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SUNDAY NEWS DIGEST 4/23: Al Iaquinta goes off on UFC on Twitter late last night after not getting a bonus (w/Hiscoe’s Analysis)

April 23, 2017

Last night’s UFC Fight Night from Nashville had a handful of impressive performances and finishes, perhaps none more so than Al Iaquinta’s first-round knockout of Diego Sanchez in his first fight in roughly two years. […]

20 YRS AGO: Fascinating look at MMA’s struggles as Shamrock jumps to WWF, two Olympic wrestlers make MMA debuts on EFC Battlecade PPV

March 27, 2017

Twenty years ago this week, the Torch Newsletter cover story detailed Olympic wrestlers shining at an Extreme Fighting MMA pay-per-view event, one of a handful of upstart aspiring competitors to the UFC organization, and the […]

20 YRS AGO – KELLER’S EXTREME FIGHTING BATTLECADE REPORT: Maurice Smith vs. Silviera headlines an early off-brand MMA event

October 21, 2016

The following is my report, originally published in the Torch Newsletter (prior to us launching websites), on the Extreme Fighting “Battlecade” PPV 20 years ago this week on PPV. This was among the “off-brand” MMA events that tried […]

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