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Cage Side: March Roundup
UFC 143: For the first time in over four years, the UFC opted to name a new Interim Welterweight Champion at UFC 143 due to a prolonged knee injury sustained by current Champion George St. Pierre in mid-2011. The two men in the match, Nick Diaz and C
NEWS: Cage Side Roundup January 2012
January has been quite a month for Zuffa, with four events during the month, along with the official start of their seven year contract with Fox, a return to Brazil and the start of a new year with Strikeforce on Showtime, a relationship set to now l
NEWS: Cage Side December 2011 Roundup
UFC 141: Having not fought for some 14 months due to a second bout of diverticulitis, many questions were surrounding Brock Lesnar’s return to the Octagon on December 30th 2011 against the Dutch multiple-time Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem.
ARTICLE: Learning From History: TNA On Pay Per View
Since the promotion’s start in 2002, TNA has produced over 200 Pay Per View (PPV) events, more than the original WCW or ECW ever did combined. You’d think with that vast amount of experience behind them, the group would be experts at promoting an
ARTICLE: Playing Pass The Parcel With World Titles
As a means of keeping Pay Per View’s interesting, and to pop ratings on Raw the night following a PPV, WWE over the past six months has implemented a policy that at least one, sometimes both, of their World Titles change hands at each PPV. In addit
NEWS: Cage Side UFC November Roundup
UFC 137: The main event changes in the run up to UFC 137 on October 29th highlighted two key things in the current UFC landscape. Number one, with fighters now being covered by insurance which allows them to claim against injuries sustained in traini
NEWS: Puro Power November Roundup
Bison Smith Passes Away: On November 22nd the wrestling world was saddened by the new of the passing of Mark ‘Bison’ Smith in Puerto Rico at the age of 38 due to heart issues. Smith had been a long-time visitor to Japan for Pro Wrestling NOAH a
ARTICLE: Is Strikeforce Heading For The MMA Scrapheap?
Pride Fighting Championships, World Fighting Alliance, World Elite Cagefighting, Affliction, International Fight League; all MMA promotions which have their assets held by Zuffa, the parent company of the UFC, and all promotions which no longer opera
ARTICLE: WWE In A Post 9/11 World
Late on September 10th and into the early hours of September 11th 2001, the WWF’s touring group would make their way from San Antonio, where they had been for Monday’s live Raw broadcast, to Houston where they would film Smackdown for the followi
Cage Side: UFC On Fox Special
As a means of celebrating the new relationship between UFC and Fox, which was signed earlier this year for a period of seven years and worth around $100million per year, UFC on Fox 1 on November 12th was designed to showcase the promotion to a potent