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Bill Bradley, American Basketball Player, US Senator |
Wanderlei
- The Champion Returns To Brazil!
Wanderlei has FINALLY returned to his hometown of Curitiba, Brazil
after an excellent victory against Japanese star (and Brazilian
TOP TEAM trained) Ikuhisa Minowa at Pride Bushido II. It was
a very fast fight, lasting no more than seventy seconds, after
which Wanderlei embarked on a tour of Japan.
We
met up Wanderlei at the Chute Box Academy, where he was showing
off his 'little' son THOR and his new 'toy'.
About
the future, Wanderlei obviously will continue to fight in Japan,
and he is hoping to compete again in June. Plans are under development
for a promotional tour of the USA soon, as well as a training
video production.
Source:
ADCC |
JAPAN
SPECIAL ~ K-1 BEAST 2004 in Niigata ~
Date: March 14th, 2004
Place: Toki Messe, Niigata Japan
Opening
Fight:
K-1 MMA rules (5minutes x 3rounds)
Ivan Salaverry [USA] x Haliun Boldbaatar [Mongolia]
K-1
rules fights (3minutes x 5rounds):
1st - Masaaki Miyamoto [Seido Kaikan] x Cliff 'Twin Tyson' Couser
[Team Rekcio]
2nd - Tatsufumi Tomihira [Seido Kaikan] x Petr Vondracek [Bacardi]
3rd - Hiromi Amada [TENKA 510] x Butterbean [Team Butterbean]
4th - Tsuyoshi Nakasako [Seido Kaikan] x Mavrick [Shark Tank
Gym]
K-1
MMA rules fights (5 minutes x 3rounds):
1st - Michael McDonald [Canada] x LYOTO [Inoki Office]
2nd - Alexey Ignashov [Chinuk Gym] x Steve Williams [IWA JAPAN]
3rd - Bob Sapp [Team beast] x Dolgorsuren Sumiyabazar [Mongolia]
Source:
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Deep
Freeze In the Big Apple:
Liddell Set To Appear On Carson Daly's Last Call
By Loretta Hunt
UFC
light-heavyweight contender Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell
is in New York City to help publicize his pending "grudge
match" with former champion Tito Ortiz at April 2nd's UFC
47. The soft-spoken striker wiil be a guest on Carson Daly's
Last Call evening talk show tonight to pre-tape an episode airing
the evening of March 16th. Opponent Ortiz appeared on Daly's
show last September, a week before his loss to Randy Couture.
This time, Ortiz will join Liddell and Daly via satellite.
Those
in the New York area interested in catching the fireworks live,
can go to www.1iota.com and click on March
9th, LATER (7:30PM) SHOW, or call 1-888-4LC-TIXX to reserve free
tickets to the half-hour taping. Check local listings for the
March 16th air time in your location.
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INTERVIEW
OF THE WEEK: DAN HENDERSON
MMA Weekly: First thing I’m sure everyone is curious about,
what have you been up to since we last saw you in the ring against
Murilo Bustamante at PRIDE’s Final Conflict show this past
November?
Dan
Henderson: I’ve been taking it a little bit easier of late.
I’ve been nursing some injuries hoping to get back up to
100% and helping some of the new guys out. I’ve been doing
a little bit more in that aspect rather than just training myself.
MMA
Weekly: Speaking of training, did you help Team Quest partner
Randy Couture out for his fight with Vitor Belfort at this past
UFC 46?
Dan
Henderson: Actually no, I didn’t get a chance to. We were
supposed to get together, he was going to fly down and meet me
in Sacramento, but he was snowed in a good three or four days
when that was supposed to happen. So we didn’t get a chance
to train together other than when we were in Vegas (in the days
prior to the fight).
MMA
Weekly: Going back a little bit to your last fight with Bustamante.
There was some controversy and rumblings from him that the fight
should be ruled a no contest due to the fact he says it was the
accidental headbutt that caused him to go down rather than your
striking. Give us your thoughts on the fight.
Dan
Henderson: For that fight I was not trying to be overly aggressive
with my strikes. I was going to try to kick at him a little bit
and wait for him to try to take me down and either by kneeing
him or pushing off, make him stand back up. He was coming in
and I was actually looking to punch him with my right hand and
he started to change levels to shoot in for a leg attack so I
changed levels and we banged heads a little bit. I hurt my head
a little bit, but it wasn’t overly bad or hard. You know
I’ve banged heads a lot harder in wrestling without getting
any loopiness out of it. I don’t know if it stunned him
but he kept trying to take me down so I pushed him off and caught
him with a nice knee in the face and that’s what I think
really got him and I threw some punches to finish him off.
MMA
Weekly: So you don’t feel that the impact of your heads
coming together had anything to do with the outcome of the fight?
Dan
Henderson: Well I don’t know what happened to him or how
it affected him, but again I’ve seen guys bang heads a lot
harder than that in wrestling. I see it all the time and guys
don’t whine about it like he did. I was really surprised
that he was saying the things he was after the fight that it
was because of the headbutt. I know he knows it was unintentional
and that’s part of the sport. Whether it affected him or
not he should have been able to recover and it was right after
that I caught him with the knee. The knee was pretty solid, I
mean it hurt afterwards so I caught him really good with it.
MMA
Weekly: Have PRIDE officials talked to you at all about the fight,
changing the ruling or having a potential rematch?
Dan
Henderson: No I’ve never heard a word about it. I know he
would like a rematch which is a fairly common occurrence after
you loose a match to try to redeem yourself by fighting the same
guy, but I’ve never been that way myself. You know I’d
like to fight Wanderlei Silva again, but I wasn’t asking
for a rematch right away. It’s been over three years since
we fought and the only reason I want a rematch is because he’s
got the Middleweight Championship belt, not because I lost to
him.
MMA
Weekly: Staying with the subject of Silva, do you feel with all
that you’ve accomplished in PRIDE since that first match
at PRIDE 12 that you are due for a title shot against him?
Dan
Henderson: Absolutely, I think I’ve proved myself. I feel
I’m one of the top guys if not the top guy in PRIDE at this
weight.
MMA
Weekly: What about Ricardo Arona, he’s undefeated in PRIDE
so far and defeated you at PRIDE 20?
Dan
Henderson: I’d fight him again as well, but it really doesn’t
matter to me. I’d like to fight him but his fighting style
doesn’t make for an entertaining fight which is what happened
last time. I would definitely change some tactics. I was overly
aggressive and tried to make the fight happen and knock him out
which cost me the fight as I was taken down too much and controlled.
I know I can beat him the next time we fight, but it doesn’t
matter to me if I never fight him at all. I’m just looking
to get a championship belt.
MMA
Weekly: You bring up an interesting point about trying to push
a fight and make it more exciting. Your teammate Matt Lindland
has been accused of being somewhat boring and people want him
to push the pace, as well Jens Pulver admitted after he left
the UFC he felt a lot of pressure to put on a more spectacular
show and it cost him. Does that ever enter into your mind or
do you feel any pressure in that regard at all?
Dan
Henderson: No, it’s always been my style when I wrestled
because I’m out there trying to score points rather than
just holding on to win. But no I don’t feel any pressure
as far as outside influences go. I like to fight high-energy
but I’ve got to tone myself down sometimes because I get
taken down every once in a while when I’m too aggressive.
MMA
Weekly: You missed out on last year’s Grand Prix due to
a knee injury correct?
Dan
Henderson: Yeah I had knee surgery and I wasn’t able to
go into the first round (at Total Elimination in August) on one
leg. It’s coming along pretty well; I still need to strengthen
the leg up. It’s not 100% yet; right now it’s about
at 90% because I’ve been having a little trouble with that
last little strengthening part.
MMA
Weekly: How did it feel in your fight against Murilo?
Dan
Henderson: I didn’t do much as far as having to scramble
around on it. My knee must have been fixed though because it’s
the one that hit him in the face and it obviously worked well
for that. Training for the fight the week before I noticed it
was weaker but it wasn’t too bad. I wasn’t going to
dwell on it, I was going in with what I had and you know what
happened.
MMA
Weekly: From what I understand you took that fight on short notice,
can you tell us how far in advance you were notified by PRIDE
about it?
Dan
Henderson: I was off hunting in Colorado when I found out about
it. I had one week at home in California before I had to leave
for Japan. So it was about ten days before the fight when I started
training for it.
MMA
Weekly: PRIDE has a tendency to book fighters on very short notice,
what are your thoughts about that and the lack of time you get
to prepare for fights.
Dan
Henderson: There’s a big downside to it. You don’t
get to prepare the way you would prepare normally. It becomes
a matter of who’s training harder in their off time. That’s
my biggest gripe with PRIDE, they give us last-minute notices
with a lot of fights. That fight (with Bustamante) was probably
the worst one I had as far as short-notices go, it was even shorter
than when I fought against (Antonio Rodrigo) Nogueira.
MMA
Weekly: There have been some rumors that you said you were interested
in fighting in this year’s Heavyweight Grand Prix, can you
clear those up for us now?
Dan
Henderson: Yeah, well what I had said in a Japanese interview
was that I wanted to get a title shot this year and that I might
have to fight in the Grand Prix to get a belt.
MMA
Weekly: Currently the Grand Prix is set up for heavyweights only,
even though there was talk it may become open-weight. If it stays
a heavyweight only tournament, how do you feel going in against
guys 230+ pounds like Nogueira was?
Dan
Henderson: I weigh around 195 generally for almost every fight
and I’ve fought plenty of guys that were 230-240 before
and it’s not that bad. I fought 3 guys over 230 in one night
in RINGS. It’s not the funnest thing, I’d rather fight
guys my size but it makes it interesting for fans to see how
the little guy is going to do. I know I’m capable of definitely
pulling off some upsets and could win the tournament I think.
I haven’t really asked PRIDE or pursued it, I said I would
be interested if they asked me to and I wouldn’t turn it
down.
MMA
Weekly: I think what concerns people the most about you wanting
to fight in the tournament is based on what they saw when you
lost to Nogueira at PRIDE 24. Do you feel that it was because
of the short notice and not the weight difference that determined
the outcome of that fight?
Dan
Henderson: I don’t know, it’s hard to say what would
have happened if I had more time to prepare. It might have came
out the same way as it was, but I’m not going to whine about
that. It’s always nice to feel 100% prepared for a fight.
I did get tired and I think that was the turning point of the
fight. When the third round came I was exhausted and I didn’t
do a whole lot and he capitalized on it and submitted me. If
he were my size I think I’d beat him pretty bad, but the
way it is, is he’s bigger and definitely tough and proved
himself. For me that was one of the funner fights I’ve had.
I didn’t have any pressure on me, he’s bigger and I
was supposed to loose, I only kick myself in the butt because
I should have beat him, I just got tired at the end.
MMA
Weekly: If you do enter the Heavyweight Grand Prix, we already
know that Heath Herring and Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
are scheduled to compete in it, what are your thoughts about
matching up with them?
Dan
Henderson: Heath, well he’s a big guy but he’s had
his struggles these last couple years, I don’t think Holland
is doing him justice in his training and I think that shows in
his performance. I know he just beat Gan McGee, other than that
he hasn’t done that well overall or looked that impressive
to me.
MMA
Weekly: So you’d be more than happy to invite him over to
train with Team Quest?
Dan
Henderson: Oh absolutely. I like Heath Herring, and I think that
would improve him immensely if he did do that.
MMA
Weekly: And Mirko?
Dan
Henderson: I’d think it’d be really fun for me to fight
Cro Cop, I think my style matches up really well with him. I
would definitely have to work on blocking his head kicks. I think
a lot of guys are afraid to exchange with him on their feet,
and that’s what Nogueira's problem was in the first round
of their fight. He was trying to take Mirko down, and didn’t
have that good of a takedown and it didn’t work out well
for him. He exchanged with him in the second round and ended
up getting the takedown. I think that’s the key, to not
be afraid to exchange (with Mirko), and I know I hit hard, and
he probably knows I hit hard, I know he kicks hard and it looks
like he hits hard so it would be interesting. I think the biggest
thing is that I have pretty good takedowns and I know quite a
few submissions. Submissions are tough to get sometimes though,
and I like to stand and fight as well and that’s not out
of the question. I think that’d feel good and see how I’d
do and test myself a little bit. I’d test myself to the
point where I’d be careful about it and not get my head
knocked off.
MMA
Weekly: I’m sure though even if you don’t enter the
tournament you would like to fight sometime soon and most likely
before mid-year correct?
Dan
Henderson: Yes, if I don’t fight in the April show then
I’ll fight in the next one. I want to fight Wanderlei for
the title, or if someone beats him before me then I’ll fight
who ever beat him, I just want that belt.
MMA
Weekly: Have you been contacted about fighting possibly in the
Bushido series?
Dan
Henderson: Not lately, no I haven’t. I was contacted prior
to the first one last year, but that’s right around when
I had my knee surgery so I couldn’t do it. I would be interested
in doing team-themed show though. Something like Team Quest versus
whomever they put in front of us. You know with myself, Matt
Lindland, Evan Tanner, and a couple of our other guys who could
step up and beat some of those guys over there in PRIDE. I think
that would be a big draw and we’d get a big audience for
it. Put us up against the Brazilian Top Team, the Chute Boxe
guys, or a Japanese team and see what happens.
MMA
Weekly: Speaking of Matt, he was said to have been offered a
chance to fight in PRIDE against Sakuraba at Shockwave on New
Year’s Eve but it never materialized. What’s your take
on that?
Dan
Henderson: Well I was going to go with Matt to Japan if the fight
happened, but PRIDE is a little weird sometimes. There might
have been rumors that leaked too early that they didn’t
like so they turned around and did something else. Or it may
have been that Sakuraba wanted to fight (Antonio Rogerio) Nogueira
instead of Matt. I’d love to see Matt over in PRIDE; he’d
be a great asset to them. Plus it would be nice to have a teammate
fighting in Japan with me. There’s also Chris Leben, who
is a lighter fighter, but he wouldn’t be the smallest guy
fighting for PRIDE, I’d like to see him fight in the Bushido
series.
MMA
Weekly: Getting away from Japan for the moment, the last time
we saw you fight Stateside was all the way back at UFC 17 in
1998. Why has it been so long since you’ve fought in the
States and at any time between then and now has there ever been
a deal that’s come close to bringing you here?
Dan
Henderson: I know they like me and I know they would like to
have me there, but for one reason or another there’s never
been an offer put forth at all. They have their reasons and I’m
content the way I am with PRIDE. However, I wouldn’t mind
fighting guys my size, which would be the 185-pound weight class
which the UFC has. I wouldn’t mind fighting for the UFC
or in the US, but you never know what will happen. PRIDE is supposed
to be coming to the States this year and maybe they’ll start
a new lower weight class.
MMA
Weekly: If PRIDE creates a lower weight class, will you concentrate
more on fighting in it or staying in the middleweight division
fighting guys near 205 pounds?
Dan
Henderson: Knowing me I’d probably train to do both. I know
I can beat Wanderlei if I fought him and I’m pretty confident
I could beat any guy at 185 pounds or below. So might as well
do both if it happens.
MMA
Weekly: If you did come to the UFC, obviously you have Matt and
now Evan of your team in the middleweight division, do you think
that may cause some concern for the UFC because you might not
be willing to fight them?
Dan
Henderson: That’s one of the questions that was raised,
that if they did bring me into the UFC if I would fight Matt.
Obviously Matt and myself both fight each other, wrestle each
other, and beat each other up in training for free, we might
as well get paid for it. We’d have fun with it and joke
about it. It’s not a conflict as far as we’re concerned,
but it might be with the UFC, but not us.
MMA
Weekly: We learned recently that Phil Baroni was cleared to fight
by the Mohegan Sun’s Athletic Commission, since he fights
in the UFC and has been something of an arch nemesis to Team
Quest, would you be interested in fighting him if you came to
the UFC?
Dan
Henderson: I’m normally pretty soft-spoken and I don’t
talk smack about anything and Baroni is not that way. I’m
not overly arrogant and conceded with how I portray myself, so
that would be a guy I think would be fun to beat up and Matt
feels the same way. Guys like Baroni are fun to shut up.
MMA
Weekly: So you’d be able to do the same things that Matt
did to neutralize Phil and beat him?
Dan
Henderson: Yeah, but only worse.
MMA
Weekly: So what were the remainder of the plans for 2004 aside
from trying to get a title shot against Wanderlei?
Dan
Henderson: They’re telling me that I will probably fight
in June unless I get into the Grand Prix and also have another
fight by November. I have two more fights under my contract with
PRIDE in which I’m guaranteed two fights by November.
MMA
Weekly: About how much longer do you plan on fighting for?
Dan
Henderson: I don’t know. Originally when was done wrestling
and decided to fight full-time I thought it was only going to
be a year or two, and that was two years ago. I’m just taking
it year by year, but as of now I’m having fun with it and
my body is feeling better now than when I was wrestling. That
was one of the problems when I had said in the past that I was
only going to fight for two years because my body was messed
up. Of course I had knee surgery last year but my body, as a
whole still feels a lot better, so until I feel so worn out and
drained that I don’t feel like training anymore. That’s
the biggest thing, I could probably still get in the ring, but
I don’t want to get in the ring without training. That happens
to a lot of people who get older and don’t train as much
and they still get out there but aren’t as good as they
can be. I’ve still got a year or two left in me, maybe even
up to 6 or 7 years, you never know. I could be like Randy at
age 40 or 41 and going at it still.
MMA
Weekly: Lastly I wanted to mention one of your nicknames which
is “Hollywood Henderson.” With fighters such as Randy,
Matt, Frank Shamrock, Ken Shamrock, Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell,
and many PRIDE fighters’ involvement with DSE’s upcoming
movie “Nagurimono,” when will we see you on the silver
screen?
Dan
Henderson: Actually I got hooked up doing a little stunt gig
with Matt a few months ago. It should be coming out on Fox soon
and I believe it’s called “The Jury” but I’m
not sure, we did their first episode. It’s a small step,
but it’s something I’d be interested in doing more.
It’s nice to get paid for something else besides fighting
and it’s fun. I don’t necessarily need the exposure,
but if it’s there, it’s there.
MMA
Weekly: Alright then, thanks for the interview Dan, are there
any closing comments you’d like to make before heading out?
Dan
Henderson: Just drink your Lite Force green drink. You can get
it at our website http://www.tqfc.com and no problem for
the interview, bye.
Source:
MMA Weekly |
LEHIGH'S
COACH STROBEL:
WE HAVE WORK TO DO TO PEAK AT THE NCAA'S
With eight wrestlers going to St. Louis next week for the NCAA
Div. I Wrestling Championships, and with his third straight EIWA
conference victory in the books, Lehigh head coach Greg Strobel
has a lot about which to be happy. And indeed, after three of
his wrestlers had just won consecutive individual EIWA titles
Sunday at The Palestra in Philadelphia, Strobel did express satisfaction.
'From
a team standpoint, it's gratifying to win our third straight
EIWA championship,' he said right after Travis Frick's victory
at 184. 'From a team standpoint, it's gratifying to have eight
guys qualified to go to the (NCAA) Nationals.'
But
he also had some reservations about the performance of some of
his wrestlers who did not take home EIWA championships.
'From
an individual standpoint, I think we could have wrestled better,'
he continued. 'We had a few guys with a good performance. We
had some guys that didn't have good performances at all. And
I just told my assistants, 'We have a lot of work to do between
now and the Nationals to really peak for the Nationals.' '
Among
those with whom Strobel was most satisfied was sophomore Troy
Letters, who won his second straight EIWA title at 165 Sunday
and was an NCAA runner-up last season, losing then only to unbeaten
NCAA champion Matt Lackey of Illinois.
'Letters
dominated his matches,' noted Strobel. In the finals, Letters
decisioned Cornell's Joe Mazzurco, 9-4, getting three takedowns
to only one for his opponent, and also earning a point for riding
time. Letters got to the finals by winning his first three matches
by pinfall, technical fall, and major decision. That included
a semifinal victory of 17-7 over fifth-seeded Michael Barikian
of Navy, who ended up finishing third in the tournament and will
be competing at the NCAA's.
But
the Lehigh coach also was pleased with Matt Ciasulli, a 133-pound
redshirt freshman. Ciasulli made it to the 133-pound finals,
only to lose to three-time EIWA champ and defending 125-pound NCAA champ Travis
Lee of Cornell,
who also earned the EIWA tournament's outstanding wrestler award.
'I thought Ciasulli did a marvelous job wrestling the number
one guy in the country, and good guys as a freshman in this tournament,
taking second,' said Strobel. 'I thought he did a very good job.'
Also
in line for praise were Lehigh's two other titlists. 'Brad Dillon
of course, a very good job beating the nationally ranked guy
in the finals,' Strobel said, referring to Dillon's 7-4 victory
over Rutgers' Andy Roy, clinched by a takedown in the closing
seconds.
