en-us Copyright 2006-2010 Flocasts Inc Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:27:33 -0500 /assets/portal/simple30/images/logos/purefight-logo.gif http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1677-ryan-bader Ryan Bader doing some weight training in preparation for his fight against Keith Jardine. Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1677-ryan-bader Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:56:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/319207 Hollywood training before the SinCity Grand Prix finals Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/319207 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:55:02 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1539-donny-carlo-clauss Don Carlo-Clauss takes us on a tour of Team Bomb Squad and Ryan Ciotoli's house where some of the fighters live in the basement. Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1539-donny-carlo-clauss Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:01:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/photos/album_assoc/247880 Photos from...618 MMA presents… Purefight http://www.purefight.org/photos/album_assoc/247880 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:38:38 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236786-rage-on-the-river www.618mma.webs.com Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236786-rage-on-the-river Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:17 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1411-mark-bader Mark is in Omaha at the NCAA wrestling tournament where all of the biggest and best names in the sport will convene for the greatest wrestling tournament in the world! Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1411-mark-bader Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:36:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318986 http://www.americancagefightingchampionships.com/videos.html Josh Crouch, DV and Earl at the St. Charles Convention Center MMA Show Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318986 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:31:56 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/6517-travis-browne Here is a look at the best moments from VFC 30 which featured three Victory title fights Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/6517-travis-browne Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:41:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1411-mark-bader Screwy Louie is one of the biggest wrestling fanatics you will ever meet, the man lives for the sport and this is a quick look at what he likes to do in his free time. Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/speaker/1411-mark-bader Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318908 Jeffro rollin in the finals of the IBJJF Houston International BJJ Open Purple Belt Senior 1 Meio Pesado (Med Heavyweight) div. I was working hard for the sub but sadly won by points. Enjoy,,,,,this is my second IBJJF International title and my first as a purple belt. My foe was a game n tough opponent. Enjoy!!!! Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318908 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:59:39 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236765-cornell-wrestling Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236765-cornell-wrestling Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:18:55 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236763-team-bomb-squad Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236763-team-bomb-squad Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:11 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236735-2010-ncaa-national-championships Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236735-2010-ncaa-national-championships Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:22:26 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318278 Josh Crouch takes his 3rd fight in a row with a first round submit; Belthalto MMA show... Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318278 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:57:38 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318083 My fight vs. George Jordan in FCFF 49 in Portland Oregon Jan. 16th 2009. Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/play/318083 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:56:43 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/photos/album_assoc/247195 Photos from...This week Mark headed down to south Florida where he is going to spend the week visiting some of the American Top Team schools in the area.  He… Purefight http://www.purefight.org/photos/album_assoc/247195 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:23 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/photos/album_assoc/246474 Photos from...We are proud to announce that Tim Mitchell is covering his first event for Purefight.  Tim will be heading to New Braunfels, TX to cover Championship… Purefight http://www.purefight.org/photos/album_assoc/246474 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:48:16 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236741-att-week Purefight http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view/236741-att-week Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:16:37 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/T-Wood "The PureProfessor"/10051-whats-next YO YO YO! Last year was crazy! I went from amatuer, to pro, to Strikeforce, to Showtime, to main event, to 6-0! God is good! And if you thought that was blessed.....huh:)lol you aint seen nothing yet. This year i am coming out harder than ever. I cant stop shaking thinking about it. Im Taking everything up 10 knotches. I promise you will get tired of hearing my name, seeing my hand raised, and giving God Glory. In that order. Everyone has been asking when the next fight is......Good question. I will have to get with the great people of Strikeforce, and see what is next for their future of MMA. I hope it will be sooner than later. I want to thank all the fans who showed interest in my career, supported my movement, and have respect for my day-to-day grind. I hope you enjoyed last year as well. Lets go into 2010 with explosion, confidence in the promise, and expectancy of success! 