Bodog Fight was a reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 series and mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 competition that originated from Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 and is created and produced by entertainment mogul Calvin Ayre

Calvin Ayre

Calvin Ayre is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994. Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984...

 and his Bodog Entertainment Group. The first of the series, Bodog Fight Series I: To the Brink of War, made its debut in September 2006.

Bodog Fight Series I: To the Brink of War

Fourteen professional MMA fighters are situated in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 and fight to earn the right to represent the United States as part of Team USA. In a later pay-per-view

Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view provides a service by which a television audience can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone ordering it...

 event, the seven victors will then square off against members of the Russian Red Devils team.

Bodog Fight Series I: To the Brink of War aired on Men's Outdoor and Recreation

Men's Outdoor and Recreation

Men's Outdoor and Recreation was an American television network that presented hunting and fishing programs, infomercials, shopping shows, and other shows deemed to be of interest to men. It was owned by The Networks Group, a division of The Media Group...

, DISH Network, The Fight Network in Canada, and online at the Bodog Fight website September 19, 2006.

Results

Episode 1: The Welterweights

Jorge Masvidal

Jorge Masvidal

Jorge Masvidal is an American mixed martial artist of Cuban descent who trains with American Top Team. Currently signed to Strikeforce, Masvidal's record includes notable wins over Yves Edwards, Joe Lauzon, Satoru Kitaoka, Ryan Schultz, Billy Evangelista and K.J...

 vs. Keith Wisniewski

Masvidal wins over Wisniewski in a controversial judges' decision. Though Keith dominated the 1st and 2nd rounds, Jorge still won out with a narrow points-victory: 87 over 84.

Episode 2: The Light Heavyweights

Mike Patt

Mike Patt

Michael Patt is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He has competed in the UFC, Bodog Fight and FFC promotions.-Biography:...

 vs. Kaream Ellington

Ellington is forced to tap out after Patt applied an armbar, granting Patt a victory by submission.

Episode 3:

Tara LaRosa

Tara LaRosa

Tara LaRosa is an American mixed martial artist who previously fought in BodogFight.She was the first and final BodogFight Women's Bantamweight Champion...

 vs. Amanda Buckner

Amanda Buckner

Amanda Buckner is an American female mixed martial artist. Her last fight was a decision loss against Takayo Hashi at FFF 4 - Call of the Wild on April 3, 2008....

LaRosa submits Buckner by a rear choke in the 3rd round.

Episode 4: The Lightweights

Nick Agallar vs. Nardu Debrah

Agallar is the winner by referee stoppage after rendering Debrah defenseless via strikes to the head near the end of the 2nd round.

Episode 5: The Middleweights #1

Nick Thompson

Nick Thompson

Nicholas Delton Thompson is a retired American mixed martial artist. He retired with a professional mixed martial arts record of 38-14-1. He has fought professionally on both the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bodog Fight shows...

 vs. Davion Peterson

Thompson chokes out Peterson and won the fight by submission.

Episode 6: The Heavyweights

Mario Rinaldi

Mario Rinaldi

Mario Rinaldi is an Italian enduro rider and a four-time World Enduro Champion. He is also a four-time winner of the International Six Days Enduro World Trophy with Team Italy. Rinaldi won all his world championship titles with KTM; in 1992 and 1994 in the 350 cc class, and in 1997 and 2000 in...

 vs. Mark Burch

Mark Burch

Mark Burch is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He has competed primarily in the Bodog Fight promotion, and has recently been signed to the UFC, where he was to debut against Antoni Hardonk in UFC 92.-Mixed martial arts career:...

Rinaldi defeats Burch via a hard-fought but unanimous judges’ decision.

Episode 7: The Middleweights #2

Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

Chael Patrick Sonnen is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He was an NCAA Division I All-American wrestler at the University of Oregon, a two-time University Greco national champion as well as the 85.0 kg silver medalist at...

 vs. Tim Credeur

Tim Credeur

Timothy Wallace Credeur II is an American mixed martial artist. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7 and was defeated by fellow cast member Jesse Taylor in the semi-finals. He was then brought back into the competition following the disqualification of Taylor. He fought C.B...

Sonnen dominates Credeur with his ground and pound, winning a TKO victory after a referee stoppage.

Bodog Fight Series II: Clash of the Nations

On February 5, 2007, ION Television announced an exclusive television alliance with Bodog Entertainment. Beginning February 13th, ION Television started to run original episodes of Bodog Fight Series II: Clash of the Nations Tuesdays and Saturdays at 11 p.m. ET/PT; this time slot, generally used for infomercials and other paid programming, has been paid for by Bodog. The series culminated with a special pay-per-view

Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view provides a service by which a television audience can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone ordering it...

 event on April 14, 2007 at the ICE Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia featuring some of the biggest names in the world of mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

.

