Shinya Aoki: BJ Penn didn ' T loose; wrestlers have no risk

As Shinya Aoki the DREAM lightweight belt he claimed rank No. 2 behind his idol BJ Penn itself. With Frankie Edgar's second victory over Penn it is clear that there is a new top lightweight King but Aoki is not buy.

"I'm a big fan of BJ Penn really, he is one of my favorite fighters." He lost by decision. We look at martial arts in it is extreme form, we need to win by submission or knockout. In this sense, which he lost not."He lost this battle, but he is still" the man "it is still my favorite fighters."

With Edgar keeps the belt we have a fighter with a wrestling backbone at the top of which is light and gray Maynard UFC Department once again the next likely Challenger it looks not as that will change anytime soon. This trend to rings is another thing with suffers Aoki.
Japanese MMA is completely different. We go for cut-outs and submissions from the beginning and go for the decision is not an option.
-Shinya Aoki
"The American wrestling style - punching a little, has always a takedown and move to page control to win the round no Risiko.Es is a simple fight."It's just the judges use."Don't even have to injuries or anything like the kümmern.Es is no risk."

The fact that Aoki used the lack of risk as a criticism is interesting when you consider he also recently claimed that his own goal is ", to win without against my opponents in dangerous situations", that fight with risk "The quality of MMA bottom makes."

"Want to Frankie Edgar vs gray Maynard to see? thinking it would interesting?"Aoki asks.

I truthfully answer that I don't think it would be very exciting.

"Right!"I'm a big fan of the UFC, but I think that lately very interesting been. of course there is good fighters but not so many interesting battles. «Punch a little, then get a takedown and each round is a repetition of it.»

"I am a big fan of aggressive fighters like Joe Stevenson, Kenny Florian, Melvin Guillard, BJ Penn, Nate Diaz..""Everyone else is only rings and it is not interesting at all."

Aoki's thoughts on rings are eerily similar to those of Dan Hardy and how Hardy, Aoki has lost, Aoki was a major struggle because wrestling - takedown Gilbert Melendez was during Hardy unable to stop the takedown against Georges St. Pierre.

"Japanese MMA is completely different.""We go for cut-outs and submissions from the beginning and go for the decision is not an option."

When Aoki tried to bring his Japanese MMA style in the United States, it was obvious missing.Although Gilbert Melendez is not traditionally intended as a wrestler Boxer, lightweight champion certainly neutralized the DREAM as he during their bout in strike force.

"It was not where I fought, Japan or America, cage or ring, but I am only weak.""As a fight I found weakness in me."

Aoki's next bout was against Tatsuya Kawajiri DREAM Llghtweight Titel.Kawajiri is not American, can be said that he fights as "American wrestler", zu.Der fight against Kawajiri Aoki objects was dramatically successful for Aoki due to a change in the way of thinking.

"After Melendez mean to avoid takedowns and only hit me I had to my way of thinking to ändern.Ich had a submission to erhalten.Ich was really desperate (against Kawajiri)."

Aoki believes that he shot at still deserves another Melendez, but it work, must this fight to verdienen.Aoki's upcoming bout against Marcus Aurelio on DREAM. 16 on September 25th will be the next step to the earn his shot yet, despite BJ Penn's to Edgar Aoki's own loss to Gilbert Melendez, BJ Penn is still at the top of the heap and it is still the goal.

"BJ Penn, Eddie Alvarez, Gilbert Melendez, Frankie Edgar, the top four sind.BJ Penn is you still no. 1 aggressive fighter is Eddie Alvarez.Frankie Edgar is lost on most defensiv.Wenn Penn, lose my goal überhaupt.Es not I is difficult for me to see that he lost the battle."

And gray Maynard? the only man with a victory over the UFC lightweight champion and the next likely contender for the title?

"Gray Maynard is a good wrestler."

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Randy Couture tuning out James Toney ahead of UFC 118 showdown

BOSTON--MMA fighting with Randy Couture Thursday UFC 118 media of workouts caught up.

Couture spoke about his mind set, that go into battle, as he could optimize trash talk from James Toney's as he expects that to stop the fight and to whether back heavyweight after becoming this fight to light to move down.

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Shine battles live blog: rich Crunkilton vs. Carlo Prater updates

This is the fights shine live blog for rich Crunkilton vs. Carlo Prater, an opening round matchup shine fights lightweight Grand Prix in the first Council Casino in Newkirk, Oklahoma

The live blog is down.

Round 1: Crunkilton lands a leg kick. Crunkilton storms in the clinch. Prater swats Crunkilton after a short positional struggle. Back to gain Prater lands a nice shores in side control. Crunkilton hips to closed guard. Prater lands left but Crunkilton scrambles out and to the top. Prater Crunkilton starts and are back at her feet. Crunkilton accesses Prater and the two are sent between the ropes. Fortunately, stay on the mat screen and not outside. Fight restarts and Prater starts a high kick.Prater solves a flying knee, but has made him a takedown to verteidigen.Prater muscles.The Prater ends round with Crunkilton inside of the guard.

