Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Are you as excited as I am for tomorrow night gang?
It's the premiere of the 8th season of The Ultimate Fighter, tagged as Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir. Yes, it's been 8 seasons since Forrest Griffin's and Stephan Bonnar's historic fight that (re-)started it all. Not much has really changed ...
Posted in Events, Hawaii, Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA, Reality TV | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Recently, two professional athletes did the unthinkable and legally changed their names to their nicknames. MMA fighter Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver, to get around a WWE wrestler's trademarked name, changed his legal name to War Machine. That showed 'em.
Not to be outdone, NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson added "Ocho Cinco" ...
Posted in Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA, Random | No Comments »
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
With all of the Olympic hysteria going on (and the lack of comments from my Kauai related posts :P ), I'll switch it up a bit for this week's Fave Five list to include an Olympic star from Hawaii: Bryan Clay. Clay captured gold in the decathlon this year, the ...
Posted in Events, Hawaii, Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA | No Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
It's official. The fight for MMA supremacy is on like Donkey Kong!
The rumors were just confirmed that the UFC has put together a card to be aired on July 19th, the very same night that rival league startup Affliction is to air their Banned card on Pay-Per-View. The card will ...
Posted in Events, Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA, Random | No Comments »
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Get ready for history in the making folks. Tonight, EliteXC, in a partnership with CBS, will bring the first-ever Mixed Martial Arts fight card to the mainstream when EliteXC Saturday Night Fights makes its debut on CBS (KGMB 0007 or KGMB HD 1007 on Oceanic Time Warner Cable) at 8PM ...
Posted in Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
On Saturday, BJ Penn's flying knee knocked the living daylights out of Sean Sherk, making us reminisce about what he did to Caol Uno back at UFC 34. What impressed me more was not the victory over the former lightweight champion. It was his actions after the match.
As announcer Bruce ...
Posted in Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA | No Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
OK, working for the cable company, I know this is a bit self-indulgent, but since this blog is supposed to include the latest and greatest in MMA, I just had to plug the X1 Legends fight scheduled for tomorrow night. Not just because Oceanic Time Warner Cable is offering this ...
Posted in Events, Hawaii, Honolulu Advertiser Posts, MMA | No Comments »
