Author: Dr. Steroids

Fabricio Werdum (13-4-1) recently told Tatame that he is 99% certain that he would be facing Fedor Emelianenko (31-1-1) at the April 16th Strikeforce Event.  Werdum is a BJJ, Muay Thai and Judo fighter with a recent first round submission win over Antonio “Big Foot” Silva at the Fedor vs Rogers Strikeforce event on November 7th, 2009. Fedor Emelianenko is thought by most to be the best pound for pound fighter in the world.  He once again proved his near invincibility as he crushed Bret Rogers with an amazing TKO (punches) victory. Over 25 million viewers tuned in to watch…

Remember the very tough Ultimate Fighter Reality TV show contestant Matt “The Immortal” Brown (11-7) ?  Well, he is back and will be facing Ricardo Almeida (11-3) at UFC 111.  Matt Brown is on a three fight win streak defeating Ryan Thomas, Pete Sell and James Wilks.  Not only has Brown shown brut toughness in his fights, but he has also shown some pretty solid Muay Tahi and BJJ skills.  Brown spends his time training with Matt Hume out of Seattle and with Wanderlei Silva’s Warrior Training Center in Las Vegas, NV and is surely making hugh gains in his…

2009 was a huge year for the sport of MMA. Strikeforce emerged as the first organization capable of challenging the UFC, while fighters like Jose Aldo and Dan Hardy burst on to the scene. Some of the sport’s best further proved their greatness with Fedor Emelianenko , Anderson Silva, and Georges St. Pierre all making cases to be considered the best pound for pound fighter in the world. As the sport continues to grow, 2010 should be filled with plenty of great story lines of its own. These ten fighters should play a prominent role in this year’s headlines. 1. Jon Jones-UFC Light Heavyweight…

The first of four Grand Slam Championships are underway in Australia. Broadcaster Dick Enberg called this the most competitive men’s draw in Australian Open history. Will Rafael Nadal make a run to win it all and reclaim his number one world ranking, or can Roger Federer continue to dominate men’s tennis? Which one of the lesser known men has a shot to put his name on the tennis map early in the 2010 season? Do you think you have the answers? Well so do I, let’s see how we compare as I serve it up in the great down under. Is…

A hot button issue in sports today is steroid use, most notably anabolic steroids or as the sporting world refers to them as PED’s (performance enhancing drugs). I don’t and have not used steroids in my lifetime and probably wouldn’t let or encourage my children to use them. With that being said, I don’t have negative opinions about them or about the people who use them. The Problem is Excess With our tendency to under educate ourselves and overly consume anything and everything in sight has created the general perception that steroids are horrible. I am not a doctor, nor…

It was quite a situation this afternoon.  On the phone via conference call, four fighters who were about to challenge for two Strikeforce championships.  Nick Diaz and Marius Zaromskis for the welterweight title and Chris “Cyborg” Santos and Marloes Coenen for the lightweight women’s championship.  There were members of mmajunkie, USA Today, Sports Illustrated….and me, a 24 year old college kid with no true professional sports journalism experience simply thanking my lucky stars I was given the opportunity to participate. Things got off to a bit of a rocky start when the conference start was delayed 15 minutes.  I had…

The Atlanta Hawks were down 4 points with 10 seconds to go against the Phoenix Suns when Jamal Crawford began to wave his magic wand… The Hawks got within 2 points after Amare Stoudamire hit only 1 of 2 foul shots, and Hawks coach Mike Woodson called a timeout.  He aimed to draw up a play for an easy basket.  If you’re not into basketball let me explain: When you’re down 2 points the other team is deathly afraid to foul you because they don’t want to give you a 3-point play as you go to the basket.  Well, Mike…

Strikeforce is showing up in Miami on January 30th with a pretty cool schedule of fights, two of which are title fights. Nick Diaz  (20-7-1) vs Marius Zaromskis (13-3) for the Strikeforce Welterweight Championship Nick Diaz, a former IFC and WEC welterweight champion, is a very dangerous BJJ practitioner who trains out of Stockton CA, under Cesar Gracie.  While his submission skills are top notch, Diaz often TKO’s his opponents via punches and can not be underestimated in the stand game.  Diaz has been known to train his boxing with Olympic Boxing Gold Medalist Andre Ward.   Further more, it is…

Spike TV will be airing the first of a three part UFC Primetime Series on March 10th at 10:00 PM.  The series will feature Georges St. Pierre, who is the current UFC welterweight champ and arguably the best pound for pound fighter in the world, and Dan Hardy, the man who will be attempting to steal his glory at UFC 111. The program was produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is expected to give an inside look at each fighters life  and training regimen, and of course pump up and promote the fight as well.  The series is expected…

I had the “worst of the worst” weekends making NFL picks, and the most disappointing of those failed picks was the Cardinals’ painful death at the hands of the New Orleans Saints. I was hoping for a good performance from the Cardinals, but when I began to live blog the game on Twitter… …and Tim Hightower ran the ball 70 yards on the Cardinals’ opening play for a touchdown. I tweeted my excitement very quickly: “anyone want to admit i was right about tim hightower?” It All Went Downhill Fast I have to say that I’m surprised the Saints scored…