M-1 Global and Affliction keep stregthening the ties in MMA. Officially from now on all the M-1 Challenge events will be organized in association with Affliction.

Check the weigh-in's results from today's ceremony in Japan. Every fighter made weight.

Fresh off his stellar performance and excellent victory in the DREAM Grand Prix finals Gegard Mousasi has already set a new goal on the horizon. He challenged Yoshihiro Akiyama asking him for a fight at New Year's Eve. Worth to mention Akiyama is the winner of K-1 GERO's Grand Prix 2007.

Here on the photos is the full fight card of the upcoming M-1 Challenge event in Nottingham, England where September, 27 beside 3 superfights team battle will be held between Red Devil - Team USA and Russian Legion - Team Europe.

The Cage Warriors Middleweight World Champion Gegard Mousasi was victorious yesterday when he won the DREAM Middleweight GP in Tokyo, Japan. Mousasi who won the Cage Warriors Middleweight Title in December 2006; entered the DREAM GP back in April. In his first round tournament bout Mousasi surprised many MMA observers when he defeated the experienced Canadian star Denis Kang by Triangle choke. The Dutch based Armenian then defeated the Korean Judoka Dong Sik Yoon by decision in the Quarter finals in June.

Warrior Promotions are sad to announce the Welterweight bout between “Judo” Jim Wallhead (14-5-0) and the Ultimate Force Welterweight Champion Jason Ball (11-5-0) has been cancelled. That's what cagewarriors.com says about it:

On September 20-th the best Finnish MMA organization is holding its next event. Finland's own best fighter Miko Rupponen returns to action in Helsinki. Also several dutch fighters are scheduled

On September, 23-d the DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix Finals will be held in Saitama. Among single matches two heavyweight clashes are highly anticipated as Croatian knock-out specialist Mirko CroCop returns to take on Dutch Demolition Man Alistair Overeem while Sergei Kharitonov comes back to face off with Mighty Mo

October, 3-d a regular Strikeforce show will emanate from Denver, Colorado. The following fighters are listed among the participants: Dwayne Ludwig, Frank Trigg, Falaniko Vitale, Phil Baroni etc.

DREAM middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi expects to face Vitor Belfort on Affliction’s next MMA show in January.

Speaking to Fighters Only this week, he revealed that the US organisation wants him to fight the Brazilian, while Red Devil team mate Fedor Emelianenko may face Josh Barnett.

The victories of Russian Legion and Red Devil made the struggle for the first places in both groups more exciting. Who'll reach the finals? The following three M-1 Challenge events will bring up the answers. Rankings after the jump

The photos of Gegard Mousasi en route to success at DREAM middleweight Grand Prix.

Watch the photoreview of the yesterday's M-1 Challenge UK event: Legion vs. Team Europe and Red Devil vs. Team USA

Watch the photos of today's weigh-in ceremony for tomorrow's M-1 Challenge event in Nottingham, England

The conference dedicated to the upcoming DREAM 6 was held today in Tokio, Japan. All the fighters were present.

mixfight.ru / m1mixfight.com in collaboration with our friends from mixfight.nl continues the series of info/photoreviews of the Dutch Martial Arts gyms.

The 9-th review is dedicated to Mejiro Gym

After successful events in Holland, Russia, Spain, Russia again and Japan on August 29th 2008, the M-1 Challenge was staged in the Korean Capital of Seoul. The Jong Chun Gymnasium, the venue where it took place, was the same as where the Korean K-1 was held before. Participating teams were Japan, The World Team, Korea and the USA.

Gegard Mousasi (22-2-1), having won in the battle against Denis Kang, secured himself a place in the DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix which will emanate from Tokio on September, 23. In the exclusive interview to our site Gegard who at the moment trains in Russia with Fedor, tells about the preparations, his upcoming bout and shares his thoughts on other MMA-related topics.