2012 is coming to a close in Alabama and this year has been an up and down roller coaster for Alabama's Mixed Martial Arts scene. The year started off with huge news from the Alabama Athletic Commission as they got the rules completed and started taking event permits to host the first legal MMA shows in Alabama in close to 15 years. Fans saw the Alabama Commission take active steps to shut down illegal bar fights and backyard type fights all while sanctioning legal shows that brought more and more fans to the sport during Alabama first year of MMA sanctioning. The first promotion to start in Alabama was American eXtreme Combat out of Cullman hosting an all-amateur show that blew away ...

Every time out Deontay Wilder continues to look like America's next heavyweight boxing superstar. The "Bronze Bomber" continued his amazing stretch on Saturday night by knocking out Kevin Price as the co-main event of "Khan vs. Molina" on Showtime. After finding out mid-week that the WBC Continental Americas Championship was on the line, both Price and Wilder understood that the bout would be the biggest of their lives. Alabama's Wilder was once again up for the challenge. By sticking to his game plan and finding just the right time to deliver a huge shot, Wilder would eventually earn his 26th knockout in as many fights en route to bringing home the heavyweigh...

Two of the Midwest's top up-and-coming welterweight prospects will scrap next month as part of the stacked Madtown Throwdown 29 card when Mike "Biggie" Rhodes and Quartus "Cool Breeze" Stitt square off. Rhodes, Wisconsin's number two-ranked welterweight, has looked unstoppable since making his professional debut in May of 2012. Over that time he has went undefeated with victories over Torrey Berendes, Matt Gautheir, and Zak Ottow. Possessing the talent and star power that can be found in a number of the up-and-comers out of Roufusport, Rhodes has found it increasingly difficult to locate potential opponents throughout the early part of his career. But Stitt to...

The newest thing to hit the mixed martial arts scene is not in the UFC or any of the other well-known organizations. Instead, it comes from promoter Alexo Bell who is currently looking at somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard to bring an event. The Triad Fight League, with Bell at the head, has formed one of the largest mixed martial arts organizations in the world. Bell and company have organized teams from all over the United States and even from outside the US to compete in an event like no other. Most MMA events are a one night only, but in this event, competitors will compete against each other over a three-day event. 300 competitors will compete in three different cages with the ultimate...

The game plans will be very different when Bellator Fighting Championships welterweight champion Ben Askren and Season 6 champion Karl Amoussou meet at Bellator 86 on January 24 live on Spike TV. But what won't be different is both men's desire to compete and excel once the cage door closes inside the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The level of competition on that night should be remarkable. Askren, a former Olympic wrestler who has gone undefeated over the first ten fights of his mixed martial arts career, is known as much for his constant work ethic as much his trademark "Funky" wrestling style.