According to an official inside the team-based mixed martial arts league known as the International Fight League, we will not have an Orange County team this year.
Last year, our local team-- the Southern California Condors--was coached by Brazilian MMA legend Laguna Niguel-based Marco "King of the Streets" Ruas and competed against teams of fighters from all over the country. However, IFL spokesman Jerry Milani says Ruas wasn't able to get a team ready this year in time to compete, but would
. . . rampage. Of course he does.
In what assorted Internet pundits are already calling the stupidest hit-and-run ever, Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar (and Irvine resident) Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, who was the subject of this 2007 Weekly cover story, was arrested yesterday in Balboa after slamming his truck into several vehicles, jumping a center divider and driving up onto a sidewalk, which forced several pedestrians to leap out of the way to avoid injury.
Apparently the reason fo
New York Post Page 6 columnist Richard Johnson reports today that retired porn star Jenna Jameson is having “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz's love child.
Well, at least we think it's Tito's. Pity the fool who is the father if it is not.
By the by, our image of Ortiz was shot by former Weekly staffer Luke Y. Thompson, who covered the North American Mixed Martial Arts Association Expo back in December on this very site.
It's unclear whether the amazing LYT will be invited into the la
Orange County prosecutors today charged professional fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, the subject of a 2007 OC Weekly cover story, with two felonies and three misdemeanors for a wild July 15 incident in Costa Mesa.
According to Farrah Emami, spokesperson for the district attorney's office, the mixed martial arts fighter crashed into several vehicles and then fled responding police near the southbound 55 freeway and 19th Street. When cops caught up with Jackson, they say he was aggressively we
The LA Times, industry publications the Wrestling Observer and Sherdog and plenty of other sources report that autopsy results are leading authorities to believe that the deaths of an Orange County professional mixed martial arts fighter and his wife were exactly what they appeared to be when news broke yesterday: a murder-suicide.Justin Levens, 28, and his wife, Sarah McLean-Levens, 25, were found dead from gunshot wounds Wednesday afternoon at their Laguna Niguel condominium. The gun was foun
TMZ is reporting that former UFC fighter Kimo Leopoldo was arrested this afternoon in Tustin after police discovered a "small amount of what is believed to be meth" in his car.What's interesting is what led them to search his car in the first place: He was dressed in a Long Beach police jumpsuit. He's still in custody, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, and police are looking into how he got his hands on the uniform in the first place. He is scheduled to appear in court
