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Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Wanderlei Silva, Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Wanderlei Silva, Shannon Ritch vs. Kazushi Sakuraba, Yoon Dong Sik vs. Kazushi Sakuraba, Wanderlei Silva vs. Kazushi Sakuraba are featured in this episode of Best of Pride Fighting Championships.
Hear what Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche have to say about their historic UFC women's title fight during today's UFC 157 press conference at 4 pm ET/1 pm PT: http://on.ufc.com/YnXWgx
UFC Champ and Judo Gold Medalist Olympian "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey practicing arm bar against her boyfriend (Rickson Gracie BJJ Black Belt)
UFC President Dana White's message to the The Ultimate Fighter competitors is a simple one. See which of the 28 guys took it to heart when the two-hour premiere of TUF airs tonight at 8 pm ET/PT on FX.
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Reward yourself today with this UFC Champ Jon Jones Autograph. Just imagine a longer limb and younger champ (than Anderson Silva) fighting Sonnen. We really hope Chael tries a spinning back fist or elbow against Jones. Well at least Sonnen was right about Lance Armstrong's performance enhancing drug (PED) use.
UFC 148 Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen, the rematch weigh-in live on Friday, July 6. (7:00 PM ET/4PM PT)
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Main Card
-Anderson Silva () vs. Chael Sonnen ()
-Forrest Griffin () vs. Tito Ortiz ()
-Cung Le () vs. Patrick Cote ()
-Dong Hyun Kim () vs. Demian Maia ()
-Chad Mendes () vs. Codie McKenzie ()
-Ivan Menjivar () vs. Mike Easton ()
Preliminary Bouts
-Gleison Tibau () vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov ()
-Melvin Guillard () vs. Fabricio Camoes ()
-Costa Philippou () vs. Riki Fukuda ()
-John Alessio () vs. Shane Roller ()
Preliminary Bout
-Rafaello Oliveira () vs. Yoislandy Izquierdo ()
DALLAS (July 29, 2011) HDNet’s “Inside MMA” breaks more shocking news concerning StrikeForce™ Heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem who “Inside MMA” has learned has received a cut letter and has been released from the promotion.
Overeem vs. Fabricio Werdum
Sources...have told “Inside MMA’s” Ron Kruck that Strikeforce™ has exercised its right to eliminate the one remaining fight on Overeem’s contract effective July 22nd.
Also according to the source, Overeem has been dealing with more serious injuries than originally reported, including a broken toe and rib and elbow problems. Overeem will fight next in October in Russia for the promotion United Glory. No word on who his opponent will be.
Also according to the source, Overeem has been dealing with more serious injuries than originally reported, including a broken toe and rib. He also has problems with an elbow.
Overeem has fought through nagging injuries and while set to fight in the StrikeForce™ semi-finals (scheduled for September 10th in Cincinnati) Overeem has stated he still needed more time to recover.
Another issue that StrikeForce™ officials had regarding Overeem’s participation in the tournament is he had only one fight left on his current contract and he would have had to fight twice to win the Grand Prix.
UFC Fighter Sean Sherk's Intense Simulated High Altitude (Low Oxygen) Gas Mask Workout performed by us at The Los Angeles Fitness Expo, Jan. 2011. We found it to be much harder than running near the highest peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains at Sandstone Peak (3,111 feet). This is part of the National Park Service near Malibu (see video below).
The information below is from their website:
Elevation Training Mask helps condition the lungs by creating pulmonary resistance, your diaphragm is strengthened, surface area and elasticity in the alveoli is increased.
Elevation Training Mask will help get your breathing under control and help with lung stamina, it can be used during running, cycling (stationary for beginners) and other workouts.
If you train with less oxygen you can eventually go on for longer! Elevation Training Mask is great because it regulates how much air you can breathe in, making it so that you breath less oxygen, in turn making the air thinner (due to the low oxygen intake it's similar to altitude training).
Following are the changes that significantly boost Athletic Performance when using Elevation Training Mask.
· Increases in Lung capacity as your lungs have to work 9 times harder to get the oxygen in
· Increases anaerobic Thresholds
· Gas exchange becomes more efficient
· Energy Production levels rise
· Mental and Physical stamina increase
· Mental Focus gets better
The Benefits
Elevation Training Mask mimics the effect of High Altitude Training. When top athletes want to improve in their performance, they go to high altitude levels to train, and when they come back to sea level to race, they are performing much stronger, faster, and have more endurance due to the type of training they have been doing prior to the event.
