Medical suspensions have been issued by CSAC(California State Athletic Commision) for UFC on Versus 2: Jones Vs. Matyushenko which took place last Sunday from Oakland California. Here’s the breakdown:
Vladimir Matyushenko: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons. He will require a physical exam before returning.
Mark Munoz: Suspended 45 […]
Medical suspensions have been issued by CSAC(California State Athletic Commision) for UFC on Versus 2: Jones Vs. Matyushenko which took place last Sunday from Oakland California. Here’s the breakdown:
Vladimir Matyushenko: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons. He will require a physical exam before returning.
Mark Munoz: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for right elbow strain.
John Howard: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons. He will require a physical exam before returning. Howard was also given an additional suspension of 180 for a possible facial fracture unless cleared by a physician.
Tyson Griffin: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons. He will require a physical exam before returning.
Jacob Volkmann: Suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact unless cleared by a physician due to a loose upper incisor.
DaMarques Johnson: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons. He will require a physical exam before returning. Johnson was also given an additional suspension of 180 days due to a possible right orbital fracture unless cleared by a physician.
James Irvin: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons. Irvin was also given an additional suspension of 60 days due to facial laceration unless cleared by a physician.
Igor Pokrajac: Suspended 60 days with 60 days no contact unless cleared by a physician due to scalp laceration.
Mike Massenzio: Suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact for precautionary reasons.
NEW YORK (Aug. 4, 2010) – Undefeated heavyweight and two-time United States Olympic Games wrestling team member Daniel Cormier will attempt to make it four wins in a row when he faces the hard-hitting Jason Riley in the undercard of a world championship doubleheader at STRIKEFORCE: Houston on Saturday, Aug. 21 at Toyota Center in […]
NEW YORK (Aug. 4, 2010) – Undefeated heavyweight and two-time United States Olympic Games wrestling team member Daniel Cormier will attempt to make it four wins in a row when he faces the hard-hitting Jason Riley in the undercard of a world championship doubleheader at STRIKEFORCE: Houston on Saturday, Aug. 21 at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
The addition of the heavyweight bout to the undercard has prompted a new start time – 6:30 p.m. CT – for the STRIKEFORCE event, which was originally scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Doors to the Toyota Center open at 6 p.m.
A former NCAA Division I national championship runner up at Oklahoma State University, Cormier (3-0) has won all three of his professional MMA bouts via knockout. Cormier won his initial MMA and STRIKEFORCE start with a second-round TKO (punches) over Gary Frazier on Sept. 25 in Tulsa, Okla. He dominated John Devine in his second fight with a first-round knockout at a STRIKEFORCE: Challengers event on March 26 in Fresno, Calif., and followed that up with a first-round TKO of Lucas Browne on July 31.
A heavyweight prospect who trains at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., Cormier placed fourth in the 2004 Olympics in freestyle wrestling. He was named captain of the U.S. squad for the 2008 Olympics, but was unable to compete due to injury.
Riley (7-3), of Columbus, Ohio, has won four of his fights via knockout, but is looking to rebound from a KO loss to Devin Cole on March 27. Far more experienced professionally than Cormier, Devine has been in the cage with MMA veteran Tim Sylvia, who fought MMA legends Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Randy Couture and Andrei Arlovski.
Tickets are on sale at www.ToyotaCenterTix.com, by phone at 1-866-4-HOU-TIX, at select Houston area Randalls locations, and at www.strikeforce.com. Tickets will also be available beginning on Monday at the Toyota Center box office.
STRIKEFORCE World Light Heavyweight (205 pounds) Champion “King” Mo Lawal (7-0) will make the first defense of his belt against devastating striker Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante (9-2) in the main event on the live SHOWTIME telecast (10p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). The co-main event will feature Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (12-2) and American military hero Tim Kennedy (12-2) in a battle for the vacant STRIKEFORCE Middleweight (185 pounds) title.
In a featured, televised bout, undefeated heavyweight rising star and former WWE personality Bobby Lashley (5-0) will return to the cage against Chad Griggs (8-1). Also on the televised portion of the card, former world champ KJ Noons (9-2) will face Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blackbelt Jorge Gurgel (13-6) in a lightweight (155 pounds) featured bout.
The live SHOWTIME telecast of the event will begin at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast).