'And
then of course, Travis Frick, in his first EIWA title, and probably
the toughest field. 184 is the toughest weight class here in
terms of total balance and power. And for him to win this was
a big, big match for him,' he added. Frick topped another Rutgers
wrestler, Rudy Medini, 5-3 in the finals. Of the 39 slots allocated
to the EIWA for the NCAA championships, six will be filled by
wrestlers at 184, by far the most for any weight.
One
runner-up whom Strobel did offer some criticism was 141-pounder
Cory Cooperman. In the finals he wrestled Doug McGraw of Penn,
who at last year's NCAA championships just missed becoming an
All-American.
Cooperman
took a 6-3 lead against McGraw into the third period of the finals,
but then gave up two takedowns, including one right at the buzzer,
to send the match into overtime, and only because Cooperman had
already accumulated enough riding time for an additional point.
And again as the seconds ticked away in the one-minute sudden
victory period, McGraw scored once again, on the edge of the
mat, with about two seconds left, to take a 10-8 win, and his
first EIWA title.
'He
shut down too early and he got out of his game plan,' analyzed
Strobel about Cooperman's defeat. But, he stressed, 'You can't
take anything away from McGraw. McGraw's a great competitor.
He saw a weakness and he capitalized on it.'
So
now Strobel and his coaching staff of Chris Ayres, Kerry McCoy,
and Jason Kutz will work on improving Lehigh's performance at
the 2004 NCAA Div. I Wrestling Championships, which begin Thursday,
March 18, and run through Saturday, March 20, in St. Louis.
Last
season Lehigh placed fourth at the NCAA's, their highest finish
since 1979. With so much parity in college wrestling this season,
and with top teams like defending NCAA champ and Big 12 champ
Oklahoma State also only having eight wrestlers qualified for
the NCAA's, Lehigh should once again be right in the mix in the
hunt for the national title this year.
LEHIGH
INDIVIDUAL PLACES AT 2004 EIWA CHAMPIONSHIPS
125 -- Mario Stuart, 2nd
133 -- Matt Ciasulli, 2nd
141 -- Cory Cooperman, 2nd
149 -- Matt Anderson, 4th
157 -- Derek Zinck, 2nd
165 -- Troy Letters, 1st
174 -- Brad Dillon, 1st
184 -- Travis Frick, 1st
197 -- Matt Cassidy, 6th
HWT -- Paul Weibel, 6th
Note:
In yesterday's article on the 2004 EIWA Championships, there
were two errors in the scores for the third-place matches, at
149 and 157. Here is the entire corrected list:
Third-Place
Finals
125:
Mike Mormile, Cornell, dec. Jeff Sato, Columbia, 2-1
133: Steve Sutton, Columbia, maj. dec. Bernard Gardner, Army,
11-2
141: Max Meltzer, Harvard, dec. Nate Gulosh, Navy, 3-1
149: Dustin Manotti, Cornell, maj. dec. Matt Anderson, Lehigh,
12-3
157: Scott Roth, Cornell, dec. Brett Vanderveer, Penn, 4-1
165: Michael Barikian, Navy, dec. Kurt Pryor, Army, 7-1
174: Matt Herrington, Penn, dec. Tyler Baier, Cornell, 5-2
184: Jerry Rinaldi, Cornell, maj. dec. Paul Velekei, Penn, 11-2
197: Reggie Lee, Harvard, dec. Thayer Paxton, Navy, 7-4
285: Bode Ogunwole, Harvard, dec. Ramel Meekins, Rutgers, 5-1
Source:
ADCC |
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Super
Brawl will bring 'other' Inoue home to fight
Posted on: Sunday, March 7, 2004
Advertiser
Staff
Enson Inoue's popularity in Japan is based on his style of fighting.
"All my fights, win or lose, are exciting fights,"
he said.
Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser
Enson Inoue, younger brother of Egan and a superstar mixed martial
arts competitor in Japan, will compete for the first time in
his career in Hawai'i.
Inoue
will fight Tom Sauer on April 16 in a 210-pound bout at Blaisdell
Arena.
A
former racquetball player while growing up in Manoa, Inoue, 36,
has lived the past 14 years in Japan. Like his brother, he has
become rich and famous as a mixed martial artist fighter.
Enson
is featured in Japanese comic books and a PlayStation video game.
"I
get noticed wherever I go. Once someone comes up to me, I get
mobbed," Inoue said. "I appreciate that. I've never
passed up an autograph."
Although
his record is 11-8, Inoue gained popularity because of his fighting
style.
"They
admire the way he loses as much as the way he wins," said
Patrick Freitas, marketing director for Super Brawl, which is
putting on the April 16 fight.
"Japan
is based on the samurai spirit, the way of the samurai,"
Inoue said. "I've lost four of my last five fights, but
I'm going down fighting, punching, kicking, never holding back.
The Japanese people love that, the samurai spirit. All my fights,
win or lose, are exciting fights."
Exciting
and profitable.
"My
last fight, I got close to half a million," he said.
He
said he hopes to fight until he's 40, or "when my body can't
move, when I can't throw a punch, when I can't hold my stamina
for over a minute. That's when I know I'm done."
Inoue
got involved in mixed martial arts about 16 years ago when he
trained under jiu-jitsu Brazilian master Relson Gracie.
But
his journey to Japan began with racquetball.
"I
went to play racquetball," he said. "Egan won the all-Japan
(tournament) and they wanted him back the next year, but because
he was so busy being No. 1 in the world, they asked, 'What about
your 28th-ranked brother.'
"I
said, 'Free trip to Japan,' let's do it. I (had) never seen Japan."
Enson
won the Japan tournament, and the organizers wanted to keep him
there for seminars.
While
in Japan, Inoue had a friend involved in the martial arts style
called Shooto.
"The
anxiety and fear I felt watching a friend get in the ring was
10 times more than what I ever felt on the racquetball court,"
Inoue said.
After
four years in Japan, during which he helped establish Egan's
E-Force racquetball company, Enson was planning to return to
Hawai'i. But he said he wanted to get into the ring just once
before heading home.
"I
felt a desire to experience that fear personally, and wanted
to see as a man how I would react to that kind of fear and anxiety.
Would I be able to still focus, think straight? So I thought
I needed to get into the ring at least once to experience that,"
he said.
Inoue
said "the press and Japanese people took to my style of
fighting. Now, it's made my life."
He
has since bought a house and resides in Saitama, north of Tokyo.
He returns to Hawai'i on occasion, and whenever his brother Egan
fights here.
"I
come back 2-3 times a year. I'm an Island boy, in and out. It's
a rejuvenation, like a battery charger every so often,"
Inoue said.
Inoue
is married to Miyu, a four-time Japanese world wrestling champion.
They have a son (Erson), who is being raised in Hawai'i.
When
asked who would win in a one-on-one dispute with his wife, Inoue
said, "I run out of the house before that happens."
•
SHORT STRIKES: Tickets for the event will go on sale at a later
date. ... Enson Inoue will turn 37 the day before the April 16
bout ... Inoue, 5 feet 10 and 225 pounds, said he will fight
at 210, the lightest he's been since 1997 ... Hawai'i's Niko
Vitale will fight in the upcoming Super Brawl 34, March 28 at
the War Memorial Gym in Wailuku, Maui. For ticket information
for the Maui event, call (808) 375-1645.
Source:
Honolulu Advertiser
Watch
Channel 6 news for more coverage on Enson!
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ZST
GT-F (Featherweight Grappling Tournament)
- Complete Results
March 7th, 2004
Odaiba Studio Dream Maker, Tokyo
[Single
Match] *ZST Rule
- Remigijus Morkevicius (Lithuania) def. Takahiro Uchiyama (Musashi
Murayama Dojo) by TKO at 1:48, 1r.
[ZST
Grappring Tournament 1st Round]
- Jiro Wakabayashi (SK Absolute) def. Masakazu Imanari (Team
Roken) by decision (2-1)
-
Jeff Curran (USA / Team Extreme) def. Evaldas Bunevicius (Lithuania)
by triangle choke at 1:23, 1r.
-
Hidehiko Matsumoto (Japan Sambo Federation) def. Noboru Asahi
(Tokyo Yellow Mans) by decision (3-0)
-
Hideo Tokoro (STAND) def. Masahiro 'Jackal' Oishi (K'z FACTORY)
by decision (3-0)
[Semi-Final]
- Wakabayashi def. Jeff Curran by decision (2-1)
- Tokoro def. Matsumoto by decision (2-1)
[Final]
- Wakabayashi def. Tokoro by rear naked choke at 2:39, 2r.
[ZST
Genesis Grappling Tournament 1st Round]
- Takatora Iwasa (SK Absolute) def. Toshiaki Komatsu (Rodeo Style)
by decision (3-0)
- Ken Daikanyama (Team Roken) def. Hirotaka Miyagawa (Team Alliance)
by decision by decision (3-0)
- Chikara Sato (SK Absolute) def. Soichiro Kato (Striple) by
heel hook at 1:28, 1r.
- Yusaku Hanakuma (AXIS JJ Academy) def. Shinichiro Tsunagawa
(K'z FACTORY) by decision (3-0)
[Semi-Final]
- Daikanyama def. Iwasa by decision (3-0)
- Sato def. Hanakuma by decision (3-0)
[Final]
- Sato def. Daikanyama by decision (3-0)
[Genesis
Single Matches] * Grappling Rules
- Yuta Watanabe (G Square) def. Tsuneyuki Nodu (Striple) by armbar
at 3:22, 1r.
- Takuya Fujisawa (Zendo Kai) def. Takeshi Sakamoto (Freelance)
by armbar
Source:
ADCC
|
Ground
Impact 3 - Results
March 7th, 2004
Differ Ariake / Tokyo, Japan
Professional
BJJ matches:
- Kazeka
Muniz defeats Mitsuyoshi Hayakawa by points (2-0).
- Yuki
Nakai defeats Alberto Crane by points (3-0).
- Toshiyuki Wado defeats TAISHO by points (2-0).
- Kuniyoshi Hironaka defeats Daisuke 'Amazon' Sugie by points
(5-0).
- Cristiano
Kaminishi defeats Hiroshi Tsuruya by choke at 6:08.
- Koji Asakura defeats Mario Sergio Yokoyama by points (4-0).
- Naoyoshi Watanabe defeats Cavalcante Junior by points (3-2).
- Tatsuya Onose defeats Naoya Uematsu by points (4-0). |
4th
Arizona Grappling Challenge - Results
The
4th AZGC was held in Tempe,AZ on March 6th. Schools from Arizona,
California, Colorado and California competed at this tournament.
The
standouts of the tournament in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu division
were: John Kesller (Prescott JJ), won the middle weight white
belt. Kesller submitted all his opponents. Chris Lyons (Cobra
Kai), who won the super heavy weight and the open white belt
(Received a HCK kimono). In the Blue Belt, Jacob McClintock (AZ
Combat Sports/Nova Uniao) won the middle heavy weight and the
open class (Received a HCK Kimono), McClintock submitted all
his opponents. In the Purple Belt, Jeff Glover (Cobra Kai) won
the light weight and the open class (Received a HCK Kimono).
The
standouts of the tournament in the Submission Wrestling division
were: Jeff Glover (Cobra Kai) won the feather weight. David Klein
(Ruffhouse) won the middle weight, Drew Fickett (Az Combat Sports/Nova
Uniao) won the Middle Heavy weight. Jason Miller (Cobra Kai)
won the heavy weight and Joe Riggs (Az Combat Sports/Nova Uniao)
won the super heavy weight. Ulysses Gomez (Cobra Kai) was awarded
with the fastest submission (0:14 seconds).
In
the Super Fight, Marc
Laimon
(Cobra Kai) defeated Martin Escobar (Rey Diogo/De Brazil) by
submission 0:34 seconds.
Source: ADCC |
THREE
WAY DANCE:
LATEST ON BARONI, TANNER AND MURRAY SITUATION
MMAWeekly.com has learned that negotiations are moving along
for some of the fighters in the 185 division, namely Phil Baroni,
Evan Tanner and Lee Murray. It looks like the possibility of
a Baroni vs Tanner fight will happen at UFC 48.
The
UFC has been negotiating with Tanner and while they haven't signed
a contract yet, Tanner told MMAWeekly over the weekend, "I
can't say much. We don't have anything definite right now, but
we may be close". Great news for Tanner and Baroni for that
matter as they settle their fight in the Octagon.
It
also appears that Lee Murray will most likely be on the UFC 48
card as well. Murray is currently negotiating a new three fight
deal with the UFC. No names or opponents have been agreed upon
as far as Murray goes, but MMAWeekly is hearing that he most
likely will be on the same card at UFC 48.
Now
the way things are setting up it would set up a great showdown
in September; as it appears, the most likely scenario is the
winner of Baroni vs Tanner would then face Murray in September,
providing that Murray wins his fight at UFC 48. Either way, the
fans will win as the fans have been vocal as of late wanting
a Baroni vs Tanner fight followed by a Baroni vs Murray showdown.
It looks like things are going that way as negotiations seem
to be moving along.
Source:
MMA Weekly |
LEHIGH
WINS THIRD STRAIGHT EIWA TITLE, TO SEND EIGHT TO NCAA'S
PHILADELPHIA
-- For the 32nd time since it entered the conference in 1913,
and the third year in a row, Lehigh captured the Eastern Intercollegiate
Wrestling Association (EIWA) championship.
The
finals of this two-day, 13-team tournament almost looked like
a Lehigh dual meet, with Lehigh placing seven wrestlers in them.
Three would win, more than enough for the team crown which they
had already clinched during the consolations.
A
crowd of 2883 at The Palestra on the campus of the University
of Pennsylvania witnessed the finals. This was the 100th edition
of these EIWA Championships, which began in 1905.
Lehigh's
most dominating performance was by 165-pound champ Troy Letters,
who defeated Cornell's Joe Mazzurco in the finals, 9-4. Letters
had won his previous three matches by pinfall, technical fall,
and major decision. Letters's victory in the finals was followed
by two more in a row for Lehigh, with Brad Dillon defeating Andy
Roy of Rutgers, 7-4, at 174, and then Travis Frick beating Rudy
Medini of Rutgers, 5-3, at 184.
But
the Outstanding Wrestler Award went to Cornell's 133-pounder,
Travis Lee, an NCAA champion last season at 125. Lee hit six
takedowns en route to a 13-4 major decision over Matt Ciasulli
of Lehigh in the finals. Lee also won his earlier matches by
technical fall and major decision.
Penn,
the host school, finished second, also with three individual
champions. Cornell, with two champions, was third.
Two
wrestlers who won at this event, and are both now three-time
EIWA champs, will likely go into the 2004 NCAA Div. I Wrestling Championships
as top seeds: Travis Lee at 133, and Jesse Jantzen of Harvard at 149.
Coach
John Sacchi of Rutgers, which finished a surprising and strong
fourth, was voted EIWA Coach of the Year by the EIWA coaches.
Rutgers placed two wrestlers in the finals.
Another
key battle at this tournament was for places in the NCAA tournament.
The EIWA is allocated 39 slots. The top three wrestlers in each
weight get to compete at the NCAA's, plus nine other wild cards
selected by the coaches. Lehigh and Cornell also led in this
department, placing eight apiece at the NCAA's, followed by Penn
with seven.
Highlights
of this event will be broadcast locally in Pennsylvania on Saturday,
March 13, beginning at 5 PM EST on Comcast's channel 8.
Here
are the results:
Team
Scoring
1. Lehigh, 145
2. Penn, 120.5
3. Cornell, 118.5
4. Rutgers, 90
5. Army, 67
6. Navy, 66
7. Harvard, 64.5
8. Brown, 43.5
9. Columbia, 36.5
10. Princeton, 23.5
11. East Stroudsburg, 16.5
12. Franklin and Marshall, 6.5
13. American, 2.5
Championship
125: Matt Valenti, Penn, dec. Mario Stuart, Lehigh, 8-2
133: Travis
Lee, Cornell, maj. dec. Matt Ciasulli, Lehigh, 13-4
141: Doug McGraw, Penn, dec. Cory Cooperman, Lehigh, 10-8 (OT)
149: Jesse Jantzen, Harvard, dec. David Dies, Brown, 5-2
157: Phillip Simpson, Army, won by medical forfeit over Derek
Zinck, Lehigh
165: Troy Letters, Lehigh, dec. Joe Mazzurco, Cornell, 9-4
174: Brad Dillon, Lehigh, dec. Andy Roy, Rutgers, 7-4
184: Travis Frick, Lehigh, dec. Rudy Medini, Rutgers, 5-3
197: Matt Greenberg, Cornell, dec. Marcus Schontube, Penn, 3-2
285: Matt Feast, Penn, dec. Tanner Garrett, Navy, 4-1
Third-Place
Finals
125:
Mike Mormile, Cornell, dec. Jeff Sato, Columbia, 2-1
133: Steve Sutton, Columbia, maj. dec. Bernard Gardner, Army,
11-2
141: Max Meltzer, Harvard, dec. Nate Gulosh, Navy, 3-1
149: Matt Anderson, Lehigh, maj. dec. Dustin Manotti, Cornell,
12-3
157: Scott Roth, Cornell, dec. Brett Vanderveer, Penn, 3-1
165: Michael Barikan, Navy, dec. Kurt Pryor, Army, 7-1
174: Matt Herrington, Penn, dec. Tyler Baier, Cornell, 5-2
184: Jerry Rinaldi, Cornell, maj. dec. Paul Velekei, Penn, 11-2
197: Reggie Lee, Harvard, dec. Thayer Paxton, Navy, 7-4
285: Bode Ogunwole, Harvard, dec. Ramel Meekins, Rutgers, 5-1
NCAA
qualifiers
Lehigh, 8
Cornell, 8
Penn, 7
Harvard, 4
Navy, 3
Rutgers, 3
Columbia, 2
Brown, 2
Army, 2
EIWA
Wildcards
Jeff Sato, Columbia, 125
Nate Gulosh, Navy, 141
Matt Anderson, Lehigh, 149
Brett Vanderveer, Penn, 157
Tyler Baier, Cornell, 174
Paul Velekei, Penn, 184
Nick Ciarcia, Brown, 184
Luke Calvert, Army, 184
Ramel Meeking, Rutgers, 275
Source:
ADCC |
Quote
of the Day
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still
know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Agatha Christie, 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
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Fighters'
Club TV Moved for This Tuesday's Show!
Due to a live legislature
hearing, the following change has been made:
Fighter's
Club TV scheduled on 3/9, Channel 52, 6:00 pm has been MOVED
to 3/9, Channel 52, 10:00 pm.
Thank you
for your understanding.
Olelo Programming
Fighters'
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scheduled to run from this Tuesday (3/2/04) on Channel 52 at
6:00PM and will repeat for the following three Tuesdays (March
9, 16, and 23) and has a little something for everyone.
EPISODE 19 features:
-Highlights from Ray and Monica Cooper's "AFC 4", including
interviews with both winners and Ray "Braddah" Cooper
-Highlights from Master Mike Del Mar's "Solo Baton Escrima
Tournament"
-Highlights from the 6th "Sport's Jiujitsu Tournament"
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K-1
TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER TANK VS BRIGGS
MMAWeekly.com has learned that K-1 is trying to put together
a Shannon Briggs vs Tank Abbott match up at the upcoming K-1
event in April at the Bellagio.
Abbott
was planning on fighting in the UFC on April 2nd against Ken
Shamrock, but K-1 has been coming hard at him and there is a
possibility that K-1 will make a huge offer to sign Abbott to
face the Heavyweight Boxer, Briggs.
If
Briggs and Tank accept the fight, then there is some talk that
maybe Kimo could be the guy to replace Tank against Shamrock
in the UFC, but at this point it's just too early to tell. Bottom
line is that K-1 is looking to spend a lot of money to pull off
this deal and it's unknown right now if both fighters will accept
the money and the fight.
The
K-1 event, which will be headlined by the sport’s typical
eight-man, single-elimination tournament as well as several single
“Superfights”, will be staged inside Las Vegas, Nevada’s
Bellagio Hotel and Casino, 6,000 crowd capacity arena.
The
April 30th lineup has yet to be announced, but is expected to
gradually take shape over the course of the next several weeks.
Among the K-1 veterans who have already been listed as possible
“Battle At The Bellagio II” participants are 2003 K-1
USA champion Carter Williams, two-time K-1 tournament champion
Michael McDonald, two-time world kickboxing champion Dewey “The
Black Kobra” Cooper, and Superfight veteran sensation Cung
Le; as well as, former International Boxing Federation (IBF)
world heavyweight champion, Francois Botha, have been named as
candidates to make their North American K-1 debuts.
Source: MMA Weekly |
Good
Sports: Trio train for the fight of their lives
Rich
Franklin/West Chester, Kerry Schall/West Chester, Josh Rafferty/Western
Hills
The
rules of engagement forbid eye-poking. There's no biting, no
fish-hooking an opponent's jaw, no spine-striking, no head-butting
and absolutely no finger-breaking.
