IFL: International Fight League

By Merv Ratt This next video shows reactions by some of the guys from the team including boxing trainer Ron Frazier, Sam "Hands of Stone" Stout, IFL welterweight champion Jay Hieron and of course... Randy "The...

Although former UFC fighter John Alessio or reigning IFL champion Jay Hieron could be EliteXC's next option for Shields, the 29-year-old fighter hasn't ... Kimbo Slice TKO'd by fill-in EliteXC fighter SportingNews.com Petruzelli stuns EliteXC with win against Kimbo FOXSports.com

By ben — Ricardo Almeida has suffered a mystery injury and will not be able to fight former IFL middleweight champ Matt Horwich at UFC 90 (October 25th, Chicago). Replacing him will be Dan Miller, another former IFL middleweight champ. It will be Horwich’s first fight in the UFC and the second for M...

By Shane Watson Regardless, it is only a matter of time before the promotion goes the way of the dinosaur, just like Pride and the IFL did. The UFC will continue to devour the competition. Love him or hate him, Dana White is a savvy businessman who ...

By martinwil Murillo Rua is good but has now lost to IFL fighter Benji Radach. Scott Smith is good but lost to Pat Cote, Frank Trigg is also a top fighter but not top 10 right now. Hes a great fighter and maybe with another win over Joey Villasenor ...

 CA - upset in MMA history. Holy hyperbole Batman! I think Serra over St. Pierre might be a tad bigger than a former IFL-er over an Internet street brawler. ...

Filed under: EliteXCFormer UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski knocked out former IFL heavyweight champion Roy Nelson with a brutal right hook tonight on the EliteXC: Heat card in Florida. But in the second round, Arlovski showed that he's clearly the superior fighter, landing a...

OnlineSportsHandicapping.com  NY - The other heavyweight bout pits former UFC Champion Andrei Arlovski against reigning IFL Heavyweight Champion Roy Nelson. Nothing's better than watching 265 ... Pound for Pound: EliteXC Makes Its Play Crave Online

By Luke Thomas Nick Thomas: Santos by TKO. Brent Brookhouse: Borgomeo by submission. Mike Rome: Jackowski via Submission, Round 3. Chris Nelson: Jackowski via Submission, Round 2. Brent Brookhouse: Cury by submission. Mike Rome: Cury via Submission, Round 2. Chris Nelson: Cury via Submission, Round 1.

By Sam Caplan On Saturday night the MMA world will get to witness a former UFC heavyweight title holder taking on the final reigning IFL heavyweight champion representing Affliction in an EliteXC cage and beamed to the United States on CBS’ airwaves. Isn’t that what MMA should be all about: promotions...

By Pat Arlovski’s career is familiar to almost every MMA fan. Early in his UFC career, Arlovski looked like a beast, tearing people’s heads off with explosive punching and destroying everything in his path. After losing twice to Tim Sylvia, though, Arlovski’s momentum cooled, and a couple of ut...

By Jared Barnes Murilo Rua is one of the best middleweights in EliteXC and he'll be taking on UFC and IFL veteran Benji Radach. Since losing to Robbie Lawler in an EliteXC championship fight, Rua has won 2 fights in a row. ...

By Kris Karkoski Barnett was to square off with Andrei Arlovski in the original “Day of Reckoning” main event but it now appears he’ll meet Emelianenko after Affliction booked Arlovski to take on former IFL heavyweight champion Roy Nelson at EliteXC: Heat on October 4th.

By bfowlkes It’s worth noting that Horwich was signed to a deal with the UFC and will make his debut at UFC 90. This, after losing the IFL belt via decision to Ryan McGivern and then coming back and beating Joey Guel, who most people had never heard of. The point is, regardless what you think of the UFC’s poli...

By Alan Conceicao Jason Holmes defeats Matt Torres by Unanimous Decision CC Lightweight Championship Tournament: Matt Swanson defeats Jared Freeman (Ref Stoppage/Submission by guillotine, Rnd 2) CC Welterweight Championship: 135) Kemp Griffin defeats Tim Houser (Tapout from guillotine, Rnd 1)

 - Former International Fight League (IFL) fighter Brad Blackburn and Pride veteran Ryo Chonan have agreed to fight on the undercard of UFC 92 on Dec. ...

