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DNC Protesters Looking to Learn a Little MMA
Published 8/20/2008 by bfowlkes at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
(’Wish a motherf*cker would start some trouble in here.’) So you were planning on going to protest the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week, but you’re worried about getting your ass kicked and possibly tear-gassed? Don’t even sweat it, man. Protest group Recreate ‘68 has got your solution: learn some MMA. Denver’s Gumm Mixed Martial Arts Academy (owned and operated by “two-time UFC veteran” Brad Gumm, who once beat Joe Stevenson…and then lost the subsequent rematch) is opening its ...

Affliction has asked fighters to take a pay cut, just not Barnett
Published 8/5/2008 by Steve Cofield at Yahoo! MMA Blog
... first signs of a crack in the Affliction fighting gameplan emerged last week. There was a story on WrestlingObserver.com by Yahoo! Sports Dave Meltzer that Affliction had asked its fighters to take a 50% pay cut on upcoming cards. Maybe Dana White's claim that Affliction fighting would be out of business soon held some water. The story has been changed a few times over the last week or so. Josh Barnett posted a response on MySpace and then told FightOpinion.com that he wouldn't take a 50% pay cut if asked. Barnett appeared on ...

The rating game: DREAM perhaps on life support, UFC turning Japanese and more
Published 8/1/2008 by Jesse Holland at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
... However, at least on of its most talented assets — victorious Affliction “Banned” fighter Josh Barnett — has already made a public statement that his answer will be “NO” if indeed asked. ...

Affliction To Ask Fighters To Fight For Less Money
Published 8/1/2008 by Stephen Rhodes at Octagon Buzz
... , Affliction vice president Tom Atencio would supposedly ask fighters to take a 50% cut in pay to participate in the Las Vegas show in October.  Josh Barnett would have none of that as he told Zach Arnold of Fight Opinion that he would not take a pay cut.  ...

Fantasy Fight Round Up
Published 5/16/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
Michael David Smith of AOL Fan House  was kind enough to include me on this round up of fantasy fights. I'm flattered to be in good company -- other contributors are Dave Doyle , Rami Genauer , Zach Arnold and Steve "Mr Sunshine" Cofield. Here's my pick: ...

CKA: April 15, 2008
Published 4/15/2008 by John Chandler at MMA on Tap
... According to Zach Arnold of Fight Opinion, Hong-Man Choi will head to the South Korean army training center later this month due to a mandatory requirement to serve his country. Because of his size, Choi won’t serve in battle, but is expected to be out of MMA action for at least three years. More ...

Armando Garcia speaks out on recent Nick Diaz situation
Published 4/1/2008 by Sam Caplan at Five Ounces of Pain
... Early in the business day on Tuesday March 25, 2008 (eight days later and three days from the fight) the promoter’s employee called our office and asked a series of ‘hypothetical’ questions regarding the use of marijuana by a fighter, medicinal marijuana, having or not having a marijuana card, etc. Later we identified the fighter and the exact information and discussed the actual fighter’s situation. CLICK HERE to read the entire post. (HT: Fight Opinion)

Merry Christmas from MMA Movement
Published 12/25/2007 by MMA Movement at MMA MOVEMENT
... – The Dane Cook of MMA, and archrival to Sam Caplan… Ryan Harkness Fight Opinion – Fight Opinion Radio is must listen for all die hard MMA fans ...

Quick Hits: Josh Barnett wins in Pancrase, Zach Arnold on the Japanese MMA scene…
Published 12/23/2007 by Performify at MMAjunkie.com Articles
... put out an excellent (and very long) piece entitled “My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene” in which he takes a look back at some of the biggest developments this year in the Japanese MMA landscape as well as makes a few predictions for 2008. ...

G4 talks MMA blogs
Published 12/19/2007 by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com
... Cage Today??? Out of the 75 blogs I have on RSS feed, Cage Today doesn’t even rank in the top 40 list, and barely releases 4 posts a day (most of them links to pirated fights on youtube and dailymotion). I’m not bitching and whining because we didn’t get picked … our particular brand of racist/sexist/generally offensive commentary is simply too WAWESOME for television. But they could have at least given props to one of the other major quality MMA sites like MMAJunkie or Fightopinion or BloodyElbow . Hell, if they were looking for different kinds of sites, they ...