Friday, 30 March 2012
Bellator 63 weigh in results from Connecticut for 'Lozano vs Amassou'
Of the 20 fighters who stepped on the scale today, none of them missed weight for the first time this season.
Bellator 63 features the season six welterweight tournament. The main event will be headlined by a welterweight quarterfinal bout between "Psycho" Karl Amoussou and Chris Lozano. Amoussou is a French judo specialist while Lozano is trying to comeback from a tough knockout loss to last year's tournament champion, Douglas Lima.
Complete Bellator 63 weigh in results after the jump:
Main Card
170 lbs.: Karl Amoussou (170) vs. Chris Lozano (171)
170 lbs.: Raul Amaya (170) vs. Ben Saunders (170)
170 lbs.: Jordan Smith (169) vs. David Rickels (168.25)
170 lbs.: Bryan Baker (169.25) vs. Carlos Alexandre Pereira (171)
Local Feature Fights (Spike.com)
125 lbs.: Marianna Kheyfets (126) vs. Munah Holland (126)
185 lbs.: Dan Cramer (185.5) vs. Jeff Nader (184.75)
170 lbs.: Andrey Koreshkov (170.5) vs. Tiawan Howard (171)
145 lbs.: Saul Almeida (155.75) vs. Matt Bessette (154.5)
265 lbs.: Parker Porter (257) vs. Randy Smith (254.25)
165 lbs.: Ryan Quinn (165) vs. Marc Stevens (164)
145 lbs.: Pete Rogers (145) vs. Brandon Fleming (145)
Will Fedor Emelianenko ever come to the UFC? Dana White isn't even 'a little bit' interested
"Not even a little bit. That was a guy who was made an incredible offer, and they laughed at it. He ain't laughing now."
UFC 147 fight card and rumors for 'Silva vs Sonnen II' on June 23 in Brazil
Date: Sat., June 23, 2012, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view
Location: Joao Havelange Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Main Event:
155 lbs.: UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen
Other scheduled bouts:
185 lbs.: Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva
145 lbs.: TUF: Brazil featherweight finals
185 lbs.: TUF: Brazil middleweight finals
265 lbs.: Mike Russow vs. Fabricio Werdum
155 lbs.: Felipe Arantes vs. Milton Vieira
Jackson: GSP passed, Jones still being tested
"Both of them are amazing. Jon is still young, he is still being tested. He's had a couple of title defenses but he is still being tested and I have a lot of confidence that he will pass the test, as far as how you deal with fame, how you allow the people around you to change, who you bring in. GSP has passed those tests.
He's had the title for a long time and so George is always the leader of the charge. He's the guy that everybody emulates. Even other champions can learn, like Carlos Condit, he is now the interim champion, he is also our guy, so we all learn from George's example of staying humble, staying true to himself and keeping the people he has had around him forever, just around him still, being loyal. Constantly learning new things, so yeah, George leads the way. "
Mayhem: I'll quit UFC if Dollaway beats me
"I'm on my own chopping block. If I lose to him, I'm quitting! I don't even deserve to be in there! There's not an easy fight. In the UFC, there's no easy fight. He doesn't deserve to be in there with me, and I'll prove it. I'll prove it in under a round, because, we see...I tend to get tired in the second round (laughs). We're both in a similar spot in our career I guess. We're both on the chopping block. That's fine. I'm really happy with that."
"I don't get my ass kicked by sucky guys. I beat the Hell out of 'em. I just came up short that night. I'm not gonna make excuses for it. There's no point to doin' it. You know what I mean?"
"You know what? I have a new rule. I don't make excuses for fights until eight months after. So, I still have like five more months. I'll come back on here in five months and tell you guys what happened. There's no way to explain a fight you lost without going, 'Well, it was 'cuz of this,' or 'It was 'cuz of that.' There's no way. And I'm not that kinda guy.
That's not what I do."
"(Fighting is) something that I've had a close, intimate relationship with since I was 16 years old. So, there's something there that ... it's my wife. you know what I mean? I don't have a wife. That's my wife, and, ya know, someday she'll give me some kids."
via:SBNation
CWFC Fight Night 5: Bobby Brents v Chris Barnett
FOR the fourth consecutive show, a Cage Warriors event will be headlined by an exciting heavyweight tussle.
Bobby ‘Zombie’ Brents will take on Chris ‘Beast Boy’ Barnett in an all-American main event at CWFC Fight Night 5 in Jordan on Thursday, April 12.
