Rather than make new threads for UFC and PRIDE announcements or whatever, I'm ripping off the idea of Clubber's boxing thread and creating our own space for those interested in the greatest sport on earth (i_i, waskmykev, strongmendieyoung, etc).
Check here for news updates, rankings, results, Ultimate Fighter reality show and fight discussions in all profesional MMA promotions. Let's begin by talking about the couple of big events that happened this past weekend:
2006 Openweight Grand prix semi-final and final results Mirko Cro Cop def. Wanderlei Silva (KO, 5:22 rd 1)
Josh Barnett def. Antonio Nogueira (split dec)
Mirko Cro Cop def. Josh Barnett (strikes, 7:32 rd 1)
IFL World Championships Anacondas (Los Angeles-coach Bas Rutten) def. Sabres (Tokyo-coach Antonio Inoki), 5-0
LW/155: Chris Horodecki (AN) def. Ed West (SA) (unanimous)
WW/170: Jay Hieron (AN) def. Amos Sotelo (SA) (guillotine choke, 0:26 rd 1)
MW/185: Mike Pyle (AN) def. John Cole (SA) (guillotine, 0:17 rd 1)
LH/205: Alex Schoenauer (AN) def. Kazuhiro Hamanaka (SA) (guillotine, 1:04 rd 1)
HW/265: Krzysztof Soszynski (AN) def. Tom Howard (SA) (ref stoppage, 3:47 rd 1)
Wolfpack (Portland-coach Matt Lindland) vs. Tiger Sharks (Seattle-coach Maurice Smith), 3-2
LW/155: Ryan Schultz (WP) def. Cam Ward (TS) (ref stoppage, 2:38 rd 2)
WW/170: Brad Blackburn (TS) def. Chris Wilson (WP) (unanimous)
MW/185: Matt Horwich (WP) def. Bristol Marunde (TS) (unanimous)
LH/205: Aaron Stark (WP) def. Reese Andy (TS) (ref stoppage, 2:00 rd 3)
HW/265: Allan Goes (TS) def. Devin Cole (WP) (guillotine, 3: rd 1)
Superfight MW/185: Matt Lindland def. Jeremy Horn by TKO, 0:21 in Round 2 (ref stoppage) Lindland fucked him up. With this victory, Lindland is now the #2 ranked welterweight in the world.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with IFL (International Fight League), but it is the world's first MMA league. It has only been around for less than a year, but they have 8 teams each represented by coaches, cities and mascots. As you can tell by the results, the competitions are between two teams. Very cool. They show it on FSN. The team format should help MMA gain some popularity.
MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185-pound limit)
1. Rich Franklin
2. Matt Lindland
3. Anderson Silva
4. Paulo Filho
5. Dan Henderson
6. Denis Kang
7. Jeremy Horn
8. Kazuo Misaki
9. Nathan Marquardt
10. Amar Suloev
WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170-pound limit)
1. Matt Hughes
2. Georges St. Pierre
3. BJ Penn
4. Diego Sanchez
5. Karo Parisyan
6. Sean Sherk
7. Jake Shields
8. Jon Fitch
9. Akira Kikuchi
10. Nick Diaz
I have some beef with these rankings. There is absolutely no reason Wanderlei should be any lesss than #2 in the world. Cro Cop destroyed him, but Wandy was fighting up in weight. Not to mention that Shogun lost to Coleman a couple of fights ago. I fail to see this logic.
Nick Diaz one of the top WW in the world? The guy lost 4 of his last 5 fights. They were close and exciting and he fought a couple serious top level guys, but come on. Josh Koscheck would put the hurt on him.
UFC 63 - Hughes vs. Penn (9/23/06) WW Championship: Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn
MW: David Loiseau vs. Mike Swick
LHW: Rashad Evans vs. Jason Lambert
LW: Jens Pulver vs. Joe Lauzon
LW: Gabe Ruediger vs. Melvin Guillard
Great title fight, Loiseau/Swick should be excellent, I pray Evans goes down (worst fighter to ever win TUF) and the return of Lil Evil!!!
PRIDE 32 - The Real Deal (10/21/06) HW Championship: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Mark Coleman
MW: Mauricio Rua vs. Kevin Randleman
MW: Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva
Cro Cop, Fujita, Barnett, Baroni, Nakamura and Nastula said to alos be having fights.
Rumor has it that Mike Tyson will be facing somone in an exhibition boxing match.
PRIDE comes to the US for the first time ever. His chances aren't good, but I'm going to be rooting for Coleman to put Fedor down. I'd like to see Randleman pull it off, too.
Overall, not the greatest night, but a superb title fight.
-Jens Pulver? Well, he's obviously not the unstoppable lightweight force he was 4 years ago. It looks like he won't be a contender anytime soon. The Miletich camp can't take all the titles, I guess. Haha.
-Rashad Evans looked better than ever, but he is still relying far too much on his wrestling skills and can't finish fights the way he should be able to. He was just an all-around better athlete than Lambert. Still...props on his unblemished record and finally not going the distance.
-Melvin Guillard didn't have too much trouble and I don't think that came as a surprise to anyone. That must've been one hell of a blow to the gut. I look forward to his next fight.
-The main event...fucking wow. Hughes was obviously frustrated with Penn in the first couple of rounds. Penn definitely took both of them. He out-struck him, out-grappled him and defended every one of his takedown attempts. It was very impressive. Then, Penn catches him in a pretty deep triangle choke for the remaining 35 seconds of round 2, and Hughes is such a fucking warrior that he toughs it out and doesn't tap even though he is turning purple. It came down to conditioning and Hughes was ready to rock in teh third round while Penn wasn't. I think The Prodigy might've gotten a little too complacent after his performance in teh first couple of rounds. My boy caught him, though. The undisputed welterweight champion of the world, Matt Hughes! Excellent fight.
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