Jake Shields News

Tom Taylor - March 27, 2017

Earlier this month, we learned that BJJ whiz Dillon Danis had signed with Bellator MMA. Danis is expected to debut with the organization later this year. The exciting thing about this debut, of course, is that it will mark not only his first fight with Bellator, but his first mixed martial arts bout outright. While Danis will now be dedicating a good deal of his focus to his new mixed martial arts career, he will not be abandoning his grappling roots.

Russell Ess - February 2, 2017

Opposing views and beliefs has much of this country in a heated feud. With Donald Trump being recently inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America, citizens have been going to war with one another with their polar points of view. On Wednesday, Milo Yiannopoulos, a strong right-wing social figure, was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley. However, protests that grew into violence between members of opposing sides broke out causing Yiannopoulos’ speech to be canceled.

Tom Taylor - November 2, 2016

Earlier this year, in the main event of UFC 202, Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz engaged in an unforgettable, five-round war. In the end, McGregor would win this encounter with a majority decision, avenging a previous submission loss to Diaz in the process. Given McGregor and Diaz’s propensities for trash talk and bravado, it should come as no surprise that they had several heated exchanges in the buildup to their legendary second scrap. Several of these brushes got so heated that members of both fighter’s teams got involved.

bjpenndotcom - October 31, 2016

When news broke of former UFC welterweight champion Georges Saint Pierre coming out of retirement, there wasn’t much doubt regarding where the French-Canadian superstar would re-sign with the UFC. But with entirely new owners and an exclusive apparel contract with Reebok, much has changed in the UFC since GSP stepped away from the sport in 2013.

Russell Ess - April 4, 2016

AJ Agazarm x Jake Shields #Polaris3 Post fight #StocktonSlap!!! pic.twitter.com/ZF51F8mTpb — ZombieProphet (@ZProphet_MMA) April 2, 2016

Chris Taylor - March 12, 2016

Although Nate Diaz proved victorious in the main event of UFC 196, the ‘Stockton Slugger’ still suffered quite a bit of damage in his epic second-round submission victory over featherweight champion Conor McGregor. Diaz’s ‘Scrap Pack’ teammate Jake Shields admitted to Sherdog Radio that Nate got a little more busted up than the team had hoped for in the first round of the UFC 196 main event fight. But Shields insists that he was never worried about Nate and that getting ‘beat up’ was all part of the game plan. His words:

Chris Taylor - March 12, 2016

Former Strikeforce champion Jake Shields was quite confident that his teammate Nate Diaz would be able to defeat Conor McGregor on short-notice at this past weekend’s UFC 196 event in Las Vegas. The former UFC welterweight title challenger, who now fights for the World Series of Fighting promotion, told Sherdog Radio that he bet and won money on his long time teammate Nate Diaz on March 5: “I absolutely thought Nate was going to win. I went and bet money on him. There were things I was worried about. Like the fact that Nate was in Cabo right before the fight. Him and [Gilbert Melendez] were out in Cabo, drinking, eating, you know, having fun and partying, not training, so that was in the back of my head. Nate’s a cardio freak, so I was like, ‘Well hopefully that doesn’t hurt him.’ I definitely thought Nate was gonna win. I think Conor’s a great fighter, but I think he got a little overhyped.”