GatewayMMA.com was live on the scene at Bellator 78, which took place at the Nutter Center on the campus of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio on Friday night. The event featured the semifinals of the organization’s season seven welterweight tournament, as well as the return of Ohio product Brian “The Predator” Rogers (10-4, 3-2 [...]

FUEL TV has released a preview video for the main event of the upcoming “UFC on FUEL TV 5: Struve vs. Miocic” video, which will feature Cleveland native Stipe Miocic (9-0, 3-0 UFC) taking on Stefan Struve (24-5, 8-3 UFC) for the right to be crowned as the “heir apparent” in the UFC’s heavyweight division. [...]

Heavyweight Adam Milstead (2-1) could be on his way to big things. The Pittsburgh native headlined “Combat Challenge 22″ over the weekend in Akron, and “The Prototype” earned his second consecutive victory with a first round stoppage over DeAndre Billingsley (0-1) with a guillotine choke. Milstead is perhaps the best heavyweight prospect in the NAAFS, [...]

GatewayMMA’s own David McKinney caught up with the victorious fighters from Purgatory 8 last week. This video includes interviews with Brandon Neal, Mike Velasquez, Andrew Huffman, Josh Killion, Jake Draves, and Justin Woods.

GatewayMMA.com was live on the scene this past weekend in Maumee, Ohio for Purgatory Fight Series 08, the latest offering from the Northwest Ohio-based outfit. Five professional bouts were part of the card, and the GatewayMMA.com cameras caught all of the night’s action. After the event, senior editor David McKinney was able to catch up [...]

It had been more than a year since we had seen Torrance Taylor (11-7-1) inside a cage, and nearly four years since he had been inside of the NAAFS cage. But “The Tyrant” made a triumphant return at “Rock N Rumble 6,” earning knockout of the night honors after putting Tom Waters (4-4) to sleep [...]

A new promo video for the Ohio-based NAAFS has been released, and it has some pretty serious backing behind it. Directed by noted MMA director Bobby Razak, the promo features shots from “Fight Nite in the Flats 8,” which took place in June at Jacobs Pavilion in Cleveland. The video is produced by Studio Zero, [...]

Isaiah Chapman (2-0) has been on the radar as one of the top prospects in Ohio for awhile now, but the bantamweight put himself in a new class with his most recent victory. Chapman headed to West Virginia for the first time, where he squared off with Joe Wagner (0-1), a former top prospect in [...]

Local fighter Tommy Hayden (8-2, 0-2 UFC), a Jorge Gurgel Academy product, had a second chance at success in the UFC last night at UFC 150, but he was unable to claim his first organizational win, as he was submitted by Dennis Bermudez (10-3, 2-1 UFC) in the first round. Hayden made his UFC debut [...]

NAAFS featherweight champion Frank Caraballo (11-4) is one of the hottest fighters in Ohio right now, and “The Tank” continued to roll over the weekend as he picked up a TKO victory over Michigan’s Jeremy Czarnecki (5-4) in the main event at “NAAFS: Caged Vengeance 11” in Eastlake. Caraballo landed a spinning backfist to drop [...]

RFO returned to Mansfield last weekend for “Mansfield Mayhem 12,” and put on one of the most exciting amateur cards of the year. In the main event, Jake Anderson kept his winning streak alive with a third round submission victory over John Gunther. Other notable winners were “Karate” Mike Williams and Raymond Yanez, who both [...]