Spend five minutes with Rich Franklin, Josh Rafferty and Kerry
Schall, and you'll see why full-contact fighting doesn't always
warrant a bad rep.
"When
the sport first started, there were basically no rules. Now it's
a competition using martial arts that makes it safe for the fighter,"
Schall said. "It's so exciting, but it's something that's
so hard to explain."
Mixed
martial arts integrates various disciplines, including boxing,
kickboxing, wrestling and jujitsu. Fighters rely on mental and
physical strategy to force their opponents into submission.
Franklin competes at the sport's elite level as a top light-heavyweight
in Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts. The 6-foot-1, 205-pounder
dealt TKOs in his first UFC fights in April and November.
Schall,
a super heavyweight at 6-3, 295 pounds, directs International
Combat Events, an amateur showcase at Tori's Station in Fairfield
March 19, while fighting on the side. Rafferty, a 6-1, 185-pound
middleweight, competes in smaller pro tournaments.
All
three were active in high school sports but sought alternatives
to mainstream athletics. Franklin, who was smitten after seeing
a fight in Indiana, first competed in 1998 as an amateur.
"It's
unlike any sport, because you have to be good at a lot of different
things. You have to box like a boxer, kick like a kickboxer and
grapple like a wrestler," Franklin said.
Although
the fighters' only protection is gloves that leave their fingers
exposed, none of the three has suffered a major injury. In 21
professional fights, Schall said his worst affliction was a black
eye.
Together
the three train a combined 65 hours a week. Maintaining endurance
for the typical three, five-minute rounds isn't easy, but Rafferty
said 90 percent of fighting is in your head.
"It's
the hardest sport I've done in my life," Rafferty said.
"And I've tried everything."
Source: The Enquirer |
Interview:
Catching Up With AARON RILEY
Recently
Aaron Riley moved to Florida and joined the American Top Team.
Since fans saw Aaron lose a decision to Robbie Lawler in UFC
37 he went on to beat Alexandre Barros, lose to Chris Lytle,
beat Nick Gilardi and Cedric Marks, and most recently lose to
Sam Morgan. This segment of the rocky road Aaron has traveled
he mostly traveled alone, having left AMC Pankration in 2002.
Now that Aaron has joined the American Top Team he has the potential
to temper his explosive standup with the guidance of the team
that has made such improvements to Din Thomas and Jeff Monson.
KM:
So you are down in Florida now.
AR: Yeah. Everything is going really well, been having, a good
time down here. It’s been about three weeks now.
KM:
Last time we updated you were preparing for a fight in Mexico
(Vale Tudo Mexico, 8/30/03)? I think I missed one fight of yours.
AR: Yeah, I was in Mexico against Cedric Marks and then I was
in Vegas against Sam Morgan in Shooto. Mexico was a good showing.
Vegas really wasn’t. I wasn’t on top of my game at
all. (Since then) just kind of hanging out trying to figure out
what I was going to do team wise because I knew I really needed
to change some things up. I made the decision and now I’m
down here and I‘m pretty happy with the decision so far.
KM:
When you left AMC Pankration the perception was they were forcing
you against your instincts, taking away from your standup. Coming
down here I know better but most people have the perception of
the American Top Team is packed with Brazilian jiu-jitsu black
belts but not known for their standup. It seems like a repeat
of AMC. How do you feel about that perception?
AR: I think that is completely a mis-conception because ATT has
everything to offer in the sense of they have a gold medalist
boxing coach Howard Davis. Howard has really rounded out Din’s
boxing. There is so much to offer, it’s not just a bunch
of jiu-jitsu guys. Then you have guys like (Thiago) Pitbull (Alves)
who already come to us with standup. (Gesias) JZ (Calvancanti)
is a great wrestler. Anything I need to work on…wrestling,
boxing, muay thai, jiu-jitsu….there is always a guy in the
gym that is better than me at a particular style so I can always
go to that guy for help. All the coaches are so good…there
is so much to offer. I am very pleased with the training program.
KM:
When is your next fight?
AR: End of March. HOOKnSHOOT on March 27th against Nuri Shakir.
It is a match at 170. I was kind of entertaining the idea of
dropping down in weight. I have to get together with a dietician
and take a scientific approach because I haven’t been down
that low in a long time. It’s something I think will be
in my best interest to do that, so we’ll just wait and see
how the chips fall on that. I’m looking to get maybe one
or two fights at 170 and trying to get back on track and then
look at making the drop around summer. I’m not putting any
pressure on myself, I just want to get back on track.
KM:
How do you feel about fighting Nuri?
AR: I think it will be an exciting fight. Based on what he put
out tonight (note: AFC 7) he’s a real tough guy, looks like
he is well-rounded. It will be a tough fight and I look forward
to getting back in there.
KM:
How much do you think you can change between now and that fight?
AR: Already some things have changed. It’s been a good experience
being down here. My boxing skill has been brought back up to
a certain level and just brushing up on everything. It’s
been good to have a new look working with the jiu-jitsu guys
and everything. I think my game in all areas has come up.
KM:
Anything else to get across to the fans right now?
AR: Hopefully all the fans that have supported me so for just
keep supporting me and look for a new and improved Aaron Riley
in 2004.
Source: ADCC |
Atlantic
City "Russian Invasion"
Ten Days Away And Counting
By Loretta Hunt
March
13th will mark the arrival of not one, but ten Russian mixed
martial artists to New Jersey's chilly, yet inviting, eastern
shores. In an event tagged as the "USA vs. Russia,"
ten Red Devil Sports Club members will square off against various
representatives from some of America's more notable fight teams
and schools. The event is scheduled to take place at Atlantic
City's decadent Trump Taj Mahal, in its 5,000-seat arena that
was home to UFC's 28,30, and 31.
In
the wake of Holland's recent 2Hot2Handle event, the card has
shifted slightly, but promoter Euphoria Entertainment is still
touting ten 3-round bouts of mixed martial arts action. Of the
changes, Team Quest's Chael Sonnen has been tapped to take on
Arman Gambaryan at 205 pounds, while WFA and AFC vet Chatt Lavender
makes his return to competition to take on Sergei Bal in the
welterweight division. With a broken hand sustained at 2H2H,
heavyweight Ibragim Magomedev has dropped from the roster and
his intended rematch with Dave Strasser student Ben Rothwell
will be replaced by a 155-pound match-up to be named shortly.
AKA's Brian Ebersole has also joined the American line-up to
face light-heavyweight Alexei Veselozorov.
Due
to early reports that M-1 heavyweight champion Roman Zentsov
was knocked out in his last fight against Michael Knaap, also
at February 22nd's 2H2H, there has been some speculation as to
the fighter's eligibility to compete under the New Jersey Athletic
Control Board's parameters in the event's main event. However,
these reports may have been a bit premature in nature. Red Devil
reps immediately protested the KO loss and the referee's intervention
in the match, and although the bout outcome was not adjusted
to a no contest, the process did yield some benefits for the
Russian fighter. Upon review of the fight footage, 2H2H drafted
a letter stating that Zentsov was knocked down but not OUT by
the punch, and admitted to "poor judging by the referee."
Zentsov was also subjected to a CAT scan following the bout as
a safety precaution which provided normal results. In addition,
the attending ringside physician submitted a written document
also confirming that Zentsov was not knocked out and that he
has placed no restrictions on the fighter to compete in future
bouts. At this time, Red Devil has supplied the NJACB with these
three documents supporting Zentsov's request to participate.
Euphoria promoters are confident the board will approve the Russian
delegate, and Zentsov is still scheduled to arrive in Atlantic
City with his teammates next week.
For
more information on the event, call (609) 449-1000 or (800) 825-8888.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com
Updated
card for Mixed Martial Arts: Russian Invasion
265 LBS: Roman Zentsov (Red Devil Team) v. Jeff Monson (American
Top team)
185
LBS: Andrei Semenov (Red Devil Team) v. Trevor Prangley (American
Kickboxing Academy)
170
LBS: Musail Alaudinov (Red Devil Team) v. Derrick Noble (Silverbacks)
185
LBS: Denis Komkin (Red Devil Team) v. Joe D'Arce (Team Renzo
Gracie)
205
LBS: Arman Gambaryan (Red Devil Team) v. Chael Sonnen (Team Quest)
265
LBS: Sergei Kaznovski (Red Devil Team) v. Ron Faircloth (Strasser's
Freestyle Academy)
170
LBS: Sergei Bal (Red Devil Team) v. Chatt Lavender (Blalock's
IMB)
265
LBS: Mikhail Bogdanov (Red Devil Team) v. Justin Eilers (Team
EXTREME)
205
LBS: Alexei Veselozorov (Red Devil Team) v. Brian Ebersole (American
Kickboxing Academy)
155
LBS: TBD vs. TBD
Source: FCF |
CLEMENTI
ON MMAWEEKLY RADIO
Mardi
Gras is over but the excitement in New Orleans wasn't. Last night
the FFC held an event there and before they entered into combat,
Rich Clementi and Jorge Gurgel talked with MMAWeekly SoundOff
Radio. Rich was set to fight Dave Gardner for the FFC lightweight
championship. The two were supposed to face off before but due
to conflicting schedules with the UFC, Clementi had to put off
the fight.
Rich
gave up his FFC title to fight in the UFC and he said, "now
I'm going to take it back from him." You may remember Clementi
from his loss to Yves Edwards at UFC 41. About that fight, Rich
said that he was a little "up tight," didn't relax,
looked sluggish and didn't get to do some things that he wanted
to.
Loses
aren't always bad. Rich said he learned from his loss to Yves
and it helped his performance in Japan where he participated
in the ZST tournament. He beat the tourney favorite, Kotoni,
who was undefeated at the time and advanced to the finals until
he came up short against Marcus Aurelio. He said his defeat at
the hands of Edwards, "helped me out later and that's really
what I think fighting is all about, learning a little bit and
improving your game every time."
Clementi
is enjoying fighting right now and is in no "rush"
to get back to the UFC. Fighting in Japan is a "priority"
to Rich and he added, "I fight because I like it, it doesn't
matter where." Rich is also a fight promoter and co-owner
of Reality Combat. He says it's nice to be able to stay in the
sport doing promoting as well as fighting.
Addressing
his title fight, Rich considers Gardner a good wrestler but doesn't
think he is prepared to deal with him. They are the headlining
fight on the card and Rich said, "I think it's going to
be a long night for him."
Also
competing in the event is Jorge Gurgel. Jorge is originally from
Brazil and migrated to the States six years ago. He came here
to start up a Jiu-Jitsu school and start fighting. That's exactly
what he has done and with an 8-1 professional record, doing it
well. He is fighting a local New Orleans fighter who he expects
to be tough. Jorge's plan is to keep it standing and to put on
a good show for the crowd. If the fight goes to the ground, he
isn't too worried about it. He stated, "I'm just going to
try and finish as soon as I can."
Monte
Cox who manages both the fighters previously discussed, joined
the show and gave an update on fighter Jeremy Horn. Horn is fresh
off an impressive win over tough guy-Dave Loiseau, who he submitted
in less than a minute. Monte said he thinks it will "open
the eyes of people." Joe Silva and the UFC seem to be "very
interested" in Jeremy and Cox is keeping his fingers crossed.
Horn really wants to get back in the UFC and show everyone how
his fighting style has changed. Hopefully we will get to see
him show us.
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Source: MMA Weekly |
Russia
vs. USA with Trevor Prangley
Born
in Cape Town, South Africa, Trevor Prangley lived there for 24
years, growing up on a small farm, similar, except for the climate,
to that of where he now lives in Idaho. When he wasn’t wrestling,
Prangley spent much of his time in the woods and raising horses
and sheep. Prangley won a national wrestling title in South Africa,
but lost in O/T in the Olympic Trials, which prompted his decision
to come to the United States. Prangley earned a wrestling scholarship
and planned to wrestle for 2 years, then go home and try to make
the next Olympic spot. That was 7 years ago. The 31-year-old
has married and settled down.
Prangley
explains how he transitioned into MMA after college “I blew
out my knee in my final year of college in 1998 right in the
finals of the national tournament. It was hard to stomach because
it was my tournament. I was leading the fight at that stage and
I had to redraw. It was hard for me to get over that and I wanted
to compete in something else and get tough in something else.”
Prangley met Derek Cleveland from California who was living in
Idaho at the time. Cleveland taught Muay Thai and straight Jiu-Jitsu
and was well versed in other disciplines. Prangley started doing
Jiu-Jitsu and messing around. Prangley went to a few Judo tournaments
from there, and as the UFC started getting more and more popular,
he simply fell into MMA. Prangley had knee surgery and wanted
to get back. Doctors said he wouldn’t be on the mat for
9 months, but he took his first fight in 5 months. “It was
good,” he said, “I really fell in love with MMA after
wrestling my whole life.” Prangley has massed a mixed 23-2
record, or 6-1 professionally, competing in the XFA in Florida,
Ultimate Monterrey in Mexico, Frank Shamrock’s Bushido in
Arizona, Ultimate Athlete and Kick Down 8 in Colorado and the
IFC. Prangley admits, “wrestling is a great base, but it
made me realize how one-dimensional I really was.” Prangley
would have said his fight style was wrestling 2 years ago, but
“right now MMA is my fight style,” he said, “I
try to wrestle as little as possible and keep it on the feet.”
Prangley
owns the Idaho Lion’s Den with Cleveland “it’s
going very well,” he said, “we teach all kinds of stuff!”
Their curriculum includes Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu and MMA, but they
really focus on their children. Besides fighting and owning the
academy, Prangley promotes MMA “we’ve done some amateur
shows and will have our first pro show on June 3rd.”
Prangley
continuously trains to fight, but said, “I train for the
specific opponent when I have a fight coming up, then I go back
to my regular training” and Prangley doesn’t necessarily
have a full-time MMA team for training. While working grappling
with his guys in Idaho, Prangley will go to a local college and
a pro boxing school twice a week, but 10 days before a fight,
you’ll find Prangley training at AKA in San Jose, California,
with UFC and KOTC veterans, wrestlers, strikers and a BJJ black
belt. “They have some awesome guys down there,” said
Prangley in “Crazy” Bob Cook, Josh Thomson, Dave Camarillo,
Mike Kyle, Brian Ebersole, Jon Fitch, Mike Swick and Mike Van
Arsdale.
Prangley
names his “Ultimate Athlete 3: Vengeance” fight in
August 2002, as his most memorable. “It was really my first
big exposure fight,” he said, “and I took it on 3 days
notice against Kyle Seals, who is a pretty tough guy.” It
was a war raged for 15 minutes “it’s the fight I like
to remember,” he said, “but wouldn’t want to relive.”
Prangley
names himself as his ultimate opponent “I really believe
I have the talent to get to the top, it’s whether I beat
myself or not,” he said. Looking back on his recent fight
against Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Prangley feels it would
have been a lot closer if he hadn’t beat himself. Not taking
anything away from his opponent, he explains “he was my
first great fighter and I really thought I beat myself in that
fight.” Prangley had a game plan to keep it on the feet
because he knew Babalu was a great wrestler. “I just didn’t
work my game plan,” he said, as he allowed Babalu to control
the fight. Prangley is a proven wrestler “I should not have
been taken down like that or been thrown around like he threw
me around,” he said. You make a decision to fight or survive
in the ring “maybe on that fight I had gotten too confused,”
he said.
Prangley
has been looking for a step up fight at 185 pounds according
to his management. Having competed at 205 pounds and last appearing
at IFC World Domination in September 2003, he feels more than
comfortable making the weight. “This year is my year to
step up in MMA,” he said, and he will get his chance on
Saturday, March 13, 2004, when he meets Red Devil Fight Team
member, UFC and M-1 veteran Andrei Semenov in the “Russian
Invasion” Main Event in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Prangley
is used to being the Main Event in his amateur fights, but admits
“I won’t lie to you and say I’m not nervous, as
this is a big fight for me. I think if I have a good decisive
victory over him I’d be UFC bound.”
The
Russian’s are always a concern when you fight them because
they never quit. Either they are in super condition or they are
not. “I’m South African,” said Prangley, “you’ve
never seen us fight!” Prangley knows Semenov’s stand
up has flaws and has been working them. He also knows Semenov
is hard to submit and he will work to not go to the ground “even
if you do get a submission on him, he is pretty rubbery,”
he said. Prangley has seen Semenov in some pretty bad situations
that he has managed to get himself out of “I am not going
to waste my energy in submitting him.”
Prangley
is used to fighting at 205 and believes strength is going to
be an issue for the lighter Semenov “it’s going to
be a difference for me to fight someone who walks around at 185
like Andrei to someone who walks around at 220.” When Prangley
trains with guys at 185, like former Purdue wrestler Jon Fitch,
“they feel weak and too small. They are like kids. Not that
I submit them all the time, but I control them.” Prangley
feels his cardio is going to be better too. Prangley will be
cornered by manager and trainer “Crazy” Bob Cook “I
always like having Bob in my corner” and team mate Cleveland
“between the two of them I couldn’t have a better corner.”
Source: ADCC |
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Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally
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Couture's
demand grows as Hollywood calls
His eye healed, Portland ultimate fighter is acting and has committed
to more bouts
By JASON VONDERSMITH Issue date: Fri, Mar 5, 2004
The Tribune
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The battle-scarred Randy Couture will return to fight another
day. In the meantime, Hollywood has come calling.
Couture, the Ultimate Fighting Championship great who lives and
trains in the Portland area, has been spending time in Los Angeles
recently, co-starring in an HBO-produced movie, "No Rules."
He plays a bad guy. In the film, similar to "Fight Club,"
Couture fights and kills a man whose son then goes on a quest
for vengeance. It's his second movie role; he also appeared in
"Cradle 2 Grave."
It still looks like Couture will get back into the UFC octagon
in June, in a rematch against Vitor Belfort, who took the light
heavyweight title from him Jan. 31 -in Las Vegas. A left-handed
punch from Belfort grazed -Couture's left eye, cutting the eyelid
and scratching the cornea. Forty-eight seconds after the fight
started, officials ended it.
Couture had stitches removed from the damaged eyelid recently
and resumed full-contact sparring and training. He can also see
clearly now, after taking steroid drops for inflammation of the
iris.
Three more fights to come
Minutes after the January fight, Belfort assured Couture he would
give him a rematch. A week later, Belfort called Couture and
told him the same thing.
Now, "the news I'm hearing is Vitor's reneging on wanting
to step up and give me a rematch," Couture says. "He's
saying, 'Why should I fight him again? I beat him. I want to
fight somebody else.' Well, the UFC will put pressure on him,
because it doesn't make sense to fight anybody else. It would
be one thing if he beat me fair and square."
Dana White, UFC president, says the rematch will probably be
in June in Las Vegas. The winner of April's Chuck Liddell-Tito
Ortiz bout then would fight the Couture-Belfort winner in September.
Couture recently signed another three-fight contract -- two fights
guaranteed -- which would pay him $150,000 for each bout and
an extra $75,000 if he won. The UFC has to find somebody for
Couture to fight.
Couture, the only UFC fighter to hold the heavyweight and light-heavy
belts in his career, has been one of the pillars of the fledgling
sport, White says. Thus, the UFC takes care of him.
"He was with it in the Dark Ages, when it looked like it
would disappear," White says.
"What made him a superstar was beating Chuck Liddell and
Tito Ortiz (in 2003). That put him over the top. That made him
the man."
Against all odds, including his age, 40, he won the light-heavyweight
belt. Then, he lost it, in an instant against Belfort.
"If anything, it will create more hype and interest for
the rematch," White says.
Sport's poised for greatness
White says the sport -- essentially wrestling, boxing and martial
arts combined -- soon could be broadcast on cable, as opposed
to simply pay-per-view and live gate. The UFC owners, Lorenzo
and Frank Fertitta, very rich men who also run the Station Casinos
in Las Vegas, have been losing money on ultimate fighting, but
they are committed to keeping it, White says.
And Couture will be around for a while, despite being long in
the tooth compared with his opponents. He has had some injuries,
too -- especially to the left-eye area in the Belfort fight.
Couture endured an abrasion just below the eye while training
three weeks before the Belfort fight, and he suffered a broken
orbital bone against Josh Barnett in 2002.
"Worst injury I've seen in the sport," Couture says.
"Instantly lost sight." He had to tap out, and lost
the title, but Barnett later tested positive for steroids.
"My only concern was if I was going to get my eyesight back,"
Couture adds.
His wife, Tricia, has bittersweet feelings about Couture not
retiring right now.
"He's had so much success, and he's peaking. It's a good
business decision," she says. "But I worry about him
getting hurt. My nerves just have to go through it three more
times."
After the next two UFC fights, Couture hopes to meet Vanderlei
Silva, a superstar in Japan in the rival Pride organization.
"It would basically be the Super Bowl of mixed martial arts,"
he says, of a Couture-Silva matchup.
