High level middleweight fighter Nate Marquardt may be facing submission specialist Rousimar Palhares but he doesn’t think that Palhares will necessarily go for a submission. Marquardt is a jiu-jitsu blackbelt himself, and hasn’t been submitted in a match for several years, and seems to think that perhaps Palhares will use a “Chael Sonnen” like […]
High level middleweight fighter Nate Marquardt may be facing submission specialist Rousimar Palhares but he doesn’t think that Palhares will necessarily go for a submission. Marquardt is a jiu-jitsu blackbelt himself, and hasn’t been submitted in a match for several years, and seems to think that perhaps Palhares will use a “Chael Sonnen” like formula, as he stated during a recent interview with MMAFighting:
“I don’t think that’s necessarily going to be his plan against me. He may watch the Chael Sonnen fight and think, ‘I’ve got to take him down and control him the whole fight and win a decision.’ But it doesn’t matter what his game plan is. I’m definitely going to stop it.”
Marquardt may be very good at submission defence and have few if any holes in his ground game but one has to think that Palhares’s lower body attacks can make anyone tap in the right situation. UFC: Marquardt vs. Palhares looks to be a very interesting bout which should help determine the middleweight rankings.
The weigh-ins for “UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs. Palhares” event will be taking place today at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, the same venue for Wednesday’s action.
The weigh-ins will begin at 5PM EST (2PM PST) and you can watch them live at UFC.com/live.
The Sept. 15 event will see it’s four bout main card […]
The weigh-ins for “UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs. Palhares” event will be taking place today at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, the same venue for Wednesday’s action.
The weigh-ins will begin at 5PM EST (2PM PST) and you can watch them live at UFC.com/live.
The Sept. 15 event will see it’s four bout main card broadcast live on Spike TV and will precede the season premiere of “The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck” on Wednesday night.
Also referred to as UFN 22, the event will be headlined by a middleweight bout between Nate Marquardt (29-9-2) and Rousimar Palhares (11-2).
The live broadcast for UFN 22 begins at 7 PM EST (4 PM PST), while the premier for the twelfth season of “TUF” begins at 9 PM EST (6 PM PST).
Main card
Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt (186) vs. Rousimar Palhares (186)
Lightweight bout: Charles Oliveira (154) vs. Efrain Escudero (159)*
Lightweight bout: Gleison Tibau (154) vs. Jim Miller (155.5)
Lightweight bout: Cole Miller (156) vs. Ross Pearson (156)
Preliminary card
Lightweight bout: John Gunderson (156) vs. Yves Edwards (155)
Light Heavyweight bout: Kyle Kingsbury (206) vs. Jared Hamman (205)
Middleweight bout: Dave Branch (186) vs. Tomasz Drwal (185.5)
Middleweight bout: Rafael Natal (186) vs. Rich Attonito (185)
Welterweight bout: David Mitchell (170.5) vs. Anthony Waldburger (171)
Welterweight bout: Brian Foster (170.5) vs. Forrest Petz (170)
* – Escudero was 3 pounds overweight. Both fighters have agreed to a catchweight bout with Escudero surrendering 20 % of his “show” money.
Former UFC champions BJ Penn (15-7-1) and Matt Hughes (45-7) will meet for a third time when the two square off at UFC 123.
The news was confirmed by MMAFighting.com after rumors of the matchup surfaced on Monday on CagePotato.com.
The welterweight bout will take place at the yet to be officially announced UFC 123, which goes […]
Former UFC champions BJ Penn (15-7-1) and Matt Hughes (45-7) will meet for a third time when the two square off at UFC 123.
The welterweight bout will take place at the yet to be officially announced UFC 123, which goes down at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Nov. 20.
Both of their previous meetings have been fought for the UFC welterweight title with each fighter holding a win over the other. Hughes holds the last victory, defending the welterweight title at UFC 63, defeating Penn by TKO (punches) in the third round. While Penn earned the first victory by submitting Hughes by rear-naked-choke at UFC 40 to earn the Hawaiian his first UFC title.