With reduced oxygen consumption the human body changes in several ways. The production of red blood cells and new capillaries (small blood vessels) increase the transfer of oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. An important natural hormone involved in this process is EPO (erythropoietin).
GMT is also fantastic for anyone suffering from asthma, as most asthmatics tend to over breathe, with the gas mask on they will learn to control their breathing, and some say it can even cure it if done on a regular basis.
Blood
Blood is an 'aqueous body fluid'. In other words it is water containing a whole range of substances. It is contained in a complex network called the vascular system and is pumped around the body by the heart. Blood has two main functions. It: provides defense against disease transports compounds, ions, and some elements to and from other tissues and cells.
Red blood cells and haemoglobin
Oxygen is one of the substances transported with the assistance of red blood cells. The red blood cells contain a pigment called hemoglobin, each molecule of which binds four oxygen molecules. Oxyhemoglobin forms. The oxygen molecules are carried to individual cells in the body tissue where they are released. The binding of oxygen is a reversible reaction.
Hb + 4O2 Hb.4O2
The four 'disks' in the diagram of hemoglobin are the parts of the molecule where the oxygen molecules bind, while the four folded 'sausage shapes' represent polypeptide chains.
At high oxygen concentrations oxyhemoglobin forms, but at low oxygen concentrations oxyhemoglobin dissociates to hemoglobin and oxygen. The balance can be shown by an oxygen dissociation curve for oxyhemoglobin.
at relatively low oxygen concentrations there is uncombined hemoglobin in the blood and little or no oxyhemoglobin, e.g. in body tissue
at relatively high oxygen concentrations there is little or no uncombined hemoglobin in the blood; it is in the form of oxyhemo globin, e.g. in the lungs.
Note Historically oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations are expressed as partial pressures (measured in kPa), also called oxygen or carbon tension. The amount of oxygen held by the hemoglobin, i.e. its saturation level, is normally expressed as a percentage.
Oxygen dissociation curves can be used to illustrate Le Chatelier's Principle which states that a system in dynamic equilibrium responds to any stress by restoring the equilibrium. For example shifts in the position of the curve occur as a result of the concentration of CO2 or changes in pH.
Hemoglobin can also bind carbon dioxide, but to a lesser extent. Carbaminohaemoglobin forms. Some carbon dioxide is carried in this form to the lungs from respiring tissues.
The presence of carbon dioxide helps the release of oxygen from hemoglobin, this is known as the Bohr effect. This can be seen by comparing the oxygen dissociation curves when there is less carbon dioxide present and when there is more carbon dioxide in the blood.
When carbon dioxide diffuses into the blood plasma and then into the red blood cells (erythrocytes) in the presence of the catalyst carbonic anhydrase most CO2 reacts with water in the erythrocytes and the following dynamic equilibrium is established
H2O + CO2 H2CO3
Carbonic acid, H2CO3, dissociates to form hydrogen ions and hydrogen carbonate ions. This is also a reversible reaction and undissociated carbonic acid, hydrogen ions and hydrogen carbonate ions exist in dynamic equilibrium with one another
H2CO3 H+ + HCO3-
Inside the erythrocytes negatively charged HCO3- ions diffuse from the cytoplasm to the plasma. This is balanced by diffusion of chloride ions, Cl-, in the opposite direction, maintaining the balance of negative and positive ions either side. This is called the 'chloride shift'.
The dissociation of carbonic acid increases the acidity of the blood (decreases its pH). Hydrogen ions, H+, then react with oxyhemoglobin to release bound oxygen and reduce the acidity of the blood. This buffering action allows large quantities of carbonic acid to be carried in the blood without major changes in blood pH.
Hb.4O2 + H+ HHb+ + 4O2
(Hb.4O2 is sometimes written HbO8.)
It is this reversible reaction that accounts for the Bohr effect. Carbon dioxide is a waste product of respiration and its concentration is high in the respiring cell and so it is here that hemoglobin releases oxygen.