Source: Portland Sports Tribune |
Aficionados
get big kick out of Ultimate Fighting
By Dan Gigler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Webster's
New College Dictionary defines 'submit' as 1. To surrender or
yield oneself to the will or authority of another. 2. To subject
to a condition or process. 3. To commit to the consideration
or judgment of another.
In
Bill Vucick's world, the definition of submit can be slightly
more graphic: straddling an opponent who is flat on his back,
unloading rounds of punches to his face until it bleeds like
well-tenderized raw chuck.
Vucick,
of Bridgeville, trains a stable of plainclothes warriors in a
sport once vilified by no less than U.S. Sen. John McCain as
"barbaric" and akin to "human cockfighting"
-- Ultimate Fighting, a.k.a. No Holds Barred or submission fighting.
"It's
easy to paint this as gladiatorial, but that's a gross misjudgment,"
said Vucick, 24, a personal trainer at Bally's Total Fitness
in Bethel Park.
McCain
led legislation in the mid-1990s to ban Ultimate nationally,
but it has thrived because of its 'outlaw' reputation while striving
for legitimacy in spite of it.
A
multimillion-dollar enterprise with a worldwide following, the
sport is a staple on pay-per-view television.
But
those seeking to quench their blood thirst by watching Ultimate
often are disappointed.
While
everything short of biting, eye-gouging, hair-pulling, groin
shots and blows to the back of the head is fair game, Ultimate
looks more like wrestling to the untrained eye.
Competitors
grapple and clinch on the mat, punches are thrown, but padded
by small lightweight gloves.
And
most matches end quickly, many in less than a minute.
The
idea isn't to bloody your opponent, knock them out or even pin
them. It is simply to get them to submit, or "tap out,"
usually via a sharp pain from a hold, rather than anything that
will cause permanent damage.
Since
its inception in 1993, there has never been a fatality in Ultimate
in the United States, as opposed with nearly three dozen deaths
in professional and amateur boxing during the same time period,
according to the Journal of Combative Sport.
The
most potent weapon in Ultimate is not size or strength, fist
or foot, but rather the brain.
"The
best analogy is that it is like a chess game, the really good
guys stay 10 steps ahead of the other guy," Vucick said.
Ultimate's
roots are sideshow in nature.
The
original idea was to pit students of different fighting styles,
kick boxing vs. judo, for instance, against each other in a steel
cage ring and see what happened.
But
along the way, a distinct fighting style emerged, a hybrid of
the others.
Classified
as a "mixed martial art," Ultimate combines elements
of Jiu-jitsu, judo, tae kwon do, wrestling, boxing and kick boxing.
"I
cover each aspect of martial arts and pick and choose from each
of those. I keep what I like and get rid of what I don't like,"
Vucick said. "This sport is the natural evolution. The stuff
that got stripped away are the things that didn't work.
"You're
left with a pure, boiled-down sport. It's not barroom brawling.
It's a skilled athletic contest."
Heavy
emphasis on athletic
Vucick
has a pair of granite block shoulders and Popeye forearms, no
neck and a jaw more squared than a Rubik's Cube. Though he once
weighed 270 pounds and entered strongman competitions, he competes
at 185 pounds.
If
he needs help shedding the weight, his fiance, Sheri McCall,
can help. McCall is the reigning champion of the Miss Fitness
Universe Pageant.
A
martial arts student since the age of 6, Vucick got into Ultimate
five years ago and has criss-crossed the nation to train and
fight in places that include Southern California and Iowa.
"It's
hard to find guys who want to do this," he laughs.
Nevertheless.
Vucick leads a group of willing combatants from around the South
Hills and western suburbs.
This
weekend, Vucick and two of his charges, Mike Elwarner, of Scott,
and Trevor "Tank" Booher, of Moon, will compete at
the Arnold (as in the "Governator") Classic, a three-day
event in Columbus, Ohio, which will feature sports as disparate
as bodybuilding, cheerleading, powerlifting, fencing and Ultimate.
Elwarner,
21, an operating room technician at St. Clair Hospital, is one
of Vucick's most apt pupils.
At
140 pounds, Elwarner said, "I get a lot of guys that are
bigger than me who think they have me. [Vucick] brings guys in
and I beat on them. It's a matter of learning how to manipulate
guys' weaknesses. You are able to utilize every single tool."
Elwarner
and the brawny Booher, an accounting major at Robert Morris University
and former offensive lineman for that school's football team,
have been training with Vucick seven days a week in preparation
for the Arnold Classic.
In
the padded warehouse that is home to Debi & Rick's Gymnastics
studio in Bridgeville, Vucick leads his trainees through a torturous
regimen.
The
walls are lined with trophies won primarily by athletic young
women in events such as the balance beam and pommel horse, but
on a recent Friday morning, it wasn't nimble nymphs leaping and
tumbling.
White
Zombie thundered over the stereo system and men who look as if
they are carved out of wood wrestled, traded shots, applied choke
holds and slammed each other to the ground.
"Can
you believe I'm paying for this?" Mt. Lebanon lawyer David
Schrager joked. "The first three times I did this, I went
into the parking lot to throw up."
Schrager
had some limited martial arts experience but a primary motivation
was fitness. "I grew up in a family of lawyers and saw what
the stress of that lifestyle can do to a person. I didn't want
to take that route," he said.
Self-defense
is an obvious appeal of Ultimate. Matt Romah, a Point Park University
freshman from Upper St. Clair, started lessons recently.
"It's
great conditioning, but you're learning techniques to defend
yourself if you get into a situation you don't want to be in,"
he said. "This stuff works."
Bill
Maiers, a colleague of Vucick's and an Army Ranger veteran, studied
tae kwon do for a dozen years before picking up Ultimate.
"It's
awesome," the Green Tree resident said. "It's more
realistic and you have to think on your feet, compared to tae
kwon do, which is more structured. The real world doesn't happen
inside a boxing ring."
Indeed.
Vucick may need to call on his skills if any hairy situations
arise in his next vocation.
He
recently graduated from the police academy and is looking for
work in local law enforcement.
So,
bad boys, 'whatcha gonna do' when Bill Vucick comes for you?
The
answer is easy: submit.
Source: Pittsburg Post-Gazette |
Coroner
probes teenager's martial arts death
Markham youth dies after friends practise karate on him
`How
can my son get killed and no one is responsible?'
MELISSA
LEONG
STAFF REPORTER
The
coroner's office says it will investigate the death of an 18-year-old
Markham student who died after roughhousing with his friends.
Wallace
Lee was at a friend's house on Feb. 20 when he put on a padded
vest, his mother Connie Lee said. Three of his friends took turns
punching him and practising tae kwon do and karate moves on him;
one of the youths was a black belt in karate.
Soon
after, Lee, a Grade 12 Milliken Mills High School student, fainted
and died at the hospital.
William
Lucas, regional supervising coroner for Peel, York and Durham
regions, said yesterday Lee died after a blood vessel near his
heart leaked; blood accumulated inside the pericardial sac around
the heart and stopped it from beating.
"Any
kind of blunt-force trauma could cause that," he said.
York
Region police investigated and consulted with a senior crown
attorney, and determined no charges would be laid, Inspector
Mark Tats said.
Lucas
said it could take several weeks, even months before the coroner's
office decides whether or not to call an inquest into Lee's death.
"We
need to look into the organizations that control or set standards
for those martial arts to see if they have any thoughts on how
the death of this young boy could have been prevented....
"Is
there something to do with the way martial arts is taught or
the way the equipment was used or was this horseplay one of a
kind?
"We've
got to look at stuff like the padding.
"Was
it adequate to provide the level of protection that was (needed)?"
Lee's
family is angry and looking for answers.
"How
can my son get killed and no one is responsible?" asked
Connie Lee, a 53-year-old machine operator.
The
police told her that Lee's friends are good students in school
and didn't mean to harm him, she said.
But
she's dissatisfied with the police investigation, and said the
family is seeking legal advice.
Lee's
friend picked him up Feb. 20 in the evening and they went to
anotherfriend's house to play video games.
Lee
didn't know martial arts, his mother said.
While
he and some others practised martial arts, other boys played
video games, she said.
She
said after a while, as the other youths were practising their
moves on him, Lee told his friends he didn't feel good and that
he wanted to sit down. He passed out.
"On
the way to the ambulance, he woke up, but then he passed away."
Two
of the young men involved declined to comment to the Star.
Tony
La Selva, director of the Northern Karate School in Richmond
Hill, called Lee's death a warning to parents and young children.
"If
people are doing this, you need to have a sensei (teacher) watching,"
he said.
"If
they're going to be fighting with each other ... they need to
go to the dojo (martial arts school)."
About
300 people attended Lee's funeral last weekend, many of them
fellow students.
"He
was popular because he was a helpful, kind, giving young man,"
said Laurel Dodham, a guidance counsellor at Milliken Mills High
School.
"He
was an extraordinarily hard worker and he tutored other kids."
Students
collected money for flowers around the school and wrote messages
on cards and two bulletin boards. Teachers put together a slideshow
about Lee for his funeral, said vice-principal David McAdam.
"He
was really athletic, gentle. He wouldn't complain or argue with
you," Lee's 19-year-old brother Eric remembered.
Connie
Lee said her son wanted to go into civil engineering.
Lee
said she shared a room with Wallace, who had three brothers.
"Now I can't sleep. Me and my husband sleep for an hour
and wake up crying," she said.
"It's
not fair.... Our son was so good."
Source: Toronto Star |
Back
Pain Patients Finding Relief In Martial Arts
Black Belt Doctor Finds New Way To Help Patients
Bruce
Lee introduced the United States America to martial arts for
self-defense, but now people are using it to improve their health
-- especially against back pain.
Dr.
Patrick Massey got his black belt before he became a doctor.
He also had back pain and tried using his moves to fix it.
"The
pain just really began to melt away," Massey said.
Massey
began suggesting it to patients with surprising results. He says
90 percent of those who tried it walked out of the office pain
free.
Massey
says his carefully chosen movements target the specific tissues
in the back that are inflamed. The movements increase blood flow
to that area. And it's the blood flow that promotes healing and
washes away the inflammatory toxins causing the pains.
"We've
actually taken different martial art forms and taken pieces of
those forms and we have adapted them so that patients who are
in pain can do these movements," Massey said.
Mary
Evans and Lorraine Maydeeah work out this way every day at home.
Every few weeks they come back to Massey to learn new moves.
Mary has been in pain since a car accident 26 years ago. Lorraine's
pain started more recently, caused by repeatedly bending over
a jewelry counter at work. Both say martial arts is kicking their
back pain.
"I
feel absolutely great," Lorraine said.
"I'm
very happy," Mary said.
For
more information about the benefits of martial arts for back
pain, go to Altmed.org, or contact Dr. Patrick Massey at (847)
923-0046.
Source: NBC News 10 (Philadelphia affiliate) |
Pé
de Pano fighting at Arnold today
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion Márcio Cruz, known
as Pé de Pano is about to have a second chance in less
than a week against American Jeff Monson. On last February 28th,
Pé de Pano got defeated at the Submission Wrestling Open
1 held in Miami over the last 15 minutes, when Monson passed
his guard. At this time, Márcio decided to stay a little
longer in Unites States and it may happen a revenge with the
American fighter. Last Tuesday (3) BJJ fighter traveled from
Miami to Ohio to apply the Arnold Schwarzenegger Gracie Submission
Competition, that is going on now (6) in Columbus. Jeff Monson
has chances to fight in there and it is possible that they meet
in some part of the bracket.
The
Arnold Schwarzenegger Gracie Submission Competition is gonna
pay around $20,000,00 in prizes to the professional divisions.
Check out bellow the full tournament schedule:
March
6th: Registration and Weigh-in(s) No-Gi competitors Professional
Brown Belt Gi competition
March 7th: Amateur Men's and Women's No-Gi Professional Men's
and Women's No-Gi
For
more information, please visit the official website www.gracieworlds.com
or call 800-765-6999 (US) or 614-238-3662 (International )
Source: Tatame |
Periodization
for the Modern Warrior
By Matt "Wiggy" Wiggins, MMAWeekly.com
Whenever
you research or study Strength & Conditioning training, you
will invariably, at some point, run across the term “Periodization.”
Because the concept of periodization was popularized in the 1980s
by many Eastern Bloc countries, it scares some people. When discussing
periodization, many start envisioning complex programs based
around percentages and formulas. You know, the kind of program
that one has to have a degree in Algebra to figure out.
While
some periodization programs are this way, more often that not,
this isn’t the case. All the term periodization means is
that a program has scheduled and defined “periods”
in it. These periods all have a different focus and your sets
and reps ranges are adjusted to reflect such. Usually, there
are three periods focused on – endurance, strength (or strength-hypertrophy),
and power.
To
make it simpler, think of periodization as just structured cycling.
We all know that we can’t lift heavy all the time –
sometimes you have to back off. Sometimes you need to lift heavy,
sometimes you need to lift light, and sometimes you need a good
cross between the two. Instead of going by “feel,”
or just lifting “randomly,” periodization just gives
your program structure so that you know when you’ll be performing
what type of exercise.
By
“type of exercise,” I mean what sort of sets and reps
ranges. Remember, I said before that the three phases most commonly
used in periodized workouts are endurance, strength, and power?
Well, example sets and reps ranges might be 5-6 sets x 13-18
reps for endurance, 4-6 sets x 5-8 reps for strength, and 5-8
sets x 2-3 reps (done in explosive fashion) for power.
Exercise
selection may also change. To develop power (i.e. – a combination
of heavy weight and rapid movement), the Olympic lifts and their
power and athletic versions would be a good choice. If standard
compound lifts are used, this will be the heaviest phase of training,
and bar speed will still be of importance. During the strength
phase, compound lifts are best utilized. Endurance training,
since it’s many times used for either de-loading the body
or re-acclimating the body to exercise after a layoff, can not
only take advantage of compound movements, but it’s okay
to throw in the occasional isolation movement. (Olympic lifts
and their versions are not good for the endurance phase. While
they are very metabolically demanding, form is the key issue,
and performing higher reps may lead to a breakdown in proper
form. This, in turn, could lead to injury.)
How
long should each phase last? That is an interesting question
with a few different answers – none of which are necessarily
“right” or “wrong.” Really, it depends on
what you’re training for and what your competition schedule
is like.
The
“style” of periodization that most are first introduced
to is the kind in which each phase lasts quite a while –
usually 6-8 weeks. This sort of program is often used with athletes
that have definite competitive and off-seasons such as football
or baseball. Training intensity can be built upon and ramped
up during the off-season, leading to the next competitive season.
Another
“style” is a toned down version of the last one –
each phase only lasts 2-3 weeks. This sort of program is better
for somebody that tends to burn out or get bored with their program
quickly. It doesn’t allow you to get in a “rut”
and can be adapted much easier to fit a broader range of goals.
One
of the most extreme versions of periodization compresses each
phase into a single week. In other words, you’d perform
a day dedicated to each phase at least once per week. As an example,
let’s say you had a whole-body program consisting of 5-6
basic exercises: Clean & Press, Chins, Medium Grip Bench
Presses, Curls, and Squats finishing up with abdominal, grip,
and neck work. You’d perform this workout 3x per week (e.g.
– Monday, Wednesday, Friday), with each day having a different
focus. Monday would be for endurance, Wednesday would be for
strength, and Friday for power.
Out
of all the variants I’ve seen of distinct periodization,
I like the last one the best. It allows you to work on a broad
range of goals at one time. This way, you’re not losing
strength and power while targeting endurance or losing power
and endurance while targeting strength. You may not progress
quite as quickly in any one phase (although there have been studies
and a bit of anecdotal evidence that suggest the contrary), but
you’ll be better at more.
In
my opinion, it is this style of periodization that has the most
potential benefit to a fighter. Many, if not most, fighters don’t
have the luxury of knowing they have a fight coming up months
ahead of time, thus giving them time to go through an extended
periodized schedule. We read all the time about fighters (even
at the top levels of the professional ranks) taking fights on
just a few weeks’ or even days’ notice. If a fighter
isn’t in good “all-round” condition (endurance,
strength, and power) all the time, this wouldn’t be possible.
Imagine
a relatively up and coming fighter getting a shot in the UFC
at the last possible minute because the fighter originally scheduled
withdrew due to injury. Can you see him declining the offer because
he’s only at the beginning of his strength phase of his
periodized schedule, therefore, isn’t ready? Or worse yet,
he takes the fight anyway, but because he’s not in good
“all-round” shape, he has a poor showing, maybe killing
his chances at a future shot in the UFC? Using a highly compressed
periodization schedule will help a fighter keep him/herself in
good condition all the time.
Train
Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard.
A
strength athlete for 11+ years and moderator of the Strength
and Conditioning forum at mma.tv, Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
lives in Cameron, NC. He runs the strength, conditioning, and
fitness website www.workingclassfitness.com, authors strength
training manuals, and designs personalized training programs
(for mixed martial artists as well as other athletes and non-athletes)
online. To find out how Wiggy can design a program for you to
suit your specific needs, please email him at wiggy@workingclassfitness.com.
ATTENTION:
Physical exercise can sometimes lead to injury. The information
contained above is NOT intended to constitute an explanation
of any exercise, material, or product (or how to use/perform
them). Neither MMAWeekly.com nor WorkingClassFitness.com is responsible
in any way, shape, or form for any injury that may result from
any person's attempt at exercise as a result of the provided
information. Please consult a physician before starting any exercise
program, and never substitute the information on MMAWeekly.com
or WorkingClassFitness.com for any professional medical advice
or treatment you may receive.
Source: MMA Weekly |
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Punishment
In Paradise 3: "WARRIORS"
Date Moved!
Friday April 30, 2004
Due to the Rumble on the Rock on May 7, 2004, we decide to move
this event up a week. We have confirmed 6 bouts that will soon
be released. Look forward to 15 action packed fights.
Source: Event Promoter |
2004
Pan-Am Updates
2004
Pan-Ams are getting even better, word is that BJJ Phenom LEo
Vieira is also coming to compete bringing the level of the competition
up a few notches. Adding his name to the already stellar list
of athletes like Fernando 'Terere', Rodrigo 'Comprido', Eduardo
Telles, Ronaldo 'Jacare' , Damien Maia, Bibiano Fernandes , Mario
Reis, Fabio Leopoldo, Cassio Werneck, Paulo Guilobel & Jeff
Curran, Wander Braga, Sergio 'Malibu', Luis 'Limao' Heredia &
Luis Palhares.
W
A R N I N G ! ! ! W A R N I N G ! ! ! W A R N I N G ! ! !
The
IBJJF wants to remind everyone to MAKE SURE YOU SIGN UP for the
correct weight! As fighters will be weighed in prior to their
respective division to compete, anyone not makiing the weight
at that time will be CUT and will not be able to compete in another
division. That is the same system used in the Worlds for the
last few years and it works extremely well. So if you are not
sure you are going to make weight sign up for the division above!
For
more info and to register go to PanAm2004.
Source: ADCC |
Rodrigo
'Minotauro' back in Brazil
By: Gleidson Venga / Team TATAME
It
has caused a big surprise the new that 'Minotauro' was training
with the brazilian team of boxe in Cuba. The most optimists (exaggerateds)
were willing to see the 'baiano' running after a medal on the
Olympic Games in Athens, but they were wrong! What he really
wanted was the opportunity to improve his game on stand and nothing
better than train with the Cubans, excellent boxers. Back in
Brazil, he told us how was his experience and told us he is just
focused on the Pride GP:
'I
had a real tough training time there, it was great for me because
I could get into a strong rhythm of training. I was training
with the guys from the team that´s going to the Pre-Olympic
in Mexico, actually I´ve got into the same rhythm than
them, I could follow them, both in physical training, which is
pretty hard, than in their tactical training. I´ve learned
many new things, had new experiences, I´ve learned some
things, notions of the ring, fight distance, legs movements,
things that the Cubans know pretty well. This training time there
has added many things on me. I´m gonna fight on April on
Pride GP and I wanna try to test these new things that I´ve
learned there. My training has started a long time ago, also,
I could get rid of Carnival, actually the country turn into a
stand by mode at that time, and as much as you train, you don´t
have that focus and I remember that on Sunday of carnival I got
up at 5:30am to train. So, for me it was great and I could get
more focused traveling than staying in Brazil'.
Source:
ADCC |
Black
belt trains wrestling to beat Marcelo Garcia!
Submitted by: Luca Atalla
No training is too much when you are about to face the ADCC’s
sensation Marcelinho Garcia where he feels better, the no-gi
competitions. With that in mind, black belt from Nova União
Rodrigo Riscado did not think twice when invited to train wrestling
with Roberto Leitão, coach of Pedro Rizzo and his team,
Ruas Vale-Tudo. Riscado will fight Garcia at the expected superfight
of 3rd Submission Wrestling of Sao Joao da Barra, in north of
Rio de Janeiro, in March 12th and 13th. The days with Leitao
in his gym will be useful to Riscado trains specially takedowns
and the defense of one of the most dangerous weapon of Fabio
Gurgel’s student: the armdrag, a wrestling catch which Garcia
always uses to initiate his lethal going to the opponent’s
back.
