So You Want To Be A F@*&In’ Fighter?  There is a lot more to it than being the toughest kid in your class or winning some bar fight or having a black belt in Kung Fu. before you heading down to your local gym and tell them you want to fight in the UFC, please read [...]

You made it. You stayed in the gym, you shut up and worked harder than anyone. Your training squad likes you for your intensity and humility. If you’ve made it this far and found a way to enjoy it, you’ve landed in one of the few safe spots in mixed martial arts. Gym life – [...]

Son, how is your career going? I heard you’ve got picked up by the competition squad for training, congratulations! A low-key presence and an undying will to learn got you this far. It’s hard, isn’t it? Five nights a week, you come back home and you crash on your pillow, trying to find the will [...]

So you’ve followed my advice, joined the gym and kept your mouth shut. Congratulations, you did not alienate everybody on day one! Do you want a medal or do you want to keep going? You have been in the gym for how long now? One, two months? Have you felt their eyes on you yet? [...]

Here is my tale. I joined Tristar Gym in May of 2003. I was looking for the best possible gym to train for Mixed Martial Arts. Back then, the place was half the size of what it is today and you could easily count the number of people in the classes on the fingers of [...]

What provinces are Canada’s top fighters from?  Top MMA News has been asked this question a few times by fans and gyms across the country.   There are great gyms all across the country were fighters seem to congregate like TriStar in Montreal, but what province of birth has the greatest number of top fighters. [...]

Top MMA News received a copy of a letter today from the head of the Association of Boxing Commissions that was sent to the Executive Director of the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission – Pat Reid. The letter, dated January 20th, was in reference to the proposed changes to the MMA rules that the Edmonton Commission [...]

Georges St-Pierre’s announcement that he would consider taking a hiatus from MMA to attempt to qualify for the 2012 Olympics as a Canadian wrestler has set both the MMA and wrestling communities abuzz. Is he serious? How good of wrestler is he? Can he make the national team? If he does, can he qualify for [...]

Summer is over (for some of us it never really began) and there is a full slate of Canadian based MMA scheduled for this fall.  Top MMA News loves the regional MMA and encourages Canadian fans to buy a $60 table seat or a general admission ticket and enjoy some live MMA.  There really is [...]

Congratulations to Pension Wiz for winning the opening season UFC 93 event with a solid 10-0 predictions. Andrija Pavlic was not far behind coming in second with 9-1. They will each receive a gift card to Gorilla Fight Gear. Josh Krongold was the winner of the Canadian Fighting Championship card tickets by placing first in [...]