Tag: Sparring

VIDEO: CagePotato Writer Elias Cepeda Gets Gut-Shotted by Pro Kickboxer at Glory 11 Open Workouts

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CagePotato was in Chicago Thursday afternoon for the Glory 11 open workouts. We saw main eventers Tyrone Spong and Nathan Corbett murder some pads as well as a number of other world-class kickboxers in the Glory heavyweight tournament and on the undercard work out.

Unfortunately for this writer, I forgot to bring donuts in to the CagePotato office on my designated day last month so our leader Ben Goldstein had to think of a fitting punishment. Sparring with a pro kickboxer was what he came up with.

Originally Glory’s PR team said they’d try to get newly crowned middleweight champ and KO artist Joe Schilling to knock me around for a bit, but he was still a bit sore from his last win in late September. Kru Paul Mihas out of Toronto’s Ultimate Martial Arts was in the house because he has two fighters on the Glory 11 card and he offered to let another of his guys punch me for a round.

Matt Speciale took a break from warming up his two teammates who are fighting today to school me during some “timing sparring.” The idea behind timing sparring is to throw shots at well under half power just to be able to work on distance and timing without banging up one another too badly.


(Props: YouTube.com/CagePotato)

CagePotato was in Chicago Thursday afternoon for the Glory 11 open workouts. We saw main eventers Tyrone Spong and Nathan Corbett murder some pads as well as a number of other world-class kickboxers in the Glory heavyweight tournament and on the undercard work out.

Unfortunately for this writer, I forgot to bring donuts in to the CagePotato office on my designated day last month so our leader Ben Goldstein had to think of a fitting punishment. Sparring with a pro kickboxer was what he came up with.

Originally Glory’s PR team said they’d try to get newly crowned middleweight champ and KO artist Joe Schilling to knock me around for a bit, but he was still a bit sore from his last win in late September. Kru Paul Mihas out of Toronto’s Ultimate Martial Arts was in the house because he has two fighters on the Glory 11 card and he offered to let another of his guys punch me for a round.

Matt Speciale took a break from warming up his two teammates who are fighting today to school me during some “timing sparring.” The idea behind timing sparring is to throw shots at well under half power just to be able to work on distance and timing without banging up one another too badly.

In this particular case, the idea was for me to survive more than sixty seconds with my head still attached to my body. So, Speciale went at about 10% power and…his shots still hurt. Once nice straight left from the south paw followed by a body shot were all I needed to say, ‘thank you and good day.’

So, check out the video above and watch me get hit a couple times — if you’re into that type of thing. This, is what happens when you piss off your boss at CP.

– Elias Cepeda

Bisping: ‘Whoever Said I Recently Got Knocked out in Sparring Is Full of S***’

Perennial UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping definitely got knocked out in sparring last week…or absolutely didn’t.  That all depends who you want to believe: Middle Easy or “The Count” himself.  In their weekly addition of the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill, here’s what the MMA news outlet reported about Bisping:  Michael Bisping visited the Wild Card’s gym […]

Perennial UFC middleweight contender Michael Bisping definitely got knocked out in sparring last week…or absolutely didn’t.  That all depends who you want to believe: Middle Easy or “The Count” himself.  In their weekly addition of the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill, here’s what the MMA news outlet reported about Bisping:  Michael Bisping visited the Wild Card’s gym […]

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Uriah Hall Drops Sparring Partner with Spinning Back Kick (Video)

The only things certain in life are death, taxes and spinning back kicks from Uriah Hall. In February, “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 17 runner-up became a celebrity overnight after the aired taping of his vicious spinning back hook kick knockout over Adam Cella. On the show, UFC President Dana White called it “one of the […]

The only things certain in life are death, taxes and spinning back kicks from Uriah Hall. In February, “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 17 runner-up became a celebrity overnight after the aired taping of his vicious spinning back hook kick knockout over Adam Cella. On the show, UFC President Dana White called it “one of the […]

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Jon Jones Knocks Out Sparring Partner in Training Session

Jon Jones has a knack for leaving people plastered on the canvas. Unfortunately, it was a teammate this time around. All it took was one punch from Jones to knock out his training partner during a sparring session at Jackson’s MMA. After the knoc…

Jon Jones has a knack for leaving people plastered on the canvas. Unfortunately, it was a teammate this time around. All it took was one punch from Jones to knock out his training partner during a sparring session at Jackson’s MMA. After the knockout, Jones kneels down beside his fallen teammate to make sure he’s […]

[VIDEO] Jon Jones One-Punch KO’s His Rastafarian Sparring Partner


(Pass the punchie pon the left hand side…)

Just two days out from his showdown with former UFC light heavyweight champion and bitter frenemy Rashad Evans, it appears that current champ Jon Jones has elevated his training level from Keanu Reeves to “Threat Level Midnight.” Believe it or not, his enthusiasm has had an adverse effect on the mental and physical well-being of his training partners.

Take the following video, for instance, in which Jones is matched up against who we can only assume is Nick Diaz’s pot dealer. Seriously, if we weren’t such knowledgeable MMA fans, this video would look more like the singer of Shadows Fall stumbled off his tour bus into what he believed was a cafeteria, feeling irie and looking for the nearest bag of Doritos Cool Ranch, only to be knocked the fuck out by a large African American man with hands as quick as lightning and twice as powerful. The poor bastard.

Check out the video after the jump. 


(Pass the punchie pon the left hand side…)

Just two days out from his showdown with former UFC light heavyweight champion and bitter frenemy Rashad Evans, it appears that current champ Jon Jones has elevated his training level from Keanu Reeves to “Threat Level Midnight.” Believe it or not, his enthusiasm has had an adverse effect on the mental and physical well-being of his training partners.

Take the following video, for instance, in which Jones is matched up against who we can only assume is Nick Diaz’s pot dealer. Seriously, if we weren’t such knowledgeable MMA fans, this video would look more like the singer of Shadows Fall stumbled off his tour bus into what he believed was a cafeteria, feeling irie and looking for the nearest bag of Doritos Cool Ranch, only to be knocked the fuck out by a large African American man with hands as quick as lightning and twice as powerful. The poor bastard.

Well, at least Jon checked on him afterward. Let’s hope it got him some fans.

-J. Jones

Nick Diaz Has a Sparring Session with Boxer James Toney

Although he might still be contemplating retirement, Nick Diaz appears to still be continuing his training regimen should he decide to return. The 27-year-old Diaz was involved in a sparring session with former WBA heavyweight champion James Toney. Dia…

Although he might still be contemplating retirement, Nick Diaz appears to still be continuing his training regimen should he decide to return. The 27-year-old Diaz was involved in a sparring session with former WBA heavyweight champion James Toney. Diaz’s manager Cesar Gracie posted on his Twitter account: “We will be getting some great sparring. James […]