Last week the Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission was asked to give One Championship a promoters licence and to grant them 10 rule variations so they can host an event in the State using their ‘global’ ruleset. Today a local official familiar with the matter confirmed to me that Georgia has approved these requests and … More Georgia Approves ONE Championship Ruleset
Today it was revealed that the UFC and their anti doping partner USADA are splitting ways as of the new year. I am unaware of any public comment by the UFC about this development but MMA reporter Aaron Bronsteter published the following press release from USADA stating their relationship “became untenable” –
An interest study was published in the Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation reviewing measurable cognitive differences in MMA fighters that lost via chokehold compared to those that lost via KO/TKO and a control group that lost by neither. In the study, titled Mixed Martial Arts: Comparing the King-Devick and Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5 … More Study – Chokeholds Do Not Result in “Statistically Significant” Cognitive Symptoms Compared to KO’s and TKO’s
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