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UFC commentator’s series, ‘Joe Rogan Questions Everything,’ premieres tonight

BAD MMA News — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:00:00 +0000

The MMA world knows him best as the UFC’s longtime color commentator and analyst. But in other circles, Joe Rogan is known as a standup comic, an actor and a man who isn’t afraid to question things through slightly paranoid-colored glasses. With a new series that debuts Wednesday night on the Syfy cable network, Rogan now officially questions everything. In the new series “Joe Rogan Questions Everything,” Rogan, a “life-long unexplained paranormal mystery-addict,” will help investigate the unexplained. “Rogan ventures into unknown worlds and untapped territories to search for answers to life’s most startling theories,” according to Syfy’s official show pitch

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USA TODAY: Spike TV’s ‘Fight Master’ focuses on MMA reality

BAD MMA News — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +0000

(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) When he first heard Spike TV’s pitch for a reality show concept involving the Bellator MMA fight promotion, Frank Shamrock didn’t believe it. “They told me they were going to give me my own dojo and my own guys and let me train them entirely in my own method,” Shamrock, a former UFC and Strikeforce champion who serves as one of four coaches on the show, told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “I thought, ‘No, you’re not going to do that, not really.’ But they really did.” The premise for Fight Master, Spike TV’s new MMA-themed reality TV show that premieres tonight (10 p.m. ET/PT), is fairly simple. It’s also not so different from how the MMA world works when cameras aren’t rolling. The show takes a field of 16 fighters, whittled down from an original cast of 32 aspiring cast members, and allows them to choose one of four coaches who they will believe will help them win the ensuing single-elimination tournament.

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Fight Path: Farm living, sister’s death put XFC 24′s Dave Courchaine on MMA road

BAD MMA News — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

During Dave Courchaine ‘s professional MMA debut, he took his opponent into a bear hug and was planning to his next move to get him to the ground. Then he and the crowd at the 2008 “Strikeforce at the Dome” in Tacoma, Wash., got a big surprise. The power went out. “I thought I got knocked out,” Courchaine told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “It was pitch black. They turned on two floodlights, and I said, ‘Are we really gonna finish the fight like this?’ It was so hard to see.” The fight did finish, and Courchaine suffered a knockout loss, part of an 0-2 start to his pro career that made him question whether it was worth taking the time away from his roofing company and his family to train. But he continued. Courchaine heads into a June 14 matchup with Luis Santos (56-9-1) at XFC 24 at 15-5 with an eight-fight win streak, including three wins in consecutive months from January to March

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