Referee Dan Miragliotta injured during Baroni/Villasenor; required shoulder surgery

Down at BattleCageXtreme 5 last weekend in Atlantic City, N.J. we ran into the head MMA referee for the NJSACB, Dan Miragliotta. The massive ref (6-4, 296) had his left arm in a sling, recovering from a recent shoulder surgery. Miragliotta injured his left shoulder at the end of the Phil Baroni/Joey Villasenor fight at the debut CBS Saturday Nights Fights event on May 31. He told 5 Oz of Pain that... [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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5 Oz. Exclusive: Dr. Sherry Wulkan comments on Kaitlin Young and Scott Smith stoppages

After reading our interview with New Jersey Athletic Control Board legal counsel Nick Lembo, Dr. Sherry Wulkan contacted the NJACB with additional comments via e-mail. The NJACB forwarded that e-mail to us with permission to publish it. I am making that e-mail available here, but I wanted to add that 5 Oz. of Pain contacted both Kaitlin Young and Scott Smith to get their sides of the story. Young declined... [Read More...]

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5 Oz. Exclusive: NJACB legal counsel Nick Lembo explains stoppages on Saturday Night Fights

Nick Lembo is the legal counsel for the New Jersey Athletic Control Board and was the commission’s highest-ranking official in attendance of Saturday’s debut of EliteXC on CBS in Newark, N.J. at the Prudential Center. Lembo granted FiveOuncesOfPain.com an interview earlier this evening in which he openly explained the commission’s position on the decision to stop several fights before... [Read More...]

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Legal counsel for New Jersey Athletic Control Board disputes accusation

Nick Lembo, the legal counsel for the New Jersey Athletic Control Board, contacted FiveOuncesOfPain.com (www.FiveOuncesOfPain.com) in regards to an article authored by Kevin Iole that was published on Yahoo! Sports. The article, which was a profile piece on UFC light heavyweight Houston Alexander, quoted Alexander’s trainer Mick Doyle as saying Alexander was not “mentally right” for... [Read More...]

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