Bellator 43's Ratings A Positive Step Forward, Despite A Small Decline

Since making its debut on the MTV2 network, the weekly ratings of Bellator?s events have, at times, fluctuated wildly. Shows that have been rather underwhelming ended up doing great in the ratings, while under-appreciated ?sleeper hits? seem to have flopped with the MTV2 audience. So, how did the recent Bellator 43 event perform? Has Bellator?s [...]

Source: http://www.fighters.com/05/11/bellator-43s-ratings-a-positive-step-forward-despite-a-small-decline

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Frank Mir Talks UFC 130, Fedor, Dana, Overeem & Nelson - Frank Mir

Former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir sat down with MMA:30's Dave Farra and discussed his long history with the UFC, the motorcycle accident that almost ended his career, and where he is now with Dana White and the UFC. Mir also gives his thoughts on Fedor, Overeem and other heavyweights coming over to the UFC, and talks about his upcoming fight with Roy Nelson at UFC 130.

Source: http://mmalice.com/frank-mir/frank-mir-talks-ufc-130-fedor-dana-overeem-nelson-video_b0936bfda.html

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Mask Record Set, Rikishi/Crowbar Updates, Various News

– Tampa Bay Online has an article about former wrestler Steve Chamberland who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident and is now trying to provide fifty prosthetic legs in fifty weeks to people who need them. You can see it at http://www2.tbo.com/ – Rikishi and Crowbar will be at the May 20th and 21st ECPW shows in Paramus, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. – The Los Angeles Angels did in fact set the world record for people wearing costume masks at their baseball game yesterday when they gave away Angels ...

Source: http://www.ifight365.com/2011/05/mask-record-set-rikishicrowbar-updates-various-news/

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Bellator 43 Picks And Predictions

We?re now only a few days away from Bellator 43. In the main event, Jay Hieron does battle with Rick Hawn to crown the winner of Bellator?s Season Four Welterweight Tournament. The co-main event will also be an interesting match-up, as UFC and Strikeforce veteran Joe Riggs makes his Bellator debut against Bryan Baker. As [...]

Source: http://www.fighters.com/05/05/bellator-43-picks-and-predictions

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Details on new accident insurance plan for UFC and Strikeforce fighters; Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta comment

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

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The UFC held a teleconference on Monday to give more details on their unprecedented new accident insurance policy for all fighters under contract.

The policy will be in place for every fighter in the organization, and will be valid around the world beginning on June 1 of this year. The UFC has already begun enrolling all their fighters in the program during their annual fighter symposium in Las Vegas this week. Here's some of what the new policy will entail:

-All fighters under contract to the UFC or Strikeforce will be covered. Lorenzo Fertitta believed the total number of covered fighters to be close to 400.

-$50,000 of coverage maximum per fighter per year. That amount is supplementary to what is covered on fight nights, and fighters who suffer injuries during a fight will still get coverage under those initial policies.

-Per Fertitta, the policy will cover "everything from physician services, lab tests, emergency room, anesthetics, physical therapy, anything that would involve any type of an accident."

-Basic medical checkups such as cold and flu coverage is not included, and the deal was equated to more of a car insurance-type policy, where injuries from accidents are covered but not basic medical services.

-Fighters are covered whether they have a fight coming up or not, provided they are still under contract to the organization.

They also announced that there will be a full time employee dedicated to handling the claims of all fighters, the same employee that handles current claims from UFC events.

Both Fertitta and UFC President Dana White expressed that this type of coverage was a goal of theirs from very early on in their ownership of the organization, and it took a long time to get it all together.

"The issue of accidental insurance for fighters has been an issue, obviously, for a long time," Fertitta said during the call (transcribed by our friend Zach Arnold at FightOpinion.com). "Of course, fighters have always been and are covered for anything that happens during an event or during a fight. The complexity comes as far as providing insurance for fighters when they?re not in a fight, during their training, during time in-between and it?s unprecedented in the fact that in combat sports this has actually never been done. About three years ago, me & Dana sat down with the rest of our executive and, essentially, came to the decision that we were going to figure out how to do this, no matter what."

White added, "This is a huge deal for us, this is a big milestone in the company. You know, you always hear me talking about milestones and all the things we've accomplished, we've been trying to figure this one out since we started the company. To be here today announcing that we can finally cover these fighters... and not just for fights but for training, like Lorenzo said, it's a big day not only for this company but for combat sports in general. It's never been done. People have talked about it, people have attempted to do it, it?s never been done and now it finally has and it?s a proud moment for us."

Penick's Analysis: This really is such a great move on the UFC's part. For business reasons and otherwise, proactively taking care of their fighters with benefits like this, especially without needing to be forced into it by the development of a fighter's union, allows them some leeway with having their fighters as "independent contractors." But outside of the image, this just makes things so much easier for a lot of the lower end fighters on the roster or younger and newer fighters that haven't had time to make a lot of money to cover injury expenses, and allows them to not have to worry about their injuries to the extent they've had to in the past. There is always the possibility that this leads to more fights being called off more often, as fighters will hopefully get things taken care of instead of fighting through potentially dangerous injuries.

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_9291.shtml

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MMA Top 10 Middleweights: Intrigue Grows at 185 Pounds

by Michael David SmithAnderson Silva defended his title against Vitor Belfort at UFC 126.We haven't updated our rankings of the Top 10 middleweights in mixed martial arts in quite some time because, frankly, Anderson Silva has made it a boring division.

That's not to say Silva is boring: When he's on his game, he's as exciting as any athlete this sport has ever seen. And it's not to say the other fighters in the division are boring: There have been plenty of good middleweight scraps over the last few months.

But ranking the middleweight division can get boring because not much changes: It's always Silva on top, and a familiar cast of characters competing for the right to be Silva's next victim.

But there are some indications that the middleweight division in mixed martial arts might be getting a little more interesting. Yushin Okami is finally scheduled to get the title shot that was promised to him months ago, Chael Sonnen is finally getting close to being cleared for a return, and the addition of Strikeforce middleweights (starting in July with Jason Mayhem Miller and likely including Strikeforce champ Jacare Souza soon) may inject some new blood into the middleweight class.

So now is a good time to update our list of the Top 10 middleweights in mixed martial arts, keeping an eye on what's ahead for Silva and the other top fighters.

 

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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/05/11/mma-top-10-middleweights-intrigue-grows-at-185-pounds/

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Yamato Damashii Diaries: Video Wrapup

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In the wake of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, former Shooto heavyweight champion Enson Inoue has been on a one-man charity mission, repeatedly traveling to northeast Japan to directly help those in need.

MMA Fighting joined Inoue to document his journeys through the ruins of the coastal villages of Tohoku, his work at evacuations centers in the area and to bring new light to the ongoing crisis in Japan.




Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/05/12/yamato-damashii-diaries-video-wrapup/

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