29-year-old Brents (12-2-0), who trains out of the MMA Clinic/Fiore MMA in Illinois, returns to action for the organisation following his superb first round submission of Bellator heavyweight Rogent Lloret at Cage Warriors 45 in London on February 18.
His opponent at the New Boxing Arena in Amman, Florida native Barnett (7-1-0), is one of the USA’s top heavyweight prospects.
The 25-year-old’s only professional loss came via decision against 3-0 Bellator star Eric Prindle in October 2010, but he bounced back to secure a second round TKO win against American Top Team’s Mario Rinaldi, before defeating Walter Harris on a decision.
Both fighters will be eager to continue their progress in the heavyweight division in the hope of earning shot at CWFC heavyweight champion Mike ‘300’ Hayes, who captured the title with a victory over Andreas Kraniotakes at CWFC Fight Night 4 in Dubai earlier this month.
Also confirmed for next month’s main card at CWFC Fight Night 5 in Amman is a middleweight bout between Englishman Mike Ling (8-3-0) and France’s Eric Cebarec (8-5-0).
Both fights will be broadcast live by MMAJunkie.com – along with Brum v Back, N’Doye v James, Hucin v Cheng and Fields v Phillips – from 7pm (UK) on Thursday, April 12.
Fans can also view three prelims live on the Cage Warriors Facebook page from 6pm (UK). Kicking off the action will be a light-heavyweight contest between Egypt’s Mohamed Ali (4-3-0) and Doo Hwan Kim (3-0-0) of Korean Top Team.
Welshman Kris Edwards (6-3-0), one of Europe’s top bantamweights, will make his Cage Warriors debut against Finland’s Janne Elonen-Kulmala (4-2-0), and Kevin Donnelly (6-4-0) of Lion’s Den in Exeter will clash with Poland’s Piotr Hallman (8-1-0) in a lightweight bout.
All fighters made weight and ready for ONE Fighting Championship™: War of the Lions
After a series of intense stare downs in front of a massive crowd in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District, Asia’s largest mixed martial arts (MMA) organization is now full speed ahead for an epic showdown at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 31 March 2012. The event will be headlined by a battle between Felipe Enomoto from Japan and Zorobabel Moreira from Brazil.
ONE Fighting Championship™: War of the Lions also features a treat for Japanese MMA fans with an impressive line-up of DREAM and DEEP Champions. Thanks to the ONE FC Network and the partnership with DREAM, tomorrow’s fights will include phenomenal match-ups that feature DREAM superstar Tatsuya Kawajiri and DEEP Champions Masakazu Imanari, Yuya Shirai and Yoshiyuki Nakanishi.
A host of other international champions will also be featured in the event tomorrow. Melvin Manhoef, a K-1, DREAM and Strikeforce superstar from Holland, is one of the most feared strikers in the world. He will be facing DEEP Light Heavyweight Champion Yoshiyuki Nakanishi.
The most anticipated fights for Asian MMA fans would be the clash between Eduard Folayang and Ole Laursen, as well as the professional MMA debut of Singapore’s first female professional MMA fighter Nicole Chua. Nicole Chua will be competing against 7-time National Kickboxing Champion Jeet Toshi from India.
Tickets for the show in Singapore are on sale via www.SISTIC.com.sg. MMA fans from anywhere in the world* can catch the action via live streaming free-of-charge on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/
Live streaming commences:
8:00 PM – Kuala Lumpur
1:00 PM – London
8:00 AM – New York City
5:00 AM – San Francisco
* Free live streaming is geo-blocked in Singapore and Japan
ONE Fighting Championship™: War of the Lions
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Fight Card
Felipe Enomoto Japan | vs | Zorobabel “Zoro” Moreira Brazil |
CFC Euro Champion | Lightweight | BJJ World Champion |
Enomoto Dojo | Evolve MMA |
Tatsuya “Crusher” Kawajiri Japan | vs | Donald Sanchez USA |
DREAM Superstar and Shooto Champion | Featherweight | KOTC Bantamweight Champion |
T-Blood | FIT NHB |
Ole “Iron Fist” Laursen Philippines | vs | Eduard “Landslide” Folayang Philippines |
MC and World Champion | Lightweight | URCC Welterweight Champion |
Legacy Gym | Team Lakay |
Yuya Shirai Japan | vs | Fabricio “Pitbull” Monteiro Brazil |
DEEP Welterweight Champion | Welterweight | BJJ Champion |
Team M.A.D. | Evolve MMA |
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi Japan | vs | Melvin “No Mercy” Manhoef Holland |
DEEP Light Heavyweight Champion | Catchweight | Cage Rage Light Heavyweight World Champion |
Team M.A.D. | Mike’s Gym |
Jian Kai Chee Malaysia | vs | Eddie “The Magician” Ng Hong Kong |
Malaysian Muay Thai Champion | Lightweight | Total Combat FC Champion |
Muayfit | Evolve MMA |
