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Heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been working on his kicking game with a former UFC middleweight. Joshua is at the top of the heap when it comes to the heavyweight division of boxing. He holds the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles…
Heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been working on his kicking game with a former UFC middleweight. Joshua is at the top of the heap when it comes to the heavyweight division of boxing. He holds the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles. The only major championship he doesn’t lay claim to is the […]
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Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller is supposedly ready to change his entire life in following his submission loss to Mattia Schiavolin at last Saturday’s Venator FC 3 fro Milan, Italy; a fight before which he missed weight by a baffling 24 pounds for his originally scheduled middleweight title bout with Luke Barnatt. It’s common knowledge that the
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Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller is supposedly ready to change his entire life in following his submission loss to Mattia Schiavolin at last Saturday’s Venator FC 3 fro Milan, Italy; a fight before which he missed weight by a baffling 24 pounds for his originally scheduled middleweight title bout with Luke Barnatt.
It’s common knowledge that the former UFC and Strikeforce competitor has fallen on hard times as of late with seemingly countless run-ins with the law that continuously appear on the pages of tabloid sites everywhere, but in an interview with MMANews.pl (via Bloody Elbow) after his Venator loss, ‘Mayhem’ vowed to turn it around:
“If you don’t learn from an experience, that’s ’cause you haven’t thought about it long enough. Look, it’s only been about an hour and I already thought a lot about this. I have an idea of where to start to change my whole life.”
Miller noted that he wouldn’t make excuses, instead choosing to focus on getting back into the cage, even in defeat. With a positive mindset on place, Miller said he wants to shake off the ring rust:
“I don’t like to make any excuses. I pride myself on being able to fight anyone at any time,” Mayhem said. “Mattia really cranked it up tonight. I felt like I was winning, but then I was losing. Suddenly I lost. I’m kinda shaking some ring rust off. It was a hard way to learn it in front of a beautiful Italian crowd, but I feel this is kind of a re-awakening of the Mayhem. I felt a positive feeling that I haven’t felt the longest time. So despite the loss I’m being hopeful for the future.”
The man who once hosted MTV’s “Bully Beatdown” — and fought al-time great UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre — took an honest retrospective from the bout, finding small positives while admitted that there was still much to be worked on. With that established, Miller closed by affirming that his excitement for MMA was back:
“You can see by my performance, it wasn’t a complete loss,” he said. “I had my moments of goodness, but overall I see that there’s a lot to be fixed. I’ll go back to the drawing board, tweak some things, figure some things out. I had a lot of fun, but not as much fun as I could have had.
“I have a lot to work on, now I have a starting point. I haven’t been in front of a crowd in four years. That was a big thing, because of that excitement. […] A lot of things went wrong. But I’m still Mayhem, still here, and you can’t kill Mayhem!”
With his endless and concerning legal troubles having unfortunately portrayed as nothing but a raving lunatic of sorts for the past several years, it’s no doubt refreshing to see ‘Mayhem’ focused on something good like athletic competition. Staying sober and out of trouble as he prepares to resurrect his martial arts career will be another thing, however.
Are you rooting for the ‘Mayhem’ to return, or have you already seen enough?
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It was a rough night for UFC veterans Rousimar Palhares and Jason “Mayhem” Miller Saturday at Venator FC 3, as both were defeated in their respective matches.
Palhares, a former World Series of Fighting champion, was knocked out by Emil Weber Meek i…
It was a rough night for UFC veterans Rousimar Palhares and Jason “Mayhem” Miller Saturday at Venator FC 3, as both were defeated in their respective matches.
Palhares, a former World Series of Fighting champion, was knocked out by Emil Weber Meek in just 45 seconds, while Miller suffered a second round rear-naked choke defeat at the hands of Matta Schiavolin in his first fight since 2012.
Luke Barnatt, Miller’s original opponent until he came in 24 pounds over weight, scored a victory over Stefan Croitoru to become the Venator FC middleweight champion and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou finished Matt Hamill in another featured bout.
Complete results can be found below:
Emil Weber Meek def. Rousimar Palhares via TKO (strike) at :45 of Round 1
Luke Barnatt def. Stefan Croitoru via TKO (strikes) at 2:32 of Round 2 to become Venator FC middleweight champion
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou def. Matt Hamill via KO (strike) at :37 of Round 1
Marvin Vettori def. Igor Araujo via submission (guillotine choke) at 1:13 of Round 1
Mattia Schiavolin def. Jason “Mayhem” Miller via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:10 of Round 2
Karl Amoussou def. Giovanni Melillo via TKO (strikes) at 4:51 of Round 1
Jack Hermansson def. Ireneusz Cholewa via TKO (strikes) at 1:05 of Round 3
Cody McKenzie def. Valeriu Mircea via submission (guillotine choke) at 1:30 of Round 2
Che Mills vs. Terry Montgomery was declared a no-contest due to an illegal elbow
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In the latest wild Jason “Mayhem” Miller story, the former UFC fighter and “Bully Beatdown” host missed weight for his Venator title fight against former Ultimate Fighter contestant Luke Barnatt by an astonishing 24 poun…
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In the latest wild Jason “Mayhem” Miller story, the former UFC fighter and “Bully Beatdown” host missed weight for his Venator title fight against former Ultimate Fighter contestant Luke Barnatt by an astonishing 24 pounds.
