[Centraal] MMA topic #12 Without Fedor & Couture

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Op donderdag 15 november 2007 23:48 schreef BB_Koning het volgende:

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Knap was hij niet, hij was niet mooi. Hij was ook niet lelijk, maar gewoon 'normaal'. Maar wel met een geile uitstraling!! Zn lichaam was wel superlekker, maar daar is ook nik svan over.

Wiehoeeee, Thiago Alves

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During Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., the organization announced a major championship bout for a future fight card.

The announcement came from former PRIDE executive Jerry Millen, who’s now working with Strikeforce.

Millen announced that undefeated Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez (13-0), one of the world’s top 155-pound fighters, will fight Josh Thomson (14-2), who’s riding a six-fight win streak. The string of wins includes four straight victories in the Strikeforce organization.

Both fighters were on hand at Saturday’s event and entered the cage for the announcement.

The title fight will take place March 29, most likely at the HP Pavilion in San Jose.

Melendez, a Mexican-American who formerly competed in PRIDE and Shooto, defeated current UFC fighter Clayton Guida for the title in June 2006. The 25-year-old then beat Tetsuji Kato at a September Strikeforce show in a non-title fight.

The Thomson fight will be his first-ever title defense.

Thomson, a 29-year-old American Kickboxing Academy fighter, went 2-1 in the UFC from 2003-04, defeating Gerald Strebendt and Hermes Franca, and losing to Yves Edwards.

The charismatic Californian has one of the biggest fan bases among Strikeforce’s stable of fighters.

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Fedor Emelianenko (26-1) will, in fact, fight in Japan on New Year’s Eve. His opponent? Seven-foot-two, 352-pound Hong Man Choi (1-0).

Greg Savage made the announcement on today’s Savage Radio Show.

Emelianenko signed with a restructured M-1 Global organization last month, but it was a non-exclusive deal. As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported, the fighter recently penned an open letter to fans in Japan saying he wanted to fight for them on New Year’s Eve, which had become an annual tradition for Emelianenko.

M-1 Global CEO Monte Cox said the organization couldn’t work out a deal, but late last week, the Russian M-1 website (which is different from the official M-1 Global website) briefly posted a message saying Emelianenko was booked for a New Year’s Eve event at the Saitama Super Arena, a 22,000-capacity multi-purpose venue in Saitama City, Saitama, Japan.

According to Savage, Emelianenko will fight for an event organized by Hustle Pro Wrestling, which involves former employees of the now-defunct PRIDE Fighting Championships organization.

Emelianenko, the former longtime PRIDE heavyweight champion, was once considered the sport’s undisputed top pound-for-pound fighter. That legacy has tarnished lately, though, as the Russian heavyweight has faced just three opponents over the past two years: a 41-year-old Mark Coleman, five-win veteran Mark Hunt, and middleweight Matt Lindland.

Emelianenko submitted all three opponents, but the victories have done little to help his once-spotless reputation. This latest reported fight probably won’t help either.

Choi, a 27-year-old South Korean, suffers from a rare disease that causes him to continue growing throughout his life.

Although he has just one MMA fight to his credit, Choi is an accomplished K-1 boxer (who owns a career 12-3 record) and wrestler.

Choi made his MMA debut last New Year’s Eve in a K-1 event and defeated two-fight veteran Bobby Ologun — a 215-pounder — with a TKO via punches just 16 seconds into the fight.

He was then scheduled to fight recent UFC signee Brock Lesnar in the former WWE performer’s MMA debut. The K-1 Dynamite!! USA show took place in June, but the California State Athletic Commission wouldn’t clear Choi to fight reportedly due to a benign tumor on his pituitary gland. (Min Soo Kim fought in his place and tapped out due to strikes in just 69 seconds.)

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2007 00:33 schreef Semargofni het volgende:
http://www.pandachute.com/kimbo-slice-vs-bo-cantrell.htm

Tevens TVP.

