The Slam Dunk Contest is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend. The contest was inaugurated by the American Basketball Association (ABA) at its All-Star Game in 1976 in Denver, the same year the slam dunk was legalized in the NCAA. As a result of the ABA-NBA merger later that year there would not be another slam dunk contest at the professional level until 1984. The contest currently uses fan voting, via text-messaging, to determine the winner of the final round. The very first slam dunk contest was won by Julius Erving at the 1976 ABA All-Star Game. The current champion of the NBA Dunk Contest is Blake Griffin.
DREAM 2011 New Year Eve MMA event held in Japan Saitama Arena
Capturing their first national championship in dominant fashion, the Florida Gators defeated the UCLA Bruins by jumping out to a big lead and never looking back. Led by the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, Joakim Noah, and standouts Al Horford and Corey Brewer, the Gators were never threatened by UCLA. A protégé of Rick Pitino, Gators coach Billy Donovan became the winningest coach in Florida history during the course of the 2006 season.
Florida outgained the Buckeyes 370 yards to 82, led in first downs 21-8 and time of possession 40:48 to 19:12 to lead the Gators to a 41-14 victory in the 2007 BCS National Championship game. The trophy will make a perfect bookend for the one the basketball Gators won by beating UCLA for the national championship earlier last year. The Gators became the first program to hold football and men's basketball titles at the same time.
The world's fastest time attack machines and drivers converged on Eastern Creek Raceway in Sydney, Australia for the 2010 Yokohama Advan World Time Attack Challenge. Four teams from Japan and one from the US took on the top Pro Class time attack cars in Australia over 2 days. Over 100 highly modified cars also fought it out in the Open cna Clubsprint Classes, along with Australia's best drifters and two D1 drivers from Japan, also battled it out in the Tectaloy Drift Challenge. This DVD covers all the action from the two day event, with behind the scenes interviews, a closer look at all the Pro Class cars, pit reports, on-board camera's galore, including in every Pro Class car, and the best action from multiple cameras around the track!
Never in the history of NCAA has one school held back-to-back National Championships in Basketball and a National Championship in Football. Relive the magic of the 2006-07 Gator basketball season, as Billy Donovan and his team win the SEC regular season, SEC Tourney, and NCAA Tournament titles. This DVD includes many special bonus features that will show Florida Basketball like it has never been seen before. After winning the 2006 men's basketball national championship, Florida's celebrated starting five returned to lead the Florida Gators on another incredible journey. Return of the Kings takes you through the Gators' 2006-07 season, from every thrilling victory in their SEC championship run, to their third consecutive SEC Tournament title, leading to the Gators ninth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. This DVD is a must for every true Gator fan.
The Reds won their first Super Rugby title in the professional era when they beat the Crusaders 18-13 in the 2011 Super Rugby final held in Brisbane.
Dream 11 was the culmination of the Feather Weight Grand Prix, where both the Semi-Finals and Finals took place in the same night. It also featured the Semi-Finals of the Super Hulk Grand Prix 2009. Additionally, there was a championship bout: Joachim Hansen defended the Dream Lightweight Championship against WAMMA Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki. DREAM's featherweight division has a 63 kilograms (139 lb) weight limit.
The event took place on Monday, March 22, 2010 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan and featured the continuation of the Super hulk tournament and a featherweight title bout between Bibiano Fernandes and Joachim Hansen.
Dream.7: Feather Weight Grandprix 2009 1st Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by FEG MMA promotion Dream on March 8, 2009. This event featured six of the opening round fights of the tournament which is contested at a 63 kg (139 lb) weight limit.
K-1 PREMIUM 2004 Dynamite!! was held by K-1 on New Year's Eve, Friday, December 31, 2004 at the Osaka Dome in Osaka, Japan. It featured 7 K-1 MMA rules fights, 3 K-1 rules fights, and a special mixed K-1 & MMA Rules fight. The event attracted a sellout crowd of 52,918 to the Osaka Dome. In the main event, Royce Gracie defeated Sumo legend Akebono in a K-1 MMA Rules match.
The event took place on July 10, 2010 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and headlined with a bout between Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya "Crusher" Kawajiri.
Dream.9: Feather Weight Grand Prix 2009 Second Round was a MMA event on May 26, 2009. It featured the second round of the promotion's featherweight (63 kilograms (140 lb)) grand prix and saw the return of Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto, who was given a first round bye, as well as a middleweight title fight between Ronaldo Souza and Jason Miller.
This event was originally expected to be held in Seoul, South Korea on April 24, 2010. However, many factors, including the issue that many top Korean stars such as Denis Kang and Hong Man Choi were not available in April, contributed to the Korea event being cancelled. This was the second DREAM event to take place in a cage.
World Series of Fighting 6, was held October 26, 2013 in Coral Gables, Florida, USA. WSOF 6 featured the first WSOF Championship bout between Josh Burkman and Steve Carl.
WEC 5: Halloween Fury was a mixed martial arts event held on October 18th, 2002 at The Palace Casino in Lemoore, California. WEC 5's main event was a title fight between Cole Escovedo and Philip Perez.
New Orleans, La. – The Bellator 70 weigh-ins have been completed from New Orleans, Louisiana in preparation for Bellator’s Friday night event at Harrah’s New Orleans, which features the Bellator Heavyweight Title Fight between Champion Cole Konrad and Eric Prindle. Also, a highly-anticipated Bellator Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal fight will take place as Luis Nogueira will square off against Hiroshi Nakamura while Rich Clementi will meet Derek Campos in a lightweight contest. Additionally, the Bellator Season 6 Lightweight Tournament will be decided as Rick Hawn takes on Brent Weedman. Both men showed the other vast amounts of respect ahead of their fight on Friday night. “I’m looking forward to fireworks,” said Weedman. “This is the toughest opponent I’ve had in my career. We’re going to put on a show for the fans in New Orleans.”
WEC 22: The Hitman was an exhibition mixed martial arts event held on July 8, 2006. WEC 22 was also known as the Ryan Bennett Memorial Card in memory of the sportscaster and MMA journalist who died two months prior to the event. With all fights classed as exhibitions, none of the fighters' professional records were affected.
Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Damm was a mixed martial arts event held by Strikeforce. The fifteenth Challengers episode took place on April 1, 2011 at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, California.
EBI 6 features a 16 man submission grappling tournament with a grand prize of $50,000 on the line. The action can be seen Live and Exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS!