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In your face Ohio! Tim Sylvia vs Wes Sims booked for IFC 'Fight Night' in Canada
You know back in my day when you couldn't book fighters for a carnival-style freak show or lopsided mismatch, you simply packed your bags and headed off to a dirt floor arena somewhere in Alabama. That was until "The Heart of Dixie" went and got itself some good old fashioned regulation. Now...
Monte Cox Finds a New Locale for Tim Sylvia vs Wes Sims - in Canada
Because the fans have spoken and there is no more must-happen fight than Tim Sylvia vs Wes Sims. Sure the Ohio State Athletic Commission said it wasn't competitive and wouldn't allow it to take place in their jurisdiction. But that won't stop a creative management team like Monte Cox. He's venue...
The Week in Quotes: June 21st - 27th
MMA MATH BY DIEGO? YUS! "Now, going in and beating two of the top contenders at 155, I think I'm the number one guy." - Diego Sanchez, reflecting on his victory over Clay Guida last Saturday. (MMA Weekly) "The only other person is Gray Maynard and Gray Maynard has a win over Frankie Edgar, who...
Monte Cox Promises Fans More Adrenaline, More Tim Sylvia
We can all breathe easy now, per MMA Weekly: Cox says Sylvia won't retire. "He's an MMA fighter, that's what he does for a living," said the big man's manager. "He's got to keep fighting - he's too young to quit." Cox says he learned plenty from his short involvement with M-1 Global, his...
Quoteworthy: Monte Cox Says Tim Sylvia Has Got To Keep Fighting
According to MMAWeekly: "He’s an MMA fighter, that’s what he does for a living," said the big man's manager. "He’s got to keep fighting – he’s too young to quit." Tim Sylvia has lost 3 in a row, getting finished each time and lost 4 out of his last 5. He showed up...
MMA Nation Rewind: Tim Kennedy Talks Nick Thompson, Why Urijah Faber's Hand Doesn't Fully Explain His Loss and Tim Sylvia vs. Ray Mercer Talk
There's a reason I didn't do any UFC 99 talk (check the comments), but the rest of the show went well: I open the show with discussion of the Washington City Paper profile piece then go into detail about Faber vs. Brown II. Tim Kennedy joins the show to talk Nick Thompson, back to training full...
How Monte Cox Ran Tim Sylvia's Career Into the Ground
Tim Sylvia's humiliating loss to Ray Mercer is mostly being discussed in terms of its meaning for Tim's seriously damaged career as a fighter. Not only does this loss brutally damage Sylvia's brand as a top MMA fighter, but in the immediate brass tacks sense, it will probably deprive him of a very...
Tim Sylvia vs. Ray Mercer Press Conference Video and Notes
Ray Mercer gives away his game plan and lays the pressure down on Tim Sylvia at the Adrenaline III press conference: "It's all going to boil down to who is a real man and who is going to do what we said we was going to do. We are going to get in there and he can kick and all that. I ain't going...
My Non-Holiday Boxing Wishlist
Wishlists are not an uncommon feature in sports writing, but usually they happen around some holiday. "Christmas Wishlist for Boxing" pops up somewhere every year. Me? Late March. I'm a rebel, baby. By the way, I'm going to update the picks contest stuff sometime in the next few days. I'm not...
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