2010.................IS MINE! T-Wood "The PureProfessor" http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/T-Wood "The PureProfessor"/10051-whats-next Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:32:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/9972-merry-christmas-from-purefight Hello everyone and Merry Christmas, I am home in St. Louis visiting with most of my family. Two of my brothers are not in town because they are visiting their in-laws but not to fear as 3 of my brothers and my sister are all here. The best part about 2 of my older brothers being out of town for this holiday means that I will be able to sit at the adult table today (I am 30 years old and had to sit at the kids table for Thanksgiving when all were in town). I hope you are all having a great time with friends and family and I will continue to feature family members in the Best of 2009 videos giving intros. I hope you like what Purefight is all about and we are gonna have even more to offer to you in 2010 so stay tuned... Until then I hope you enjoy your holidays. Mark Mark Bader http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/9972-merry-christmas-from-purefight Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:38:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/9754-purefight-network-site-builder Mixed Martial Arts Videos on Purefight Fill out my Wufoo form! Mark Bader http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/9754-purefight-network-site-builder Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:18:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/8888-road-trip-update So it is the middle of my 2 week road trip and wow what a trip its been. Started off in Biloxi visiting with Alan Belcher, I spent 2 nights at his house and got several videos to put together of him, his training and his gym Remix MMA. The Purefight team is in the process of redesigning both his personal website as well as his Remix website, look for those to be redone and updated soon. I had talked to Alan on the phone but this was the first time I met him in person, I got to know him and quickly learned that he is a great guy, down to earth and I got along with him great. From there I went to Charlotte for Fight Lab Promotions Cage Fights at the Epicentre, a fight card that took place on the rooftop of the Epicentre, one of the hottest spots for night life in the southeast region. It was a little chilly and misty out, but there was a giant tent over the cage and seats and enough energy to keep the place warm. The fights were exciting and can be seen on Purefight as well fightlabpros.com which was another site created by the Purefight team. From there I flew to Baltimore the next morning and met up with my friend Joe who runs our wrestling website Flowrestling, the largest amateur wrestling website in the world. We got picked up and brought to Annapolis where we spent a few days covering the wrestling team at the Naval Academy. This stop was great as there are great people in that program from the coaches to wrestlers, and so no. Their wrestling coach, Bruce Burnett, was a multiple time Olympic and World team coach and it was just awesome to be able to sit down with him and pick his brain for over an hour, I could have done it all day but he is a busy man. We were introduced to the "Burnett Shuffle" in which his athletes mocked his beginning of practice warm up, it was hilarious and if you haven't seen the video you need to. From there we rented a car in Baltimore (I'm not even gonna get into the issues we had with getting that car) and headed to New Jersey where we stayed with the Ghione family that Joe had met and stayed with before. What a great family, they treated us good, feeding us with great food and tons of it. They have 4 boys and it was crazy over there, kind of reminded me of my house growing up. Their son Jonny turned the camera on me and I did my first interview on the other side of the camera. While in Jersey we went to Shore Thing which is one of the top wrestling clubs in the country. Kurt Pellegrino used to wrestle and coach at that club and was there during the practice which was great because I got a chance to talk with him on camera about his fighting career, his upcoming fight with friend Frankie Edgar and his future. From New Jersey we headed to Pennsylvania where we stopped by Easton, Lehigh, and Bloomsburg where Joe did a wrestling coverage. We honestly thought we were gonna run out of gas from Lehigh to Bloomsburg as the gas gauge showed us on empty for the last 20 miles of a turnpike, we rolled into the station basically on fumes. The wrestling room at Bloomsburg is small and the wrestlers were getting at it, wrestling hard and making that room hot and steamy. These elements (sites, sounds and smells) brought me back to my college wrestling days and actually brought out emotions through my body that I hadn't felt in a long time. Wrestlers are badasses... they bust their asses and for the most part nobody gives a shit. But that's not why they do it. They do it because they love it. Nobody works like wrestlers do, the guys were dripping and the ground was covered in sweat after practice, they were exhausted and beat. It was their second workout of the day with classes in between, and now they had to go home and do their homework, watch what they eat, go to bed early to get up and do it again. That was yesterday, now we are in Elizabethtown, PA where I dropped Joe off to do a coverage at a small college. I wanted to do a coverage at an mma gym not too far from here but when I contacted the guy he basically told me he didn't want us to come. This pissed me off at first, but whatever, it's his loss and anyone who comes on Purefight regularly knows that. I took the car to work at an internet cafe, except that there aren't any, anywhere in this town (what?!?!). So I am sitting here at a