Team Rabadi BJJ & Muay Thai Now Open in Pflugerville

Huge Success at Team Rabadi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Muay Thai Grand Opening!!! Coming off our highly successful Grand Opening, Team Rabadi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Muay Thai is Central Texas’s most complete Martial Arts gym. Taking the time to celebrate our new expanded facility featuring over 3,000 sq feet of mats, a regulation size octagon, a [...]

February 28th, 2011 | Posted in Announcements | Read More »

IXFA Results and Recap – Top 10 Moments and Predicting the Future

Downtown Houston’s IXFA this past weekend was filled top-to-bottom with exciting moments. Let’s go right into it and look at the ones that really had the crowd jumping. 1 – Gilbert “Pitbull” Jimenez Knocks Out Alex Black Prior to this bout, Houston experts (including myself) has Alex Black listed as the prohibitive favorite. After all, [...]

February 28th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Houston MMA Today | Read More »

Fight of the Day: Tony “Silverback” Orozco vs Shawn Machado (IXFA Feb 2011)

February 28th, 2011 | Posted in Media,Videos | Read More »

IXFA Fight Videos from a Great Night of Fights Last Night in Houston!

February 27, 2011 – Thanks to our friend Conor Hogan, we were able to record video of  most of the action that was an action-packed night that was the IXFA last night at Houston’s Verizon Wireless Theater. Like I said in my earlier post, this event was very-much a fan-favorite with thrilling fight finishes. Feel [...]

February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Houston MMA Today | Read More »

Photos – IXFA Delivers a Knockout Night of Fights to a Sold-Out Crowd!

What a night of fights! The IXFA delivered on a memorable evening last night for the confirmed sellout crowd in attendance at downtown Houston’s Verizon Wireless Theater. The event was highlighted by a successful Light Heavyweight title defense for “Hurricane” Ike Vallanueva and also saw the crowning of two more new as Andrew Craig (Middleweight) [...]

February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Houston MMA Today,Photos | Read More »

Highlight of the Day: “The Belief of MMA” by Machinemen

February 26th, 2011 | Posted in Media,Videos | Read More »

Strikeforce June 18th in Dallas; King Mo Lawal On Card

Thanks to Sherdog.com’s Josh Gross and the Texas Dept. of Licensing and Regulation, a full-blown Strikeforce event has been booked for June 18th at the American Airlines center in Dallas TX. Fresh from his Twitter, Mohammed “King Mo” Lawal is already booked for the card. Also of note is that Josh Barnett will be licensed [...]

February 26th, 2011 | Posted in Announcements | Read More »

Ladies First! The BJJ Renaissance and the Growth of Women’s Jiu-Jitsu in Texas

(Cover and additional photos by Danny Nguyen, ssanceman.com) The roots of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu reside in the early 1900′s when Count Koma brought the martial art to Brazil through the Gracie family. It saw its first renaissance period in the early 1990′s when Gracie Family’s Royce Gracie represented Jiu-Jitsu in the very first Ultimate Fighting Championships [...]

February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,Houston MMA Today,Interviews | Read More »

Fight of the Day: Great Submission Exchange Ever in MMA?! (Nakamura vs Cristea via M-1 and HDNet)

February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Media,Videos | Read More »

James Irvin vs Houston Alexander Added to Shark Fights 14

Texas based mixed martial arts fight promotion company, Shark Fight Promotions, announced today that the Shark Fights 14 co-main event will feature a highly anticipated re-match between two hard hitting light heavyweights, Houston Alexander and James Irvin. Shark Fights 14 will take place Friday March 11, at the Fair Park Coliseum in Lubbock, Texas. According [...]

February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Announcements | Read More »