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Today’s Daily Video Fix features a heavy slant towards tonight’s UFC on FX 2 action in Australia, and why not? It’s not the biggest or greatest card the UFC’s ever promoted, but the televised card does feature at least three bouts with barn-burning pot…
Today’s Daily Video Fix features a heavy slant towards tonight’s UFC on FX 2 action in Australia, and why not? It’s not the biggest or greatest card the UFC’s ever promoted, but the televised card does feature at least three bouts with barn-burning potential.
Get set for all of the action from down under with today’s visual offerings.
It was the third show in as many weeks as the Britain’s Cage Warriors headed to Kiev, Ukraine for their latest offering, Cage Warriors 46, shown on Sky Sports this past Wednesday night in Britain. The broadcast began in the flyweight division as …
It was the third show in as many weeks as the Britain’s Cage Warriors headed to Kiev, Ukraine for their latest offering, Cage Warriors 46, shown on Sky Sports this past Wednesday night in Britain.
The broadcast began in the flyweight division as Neil Seery went up against Artemij Sitenkov.
This one lasted under a minute. After both fighters tested the waters they engaged in a clinch against the cage. The clinch didn’t last long as Sitenkov went downstairs within seconds with a rolling knee bar. Seery didn’t have much hope of escape, tapping out almost immediately.
Then it was up to welterweight as Dan Hope faced Alexander Voitenko.
An entertaining encounter saw Voitenko putting in a good display, the local hero was seemingly able to take Hope down at will. Hope put in some good defensive work but it was all to no avail.
Although Voitenko rarely went for a submission his ground and pound was spot on, bloodying Hope’s nose in the first and doing even more damage in the second.
By the time the third round started Hope looked exhausted, easy prey for another of Voitenko’s takedowns, and it came as no surprise when the referee stepped in when Voitenko’s barrage of blows went unanswered, giving the Ukrainian the TKO win.
It was back to flyweight for the next fight as Phil Harris took on Remi Morvan. Now, although this was announced as a flyweight bout, Morvan had actually missed the 125 pound limit by just over five pounds.
This one featured an even better display of ground fighting. Morvan scored with the impressive takedown early on and put in some good work before Harris reversed the positions.
We saw another couple of reversals until Morvan moved into Harris’ guard, only for the Englishman to lock in a triangle armbar for the impressive submission win.
The next fight featured middleweight action as Alexander Starikov went up against Pavel Kusch.
Starikov scored with the takedown within seconds of the start, but it proved to be his undoing as Kusch quickly locked in the “alma plata” for the submission win after just 30 seconds.
Then it was on to highlights from the bantamweight bout between James Brum and Leandro Gontijo.
Beginning in the second round, Gontiho put in some good work on the ground only for it to be spoiled by a two points deduction, one for continually grabbing the cage and one for headbutting.
As the fight progressed, Brum did a good job of spoiling the Spaniard’s attempts at turning this into a grappling contest, mainly because the Englishman was doing well in the striking department. His kicks looked brutal, and as the fight neared the end Gontiho was visibly limping.
With the fight going the distance it went down to the judges and Brum took the unanimous decision, unsurprisingly really considering the points deductions.
The co-main event featured lightweight action as Diego Gonzalez faced Ivica Truscek.
Truscek came forward as soon as the fight began, rolling off a succession of left jabs to the head and the body. Gonzalez soon grew tired of this and took the fight to the ground, taking Truscek’s back looking for a rear naked choke.
We almost had a controversial moment when Gonzalez connected with a knee to Truscek’s chest while the Croatian was grounded. The referee thought the Swede had connected with the head, but in a great show of sportsmanship Truscek told the referee where he’d been hit.
Truscek continued his striking tactics into the second round, scoring with some good shots to the head and body before Gonzalez took the fight to the ground, once again. This time around, though, he had even more success, locking in an arm-in guillotine for the submission win.
The main event featured heavyweight action as Andreas Kraniotakes faced Dmitry Poberezhets.
No testing of the waters for these guys, they began to swing early, although it wasn’t long before the fight went to the ground.
Once there, it wasn’t long before Kraniotakes took Poberezhets’ back, and although it took him a few moments Kraniotakes eventually synched in a rear naked choke for the submission win.