Luminaires fights warns of a delay, "technical Schwierigkeiten.stehen for a short Pause.Bitte stay efficient."The screen turns black, and we get a message "we ' ll be right back!" by iNDEMAND.

The delay is just a few minutes and we're back...(the fighters had to accommodate the PPV delay additional time to rest between rounds.)

Round 2: Crunkilton lands a strike and digs with a double leg for the takedown in page Steuerelement.Sichern scores Crunkilton other Takedown.Crunkilton makes a solid attempt on page control to swim but Prater is hip and avoids. Round two ends and Crunkilton takes round two with his takedowns.

Ring Announcer of Ray Flores announces that the battle will go overtime to a round. Three minutes.

Round 3:Prater with its active hands but is taken.Prater escapes to his feet.Crunkilton a body kick and two beats a takedown set up.Separate.Crunklton shoots out far and Prater fillers it.Both men are ermüdend.Crunkilton verteidigt.Crunkilton digs again for a takedown but Prater again with a body kick and punch, distance to schließen.Crunkilton stamp and a left hand .Prater solves applies to a single Bein.Prater verteidigt.Prater countries a back kick and Crunkilton brings seine.Prater meets a switch and it gets pretty even round I would lean towards Crunkilton for his aggressiveness with Crunkilton's body on the Seile.Eine.

Crunkilton defeated Prater on split decision and shall face Kyle Baker in the semifinals.

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MMA Roundtable: Hat a eight-man tournament Trump UFC castoffs?

 

With that in mind, I pulled MMA Fighting's Ray Hui away from more serious work in order to make him answer some questions I had running through my mind. Join us as we break down the weekend's action, debate which pay-per-view to buy in a perfect world, and try to calculate the odds that Antonio McKee will wrestle his way into retirement.

Shine Fights is holding a one-night, eight-man unsanctioned tournament at an Indian casino on Friday night. That means the eventual winner will have to win three (unsanctioned) fights in one night. Awesome idea or horrible idea?

Hui: Tournament, awesome idea, every now and then. Unsanctioned event, horrible idea all the time. One-night tournaments are fine with me as long they don't feature top ranked fighters. In Shine's case, it's a bunch of up-and-comers and veterans looking for a chance to make a name for themselves or revitalize their career, respectively; so I see no problem in utilizing a tournament format to help someone not on the radar showcase his talent. My problem with tournaments is when they feature the upper elite fighters. We all want to know who's the best in the world and it can potentially be unclear how one-night tournament results should be factored.

For example, during the 2008 Dream Lightweight Grand Prix Finals, do you rank Joachim Hansen higher than Shinya Aoki even though Hansen spent less than three minutes in his last fight, compared to Aoki who went the full 15-minute distance? The problem with unsanctioned events is simple: fighters possibly not getting paid and safety concerns with available doctors and no medical suspensions. It's not the case here, but is a problem with smaller shows when promoters also manage fighters and officials are close to one of the fighters.

Fowlkes: I actually think this is one of those rare ideas that is both awesome and horrible. You might call it awesomely horrible, or horribly awesome. On one hand, three fights in a night? That was fine for Royce Gracie or Dan Severn back when you were almost guaranteed to get at least one easy fight against some karate instructor from Tulsa, but those days are gone. Beating any one of these dudes is a full night's work. Beating three of them ought to earn you the next six months off, which makes it seem even more insane that Marcus Aurelio was going to do this tournament and then fight Aoki two weeks later. That elbow injury might have saved his life.

At the same time, it's so insane that I can't help but admit that I'm dying to see how it plays out. It seems perfectly possible that the last fight will be an exhausted mess, but that only increases my anticipation somehow. I just hope that Shine doesn't allow something terrible to happen, what with this being unsanctioned. I'd like to think they'd pull the plug if safety is an issue by the time the finals roll around, and I'd also like to think that there won't be any doubt about the fighters getting their money on time. If there is, especially after what happened with the ill-fated Shine Fights III in North Carolina, you can go ahead and dig Shine's grave. They've got to know that though, so they wouldn't do anything dumb and jeopardize their operation. Right? Guys?

Antonio McKee says he'll retire if his fight with Luciano Azevedo goes to a decision, which is kind of ironic since McKee is known for winning by little else but decision. Is McKee just playing us here, or do you think he's serious? What's your prediction for this fight?