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Op woensdag 21 november 2007 11:08 schreef Unstoppable het volgende:

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Ze zouden iig meteen naar de #1 spot in Korea schieten, Choi is huge daar

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Op woensdag 21 november 2007 17:09 schreef The-Brahma-Bull het volgende:
Had wel over gelezen dat Kurt nogal wat dingen liet vallen. Maar was het nogal vergeten. Iets dat hij misschien met TNA zou stoppen voor MMA ofzo?

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Op donderdag 22 november 2007 01:18 schreef sampoo het volgende:
Kurt heeft niets in MMA te zoeken. Die kerel heeft niets met MMA. Als hij nou in zijn vrije tijd al aan MMA deed of iets naast zijn worstelen deed, had ik wat meer vertrouwen.

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Op vrijdag 23 november 2007 10:43 schreef Paxlie het volgende:
Matt Serra heeft een kapotte rug en kan derhalve niet vechten tegen Hughes

Hoop dat ze dan gewoon Hughes vs GSP doen als #1 contender match ofzo

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UFC President Dana White announced Thursday that Matt Serra will have to withdraw from the UFC 79 card due to an injury he suffered after his training earlier this week.

The current UFC welterweight champion, who was scheduled to fight Matt Hughes at UFC 79, suffered a herniated disc in his lower back on Monday following a routine training session in his Long Island gym.
“This is devastating news because they were so looking forward to fighting each other, said White.

“Unfortunately injuries happen and I look forward to Serra recovering quickly, and to getting him back into the Octagon.”

Serra had just finished a Jiu-Jitsu and wrestling training session and was demonstrating a move when he became gripped with pain and fell to the floor. Serra went to the hospital and underwent an MRI, which revealed the herniated discs in his lower back.

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” said Serra. “I’ve never had a back injury before; I could hardly get off of the MRI table. There is no way I can train through this, and I’m devastated, especially because this was such an important fight. I was looking forward to fighting Matt Hughes. All my training was going phenomenally until Monday – All I can do now is to get better and to fight again as soon as possible.”

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A mixed martial arts promotion based out of Las Vegas is starting a new event using a team format with MMA legends as coaches. Platinum Fighting Productions has named its event Ring of Fire – not to be confused with the venerable MMA promotion of the same name based in Denver.

PFP announced Royce Gracie, Josh Barnett, Gokor Chivichyan and Ken Shamrock as its first four coaches. Its first event is Ring of Fire, Manila, scheduled to take place Dec. 9 at Araneta Stadium in the Philippines, the home of the historic Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier fight known as “The Thrilla in Manila.”

International Fight League commissioner Kurt Otto acknowledged Shamrock’s involvement and confirmed that he is still a coach for IFL as well.

Each team will battle in four events to be held in the Philippines, Macau, Japan and China; with the best two teams progressing to the Final Ring of Fire event slated for December 2008.

Team Gracie features Cleber Luciano, Jorge Patino, Daniel Serafian, John Marsh and Katrine Alendal. Team Barnett will field Koji Oishi, Yuki Kondo, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Jeff Monson and Ginele Marquez. Team Gokar includes Karen Darabedyan, August Wallen, Rodney Faverus, Hakim Gouram and Amanda Buckner. Rounding out the field is Team Lion’s Den with Evan Dunham, Kyacey Uscola, Mike Whitehead, Ricco Rodriguez and Tonya Evinger.

The Dec. 9 event features Team Barnett versus Team Gokor.

-Koji Oshi (Barnett) vs. Karen Darabdeyan (Gokor)
-Yuki Kondo (Barnett) vs. August Wallen (Gokor)
-Renato “Babalu” Sobral (Barnett) vs. Rodney Faverus (Gokor)
-Jeff Monson (Barnett) vs. Hakim Gouram (Gokor)
-Ginele Marquez (Barnett) vs. Amanda Buckner (Gokor)

Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Zach Light will also participate in a separate bout on the Dec. 9 event and will reportedly be coached by UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson.

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