Masakazu “Ashikan Judan” Imanari Japan | vs | Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon Philippines |
DREAM Superstar and DEEP Champion | Bantamweight | URCC Flyweight Champion |
Team Roken | Team Lakay |
Jeet Toshi India | vs | Nicole Chua Singapore |
7X National Kickboxing Champion | Catchweight 44kg | Singapore’s 1st Female Pro MMA Fighter |
FCC India | Evolve MMA |
Quek Kim Hock “The Hulk” Singapore | vs | Major Overall USA |
National Boxing Champion | Lightweight | |
Juggernaut Fight Club | Muayfit |
Jiang Long Yun “Northern Tiger” China | vs | Yodsanan “Little Tyson” Sityodtong Thailand |
Art of War Veteran | Bantamweight | WBA Super Featherweight Champion |
Extreme Sanda Team | Evolve MMA |
Richie “Hell Boy” Whitson USA | vs | Danny van Bergen Holland |
X-1 Champion and TUF Veteran | Lightweight | KSW Lightweight Tournament Semi-Finalist |
Team Quest | Mike’s Gym |
Thursday, 29 March 2012
UFC 146 fight card and rumors for 'Dos Santos vs Overeem'
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2012, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
Location: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada
Main Event:
UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos vs. Alistair Overeem
Main Card:
265 lbs.: Frank Mir vs. Cain Velasquez
265 lbs.: Roy Nelson vs. Antonio Silva
265 lbs.: Shane Del Rosario vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
265 lbs.: Mark Hunt vs. Stefan Struve
Preliminary Card:
145 lbs.: Diego Brandao vs. Darren Elkins
155 lbs.: Edson Barboza vs. Evan Dunham
185 lbs.: Jason Miller vs. C.B. Dollaway
155 lbs.: Paul Sass vs. Jacob Volkmann
170 lbs.: Dan Hardy vs. Duane Ludwig
205 lbs.: Glover Teixeira vs. Kyle Kingsbury
145 lbs.: Mike Brown vs. Daniel Pineda
CWFC Fight Night 5: James Brum v Thomas Back
Brum (8-2-0), who fights out of Gym 01 in Portsmouth, impressed many with his performance against Leandro Gontijo at CWFC 46 in Kiev last month.
The 24-year-old dominated from start to finish to secure a unanimous decision victory on his Cage Warriors debut, which saw him burst into the top ten in the European rankings and receive the YourMMA.tv UK MMA Fighter of the Month award.
Back (5-4-0), a 38-year-old Swede fighting out of Finland, has previously been ranked in the European top ten and his last win also came against Gontijo back in September.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Bellator tournament format is pure, not changing anytime soon
"Not unless they drag me out of here kicking and screaming. It's real sports competition. It's football, baseball, basketball, soccer -- every sport we've watched since we were kids is competition. You start with a group and then at the end there's one. Being involved in boxing through the years, the matchmaking in boxing seemed so theatrical -- you know the outcomes of the fights before they occur. That's what I wanted to do away with. Not everybody is going to be in love with the format, nor is everybody going to be in love with the matchmaking format where you have to ask for a world title fight. Should the Giants just be bestowed the opportunity to play in the Super Bowl again? Or should they have to go through the season of 16 games? My answer is, you've got to go through it. All that matters is when that cage door shuts, do you win? I think that's the purest form of sports."says: CEO Bjorn Rebney
Cesar Gracie: I’m Not Going to Let Nick Diaz Retire
Diaz’s longtime trainer and manager, Gracie told the Sherdog Radio Network’s “Beatdown” show that his fighter is sick of the politics in the sport, but eventually he’ll fight again.
Other topics discussed on “Beatdown” included Diaz’s suspension for a positive marijuana test, the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s policies and more.
On how Diaz is handling the suspension: “He’s pretty relaxed actually. He’s not stressed out about anything. I was with him last night. He did a few rounds boxing. Nick’s a martial artist. He’s always in some kind of training. It drives him crazy not to be. He’s always doing jiu-jitsu. He’s always doing a little something. Mentally, he’s doing great right now.”
On Diaz’s positive test: “It might be a good thing because will they make the Nevada State Athletic Commission explain themselves? … Marijuana’s like alcohol. You can’t be drunk for your fight and you can’t be high on marijuana for your fight. But they don’t test to see if you, a month before, if you drank alcohol. Oh my God, we’re going to have to fine you because you drank alcohol a month before your fight or eight days or two weeks or whatever they want to say. You can get drunk the night before your fight. You just can’t get drunk the day of your fight.
