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Written by Miles Hackett
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Friday, 29 January 2010 18:27 |
 Tomorrow night at the BankAtlantic Center, Showtime will be broadcasting Strikeforce: Miami, which looks to provide us yet another night of exciting fights! Giving you your forecast for tomorrow are Joshua Taylor, Jamie Hughes, David Anthony, Brad Taschuk, and Miles Hackett. Find out what’s on their MMA radars, after the jump!
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Read more... [The FightLockdown Forecast - Strikeforce: Miami]
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Written by Jamie Hughes
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:12 |
 This week at FLD, our own Jamie Hughes managed to score some time with Brazilian sensation, Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante, one of the most charismatic and exciting LW fighters in the mixed martial arts world. In this interview he discusses his road to recovery, his future fighting plans, The Ultimate Fighter, and he even lists some of his favorite fights from 2009! Read on to find out what's on JZ's mind!
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Read more... [FLD Exclusive with JZ Cavalcante: "I would make a lot of noise and bother a lot of top fighters.]
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Written by Brad Taschuk
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:30 |
 After a relatively slow start to the year - NYE cards and UFC 108 aside - the MMA slate is finally starting to pick up a little bit as we close out January. Most attention this weekend will be focused on Strikeforce doing this, and rightfully so as they've put together a card which features matchups which will be entertaining, relevant and just plain intriguing (re: freakshowy). However, Strikeforce: Miami isn't the only solid card this weekend, and as usual at the Bodega, we're going to feature a fighter who doesn't get the shine he deserves. To do so, we're heading much further East than Miami, all the way to Okinawa, Japan.
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Read more... [Brad's Friday Fight Bodega - Mamoru Yamaguchi]
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Written by Jack Barrington
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:15 |
 Recently, on the FLD forums, I happened across a thread started by a new member, Gregory Bayne. In it, he explained how he was making a documentary that is still in need of funding, following former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver prior to his upcoming bout at WEC 47, with a chance to delve into his personal life and thoughts on his beginnings. His future fight with Javier Vazquez may well be his last, and it is fair to say that Jens’ career has fallen upon increasingly hard times of late, as he has lost his last four outings and been stopped in his last three. It is easy to dismiss his urge to further compete as ‘foolhardy’, or to stereotype him as just another fighter refusing to let go and acknowledge that his time has passed. Watching the short introduction clip to the documentary, however, makes such dismissals quickly pass.
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Read more... [Jens Pulver – Driven: A Story That Needs to Be Told]
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Written by Jamie Hughes
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Friday, 22 January 2010 19:54 |
 Japanese MMA was once the center of all things great, wonderful, and bizarre about modern mixed martial arts, but recently, it seems that the magic, and to a degree the fan support, has somewhat faded. Gone are the days of attendances breaching 70,000 and millions watching at home in anticipation of the main event of a stacked PRIDE FC card. Don't get me wrong, I am not for one minute insinuating that Eastern MMA is no longer any good, but one cannot but help noticing that the two main promotions, World Victory Road and DREAM, are struggling to captivate audiences and fans as much as PRIDE used to. Perhaps this is down to Japanese fans having more of an interest in K-1 at the moment, as recent viewing trends have indicated. However, in my honest opinion, I feel this disconnect exists between Japanese fans and the sport due to the fact that there isn’t a single, unified MMA body, which one promotion would cover. The talent is divided and, consequently, so is the attention of fans. Simply put, the Japanese MMA scene needs uniformity and cohesion, an antagonistic stance between Sengoku and DREAM prevents this from occurring.
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Read more... [Food for Thought: How to Bring Stability Back to the Japanese MMA Scene]
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