Tag: Matt Horwich

Villefort Wins, LaRosa Steals the Show at Shark Fights 14

Filed under: HDNetDanillo Villefort won in the main event at Shark Fights 14 Friday, but it was Tara LaRosa who put on the night’s best performance.

Villefort took a one-sided unanimous decision over Matt Horwich, winning 30-27 on all three judges’ sc…

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Danillo Villefort won in the main event at Shark Fights 14 Friday, but it was Tara LaRosa who put on the night’s best performance.

Villefort took a one-sided unanimous decision over Matt Horwich, winning 30-27 on all three judges’ scorecards. It was a fine showing for Villefort, who improved his record to 13-3 and has now won four straight fights since losing his first and only UFC bout. But it wasn’t particularly exciting, and it left a lot of the fans in Lubbock, Texas.

The fans were thrilled, however, by the way LaRosa won.

Shark Fights 14 Preview and Predictions

Filed under: HDNetA slow week for mixed martial arts will be livened up on Friday night, with Shark Fights putting on its 14th event and first on HDNet, headlined by a main event between a couple of UFC veterans, and a co-main event that is one of the …

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Matt Horwich main events Shark Fights 14.A slow week for mixed martial arts will be livened up on Friday night, with Shark Fights putting on its 14th event and first on HDNet, headlined by a main event between a couple of UFC veterans, and a co-main event that is one of the best women’s fights of the year.

What: Shark Fights 14: Horwich vs. Villefort

When: Friday night, the HDNet broadcast begins at 10 PM ET

Where: Fair Park Coliseum, Lubbock, Texas

Predictions on the five televised fights below.

Five MMA Fighters Who Beat Addiction

Addiction can make the toughest S.O.B. as powerless as this guy. While many MMA fighters have had their lives and careers derailed by drugs and alcohol, some were strong enough to find treatment and pull their lives out of the tailspin. Here’s our trib…

Addiction can make the toughest S.O.B. as powerless as this guy. While many MMA fighters have had their lives and careers derailed by drugs and alcohol, some were strong enough to find treatment and pull their lives out of the tailspin. Here’s our tribute to five of them…

LYLE BEERBOHM
Lyle Beerbohm mugshot meth drugs arrest addict
Drug of choice: methamphetamines
Rock bottom moment: Wandering around the streets looking for a place to sleep after he had burned his bridges with everybody in his life. When he landed in the Washington State Penitentiary for 18 months for drug-related felonies after six years of shooting meth, nobody in his family came to visit him.
Recovery: While in the joint, Beerbohm began watching The Ultimate Fighter and became inspired to fight for a living; he’d already had to physically defend himself in prison a few times. "Fancy Pants" joined an MMA gym the day he got out, and won his first amateur fight eight days later. Beerbohm is currently 16-0 as a pro, and will take on Pat Healy in the main event of Strikeforce Challengers 14 next month.

COURT McGEE
Court McGee the Ultimate Fighter 11 trophy winner
Drug of choice: Alcohol, cocaine, heroin, meth, etc.
Rock bottom moment: McGee began abusing drugs after falling in with the wrong crowd after high school, and was once pronounced dead following a heroin overdose. In 2006, McGee had managed to stay sober for five months. In order to test his willpower, he took a trip to Las Vegas and decided to order just one drink. He woke up four days later in Iowa, not wearing any pants.
Recovery: McGee has been sober since April 16, 2006, two weeks after the Vegas/Iowa incident. He began training in MMA and rebuilding relationships with his family, which helped restore order to his life. "Crusher" came out of nowhere to win TUF 11 last June, and submitted Ryan Jensen in his follow-up fight at UFC 121. 

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Matt Horwich is a Scary Dude — And Not in a Good Way

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If you’ve never watched any of the 10th Planet Mastering the System videos, you’re likely not familiar with Renato Laranja, who may or may not be a 27-time BJJ Mundials and capoeira champion and may possibly b…

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If you’ve never watched any of the 10th Planet Mastering the System videos, you’re likely not familiar with Renato Laranja, who may or may not be a 27-time BJJ Mundials and capoeira champion and may possibly be made-up character who appears in the series. In a nutshell, Laranja is a BJJ black belt who has a cameo in nearly every episode in which he argues with Eddie Bravo about his no-gi system and seems to scrap with the Bravo faithful including Joe Rogan and Scott Epstein on a somewhat regular basis.

During a recent episode, Laranja "choked out" Bravo in an altercation that happened during one of Eddie’s classes at 10th Planet headquarters in L.A. The "incident" prompted Crispin Glover doppelganger and 10th Planet purple belt Matt Horwich to challenge the Brazilian to a fight in the episode above using way too many homosexual rape references for audience comfort.

As an added bonus, besides weekly marijuana tips courtesy of Bravo, Rogan appears on the show regularly in a Tae Kwon Do Joe segment in which he breaks down kicks used by fighters in recent fights.

Check out the Renato backstory after the jump:

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Weekend Results: Matt Horwich TKOs Jake Rosholt

Filed under: FightingFormer IFL champion Matt Horwich’s up-and-down career is as of now back on the upswing after defeating three-time NCAA wrestling champion Jake Rosholt Friday in the main event of an Xtreme Fight Night card in Tulsa, Okla.

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Former IFL champion Matt Horwich‘s up-and-down career is as of now back on the upswing after defeating three-time NCAA wrestling champion Jake Rosholt Friday in the main event of an Xtreme Fight Night card in Tulsa, Okla.

Horwich (26-16-1), who submitted former UFC title challenger Thales Leites in August and lost to Eric Schambari at Bellator 28 in September, stopped Rosholt with strikes in the third round. The loss placed Rosholt at 1-1 since his release one year ago from the UFC.

UFC Veterans Rosholt, Jardine, Buentello, Marshall to Fight in November

Filed under: Fighting, NewsSeveral notable former UFC fighters will be competing on one particular weekend in November.

Jake Rosholt, once considered a can’t-miss prospect in WEC and then UFC, will face veteran Matt Horwich at The Joint inside the Har…

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Several notable former UFC fighters will be competing on one particular weekend in November.

Jake Rosholt, once considered a can’t-miss prospect in WEC and then UFC, will face veteran Matt Horwich at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tulsa, OK. The bout will serve as the main event of the Nov. 12 Xtreme Fight Night card.

This will mark only the second fight for Rosholt since getting released from the UFC late last year. He submitted Rudy Lindsey in March. The 7-2 Team Takedown member was released after going 2-2 in the UFC/WEC.