cafe with no internet writing this blog (which I will post as soon as I find some internet). I am usually on the road by myself and traveling with someone else has been awesome. Joe and I come up with some good and funny ideas while in the car and have a few funny videos we have shot that we will put together soon. One was pretty funny, at least I thought so, kind of raunchy, but I might just post it anyway. The video is about how excited I was to stay in a hotel as opposed to sleeping in my car which I am forced to do sometimes when traveling for Purefight. Tomorrow we are visiting American University to cover the wrestling team and then Thursday I am dropping Joe off in Baltimore where I will stay and tentatively catch a workout with Donald Cerrone and Leonard Garcia on Friday, before I come back to Pennsylvania to cover the Central Pennsylvania Warrior Challenge mma fight card on Friday night and then possibly cover another fight in Baltimore on Saturday before flying back home to Austin. It's been a good trip so far, stressful at times but good overall. The toughest thing about traveling like this is that I spend almost all of my time in the car or in the gym and I don't get a ton of time to update the site, but look out for some sweet videos to start popping up on Purefight in the next week or two. Until then, in the words of Joe Dirt, "keep on keepin on" Mark Mark Bader http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/8888-road-trip-update Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:45:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/8198-a-little-disappointing Well last night was a little disappointing to say the least. I live in Austin, TX and found a fight to cover in San Antonio yesterday which was put on by the Southwest Fight League. I thought something seemed strange having an mma event in the middle of the week but figured, what the hell, I'm always looking for mma events to cover so I went. I convinced my good friend Joe from Flowrestling to come with me and help with the coverage. I was relieved to see the cage in place and all the chairs set up at the venue when we arrived. We got our media credentials, got settled in and around 8:00 the ring announcer came on and said we were about to start. Five minutes later he said we had to wait because of the weather. This was an outdoor event with the cage and seats under a large pavillion top and there had been a thunderstorm, earlier, but the rain had stopped. He came on a couple more times and mentioned something about waiting on one of the fighters who had travel issues. Since there weren't any fight cards being handed out I went over to where the commission was sitting and copied the names of the fighters down on paper so I would be able to label the videos... There were 6 fights listed on the sheet. Shortly after that is when the rumors started circulating about about the show being cancelled... and sure enough it was cancelled. The ring announcer came back on and announced that the state commission shut it down because of weather... What a coincidence that there were only a couple hundred people in the stands and not a whole lot of fighters there either. It was really frustrating, especially seeing the fighters in the back getting warmed up, knowing they trained and prepared for this fight and their friends and family there to watch. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and trust that Purefight will not be headed back to any Southwest Fight League events anytime soon... so instead of the Pure knockout and submission videos, today we have this blog... my apologies Mark Bader http://www.purefight.org/blogs/blogger/Mark Bader/8198-a-little-disappointing Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:39:00 -0500 http://www.purefight.org/articles/view/783-ben-askren-to-make-mma-debut-live-on-purefightorg-main-event-din-thomas Purefight.org is proud to announce that they will be bringing you live streaming coverage of The Patriot Actthis Saturday February 7th beginning at 8pm.  This should be an exciting card with Ben Askren making his mma debut and Din Thomas making his debut at 145.  Din is a 10x ufc veteran who should make some noise at 145, also fighitng on the card will be 2x NCAA wrestling all-american Tyron Woodley as well as Kiko France.Two-time NCAA champion, Hodge trophy winner and 2008 Olympian Ben Askren has begun his transition from wrestling into the mma world. This Saturday, February 7th Ben will be making his professional mixed martial arts debut when he takes on Tom Aaron in Columbia, MO on "The Patriot Act" fight card being put on by Head Hunter Productions. Askren became well known in the wrestling community for his unorthodox "funky" style of wrestling in which he took a many calculated risks which made his style of wresting fun and entertaining to watch. During his successful collegiate career Askren lost to just 2 opponents in 4 years and racked up 91 victories by way of pin, putting him 3rd on the all-time NCAA career pins list.  Shortly after wrestling in the Olympics Ben announced that he would be stepping off the wrestling mat and into the cage and now his highly anticipateddebut is just days away.Ben currently lives in Columbia, MO where he is a volunteer coach on the University of Missouri wrestling staff.  He has been doing his mma training at American Top Team in Columiba and doing a lot of jiu jitsu training with brazilian jiu jitsu black belt Kiko France.  In December of 2008 Ben spent 2 weeks in southern Florida training at the American Top Team home base in Coconut Creek, FL training with some of the best fighters and trainers in the country.  He competed in college at 174, the Olympics at 163 and will be fighting at 170 lbs on Saturday night.Keep up to date with prefight coverage, interviews and weigh-ins on Purefight (Link to Ben Askrens MMA Debut Coverage Page).For ticket information go to headhunterevents.com Pure Fight http://www.purefight.org/articles/view/783-ben-askren-to-make-mma-debut-live-on-purefightorg-main-event-din-thomas Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:50:00 -0500