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Fights - A lot of fights from around the globe this week. India, Canada, South Korea!
SFL 10 -What's this? Super Fight League didn't have a fight go to decision? Did someone not get the message that at least one fight has to go to the judges?
Kumar vs Farhan
Jagdish Kumar sloppily punches and kicks his way to a first round TKO (by retirement) over Shaikh Mohammed Farhan.
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Fights - There was a UFC PPV, Bellator, SFL (BOOM, POW, PUNCH, KICK, WOW!) and a random assortment of two people flailing their limbs at each other until one cannot take it any more (Wait, I already said Super Fight League).
TPF 15 - Tachi Palace Fights is a regional MMA organization that works as a half-decent feeder league to the UFC.
Clark vs Miranda
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Dominick Clark knocked out Andy Miranda in just under two minutes in the first round.
Perez vs De Soto
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Alex Perez took just two seconds longer than Clark to knockout Carlos De Soto with punches.
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UFC 154 is on Saturday, and thankfully it starts at night time in the Western hemisphere (Best hemisphere). Here are the fights and what I think about them!
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Featherweight - Steven "Super" Siler vs. Darren "The Damage" Elkins
Siler's Style - Grappling
Other Siler Nickname - Steven "The Miller Killer" Siler
Elkins's Style - Wrestling
Prediction - Elkins is going to do so many wrestles to Siler and win by decision
Thoughts - After checking out Siler's record, I'm convinced something called "Olly Bradstreet" is some kind of nightmare monster for him.
Bantamweight - Ivan "The Pride of El Salvador" Menjivar vs. Azamat "Tough Guy" Gashimov
Menjivar's Style - Striking, BJJ
Gashimov's Style - Wrestling
Prediction - Menjivar is going to submit the heck outta Gashimov
Thoughts - I don't know anything about Gashimov, but Menjivar is really cool, so he should win everything.
Welterweight - Matt "Deep Waters" Riddle vs. John "The One" Maguire
Riddle's Style - Wrestling, BJJ
Maguire's Style - Submissions, Gypsy Jiu-Jitsu
Prediction - I think Maguire is going to submit Riddle.
Thoughts - I'm slowly starting to like Riddle as a fighter (And he always seemed like a decent enough person, but I'm liking that more, too), but being a "Gypsy Jiu-Jitsu" practicioner is too rad to pass up. Also, I wonder if Riddle will test positive for weed for this fight!
Featherweight - Antonio "Pato" Carvahlo vs. Rodrigo Damm
Carvahlo's Style - Striking, BJJ
Damm's Style - Wrestling, BJJ
Prediction - Carvahlo wins with a TKO
Thoughts - Carvahlo has never lost in Canada, so, scientifically, he will win this fight. Damm's sister, Carina also fights and has the weird nickname of "Beauty But the Beast".
Check out more predictions and whatnot after the jump!
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Fights - Hey, UFC fights are back, yay! Plus Bellator and SFL (PUNCH KICK WOW) as always (Well, not always, Bellator's season ends in a month, and I don't know if SFL is going to literally run every week or not).
Bellator 80 - On this edition of Bellator Fighting Championships, the finals for the Heavyweight and Featherweight tournaments were set up, plus former champion and self-proclaimed "Baddest Man on the Planet", Joe Warren returned to see if he would get knocked out for the third fight in a row.
DeRocher vs. Krahl
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Ryan DeRocher punched Taylor Krahl, and now Taylor has to crawl everywhere he goes. I am the worst.
Vedepo vs. Bernhard
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This is some crazy stuff. Bernhard throws a kick and slips, so Vedepo dives into guard, and gets stuck in a triangle. Vedepo jams his shin and knee all up in Bernhard's neck, and eventually postures up enough and the pressure causes Bernhard to tap out.
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So, ladies and gentlemans, here is the Vedepo choke. If works perfectly against dorks too dumb to let go of a crappy triangle to avoid getting themselves choked out.
Check out more Bellator, SFL, UFC and other fights, plus lots of news after the jump!
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UFC on Fuel: Franklin vs. Le is coming live from Macau at like 9AM ET on Saturday, yeesh. Here are the fights!
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Welterweight - David "Daudi" Mitchell vs. Hyun Gyu "The Ace" Lim
Mitchell's Style - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Alternate Mitchell Nicknames - David "HENNIMORE!" Mitchell
Lim's Style - Boxing
Prediction - Lim will do some ferocious punching upon Mitchell's countenance and win via knockout.
