BOSTON-- MMA fighting with Kenny Florian Wednesday the UFC - 118 pre fight press conference caught up.Florian spoke about fighting for the UFC in his home State for the first time, his evolution as a fighter, since he started training with Firas Zahabi at TriStar gym in Montreal, crack what they expect from gray Maynard and whether he believes he deserves a third, the title lightweight in the.
Check out the video interview below.
As we wrote about last night, Joe Warren won the featherweight Championship of Bellator with a shocking comeback. Looks like start of commentator Bellator say that marked the first round 10-8 for Soto, then stops right quick Warren to demolish Soto.
B.j. Penn is always the star of the show, but not this week to 118 UFC. The legend of lightweight Hawaiian willingly took a back seat to James Toney. Boxer brief conversation and promotional acumen has led the Charter. But make no mistake about it, Toney vs Randy Couture, pure combat is a sideshow (Pro Sherdog picks have 50-3 for Couture) than the UFC Lightweight Title rematch between champ Frank Edgar and Penn.
Penn lost the first matchup via unanimous decision back to 112 UFC. In typical fashion Penn, tried to drum up some drama and Angst + Pfister heading into the fight, but it's not just that it's easy against Edgar, which is fairly benign with the spoken word. So the question again for Penn is the motivation. He is fired?He will be altering his style and work harder to win? otherwise, he will have two losses in a row, and then what motivates him to return and get better?
Kevin Iole of Yahoo breaks the big fights and quotas from Boston.
Just when you thought that Anderson Silva had a lock on comeback MMA of the year for his victory over Warren Sonnen Hague, Joe won the League featherweight Bellator with incredible comeback.
Returning Bellator champ Joe Soto dominated Warren, punch in the first round after landing a punch. After all the shots that Warren took, there was no good reason for Warren be standing. Soto taunted her Warren, moving his hands away from his face.Warren, a former world champion wrestler, couldn't get Soto ashore. Warren tried to a spinning back kick, but after he slipped, Soto rocked the finger at Warren.
The tide has changed in the second round, with Warren knock Soto with a big right, below ground unanswered and pound and then when they returned to their feet, Warren finished the fight with a huge knee. the fight was stopped at 0: 38 of the second round.
The fight has changed so rapidly that Soto asked his corner, "what happened?"
"It was all about reorientation. You cannot stop me."I am the baddest man on the planet, said Warren.
Semifinalists set Bantamweight tournament
And West moved on semi-final tournament bantamweight Bellator's with a unanimous decision, 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 Bryan Noble. West maintained the fight in motion, attacking the legs of the Noble soon in the fight.West was able to maneuver Noble in several communications throughout the fight, but couldn't finish on them.
Zach Makovsky won a unanimous decision, 30-27 on all tabs of three judges, Nick Mamalis. Makovsky outgrappled Mamalis, control him during the attack.
"I expected a war all-around. After winning the first round, I realized how I could control the fight from atop Makovsky," said after the fight.
Ulisse Gomez claimed the post tournament bantamweight final with a decision of the Division on Travis Reddinger. Gomez survived a late attempt by arm bar Reddinger to win the fight.
Jose Vega, West, Mavovsky and Gomez are Semifinalists bantamweight.
Strike force spokesman Mike Afromowitz today confirmed with the Championship bout with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and said it will serve as a night main event.
The rematch, the three years in the making, airs as part of the night Showtime aired.
Tickets for the event, the a co headline between strike force women welterweight champion Sarah Kaufman and Challenger Marloes Coenen, are now on sale for strike force Insider.
Already reported MMAjunkie.com Diaz vs was optional in the process is finalisiert.Fakultativ got the slot after Middleweight Champion Jason "Mayhem" Miller, welterweight Joe Riggs and one may soon to exit Jay Hieron as potential opponents were excluded.
Optionally set up to fight for the title, after scoring a second-round TKO of Jorge Gurgel this past weekend at "strike force: Houston."The victory was optional sixth straight going back to 2007, the year the he Nick Diaz most upset "EliteXC: renegade."Optionally, who also a boxer, smash Diaz and many face offers physicians, cuts the ringside to stop the bout after the first round promoted.