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By ben Hey, someone’s gotta fill the hole left by Anderson Silva. WWE/TNA vet Kurt Angle — who’s made similar claims in the past — now tells The Sun that he’ll definitely make the move from pro wrestling to MMA next year. And in doing so, he kind of sounds like an idiot. First off…

By Mike Trask It will be Hieron’s first fight since the IFL shut down earlier this year. He was the organization’s welterweight champion. His opponent, Kamaka, is 6-13 and has lost his last three fights. Pyle is coming off a submission win at Affliction I and had been scheduled to fight at Affliction II. He f...

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By Kierkegaard I have to admit that I never thought I'd see the day where the UFC would come calling in Omaha, Nebraska.  There's a decent "local" scene, with events like Ring Wars and Victory Fighting Championship, and there's a good number of local gyms that do MMA training.  There have been a handful of lo...

By ben Experience: 15-1-1 record (9 wins by submission), fighting all over the Midwest, including five appearances in the Iowa-based Victory Fighting Championships. Notable wins over Jason MacDonald and Alex Schoenauer; hasn’t lost a fight since September 2001. Last fight was a first-roun...

 - Miller is one of the UFC’s recent transplants from the now-defunct IFL, having won the IFL Middleweight championship is his second fight, beating Ryan ...

By bfowlkes In other news, MMA Rated reports that the KJ Noons-Nick Diaz bout that Elite XC had hoped to add to their October 4 event on CBS is now officially off. Elite XC VP Jared Shaw said the organization was unable to come to terms with Noons’ agent, Mark Dion, and added that throughout the entire proc...

By ChrisNelson He just signed a four-fight deal with the UFC, making him the youngest fighter under contract in the organization. And he's facing the also-undefeated Renzo Gracie-trained IFL product Andre Gusmao - on about a week's notice, replacing Tomasz Drwal - this Saturday in Minnesota. Check it:

By bfowlkes MMANews.com reports that Roy Nelson will face Xtreme Couture’s Jay White at Affliction: DoR (the abbreviations have already begun, deal with it) in October. Nelson was the IFL’s only official heavyweight champ, and White is…2-5. Wonder which of these guys is being groomed for a big future...

By someonespecial4 2. Roy Nelson - HVWT.  (He is the IFL heavyweight Champ and would likely be given a shot in the UFC, but I don't know how he'd fair against UFC fighters) 6. Jay Hieron - 170 lbs. (He is the IFL Welterweight Champ, he has been in the UFC, but he may have impreved since his stint there)

By bfowlkes The UFC may be hoping to pick up some of the IFL’s better known stars, along with the video library to help promote them, in order to shore up their fighter roster before the likes of Jay Hieron, Chris Horodecki, Ryan Schultz, Jim Miller, and Roy Nelson (to name just a few) get snapped up by com...

By Luke Thomas Most of the major promotions, including Affliction, Adrenaline MMA, M-1, Strikeforce and International Fight League (IFL). WAMMA is working on a deal with EliteXC. A major stumbling block to the alliance's long-term success is that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) -- the promoti...

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman begins by commenting on the discussion we had on the most recent edition of this show with the award-winning boxing writer and author, Thomas Hauser of SecondsOut.com, about his views on UFC and the mixed martial arts. While we obviousl...

By bfowlkes You know what the best part of this video is? It isn’t hearing IFL welterweight champ Jay Hieron do his best not to bash the IFL even though they canceled his next fight and yet aren’t allowing him to take another, though that is uncomfortable watch.

By Luke Thomas However, there doesn’t appear to be a bias, as in recent months the UFC has selected former IFL fighters such as Gerald Harris, Mike Dolce, and Dante Rivera for the cast of its seventh installment of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality TV show. Now, with the recent signings of other former IFL fi...

One group looking for a dance partner is the International Fight League. In this interview with MMAPayout.com Larkin discusses a wide range of topics from a possible Kimbo Slice/ Roy Nelson fight, to the WWE’s interest in mixed martial arts.

By bfowlkes MMA Payout reports that Keith Evans, IFL VP of Operations, and Lisa Faircloth, Director of Events, have both been let go. This is a significant blow to the IFL’s Las Vegas office, which handles the bulk of event operations and includes tasks like signing fighters and organizing live event...

