2011 May at BetLM

Bellator 45 Weigh-in Results: Tourney Finalists All on Weight

All fight­ers from this weekend’s Bel­la­tor 45 main card today suc­cess­fully made weight for the show. The weigh-ins took place at L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La. Bel­la­tor 45, which takes place Sat­ur­day at the same resort, fea­tures the finale of two season-four tour­neys. As with all of Bellator’s season-four events, the main card airs on MTV2. Bel­la­tor 45 is the organization’s final season-four event. This past week­end, the orga­ni­za­tion drew a season-best 325,000 view­ers for Bellator 44. Offi­cials again look for strong num­bers... 

De La Hoya Enters Rehab

MONTREAL — For­mer world cham­pion boxer Oscar De La Hoya, pres­i­dent of Golden Boy Pro­mo­tions, entered a Cal­i­for­nia reha­bil­i­ta­tion facil­ity recently. The story was orig­i­nally reported by TMZ.com and was con­firmed Sat­ur­day night by Richard Schae­fer, Golden Boy’s CEO. While it is con­firmed that Oscar De La Hoya is in a reha­bil­i­ta­tion facil­ity, why is unknown. “All I will say is that Oscar is my friend, and I wish him well,” said Schae­fer, who’s also a long­time friend of De La Hoya. “I am sure all the fans join me in wish­ing him well.” Schae­fer,... 

Schumi Unfazed by Retirement Rumours

Schumi unfazed by retire­ment rumours Michael Schu­macher says he’s “not con­cerned” about reports that he’s on his way out — nor does he bother reading them. Schu­macher is still with­out a vic­tory, or even a podium fin­ish, in his come­back with Mer­cedes GP. His dis­ap­point­ing run has led to many reports that he could quit F1 at the end of this season. The seven-time World Cham­pion, though, has insisted — yet again — that he won’t do that. He told BBC Sport: “I am not con­cerned. I am pretty relaxed. “I know the head­lines and sto­ries that have... 

‘Fight Now TV’ Launches Tuesday with High Hopes, Rapid Expansion Goals

To hear Mike Gar­row tell it, start­ing a new chan­nel is some­thing like giv­ing birth. It takes time, there are brief moments of pain and oth­ers of ter­ror, but behind it all is a gen­uine labor of love. After a two-year process of plan­ning and exe­cu­tion, Garrow’s project, a 24-hour com­bat sports chan­nel called Fight Now TV, will launch on Tues­day morn­ing on Cable­vi­sion sys­tems in the New York, tri-state area. While Fight Now TV is ded­i­cated to more than just mixed mar­tial arts — box­ing, grap­pling and kick­box­ing will also be fea­tured, among oth­ers... 

Yahoo! Sports’ Pascal-Hopkins Live Analysis

MONTREAL — Yahoo! Sports is ring­side at Bell Cen­tre for the WBC light heavy­weight title fight between cham­pion Jean Pas­cal and chal­lenger Bernard Hop­kins. Fol­low­ing along live as Kevin Iole offers his analy­sis … then stick around for his post-fight coverage.  

Hamilton Eyes Monaco Improvement

Hamil­ton hope­ful for Monaco Lewis Hamil­ton believes McLaren can increase the pres­sure on Red Bull at next weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. Hav­ing fin­ished only half a sec­ond behind Red Bull’s race win­ner Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel in Barcelona, Hamil­ton said: We have some­thing good com­ing for Monaco.” He con­tin­ued: “I didn’t expect to be that quick today, we were quicker than the Red Bulls except in the high-speed cor­ners, pretty much. “It’s pos­i­tive going into Monaco, where the dri­ver can make a difference.” Hamil­ton was clearly encour­aged at being... 

BAMMA 6 Results: Tom Watson Retires Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua

Tom “Kong” Wat­son retained his BAMMA mid­dleweight title Sat­ur­day night by defeat­ing Murilo “Ninja” Rua via third-round TKO at BAMMA 6. “Kong” used a wide array of kicks to fin­ish the for­mer Eli­teXC mid­dleweight champion. Fol­low­ing the loss, “Ninja,” the older brother of Mauri­cio “Shogun” Rua, announced his retire­ment from MMA on his Twit­ter account. “I would like to announce offi­cially my retire­ment from pro MMA fights,” Rua wrote. “It was an amaz­ing run, and [it’s] a very tough moment, but there comes a time for all in life, and it’s... 

Hopkins Beats Pascal, Breaks Foreman’s Record

MONTREAL — Forty-six-year-old Bernard Hop­kins scored a taut unan­i­mous deci­sion vic­tory Sat­ur­day over home­town favorite Jean Pas­cal to win the World Box­ing Coun­cil light heavy­weight title and become the old­est man ever to win a major championship. At 46, Bernard Hop­kins became the old­est box­ing cham­pion ever Sat­ur­day with his WBC light heavy­weight title vic­tory over Jean Pascal. Hop­kins out­pointed Pas­cal by scores of 116–112, 115–113 and 115–114 to defeat Pas­cal, 18 years his junior, in front of a building-record box­ing crowd of 17,560... 

Strikeforce Likely Las Vegas-bound for Strikeforce Challengers 17 on July 22

Strike­force is tar­get­ing Las Vegas for the next install­ment of Strike­force Chal­lengers, and the recently acquired pro­mo­tion may make Sin City the per­ma­nent home of the series. A source close to nego­ti­a­tions con­firmed with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that July 22 is being tar­geted for an event, expected to be Strike­force Chal­lengers 17, to be held at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort. ESPN.com first reported the news of the event.   On Fri­day Nevada State Ath­letic Com­mis­sion Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Keith Kizer con­firmed that Strikeforce’s... 

Webber Beats Vettel to Spain Pole

By Andrew Ben­sonBBC Sport at the Cir­cuit de Catalunya Venue: Cir­cuit de Catalunya Date: 20–22 May Cov­er­age: Sun­day: Race live on BBC One, HD, online and 5 live from 1210. High­lights — Span­ish GP qualifying Mark Web­ber beat his Red Bull team-mate Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel for the first time this sea­son to grab pole posi­tion for the Span­ish Grand Prix. The Aus­tralian headed the Ger­man, who was on pole for all the season’s first four races, by 0.2 sec­onds as the Red Bulls were in a league of their own. The McLarens of Lewis Hamil­ton and Jen­son But­ton...