Thoughts - Mitchell is kinda cool because his fight with TJ Waldburger had roughly fifty submission attempts every minute of every round (Ineffective grappling is really fun sometimes). I've never seen Lim fight, so I'm probably SUPER WRONG on the prediction (But, I'm SUPER WRONG on predictions between two fighters I've seen fight for years, so I guess I'm just awful at picks)
Middleweight - Riki Fukuda vs. Tom DeBlass
Fukuda's Style - Wrestling
DeBlass's Style - BJJ
Prediction - Fukuda will grind DeBlass into a wrestley paste, win by decision.
Thoughts -I like that both Fukuda and DeBlass have stoppages over guys that have lost spectacularly in the UFC (Fukuda TKO'd Brandon Wolff, who got MURDERED by Ben Saunders's Muay Thai clinch knees, and DeBlass Achilles locked Sean Salmon, who took a hilarious head kick KO from Rashad Evans)
Flyweight - Yashuhiro Urushitani vs. John "Hands of Stone" Lineker
Urushitani's Style - Hugs, some punches
Lineker's Style - Punches
Prediction - Lineker by punches, TKO.
Thoughts - This should be a mega-fun fight (TINY PUNCHMEN BEST PUNCHMEN). I'm a little conflicted on the prediction, since Lineker lost to green haired dingus Louis Gaudinot, while Urushitani defeated currently Flyweight #1 contender, John Dodson (Though that was 8 years ago, so it's hardly useful). Whatever, I think Lineker has enough power to put Urushitani to sleep.
Bantamweight - Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Caceres vs. Motonobu Tezuka
Caceres's Style -Submissions
Tezuka's Style -Grappling
Prediction -Tezuka by excessive hugging (Decision)
Thoughts -I don't know anything about Tezuka, but Caceres is pretty much average at best (So watch him turn in the best performance ever and make me look even more dumber)
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Fights - In addition to the Bellator, Super Fight League (PUNCH KICK WOW) and random grab bag fights, there was also World Series of Fighting 1 going down on Saturday. Hooray for new MMA organizations!
Bellator 79 - There were some vicious beatings doled out to people with ridiculous choices in personal grooming (So, pretty standard for a MMA event).
Minakov vs. Starcencov
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Bellator has a ton of Russian fighters, and sometimes, they get matched up (Though Starcencov is technically Russian-Canadian). Vitaly Minakov punched Vladimir Starcencov in the face for a while until Vladimir fell down.
Ford vs. Baker
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In the first of two "guy what looks dumb gets beaten up" fights, Ryan Ford punched the ridiculous out of Kyle Baker's mustache and bald head on the way to a unanimous decision victory.
Check out more from Bellator, SFL, WSoF, and much more after the jump!
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Fighter Retrospectives is when I take a look back at retired
fighters (Or at least a guy that’s been fighting at least 15 years) and try to
convince you why they are super-duper awesome.Today, the focus is on the Transforming Trickster, the Neo-Samurai, Genki
Sudo.
Wull, why should I care about this guy?(That’s you)
Genki Sudo is probably my favorite fighter that I never saw
live, and sometimes he’s my favorite fighter, period, with no
qualifications.He was predominantly a
grappler, having done Greco-Roman wrestling in high school, and then later
taking up Brazilian jiu-jitsu.His
striking wasn’t awful, and he even fought in some K-1 kickboxing bouts (to
extremely limited success, going 2-4), but his hugging prowess easily overshadows
his kickpuncher skills.What really
draws me to Sudo is his ability to mix showmanship with skill.He had ridiculous entrances that not only
blew most other fighter entrances out of the water (Pretty easy, since other
than like five dudes all walk-outs are boring and bland), but were way better
than a lot of professional wrestling entrances, too.The antics didn’t stop inside the ropes (Or,
for like three fights, the cage), though.Genki would dance around during a fight, dropping his hands to do the
robot, turn his back on his opponent, and basically refuse to take things
seriously.He claimed it was never to
embarrass or make fun of his opponent, but his attempts at elevating the fight
to a true art form.His overarching
message is We Are All One, a concept he enforced by carrying a banner with that
phrase and various flags of the world stitched onto it.
Okay, wull, lemme see some of these “awesome entrances” I
guess.(You, again)
A Genki Sudo entrance is a great thing to behold because it
always involves costumes, backup dancers, rad, choreographed moves, and usually
the dramatic removal of the aforementioned costume.