About STRIKEFORCE
STRIKEFORCE (www.strikeforce.com) is a world-class mixed martial arts cage fight promotion which, on Friday, March 10, 2006, made history with its “Shamrock vs. Gracie” event, the first sanctioned mixed martial arts fight card in California state history. The star-studded extravaganza, which pitted legendary champion Frank Shamrock against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Cesar Gracie at San Jose’s HP Pavilion, played host to a sold-out, record crowd of 18,265. Since 1995, STRIKEFORCE, sanctioned by ISKA, has been the exclusive provider of martial arts programming for ESPN and, after 12 years of success as a leading, world championship kickboxing promotion, the company unveiled its mixed martial arts (MMA) series with “Shamrock vs. Gracie.” In May 2008, West Coast Productions, the parent company of STRIKEFORCE, partnered with Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment (SVS&E), an entity created in 2000 to oversee all business operation aspects of the San Jose Sharks and HP Pavilion at San Jose. In March 2009, STRIKEFORCE signed a multi-year agreement with SHOWTIME® to stage live events on the premium cable television network. The promotion has since also produced two live, primetime events on the CBS Television Network.
Welterweight striker Thiago Alves is hoping that despite a year layoff he’ll be able to take out world consensus number two 170 division fighter Jon Fitch. The two are set to lock horns this Saturday at UFC 117 in a fight that many MMA fans have been waiting for. Alves, who lost to […]
Welterweight striker Thiago Alves is hoping that despite a year layoff he’ll be able to take out world consensus number two 170 division fighter Jon Fitch. The two are set to lock horns this Saturday at UFC 117 in a fight that many MMA fans have been waiting for. Alves, who lost to Fitch in their first meeting, recently talked to UFC.com about how his career has changed and how he has evolved as a fighter:
“I’m more mature. I’m a professional fighter, not a rapper or movie star, and now I know the right things that I have to do. I actually became a student of the game. Fighting has always come easy for me, but I became more passionate about learning the fighting aspect. I have paid attention, worked harder than ever, and it’s paying off. It will show.”
If Alves can pull off the win it would certainly put him in line for a one and title shot, while a win by Fitch would seem to suggest that the wrestler should deserve another shot at GSP. Fitch has only lost once in 13 tries in the Octagon, proving that he deserves to be up there with the best. The different styles between these two should prove to be interesting. The MMA News will carry live coverage for UFC 117 as well as complete pre and post coverage.
So yesterday we joked that if Chael Sonnen was still making a political run for the Oregon House, his recent comments on Pro MMA Radio regarding Lance Armstrong, likely wouldn’t have been too helpful in the PR deparment. In this day and age of around the clock media coverage, with a bazillion internet sites looking […]
So yesterday we joked that if Chael Sonnen was still making a political run for the Oregon House, his recent comments on Pro MMA Radio regarding Lance Armstrong, likely wouldn’t have been too helpful in the PR deparment. In this day and age of around the clock media coverage, with a bazillion internet sites looking for anything to run as a headline, stating that the 7 time Tour De France winner cheated, and further, that Armstrong’s well documented battle with cancer was as a result of allegedly taking PEDs, well, that’s kind of a sh-t load of fodder for your political opponents no?
While Sonnen no longer has to concern himself about a political campaign (which if he were this story would likely be plastered on something like the Huffington Post … oh wait a minute…), no one should be surprised that the talented fighter has already been asked for a ‘follow up.’ While speaking to MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, Sonnen outright denied making the comments, stating he’s never talked to Pro MMA Radio’s Larry Pepe…WTF? When asked specifically about Armstrong, Chael responded:
“I never spoke of Lance Armstrong ever. Never. Not until just now.”
Now, we’re far from experts in anything, much less voice analysis, so check out the show for yourself. Head to around the one hour / thirty mark of the show to hear Sonnen, or some dude that sounds just like him, lay into Armstrong. If the whole Twitter fiasco wasn’t bad enough… this is just outright messed up.
Oh yeah, this site is about MMA; if you want to throw some dough down on UFC 117, head here.
Heavy.com was kind enough to make a UFC 117 open workout highlights video, and The MMA News is kind enough to show it to fans. All kidding aside this card has the potential to be a great one, depending on which UFC middleweight champion we get. If we get Anderson”I’ll destroy you” Silva […]
Heavy.com was kind enough to make a UFC 117 open workout highlights video, and The MMA News is kind enough to show it to fans. All kidding aside this card has the potential to be a great one, depending on which UFC middleweight champion we get. If we get Anderson”I’ll destroy you” Silva the fight could be fantastic, but if we get Anderson”I like to dance” Silva it could get sloppy and weird. Fitch vs. Alves is a great bout, if Alves can make weight so here’s crossing our fingers. We can’t wait to see Nelson take on Junior dos Santos, as the style(body style) difference should be impressive.
NEW YORK (Aug. 3, 2010) – Colleen Schneider and Liz Carmouche will tangle in the “reserve bout” in the first-ever STRIKEFORCE women’s single-elimination welterweight (135 pounds) tournament at STRIKEFORCE Challengers on Friday, Aug. 13, from Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Ariz., live on SHOWTIME®. The match will take place during the non-televised undercard.