Besides
Garcia x Riscado, the tournament organized by Leandro Ribeiro
will bring another great name: the Brazilian Top Team star Paulo
Filho will be the main referee of event.
Check
out all the fights of the 3rd Submission Wrestling of Sao Joao
da Barra (the Absolute cathegory will be defined at the time):
Superfight
Marcelo
Garcia x Rodrigo Riscado
65kg:
1) Rodrigo Damn* x Luciano Azevedo
2) Daniel Pirata x Tiago Carne Seca
3) Faisca x Rafael Primo
4) Marco Loro x Thiago Tavares
76kg:
1) Leonardo Peçanha* x Ricardo Rato
2) Edu Simoes x Leonardo Nogueira
3) Pear x Tarsis Humphreys
4) Rani Yahrya x Marcelo Brigadeiro
87kg:
1) Marcelinho Garcia* x Rafael Guimaraes
2) Maçaranduba x Carlos Baruch
3) Talles Leites x Hugo Carione
4) Leonardo Chocolate x Romulo Barral
105kg:
1) Gabriel Napao* x Maxwell
2) Fernando Soluço x Antoine Jaoude
3) Cristiano Titi x Denis Gomes
4) Tiago Marreta x Mario Neto
* Last 3rd Submission Wrestling of Campos champions. Marcelo
Garcia was the Absolute category winner, beating Renato Babalu
in the finals.
Source:
ADCC |
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SUPERFIGHT
DIVISIONS
Lightweight
(170 lbs. and below) Superfight Division:
1. Cameron Earle, Ralph Gracie Black Belt, 2002 GQ-West II Superfight
Absolute Finalist
2. Marcos Avellan, Florida Freestyle Fighting, 2003 GQ-U.S.A
Team
Trials Champ
3. Gary Grate, Team Charles Gracie, Head Instructor of The Brazilian
Jiu Jitsu Academy of Reno
4.-8. To be determined - Submit resumes to: President@Grapplers.com
Middleweight
(170-199 lbs.) Superfight Division:
1. Marcelo Garcia, Alliance Black Belt, 2003 ADCC Champion
2. David Avellan, Florida Freestyle Fighting, 2003 GQ-U.S.A Team
Trials
Champ
3. Moacir 'Boca' Oliveira, American Top Team Black Belt, 2004
SWO 1 Middleweight and Absolute Champion
4. Diego Sanchez, Jackson's Gaido Jitsu, 2000-2003 Grapplers
Quest West
Divisional Champion
5. Rafael Lovato, Jr., Team Machado Oklahoma City Brown Belt,
2003 Copa
Atlantica Middleweight Champion, 4-Time World and Pan American
Medalist
6. Jake Shields, Team Cesar Gracie, 3-Time Grapplers Quest West
Champion
7. & 8. To be determined - Submit resumes to: President@Grapplers.com
Women's
PRO (Absolute Weight Class) Superfight Division:
1. Leonor Avellan, Florida Freestyle Fighting, World Grappling
Games
Women's Pro Division Champion
2. TBD
Source:
ADCC |
K-1
GOES MMA WITH "DYNAMITE" CARD
K-1 will jump into the MMA scene with their upcoming "Dynamite"
card. K-1 will focus on many MMA matches including their headliner
between Bob Sapp who will face Kazuyuki Fujita in the main event.
K-1 fighter Jerome LeBanner will also be on the card as well
as Genki Sudo according to a few Japanese reports. (Which seems
interesting when he is supposed to fight a few weeks later in
Las Vegas for the UFC)
K-1:
'Dynamite'
May 19th, 2004
Japan
MMA
matchups:
Bob Sapp vs. Kazuyuki Fujita
Alexey Ignashov vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Jerome LeBanner vs. Tadao Yasuda
Yuji Nagata vs. TBA
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. TBA
Genki Sudo vs. TBA
Source:
MMA Weekly |
BENNETT
BREAKDOWN:
FIGHTS WE NEED TO SEE IN 2004
Alright
guys, we were spoiled last year in 2003 in what I'm still calling
the best year in MMA history. Jog your memory a bit and we saw
it all. The Pride Grand Prix was sensational, in large part due
to the fact that their rival, the UFC, let fight fans see what
we wanted with "Fantasy MMA" fights.
Liddell
vs Jackson, Minotauro vs Rodriguez, Cro Cop vs Nogueira, Silva
vs Jackson, not to mention Ortiz vs Couture, Randy vs Chuck,
I could go on and on. The small shows held their own as they
came through in a big way. We saw the return of Frank Shamrock
and an amazing fight in Shonie Carter vs Jeremy Jackson in WEC,
as well as the best tournament I have ever seen live as Babalu
won the IFC tourney against Jeremy Horn.
Now
we need a lot of questions answered in 2004. These are the fights
we HAVE to see in 2004.
Tito
Ortiz vs Vitor Belfort - With apologies to Randy Couture and
Chuck Liddell who both deserve another shot at Belfort, I start
with a match up that was supposed to happen back at UFC 33, as
well as UFC 36. Because of injuries to Belfort at 33, then Ortiz
at 35, we got main events of Vladimir Matyushenko vs Tito at
33 and Pulver vs Penn at UFC 35. Nothing wrong with the two matches
mentioned above other than it wasn't Tito vs Vitor.
I
remember hanging out at the UFC 34 Weigh-In's sitting with Vitor
Belfort. Tito walked in the room, looked over at Vitor smiling
and said "you know you don't want any Brazilian boy."
Vitor looked over to Tito with a grin and said "Yeah I do..."
he then leaned over to me and said "I can't wait to shut
his mouth...."
The
next night I stood in the Octagon at UFC 34 doing an interview
with both men and Tito got off the crack that he would turn the
"pretty boy" movie actor's face... (Vitor was doing
Brazilian TV shows and soap operas at the time) into a horror
movie."
Randy
Couture vs Vanderlei Silva - How much longer can Randy Couture
be affective at the age of 40? I don't know either but if this
fight doesn't happen this year, forget about it. This is the
fight I want to see more than any other (with maybe the exception
of Liddell vs Silva), as we have seen Vitor vs Vanderlei and
Ortiz vs Silva in the past. (Yes I'm well aware, Silva is a much,
much better fighter now, however take a number for rematch fights.)
BJ
Penn vs Jens Pulver - Here's the interesting part about this
rematch. I'm hearing it could happen. Where? That's the question.
I know the guys in Hawaii would love to bring the fight to Rumble
on the Rock in May. I am also hearing the UFC is starting to
show some interest in this fight IF it's not for the UFC title.
I'm hearing rumors that it would have to be a non-title fight
but haven't had that confirmed by Zuffa, Penn or Pulver, so take
that for what you will.
In
my opinion I think a non-title fight (if the rumors are true)
is defeating the point. Make it for the 155 title. I know, if
BJ Penn loses then it creates a horrible dilema that your guy
can beat the best pound for pound guy in the world at 170 and
win the title, however this same guy CAN'T beat a fighter who
hasn't fought in Octagon for a couple of years. Yes it's a problem,
but bottom line, THE FANS WANT TO SEE IT and they want to see
a title at 155.
It's
a perfect storyline. You have Pulver, who has never lost in the
Octagon, (if your worried about main stream fans they don't know
Pulver lost in smaller promotions anyway) and you have THEE guy
who already defeated the highest publicized fighter in Penn.
Give the fans what they want, a title holder at 155 and most
fans do want Pulver vs Penn. Why not, it solves a ton of problems.
UFC
185 Tournament - It's time for either a 8 man tournament or 16
man tournament. No you don't have to center the entire PPV on
this tournament in the 185 division. I don't care if you only
book one match for PPV over the next 6 UFC's. Let's just move
in any direction to establish the most underrated division in
MMA.
Everyone
wants to say there isn't talent in the division. Couldn't be
further from the truth. Here you go for tournament. I will seed
for you and everything...
1.
Matt Lindland 2. Jeremy Horn 3. Phil Baroni 4. Amar Suloev 5.
Joe Doerksen 6. Lee Murray 7. Jorge Rivera 8. Evan Tanner if
you want eight....you want 16?
9.
David Loiseau 10. Niko Vitale 11. Phillip Miller 12. Dave Menne
13. Tony Fryklund 14. Benji Radach 15. Tony Fryklund, 16. Ivan
Salaverry etc....these are just off the top of my head and I
know I'm forgetting a ton of guys. Bottom line, it's not hard
to do let's just do it.
The
list above are guys that I believe are NOT under PRIDE contracts.
I didn't even mention how cool it would be to see guys like Sakuraba,
Carlos Newton, Hendo, Anderson Silva, Paulo Filho, and others....tried
to make it realistic.
Mirko
Cro Cop vs Emelianeko Fedor - This fight has to happen SOON.
These two (and Nogueira) are the creme of the crop and I really
want to see two of the best heavyweights in the world today.
PLEASE, let this fight happen. I have a bad feeling we won't
even see this fight in 2004 just because it's spread out.
Lee
Murray vs Phil Baroni - To be honest, I may be more interested
in a Robbie Lawler vs Lee Murray match up, but since Murray has
trained with Miletich before, we can throw that one out.
Baroni
is a good choice vs Murray, but this maybe a little too early
for this fight to happen this year. Baroni most likely will get
the rematch with Evan Tanner at UFC 48 in my opinion. Murray
really seems to want Tito and Tito defintely wants Murray. Why
not put that fight together if they both want it so bad? That
means Baroni vs Murray might not happen this year, but when it
does I will pay any money to see it happen.
Georges
St.Pierre vs Frank Trigg - I really want to see this fight. This
fight really tells me where St.Pierre is at as well as Trigg
for that matter. Actually any fight featuring this two add Sean
Sherk to the mix would be a great fight. Interchange the three
into a three headed monster. Better yet, why not all three fight
at the same time. That could be REALLY interesting! LOL.
HONORABLE
MENTION....
Dennis
Hallman vs Matt Hughes - Does Dennis Hallman become even a greater
threat to Hughes now that BJ Penn looked so good against Hughes?
It's a valid question. Hallman has beat him twice. Do I hear
three-pete?
Shaolin
Ribero vs Takanori Gomi - This fight really intrigues me and
I want to see Shaolin fight Gomi. It tells me a lot where both
fighters are at this stage of their careers.
Yves
Edwards vs Olaf - This is just a personal choice of me. Both
these guys fought at the last WEC card that I did on HD Net.
I think this would be a hell of a fight and from a fan's point
of view, I WANT TO SEE IT!
Source:
MMA Weekly |
UNO,
PULVER AND OTHERS HEADLINE SHOOTO CARD
Caol Uno and Jens Pulver will both be fighting on the upcoming
Shooto card in March. Uno is returning to Shooto for the first
time in a while. Uno was competing in the UFC and has now returned
home to Japan to compete.
Shooto
decided to matchup Uno for his comeback fight agajinst the "Shooto
Wrecking Machine" Tatsuya Kawajiri. Kawajiri is ranked #2
Welterweight in Shooto's Top 10. Kawajiri has an impressive record
of 10-2-1.
Petersen
reports that the winner of the upcoming March 22nd show in Tokyo
will most likely face the current Welterweight champion Vitor
"Shaolin" Ribeiro for the title.
Meanwhile
Jens Pulver, coming off an exhibition match against Eddie Yagin
in SuperBrawl will be competing on March 22nd as well, against
Noaya Uematsu.
Here
is part of the card for March 22. The entire card has not been
announced.
Shooto
in Tokyo March 22nd
Naoya
Uematsu vs. Jens Pulver
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Caol Uno
Akitoshi Tamura vs. Eiji Murayama
Source:
MMA Weekly |
Gallery:
Gracie Barra Combat Team
Watch out! Team TATAME is about to release a brand new Photo
Gallery at TATAME.com today (5). The gallery is about the new
Vale-Tudo Team created in Rio de Janeiro that joins together
some of the best BJJ fighters as Márcio Pé-de-Pano
and Frédson Paixão, and some of the best wrestlers
as Renato Babalú and Gustavo Ximú. Keep tuned at
TATAME.com and check out the new photo gallery of the week.
Source:
Tatame |
Coleman
Vs Randleman in Japan
Take a look at this interesting report from our friends from
MMAWeekly.com:
"Mark
Coleman and Kevin Randleman are going to be teaming up this weekend
to fight for Pride's parent company, Dream Stage Entertainment
(DSE), on the second edition of their professional wrestling
promotion. The event, Hustle-2, takes place on March 7th and
also features Dan "The Bull" Bobish and wrestler turned
MMA fighter turned wrestler- The Predator.
Though
Coleman is currently under contract with DSE, that contract is
for his services as a professional wrestler. It is strongly believed
that DSE is interested in having Coleman compete in the upcoming
Pride Heavyweight Grand Prix, one of the more interesting rumors
floating around is that they may want to rematch him with Igor
Vovchanchyn who he defeated in the first Pride Grand Prix. Right
now though, things are just in the discussion stages as many
fighters are being considered for the Grand Prix and nothing
has been agreed to or signed concerning Coleman's participation".
Source:
Tatame |
Maurício
Shogun
By Eduardo Ferreira
Getting
famous at Pride
During
his third international event, twice at Pride, Maurício
Shogun has been conquering more room and international prestigious.
As always, his fight against Japanese Akihiro Gono ended with
a powerful KO applied by the Brazilian. During this exclusive,
Shogun values his fight, talks about his plans to fight as a
Heavyweight and about the Japanese people, who has been supporting
his results.
How
it was this second time fighting at Pride?
I
began imposing a very good rhythm and I did the best against
Gono. I kept the energy until the end and finally reached the
KO.
Gono
have been talking that after his draw with Ninja and after beating
Nilson Castro for two times, he would face any fighter from Chute
Boxe...
He
is too cocky and made me angry about this statement... I stepped
inside the ring to revenge my friend Nilson and clean the mess.
Wanderlei
already said you would become a great heavyweight. You are tough
and agile. Those things are hard to see among the heavyweights.
Rudimar also confessed he has been working this out with you.
How do you see that?
I
was weighting 98kg and I had to lose weight to reach 93kg. Everything
to fight at Pride. I guess in one or two years I must be fighting
among the heavyweights, but not now. I'm carefully and I believe
this have been the secret of my agility.
Who
is the best heavyweight for you? Who would you like to face?
Minotauro
is one of the best fighters. Over the heavyweight division has
such great names. It would be hard to pick a name. I don't choose
my opponents. I will fight who I have to fight.
So,
tell me. Do you have many Japanese fans?
They
love us. I'm getting famous. Many Japanese fans stayed at the
Hotel's hall waiting for a chance to take a picture with us or
simply have an autograph.
Source:
Tatame |
Quote
of the Day
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped
with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must
flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
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INTERVIEW
OF THE WEEK: BJ PENN
WILL HE STAY AT 170 OR FIGHT AT 155?
After losing to Jens Pulver over two years ago, BJ Penn changed
as a fighter. He seemed less exciting, not so dominating. That
was then, this is now. Penn has found his motivation and his
game.
At
UFC 46, BJ shocked most of the MMA world by not only defeating,
but manhandling welterweight champion Matt Hughes. The question
now is, "what's next?" Find out as Penn takes time
to speak with MMAWeekly's Ryan Bennett to discuss where he's
been and where he's going.
Ryan
Bennett: BJ Penn, you are the man!
BJ
Penn: How's it going Ryan?
Ryan:
I'm good, how you doing man?
BJ:
I'm just hanging out here. I'm just relaxing, glad to be home
enjoying Hawaii.
Ryan:
Congratulations. Going in, I know that you thought you were going
to win, obviously. Just watching you walk in and seeing your
eyes, you were 1,000% focused. But did you think that you would
dominate the fight the way that you did?
BJ:
Well, I knew that I was the stronger person. Everybody kept saying
that he was stronger and this and that. I really wanted to show
him that I was stronger than him. Right before I walked out,
I told my brother that I'm going to throw him down with one arm
and spin him in a 360 just to show him how strong I am. That
was one of the things that I wanted to do, just try to manhandle
Hughes out there.
Ryan:
The mental part is such a huge part of it. Let me ask you, when
Hughes tried to take you down and he couldn't, could you read
his face at all? Was he surprised at your strength?
BJ:
I don't know. I had a lot of wrestlers down here. [One of them]
told me, "Man, I think your wrestling is better than Hughes.
I think Hughes is in for a rude awakening as soon as he touches
you and feels how strong you are."
Ryan:
BJ Penn with us live on MMAWeekly radio. Everyone's going to
be gunning for you. You haven't had too much chance to enjoy
it, but what do you think about fighting at 170?
BJ:
I don't know, I don't even know what's next. There's nothing
set up. You've still got Charuto as one of the top contenders
in the division.
Ryan:
Talking about Charuto man, how crazy was that?
BJ:
That wasn't even a fight, really.
Ryan:
No man, it was just like you. Not only did you both win, you
both dominated.
BJ:
Yeah. We've got good training, good training partners.
Ryan:
Tell me what happens when you and Charuto train together. Who
gets the better of the other?
BJ:
It's just a good match man.
Ryan:
Let me ask you this, if you guys continue to dominate, would
you ever fight each other?
BJ:
Naw. No way. He's like a big brother to me and of course he's
my jiujitsu teacher. There ain't enough money in the world.
Ryan:
Everybody's asking on the Live Fighter Chat, dude, what is up
with the kiss?
BJ:
I was just like, I love this guy, this guy just gave me the belt.
Ryan:
I never know what you're going to do after a celebration. I remember
the first Uno fight, I'm listening to the satellite truck and
they're like, "Go get BJ." I remember telling the truck
that you just ran out of the Octagon. Here I am running after
you, trying to find you for a post fight interview. It's just
funny because you never know what your going to do because you
never know when you're going to win right?
BJ:
Umm hmm, exactly. I couldn't believe that it ended so quick.
I was ready to do what I had to do to win the fight whether it
took getting up that one last time or coming in for that one
last exchange to knock him out or going that extra push for that
takedown. When it ended quickly, I was just overjoyed.
Ryan:
It was awesome to watch. Talking about that division, what do
you think? I mean, do you think a rematch is in order or do you
think they're going to have you fight some other guys first?
BJ:
I don't know about a rematch so soon. I mean, if it was just
a one punch knockout kind of thing, but it was a thing where
he just got beat up, you know? I don't know. I want to see what
motivates me now. To be perfectly straight, the way the money
is out there, I could retire right now happy. I want to see what's
the next motivating factor in my life. I'm going to think about
it. I've got Jens Pulver now finally asking me to fight when
I've been asking him for years to fight. I find out he wants
to fight me, that makes me happy, gonna beat him up.
Ryan:
Would that be UFC or Rumble on the Rock?
BJ:
Whatever. I'm not in a rush. With the way the money is, I don't
want to be fighting four or five times a year. I think I want
to fight maybe one more fight a year for the next ten years,
but it just depends on the money. If the money's good, then you'll
probably see me fighting a few times a year. I definitely want
to fight in the UFC. I want to stick around with them. They're
the reason that I'm fighting. If it wasn't for the UFC, I don't
know if you could get me motivated enough to fight.
Ryan:
Would a fight with Jens be one of those fights that motivates
you?
BJ:
Yeah, that would be motivating. Even if his career is not at
the highest point right now, it would definitely be motivating
for me. I'm glad he's freaking out now and he wants to fight
me. I'm not in a rush to fight him in the next two months or
anything, but we'll see, maybe six months down the road. That's
what I'm thinking now, a fight a year would be good. I don't
want to burn myself out. You see that happen to all the guys.
Our bodies are like cars, you put so many miles on them, they
only go so far. I want to make my career last. Maybe when I'm
about 30 to 35, that's when the money will start to be there
and I will be fresh, not have too many injuries. I want to be
in this game a long time and stay motivated.
Ryan:
Was that part of the problem in the fights with say Paul Creighton
and Matt Serra, was it hard to stay motivated, knowing that there
wasn't a belt on the line?
BJ:
Exactly! They wanted me to fight someone else before I finally
got the Hughes fight and they were like in football teams don't
play a Super Bowl caliber team every day and I was like people
play football because of the Super Bowl, you know? Why play if
there's no Super Bowl? I mean, why should I be in the 155 pound
division if there's no belt? What's the sense? That was definitely
the factor in me going to 170.
Ryan:
Do you want to stay at 170, do you want to go back to 155, what
do you want to do now?
BJ:
I don't think I really want to fight within weight divisions.
I think I just want to fight all of the best people to get motivated.
I want to fight the next BJ Penn, the guy who comes up and he's
in my shoes, then I get to catch him early before he's experienced.
