The main event of the Affliction features two of the of the top MMA heavyweight fighters in the world. Miletich Fighting Systems fighter Tim Sylvia is a two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion and Fedor Emelianenko is the former Pride FC Heavyweight Champion. Tim Sylvia is coming off a loss to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira for the UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship in February. Emelianenko recently defeated 72 Korean fighter Hong Man Choi at Yarrenoka in December of last year. The two heavyweights will be fighting to determine the WAMMA Heavyweight Championship of the world. Styles make fights and these two fighters couldnt more different from each other from their fighting styles, to backgrounds, to...

Renato SobralRenato Babalu Sobral is one of the most talented light heavyweight free agent fighters on the planet. Unfortunately, most fans are stuck remembering his back-to-back losses to Chuck Liddell and Jason Lambert. After those fights he was cut from the UFC in August of last year after failing to release an anaconda chokehold on David Heath. What should have been a submission of the night bonus and victory resulted in the fans turning on him and Sobral turning into a vagabond.

After I came home from Sin Bins UFC: Jackson vs. Griffin party, I jumped onto uscombatsports.com and repeated what I had been drunkenly bellowing at the bar just minutes prior: You gotta BEAT the champ ! Now, Im not gonna sit here and tell you that I only said that because I was PABSTed, thats what I believed.Until now. To say that you have to not only outscore the champ but outscore him by a lot suggests that the champion gets a handicap. Shoot, you might as well add a point to the champions score just for being the champion. You might as well give Ron Faircloth an extra point every round just for being awesome.Well, dammit, Ron, thats not how the game is played ! The fighter who wins the m...

He needed only seconds to knock out Chuck Liddell but also threw down for twenty-five minutes with Dan Henderson. He is the champion in the deepest and most talented division of the UFC. He is still hungry and in his prime. It's almost impossible to understimate Quinton Rampage Jackson. It's much easier to underestimate a guy who looks a little like Curious George, and cried his eyes out the last time he lost.

On July 19, Fedor Emelianenko and Tim Sylvia will battle not only to score a huge win, but, in the words of Sylvia, to see if Fedor still has what it takes to be #1.The question is, #1 on whose list?The World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts, or WAMMA, was formed last year in order to facilitate cross-promotional fights in order to crown a unified or even undisputed world champion.Unfortunately for WAMMA, its credibility is seriously lacking without the cooperation of the UFC. The UFCcurrently employsthe majority of the worlds best fighters. WAMMAs top ten light heavyweight list, for example, consists of ten UFC fighters. And so even when determined by competition instead of just opinion, the ...