© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com Photography by Joshua Hedges All photos copyright Zuffa LLC. The original Huntington Beach Bad Boy is definitely back – and kicking. On the eve of Mother's Day, and before a packed house at Honolulu's Blaisdell Arena, David "Tank" Abbott took just 1.22 to knock out Wesley "Cabbage" Correira with one […]
Rachelle Leah © Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com All photos copyright 2004 Zuffa LLC. Photography by Joshua Hedges With the latest Ultimate Fighting Championship being another sellout, UFC officials scrambled for extra chairs to meet the public's overwhelming demand at this rapidly growing event. Since the commencement of Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV, the sport of […]
© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com Mark Kerr's The Smashing Machine DVD Mark Kerr's amazing warrior lifestyle commenced when he adopted Olympic wrestling as a youth, his resulting career being nothing short of astounding. It became apparent he was destined to be a great gladiator of the modern-days' brutal coliseums. "I wrestled my whole life, and […]
© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com Elvis Sinosic – Australia's first UFC gladiator Born in Canberra, Australia, Elvis Sinosic was the first of only two Australians to have competed in a UFC tournament. But it was MMA pioneer Bruce Lee who first motivated Elvis to take up a martial art: "I pretty much got into the […]
© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com photos © John Donehue John is the Australian representative for the Jiu-Jitsu team Nova Uniao which has such high calibre BJJ and MMA competitors as Shaolin, BJ Penn, Charuto Verissimo, Robson Moura and Leo Santos to name a few under founder Andre Pederneiras John Donehue's introduction to a fighting system […]
© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com All photos copyright 2004 Zuffa LLC. Photography by Joshua Hedges Jim Morrison once sang, "The future's uncertain and the end is always near". But according to Ultimate Fighting Championship President, Dana White, the future is certain and the sky's the limit for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Born in Manchester, Connecticut, […]
UFC President Dana White and partner Lorenzo Fertitta have been running the Ultimate Fighting Championship since UFC 30. During this period the "Superbowl of Mixed Martial Arts" has grown from strength to strength, and is about to be catapulted into the living rooms of more viewers internationally with the production of a 13-episode series, The […]