I want to fight the guy that everybody says, "this guy's
gonna be great, this guy's gonna be the best." I still want
to be around when that guy's around and I still want to be at
the top of my game. In the mean time, I've got a few people out
there to fight.
Ryan:
You mentioned Jens Pulver for one, who else do you want to fight?
BJ:
Actually, I don't know right now.
Ryan:
Your last two fights, you dominate Gomi at 155, you go up to
170 and just manhandle Hughes which was just incredible. Let
me ask you, are you pound for pound the best fighter in the world
right now?
BJ:
I mean, I was just watching the tape right now and, walking in,
Hughes is saying that he's pound for pound the best fighter.
If a smaller guy beats the pound for pound number one guy, what
does that have to make him, you know? We're going to have to
sit down and look at the rankings, but the writing's one the
wall.
Ryan:
It's been quite a streak for you. I was trying to think when
your last loss was?
BJ:
Well, I had the loss to Pulver.
Ryan:
That's right. I was thinking the draw with Uno.
BJ:
And you know, it was really good, I took about a year off after
the draw with Uno. I was getting really burned out. I was losing
focus. So, I took a year off and got back to training the way
I like training, not just training to be professional. Once I
stopped training professionally, I started feeling a lot better.
I wasn't happy at all when I was fighting Serra and Uno. It wasn't
something that I really wanted to do.
Ryan:
Well BJ, I'll tell you what man, it was just simply an incredible
performance. I shouldn't be surprised any more. I've seen you
do some crazy stuff, but this was the best. Seriously, congratulations.
BJ:
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me on the show. It was my
pleasure.
Source:
MMA Weekly |
3rd
Annual Longman Gracie Kauai Jiu-Jitsu Tournament
Note the change in
the day of the tournament! It will be held on Sunday, not Saturday
as originally posted. Hope to see everyone there to support this
tournament!
When: Sunday,
March 14, 2004
Time: 10:00 AM
Where: Kilauea Gym,
located next to the Kilauea Theater on the north side of Kauai
Weigh
ins: Friday, March 12, 2004 from 6:00-9:00 pm at the underwater
surf shop in the Kauai village shopping center next to the Safeway
store. Off Island competitors may weigh in on Sunday from 9:00
AM.
Schedule
of events:
9:00
AM - Weigh-ins
9:30 AM - Opening Ceremony
9:45 AM - Rules Clinic
10:00 AM - Tournament Begins
Normal
BJJ weight classes with these added
214-226 lbs
227-246 lbs
246 lbs and over
I
would like to congratulate the Gracie Kauai Longman Jiu-Jitsu
Team at the First Maui Open which highlighted lightweight purple
belt Jared Espina for taking the Gold in his weight and in the
Invitational Professional lightweight division fighting 6 times
with 5 submissions. Jared was also awarded the fastest submission
of the tournament (7 seconds) and the most technical athlete!
Jared closed the professional division with his teammate, brown
belt Aaron Moeller. My teacher Royler Gracie will be proud to
see the news on your site of how well we have represented Gracie
Humaita. Thank you for your support.
Aloha,
Bruno Ewald
For
more information, call Bruno at 808-826-4166 or 808-645-1265. |
HENDERSON
VS JACKSON?
NEWS TO HENDO
There has been plenty of speculation that Dan Henderson could
be fighting Quinton Jackson in the upcoming Pride card.
If
it is true, it's news to Dan Henderson. Henderson told MMAWeekly
when asked if he's fighting Jackson "That's news to me...."
said a surprised Henderson. "I haven't heard anything along
those lines" Dan told MMAWeekly.
Henderson
will be on the radio show this week and talk about his future,
his desire to fight in the Pride Heavyweight Grand Prix as well
as his upcoming plans for 2004.
Source: MMA Weekly
|
ZST
GT-F Update
March 7, 2004
Tokyo, Japan
ZST
Grappling Tournament Line-up:
Jeff
Curran (Team Extreme) vs. TBA
Hideo Tokoro (Stand) vs. Masahiro "Jackal" Ohishi (K'z
Factory)
Masakazu Imanari (Team Roken) vs. Jiro Wakabayashi (Sk Absolute)
Hidehiko Matsumoto (Japanese Sambo league) vs. Noboru Asahi
Elimination
Bout to get into Tournament
Naoyuki Kotani vs. Remigijus Morkevicius
Genesis
tournament Line-Up :
Chikara
Sato (1-0) vs. Soichiro Kato (0-0)
Kenzi Daikanyama (3-1-1) vs. Hirotaka Miyakawa (0-2-1)
Toshiaki Komatsu (1-1-1) vs. Takatora Iwasa (0-0)
Yusaku Hanakuma (0-0) vs. Shinichiro Tsunagawa (0-0)
Single
Bouts:
Yuta
Watanabe vs. Tsuneyuki Nozu
Takuya Fujisawa vs. Takeshi Sakamoto
Source:
MMA Weekly |
SHAMROCK
AND TANK MORE OF A POSSIBILITY
A month ago MMAWeekly broke the news about a proposed Ken Shamrock
vs Tank Abbott fight on MMAWeekly Radio. It seems this fight
could be more a reality after what happened last weekend.
We
received an email about last week's confrontation between the
two at a pro wrestling event.,,,
"Tank
was at an independant wrestling event that Ken Shamrock was taking
part in at XPW. When Ken came down to the ring he made a comment
about Tank being at ringside and then proceeded to talk about
his fight July 3rd and told Tank" Get off your fat ass and
sign the contract". This pissed Tank off and he tried to
run into the ring. He was stopped by security and his friends.
At this point he started yelling " Shamrocks a bitch"
and " Fu#$ Shamrock" etc... Tank was real drunk and
was thrown out of the building. Looks like Tank and Ken will
meet at UFC 48..."
Source:
MMA Weekly |
Pé
Vs Monson may happen at Arnold
After being defeated by American Jeff Monson at last Submission
Wrestling Open 1 held in Miami on February 28th, Márcio
Pé de Pano may have a chance to give back the defeat in
exactly a week. Everything because the Brazilian traveled today
from Miami to Ohio to fight at Arnold Schwarzenegger Gracie Submission
Competition, the same event that Monson applied. The tournament
will be held on March 6th in Columbus and the total prizes will
reach US$20,000,00 among the professional fighters. This is a
beautiful chance for Pé de Pano revenge and return to
Brazil with a good money.
For
more information visit the official web site www.gracieworlds.com
Source: Tatame |
Quote
of the Day
"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise
your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for
they're always there."
Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed
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Shooto
Hawaii
COMING FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2004
Campbell High School
There
will be something new, AMATUER SHOOTO. Linebred, LLC will be
introducing a new twist to things. Amateur Shooto consists of
2 X 3 minute rounds with a full head gear, Shin guards and NO
punching when fight goes to the ground.
Currently,
we are recruiting fighters for this new endeavor. If you ever
wanted to try MMA and did not want to be thrown to the wolves,
this is the event for you. Full safety equipment is required
and no punching on the ground so you can try out shorter and
fewer rounds and don't have to worry when you get to the ground.
Amatuer Shooto is designed to ease fighters in to professional
MMA action and allow the fighters to build their skill and experience
safely.
Fighters
to appear so far are...
PJ
Dean (Freelance)Amatuer Shooto 154 VS. TBA
Steven
Boy Paling III (JIL) VS. TBA Amateur Shooto Bantamweight 123.5
Brandon Antonio (JIL) vs. TBA Amateur Shooto Lightweight 143.3
Contact
the promoters today to sign up at 808-479-8183 or email them
at linebredllc@hawaii.rr.com. |
3rd
Annual Longman Gracie Kauai Jiu-Jitsu Tournament
Note the change in
the day of the tournament! It will be held on Sunday, not Saturday
as originall posted. Hope to see everyone there to support this
tournament!
When: Sunday,
March 14, 2004
Time: 10:00 AM
Where: Kilauea Gym,
located next to the Kilauea Theater on the north side of Kauai
Weigh
ins: Friday, March 12, 2004 from 6:00-9:00 pm at the underwater
surf shop in the Kauai village shopping center next to the Safeway
store. Off Island competitors may weigh in on Sunday from 9:00
AM.
Schedule
of events:
9:00
AM - Weigh-ins
9:30 AM - Opening Ceremony
9:45 AM - Rules Clinic
10:00 AM - Tournament Begins
Normal
BJJ weight classes with these added
214-226 lbs
227-246 lbs
246 lbs and over
I
would like to congratulate the Gracie Kauai Longman Jiu-Jitsu
Team at the First Maui Open which highlighted lightweight purple
belt Jared Espina for taking the Gold in his weight and in the
Invitational Professional lightweight division fighting 6 times
with 5 submissions. Jared was also awarded the fasted submission
of the tournament (7 seconds) and the most technical athlete!
Jared closed the professional division with his teammate, brown
belt Aaron Moeller. My teacher Royler Gracie will be proud to
see the news on your site of how well we have represented Gracie
Humaita. Thank you for your support.
Aloha,
Bruno Ewald
For
more information, call Bruno at 808-826-4166 or 808-645-1265. |
LIDDELL
TALKS TO MMAWEEKLY RADIO
Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell was the featured guest Friday
on MMAWeekly SoundOff Radio. Chuck talked about training, his
recent loses and the much anticipated UFC 47 main event against
Tito Ortiz. "The Iceman" is doing really good and said,
"training is going great." Liddell did train with Carlson
Gracie Sr. for a brief period and has gone "back to training
my way, working out with Cal Poly." He is about to enter
the toughest segment of his preparation. He stated that the next
three weeks are going to be the hardest.
Chuck
has lost two out of his last three fights to Randy Couture and
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. He tries to learn from both
wins and loses saying, "I try to learn something every time
I go out there." He said he didn't know how good Rampage's
chin was before their fight but that he can really take a shot.
When asked if Couture and Jackson have exposed his game, Liddell
replied, "I've never hid my game" from anyone. In fact,
Chuck said he would like another shot at both of them again and
feels he can beat them. He said about those fights, "I just
wasn't there," but added, "I think I got it going"
now.
Liddell
is confident about his chances against "The Huntington Beach
Bad Boy" Tito Ortiz. This fight has been in the makings
for a long time and Chuck stated that he knew it would work itself
out sooner or later. The two used to train together, during which
Chuck claims to have gotten the better of Ortiz in striking and
wrestling. He pointed out that training is training and that's
all it is but insisted that "I think I am as good or better
wrestler than he is."
Liddell
was a four year starter at Cal Poly, where he wrestled in the
167,177, and 190 pound weight classes. He said his overall record
was probably .500. Chuck thinks Ortiz has to take him down in
order to win and that his biggest advantage is that Tito has
a "real tough time taking" him down. Chuck went on
to say that he has a psychological advantage over Ortiz, saying
"he's afraid of my hands," and "knows how hard
I hit before we go out there." He plans on taking the fight
to Tito and making him work, "especially on the feet."
He added, "he's gonna have a real tough time with me."
Chuck
realizes the magnitude of this fight for both of them. He said
the winner will be right back in the title picture and the loser
will probably not be a main event for a while.
"Tito thinks he is gonna beat me but he's wrong," Liddell
commented. This fight is one of the most hyped fights in UFC
history and "It's On" April 2nd.
Source:
MMA Weekly |
HORN
READY FOR NEXT STEP
Jeremy Horn was the featured guest on MMAWeekly SoundOff Radio's
Monday edition. Horn is fresh off an impressive win over David
Loiseau this past weekend in Montreal and talked about the fight
and his future in Mixed Martial Arts.
Breaking
down the fight with Loiseau, Jeremy said they threw a couple
of punches, clinched, threw some knees and then he got the takedown.
When David attempted to get back to his feet, Horn was able to
sink in the guillotine and it was over.
Horn
talked about fighting up in Canada for TKO in front of Loiseau's
hometown crowd of Montreal. He was surprised so many people were
booing him, but said they are "strong fans up there."
Jeremy
discussed how big MMA is in Canada right now especially in Montreal.
Even though Horn is an MMA veteran, having fought for nearly
every MMA promotion that you can name, he still gets nervous
before going in to a fight. At this level in the game, one mistake
is all it takes to come out on the losing side of things.
Jeremy
wants to get back in the UFC. He said he doesn't feel the pressure
to try and be a more exciting fighter in there. He said, "I
have always tried to finish" opponents. Horn walks around
at about 198 or 199 pounds but has been as heavy as 240 in his
career.
He
trains with a good group of partners in Salt Lake City and is
focused on fighting at 185 pounds. Horn feels he can be one of,
if not the top guy at that weight. In order to cut that weight,
Jeremy just has to "clean up" his diet, and to cut
twelve or so pounds for a fight is considered easy by him. Was
this the big win to get Jeremy back in the UFC? Discuss your
thoughts in the SoundOff forum.
Also,
Wes "The Project" Sims called in the show on Monday.
Wes is doing good and has been "packing on the pounds."
He felt he was a little light for his last fight with Frank Mir.
Sims said he will be back in the UFC and doesn't really care
who he fights next. He went on to say that skill does not determine
who succeeds in this sport. What Wes may lack in fighting skills,
he more than makes up for in personality.
Away
from fighting, Wes my have a modeling career in the works. Sims
jokingly said he is the best looking guy in Mixed Martial Arts
and he has to beat the women off with a stick. He has talked
with a company about the possibility of modeling clothes. The
runway will never be the same.
Source:
MMA Weekly
|
BUFFER
TALKS CANDIDLY ABOUT BARONI
Legendary UFC ring announcer, Bruce Buffer, talked with MMAWeekly
Radio yesterday about what he has been doing lately, the Phil
Baroni situation and the UFC 47 event scheduled for April 2nd
at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas.
Bruce
has been traveling a lot doing "other shows." He will
be doing several undercard boxing bouts on HBO in the future.
Buffer has been doing the UFC's since UFC 8. He got into doing
it with his famous brother, Micheal. In fact, the first MMA event
that Bruce was the ring announcer in was also Frank Shamrock's
fighting debut. Buffer has witnessed so many fights over the
years, he said it is hard to pick a favorite, but off the top
of his head, Tito Ortiz against Frank Shamrock, Ken Shamrock
and Randy Couture were some of them.
Bruce
spoke candidly about Phil Baroni's suspension being lifted. Bruce
felt the original one year suspension wasn't long enough and
definitely didn't think it should be reduced. Buffer was in the
octagon after Baroni's loss to Evan Tanner and was witness to
Phil's actions that Bruce said, made him "friggen furious."
Bruce
feels life has rules and some are made to be broken, but for
an athlete to ever put their hands on an official is "wrong."
He thinks that consequences have to be firm and send a message.
The reduction of Phil's suspension he feels didn't send the right
message.
Bruce
has nothing against Phil and said he actually likes Baroni but
put friendship aside, and called it how he saw it. He went on
to say that it is "do or die time" for Phil. Baroni
is on a losing streak and sat out nearly a year nursing a pectoral
injury just to come back and get suspended. This could be Baroni's
last shot to stake claim as a top contender in the 185 pound
weight division.
Buffer
can't wait for UFC 47. He called it a "thick, loaded, awesome
card." Something tells me this may be one of the events
that he will name off the top of his head as most memorable in
the future. To hear all of what Buffer had to say, like MMA in
California by the end of 2005, get yourself a Premium Membership
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Source:
MMA Weekly |
JACKSON
HAS PEAKED INTEREST FROM LENNOX LEWIS TRAINER
Some people in the MMA community watched Jeremy Jackson on the
smaller shows, progress and get better and better. He burst on
the MMA Radar with an impressive win over Shonie Carter at WEC
6 on pay-per-view. Many MMA fans saw him on the undercard of
Frank Shamrock's return match for the first time on pay-per-view.
He
gained nationwide exposure on UFC PPV when he battled Nick Diaz
in the bright lights of the legendary UFC Octagon. He ended up
losing the fight in a tough battle. Since then what has Jackson
been up to?
MMAWeekly
caught up with Jackson and found out he is changing "his
game" a bit. He is going to press the "pause"
button on his MMA career and "play" in the boxing game.
Jackson
told MMAWeekly that he loves the stand up game and started training
in a boxing gym to keep his boxing sharp. Come to find out, his
boxing was so sharp that the boxing community took note and embraced
him as one of their own.
The
boxing community was so impressed with Jackson that they told
him to "quit that cagefighting" and make some money
in boxing. So much so that they started to get him sponsors in
boxing. Jackson said, "I've already got more sponsors in
boxing in this short time then I did in my entire career in MMA."
Jackson
is currently training with 2 boxing trainers that have boxers
who have competed in the Olympic trials. George Silva & Rocky
Garza are the trainers and they already have HBO & Mainevent
Promotions looking at him right now.
Boxing
circles have flown in to see Jackson and the legendary trainer,
Emanuel Stewart is flying in to see him up close and training.
. "Pretty exciting stuff", said Jackson but he also
stressed, "I have no plans on giving up MMA, I would just
like to focus on one thing at a time right now, and boxing has
kind of stepped up to meet me.... Guess I'll see what it has
to offer."
Source:
MMA Weekly
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ALBERTO
CRANE READY FOR JAPAN
Alberto Crane is 5-0 in mixed martial arts competition. In his
short career, spanning less than two years, he has defeated Javier
Vazquez for the King of the Cage Lightweight Title, relinquished
the belt, and made a successful return to the ring by defeating
Christian Carvalho for the Ring of Fire Rocky Mountain Lightweight
Title. Crane's last bout took place in Japan where he defeated
Takuto Hida in an undercard bout on the ZST Grand Prix Tournament
show.
On March 7th, Crane returns to Japan to face Yuki Nakai, not
in an MMA out, but in a professional Brazilian Jiujitsu match
on the Ground Impact 3 show. A BJJ Black Belt, jiujitsu is Crane's
first love and he has dedicated his life to it. He won the BJJ
World Championship in 2002, the top honor in the sport. Teaching
BJJ at his school, the Santa Fe Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Academy,
is a large part of the reason that he relinquished his King of
the Cage title. He now gets to return to the sport he loves as
a professional.
His
opponent, Nakai (4-1 in MMA), is best known to those who have
seen Rickson Gracie's "Choke" movie. Nakai was the
fighter that faced Rickson in the final of Vale Tudo Japan 95
with both eyes nearly swollen shut, but displaying a ton of heart
by still coming out to face Rickson, his only loss. Nakai, a
BJJ black belt in his own right, is a legend in Japan and highly
regarded as the best jiujitsu fighter in the country.
As
he prepares to head out to Japan, Crane spoke with Ring of Fire
promoter Sven Bean and had the following to say: "I'm looking
forward to going against Yuki Nakai because he is considered
the best Japanese Jiu-Jitsu fighter right now. The rules are
regular Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu rules which include wearing a gi
and a ten minute time limit. Yuki Nakai is a very impressive
person, just watching his fights in Rickson's "Choke"
video and knowing his JIu-Jitsu story. He has been studying Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu since his Rickson fight. Yuki Nakai always is traveling
to compete in Brazil for the major tournaments like the Mundials
(Worlds) and sometimes the brasileiros (Brazilian nationals).
Yuki Nakai has committed his life to being the best and to making
the sport grow in Japan. It is really an honor for me to get
the opportunity to compete against him because, to me, he is
a true warrior and a martial arts legend. Win or lose, I'm going
to have a great time, but I'm going to win."
The
complete March 7th, Ground Impact card:
Mitsuyoshi Hayakawa vs. Kazeka Muniz
Yuki Nakai vs. Alberto Crane
Toshiyuki Wado vs. Taisho
Kuniyoshi Hironaka vs. Daisuke 'Amazon' Sugie
Cristiano
Kaminishi
vs. Hiroshi Tsuruya
Mario Sergio Yokoyama vs. Koji Asakura
Cavalcante Junior vs. Naoyoshi Watanabe
Naoya Uematsu vs. Hiroyuki Abe
Source:
MMA Weekly |
MMA
TOP 10 FOR MARCH
This month's poll has literally been turned upside down. BJ Penn
has moved to the 170 weight class, Sakuraba and Busta have officially
moved to 205, Almeida and Marquardt are finally moved to 185
with Jeremy Horn.
Fighters
who voted in this poll cannot vote themselves #1. Fighters include
Josh Barnett, Matt Lindland, Din Thomas, Wes Sims, Dennis Hallman,
Jeremy Horn, Evan Tanner, Duane Ludwig and Yves Edwards, plus
broadcasters Ryan Bennett (IFC & WEC play by play), Jeff
Osborne (HookNShoot), and Randy Harris (WTAN Sports)
HEAVYWEIGHT
DIVISION - (210-265 lbs.) - The fighters made Fedor the overwhelming
favorite. Minotauro moves up to #2, Cro Cop, Sylvia and Barnett
round out Top Five. Cabbage
is back in the Top 10.
1.