Now the hemoglobin is strongly attracted to carbon dioxide molecules. Carbon dioxide is removed to reduce its concentration in the cell and is transported to the lungs were its concentration is lower. This process is continuous since the oxygen concentration is always higher than the carbon dioxide concentration in the lungs. The opposite is true in respiring cells.
Figure 2:17 The Bohr effect and its consequence on oxygen tension. When blood is less alkaline, more oxygen is released from haemoglobin and received by the tissues.
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^ ab Voet, Donald; Judith G. Voet, Charlotte W. Pratt (2008). Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 189–190.
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Spartacus Blood And Sand and the movie Gladiator by Ridley Scott remind us how the electric roar of the crowd strongly influences the livelihood of fighters in modern combat sports. As Russel Crowe's character Maximus stated in Gladiator "are you not entertained?"
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White stated "this is not the Ultimate Starring Competition" after releasing Gerald Harris. Harris was released after losing at UFC 123 in Michigan. However, he did not have a losing streak that usually results in a release from the UFC. See http://mmafightingwords.blogspot.com/2010/11/ufc-releases-gerald-harris-after-loss.html
We are taking pre-orders on our MMA inspired Gladiator at a discount price.
Here is a short preview of the action on the HBO TV Series Spartacus - Blood And Sand. The plot becomes complex over time involving alliances and betrayal in the Roman Empire including the gladiators, other slaves, citizens, the rich Patrician class, and other government officials.
The prequel, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is premiers on January 21, 2011.
Yet they also erroneously provide some legislators the arguments to ban mixed martial arts (MMA) in their jurisdiction. In an earlier article we posted, New York Assemblyman Reilly was quoted as voting against MMA in NY because he thought fights were to the death and because it encourages kids to be violent. Reilly must think watching the news on real wars or violent movies makes viewers like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi.
"For the most part, concerns about violence have been directed at the potential effects that the largely, but not exclusively, American-produced cartoons (e.g. Power Rangers), movies (e.g. Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction), dramas and real life programs (e.g. Cops) have on audiences, especially children."
See Jackson, Steven J., & Andrews, David. (2004). "Aggressive Marketing: Interrogating the Use of Violence in Sport-Related Advertising" in Sports Marketing and the Psychology of Marketing Communication. LEA Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. Studies done in Sienna, Italy have shown that the rate of violent crime falls drastically in the weeks after the famous horse race in which riders can knock each other off horses.
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Every great movement must experience 3 stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. John Stuart Mill, famous philosopher of law) Reposted by our friends at MMA Canada.net at http://mmacanada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1213&Itemid=49
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is no different and is in all three stages depending on the jurisdiction.
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Although, MMA is an aggressive sport and deemed barbaric by proponents of banning it, it is a relatively safe sport when compared to many other sports. MMA is based on ancient and modern fighting systems and philosophy. In 500 B.C. Ancient Greek pankratiasts often immobilized their opponent's arms in preparation for either a strike or takedown (referred to as trapping). See Jim Arvanitis' book,"The First Mixed Martial Art: Pankration from Myths to Modern Times."
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was allowed to organize MMA fights in Vancouver on June 12, 2010. Although, the UFC began showing fights in 1993, Vancouver would be just the second Canadian city after Montreal to host a MMA fight event like the UFC. The UFC reported the Vancouver event set a new record for the fastest sellout in history, selling out just thirty minutes after the ticket pre-sale started.
Shortly thereafter UFC President Dana White thanked Vancouver’s Mayor. Maybe former math teacher, Rich “Ace” Franklin who beat Chuck “Iceman” Liddell in Vancouver on June 12, 2010, can teach politicians how logical MMA is when boxing and hockey are allowed. MMA matches have been held in Japan since the 1970s and Brazil’s Vale Tudo (which roughly translates to “anything goes” in martial arts) since the 1920s. It was in the 1920s in Brazil when George Gracie defeated Tico Soledade. MMA continues to thrive in both these countries today. Japan has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world yet you can see elderly people and many women watching MMA in Japan. In contrast, Brazil's biggest cities with millions of people struggle with very high violent crime rates due to abject poverty not because of a love of MMA. We have spent over three weeks in Brazil and we have Brazilian friends who attest to this fact. Shogun Rua's manager even mentioned in a TapouT interview in Sept. 2010 that there is more demand for Rua's appearances in the U.S. than in Brasil.