EliteXC were partly due to the contract between optional and defunct promotion to book officials never able, the rematch.Optional with Strikefore signed earlier this year, launched the wheels in motion.
But not that keep Diaz, optionally on a June 2008 event in Hawaii, faced if winner against separate fighter registered both fighters.
"Nick has no class, he is a bum, a piece [expletive], and he and his team ignored my family and I with their gestures and trash talk and tried bands my struggle,"declared optional, whose stock was almost beats with Diaz's."
Since joining strike force, Conor Heun defeated optional (split decision) and throat on light and now moves to apply to welterweight Diaz.
Diaz brings a seven fight win strips his own in the strike force Kampf.Nach victories over Frank Shamrock (179 pounds), Scott Smith (180 pounds) and Marius Zaromskis (for the welterweight title), he went to Japan and submitted at may's DREAM Hayato Sakurai. 14 Ereignis.Diaz, suspending it hassle from Oct. 9 will end his role in the April television transmitted CBS strike force now finds his 12th victory in 13 fighting.
For the latest on the "strike force: Diaz vs. optional," stay tuned to the MMA rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
(Pictured: k.j. optional)
Competitive Equilibrium can be a fallacy that it is possible to search in other sports, but in the fight you need big stars. Strikeforce took a beating tonight as Bobby Lashley declined to launch the Showtime television, then one of the brightest young stars promotion "King Mo" Muhammed Lawal came firstly on the mat in under 12 minutes.
Rafael Cavalcante "Propiedades ' was the biggest, most powerful and most technical fighter. It was only a matter of time before King mo has captured by some sort of ugly strike. In the third round, he was hit with a huge knee in a situation of clinch. Knee buckled and as he was tripping backward, Propiedades nailed him with another right. Lawal fell to his back and retro rose up in fashion flaky. Has struggled to maintain the Propiedades against Cage as he got pummeled by elbows. After absorbing more than a dozen elbows and punches, dropped left arm of Lawal. This is when referee John McCarthy intervened to stop things at 1: 14 of third.Lawal was clearly out, as he fell first face to mat. Propiedades (10-2) took the title of heavy Strikeforce light from Lawal.
It's not shocking that Lawal (7-1) lost. After you move from the world of amateur wrestling is still a fighter, very newbie.Lawal, who just lost in the u.s. 2008 Olympic wrestling team, allowed his grappling to bring it to an unbeaten record against a decent slate of combatants.But tonight Propiedades proved to be too strong. Lawal scored two Takedown but also worked extremely hard while missing out on three other. even when Propiedades hit the deck, scored the same relatively rapid at his feet
Propiedades outlanded Lawal 67-50, but most of the shots of Brazilian were much heavier.
In an attack that decided the welterweight contender Jon Fitch, number one beat Thiago Alves, 30-27 on cards all three judges.
The first round was dominated by Takedown of Fitch and action-packed. Although Alves was able to stuff a reverse position and takedown, Fitch, a fighter for Purdue University, controlled Alves for most of turn.
Between rounds, Fitch said his coaches who Alves felt weak in the clinch. This was not surprising given the difficulty of Alves in cutting weight.
Fitch has continued to use her abilities of wrestling to dominate Alves as combating moved to the second round. Took early Alves to the ground, and Alves had a hard time fighting for Fitch.Alves took a short burst of offense at end of turn, but it wasn't enough.
Alves started out the third and final round with best stand-up, sprawling out a landing takedownand Fitch strikes.But by the mark in half of the round, Fitch had Alves back onto the canvas and had a body triangle sunk. Fitch continued to pummel Alves until the last minute, when Alves on and had another flurry of offense.
Some offense was not sufficient. in his first fight in 13 months, Alves looked weak during the attack. If was cutting weight or lay out between attacks, Alves didn't look like the hard-PUNCHING MACHINE that MMA fans are accustomed to seeing.
