UFC: After Years of Wrestling Ruling the Belts, Is Striking Making a Comeback?

Ask any MMA fan or analyst what the best base for MMA is and the majority will say wrestling. Next to wrestling, the next closest answer is probably jiu-jitsu. But what about striking? During the early UFC tournaments, fans and fighters were in awe of how a tiny Brazilian could win a fight against muscular behemoths. When everyone started to train jiu-jitsu, wrestlers made their way to the sport ...

Belts up for grabs

CORNWALL — If 2012 starts the way 2011 did for the Cornwall Mixed Martial Arts team, expect a banner night in Gatineau. Trever Leroux and Chad Primeau both have title fights tonight at Hybrid 12, for a Cornwall team that started off the 2011 campaign by going 10-0.[...]

Weston wrestling getting back on track

For the better part of three decades, Weston wrestling was known as the aggressors and leaders of the Dual County League.

Bridgewater-Raynham’s Conrad wins state wrestling title

Aaron Conrad captured the Div. 1 state wrestling championship at 160 pounds on Saturday night, cruising to an 8-1 decision over Framingham’s Alex Liquori.

Abandoned: The History of WWE's World Tag Team Championship, Pt. 2

We have come to the final championship belt in the series. For this edition of Abandoned, I present WWE’s World Tag Team Championship. Some say the title is made up of three different belts. Arguments can be made for both sides whether it does or not, but I put them together anyway. The first major tag-team titles for the WWE were the Northeast versions of the NWA United States Tag Team ...