Newcomer John Makdessi Felt No Jitters in UFC Debut - UFC 124

Newcomer John Makdessi Felt No Jitters in UFC Debut Video by UFC 124

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Bellator signs deal with MTV2 for fourth season and beyond

Bellator has signed a three-year deal with MTV2 to air the promotions' fights live, starting with the fourth season in March 2011. The tournament-based promotion, with champions like Ben Askren, will air on MTV2, a station once known for music programming but has grown to air sports-ish programming like "Bully Beatdown," a show hosted by Strikeforce's Jason "Mayhem" Miller, and "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory," which follows professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek.

From the Bellator press release:

MTV2, which features the highest concentration of M12-24 and M12-34 in television, will telecast two of these LIVE tournaments per year, plus a collection of special feature events. The first tournament will premiere in March 2011.  
 
"MTV2 is the perfect home for the intense mixed martial arts action of Bellator," Eric Conte, SVP, Programming and Production, MTV2. "MMA is at the top of our audience's wish list, and partnering with Bellator to bring live events and specials to MTV2 made complete sense since our viewers are so hungry to see more MMA on-air."

The key word in that is live. Bellator was with Fox Sports Net for their last two seasons, and they were often pre-empted by other local programming. In Chicago, Bellator's hometown, the fights rarely aired live, and sometimes were started after midnight. By the time the fights aired, the results were widely known.

Bellator recognized that and made a change. They also appear to be going after a younger demographic, as most MMA promotions covet the 18-49 year-old male demographic.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Bellator-signs-deal-with-MTV2-for-fourth-season-?urn=mma-295838

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CJ Tambornino in Flow Trash

Flow Trash features the latest and greatest skating out out of Minneapolis; watch CJ Tambornino's face-melting part here, and then pull out your credit card and purchase the DVD right here.

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MMA Top 10 Pound-for-Pound: GSP Stays on Top

Filed under: UFC, Rankings, Overall

Georges St. Pierre remains the best fighter in all of mixed martial arts, regardless of weight class.

There are arguments, to be sure, for other fighters, namely middleweight champ Anderson Silva or featherweight champ Jose Aldo, getting the No. 1 spot. Most of those arguments center around the fact that Silva and Aldo are finishers, while St. Pierre tends to win decisions.

I'm sympathetic to those arguments, but what St. Pierre does in his decision victories is amazing: In his four decisions as the UFC welterweight champion, the 12 judges have turned in scorecards of 50-45, 50-45, 50-45, 50-43, 50-44, 50-45, 50-44, 50-45, 50-45, 50-44, 50-44 and 50-43. It doesn't get more dominant than that.

So St. Pierre remains on top. Find out the rest of the Top 10 below.

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/19/mma-top-10-pound-for-pound-gsp-stays-on-top/

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Dana White pays for infant's life-saving surgery

UFC president Dana White has a brash exterior. He's known for being a tough negotiator, saying what he thinks, and dropping f-bombs at will. It turns out that he also has a heart of gold. White stepped up to pay for a life-saving surgery for the 7-month-old daughter of a popular Thai MMA trainer at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket.

UFC fighters like Mike Swick and Jon Fitch have relied on Tiger Muay Thai to improve their striking game, and instructor Kru Nai has helped several top fighters. His daughter Tuptim was diagnosed with bilary obstruction, a serious liver condition. A surgery could save her life, but it cost $50,000. Without it, she was given just weeks to live.

The MMA community came together to try to raise money for her surgery. To bring attention to the issue, a poster on the Underground, a popular MMA message board, asked White to give the cash:

Mr. DANA WHITE, If you are a true ambassador for the sport.....PAY FOR THIS SURGERY!!!

Please help, no donation to small........the clock is ticking

That's exactly what White is doing. He confirmed to Yahoo! Sports on Monday that he will pay for Tuptim's surgery.

"I was reading the Underground and saw it and clicked on it and I don't know, I just did. She needs it fast, so I did it,"  White said via text.

Kudos to the White for stepping up and helping out. White's generosity to the Nai family makes him better than Santa Claus.

Thanks to Bloody Elbow

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Dana-White-pays-for-infant-s-life-saving-surgery?urn=mma-298359

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Georges St. Pierre Dominates Josh Koscheck at UFC 124

by Michael David SmithGeorges St. Pierre has shown once again why he's the best mixed martial artist in the world: He doesn't just keep winning, but he keeps getting better every time.

St. Pierre dominated Josh Koscheck for 25 minutes Saturday night at UFC 124, retaining the UFC welterweight championship with a unanimous decision victory that all three judges scored in St. Pierre's favor, 50-45. St. Pierre has been working with the renowned boxing trainer Freddie Roach, and it clearly paid off, as St. Pierre used his boxing to a greater extent than ever before in his career.

"Josh Koscheck likes to throw his punch circular, and me, I'm a straight puncher," St. Pierre said afterward. "So the issue was to keep him on the outside."

 

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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/12/georges-st-pierre-dominates-josh-koscheck-at-ufc-124/

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