of Combat Sports

    Hardcore fight fans are suffering through what just might be the dark days of combat sports. It's an era in which the best do not fight the best.

    bleacherreport.com

  • Rutten, Schiavello and Angle tapped for WSOF 1's NBC Sports broadcast team

    Company officials confirmed with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that MMA legend Bas Rutten, veteran combat-sports broadcaster Michael Schiavello, and Olympic gold medalist/pro wrestler Kurt Angle have been selected for the broadcast team.

    mmajunkie.com

  • UFC turns to music video to try to expand its brand

    LAS VEGAS - Already the most dominant promotion in the mixed martial arts industry, Ultimate Fighting Championship enjoys a sizable chunk of the combat sports landscape. But UFC's chief marketing officer, Bryan Johnston, said the company wouldn't ...

    www.usatoday.com

  • Askham set for toughest MMA test against experienced Chadwick

    The unbeaten 24-year-old will take on the St Helens-based Chadwick on a Combat Sports FC bill at Doncaster Dome on Saturday, October 6. It'll come hot-on-the-heels of Askham's title win in Batley last time out, meaning he'll go into the contest in good ...

    www.hemsworthandsouthelmsallexpress.co.uk

  • CSN to air combat sports show featuring MMA, boxing and pro wrestling

    (The Phanatic Magazine) - The GFL Combat Sports Network (GFL.tv) and Comcast SportsNet have announced a partnership to launch a weekly combat sports series commencing with its first airing date this Saturday night (Aug. 25, 2012). GFL will provide ...

    daily.phanaticmag.com

  • Anatomy of a Box Office Success: Can UFC 153 Score Big on Pay Per View?

    8. Hi-res-6368334_crop_exact. Mark J. Rebilas-US PRESSWIRE. The UFC is the envy of the combat sports world. Few, if any, companies have ever managed to monetize their audience quite the way the UFC has.

    bleacherreport.com

  • Fight Week! - Ward/Dawson: Feel The Excitement?

    There are two ways to become popular in combat sports….with your mouth or with your fists. Fighters like Chael Sonnen and Floyd Mayweather have done it with their mouths (Mayweather has a few KO finishes but most are decisions).

    www.operationsports.com

  • Boxer Cronje forced to retire amid vision problems

    ... Sports and Recreation Department said Cronje would have undergone a standard eye test half-an-hour before the first bout on the card last week, but that his overall clearance to fight would have come from the WA Professional Combat Sports Commission.

    au.news.yahoo.com

  • Fight the Fat With These Combat Sports

    They call it the battle of the bulge because getting and keeping excess fat off is an on-going effort, especially as we start to age.

    www.business2community.com

  • MMA: Were the Old-School Fighters More Entertaining Than Today's?

    The question of whether the old school fighters truly top the new school in combat sports is as broad as it is subjective, and it also introduces a plethora of other questions.

    bleacherreport.com

  • Olympic silver medalist joins the Strikeforce women's roster

    ... fights available to Strikeforce. While this isn't quite as large as getting them into the Octagon; it does show that the organization is willing to dedicate resources to women's mixed martial arts which is good news for the individuals who ...

    www.examiner.com

  • Five Intriguing Storylines Heading Into Tomorrow's Rogue Warrior ...

    By Paul Fladten of US Combat Sports. On Thursday night in Green Bay the Rogue Warrior Championships unleash an exciting mixed martial arts lineup.

    www.onmilwaukee.com

  • Hathaway & Manuwa gain army support for Nottingham

    Jimi Manuwa and John Hathaway were invited to the British Army's Combat Sports Centre in Aldershot on Thursday, to teach a Combat Grappling seminar with a group of 30 soldiers ahead of UFC on Fuel 5 in Nottingham.

    www.espn.co.uk

  • Stefan Makowski's jig brings mirth to aristocratic sport of manners

    With the start of the wheelchair fencing competition at the ExCeL Arena morning a boisterous, mid-sized crowd was treated to some extraordinary displays of fast‑twitch lunge and block in what remains the only full-on combat sport practised by athletes ...

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Spike TV, K-1 agree to multi-platform broadcast deal

    "We are thrilled to be in business with the world's preeminent kickboxing organization," Spike TV Senior Vice President of Sports and Multi-platform Events Jon Slusser stated.

    mmajunkie.com

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