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Invicta Fights Photo Shoot
We are in Kansas City for Invicta Fighting Championships. Yesterday, we did portrait sessions with the fighters from midday to midnight. I am pretty beat but we still have so much more to do! So many of these women I photographed when I first started covering fights! I am excited to see so many of [...]
Tokyo Days
Through our work here at MMA Fighting, we’ve had the opportunity to travel the world covering MMA events. UFC 144 took us to Tokyo, Japan, and we wanted to share our experiences not just in bringing you photos and Ariel’s interviews from the fights, but also our experience of the city. We were fortunate enough to have [...]
My Favorite Photos of 2011
2011 was a banner year for MMA. More events than ever, new champs, organizations merging, fighters reinventing themselves, and fighters retiring. We put together this video of my favorite photos from 2011 so that I could share a little bit about each picture with you. I left out maybe 100 photos. I really couldn’t make [...]
Strikeforce Presser Highlights
What’s up dudes and dudettes?? We’re in the middle of Strikeforce fight week for Rockhold vs Jardine and I gotta say, I’m already beat. Today was insane-o but in the best way. We had a press conference midday flanked by studio work. While I was busy getting the portraits done for Strikeforce, Casey was clipping [...]
Best Of 2011 Interviews
Or really, Ariel Helwani’s greatest hits as compiled by the main dude himself, E. Casey Leydon. This was tons of fun and craziness to put together. And it clocks in at a ridiculous 50 minutes total… I think. I don’t know. Just watch! Or don’t. Casey only spent all of the holidays putting it together. [...]
The U of MMA
Sometimes, we cut a little time out to do things for fun, for art, to keep our fascination. We made this lovely video for our friends at the U of MMA. Right now, we’re sitting at the Pasadena location of Intelligentsia, one of my favorite coffee places in town because I enjoyed both an amazing [...]
Fight Journal: Pat Barry
We’re in DC (Casey is sporting his Dischord Records shirt) for UFC Live on Versus 6 and we got to follow Pat Barry around for the day. It was lots of fun and yesterday’s news even validated my personal hatred of cantaloupe. So we’ve got a video for you of Pat Barry going to the [...]
Training Camp: Jon Jones
We’re back with a post-fight releasing of a pre-fight look into Jon Jones’ training camp. During a July visit to Albuquerque, Greg Jackson and Jon Jones were generous enough to let us into their training session, showing us the learning process specific to Jones’ title defense against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. It’s fascinating to see, shot [...]
A look inside two camps.
We were privileged to get an inside look at X Gym in Rio De Janeiro and watch Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, and Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante spar. Of course, like most camps, we couldn’t video tape the all-out sparring session but we photographed it and incorporated it into Casey’s video on our day there. [...]
Training Camp: Greg Jackson
Fresh off victories with fighters Carlos Condit and Melvin Guillard, we present to you another installment of our Training Camp series for AOL MMAfighting.com, with coach Greg Jackson.
Training Camp: Mayhem Miller
Last week, just hours before we all knew that Jason Miller would be the next coach on TUF, he was training for Aaron Simpson. We went to Reign Training Center to catch up with Mayhem, who has been out of action since he fought Sakuraba last September. Here’s the video of our day with Jason [...]
Training Camp: Timothy Bradley
We had the fortune of shooting WBO Junior Welterweight champ Timothy Bradley as he trains for his upcoming bout with current WBC Junior Welterweight champion, Devon Alexander, in Pontiac, Michigan on January 29th. Spent the day at the Boys & Girls Club in Indio, CA, and even ran into Cub Swanson. Bradley and his trainer [...]
Pacquiao Margarito Doubleheader
We had the fortune of shooting in the camps of both Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito for AOL Fanhouse. We did these two videos previewing the lead-up to their fight November 13th. This is really our first foray into boxing and we hope you like it. I also took some lovely photos of Pacquiao and [...]
Manny Pacquiao Training Video
Hello hello! We’ve been busy busy busy as usual but haven’t had time to make a lot of videos, which is a bummer. However, last week we had the opportunity to visit both Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito while they prepare for their upcoming battle at Cowboys Stadium November 13th. Here’s our video for AOL [...]
Diaz vs Noons Fight Week
This has been such a crazy week. You might not know it because I haven’t been updating at all. But maybe that’s how you know I’ve been so busy. We’ve been sweating over the Collision Course series and working for Strikeforce and AOL and stuff in the future for EA Sports and I went off [...]
Backstage with Mauro Ranallo
We shot this video just a couple of hours before Strikeforce: Houston for AOL Fanhouse/MMAfighting.com, interview conducted by Ariel Helwani, as part of the “Backstage” series. If you get one thing out of this video, it should be that Mauro really does sound like that all the time. But most importantly, it’s nice to hear [...]
UFC 117 Workout Photos + Video
We’re up here in mild-summered Oakland for UFC 117 fight week doing our usual comprehensive coverage for AOL Fanhouse. I’ve got my favorite photos from yesterday’s workout and today’s very fun presser (full gallery here on AOL — with fullscreen capability) and Casey made this sweet video of the whole event. And photos! Yay! —gallery [...]
Laimon vs Drysdale Superfight
We had the pleasure of shooting a video of two of Las Vegas’ top jiu jitsu honchos in a superfight for Ecko MMA.
Enjoy!
Training Camp: Dan Henderson
Time for another installment of our video series for AOL Fanhouse, Training Camp. We went out to Team Quest in Temecula to shoot legend Dan Henderson as he prepares to challenge Jake Shields for the Strikeforce middleweight title this Saturday in Nashville. Thanks again to Indecision Records! And here’s a few photos from the evening [...]
King Mo: Journey to the Crown
We present to you another All Elbows video, sandwiched between our travels to a land full of dudes also named Muhammed and back to Nashville for the Strikeforce on CBS megacard. King Mo is contending for the Strikeforce light heavyweight title against champion Gegard Mousasi this Saturday on CBS.
Refresher: Dan Hardy
Now that UFC 111 is upon us — let’s revisit the training camp vid we did on Dan Hardy way back when he was training for Marcus Davis! Casey is in New York covering all the pre-fight madness for AOL Fanhouse and I’m in Fresno (or better yet, FresYES!) for Strikeforce Challengers: Johnson vs Mahe. [...]
Working the 2010 Winter Olympics
No need to recap the Olympic events for you, as there were almost 3000 credentialed media to do that for you. I wanted to share a few of my favorite videos I shot at the 2010 Winter Olympics. I honestly feel that these videos capture the essence of what it was like to be in Vancouver for the Olympics.
Training Camp: Cain Velasquez
We bring you another installment in our Training Camp series for AOL Fanhouse, this time featuring Cain Velasquez, who will be fighting Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 110 in Sydney, Australia, next week. We’re proud to feature another fighter from AKA and happy that Cain sat down and talked with us about his upcoming bout [...]