Results

Julie Kedzie

Julie Kedzie

Julie Kedzie is an American female mixed martial artist. She is a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and specializes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu....

 vs. Julia Berezikova

Julia Berezikova

Julia Berezikova is a Russian female mixed martial artist and boxer.-Background:Berezikova was born on in Krasnokamensk, Zabaykalsky Krai , Russia....

Kedzie defeats Berezikova by TKO due to strikes at 2:49 in the second round.

Ray Steinbass vs. Dmitri Samoylov

Steinbass defeats Samoilov by choke at 3:00 in the first round.

Erik Oganov vs. Derrick Noble

Derrick Noble

Derrick "The Eraser" Noble is an American professional mixed martial artist from Cuba, Illinois.-Biography and career:Derrick began martial arts training at the age of 13 in Taekwondo, and he eventually earned a Black Belt in Hapkido from Master Bob Long. He attended Eastern Illinois University...

Oganov defeats Noble by TKO due to strikes at 2:55 in the second round.

Amar Suloev

Amar Suloev

Amar Suloev is a Russian-Yazidi-Armenian mixed martial artist with a record of 24–7–0. He is a kickboxer/wrestler who has last fought Jacek Buczko at M-1 Challenge, where he won by a TKO...

 vs. Andy Foster

Andy Foster

Andy Foster , is the current Executive Director of the Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission and former professional mixed martial artist.Foster is married and his wife's name is Sonja....

Suloev defeats Foster by KO due to punching at 0:26 in the first round.

Josh Curran vs. Jarno Nurminen

Curran defeats Nurminen by TKO due to strikes in the third round.

Rodrigo Damm

Rodrigo Damm

Rodrigo Damm is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who has competed for World Victory Road, Strikeforce, Jungle Fight, bodogFIGHT, and Shooto promotions. Rodrigo's sister Carina Damm is also a mixed martial artist. Damm made his US debut at Strikeforce: Shamrock vs...

 vs. Santino Defranco

Damm defeats Defranco by choke at 1:58 in the second round.

Bill Mahood vs. Steve Steinbeiss

Steve Steinbeiss

Steve Steinbeiss is an American mixed martial artist who recently fought in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.-Ultimate Fighting Championship:...

Mahood defeats Steinbass by unanimous decision after three rounds.

Roman Zentsov

Roman Zentsov

Roman Zentsov is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter who has competed in the PRIDE Fighting Championships, a major MMA organization based in Japan, and BodogFIGHT...

 vs. Kristof Midoux

Kristof Midoux

Kristof Midoux is a French semi-retired professional mixed martial artist who has fought for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, bodogFIGHT, K-1, International Fighting Championships and Rumble on the Rock promotions...

Zensov defeats Midoux by TKO due to corner stoppage at the end of the first round.

Amanda Buckner

Amanda Buckner

Amanda Buckner is an American female mixed martial artist. Her last fight was a decision loss against Takayo Hashi at FFF 4 - Call of the Wild on April 3, 2008....

 vs. Hitomi Akano

Hitomi Akano

, is a Japanese female mixed martial artist. She uses a song she penned herself called "Between the Sky" as her entrance music.Akano is a former Smackgirl Middleweight Champion at 128 pounds...

Buckner defeats Akano by unanimous decision after three rounds.

Jorge Santiago

Jorge Santiago

|-| Loss|align=center| 23-10| Demian Maia| Decision | UFC 136| |align=center| 3|align=center| 5:00| Houston, Texas, United States||-| Loss|align=center| 23–9| Brian Stann| TKO | UFC 130| |align=center| 2|align=center| 4:29...

 vs. Andrei Semenov

Andrei Semenov

Andrei Vladimirovich Semenov is a Russian mixed martial artist and Sambo practitioner. He has also made forays into acting.Semenov has fought within the UFC middleweight division, in M-1 events and Pride Bushido, with an overall MMA record of 30 wins, 9 losses and 2 draws...

Santiago defeats Semenov by TKO due to strikes at 4:48 in the second round.

Aleksander Emelianenko

Aleksander Emelianenko

Alexander Vladimirovich Emelianenko , more commonly known as Alexander Emelianenko or Aleksander Emelianenko, is a Russian mixed martial artist. He is a three-times Russian national Sambo champion and three-time world Sambo champion in the absolute division...

 vs. Eric Pele

Eric Pele

Eric Pele is a retired American mixed martial artist and former King of the Cage superheavyweight champion. He is also an accomplished tattoo artist who appears on the reality television show "Inked" with nickname 'Big E'....

Emelianenko defeats Pele by KO due to punches at 4:07 in the first round.

