For all of the households still lucky enough to receive HDNet, it was just announced that “King of the Cage” has partnered with the independent network to begin airing monthly events.
Simply put, 2009 was a great year for the Wisconsin MMA scene; on Saturday, the state’s best fighters congregated to see who would be awarded with some of the year’s top honors.
The WCS Best of 2009 Awards Party will take place this Saturday night at MOCT Bar in Milwaukee, and with a number of worthy candidates for each award, this weekend’s ceremony should prove to be rather suspenseful; make sure to come out join some of the sport’s most reputable personalities.
On the heels of the MMA regulations becoming official in the state of Wisconsin, Mark Ratner announced that Wisconsin should start getting ready to be the host of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card in the very near future.
Welcome to the party Wisconsin; on Thursday afternoon, Governor Jim Doyle officially signed Senate Bill 290, his autograph made Wisconsin the 43rd state to regulate the sport of mixed martial arts.
Over the weekend, Lac du Flambeau will be the home of a jiu-jitsu seminar, a pankration seminar, and a Benefit Open MMA Tournament that will hold separate competitions for karate, jiu-jitsu, and pankration.
The sport of mixed martial arts is continually becoming more and more mainstream; the most recent example of this came from Duke Roufus and Scott Joffe, who have announced a partnership between the United States Fighting Championship and Gilbert Brown.
In the past, notable local fighters such as Ron Faircloth, Jameel Massouh, and Nick Klein partnered with Wisconsin Combat Sports to create recurring personal blogs for all to read. Today, WCS would like to welcome Razak Al-Hassan as the newest addition to this selective stable.