As a result of Miller badly missing weight, Venator officials have pulled him from the scheduled title fight, which was going to headline Saturday night’s Venator FC III event.
The company attempted to keep the fight in tact, offering Barnatt 30 percent of Miller’s purse and an additional five thousand Euros, however he declined, giving the promotion no choice but to pull Mayhem.
Now, a fight between Barnatt and Stefan Croitoru will headline the event, which is scheduled to take place in Milan, Italy.
(“209 pounds? Yeah, it must be the shorts.”)
You guys remember how Jason Miller was recently plucked from whatever Mission Viejo drug den he’s been rotting away in and booked for a fight against fellow former UFC middleweight Luke Barnatt, right? Or that even after being booked in said fight, he seemed to be under the impression that he was fighting UFC heavyweight Josh Barnett? How about the fact that he was *then* arrested and held on a million dollars bail, or that the President of the promotion that booked him then used a satirical statement we wrote as his company’s actual press release?
Well, it might shock you to learn that Miller hasn’t exactly used this fight as an opportunity to turn his life around, as some have suggested it would be. At this morning’s weigh-ins, Miller showed up a staggering 24 pounds over the middleweight limit and has subsequently been pulled from his fight.
Video and details after the jump.
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(“209 pounds? Yeah, it must be the shorts.”)
You guys remember how Jason Miller was recently plucked from whatever Mission Viejo drug den he’s been rotting away in and booked for a fight against fellow former UFC middleweight Luke Barnatt, right? Or that even after being booked in said fight, he seemed to be under the impression that he was fighting UFC heavyweight Josh Barnett? How about the fact that he was *then* arrested and held on a million dollars bail, or that the President of the promotion that booked him then used a satirical statement we wrote as his company’s actual press release?
Well, it might shock you to learn that Miller hasn’t exactly used this fight as an opportunity to turn his life around, as some have suggested it would be. At this morning’s weigh-ins, Miller showed up a staggering 24 pounds over the middleweight limit and has subsequently been pulled from his fight.
Video and details after the jump.
You gotta love the hubris of Miller thinking that taking off his board shorts would somehow help him make weight here. It’s arguably a more scathing indictment of his current mental state than the 14 charges he will likely be arrested for while making his way to his car later today.
The craziest thing? Venator not only didn’t pull Miller from the fight immediately, but offered Barnatt 30 percent of Miller’s purse plus an extra five thousand euros to still fight Miller, who it bears repeating showed up 4 pounds over the light heavyweight limit for a middleweight bout. Barnatt and has instead been booked against Stefan Croitoru, a 6-1 Moldovian middleweight who weighed in at 183 for a separate bout on the Venator III card, in a five-round bout.
Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, Venator is still attempting to find a replacement opponent for Miller on a day’s notice, because it’s not like they’re just going to just let a prize like Miller slip away from them, right? The man is clearly taking the first steps on a path to redemption, and anyone who thinks otherwise can kindly suck on Frank Merenda’s nuts.
In this picture there's one of the baddest man on the planet. The other one is @mayhemmiller XD pic.twitter.com/z1nEqpxv43
— Frank Merenda (@FrankMerendaVV) May 18, 2016
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Although controversial former WSOF welterweight champion Rousimar Palhares is currently suspended until August 2017 for holding onto a fight-ending submission on Jake Shields at last year’s WSOF 22, that apparently isn’t going to stop the brutalizing grappler from at least attempting to return to the cage. A report has arrived from MMA Fighting today (March 22, 2016)
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Although controversial former WSOF welterweight champion Rousimar Palhares is currently suspended until August 2017 for holding onto a fight-ending submission on Jake Shields at last year’s WSOF 22, that apparently isn’t going to stop the brutalizing grappler from at least attempting to return to the cage.
A report has arrived from MMA Fighting today (March 22, 2016) that Palhares has signed on to face Emil Meek at May 21’s Venator FC 3 from Italy. The promotion’s president Frank Merenda, who defended oft-troubled middleweight Jason Miller (another fighter preparing to fight for him) just last week, came back with the suggestion that Palhares has been ‘unfairly’ under fire for holding onto submissions too long:
“Rousimar is a great champion who has often found himself unfairly under fire for excessive holding [alleged or real] after opponents have tapped out. But anyone who knows him knows that he is a good guy who never wants to hurt anyone. He’s a hard worker, a serious and respectful guy who genuinely loves the world of combat sports. Above all, he has a real desire to redeem himself in front of everyone and show that he is not the “monster” that everyone talks about.”
The proposed fight will supposedly serve as the Venator FC 3 main event and will be for the promotional welterweight title.
Regardless of the public perception of Palhares (which is clearly not good), however, the fact remains that he is suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) until August 1, 2017, and WSOF head man Ray Sefo said he is still under contract with them:
“If he takes the fight in May,” Sefo stated, “that’s a violation of his World Series of Fighting contract that is still active. He was suspended by the athletic commission but being suspended doesn’t mean you’re released from your contract.”
That would make sense, but Palhares’ manager Alex Davis apparently believes that they can do what they please and fight in Italy despite being the ones who were found in violation of the rules.
Jump to the following page to read his manager’s brash response to WSOF…
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