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Cris Cyborg will put the Bellator women’s featherweight title on the line April 23 when she faces Arlene Blencowe at Bellator 278 in Honolulu. According…
Cris Cyborg will put the Bellator women’s featherweight title on the line April 23 when she faces Arlene Blencowe at Bellator 278 in Honolulu. According…
The MMA world is waiting to hear that Chris Cyborg and Holly Holm have signed on to do the damn thing already. The long anticipated title fight between the two has been in the works for a while now, but numerous hiccups seem to keep getting in the way. The biggest issue, outside of Cyborg […]
The MMA world is waiting to hear that Chris Cyborg and Holly Holm have signed on to do the damn thing already. The long anticipated title fight between the two has been in the works for a while now, but numerous hiccups seem to keep getting in the way. The biggest issue, outside of Cyborg […]
Okay…my name is Tito Ortiz…my name is Tito Ortiz…*clears throat* “Good afterday. My name is Ito Tortiz.”
If you’re unfamiliar with our “Unsupportable Opinion/Counterpoint” columns, they’re our attempts at taking an issue that most MMA fans are in agreement on and arguing for the other side, even if we don’t necessarily believe anything we’re writing. Sometimes, they’re actually right. Hell, sometimes they’re downright prophetic. Usually, they’re even more wrong than we imagined. Regardless, they’re usually just a way to argue against popular opinion, so try not to call me too many mean names over this column, okay? I’m sensitive, you guys.
Anyways, the general consensus on the latest attempt at public speaking by Tito Ortiz – the press conference he held to announce that Cyborg had signed with Invicta FC – is that it ended predictably. He did fairly well until the part where he had to open his mouth, and then…tragedy.
Video is After the Jump
Okay…my name is Tito Ortiz…my name is Tito Ortiz…*clears throat* “Good afterday. My name is Ito Tortiz.”
If you’re unfamiliar with our “Unsupportable Opinion/Counterpoiunt” columns, they’re our attempts at taking an issue that most MMA fans are in agreement on and arguing for the other side, even if we don’t necessarily believe anything we’re writing. Sometimes, they’re actually right. Hell, sometimes they’re downright prophetic. Usually, they’re even more wrong than we imagined. Regardless, they’re usually just a way to argue against popular opinion, so try not to call me too many mean names over this column, okay? I’m sensitive, you guys.
Anyways, the general consensus on the latest attempt at public speaking by Tito Ortiz – the press conference he held to announce that Cyborg had signed with Invicta FC – is that it ended predictably. He did fairly well until the part where he had to open his mouth, and then…tragedy.
Tito Ortiz immediately botches the name of his own client, calling her Cristiane “Santos” Cyborg, before delivering the non-sequiturs and mispronunciations you’ve come to expect from Tito Ortiz. Needless to say, everyone has been busy talking about this press conference, and everyone agrees that it was terrible.
Well, hear me out: Maybe Tito Ortiz didn’t completely ruin the press conference with his usual nonsense. After all, we’re still talking about it, even though absolutely nothing about Cyborg signing with Invicta has been surprising. We knew she was going there. We knew that Cyborg wasn’t going to try to cut to 135 pounds just to fight Ronda Rousey. Frankly, if Saturday wasn’t a slow news day, we may not have been talking about her decision to sign with Invicta in the first place. If Tito’s job at the press conference was to get us talking about Cris Cyborg, then did he fail?
Okay, counterpoint over. Yes. He failed. It was terrible. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.
(Hiroko’s ‘long-game’ plan is all coming together now | Photo courtesy of CombatLifestyle)
Cris “Cyborg” Santos tested positive for banned substances after her December 17th fight last year in California and was subsequently suspended for one year by the state’s athletic commission. Yesterday an appeal from the former 145 pound champion to reduce her suspension to six months was rejected by the California commission.
MMA Weekly reports that Santos’ team was trying to get clearance to fight on a coming StrikeForce card. “Santos’ appeal was asking for the commission to reduce her sentence from one year down to six months. According to her lawyer, Santos was up for a potential fight on an upcoming Strikeforce show in “late June/early July’ in San Diego,” they wrote.
Ultimately, the CSAC voted unanimously to uphold “Cyborg’s” one year suspension. If things stay that way, she will only be able to re-apply for for a license until December 17th, 2012. It’s been a rough year for MMA’s top female fighter. First she was popped for steroids after her 16 second execution of Hiroko Yamanaka (a win that was then turned to a “No Contest”), and then she announced that her and her husband, the other “Cyborg,” were getting divorced.