Last week, the International Fight League announced their new plans to unveil a new concept that will likely impact the fights enough to possibly grab up some new viewership. Epinephrine shots between rounds? No, as great as that would be, the IFL is moving to use a hexagon-shaped ring ins...

By ben more…) (The Fertitta brothers, preparing to order something expensive.) The poor get poorer while the rich land on the cover of Forbes: Financial stability was a recurring theme in MMA this week, as two prominent leagues face death while another cemented its place at the top. First the bad...

By Sam Caplan What brings fans out to MMA events is that anything can happen—it has in the past and it will in the future. When Chris “The Polish Hammer” Horodecki (11-1 MMA) dropped the first loss of his career to Ryan “The Lion” Schultz (19-9-1) at the International Fight League’s “World Grand Prix Fina...

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By Sam Caplan There might not be anyone in the MMA industry right now that has a stronger background in television that IFL President and CEO Jay Larkin. Based on his vast experience as a television executive, I requested an interview with Larkin to get his response to the recent announced that CBS had ag...

By Sam Caplan If you look at assets, we are very well positioned. We are the only ones now that have had live MMA competition on broadcast television. The only ones. That was with MyNetworkTV… We’re finding that the consumer is aware of UFC and to a much lesser degree aware of IFL, and to no degree aware of all o...

By MMA Junkie Zuffa LLC, the UFC’s parent company, filed a lawsuit on Monday against heavyweight champion Randy Couture in the Clark County District Court stemming from the fighter’s public statements about the organization and his new involvement with the competing International Fight League.

By The Fighting Life It's a big weekend in MMA, which is only fitting considering the year we've had.  I'm in Connecticut for the final round of the IFL Grand Prix, while across the country the UFC has one of their best offerings of 2007.  That's enough great MMA in one night to last you several months, but if you rea...

By Steve Sievert(cycling.notebook@earthlink.net) The most notable employee who has parted ways with the company is co-founder Gareb Shamus, who has resigned as IFL chairman and CEO. Jay Larkin gets bumped up to the big chair as new CEO. After six months in his previous position as chief operating officer, Larkin was set to pull down an annual...

IFL's World Grand Prix hits live network TV tonight at 9 p.m. EST on MyNetworkTV. The one hour of coverage represents the first time in the history of this country that MMA will be covered live on network television (don't forget that IFL has had a weekly show called IFL Battleground on MyNetwo...

Q&A with 20-year-old MMA fighter Chris Horodecki  - Born in Poland and raised in Ontario, Horodecki currently fights for the Los Angeles Anacondas in the International Fight League (IFL), which is among the ... Q&A with IFL president Jay Larkin CBSSports.com all 2 news articles

By Sam Caplan Alex Marvez, who covers the NFL and MMA for FoxSports.com, has dedicated his latest syndicated column to Angle’s ongoing flirtation with mixed martial arts. The current object of Angle’s MMA affection appears to be the International Fight League:

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By Sam Caplan Many you might be familiar with Lierley following his stunning June match vs. Chris Horodecki at the IFL’s show in Everett, Wash. Lierley lost via unanimous decision but he boosted his stock tenfold by participating in what was probably the greatest match in IFL history and one of the best m...

MMAWeekly.com is reporting that IFL commissioner Kurt Otto has informed the site that Shawn Tompkins has been released from his duties as head coach of the LA Anacondas. Pro wrestling web site PWInsider.com recently posted a one sentence blurb claiming that Brock Lesnar is “finalizing” h...

By UFCmania He is now in Las Vegas as the wrestling coach for the Los Angeles Anacondas of the IFL. “The Chocolate Milkshake” — as he is known to Japanese pro wrestling fans — is also working with the head coach of the Anaconda’s, Shawn Tompkins, on a potential return to mixed martial arts competition.

A Boxing Writer’s Crash Course on the International Fight League  - The International Fight League (IFL) is capitalizing on the worldwide hunger for warrior sports, and it is breaking new ground with every show that takes ... FIGHTING FRENZY Newark Star Ledger all 2 news articles

By Steve Sievert NEW YORK - The International Fight League, the world's first team-based professional mixed martial arts league, is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Southern California Condors middleweight Jeremy Williams, 27, of Laguna Niguel ...