Before the submission grappling began on June 5 for the Central Pennsylvania Warrior Challenge, promoter Mark Jovich offered up a dose of three seminars for the participants.

One month into their two year training program, Team Renegade* is starting to shape up, or, more accurately, take shape. The team of twenty aspiring fighters, most of whom with limited to no martial arts experience, have gone from a mixed bag of young athletes to what is clearly a trained team in just 30 days. While not all technically brilliant, the team was described best by head coach Anthony Sansonetti when talking about their progress in sparring.

Ring of Combat held its 30th installment Friday at the Tropicana in Atlantic City. Below are some photo highlights from Eric Joza of NYCFight. See NYC Fight for full gallery.

The Cage Radio panel returns at it's usual time, this Saturday at 1:30 pm, for an hour recapping and breaking down the events of MMA this week. The introduction of a women's tournament at Bellator, the breakdown of events at Friday night's Ring of Combat, and, of course, a breakdown of the upcoming UFC 115 are all locked in the cage. Also listen for a special guest appearance from Mid-Atlantic MMA announcer The Garv.*

MATCS and Chad Lebrun, head intructor at the Lab Mixed Martial Arts, brings another episode of technique of the week.