If a winner of […]
NEW YORK (Aug. 3, 2010) – Colleen Schneider and Liz Carmouche will tangle in the “reserve bout” in the first-ever STRIKEFORCE women’s single-elimination welterweight (135 pounds) tournament at STRIKEFORCE Challengers on Friday, Aug. 13, from Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Ariz., live on SHOWTIME®. The match will take place during the non-televised undercard.
If a winner of a completed tournament semifinal fight cannot advance because of an injury or any other reason, they will be replaced by the Schneider-Carmouche winner.
STRIKEFORCE women’s welterweight contenders Miesha “Takedown” Tate, Carina “Beauty But The Beast” Damm, Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano and Maiju Kujala will compete in the tournament. A draw to determine the semifinal matchups for the two-round tournament will take place at the Official Weigh-In on Thursday, Aug. 12. Each of the tournament tussles and the reserve bout are slated for three, 3-minute rounds.
The tournament winner will become the official No. 2 challenger in the STRIKEFORCE women’s welterweight division (behind Marloes Coenen). On July 23 on SHOWTIME, undefeated world champion Sarah Kaufman impressively retained her STRIKEFORCE crown with a third-round “power slam” KO over Roxanne Modafferi.
The winners of each semifinal bout on Aug. 13 will face off in the tournament final later that night, just before the main event matchup on SHOWTIME between Joe “Diesel” Riggs (32-12) and Louis Taylor (6-1) that will be fought at a catch weight of 182 pounds.
Schneider (0-1), of Oakland, Calif., by way of Syracuse, N.Y., trains with STRIKEFORCE World Lightweight (155 pounds) Champion Gilbert “El Nino” Melendez at his El Nino Training Center in San Francisco. She moved to the West Coast in 2000 to attend University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Physics and Astrophysics. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004.
“While at Cal, I met some people from the Taekwondo team who convinced me to come and try it, and I loved it,” Schneider said. “I did it for a few years there, and things kind of went on from there.”
After seven years of Taekwondo, three years of Karate, two years of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, two years of Muay Thai, several tournaments and countless unsanctioned fights, Schneider turned to Mixed
Martial Arts (MMA). She compiled a record of 4-0 in the amateurs before making her MMA pro debut on March 19, 2010.
“I am very happy to be fighting for STRIKEFORCE, which is the place to be right now in the women’s division,” said Schneider,” an aggressive striker known for her unorthodox kicks.
Carmouche (2-0) has triumphed in both her starts inside the distance. After winning by second-round TKO in her pro debut last May 29, she registered a second-round submission (armbar) over Margarita de la Cruz the following June 26.
A 25-year-old of Lebanese descent, Carmouche was born in Okinawa, Japan, and currently resides in San Diego. She spent seven years in the Marines in which she spent time fighting in the Middle East.
Carmouche currently trains at Undisputed Fitness and Training in San Diego with Manolo Hernandez and Baret Yoshida, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion.
Tickets for the STRIKEFORCE Challengers event are on sale at the Dodge Theatre Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at (800) 745-3000, and online at www.livenation.com and www.strikeforce.com .
Dodge Theatre doors will open at 5 p.m. local time. The first preliminary bout will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the first main card bout will begin at 8.
The SHOWTIME telecast will begin at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast.)
STRIKEFORCE Challengers is a proving ground for up-and-coming MMA fighters. The series is designed to provide today’s top prospects with the opportunity to step-up their level of competition and demonstrate their ability in a nationally televised event.
About STRIKEFORCE
STRIKEFORCE (www.strikeforce.com) is a world-class mixed martial arts cage fight promotion which, on Friday, March 10, 2006, made history with its “Shamrock vs. Gracie” event, the first sanctioned mixed martial arts fight card in California state history. The star-studded extravaganza, which pitted legendary champion Frank Shamrock against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Cesar Gracie at San Jose’s HP Pavilion, played host to a sold-out, record crowd of 18,265. Since 1995, STRIKEFORCE, sanctioned by ISKA, has been the exclusive provider of martial arts programming for ESPN and, after 12 years of success as a leading, world championship kickboxing promotion, the company unveiled its mixed martial arts (MMA) series with “Shamrock vs. Gracie.” In May 2008, West Coast Productions, the parent company of STRIKEFORCE, partnered with Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment (SVS&E), an entity created in 2000 to oversee all business operation aspects of the San Jose Sharks and HP Pavilion at San Jose. In March 2009, STRIKEFORCE signed a multi-year agreement with SHOWTIME® to stage live events on the premium cable television network. The promotion has since also produced two live, primetime events on the CBS Television Network.