Penn is coming off back-to-back lightweight championship losses to Frankie Edgar at UFC 118 and UFC 112. “The Prodigy” has stated that he wanted to come back quickly to face a big name and now has it in Hughes. Penn has fought for either the UFC lightweight or welterweight title in his past seven fights going 4-3 overall in those bouts.
The UFC Hall of Famer, Hughes, has shown a resurgence in his career after losing back-to-back matches to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 79 for the UFC interim welterweight title, and to Thiago Alves at UFC 85 in a 174 lbs catchweight bout. Since those losses he’s earned three straight wins against some tough opponents. He’s defeated Matt Hughes at UFC 98, Renzo Gracie at UFC 112, and earned his first “Submission of the Night” bonus for choking out Ricardo Almeida at UFC 117.
UFC 123 is expected to be headlined by a light-heavyweight bout between another set of former champions, Lyoto Machida vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
On Monday, DREAM official Keiichi Sasahara announced the addition of three featherweight bouts for the upcoming DREAM.16 event.
Michihiro Omigawa (11-8-1) takes on Cole Escovedo (16-5), while Hiroyuki Takaya (13-8-1) faces Chase Beebe (13-5-1), and Mitsuhiro Ishida (19-6-1) meets Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura (11-5-1).
DREAM.16 will take place in just a few short weeks on Sept. 25 at […]
On Monday, DREAM official Keiichi Sasahara announced the addition of three featherweight bouts for the upcoming DREAM.16 event.
Michihiro Omigawa (11-8-1) takes on Cole Escovedo (16-5), while Hiroyuki Takaya (13-8-1) faces Chase Beebe (13-5-1), and Mitsuhiro Ishida (19-6-1) meets Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura (11-5-1).
DREAM.16 will take place in just a few short weeks on Sept. 25 at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan. The event will be broadcast in North America on HDNet, check local listings for timings.
Omigawa had been rumored to meet Bellator featherweight champ Joe Warren, but will meet former WEC and Tachi Palace Fights featherweight champ Escovedo instead.
Omigawa has won his past four fights, appearing on the last DREAM show against Young Sam Jung. Omigawa submitted the Korean with a guillotine choke on the DREAM.15 card.
Escovedo had a five fight win streak stopped in his last fight at TPF 5 – Satrs and Strikes this past July, losing to Michael McDonald via TKO. The former WEC featherweight champ has fought the likes of Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver in the past.
The DREAM.16 event card appears as follows:
Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Gegard Mousasi vs. Tatsuya Mizuno
Featherweight bout: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Chase Beebe
Featherweight bout: Michihiro Omigawa vs. Cole Escovedo
Featherweight bout: Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Akiyo Nishiura
Middleweight bout: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Jason Miller
Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Marcus Aurelio
Featherweight bout: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Takeshi Inoue
Featherweight bout: Hideo Tokoro vs. Joachim Hansen
Heavyweight Josh Barnett (29-5) has signed a multi-fight deal with Strikeforce. No word on when his first will take place or who he might face, but we’re sure speculation will abound about a fight with Fedor Emelianenko. “The Babyfaced Assassin” was going to face Fedor in August of 2009 at the failed Affliction: […]
Heavyweight Josh Barnett (29-5) has signed a multi-fight deal with Strikeforce. No word on when his first will take place or who he might face, but we’re sure speculation will abound about a fight with Fedor Emelianenko. “The Babyfaced Assassin” was going to face Fedor in August of 2009 at the failed Affliction: Trilogy event. The bout, event, and Affliction MMA all fell apart after Barnett was officially pulled 10 days before the fight by the California State Athletic Commission for testing positive for anabolic steroids.
Barnett is riding a six fight win streak that began in March of 2008 with a submission win over Hidehiko Yoshida at Sengoku 1, and currently sits with a TKO victory against Geronimo dos Santos at Impact FC 1 – The Uprising: Brisbane this past summer.
Here is the full Strikeforce Press Release.
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NEW YORK (Sept. 13, 2010) – Two-time champion and top world-ranked heavyweight superstar Josh “The Babyfaced Assassin” Barnett has signed a multi-fight agreement to compete for world championship Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion STRIKEFORCE.
