News for Aug 13, 2010:

Here is the daily link round of what is going on in the world of Combat Sports

Bellator Books Alvarez-Huerta Super Fight for Oct. 21

Lombard Flattens Goodman in 38 Seconds at Bellator 24

Toney Loves Being Bad Guy for Couture Fight

Meet the Participants of the Strikeforce Women’s Tourney

Hopkins Warns Toney

Pictures: ‘Jacare’ & ‘Feijao’ Train for Strikeforce ‘Houston’

Can Women Fight?

JAMES TONEY IS ABOUT JAMES TONEY, NOT BOXING

RIGGS SEEKS TO PROVE WORTH AT STRIKEFORCE

RYAN COUTURE SPOILED IN PREP FOR PRO DEBUT

Dave Branch vs. Tomasz Drwal prelim bout completes UFC Fight Night 22 lineup

Mike Brown vs. Cole Province official for WEC 51

Bellator 24 recap: Aguilar, Fujii, Grove advance; Lombard wins quick

For One UFC Vet, Honest Self-Reflection Prompts Career Change

Louis Taylor Looking to Make Himself a Household Name Against Joe Riggs

Kyle Maynard’s MMA Fight Was All About Experience

WEC 50′s Chad Mendes Learning to Deal With Distractions as MMA Fame Grows

Manny Pacquiao to train in House office

Evander Holyfield to fight in November

Manny Pacquiao eyes Cowboys’ home

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On Saturday night, the World Extreme Cagefighting MMA promotion made it’s first big venture onto PPV with a huge card, lined from top to bottom with awesome fights.  Too bad unless you knew who the WEC was, you wouldn’t have known it was them putting on the card.

If you watched the PPV, which hopefully everyone reading this did, you may have noticed almost no reference to WEC at all on the PPV, unless you count the Title belts.  From the commentator microphones showing on “Aldo vs Faber”, to (Mike Goldberg) Goldie, (Joe) Rogan and (Michael) Buffer handling commentating and announcing duties, to only mentions of “the organization”, if fans were tuning in for the first time due to the show being plugged by Zuffa, you might have thought they brought in some lower weight classes.  Sadly, this wasn’t the case.

While a promotion should never upstage it’s fighters, giving your sister promotion some much needed advertising would greatly benefit not only the promotion, but it’s fighters.  Not everyone knows who a guy like Shane Roller is. Not everyone knows Leonard Garcia.  Hopefully, they do after the PPV, but the promotion’s name was gone.

During the free prelims on SPIKE TV, WEC should have been thrown around like it was candy.  What better way to get people to notice than at that time. If a random fan were to be switching through channels and notice Goldberg and Joe Rogan, one might have thought they were watching a UFC free broadcast.  Except, this wasn’t the UFC, this was WEC.

While the big wigs over at Zuffa have denied any huge merger between the two, speculation has started as to whether or not this might be the beginning of one.  Time will only tell if this PPV actually helped Reed Harris and WEC, or did people truly think more of the UFC and it’s people.

This Week in Combat Sports April 23th, 2010:

Shambala Sports Radio has a new home on Blogtalk Radio

Strikeforce: Nashville could have been a brilliant card.

King Mo wins Strikeforce Light Heavyweight title

Gilbert Melendez made an emphatic statement.

Jake Shields shocks the world.

The Brawl

Dana White guarantees Jake Shields will be in the UFC.

Oh the Drama of M-1, Fedor and the renegotiations with Strikeforce.

Bellator announces Lightweight match ups for May 6th in Boston

Bellator coming to Dallas on May 20

WEC 48: Jose Aldo vs Urijah Faber

WEC 48: Benson Henderson vs Donald Cerrone

WEC 48: Mike Brown vs Manny Gamburyan

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This Week in Combat Sports Jan. 15th, 2010:

Loiseau Worried for Missing Haiti Relatives

The Good Fight to help raise money for Haiti

WEC 46: Henderson Undisputed Champ

WEC 46: Faber subs Assuncao, gets next shot at Aldo

WEC 46: WEC 46: Brown wins…has to wait for winner of Aldo vs Faber

UFN 20: Maynard edges Diaz

UFN 20: Dunham subs Escudero

UFN 20: Simpson wins split over Lawlor…Lawlor Robbed?

Frankie Edgar granted title shot over Gray Maynard

Junior dos Santos vs. Gabriel Gonzaga to co-headline UFC Fight Night 21

UFC confirms selling of minority percentage to Flash Entertainment

Hermes Franca retires from MMA

Mayweather Targets Mosley while Pacquiao set to face Clottey

American Red Cross

The Salvation Army

Rest in Peace, Bob Shamrock

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Show Notes for This Week in Combat Sports for March 27th, 2009:

GSP Helping Kenny Florian Prepare For Fight With BJ Penn

‘Talks Ongoing For Penn Vs. Florian At UFC 101 In Philly

Tim Sylvia, Andrei Arlovski boxing debuts postponed

Frank Shamrock vs. Ken Shamrock less likely than ever

Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber set for June 7 at WEC 41

UFC Fight Night 18 in Nashville, TN

Upcoming events:

Sportfight

Naga World Championships

Midwest Grappling Challenge

CQC in the Cage

MGFC IV

Fite Nite – Guerreros en la Torre

World Extreme Cagefighting Torres Vs. Mizugaki

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