With this victory, Fitch presumably has earned a shot at title welterweight. teammate at the American Academy of Kickboxing, Josh Koscheck, will have the first crack at the champion Georges St. Pierre and the belt in December.
During UFC 118 prefight teleconference on Thursday, James Toney was pretty low key. That was until Nick Solomon from Jabs and Grabs brought comments from fellow boxers Bernard Hopkins and David Haye.
"Bernard can go somewhere to get his teeth cursed fix and gay by David Haye," said Toney."I don't care about any of this. Only miserable [unintelligible] with that [expletive]."
Hopkins said satellite radio show Mauro Ranallo that Toney was "going to get his [expletive] kicked."While Haye-de said that the Boxer has no business being in a fight MMA, Toney not is pleased that boxers are turning their backs the veteran.
The current IBA boxing champion was asked what he would rather fight for: UFC heavyweight title or one of the most recognized tapes boxing.
"Brock Lesnar says let's do it, let's do it December or January," said Toney."The ' Bitchko ' ain't fightin' me, so I'm going to fight Lesnar. why not? I'm going to beat him too."
Wladimir Klitschko is expected to defend his belt in September against Samuel Peter, that Toney lost twice. Vitali Klitschko is set to address the 38-year-old Shannon Briggs on 16 October.
Thiago Alves can never to separate from the texture of weigh in drama. The Brazilian squat is massive for class of 170-pound and is always an adventure in the days preceding the weigh in. This week was no different. Alves was reportedly 190 pounds of Wednesday morning. Today, sounded very sunny and with reports that he was 177 in the morning. But it did not work, even with two attempts at pesa. Alves miss the mark, had to abandon the 20 percent of her purse and the same can cost the title shot promised for the winner of its fight against Jon Fitch.
With the threat of weight is missing Alves, sounded like white had changed his mind during the night that says FanHouse (7: 10 mark) that Fitch, Alves, Jake Shields or Martin Kampmann could be online for title shot after Georges St. Pierre and Josh Koscheck fight. Alves couldn't have donehimself any favors by weight is missing again!
The energy was high, as the main event fighters struck the scale.Yoshiyuki Sonnen was all business, while Anderson Silva had fun on the scale that act as if he was nervous that he was going to lose weight. Silva flipped the script while staredown, refusing to watch Sonnen. the Challenger has played a helluva job hyping the fight, but sounded like he made plenty of enemies among the fans.
Yoichirio SATO's first defense of his Shooto Middleweight Pacific Rim belt could have gotten a bad start.During the first seconds of Challenger, Hatsu Hioki sister portfolio landed Takasuke Kume, a high kick followed by a straight ahead, which almost perfect on the mat, sent robbing him his consciousness. While SATO, struggled to regain his serenity, Kume in ground and pound, rained that close to always by a referee stoppage at several points over the next three minutes until SATO mustered some defense in the form of crime with heel hooks and attempts Achilles lock of his back.
Recovered in the last two races though SATO really, really control Bout.Die adrenaline dump for the early finish going through that sapped threatened by Kume of its sensitivity and Sato with a Kimura and OMO Plata and out striking and out wrestling three laps agreed the Herausforderer.Nach all three judges, to keep his band from SATO.
Full results from Shooto gig Tokyo 5 after the break.
Shooto - gig Tokyo 5, 7.August at face in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan results
Shooto Middleweight Pacific Championship
Yoichiro SATO vs. Takasuke Kume by unanimous decision
Daiji Takahashi vs. Yusei Shimokawa by unanimous decision
Guy Delameau moved Wataru Miki
Masato Sannai defeated Naohiro Mizuno by submission (Armbar) - round 1, 3: 56
Akihiro Murayama vs. Jung min Kang by submission (rear naked choke)-round 3, 3: 31
Jun-Hee Moon defeated Takahiro Suzuki by technical ko (punches) 2 2: 45
Tetsuo Seto vs. Seong Hak - Jin acting unanimously
Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Keita Ishibashi through technical ko (doctor standstill)-round 1, 2: 23
Akinobu Watanabe vs. Yosuke Ebihara by submission (rear naked choke)-round 1, 4: 03