Since it might be a long time till you Chute Boxe fans get to see her in action again, we’re putting some highlights of her beating up hapless women (and Tito Ortiz) below for you to enjoy:
(Hiroko’s ‘long-game’ plan is all coming together now | Photo courtesy of CombatLifestyle)
Cris “Cyborg” Santos tested positive for banned substances after her December 17th fight last year in California and was subsequently suspended for one year by the state’s athletic commission. Yesterday an appeal from the former 145 pound champion to reduce her suspension to six months was rejected by the California commission.
MMA Weekly reports that Santos’ team was trying to get clearance to fight on a coming StrikeForce card. ”Santos’ appeal was asking for the commission to reduce her sentence from one year down to six months. According to her lawyer, Santos was up for a potential fight on an upcoming Strikeforce show in “late June/early July’ in San Diego,” they wrote.
Ultimately, the CSAC voted unanimously to uphold “Cyborg’s” one year suspension. If things stay that way, she will only be able to re-apply for for a license until December 17th, 2012. It’s been a rough year for MMA’s top female fighter. First she was popped for steroids after her 16 second execution of Hiroko Yamanaka (a win that was then turned to a “No Contest”), and then she announced that her and her husband, the other “Cyborg,” were getting divorced.
Since it might be a long time till you Chute Boxe fans get to see her in action again, we’re putting some highlights of her beating up hapless women (and Tito Ortiz) below for you to enjoy:
“Cyborg” taking apart Yamanaka:
Santos beating up Gina Carano (not cool, “Cyborg,” not cool. What if you would have ruined Gina’s movie career?):
Santos beating up various people in a highlight video:
“Cyborg” and Tito Ortiz grappling:
Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal had expressed hopes of winning a Strikeforce title again following his win over Lorenz Larkin at Strikeforce: Lukehold vs. Jardine.Now the former light heavyweight champ could be out for a year thanks to controversy.&…
Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal had expressed hopes of winning a Strikeforce title again following his win over Lorenz Larkin at Strikeforce: Lukehold vs. Jardine.
Now the former light heavyweight champ could be out for a year thanks to controversy.
According to MMAJunkie.com the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Lawal tested positive for the anabolic steroid Drostanolone following his January 7th match.
Drostanolone is often used for bodybuilding and cutting cycles.
In his recent match up Larkin, Lawal dominated his opponent with overpowering wrestling and ground and pound.
Sport’s illustrated Lorreta Hunt, she’s seen “Drostanlone connected to injury recovery most in the explanations given by fighters that have tested positive for it in the past.”
Hunt also tweeted that Lawal told her he didn’t take any steroid before the fight.
Lawal is the second Strikeforce fighter who has failed a drug test this month.
Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos was suspended earlier in the month for testing positive for anabolic steroids.
If Lawal is punished like other first time offenders in MMA, he could face up to a year suspension and get fined.
This is bad news for Strikeforce which is already short handed on fighters.
The company recently dissolved it’s heavyweight division to the UFC.
Strikeforce also lost champions Dan Henderson, Nick Diaz, and Alistair Overeem to the UFC last year.
Now they will be without arguably one of it’s most promising and entertaining stars.
Stay tuned to Bleacherreport MMA for the latest updates.
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Ailing promotion Strikeforce is in dire need of the services of mixed martial artist turned actress Gina “Conviction” Carano, and they need her now. The former women’s Strikeforce title contender has been on a self imposed furlough si…
Ailing promotion Strikeforce is in dire need of the services of mixed martial artist turned actress Gina “Conviction” Carano, and they need her now.
The former women’s Strikeforce title contender has been on a self imposed furlough since she fought and lost to Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, in the company’s first women’s championship bout back in August of 2009.
Since then, there have been rumors of her possible return to the outfit—Dec. 17, 2011 was a date pencilled in, but nothing came to fruition.
Also, during that period, Carano (7-1 MMA, 0-1 SF) forged an acting career—most recently, the Steven Soderbergh’s action flick Haywire, which is due out for general release on Jan. 20 2012.
Whilst the former face of women’s MMA was transitioning to the art of thespianism, the San Jose-base promotion was in the process of being acquired by the Zuffa-based promotion UFC, which finally took place in March of 2011.
This consequently lead to the sudden demise of the promotion, which to be honest wasn’t exactly fairing well up to them.
At present, Strikeforce is almost in the doldrums and with no pay-per-view to augment their ratings—an injection of sorts is required to keep it from flagging any further.
Gina Carano is the right person for the job, and here are the reasons why.