Latest Michael David Smith Stories

• Mayhem Miller Talks About His 'Month in Jail With Murderers'
• By Michael David Smith 7/29/2010 8:45 AM ET
• Newer fans of mixed martial arts know Jason "Mayhem" Miller as the goofy guy who hosts Bully Beatdown, not as a bully himself. Even when Miller instigated a brawl at the end of Strikeforce's last ... More »
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• James Toney: I'll Hit Randy Couture So Hard His Grandparents Will Feel It
• By Michael David Smith 7/29/2010 8:00 AM ET
• As James Toney talks up his UFC 118 fight with Randy Couture, he makes so many outlandish, over-the-top comments that you're never sure how much of it he actually believes and can back up in the ... More »
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• Toney Wanted Lesnar, Turned Down Kimbo, Settled on Couture
• By Michael David Smith 7/28/2010 2:30 PM ET
• When boxing champion James Toney first signed with the UFC, he didn't see any reason he shouldn't get a heavyweight title shot. And so, Toney says, he asked for Brock Lesnar as his first opponent ... More »
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• Chat Live With James Toney
• By Michael David Smith 7/28/2010 11:00 AM ET
• James Toney, the soon-to-be 42-year-old pro boxer who was a two-time Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year, is preparing to take up a new sport when he steps inside the Octagon for a mixed martial arts ... More »
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• Congress Stalemates Over Honoring Athletes
• By Michael David Smith 7/27/2010 11:00 AM ET
• You'll be happy to learn that your elected officials are taking time off from their busy schedule of not doing anything about the important issues facing our country so that they can spend some time ...
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• Kazuyuki Miyata Fires Back at K-1 Announcers
• By Michael David Smith 7/27/2010 9:10 AM ET
• On Saturday I praised K-1 announcers Michael Schiavello and Mike Kogan for their candor in calling the recent Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Kazuhisa Watanabe fight, a fight that wasn't on par with the caliber ... More »
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• Sergio Kindle Out Indefinitely With Fractured Skull
• By Michael David Smith 7/26/2010 4:00 PM ET
• A day after the Baltimore Ravens confirmed that their top draft pick, Sergio Kindle, had been hospitalized with a head injury, head coach John Harbaugh told reporters that Kindle was badly hurt in a ... More »
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• As Matyushenko Touts Experience, Jones Says He's Not Young
• By Michael David Smith 7/26/2010 12:50 PM ET
• Most UFC fans who will tune in to Versus on Sunday night to watch Vladimir Matyushenko fight Jon Jones are probably unaware of the wealth of experience Matyushenko has in the sport: The UFC has so ... More »
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• A Refreshing Piece of Candor on a K-1 Broadcast
• By Michael David Smith 7/24/2010 10:30 AM ET
• One of the problems that plagues combat sports broadcasting is that the television announcers are so closely aligned with the promotions whose fights they call that the broadcasters often start to ... More »
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• Shane Del Rosario Improves to 10-0, TKOs Lolohea Mahe
• By Michael David Smith 7/24/2010 1:20 AM ET
• Shane Del Rosario is still undefeated after easily beating yet another overmatched opponent Friday night, beating Lolohea Mahe by first-round TKO on another Strikeforce Challengers card. "I've been ... More »
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• Sarah Kaufman KOs Roxanne Modafferi With a Slam
• By Michael David Smith 7/24/2010 12:59 AM ET
• In one of the most stunning endings to a women's fight that mixed martial arts has ever seen, Sarah Kaufman knocked out Roxanne Modafferi by picking her up and slamming the back of her head against ... More »
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• Mike Kyle Makes a Case for a Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Title Fight
• By Michael David Smith 7/23/2010 11:59 PM ET
• In a sign of how much Mike Kyle has done to resurrect his career -- and a sign of how shallow Strikeforce's light heavyweight division is -- Kyle is being discussed as a light heavyweight title ... More »
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• Caros Fodor Apologizes for His Performance in Beating Thomas Diagne
• By Michael David Smith 7/23/2010 11:37 PM ET
• Caros Fodor beat Thomas Diagne by unanimous decision Friday night on the Strikeforce Challengers card in Everett, Washington, but he wasn't satisfied. In fact, Fodor, who improved his pro MMA ... More »
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• Strikeforce Challengers 9 Preview and Predictions
• By Michael David Smith 7/23/2010 5:00 AM ET
• After a couple of slow weekends in mixed martial arts, the action is starting to heat up again on Friday night with a Strikeforce Challengers 9 card on Showtime that features one of the most exciting ... More »
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• Jon Jones, Vladimir Matyushenko Not Thinking About Rankings
• By Michael David Smith 7/22/2010 2:45 PM ET
• The light heavyweight class is the marquee division in the UFC, so much so that when Jon Jones fights Vladimir Matyushenko on August 1, it will be the 10th light heavyweight main event of the last 19 ... More »
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• Joe Rogan, Mayhem Miller Rip Gus Johnson
• By Michael David Smith 7/22/2010 1:59 PM ET
• Strikeforce fighter Jason Mayhem Miller thinks CBS announcer Gus Johnson is an "idiot" for his comments at the end of the April Strikeforce show, and UFC announcer Joe Rogan agrees with that ... More »
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• Danny Green KO of Paul Briggs Sparks Inquiry Into Fight Fixing
• By Michael David Smith 7/22/2010 10:55 AM ET
• Danny Green is best known in the United States for his first-round TKO win over Roy Jones last year. But in his native Australia he's a star beyond just that fight, and that makes the inquiry into ... More »
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• Jamie Varner vs. Donald Cerrone Rounds Out a Big WEC 51 Card
• By Michael David Smith 7/21/2010 10:51 AM ET
• The long-awaited rematch between World Extreme Cagefighting rivals Jamie Varner and Donald Cerrone is set for WEC 51 on September 30, a major fight card that will demonstrate the WEC's ability to put ... More »
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• Randy Couture Brings Strategy to EA MMA
• By Michael David Smith 7/20/2010 3:58 PM ET
• Randy Couture will be on the cover of EA Sports' upcoming MMA video game, and he's the only active UFC star who will appear in the EA game, rather than THQ's UFC Undisputed game. But while Couture's ... More »
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• Cris Cyborg as Billie Jean King in an MMA Battle of the Sexes?
• By Michael David Smith 7/20/2010 1:32 PM ET
• In 1973, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes," a tennis match that would go down as one of the 20th Century's most significant sporting events. Is MMA ready for a similar ... More »
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