Brazilian martial arts magazines from the past, vale tudo ("anything goes") with MMA legends like Marcos "King of the Streets" Ruas who we saw win live at UFC 7 in Buffalo, NY. Sign our petition below to allow MMA back into New York.
The UFC has implemented many safeguards (such as weight classes, padded gloves) since the 1st UFC held in Denver, CO in 1993. On June 20, 2010, World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) held a fight in Canada for the first time with a competition in Edmonton. WEC uses approved 4-6 oz gloves and has 31 designated fouls and many rules. Unlike these other major markets for MMA in Canada, provinces like Ontario are rigidly adhering to Section 83 of Canada’s Criminal Code to ban MMA. This Section defines a “prize fight” as a “…fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them….” There are exceptions in the Section that are not considered “prize fights” stating, “…a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, or any boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province….” (emphasis added).
Ontario's recent decision to allow MMA should influence other jurisdictions in Canada to allow such regulated competitions for several reasons. First, MMA competitions such as the UFC generate colossal amounts of money that benefit local and global businesses hard hit by the economic downturn. Hotels, restaurants, bars, airlines, and car rental agencies are just a few of the businesses that would benefit. The UFC has estimated that bouts in Ontario could generate $4 million in tax revenues annually for the cash-strapped provincial treasury.
Second, the law is overbroad and unreasonably vague making it hard to comply with the law. It punishes not only the fighters (who engage as a principal in a prize fight) but anyone who advises, encourages or promotes a prize fight, or is present at a prize fight as an aid, second, surgeon, umpire, backer or reporter. Would a fighter’s manager in another country, who unknowingly advises an athlete who will be fighting in Ontario, be in violation of the overbroad and vague law? Presumably yes. There is no merit in penalizing surgeons from being present at fights when the purported purpose of banning MMA is to protect fighters. You can easily punish fighters without punishing medical professionals who are present to help fighters in the event of an injury. In sharp contrast to the law, medical professionals should be rewarded for being present even if a jurisdiction does not allow MMA because they are innocent parties trying to help people.
Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty was quoted by the Toronto Star Newspaper on December 23, 2009 as stating "I'd want to hear from everybody – from police. Are these kinds of events taking place now in an unsupervised way? I'd want to hear from medical officials."
Third, other sports and events which are just as dangerous if not more dangerous are allowed. More athletes died rowing in 1982-83 and 2008-09 than in all MMA events at all levels in North America from 1993-August 17, 2010. See The National Center for Catastrophic Injury 2009 Research Study at the University of North Carolina http://www.unc.edu/depts/nccsi/2009ALLSPORTTABLES.pdf. Yes, I will admit that does sound strange. This is why further study and technology to protect the fighters is the answer not accusations without study.
The law allows boxing if boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass and judo, tae kwon do, karate, kick boxing, and wrestling are all allowed. There are many sports and activities which are allowed that are clearly more dangerous (from a statistical risk assessment) and many would argue have similar social utility: boxing, football, rugby, hang-gliding, luge, downhill skiing, motorcycle and car racing. Many boxers have died and been injured and yet boxing is still rightfully legal. The story of the traggic death of Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim after fighting Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is shown below.
Mancini and Kim met in an arena outside Caesar's Palace on November 13, 1982. In what many ringside observers described as an "action-packed" fight, Mancini and Duk Koo Kim were equal for a good portion of the early rounds. However, by the latter rounds, Mancini began to dominate Duk Koo Kim. Spent and battered, Duk Koo Kim went into round 14 with little left and Mancini dropped him. He got up, but the fight was stopped and Mancini retained the title.
Minutes after the fight was over, Duk Koo Kim collapsed into a coma, and was taken to a hospital. Emergency brain surgery was done there to try to save his life, but that effort proved to be futile, as he died five days after the bout, on November 18, 1982. The week after, the magazine Sports Illustrated had a photo of the fight on their cover, under the heading Tragedy in The Ring. To add to the tragedy, Duk Koo Kim's mother and the referee also committed suicide after his tragic death.
