Erin Toughill: ‘I’m too big, too experienced, too technical, and I hit too hard for Cyborg’

Widely recognized as one of the most talented and dominant female fighters in the fight game, Erin Toughill is on a mission to bring home the Strikeforce 145 pound female crown, and establish herself as the premier athlete in her division in the process. Of course there are those that criticized both Gina Carano and Cris “Cyborg” Santos for putting on a sloppy, albeit exciting performance... [Read More...]

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Erin Toughill Part II: “Be prepared to be hit, and hit hard”

Once widely respected as one of the best female mixed martial artists and professional boxers at the same time, Erin Toughill has recently rebounded from a two year retirement stint in MMA and expects to cause some serious shock waves in the not so distant future of Strikeforce’s female division. Much like most of the other mixed martial arts fans that happened to follow the sport way back in... [Read More...]

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Erin Toughill Part I: “Be grateful, because things can change in a second”

Erin Toughill If you aren’t already familiar with the name Erin Toughill you will become extremely familiar very soon. The former top ranked professional boxer recently returned to the cage after a two year retirement stint with a unanimous decision victory over a very tough Jan Finney in November of 2008. Outside of a disqualification loss due to the illegal use of elbows in 2004, Toughill has... [Read More...]

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Association of Boxing Commissioners to start MMA committee

The Association of Boxing Commissioners has elected to create a committee to oversee the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Nick Lembo, the legal counsel for the New Jersey Athletic Control Board, has been chosen to chair the committee. Other member on the committee will include Jim Erickson (North Dakota SAC), Armando Garcia (CSAC), Keith Kizer (NSAC), Dale Kliparchuk (River Cree AC), Josef Mason (Colorado... [Read More...]

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Legal Counsel for the New Jersey Athletic Control Board releases statement about passage of new weight classes

Nick Lembo, the counsel for the New Jersey Athletic Control Board and one of the chief principles involved in writing the unified rules of mixed martial arts, issued a statement Sunday afternoon to address the recent passage of new rules by the Association of Boxing Commissioners in Montreal earlier this week. We are re-printing Lembo’s entire statement below in this post, but to summarize, Lembo... [Read More...]

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