Mixed Martial Arts history is about to explode in South Florida and FightZone TV’s Jay Adams will be their to call all of the action for a future broadcast as some of the nations top teams send their best champions to Rumble at the Rock on Friday, September 25 at 8 PM at Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL.

Fights will feature Miami native Keith Johnson vs. Michael Bernhard, Ariel Gandulla of Bradenten, Fl. takes on Danny Babcock from Palm Bay, Fl. and Bounmy Somchay of West Palm Beach will square off against Rene Martinez of Miami.

Several other mixed martial arts fighters from South Florida will appear on the card including Steve Bruno (Coconut Creek, Fl.), Nico Perella (Sunrise, Fl.), John Kelly (Miami, Fl.), Christian Rios (Sunrise, Fl.), Donovan Ciolfi (Plantation, Fl.), Brann Redi (Boca Raton, Fl.) and Rodrigo Ramos (Coconut Creek, Fl.). Tickets are on sale now at the Hard Rock Live box office or Ticketmaster.com.

For more information on FZTV visit www.FightZone.TV

NICE! Of course, I’ve already heard the rumors/spoilers, and they appear to be accurate so far, but it still doesn’t bother me. I am excited to see the fight.

With the explosion in MMA Events and the rapid expansion of FightZone TV’s roster of Promoter Partners, FightZone TV’s co-owner and head commentator, Jay Adams is rapidly becoming the Matt Lauer of MMA.

Having just finished events for Pro Battle in Arkansas, Art of Fighting in Tampa, Intimidation in Cincinnati, Vendetta in Aruba and X1 in Hawaii. Jay is preparing to leave to call the Action Fight League event at the Seminole Hard Rock in Ft. Lauderdale (9/25) then headed to Washington, DC for Ultimate Warrior Challenge (UWC (10/03) , California for Pure Combat (10/17), back to AOF in Ft. Myers, FL (10/23) and Belfast Ireland for Cage Wars Championship UK (CWC) (11/29).

Jay is on TV more than the Geico Caveman. Maybe they could do The Amazing Race together.

FightZone TV, now airing every day somewhere in the US, is available to over 25 million homes on Fox Sport Networks’ Sun Sports (FL), Sport South (GA, AL, MS, TN, NC, SC) and nationally on DIRECTV, The Dish Network and ATT U-verse.

AT&T U-verse is being expanded in California thanks to legislation supported by California Legislators. The “Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006″ signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger provides an environment that encourages new video providers, such as AT&T California, to invest in the state to compete against incumbent cable providers.

Currently airing on FightZone TV is UWC “Capital Punishment” which features UWC Bantamweight Championship: Mike “The Hulk” Easton against Josh “Taz” Ferguson. Also on the card were: War Machine vs Reshad Woods; Joey Kirwan vs Marcus Foran; Damian “The Reach” Dantibo vs Ron “Choir Boy” Stallings among others. Tito Ortiz was in the house and can be seen cageside.

Next up is Pure Combat “Home Turf” followed by Art of War featuring Kimbo Slayer Seth Petruzelli recently held in Tampa, FL and then Action Fight League and Cage War Championships UK to round out the year.

Also airing this month are classic events from Real Fighting Championships (RFC-Tampa, FL); Cage Wars Championships (CWC UK) Ultimate Warrior Championships (UWC – Washington, DC); Xtreme Fighting Association (XFA Las Vegas), Mainstream (Iowa); Reality Combat Championships (RCC – Jacksonville); Gladiator Challenge (CA); Bonecrunch Fighting League (FL); World Fighting Championships (WFC, Tampa, FL) and Combat Fighting Championships (CFC – Orlando, FL)

For more information visit www.FightZone.TV

Obviously, even though there have been some tremendous fights to talk about over the last couple of weeks, I haven’t made any posts. That will hopefully change soon. I have been extremely busy with other things, and I also need to get off my ass and upgrade everything on this site.

Off the top of my head, some things I’ve missed.

Tim Credeur and Nate Quarry are both badass.

UFC Fight Night 19 was great.

This season of The Ultimate Fighter looks like it really might be the best one yet.

Mayweather needs to fight someone his size. I was hoping for Pacquaio, but a Shane Mosely fight would be good too.

Herschel Walker signed a contract to fight for Strikeforce? I think it’s awesome, even though others are acting like they don’t care. I like watching these celebrities and non-MMA athletes get in the ring. I say non-MMA, but supposedly Herschel has been training MMA for several years now, and also has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

VITOR! (although I am a big Rich Franklin fan)

I’m sad for CroCop, but the dude is no doubt tough as nails, he took a serious beating, and it looked to me like he got his orbital bone broken, ouch.

I’m sad to find out that Ross “The Grizzly” Clifton has reportedly died from a heart attack. He was 32 years old. Clifton’s most notable fight came in the form of an armbar submission loss to Ken Shamrock. Standing at 6’8″ tall and weighing close to 400lbs, Clifton looked menacing, but always seemed to be a nice guy.

According to The Grizzly’s former trainer, UFC veteran Cal Worsham, the fighter was found by his wife Friday morning where he had been watching TV in a recliner when his wife went to bed the night before.

Cal Worsham described Clifton to MMAWeekly as “a jovial teddy bear inside of a grizzly’s body.”