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Live Video Stream Q&A with Damon Lau (Round 5 President) and special guests!

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Please listen in on this Live Video Stream on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 4pm EST for a special Q&A session with Damon Lau (Round 5 President) and his special guests: UFC Octagon Girl, Brittney Palmer, and Former PRIDE Middleweight Champion, Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva! Go to the Round5 Facebook Fan Page and “Like” [...]

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mano a mano – what does it mean?

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Technically, mano a mano translates as “hand to hand”.  It was used originally for bullfights where two matadors alternate competing for the admiration of the audience.  At least according to Wikipedia! Within the Doce Pares Eskrima fighting system, (a class of Filipino Martial Arts that emphasizes stick and sword fighting) it is one of the three ranges [...]

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Demetrius Andrade Is Following A Plan

Undefeated 2008 U.S. Olympian Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade believes his February 10 main-event fight against former USBA junior middleweight champion Derek “Pooh” Ennis, for the vacant North American Boxing Organization (“NABO”) junior middleweight title, is a continuation of a well designed plan, eventually landing him a world title fight later this year or in early 2013.   With [...]

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez

Put your Money on Mayweather vs. Alvarez for Cinco de Mayo

It has become clear as day that negotiations for the much anticipated superfight between WBO Welterweight champion and Ring magazine’s #1 pound for pound boxer Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2 with 38 KO’s) and WBC Welterweight champion and Ring magazine’s #2 pound for pound boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0 with 26 KO’s) have once again fallen apart. [...]

Ann Wolfe

Women’s Boxing — will it ever Catch On?

I can recall that many UFC fans told me ten years ago that it would be run so much more smoothly than boxing. Having one promoter and a numbered amount of regulated fight cards, it would even feature fewer divisions, and talent would be built up locally, then regionally, and nationally… rather than based on fame and [...]

Bernard Hopkins

Hopkins May Not Be Ready To Pass The Torch Yet, But Will Dawson Rip It Out Of His Hands?

It’s really hard to not be impressed with the forty seven year old WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Bernard Hopkins. They say records are made to be broken, but Hopkins’ record of being the oldest champion in boxing history will be very hard to break, and it looks like it will be secure for years to [...]

Bowe vs Holyfield #4

Bowe Poised for Come back, wants Fourth Bout with Holyfield

Riddick “Big Daddy” Bowe (43-1, 33 KOs) still has some fight left in him and is preparing to launch a comeback to the sport that made him famous. “Well, you know, I’ve been training, and I decided to make a comeback. So, I’m in the process of gettin’ myself on weight,” said Bowe this past [...]

Evans beats Davis - to fight Jon Jones next

Evans beats Davis, will fight Jon “Bones” Jones for the UFC title fight

(By Mike Dinovo, US Presswire) (PhatzRadio / MMA) — CHICAGO — Experience trumped previously unblemished youth Saturday in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s return to Chicago. Former champion “Suga” Rashad Evans (22-1-1) dominated Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis (9-1) en route to a unanimous decision victory in the main event of UFC on Fox 2. In inflicting [...]

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