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What to Watch For: Bellator 172 The incomparable Fedor Emelianenko links arms with Bellator MMA, as he squares off with Matt Mitrione on Saturday in San Jose, California.

Brian Knapp

Feb 15, 2017

The 2016 MMA National Olympic Teams: Brazil The host nation fields a potentially devastating squad that includes interim UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and women’s bantamweight titleholder...

Brian Knapp

Aug 09, 2016

Garry Tonon Leglocks Promoter Ralek Gracie in Metamoris 7 Replacement Main Event Sunday, inside the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, grappling star Garry Tonon gave up 40 pounds to Metamoris founder and promoter Ralek...

Jordan Breen

Jul 17, 2016

Vale Tudo Relics: Absolute Fighting Championship 2 A trip to Russia in 1997 turned into the theater of the absurd for a Brazilian contingent that included Roberto Traven, Fabio Gurgel and...

MMA Roots

Marcelo Alonso

Jul 05, 2016

Regrets on the Fedor Emelianenko Front Few, Far Between for Fabio Maldonado Fabio Maldonado lost a disputed majority decision to former Pride Fighting Championships titleholder Fedor Emelianenko at Eurasia Fight Nights...

Marcelo Alonso

Jul 01, 2016

Sherdog’s Top 10: MMA Rivalries Nothing gets the blood pumping more vigorously than when two fighters hate each other, talk trash and vow to do bodily harm to one another.

Sherdog’s Top 10

Mike Sloan

Jul 01, 2016

What to Watch For: Bellator 157 Quinton “Rampage” Jackson returns to Bellator MMA in a main-event battle with Olympic gold judo medalist Satoshi Ishii on Friday in St. Louis at...

Brian Knapp

Jun 23, 2016

The Bottom Line: A Masterpiece in Unintentional Comedy Even if Fedor Emelianenko spends his last few fights competing in relative obscurity, we can at least appreciate that it brought us Eurasia Fight Nights 50, perhaps the most ridiculous and amusing spectacle in...

Todd Martin

Jun 21, 2016

Opinion: UFC Should Still Pursue Fedor Emelianenko The man who is widely considered one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- mixed martial artists in the history of the sport was inching closer to finally making his...

Andreas Hale

Jun 20, 2016