As Mixed Martial Arts continues to grow and expand its reach, new promotions bring thirsty fans more and more MMA action. Worldwide Mixed Martial Arts is one of those new promotions and they will be holding their inaugural event on Saturday, March 31st at the Don Haskins Center, El Paso, Texas. The event will feature several former UFC fighters and proceeds from the event will go to the Wounded Warriors foundation.
Anyone who has watched one MMA event in their lives has seen the following: technical martial arts training and skill and tattoos. A once “taboo” brand of self-expression, tattooing has developed into a mainstream sensation over the last few years, much like MMA given its negative early connotations and now is the fastest growing sport in the world.
It’s all over, the Bellator summer is all over. Following a successful fourth season, it’s first on MTV2, Bellator introduced its summer series to bridge season four and five. The three-part series concluded tonight with the final for the summer series featherweight tournament.
The inaugural Bellator Summer Series comes to a conclusion this Saturday from the familiar confines of the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The three event series featured a featherweight tournament that is set to conclude, along with a handful of special attraction bouts. Bellator 48 will send the Summer Series out in style with the featherweight tournament final and three special attraction bouts.
Shark Fights featherweight champion Ronnie Mann is set to make his Bellator 42 Saturday night against Josh Arocho.
Just days before his scheduled bout with the Bellator heavyweight champion Cole Konrad, Paul Buentello was forced to withdraw from the non-title bout. Citing a back injury as the reason for withdrawing from Bellator 42, Buentello (29-13) and Konrad (7-0) will meet at a later date.
Stepping back into the Bellator cage for the first time since winning the Bellator Heavyweight Championship, Cole Konrad faces his toughest test to date in his young MMA career when he takes on former UFC and Strikeforce Heavyweight contender, Paul “The Headhunter” Buentello in a Heavyweight Non-Title fight at Bellator 42.
In what the announcers claimed was “the fight the world has been waiting to see” former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia defeated Paul Buentello to win the PWP heavyweight title.