Nick Thompson

Nick Thompson

Nicholas Delton Thompson is a retired American mixed martial artist. He retired with a professional mixed martial arts record of 38-14-1. He has fought professionally on both the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bodog Fight shows...

 vs. Eddie Alvarez

Eddie Alvarez

Eddie Alvarez is an American mixed martial artist, and former Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight champion. Alvarez also competes for the Japanese DREAM promotion, and fought once for ProElite's EliteXC promotion...

Thompson defeats Alvarez by TKO due to strikes at 4:32 in the second round.

Fedor Emelianenko

Fedor Emelianenko

Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo...

 vs. Matt Lindland

Matt Lindland

Matthew James Lindland is an American mixed martial artist, Olympic wrestler and politician. He won the Oregon Republican Party's nomination for the Oregon House of Representatives, District 52 seat on May 20, 2008....

Emelianenko defeats Lindland by armbar at 2:58 in the first round.

Bodog Fight Series III: Costa Rica Combat

In Bodog Fight Series III: Costa Rica Combat Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre

Calvin Ayre

Calvin Ayre is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994. Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984...

 is joined by mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 celebrities Royce Gracie

Royce Gracie

Royce Gracie is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist, a UFC Hall of Famer and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. A legend and pioneer in the sport of mixed martial arts, he is widely considered to be the most influential figure in the history of modern MMA.Gracie gained fame for his...

, Josh Barnett

Josh Barnett

Joshua Lawrence Barnett is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who currently fights in the heavyweight division of Strikeforce. Barnett has been an accomplished fighter in mixed martial arts, winning the UFC Heavyweight Championship and the King of Pancrase Openweight...

, Phil Baroni

Phil Baroni

Philip George Baroni is an American mixed martial artist. He has a professional MMA record of 14–14–0. Baroni has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he holds a record of 3–7–0. Also he has fought in the PRIDE FC where he holds a record of 4–2–0...

 and Denis Kang

Denis Kang

Denis Kang is a Canadian mixed martial artist of Korean French descent. He was the PRIDE FC welterweight grand prix finalist in which he lost to Kazuo Misaki...

 in Costa Rica for the reality TV show’s third season. Veteran play-by-play man and World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee "The Colonel" Bob Sheridan calls the fights alongside MMA Broadcaster Paul Lazenby and Bodog Fight Commissioner Jeff Osborne. Former Canadian Super Heavyweight Boxing champion and Battlestar Galactica star Aleks Paunovic conducts ringside interviews.

Bodog Fight Series III: Costa Rica Combat is broadcast on ION Television and The Fight Network in Canada and all episodes will be available worldwide through video streaming on the Bodog Fight website starting April 17, 2007.

Full Fight Card

Heavyweights

Mario Rinaldi (USA) vs. Roy Nelson (USA)
Mark Burch (USA) vs. Yoshiki Takahashi (Japan)
Kellan Flukinger (USA) vs. Miodrag Petkovich (Serbia)
Dan Evensen (USA) vs. Jeremiah Constant (USA)
Daniel Puder (USA) vs. Michael Alden (USA)

Light Heavyweights

Mike Patt (USA) vs. Todd Gouwenberg (Canada)
Francis Carmont (France) vs. Jeff Ford (USA)
Antony Rea (France) vs. David Avellan (USA)
Moise Rimbon (France) vs. Alex Steibling (USA)

Middleweights

Chael Sonnen (USA) vs. Tim McKenzie (USA)
Trevor Prangley (USA) vs. Pierre Guillet (UK)
Matt Ewin (UK) vs. Andrei Semenov (Russia)
Grzegorz Jakubowski (Poland) vs. Andy Foster (USA)
Izuru Takeuchi (Japan) vs. Kyacey Uscola (USA)
Eugene Jackson (USA) vs. Diego Visotzky (Argentina)

Welterweights

Eddie Alvarez (USA) vs. Scott Henze (USA)
Nick Thompson (USA) vs. Dustin Denes (USA)
Stephen Haigh (USA) vs. Takuya Wada (Japan)
Jose "Pele" Landi (Brazil) vs. Phil Norman (UK)
Piotr Jakacynzki (Sweden) vs. Steve Berger (USA)
Zach Light (USA) vs. Jake Ellenberger (USA)
Jake Shields (USA) vs. Ray Steinbeiss (USA)

Lightweights

Brad Pickett (UK) vs. JR Sims (USA)
Nick Agallar (USA) vs. Ryan Bow (Japan/USA)
Rafael Diaz (USA/Brazil) vs. [Sami Aziz]http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=13071 (Sweden)
Tyler Jackson (Canada) vs. Kyle Watson (USA)
David Love (USA) vs. Atsuhiro Tsuboi (Japan)

135 Ladies

Tara LaRosa (USA) vs. Shanya Bazler (USA)
Tama-Chan (Japan) vs. Jan Finney (USA)

125 Ladies

Rosie Sexton (UK) vs. Windy Tomomi (Japan)
Carina Damm (Brazil) vs. Molly Helsel (USA)