Emelianeko Fedor - 117 Points (10 first place votes)
2. Minotauro Nogueira - 106 Points
3. Mirko Cro Cop - 86 Points
4. Tim Sylvia - 82 Points
5. Josh Barnett - 80 Points (1 first place vote)
6. Andrei Arlovksi - 57 Points
7. Pedro Rizzo - 42 Points
8. Frank Mir - 31 Points
9. Cabbage
Correia - 20 Points
10.Gan McGee - 18 Points
Others
receiving votes - Heath Herring - (17), Ricco Rodriguez (8),
Justin Eilers (7) , Semmy Schilt (3), Vladimir Matyushenko (3),
Igor Vovchanchin (2)
LIGHT
HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION - (205 lbs.) - Randy Couture didn't drop
hardly at all from his loss to Belfot. As one fighter who votes
told MMAWeekly "I see this as a no-contest...it was a freak
accident, even Vitor himself said the same, that's why Randy
didn't drop much"....Silva has the top spot, while Quinton
Jackson cracks the Top 3 for the first time...
1.
Vanderlei Silva - 115 Points (7 first place votes)
2. Randy Couture - 107 Points (5 first place votes)
3. Quinton Jackson - 101 Points
4. Chuck Liddell - 72 Points
5. Vitor Belfort - 68 Points
6. Tito Ortiz - 67 Points
7. Dan Henderson - 46 Points
8. Ricardo Arona - 22 Points
9. Babalu Sobral - 18 Points TIE and Murilo Bustamante 18 POINTS
Others
Receiving Votes - Murilo Ninja Rua - 17, Sakuraba - 15, Yuki
Kondo 12.
MIDDLEWEIGHT
DIVISION - (185 lbs.) - Jeremy Horn debuts at #2 right behind
Matt Lindland who was the dominant number one in the division.
The Lee Murray Bandwagon is open and a lot of voters are riding
in it as he debuts in the Top 5.
1.
Matt Lindland - 118 Points (10 first place votes)
2. Jeremy Horn - 95 Points (2 first place votes)
3. Evan Tanner - 67 Points
4. Lee Murray - 65 Points
5. Phil Baroni - 61 Points
6. Anderson Silva - 55 Points
7. Ricardo Almeida - 38 Points
8. Nathan Marquardt - 36 Points
9. Paulo Filho - 30 Points
10.Niko
Vitale - 29 Points
Others
receiving votes - Jorge Rivera (18), Joe Doerksen (18), Dave
Menne (16), David Loiseau (14), Benji Radach (13), Phillip Miller
(5), Curtis Stout (4)
WELTERWEIGHT
DIVISION - (170 lbs.) - BJ Penn debuts at #1. His teammate Charuto Verissimo
debuts in the Top 5,
while Georges St.Pierre cracks the Top 10.
1.
BJ Penn - 120 Points (12 first place votes)
2. Matt Hughes - 107 Points
3. Sean Sherk - 95 Points
4. Charuto
Verissimo - 73 Points
5. Robbie Lawler - 51 Points
6. Jason Black - 49 Points
7. Georges St. Pierre - 31 Points
8. Carlos Newton - 30 Points
9. Frank Trigg - 26 Points
10.Dennis Hallman - 17 Points
Others
receiving votes - Chris Lytle - (15) , Karo Parisyan - (13) Hayato
Sakurai (13), Nick Diaz (10), Jake Shields (8), Spencer Fisher
(5), Shonie Carter (4), Pete Spratt - (2), Kiuma Kunioki - (1)
LIGHTWEIGHT
DIVISION - (155 lbs.) - Since Penn has left, the division is
truly wide open. No dominant #1 here. Bang and Shaolin tied with
first place votes, while Gomi moves back into the Top 3.
1.
Bang Ludwig - 97 Points (5 first place votes)
2. Shaolin Ribero - 89 Points (5 first place votes)
3. Takanori Gomi - 78 Points
4. Josh Thomson - 70 Points
5. Hermes Franca - 69 Points
6. Yves Edwards - 63 Points
7. Joaquin Hansen - 53 Points
8. Genki Sudo - 36 Points
9. Din Thomas - 35 Points
10. Jens Pulver - 23 Points
Other
receiving votes - Marcus Aurelio - 20 Points, Caol Uno - 13,
Dokojonosuke Mishima- 13 Matt Serra - (10) Rich Clementi - (7),
Jorge Gurgel - (3),
Source: MMA Weekly
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Horn
Dominates Loiseau, Wins TKO Title
 
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada -- Would David Loiseau win as an underdog,
even though he was the champion and have another shot at the
UFC following his lost to Jorge Rivera? Would Jeremy Horn make
a statement on his road to being the number one fighter in the
world at 185 pounds?
The
fight world was looking to the outcome of the main event on TKO
15 card for those answers, and they came quickly.
As
a matter of fact, it took 55 seconds for Jeremy Horn to choke
David Loiseau with a guillotine. From the start, both fighters
tangled and Horn took Loiseau down with a single leg sweep. They
got back up very quickly and a few moments later, Loiseau shot
in for a double-leg takedown and with his experience, Horn was
able to put a guillotine while being in the air.
The
choke was sink deep, Loiseau tapped a few seconds later and the
crowd went quiet. I predicted a first round submission by Horn,
but never expected to be within a minute. A new TKO world middleweight
champion was crowned and Jeremy is definitely, in my book, the
best 185-pounder in the world. If anyone doubts that, they should
step up to the plate.
At
the press conference, Jeremy told us that there was a good possibility
to fight in the near future in the UFC as a middleweight. If
Horn defends his title back in the TKO in the near future, Denis
Kang could be is next opponent.
The
UFC needs to bring back Jeremy Horn as soon as possible.
In
the semi-final match on this card, with a the crowd champion,
Steve Vigneault defending is Canadian Middleweight Championship
against Chris Fontaine, a relative unknown for the local fans.
From the start, both fighters clinched and they were going at
it with knees with the champion receiving the best shots. They
had the chance to box a little bit, but they went back to the
clinch and Fontaine was able to put the fatal blow on Vigneault
nose at the 1:14 mark.
The
champ went down in the ropes with a broken nose and the crowed
couldn't believe what they had witnessed. The people champion
getting TKO'd for the second time in a row. Fontaine was jumping
around like a madman and was the better man on this night.
In
the first of three title matches, we saw a new version of the
Machine Mark Hominick who was defending his title for the fourth
time at age 21 against a sound opponent, David Guigui. We've
been used to witness a great striker on his feet or on the ground,
but we saw a grappler on this night.
To
my great amazement, Hominick brought the fight on the ground,
tried numerous armbars, rear-naked chokes even if he had full
mounts. He really wanted to make a statement and he sure did.
In the first round, Guigui had his chances with knees from a
side mount but Hominick was able to reverse into a full mount
were he went again for an armbar.
The
second round went the same with Hominick bringing the fight down
to the ground. The Machine tried two rear naked chokes in less
then a minute but Guigui stayed calm and was able to roll out
twice. In the last moment of this bout, Hominick got another
full mount, but this time decided to strike. He put a knee on
Guigui's left arm to give him full access for his punches and
the bout was stopped at 4:21 of Round 2.
After
the match, Mark stated he would like a rematch with Stephen Paling.
The
KO's of the night belongs to Chris Fontaine and Stephane Dubé
who offered us a Spinning back kick that was heard around the
arena. The submission of the night belongs to Jeremy Horn, Stephane
Vigneaut and Thierry Quenneville. The match of the night was
Kyle Sandford versus Stephan Potvin
Here
are the full results of TKO 15:
Jeremy Horn wins by Guillotine Choke over David Loiseau (0:55
R1)
Chris Fontaine wins by TKO over Steve Vigneault (1:14 R1)
Mark Hominick wins by TKO over David Guigui (4:21 R2)
Bill Mahood wins by TKO over Yan Pellerin (5:00 R2)
Kyle Sandford wins by split decision over Stephan Potvin
Stephane Vigneault wins by Armbar over Troy Quesnelle (2:46 R1)
Todd Gowenberg wins by TKO over Marc Cambier (1:53 R1)
Stephane Dubé wins by TKO over Kajun Johnson (4:06 R1)
Steve Duquette wins by TKO over Tremblay (3:02 R1)
Thierry Quenneville wins by Armbar over Philippe Lagacé
(4:55 R1)
Mark Bocek wins by Abandon over Mark Colengelo (5:00 R1) Colengelo
hurt his knee
Jonathan Goulet wins by Rear Nake Choke over Alex Gasson (1:43
R1)
Source:
Maxfighting
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Russia
vs. USA with Chael Sonnen
Wrestler
Chael Sonnen has been added to the American Team for the “Russian
Invasion” on Saturday, March 13, 2004, at the Trump Taj
Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Team Quest fighter replaces
Moacry “Boca” Oliveria of American Top Team in the
205-pound fight against Arman Gambaryan of the Red Devil Fight
Team. It’s daily short intense training sessions for the
26-year-old who attributes his successes hard work and ability
to compete.
JC:
What were you like growing up? CS: I suppose I was just a normal
kid. I liked to stay busy and hang out with family and friends.
Interesting question. I’ve never been asked that one before.
I liked my mom and chopped wood with my dad. I was academically
strong. I’m the smartest guy I know as it turns out.
JC:
You’ve done it all: wrestler in high school and college,
a college graduate, boxing, promoting, organized a wrestling
club, competed at Abu Dhabi, and now in MMA. What drives you?
CS: I want to be world champion. Athletically I’ve always
been in combat sports from wrestling, which is in my whole family
-- I’m a 3rd generation wrestler -- but when I got done
wrestling in college there was no place else to compete so I
got into this MMA.
JC:
Where you ever at the level where you would go into Olympic wrestling?
CS: Yeah, absolutely. I took a year off from college in 2000
and trained exclusively for the Olympic games. I ended up as
an alternate for the United States, but I didn’t get into
the actual Olympic tournament. I was at that level and I’ve
beaten a lot of guys who were in the Olympics.
JC:
How did you come to train at Team Quest? CS: We (Randy Couture
and Dan Henderson) were all training together for wrestling and
the name just sort of appeared, but it was the place we were
training at. I was at Team Quest before it was Team Quest.
JC:
How did you transition into MMA? CS: Well, it was pretty smooth,
I suppose. We just started throwing punches at one another. It
wasn’t rocket science, it was an ass kicking contest. Pretty
easy to figure out.
JC:
You’re fighting almost 2 years. What has been a high and
a low for you? CS: I can’t put my finger on anything. I
just like to compete. I haven’t had any lows. Every experience
-- I like training, I like hanging out with the guys, I like
competing, I like the crowd -- it’s all things I enjoy.
There are no lows, but I also cannot point to any highs.
JC:
You came out strong with wins, then had a 3 fight slump, but
have since regained your composure. What do you attribute your
MMA success too? CS: I attribute it to hard work. I work very
hard and I have my whole life. That and my ability to compete.
I don’t get wrapped up in these things. I don’t even
agree with what you said. I was never in a slump. I won every
fight that I ever fought. Sometimes I didn’t get my hand
raised, but that’s just competition.
JC:
That’s cool and I respect it. As your fight record goes,
you had 2 loses and 1 draw. Is it your perspective that stepping
in the ring and competing is winning? CS: Yeah, absolutely.
JC:
On the Hitman card, the fight outcomes where predetermined by
state requirement. Was the outcome of your fight predetermined?
CS: I’ve heard of this before. All we were told in the rules
meeting was that they were going to announce a winner and when
the show was over they would fix it and go to the actual judges
card. They would do that to determine the purse. My fight was
not one of the ones they reversed. My fight was also won on the
judges cards and it would have been recognized as such on sherdog.com,
but Jeff Sherwood helps to manage Renato “Babalu” Sobral,
the man I beat up, but he refused to go to the judges cards.
JC:
Does sherdog.com record predetermined outcome events? CS: I fought
for Hitman 2 times, and they did record the first time I fought
a guy named Jason Miller of Team Punishment. They did record
that. They didn’t record the second time with Babalu. Nobody
complained except for Sherwood and he is acting as if the fight
didn’t happen.
JC:
Do you train for an opponent or to fight? CS: We (Team Quest)
train the same way all the time, but I certainly would train
for an opponent if I had the opportunity too, like if I knew
who my opponent was or if I could watch some tape on a guy, then
I certainly would train for an opponent, but that opportunity
doesn’t come often. I’ve had fights come on 2 days
notice, where I had to be on a plane the next morning. Preferably
everyone would train for an opponent.
JC:
Your next fight is against Red Devil Fight Team member Arman
Gambaryan. What do you know about your opponent? CS: I know he
is Russian. I’ve competed against a lot of Russian’s
and they have all been tough as nails. I wouldn’t see why
he’d be any different. I haven’t had the opportunity
to see any of his competitions. I don’t know what his background
is or what his specialty is. I know he is a little over 200 pounds,
which is a pretty big guy.
JC:
Now that you know your opponent, how will you prepare for this
fight? CS: I’ve already tried to obtain tape on him, but
no one has any. I’ll keep on training with my Team and show
up ready to go.
JC:
What is a typical training day for you? CS: A typical training
day consists of waking up early in the morning around 5:30AM,
train hard for 40 to 45 minutes either conditioning or weight
lifting, then in the afternoon I go into Team practice and we’ll
warm-up, do some drills, go live and get out of there in about
an hour and fifteen minutes. I try to train for as short a time
as possible, but we go very, very hard. Short intense training
a couple of times a day.
JC:
In a previously published interview, you were asked “How
do you feel about the current state of MMA?” to which you
answered “There are too many clowns that find reasons not
to fight. They like to say things like -- I’m not getting
paid enough money.” When I first contacted you about this
fight opportunity, your were more concerned with the purse and
not necessarily the opponent, travel, accommodations, etc. Is
this how you choose a fight? CS: I’m a professional fighter.
I fight for money. I’m not a neighborhood bully, and what
I mean by that is there are bullies in this sport who try to
pass themselves off as pro fighters. A bully will only pick on
people he thinks he can beat up and he’ll know ahead of
time who to be nice to and who to go pick on. I’m not that
guy. I will fight anybody at any time, or I will not fight at
all. If I back down from one person, then I won’t fight
any of them. I fight for money. If someone puts up money, I fight.
Everything else is secondary. Period. I’m not a street thug.
I don’t fight for free. I don’t fight outside of a
bar. I fight for money and if the money is there, then I fight.
The opponent doesn’t play into my decision. I fight for
money. If you put up the money, you’ll get a fight from
me. That’s it. The opponent, the rounds, the state, it’s
all secondary. Are we fighting for money or aren’t we? And
you’ve got guys calling themselves pro fighters and everything
sounds good until they hear the opponent, and suddenly they change
their tune. Then you’re not a pro fighter, you’re a
bully. Go hang outside a bar.
JC:
What is FIST-PAC? CS: We were promoting shows in the state of
Oregon and the legislators tried to shut us down by saying the
events were illegal. FIST-PAC is a political action committee.
We raise money and worked as lobbyist, essentially, to get the
laws changed to allow the competition to happen again in Oregon.
We were successful and events are actively going on here.
JC:
Who are we? CS: I had the laws changed with my partner, Kevin
Keeney. We represent the Full Contact Fighting Federation (FCFF).
We organized the deal. We had everyone from Randy Couture and
down go and testify on behalf of the cause. We spearheaded it
and followed it through and got the law changed.
JC:
What is the greatest misconception about you? CS: I don’t
think there are any.
JC:
Any last words? CS: I have good news and I have bad news. The
good news is the first punch might not land. The bad news is
there will be five more coming right behind it!
Source: ADCC |
2004
Pan-Ams - Registration hotter than ever!
3 Days of Matches Now
Information
directly from the CBJJ headquarters is that the registration
and interest for the 2004 Pan-Ams is hotter than ANY OTHER YEAR!
According to Marcelo Siriema, the CBJJ's organizing director,
registrations are running at a record clip: 'Kid, everyone is
very excited about the prospect of having the Pan-Ams in Los
Angeles and we are seeing a huge increase in early registrations!
Because of that we are expanding the days of competition to Friday,
Saturday & Sunday!'
It
looks like the top fighters in the World are taking this opportunity
to make a big statement and the contingent of stars coming this
year is growing by the minute. In addition to the already announced
names of Fernando 'Terere', Rodrigo 'Comprido', Eduardo Telles,
Ronaldo 'Jacare' , Damien Maia, Bibiano Fernandes , Mario Reis,
Fabio Leopoldo, Cassio Werneck, Paulo Guilobel & Jeff Curran,
we have word that Wander Braga, Sergio 'Malibu', Luis 'Limao'
Heredia & Luis Palhares are going to compete as well! According
to close friend Carlao 'Cao' Valente: 'Malibu' (who calls himself
the 'Rickson Gracie' of the Masters) told me that he is issuing
an 'open challenge' to anyone, in the age bracket, to show up
and fight the master!
For
more info and to register go to PanAm2004.
Source:
ADCC
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SULOEV
CALLS OUT BARONI...
BARONI HAS PLENTY TO SAY
There is a pretty interesting article on the Russian website,
Mixfight, which talks about Amar Suloev's strong desire to face
Phil Baroni again. The two tangled back at UFC 37 where Suloev
was doing pretty well, until an illegal knee from Suloev changed
the fight.
Baroni
came back with a huge flurry, got the fight to the ground and
ending up knocking out the Russian fighter. Now Suloev has made
it clear that he wants to fight Baroni again. Here's a portion
of the article from the link....http://mixfight.ru/eng/news.html
"One
of the best Russian middleweight fighters, Amar Suloev, (Red
Devil FT) has addressed to organizers of tournaments Mix-Fight
Championship M-1 " Russia vs World " with the offer
to organize a match - revenge with American sportsman, Phil Baroni."
"Even
it seemed to him, that Phil Baroni's conditioning and experience
more less than his level of preparation. But Amar Suloev has
admitted then a tactical mistake, and lucky just turn to face
of Phil Baroni won the fight. Now Amar Suloev it is completely
ready to a repeated fight and offers organizers to act without
the fee if they can organize this fight..."
The
article stated that the fight should happen in the M-1 promotion.
Last week on MMAWeekly Radio, Baroni told host Ryan Bennett that
he welcomes any fight (including a re-match with Suloev) and
will "knockout anyone" in his first fight back.
Baroni
told MMAWeekly, that he has a few things he needs to get off
his chest and will be on the radio show today to address a few
things.
Source: MMA Weekly |
BIG
12 CHAMPIONSHIP THIS SATURDAY: BEST IN COLLEGE WRESTLING THIS
YEAR?
The
Big 12 Conference -- which only has five schools with wrestling
teams -- may just be the best in all of college wrestling this
year.
Now
that the regular season has concluded, consider these statistics
about these five teams:
SCHOOL
RANKINGS* OVERALL BIG 12
OKLAHOMA
STATE 1-1-1 17-2 6-1
IOWA STATE 4-T4-4 16-4 3-1
NEBRASKA 2-2-2 19-3 2-2
MISSOURI 7-6-5 15-3 2-3
OKLAHOMA 10-9-9 14-8 0-6
* - Rankings are, in order: W.I.N. 2/24, NWCA 2/18, Intermat
2/24
Defending
NCAA and Big 12 champ Oklahoma State remains the top-ranked team,
while Oklahoma, which lost all six of its Big 12 meets this season,
was 14-2 against everyone else, and is ranked in the top ten
by these three major polls.
Now
these five wrestling dynamos will be pitted against each other
in a tournament with quite a lot at stake. The Big 12 Wrestling
Championships will be held Saturday, March 6, on the campus of
Iowa State at the world-famous Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
And this year's edition just may turn out not only to be the
best Big 12 tournament in history, but a tougher tournament than
even the NCAA's.
The
winners will, of course, earn the honors of being Big 12 champions,
both as a team and individuals. But there is another prize to
be won here. The Big 12 is allotted only 36 slots at the NCAA
Div. I Wrestling Championships. That means that the top three
finishers in each of the ten weights will be continuing their
hunt for a national championship. In addition, the coaches will
choose six more wild card entries for the NCAA's.
But
since the field is so deep in this conference, this formula will
also mean that several nationally ranked wrestlers will not be
able to compete at the NCAA national tournament.
At
149 and 184, for example, all five of the Big 12 wrestlers are
ranked in the top ten. At heavyweight, all five are ranked in
the top twenty. The way the allocations have been set up mean
that at most only four of them at each weight will go on to the
NCAA's.
That
will also limit the number of wrestlers each of these teams can
take to St. Louis for the NCAA's.
In
contrast, the Big Ten, with some top ten teams but several that
are not ranked in the top ten or even top twenty this season,
has an allocation of 72 slots for its 11 teams.
So
with the stakes so high, the competition will be especially fierce
at this year's Big 12's.
Here
is the schedule for the Big 12 Wrestling Championships at Hilton
Coliseum in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday, March 6, with all times
CST:
First
round 11 a.m.
Semifinals Noon
Consolation 4 p.m.
Finals 7 p.m.