Hui: I give McKee props for at least putting an effort to sell the fight on a card that isn't being talked about. Do I think he's serious? Let's put it this way, before his last MFC fight he told me he didn't train his ground game nor did he train takedowns, and what does he end up doing 30 seconds into the fight? Yup, takedown. On the other hand, stylistically if McKee really wanted to test his standup, Azevedo would be a good person to do it against, but I don't think McKee will.

For us to see a different side of McKee, he needs to face an opponent that can stop his takedowns and Azevedo is not the person to do it. I see this fight ending one of two ways: Azevedo catching McKee off his back with a submission, or McKee grinding out another decision. In these scenarios, the guy on top usually has a better chance at winning. McKee's top control is too effective and I see this headed towards McKee's 16th decision of his last 19 fights.

Fowlkes: You're right, McKee has done more than anyone else to sell this fight, which is to say that he has done something. I'm even willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe he genuinely believes that this is a real retirement threat. Since he's the world's greatest lightweight, at least in his own mind, he probably thinks it won't be that difficult to smash Azevedo. But if he gets cracked in his mouth, you know he's taking this fight to the floor.

That said, I think McKee can finish this fight if he commits himself to it. I don't think it will be terribly interesting to watch. I suspect we're looking at a late TKO via ground-and-pound, but then at least he can keep forcing his style upon Canadian crowds in MFC and he'll have kept his promise (nominally, anyway). But even if it's more of the same from McKee, he won't go away for good that easily. The guy still has too much competitive fire in him. Maybe I could believe that he'd consider "retiring" for a little while, but like a boring, angry Brett Favre, he'll be back.

Take a look at the lineups for Shine Fights, Shark Fights, and MFC. Now say you can only watch one (for our purposes, pretend your cable operator is offering all three, which it almost certainly isn't). Which one do you choose, and why?

Hui: My cable provider, Comcast, offers all three, but to play along, I'll pretend they air Bellator live. To answer your question, Shark Fights by a landslide. Call it the guilty pleasure card of the month. You have some of the more exciting UFC castaways. Most of the main card fights on paper look designed for either a knockout (Sokoudjou-Alexander, Daley-Masvidal) or a back-and-forth action-packed decision (Jardine-Prangley, Villasenor-Villafort). And honestly, their undercard looks just as if not more interesting to me than the main cards of Shine Fights and MFC.

Fowlkes: Well, look at the big man with his Comcast service, sitting at home and choosing from a rich buffet of MMA options. Me, I've got Dish Network. When I called to ask if there was any chance of getting the Shine Fights pay-per-view, they kept asking if I was sure I didn't mean Shark Fights, since that's the only one they're offering. And maybe it's just because we always want what we can't have, or maybe it's because of that insane, unsanctioned tournament, but God help me, I'd choose Shine.

Shark Fights obviously has the best lineup, but all those guys are either in career holding patterns or on downward slopes. I look at that card and see interesting fights, but no one who's really on the way up. When I contrast that with the novelty of the eight-man tournament, sorry, it's no contest. Too bad I won't get the chance to act on that impulse.

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UFC middleweight champion Ed Herman team quest for new gym leaves, return eyes 2011

After consecutive Ed Herman turns over a new leaf in Colorado knee injuries.

Today saying UFC middleweight to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and revealed team quest leaving and plans to open a new gym Collins, Colorado, where he now lives in Fort with teammate Ryan Schultz.

Meanwhile, it is his knee back to health care and hopes, be able to train on full bore in November.If all goes well, he expects a return to the UFC Octagon in the first quarter of 2011.

The 29-year old Herman (19-7 MMA, UFC 4-5) his ACL and meniscus blowing in, when he fought Aaron Simpson in Portland, Oregon at UFC 102 almost a Jahr.Es his was third loss in four Octagon performances.

He underwent surgery this past September, the damaged ligament to reparieren.Dann, re-injured four months later, he it during a routine training session.

Needless to say, he had much time to think on the couch.

"I just now again am getting some light training,", said Herman."I really wanted my time and leave it to properly heal, and we're going to open our so it works perfectly gym."

Vancouver, Washington native said it was difficult to leave in the Pacific Northwest, but he disenchanted with his education.

"" I had been wanting to make a move for a while "Herman said.""Things are kind of fall apart in Oregon quest (team) a little and Matt Lindland is not the best person to all the time, so we had to make our move."

Herman, which in the runner up on the third season of the reality series of the UFC ("the ultimate fighter") was educated at Gresham, ore gymnastics for most of his career.

"" There are no bridges burned or something, but I didn ' t like, the way fighters were always taken care of, "he said."I not the way students like were always gesorgt.Es gave many promises to me that never met.So we had a step and things, that happen to us themselves instead of bitching and moaning about stuff () after this and not having,"

Above were trainer in the gym's leaving Herman and Schultz student program.

The team recently got an explosion of public when UFC middleweight champion and team quest regular Chael Sonnen Anderson Silva at UFC 117 before he dominated prey a last minute template, the cost it a title (but earned him immediate rematch).

