A...Tales from the MMA jobber file, #41: Over the course of the Pride project, I have told you many stories about professional wrestlers who turned to mixed martial arts. It's not that heavyweight fighters are by nature bad, it's that there are a lot of factors working against the talent pool. He's stil...One of the best features of martial arts is its ability to help practitioners come to terms with their problems. His MMA career actually started with the formation of an al...Daniel Gracie is the most successful non-Gracie Gracie, and that is one of my favorite sentences.Between his years in Pride, K-1, Strikeforce and the UFC, Alistair Overeem has become such a storied MMA personality that it's easy to forget he started his career as the lesser Overeem--his older brother Valentijn was, once upon a time, the hot prospect w...Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America)Notes from the MMA jobber file, #38: It's been awhile since we did this song and dance, but like all good nostalgia we're revisiting it: It's Ryuki Ueyama, another in the grand army of U-File/U-Style wrestlers turned fighters. If it weren't for Dan Severn, he'd be a three-time UFC tournament champion.

They really wanted him to be Sakuraba #2 before he turned out tbe way, way less better at fighting, but he was entertaining as heck so it worked out in the end.Notes from the MMA jobber file, #30: The toughest thing about the jobbers of the MMA is how many of them almost broke out and became stars. He was deeply respect...Back in the old days, I was aware of two fighters named Rodney: Rodney Faverus and Rodney Glunder. A big, fast, technical heavyweight back in his prime, Ricco was an enormous threat..."The Big Cat" Tom Erikson is one of the bigger what-ifs in early-period MMA. Still one of the most entertaining fighters in history; his match vs Sakuraba is a grappling classic. Everyone remembers The Best, as they blaze trails along the frontier of the sport and set examples for the future. Mike Tyson.mpg [ ufc pride fc extreme fighting ultimate no holds barred mixed martial arts beat down ] Ddt Ccrecordings. He's a mixture of the unexpected and the totally, almost absurdly normal. Dean "The Boogeyman" Lister was a military brat, forced to move constantly through South and North America alike to follow his father's service...One of the more notorious problems with Japanese MMA was its willingness to repeatedly throw its national stars to the wolves, and one of the biggest victims but greatest stars of this mindset was Kazuhiro Nakamura. Most people don't know Kimo was actually a successful, promising juco wrestler before his legs fell apart. He was an early jiu-jitsu player who managed to get on the second-ever Pride and was promptly punched into dust by Akira ...Notes from the MMA jobber file, #27: There was never a plethora of successful South Korean fighters in Japanese MMA, but there was always a demand for Korean jobbers. If you believe your item has been removed by mistake, please contact Tales from the MMA jobber file, #13: Most of the time, when I write someone into of the jobber file, despite my respect for them there's an unavoidably implied insult. He's one of the toughest men in the sport, and he's by no means bad; he was never an easy out...This is one of those cases where I'm just disappointingly unable to find anything. I've been both waiting for and dreading this one. Pride Fighting Championship tickets are available for its scheduled tour stop at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV.

So, instead, it's time for a history lesson.Certain fighters are very different on paper than in reality.

When the UFC made its do-or-die grasp at the mainstream they had a stable of fan-friendly champions, but no one got the love Chuck did: A tattooed, mohawked...It's surprisingly hard to place Mario Sperry in the annals of mixed martial arts.