In conclusion—for the third week in a row the Cage Warriors crew put on another good show.
Each fight was great in its own way, and the mixture of British and European fighters showed that there is a great deal of untapped talent outside of the big American and Japanese-based organizations, talent that’s just screaming out for greater recognition.
So with that being said Cage Warriors 46 gets the big thumbs up from me as another example of British and European MMA at its best.
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Home to one of the best collegiate wrestling programs in the country, Arizona State University has turned into a hub for future mixed martial artists.Most recently, NCAA wrestling champion and former Sun Devil Bubba Jenkins made the jump from amat…
Home to one of the best collegiate wrestling programs in the country, Arizona State University has turned into a hub for future mixed martial artists.
Most recently, NCAA wrestling champion and former Sun Devil Bubba Jenkins made the jump from amateur wrestling to professional MMA. Despite his outstanding accomplishments in collegiate athletics, Jenkins is nowhere near reaching the level of success that many of his fellow Arizona State alumni have in MMA.
Since Dan Severn became the first Arizona State alum to step into a cage in December 1994, former Sun Devils have generated 54 wins inside the Octagon, one UFC championship, two Pride championships, one Strikeforce championship, one UFC superfight title, one The Ultimate Fighter title and five early-UFC tournament titles.
Here are the 10 former Arizona State students most responsible for the university’s reputation for cultivating elite mixed martial artists.
The mixed martial arts machine kicks into high speed today as fans and journalists alike prepare for a weekend packed with fighting action. Tonight’s UFC on FX card from Australia will give many fans around the world their first look at the flywei…
The mixed martial arts machine kicks into high speed today as fans and journalists alike prepare for a weekend packed with fighting action.
Tonight’s UFC on FX card from Australia will give many fans around the world their first look at the flyweight division when Joseph Benavidez, Demetrious Johnson, Ian McCall and Yasuhiro Urushitani step in the cage for the first round of a tournament to crown the UFC’s first-ever flyweight champion.
Saturday night sees the culmination of a long feud between Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey.
The pair square off in the most anticipated female mixed martial arts fight since Gina Carano faced Cyborg Santos over two years ago.
But, before the madness begins, let’s take a look at yesterday’s biggest stories in our latest UFC Morning Update:
Tate, Rousey Spar One Last Time Before Saturday Night
There’s no love lost between Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey.
The pair of bantamweights will finally be afforded the chance to settle their differences in a cage on Saturday night, but they took the opportunity to get in a few more verbal digs at each other during Thursday’s pre-fight press conference.
Tate steadfastly maintains that Rousey’s trash-talking is bad for the sport and that the Olympic judo medalist doesn’t deserve a title shot, while Rousey accurately points out that her verbal assault on Tate elevated the fight to main-event status.
UFC on FX 2 Fighters Make Weight in Australia
All 22 fighters scheduled to compete on tonight’s UFC on FX card in Australia made weight during the official fighter weigh-ins last night.
That includes new flyweights Joseph Benavidez and Demetrious Johnson, both of whom made the drop down from bantamweight to compete in a tournament to crown the first-ever UFC flyweight champion. All four flyweight competitors weighed in at exactly 125.5 pounds, which is a bit strange when you think about it.
There’s a first for everything.
Oh, and Thiago Alves? He had no problems making weight for the second consecutive fight, thanks to weight-management guru Mike Dolce. It’s the start of a good trend for the Brazilian.
Former Cro Cop, Fedor Manager Details PRIDE’s Japanese Mafia Ties
As the former manager of Fedor Emelianenko and Mirko Cro Cop, Mijo Mijatovic was certainly a power player behind the scenes during the glory days of PRIDE.
In this unedited interview from Spike TV’s MMA Uncensored Live, Mijatovic details PRIDE’s deep connection to the Japanese yakuza (mafia) and recounts several harrowing and life-threatening situations.
The full story of PRIDE’s rise to glory and eventual downfall may never be properly told, but this interview sheds plenty of light on the rampant corruption surrounding the Japanese promotion.
