Welcome back MMA fans, I hope Santa Claus treated you all well. It seems all fans have come out of their turkey induced comas; too bad the Canadian MMA scene hasn’t with only  a single pro card scheduled in the great fight north this month. Luckily we have a couple international bouts that round out [...]

Cage Warriors Fight Night 7 goes down today live from Amman, Jordan  at the New Boxing Arena. You can watch all the action love at 2pm Est on The Fight Network or on the net at MMAjunkie.com. Here are the quick results: Chris Fields defeats Pavel Kusch via TKO (referee stoppage) @ 2:05 of Rd3 [...]

With the dog days of summer behind us, the Canadian MMA landscape is heating up hotter than a prairie heat wave. Aggression FC is making their debut in Winnipeg with a stacked to the gills card, two new promotions are hitting the scene giving smaller communities a chance to see epic fights, Nordine Taleb looks to continue his winning ways in [...]

Top MMA News‘ Don Wilson talks with Mark Holst prior to his fight with Leonardo Santos at Cage Warriors in Amman, Jordan.  ’Boots’ Holst talks about: facing a BJJ legend like Leo Santos, dealing with overseas travel, heading back down to Lightweight, and his own Renzo Gracie BJJ game,

Mark “Boots” Holst has signed with English based promotion Cage Warriors Fighting Championship and will make his debut August 30 in Aman, Jordan. Holst’s opponent has yet to be announced. Fighting out of the Ottawa Academy of Martial Arts and Team Renzo Gracie, Holst has amassed an impressive record of 10-3 with signature wins over [...]

Top MMA News‘ Don Wilson talks with former UFCer Mark Holst who is making his return to MMA on April 20th at WRECK MMA after a year off. Holst discusses : his one year MMA retirement his main event WRECK MMA fight against Stephane Lamarche the two fights he had in the UFC training for [...]

Hello everyone, As promised, I will share my thoughts on fighting Showtime but first I want to clear something up. Ever since I announced my retirement from MMA, a lot of people have been a great support and encouragement and I really appreciate that. I had many students, friends, fans and family members message me [...]

Hello everyone, This morning at 7:50am I went to the A Channel studio to go live on TV to announce my retirement. The WRECK MMA fight coming up January 28th will be my last MMA fight. I decided to take a step back and work on my weaknesses. I will still be competing in BJJ [...]

Mark “Boots” Holst will retire from Mixed Martial Arts following his upcoming MMA fight.  Holst, who currently has an 8-3 record, will face Markhaile Wedderburn in a Welterweight fight at WRECK MMA on January 28.  Win or lose, Holst will hang up the gloves following the fight. Holst recently made the jump to the UFC [...]

I’m back in 100% training now with all my training partners and instructors. This week and last week my head instructor Pat Cooligan has been taking over the MMA elite class from 1-3 every day of the week. It has been real good but real hard training! In MMA elite class, I get to train [...]