“Their testing policy does not make sense, not only to the layman like you and me but also to the World Anti-Doping Agency. They don’t test the way that [the NSAC does]. They don’t do the metabolites, I think it’s called. That just shows if you had weed in your fat cells that was stored there up to 45 days before your fight. It doesn’t make sense.”
On athletic commissions deeming marijuana a prohibited substance: “It’s actually worse than testosterone and steroids because you can get a prescription for that and then it’s OK. You’ve got these guys and they’re doing these drugs that are terrible for their bodies and everything, and these other guys that are smoking a plant. And I’m not condoning the smoking of it; that’s up to you. You’re an adult. You’re an American citizen and you have rights. This is an arcane policy. It doesn’t make sense. It’s like we’re back in the 50s or something. It’s very odd, for sure.”
On why Diaz didn’t list marijuana as a prescribed drug on a pre-fight questionnaire: “Marijuana in Nevada is not recognized as a prescription drug. Even in California it isn’t. Technically, from a legal standpoint, a doctor cannot prescribe marijuana. You can’t go to a pharmacy and buy it. Therefore, technically, it’s not a prescription. The way the law is, is it’s a recommendation and not a prescription. So when Nick put no to prescription, that’s actually factual. And we looked into that before because in previous fights he wanted to put yes, it’s a prescription, but it’s not a prescription.
“… Why would he lie? Everyone knows he smokes marijuana. So what’s he gaining from it? The L.A. Times had a piece where he said he smokes it. What’s he gaining from lying? Are they saying that if he would have put he smokes marijuana, they would have said it was OK? Because they haven’t approved one person. In the history of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, since it’s began, it has not made one exemption for [marijuana]. So what is Nick gaining by putting no on there? They’re playing this weird little game of, ‘Oh, he should have put yes here,’ but they’ve never approved anybody on it and they weren’t about to approve it this time. They’re playing like a smoke-and-mirrors game. It’s really odd.”
On why Diaz will challenge the commission over disciplining him: “It’s something he sees as unjust, not just for himself but for people that are going to come after him. He’s been an advocate, as you know. He speaks his mind and he’s one of those guys that likes to smoke marijuana. He’s like Joe Rogan. I’ve told him, ‘Hey, let’s focus on not talking about that,’ but Nick is a free thinker. He says what’s on his mind at all times. He’s a very truthful person. He doesn’t lie about stuff. … I think with Nick it’s like, who’s going to want to get a fat fine? For me, the suspension does come into play because I’m one of the guys that doesn’t want to see Nick quit. He’s at his prime. I can understand his frustration.
On whether Diaz will end up with a target on his back: “Well, if the truth makes waves, we’re going to make waves. That’s just the way it is. If that puts a target on your back, Nick’s going to put a target on his back. Because we’re not going to back down from a system that wants you to lie constantly, that wants you to dodge things, wants you to pretend. The whole thing is about pretending. I can tell you, all these UFC guys, they’re out there smoking. I mean, I see them. They smoke marijuana and then they take these chemicals -- and when I say chemicals, it’s that stuff you can buy over the counter and that guarantees you’re going to pass the test. It masks it. It masks it in your urine so that the metabolites don’t show, and you can just take one of those.
“You go, ‘Well, why didn’t Nick take one of those?’ Because Nick is such a purist when it comes to his diet that he’ll look at something like that and he goes, ‘Well, this contains artificial dyes or artificial flavors, artificial this and that,’ and then he doesn’t want to do it. It drives me crazy. I’m like, ‘Nick, just take this, and you’ll be like all these other UFC guys that are smoking and are taking it,’ but he won’t do that because he thinks it’s bad for his body.”
On other issues Diaz has with the Nevada commission: “He never thought that the judges in Nevada have liked him. There’s always been a bias against him. He doesn’t know what he has to do to win a fight in Nevada. … He thinks there are biased judges, and I would have to agree with that. There’s no panel to review these judges’ decisions and see if these guys should continue judging.”
On why Diaz is considering retirement: “He’s sick of the politics, the whole marijuana thing, the judges … . It’s kind of a weird thing, but let’s face it: I’m not going to let that guy quit. I just don’t see that happening. He’s too good and he’s too important in this sport, I think. If it’s up to me, there’s no way that’s going to happen.”
via:Sherdog
Thiago Silva is ready to die in Sweden
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