The
official seeding meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Friday, March
5. The seeds will be posted right after that meeting at www.cyclones.com
.
Also,
Iowa State's Zach Roberson has been named the final Big 12 Conference
Wrestler of the Week for the 2003-04 season. Roberson became
the 28th Cyclone to pick up at least 100 victories in his career
with a 21-9 major decision over 10th-ranked Matt Keller in the
Cyclones’ victory over No. 2 Nebraska, 22-9
last Thursday. The senior All-American dealt Keller his first
loss in conference play and improved to 25-2 overall this season.
Roberson, a 133-pounder, is 6-2 against nationally ranked opponents,
picking up victories against Josh Moore (Penn State), Mark Jayne
(Illinois), Matt Sanchez (Cal-State Bakersfield), Mike Simpson
(Arizona State), Mimi Miller (Oklahoma) and Matt Ciasulli (Lehigh).
He has also amassed six total falls, good for second on the team.
Overall, Roberson has compiled a 25-2 record and a 16-2 conference
mark this season.
2003-04
BIG 12 WRESTLERS OF THE MONTH / WEEK
November:
Travis Paulson, Iowa State
December: Travis Pascoe, Nebraska
Jan. 12: Chris Pendleton, Oklahoma State
Jan. 20: Johnny Hendricks, Oklahoma State
Jan. 27: Jacob Klein, Nebraska
Feb. 2: Nate Gallick, Iowa State
Feb. 9: Jake Rosholt, Oklahoma State
Feb. 16: Tyrone Lewis, Oklahoma State
Feb. 23: Matt Keller, Nebraska
March 1: Zach Roberson, Iowa State
Now
let us offer you a Big 12 Wrestling Championship Preview, which
was written by Ben Schlesselman, Wrestling ISU Media Relations.
125
pounds
Nebraska's top ranked Jason Powell appears to be the clear cut
favorite as he has ripped through Big 12 competition undefeated.
'He's the leader of our team; if he does well then the whole
team does well,' Nebraska coach Mark Manning stated. Oklahoma's
Sam Hazewinkel has earned 28 wins this season and has fared well
in conference play also, only dropping to Powell and will be
looking to avenge a 3-1 loss to Powell suffered on Feb. 20 in
Lincoln. Oklahoma State's Cody Stites has picked up three conference
wins while Cyclone Grant Nakamura and Missouri's Austin DeVoe
have managed one.
133
pounds
Two-time NCAA Champion Johnny Thompson from OSU and Iowa State's
All-American Zach Roberson are expected to provide the thrills
in this tight weight class. Thompson got the best of Roberson
the last time the pair met in a 8-3 decision and dealt Roberson
his second loss of the season. On Roberson from coach Bobby Douglas:
'I think Zach has improved a great deal from last year. He's
healthy, has a great attitude and is ready for the Big 12 Tournament
and Nationals. The Big 12 Championships are going to be the most
competitive as they've been in a long, long time,' Cyclone coach
Bobby Douglas said. 'It could perhaps make for the best Big 12
Tournament of all times.' OU's Mimi Miller dealt Thompson his
only loss in conference action. Nebraska's Matt Keller is 2-2
in the Big 12 as well having lost to Thompson and Roberson. Junior
Paul Collum and freshman Brett Watkins have split time this year
for Missouri and the pair have combined for one conference win.
141
pounds
The stage is set for a rematch between Iowa State's Nate Gallick
and Oklahoma's Teyon Ware. Ware was knocked from the undefeated
ranks and dethroned from a number one ranking by Gallick on Jan.
30. Missouri's J.P. Reese will look to mix things up a bit as
he leads the conference in falls but has lost to Gallick and
Nebraska's Matt Murray twice. Murray is 19-4 overall and 4-1
in the Big 12. On Thursday, Gallick dealt Murray his first conference
loss of the year while Gallick finished undefeated with an unblemished
record of 5-0. OSU's Ronnie Delk has three conference wins but
has lost to all nationally ranked Big 12 opponents he has faced.
149
pounds
All five wrestlers competing are ranked in the top ten which
makes the weight class the toughest to wrestle in. Zach Esposito
and Jeremy Spates are ranked 2-3. Paulson was beaten by Shufelt
in Iowa State's historic win on Thursday as Shufelt moved to
24-3 on the year. Oklahoma's Jeff Ecklof is 27-11 overall and
has two conference victories. Oklahoma State's Esposito is an
impressive 8-0 in the Big 12 including two wins over Spates and
three wins over Ecklof. Spates just recently picked up his 100th
career victory against Northern Illinois and has beaten Paulson
and Shufelt this season. Paulson comes in with a 23-5 overall
record and has a 1-3 conference record. Shufelt has split his
matches against Spates and holds a 20-4 record overall. Ecklof
is coming off of an upset victory over Shufelt on Feb. 20.
157
pounds
With three wrestlers ranked in the top ten, 157 pounds is another
heavily congested weight class. Johny Hendricks, Kenny Burleson
and Travis Paulson have the best chance to come away with the
title. Hendricks has defeated Burleson and Paulson this year
and also beat nationally ranked Cornhusker B.J. Wright. Burleson,
a senior, has a 6-1 showing in conference action and a 29-4 record
overall this season. Due to an earlier injury suffered this season,
Paulson has only wrestled two conference matches, fell to Hendricks
and Burleson and picked up a forfeit victory. Wright has fared
as well as Paulson, dropping to OSU's Hendricks and MU's Burleson.
Rafael Maturino is 17-16 overall will be OU's representative
as he has seen time at 157 pounds and 165 pounds.
165
pounds
Oklahoma State's Tyrone Lewis is ranked number one and coming
off of a recent victory over the previously top ranked Troy Letters
of Lehigh. Lewis is 27-1 overall and undefeated at 8-0 in the
Big 12 like teammate Zach Esposito and compiled three wins over
Missouri's Tyrone Woodley. ISU's Nick Passolano is 19-3 overall
and his only conference loss is to Lewis. Woodley has managed
one conference win which is misleading because of his 19-7 overall
record. Nebraska's Jacob Klein is 15-6 and also lost to OSU's
Lewis. OU's Maturino or freshman Charles Jones, who has two conference
wins, will compete for the Sooners.
174
pounds
Oklahoma State boasts yet another powerhouse, this time in Chris
Pendleton who is undefeated at 28-0 overall and ranked first
in the country. Pendleton is the third OSU Cowboy to come into
the tournament with an 8-0 record in the Big 12. Missouri's Ben
Askren, a redshirt freshman, has lost to Pendleton three times
by decisions but leads the Big 12 with 17 total falls. Askren
is 27-4 and has the best shot at unseating Pendleton from the
undefeated ranks. OU's E.K. Waldhaus is nationally ranked with
a 25-7 season mark and should not be overlooked against Askren
and Pendleton. Iowa State's Grant Turner and Nebraska's James
Pummel round out the competition and will compete for their respective
schools.
184
pounds
Like 149 pounds, the competition will be fierce as each wrestler
is ranked in the top ten. Defending NCAA Champion Cowboy Jake
Rosholt is undefeated in conference play going an impressive
6-0. Nebraska's Travis Pascoe is 24-3 overall with his only losses
against Rosholt and Oklahoma's Justin Dyer. Dyer has climbed
up the rankings to become seventh overall in the nation. Missouri's
Matt Pell is 4-2 in the Big 12 only suffering losses to Rosholt
and Pascoe. Iowa State's Kurt Backes is 21-10 overall and picked
up his first conference win at the Cyclones' home dual, upsetting
Pascoe.
197
pounds
B.J. Padden of Nebraska is ranked second in the country and the
early favorite at 197 pounds. Iowa State's Trevor Smith is nationally
ranked and has two wins in conference action. Missouri's Jeff
Foust has two conference wins and earned 21 wins overall. OSU's
Rusty Blackmon also has two Big 12 wins but has endured five
conference losses. Oklahoma's Austin David or Joel Tapler will
represent the Sooners and have combined for one Big 12 victory.
Heavyweight
In the battle of heavyweights, Leonce Crump of Oklahoma is expected
to emerge victorious. Crump is 7-0 in the Big 12 and 27-1 overall.
Crump will go against Iowa State's Scott Coleman, Missouri's
Mike Whitehead, OSU's Will Gruenwald and Nebraska's Nathan McClain.
All five are ranked in the top twenty and Crump is the only heavyweight
undefeated in the Big 12 Conference. Oklahoma coach Jack Spates
says, 'Leonce is perfectly healthy - and he's hungry. We feel
quite confident as him repeating champion.' Coleman defeated
Whitehead and McClain to account for his conference wins and
Whitehead, at 21-7, also picked up a win over Gruenwald. Gruenwald
is 4-3 in the Big 12 and 21-10 overall for Oklahoma State.
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Quote
of the Day
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness
of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader,
Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
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Enson
to debut at Super Brawl!
April 16,
2004
Neil Blaisdell Arena
Hawaii's own Yamato Damashi, Enson Inoue will bring his kill
or be killed style to the Super Brawl ring. If you have not seen
Enson fight, you better ask somebody.
He
has fought the best heavyweights in Pride and even though he
has not come out on top all the time, he has ALWAYS put on a
great and entertaining performance. After seeing some of his
fights, you will understand why we say that he has a kill or
be killed style.
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Results
from TKO 15 "Unstoppable"
TKO
put on another quality show in Montreal Quebec on Feb 28, 2004
at the Pierre Charbonneau Centre with a total of 12 MMA matches.
Here are the results:
Jonathan Goulet def. Alex Gasson via rear-naked choke in R1
Mark
Bocek def. Mark Colangelo via TKO (Colangelo couldn't answer
the bell for R2)
Thierry
Quenville def. Phillipe Lagace via armbar at 4:45 of R1
Steve
Duguette def. Claude Tremblay via TKO at 3:02 of R1
Stephane
Dube def. Kajan Johnson via TKO at 4:54 of R1
Todd
Gouwenberg def. Marc Combier via TKO at 1:53 of R1
Stephane
Vigneault def. Troy Quesnelle via arm bar in R1
Kyle
Sandford def. Stephan Potvin via split decision
Bill
Mahood def. Yan Pellerin by TKO (Pellerin couldn't answer the
bell for R2)
(Mahood is pictured in the top photo dropping bombs on Pellerin)
Mark
Hominick def. David Gui Gui via tap out due to strikes at 4:26
of R2
Chris
Fontaine def. Steve Vigneault via KO at 1:56 of R2
Jeremy
Horn def. David Loiseau via tap out to guillotine at 0:54 of
R1
Look for a full report in the next issue of Full
Contact Fighter.
Source:
FCF |
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Rudimar
Fedrigo Interview
Chute
Boxe forever
Coming
recently from Japan, where his stars rocked at Pride once again,
Rudimar Fedrigo celebrates his team moment. In an exclusive to
TATAME.com, Rudimar talks about the Chute Boxe vs Team Japan
fights, the arrival of Jorge Patino Macaco in Japan and announces
that wants to be at Pride Heavyweight GP.
What
do you say about the Chute Boxe participation at last Pride?
It's
awesome, the team was great. Shogun is a very aggressive fighter
and is conquering day by day his place at Pride. Wanderlei is
confirming his great moment and presenting a very offensive ground
game, launching two bombs on Minowa's face from inside guard.
About Jadyson, it's his first bout in Japan and he'd a good experience.
How
do you explain Jadyson's loss?
I
think he felt his inexperience and his debut at Pride. Jadyson
wasn't able to do his game, but he'll have other opportunities
at Pride. While it doesn't happen, he continues fighting at Meca.
Have
you seen Zé Mário Sperry and Rodrigo Gracie's fights?
Sure.
Mário Sperry's fight was very fast. He threw a hard cross-punch
and hit Bencic in the right place, leaving the bout without a
hurt. I didn't see all the Gracie's fight, but while I was watching,
and in Rafael Cordeiro's opinion, Rodrigo won. He fought better.
You
brought Jorge Patino Macaco to present him for the Pride guys.
How did they receive him? Do you have any good news?
I
brought Macaco to present him as the new Chute Boxe fighter and
he probably will be at next show.
The
Heavyweight GP comes in April and all GP must have a Chute Boxe's
representative...
We'd
love to be at Pride GP Heavyweight and we have already chosen
our man. It'll be Murilo Ninja Rua. He's like a flash and he'll
take everybody. We want him weighing 105kg at Pride. Today, he's
almost 100kg. He'll rock!
How
do you see a possible fight between Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei
Silva?
The
Pride promoters never talked about this fight with me. Wanderlei
has signed a one year deal with the Japanese and they say who
Wanderlei fights. I think it's a possible meeting, but only if
they continue winning. Before it, Vitor probably faces Randy
Couture again and then he may be facing the Chuck Liddell vs
Tito Ortiz's winner. After all of this fights, probably in the
middle of September, they may be fighting, but not for the belts
unification. It'll be a good fight. Wanderlei probably defeats
him easily. Nowadays, nobody beats Wanderlei at his weight category.
Source:
Tatame |
Zé
Mario Sperry Interview
Redemption
in 11 seconds
With
an incredible victory over Croatian fighter Mike Bencic at 0:11,
the leader of Brazilian Top Team Zé Mario Sperry got redeemed
at Pride. Check out now the exclusive conceded by Zé Mario
to TATAME.com. The champion talks about his fast victory, the
other Brazilians at the tournament and how is BTT fighters' preparation
to Pride GP.
Did
you expect that fast victory?
In
fact I didn't expect it. I knew he would come over me and I thought:
I will exchange punches a little bit on the feet and then I will
try to put him down. So, I begun to kick him and he tried to
throw me a cross-punch. Then he tried again and I threw another
cross-punch over his and I hit his chin. He got KOd at that moment.
He
trains Mirko Cro-Cop...
Yeah,
Mike Bencic trains ground techniques with Cro-Cop. The guy has
15 victories of Thai Boxing in Croatia and eight MMA bouts and
just one loss. He is the Submission champion in Croatia and you
can tell he is tough. I have been training a lot of Muay Thai
and I feel even more confident
There
are people saying that Pride gave you an easy fight, like they've
done with Gary Goodridge at his farewell. What do you have to
say about it? You aren't in the end of your career, are you?
Dude,
I just turn 37 and I feel great. Leaving the ring is something
out of my mind. I just did my last contract fight at Pride, but
I already received proposals to fight other three times and who
knows the GP? I am very excited. About those comments, there
are people that are jealous and I answer them on the ring, with
lots of energy. I will only quit when my Team say to me that
I'm done
Once
you mentioned Pride GP, how is Minotauro and how is BTT with
the upcoming tournament?
The
only thing they talk about in Japan is Pride GP. Its gonna rule.
By the way, Minotauro stepped over the ring and invited the fans
to watch the first phase of the Grand Prix. Minotauro came back
to Cuba and he has been training to sharpen his Boxing skills.
We are anxious and focused on his training. It will be a great
step for BTT. I am also waiting for an invitation for myself.
There are 16 athletes and I may have a chance to go.
You
watched the challenge between Japan and Chute Boxe. Tell me about
the confronts.
Jadyson
got a very tough guy and it was decisive into his international
debut. Takanori Gomi put him down and didn't gave chance for
him. Shogun was amazing. He fought a good Muay Thai fighter,
Akihiro Gono and didn't give a damn about it. He drove the nut
with the KO. Wanderlei faced (Ikuhisa) Minowa, who trained a
while ago with us. Minowa tried to put Wanderlei down and he
almost did it. But once he tried, he was hit by a strong punch
and fell.
Source:
Tatame |
Tank
vs. Shamrock?
On Friday night at UPW's 5th anniversary show Tank Abbott and
his buddies were sitting at their table had a few dozen more
drinks.
Then
came Ken Shamrock.
Ken
Shamrock vs. Predator goes Dlb. DQ
Before
the match started, Shamrock gets on the mic and tells everyone
that and old buddy of his is in the house. Tank approaches the
barricade at this point. Shamrock points out their bout on July
3rd, only if Tank gets off his ass and signs the contract. Tank
then tries to storm the ring but is held back by about 110 security
guards and his friends. The match starts while Tank still tries
to storm the ring. After a couple of minutes, Tank sits back
down at this table and start cursing out Shamrock,with words
like "im gonna kill you Shamrock" And "Shamrock's
a bitch" and so on. (the guy at my table with his 3 kids
was real proud that Tank was using the F word to some of the
mocking crowd and Shamrock) It was about here that Tank was kicked
out, but not before getting the entire building to start chanting
"Abbott" He leaves out the emergency exit. 5 minutes
later, he's at the other Emergency Exit door, punching it, trying
to get in. Did I mention he was as drunk as an Irishman?
-
The following was posted by Bruce Buffer:
I
announced the Shamrock/Predator bout last night at the UPW show
and when Ken came in the ring he wanted the microphone to talk
and surprised everyone, including Tank, with his challenge to
Tank.
Tank
just blew up and was lost control. Security definitely had to
step in to keep Tank from getting into the ring. Had Tank stepped
into the ring, Ken and Tank would have started throwing right
then and there. I jumped out of the ring to help get Tank to
calm down and told him "don't fight for free here, if you're
gonna go do it in the Octagon." Tank was completely riled
up and livid, he was more pissed than I think I've ever seen
him in recent years. I went outside to talk to Tank in the parking
lot and he was still beside himself. I think he wants this fight
more now than ever to happen.
If
this fight takes place, we may finally see the savage Tank we
all remember. It will put an end to a long time rivalry of bad
feelings. Plus it would be a huge marquee fight for UFC/MMA fans.
I'd
love to see this fight happen. Two legendary warriors of the
Octagon who are scared of no man and who don't like each other.
Both of them would enter the Octagon on this future night with
an intensity we all know they are both capable of and it would
be a historic "WAR" IMO.
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Quote
of the Day
"The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry
heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us."
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Ring
of Honor is looking for amateur fighters
Ring Of Honor
Campbell High School, Ewa Beach, Hawaii
Friday, April 9, 2004
There are 8 amateurs fighters from the mainland in kickboxing
and MMA coming in to test themselves against Hawaii's fighters.
Anyone interested in fighting can email Kai Kamaka at kai@ringofhonor.tv or kai@808ff.com.
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5th
Hawaiian Championships of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Honolulu, Hawaii
April 24, 2004
For more information, please call James Tanaka (808) 223-9363
or email him at jkt@lava.net
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Fighters
Club TV New Episode This Tuesday!
Fighters' Club TV Episode 19 is cut and submitted to programming.
It's scheduled to run from this Tuesday (3/2/04) on Channel 52
at 6:00PM and will repeat for the following three Tuesdays (March
9, 16, and 23) and has a little something for everyone.
EPISODE 19 features:
-Highlights from Ray and Monica Cooper's "AFC 4", including
interviews with both winners and Ray "Braddah" Cooper
-Highlights from Master Mike Del Mar's "Solo Baton Escrima
Tournament"
-Highlights from the 6th "Sport's Jiujitsu Tournament"
+ interview with tournament coordinator, Tommy Lam
Technique of the Week:
-BJ Penn (a MUST SEE!)
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Submission
Wrestling Open I Quick Results
by: Kid Peligro / ADCC JJ Editor
Saturday
February 29th Ft Laurderdale Fl. (Results courtesy ATT)
Parrumpinha
(ATT) VS Hirota (Japan) - Parrumpinha wins 30 plus points to
negative 1.
Otto
Olsen VS Marcus Avellan - Otto takes this one 3-0 on a guard
pass.
David
Avellan VS Todd Margolis - David wins 3-0 on a guard pass at
the end. Good back and forth matchup with several takedowns that
almost scored.
Wade
Rome-ATT VS Rob Constance - Wade wins with a nice takedown at
the end 2-0.
Jeff
Monson-ATT VS Pe de Pano - Monson wins by guard pass 3 - 0.
Marcelo
Garcia (Fabio Gurgel) VS Pablo Popovitch - Marcelo wins via rear
naked with literally 1 second left. Marcelo had a guard pass
and was able to get o Pablo's back before finishing.
145
Tournament
Renato
Tavares ATT wins!
Renato
first took on Mike Cardoso defeating him 14-0.
Renato then faced off against Mike M. winning 2-0 in overtime.
165
Tournament
Rafael
Diaz ATT wins!
Rafael
first opponent was Ricardo Teixera winning by the score of 3-0
on a guard pass.
Rafael then faced off against Ryan Elison (Jacare academy). Winning
by the score of 5-0 on a takedown and then guard pass.
193
Tournament
Moacir
'Boca' Oliveira-ATT wins!
Boca
first took on Ken Kronenberg defeating him 10-0. Guard passes
and knees on the stomach to score points.
Next
up was Charles McCarthy. Boca wins 6-0 on 2 guard passes.
Absolute
Boca
wins again!!
Boca
beats Wisneiwski 5-0 then then beat a guy from Alliance (sorry
do not know name) 5-0.
Cardoso entered the Absolute and made it to the finals where
he bowed out to Boca.
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