“STRIKEFORCE is the home of the best heavyweight division in the world and I’m proud to be able to call it my home now,” said the 32-year-old Barnett (29-5), an expert in catch wrestling who hails from Seattle, Wash.
“I’m looking forward to competing amongst the greatest fighters in the world and fighting my way to another world title.”
The 6-foot-3, 255-pound Barnett became the youngest UFC champion in history at age 24 when he scored a second-round TKO (4:35) on MMA legend Randy “The Natural” Couture in Las Vegas, Nev., on March 22, 2002. In his sixth career fight, Barnett submitted wrestling and MMA legend Dan “The Beast” Severn with an armbar in the fourth round (1:21) in Hawaii.
In addition to his achievements in America, Barnett has spent a good portion of his career competing in top tier promotions overseas, including the now defunct PRIDE Fighting Championships in Japan where he notched memorable victories over the likes of Aleksander Emelianenko, Mark Hunt and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. On Oct. 21, 2006, Barnett took part in PRIDE’s first event on U.S. soil, submitting Pawel Nastula with a toe hold in the second round (3:04) at Las Vegas’s Thomas & Mack Center.
In 2008, Barnett competed in another Japanese promotion, Sengoku. After submitting (heel hook) Hidehiko Yoshida in Tokyo on March 5, 2008, Barnett returned to action on May 18, 2008, and earned a unanimous decision over top-ranked rival and fellow American Jeff “The Snowman” Monson.
Barnett signed an agreement to compete in Japan’s DREAM promotion earlier this year. Last March 22, he made his debut with the organization, submitting former K-1 tournament champion and devastating power puncher, “Mighty Mo” Siligia, with a kimura at 4:41 of the first round.
On July 10, Barnett followed up the strong showing with a first-round TKO (punches) over Geronimo dos Santos in the main event of a fight card in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The weigh-ins for today’s Shark Fights 13 event, the first pay-per-view event hosted by Shark Fight Promotions, took place at the Grand Plaza in the Amarillo Civic Center Coliseum in Amarillo, Texas.
Twenty fighters hit the scales and only one failed to make weight on his first try. Headliners Trevor Prangley (202.75) and Keith Jardine […]
The weigh-ins for today’s Shark Fights 13 event, the first pay-per-view event hosted by Shark Fight Promotions, took place at the Grand Plaza in the Amarillo Civic Center Coliseum in Amarillo, Texas.
Twenty fighters hit the scales and only one failed to make weight on his first try. Headliners Trevor Prangley (202.75) and Keith Jardine (204.5) made weight for their main event bout. While Paul “Semtex” Daley weighed in at 172 pounds, one pound over the welterweight limit, and has been given an extra hour to cut the weight.
The Amarillo Civic Center Coliseum will also host Saturday’s live event which will feature a ten bout card.
Fans can watch the entire preliminary card via a live stream at Sherdog.com. The preliminary card will be capped off by a Shark Fights featherweight title bout between champ Douglas Evans vs. Ronnie Mann.
Without a reporter at the show, we’ve pulled the weigh-in results from MMAjunkie.com today.
Here is the full weigh-in results for Shark Fights 13.
MAIN CARD
* Trevor Prangley (202.75) vs. Keith Jardine (204.5)
* Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (204.75) vs. Houston Alexander (202.25)
* Paul Daley (172) vs. Jorge Masvidal (168.75)+
* Danillo Villefort (184.5) vs. Joey Villasanor (185.5)
* Brock Larson (170.75) vs. Tarec Saffiedine (169.75)
PRELIMINARY CARD
* Champ Douglas Evans (144.25) vs. Ronnie Mann (144.75)
* Paul Bradley (170.5) vs. Johnny Reese (169.25)
* Aaron Rosa (241.75) vs. Devin Cole (233.25)
* Eric Davila (176.5) vs. Pete Spratt (170.25)*
* Karen Darabedyan (155.75) vs. Daniel Straus (152.75)
+ – Daley didn’t make weight on first attempt and has an additional hour to make weight
* – Fight originally slated for the welterweight division, but prior to weigh-ins, the fighters agreed to a catchweight bout (no fines disclosed)