But asserts Herman team quest inappropriate Sun 7.Prepare for battle.

"" Chael all that pretty much without any training partner, "Herman said."[Chael's] most important training partner is Tyson Jeffries, which a stud is young man, and maybe Matt Lindland and a few other guys like Pat and Ryan Healy."But his main training partner always ready for this fight against Anderson Silva.Team quest bring a person to help."

Founded in Lindland, Dan Henderson and Randy Couture, the team has a long list of top fighters in 11-year history, including Sun, Chris life, Nate quarry, Evan Tanner, Schultz and many others produces.

"" Away from the quality of the guys I take anything from the quest come", said Herman."Behold the quality of guys, the quest produced has, especially team quest North.Einige talented, talented guys.

"Chael was one of my biggest partners for years and years, and I hated him leave, but Matt really let us no other choice."

Lindland was surprised about Hermans statements if contacted today by MMAjunkie.com.

"" I think if you get injured guys and you sit on your couch much time to sit and think about which takes care of you, is "Lindland said."You're especially someone who always was a lot of attention from a reality show, out of the limelight, and you are not always attention daily by the media (and) of the Fans.Sie hope to get it from someone else and that's not really my job to sit and say guys, you were how big, because on the occupation of a TV show.

"I think a lot of potential in the sport [Herman has] and he is welcome here, at any time he wants to come back and trainieren.Ich knew that he was always, because I didn't realize he hadn't all off needs physical meets his needs."

Herman and Shultz hope their new gym from October open. how in his career, Octagon aims "Short Fuse" a return in February or March 2011.

"" Man I'm crazy,"said Herman."It is a year now since my injury, and I don't even wait to back to the gym and a few times in the face gestanzt.Aber again is getting the ultimate Ziel.Ich in the cage must me in shape and feel good to get healthy and back.

"I feel like I can make a good run."

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C-a-c this guy corner just may have future real as a fighter

One week he is staging a comeback unlikely to defend his belt medium, next week, that he is wrapping the hands of a fighter to the fight for Wrestling in Bakersfield. This is the life for Anderson Silva, the average UFC champion, who recently lost his place at the top of the ranking of libra-for-pound MMA sport Yahoo!. Image caption in the comments section and the winner of create-a-caption last week reading for the winners.

First place: Little Joe Silva ago know Clay is truly a vampire shimmering, preparing for him to join the ranks.--Autin Tollison

Second place: Caveman it would make me happier planet where will you be my bride--T

Third place: Wow!Jon Cryer! I am the biggest fan! sorry for being so sweaty.--Mike

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Brock Larson vs. Tarec Saffiedine completes shark fights 13 pay lineup

The last piece in shark fights pay puzzle has finally created been.

Shark fights officials today announced that strike force and DREAM veteran Tarec Saffiedine (9), Brock Larson (29-4) to meet, who has agreed 13 already announced for the map on the main map of shark fights.

With a main event not title fight between shark fight light heavyweight champion Trevor Prangley and Keith Jardine, a star-studded lineup that finds notables, full of MMA shark fights 13 place on Sept. 11 at the Amarillo Civic Center in Amarillo, Texas.

The main Board of airs live on pay per view.

"Saffiedine, a Belgian fighter who has trained with team quest, two appearances on strike force challengers cards in 2010 made.""Floated" WINS in each picked up of these competitions.

In fact, an October 2009 split decision result against Dong-Sik Yoon was Saffiedine's lone loss in his last nine trips to the cage.

Meanwhile Larson brings back a three-fight win streaks in the Wettbewerb.Die Minnesota mixed martial arts Academy fighters from the UFC after consecutive released losses to Brian foster and Mike Pierce, but has since caught off three straight first-round-stop WINS.

"" Saffiedine is a well-rounded fighter and rising star in the strike force welterweight division ", declared President Brent Medley shark fight in today's release."He has in a number of actions around the world including fought by DREAM in Japan and holds notable wins over PRIDE veteran Seichi Ikemoto, James Terry and Nate Moore.

"Both fighters are hungry for this Sieg.Fans can an exciting, action-packed battle kickoff night expect."

The complete map now contains:

MAIN CARD
Champ Trevor Prangley vs. Keith Jardine (light heavyweight not title combat) Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs Houston AlexanderPaul Daley vs. Jorge MasvidalDrew McFredries vs. Joey Villasanor Brock Larson vs. Tarec SaffiedinePRELIMINARY CARD
Champ Douglas Evans vs Ronnie man (featherweight title fight) Paul Bradley vs Johnny ReeseAaron Rosa vs. Devin ColeKaren Darabedyan vs Marcus HicksEric Davila vs. Pete Spratt(Pictured:_Tarec_Saffiedine)

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