Henderson, Rampage Receive Possible Six-Month Medical Suspensions After UFC 144
New lightweight champion Benson Henderson received a potential six-month suspension after his UFC 144 win over Frankie Edgar last weekend in Japan. Henderson received the suspension due to possible broken bones in his hand and left foot, but can be cleared for an early return to the gym by a doctor.
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Eiji Mitsuoka also received six-month suspensions.
All three fighters will likely be cleared by their doctors long before the suspensions run out.
Poirier, Jung Headline UFC on Fuel 3 in Title Eliminator
Frankie Edgar may not be dropping to featherweight, but divisional champion Jose Aldo should have an opponent sooner rather than later.
That’s because top contenders Dustin Poirier and Chan Sung Jung will meet on May 15 to determine Aldo’s next opponent. The bout between Poirier and Jung—better known as “The Korean Zombie”—will serve as the main event for UFC on Fuel 3.
In an ideal world, we’d see Edgar abandon the lightweight division in favor of a super-fight with Aldo. However, that doesn’t appear to be on the docket, and so Poirier and Jung must suffice. It’s a fight with plenty of potential for excitement, and the winner will be more deserving of a title shot than anyone else currently in the division.
I’m just not sure either guy is truly ready to face Aldo.
BR MMA Story of the Day: Can Ryan Couture Live Up To High Expectations?
It can’t be easy being Ryan Couture.
He’s the son of a legendary fighter, and fans expect stellar performances from him every time he steps in the cage.
But, in reality, Couture is still a young fighter trying to make his way in the MMA world. Brian Lopez-Benchimol takes a look at the career arc of the younger Couture.
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Every now and then, someone will get excited when they learn I have a side gig writing about MMA. In those cases, the usual reaction is, “So you get to really follow the sport!””Well, how do you mean?””You get to order all the pay-per-views.””Right. Bu…
Every now and then, someone will get excited when they learn I have a side gig writing about MMA. In those cases, the usual reaction is, “So you get to really follow the sport!”
“Well, how do you mean?”
“You get to order all the pay-per-views.”
“Right. But you do know it’s on regular TV, too, right? And now, that’s not just occasionally, but fairly often?”
“WHA!?!?!”
The free TV cards (and I’m lumping Showtime and HDNet in with that) may not always be gangbusters. But more often than not, they’re pretty damn good, especially considering the entrance fee. That will continue tonight with UFC on FX 2, which will pit welterweight contenders Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann.
This list of the best non-PPV main events is for proof you don’t have to shell out $49.99 every month to follow MMA.
Scott Smith is dangerously close to slipping off the radar of high-level MMA and dissolving into obscurity. That means less opportunities at getting back to the top, and less paydays.He is facing three losses in a row and is facing an unknown opponent …
Scott Smith is dangerously close to slipping off the radar of high-level MMA and dissolving into obscurity. That means less opportunities at getting back to the top, and less paydays.
He is facing three losses in a row and is facing an unknown opponent in Lumumba Sayers, whose record is 5-2, and is getting the fight because of a win over Antwain Britt. He isn’t well known in the company and the only reason that this bout is making it to the main card is because of Smith’s notoriety.
While Smith should win because of his experience and knowledge, that comes from the prior level of opposition he has faced, and could lead to a loss.
If he does, he may just have to say goodbye to his time as a top MMA fighter.
Smith is 32 years old, and if he loses to Sayers it will be his second loss to a prospect in his last two fights. He will have gone from former contender to measuring stick, and while Strikeforce’s roster might be lacking, it will be hard to make the case that he should be a part of it.
Some fighters like Keith Jardine have made it onto Strikeforce with four losses, but he had won two fights since that time. The UFC had also put a lot of marketing into Jardine as he had beaten Chuck Liddell at one point.
Smith’s greatest claims to fame are being on The Ultimate Fighter, fighting Robbie Lawler for the EliteXC title and a penchant for making fights exciting. It is the last reason that has kept him with the company and on the main card.
As the losses rack up, the memories of what he was disappear along with the perceived notion of what he brought to the company. The fourth loss might make officials of the company forget them entirely.
If he loses to Sayers, Strikeforce may just have to let him go and this late in the game, there is very little that Smith could do to come back.
So Smith better walk into the cage not just to fight, but to do everything he can to win as well.
Because a fourth strike and he is out.
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