To continue two opponents of switches, Efrain Escudero to his progression

It has been a game of musical chairs for Efrain Escudero. It seems like every time he sits, has a new opponent.

Escudero 8 lightweight winner of "The Ultimate Fighter," being season Charles Oliveira Wednesday at UFC fight night planned 22 gegenüberstehen.Aber only after another with two matchups for him on the map change.

Escudero was a bout with John Gunderson on Wednesday's map in Austin, Texas, planned for, the season 12 premiere of "The ultimate fighter" on Spike TV vorausgeht.Wenn had to pull co-main event fighter Mac Danzig his rematch with Matt Wiman, moved Escudero in Gdansk's spot. And then Wiman got hurt and fell out of the map.

Type Oliveira less than a month before the fight. But Escudero said Thursday at a media call for the event that the opponents bothered him changes.

You know, I have to pay really isn't much attention, said Escudero. "It was a month so I had enough time.".. .We are concerned about what we bring to the table are. We are not concerned about on what you go to the table put. We make our fight to fight, and we will go out and make our work. "Where fighting in top shape and ready to someone to take you with us is that our main priority and our main goal."

Unbeaten as professional title in the TUF House, Escudero, the victory of Phillipe Nover the final with a recess of Cole Miller at UFC 103 followed.But he ran lightweight Evan Dunham at UFC 114 in the Mai.Die Armbar Dunham colleagues unbeaten, on Escudero in the third round may beat what is now known Escudero so much as "The Ultimate Fighter." gewinnenNach one exciting and forth two rounds caught Escudero. Dunham he cranked Armbar, - and Escudero waited a long time to open up. Too long. But he escaped with only a few tendon damage.

Escudero (filling, 3-1 UFC) said the loss could have been the best that could happen him at least in the grand scheme of things.

"Is unbeaten puts a lot of pressure on you, always try to be on the top", said Escudero."I always said I'd data sets aside, but in the end that is bottom line, it is indeed a good role spielt.Und now that this first loss of my way - it is I get one of those where I been caught making a mistake." I blame it on my Herz.Aber Dunham, I wish him the best. You know that enabled on my mistakes."And I think I more have gained a lot of the loss as I had won a victory."

Escudero rebounded for a victory over Dan Lauzon at UFC 114 in may, sweep the scorecards, save for a late penalty for a kick, beat the Lauzon in the bar.He'll look Wednesday for two in a row, but he must again on an unbeaten up and comer in Oliveira (13-0, 1 0 UFC), take, that submission victory last month comes from a 41 second.

Oliveira, which could in the short term worry war.Er said to the fight, the basis for his fast work about Darren Elkins at UFC live versus 2 as Escudero, leave this struggle with a $ 40,000-submission of the night bonus in his UFC debut to take.

"The first battle I had in the UFC was very fast," said Oliveira of Brazil, through his translator."So I was I very well Form.Als that immediately heard the news about the fighting, (doesn't bother) me at all because I was training anyway already.""Would at best with the best you've got the best Kämpfen.Und short term as the nehmen.Dies is normal."

It is only natural that Escudero has its Jiu-Jitsu game honing was first come from Armbar loss to Dunham, then on the road in a fight against an opponent, has five of its last seven profits which is Vorlage.Es all part Escudero's evolution in what he hopes that one will be complete fighter.

"" My progression have been great,"said Escudero.""I began, a (wrestler), and I work much on my Jiu-Jitsu (and) my standup.Ich work much since ' the Ultimate Fighter.Ich got stuck in the gym, and it has my battles in the entire shows been."

Escudero Oliveira is the co main event of UFC fight night 22, Wednesday at the Frank Erwin Center at the University of Texas at Austin stattfindet.Der main card of airs live at 9 am Eastern on Spike TV as an introduction to the season 12 premiere of "The Ultimate Fighter."

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Dennis Siver vs. Andre winner bout scheduled for UFC 122

A lightweight bout between Dennis Siver and Andre winner for UFC 122 in Germany is planned MMA fighting the sources of Ariel Helwani said on Thursday.

The event is the UFC's second in Germany and be a homecoming for Siver.He fought on the promotion's debut in this country, UFC 99 in June 2009, Dale Hartt with rear naked choke of first round einreichen.Siver (16-7, 5-4 UFC) is German and Russian descent and began his MMA career in Germany.

Siver, fought last at the season 11 finale of "The Ultimate Fighter" to beat Spencer Fisher by unanimous decision. Three of his last five battles have bonus awards - two knockout night netted, post fight, WINS (Nate Mohr at UFC 93, Paul Kelly at UFC 105) and a fight of night against Ross Pearson at UFC fight night 21, although he lost a decision.

Winner (11-1, 2-2 UFC), from England, rebound will look a decision backlash against Nik Lentz at UFC 118 12 days ago. One member of the season 9 cast of "The Ultimate Fighter", winner reached the finals where he lost a unanimous decision to Pearson, a guy u.k.-fighter and his team rough House teammate.

UFC 122 finds November 13 in the König Pilsener arena in Oberhausen, Germany, and delay on Spike TV Luft.Die promotion's debut in Germany is expected to be on the same day tape came under fire.Minors were prohibited, participation in UFC 99 in person.And this year, the UFC sport was glorified banned from German TV, because believed the Bavarian State Office for new media violence.

Although the event is not yet officially announced by the UFC, this is main event to be a middleweight contender bout between Vitor Belfort and Yushin Okami.

Belfort not fought as a UFC 103 win over rich Franklin in September last Jahres.Er was expected Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva at UFC 109 was face, but Silva by operation erholt.Und Belfort, itself, pull out your planned UFC 112 fight in April with an injury musste.Mit plans in the works for a rematch between Silva and Chael Sonnen after their fight at UFC 117 last month finds Belfort again wait for Silva, but now working with an opponent, before you a shot.

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Giorgio Petrosyan, Artur Kyshenko, Mike Zambidis return K-1 MAX final 16

K - 1 President announced Sadaharu Tanigawa close completed map for the K - 1 World MAX GP FINAL 16 on 3 in Seoul, South Korea held.

2009 K-1 World MAX champion Giorgio Petrosyan returns to the K-1 ring for the first time since claimed his title to 2010 K 1 - MAX - Eastern Europe champion Vitaly Hurkou, fan favorite of Mike Zambidis face is 22 years old Chahid and Kyokushin stylist Andrews Nakahara called feature in a MMA super battle against a too Korean opponent.

Albert Kraus, Yoshihiro Sato and Yuichiro "Jienotsu" Nagashima, be moved to the final 8 with their victories in May.

The complete announced map after the break.

K-1 World MAX 70 kg FINAL 16, 3 October 2010 at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea 1stGiorgio Petrosyan vs Vitaly Hurkou
Gago Drago vs Su hwan Lee
Artur Kyshenko vs Kamal Mohamed
Mike Zambidis vs Chahid Oulad El Hadj
Sagadpet vs Michal Glogowski

Super fights:
Pajonsuk vs. Jae Gil Noh
Chi am Lim Hideaki Kikkawa vs.
Kizaemon Saiga vs. Sung-Hyun Lee
Fire Harada vs. Tae Hwan Kim

Women's Super fight:
Su-Jeong Lim vs. TBA

Super fight MMA:
Andrews Nakahara vs. TBA

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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.

Check out the video interview below.

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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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