Boxing was not banned after this death or after any other death from a fight. Many reforms in boxing took place as a result of this death. The World Boxing Council (WBC), even though not the sanctioning organization in this fight, was the first one to add many new rules concerning a fighter's medical care before fights at their annual convention in 1982. WBC president Jose Sulaiman declared that, immediately after the Mancini-Kim bout, the WBC and their medical advisors had conducted a study that revealed that most fighters get injured more severely after round thirteen. Thus, the organization immediately decided to reduce the number of rounds in their championship bouts from fifteen to twelve. The World Boxing Association (WBA) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) followed the WBC in 1987. When the World Boxing Organization (WBO) was formed in 1988, they implemented a twelve (12) round world championship bouts.
Apart from the round reduction, more comprehensive safeguards would be adopted like electrocardiograms, brain tests, lung tests, and other medical tests from just a blood pressure and heartbeat check before 1982.
Thus, we must continually study how to better protect MMA fighters and be proactive to avoid harm to the athletes and not wait for tragedy like the regulators of boxing.
The rules of MMA work and additional safeguards should be studied and implemented. There are no more serious injuries in MMA than in these other sports. Should the Olympic sport of luge be banned because an athlete died during a training session in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics? Of course not! Better safety precautions need to be studied and implemented like the Olympic Committee adopted after that luge accident. Yes, injuries happen but through study and technology the fighters can be better protected just like boxers and hockey players. Additional safety precautions should be assessed when necessary such as better padding on gloves to prevent hand injuries. Therefore, it is illogical that it is illegal when a sport has an interdisciplinary integration of a kickboxing, judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, and other forms of martial arts with the right safety precautions.
In addition, fighting is not usually penalized in sports such as hockey and basketball. Watch this clip and watch the referees fail to stop the fighting in hockey.
Fourth, banning MMA encourages underground fights which are not regulated by official athletic commissions or associations and thereby increase the likelihood that fighters will be injured. Imagine underground fights like in the movie “Fight Club” which have less protection for fighters and staff than organized events like the ones held by the UFC, WEC, Bellator Fighting Championship, Pride FC, and Strikeforce with medical doctors present. Ontario’s Premier was also quoted by the Toronto Star Newspaper on December 23, 2009, stating "It's not the kind of thing I'd want to drive underground, in other words. So I'd want to bring a thoughtful approach to this." We are glad McGinty came to his senses.
Commissioner Ken Hayashi of the Ontario Athletic Commission (OAC) stated back in 2007 that there are an increasing number of MMA events taking place on Indian Reservations in Ontario: “Those guys are taking a big chance with putting on these shows. If someone gets seriously hurt there will be serious liability issues for those connected with the event and it will set the sport back several years in Ontario. Especially if it’s found that they’ve not done the due diligence that other professional athletic commissions are doing.” Commissioner Hayashi explained that medical testing such as CAT scans, electroencephalograms (EEGs), and full blood work (HIA, Hepatitis B and C), are required by most provincial commissions in Canada.
In 2006, a MMA event was held on the Oneida First Nation Indian Reserve just outside of London, Ontario. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) admitted that MMA competitions are a grey area under the law. At the time OPP Constable Doug Graham stated, “We will conduct an investigation and determine whether this event fits the definition of a prize fight and whether it would be in the public’s interest to prosecute. It’s a strange situation; we’ve never been faced with something like this.”
On April 26, 2007, Ohsweken Reserve –an Iroquois Indian reserve held the third Iroquois Mixed Martial Arts Championships (IMMAC), aka Rumble On The Rez (short-form for Reservation). An Ontario Provincial Police roadblock on the main highway was forcing fans to take a lengthy detour, which might explain why attendance is down slightly for this event, about 1,500 compared to the 2,000-plus who came out to the first two Rumble On The Rez fights in November and February.
On Saturday, July 10, 2010, an Iroquois Indian reserve held their Iroquois MMA Championships #8, entitled "The Comeback." Banning MMA pushes it underground to these less regulated venues to "comeback" again and again. Protecting the fighters is the very laudable goal these jurisdictions have used to justify these laws so allowing MMA and thereby preventing an underground fighting network will achieve this goal more effectively than an absolute ban.
Now That Ontario Has Allowed MMA After This Article Was Originally Written, Here is Showdown Joe Ferraro, Host of "MMA Connected" and MMA Analyst for Rogers Sportsnet at UFC 121 - Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez in Anaheim. With him is the top executive at UFC-Canada and former CFL Commissioner, Tom Wright.
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