LAST 4 & 5 STARS FIGHTS:
FULL FIGHTS Released this week:
Review: 2012-11-02, exciting and tough fight between Ryan Ford and Kyle Baker: it is close to get four stars. Ryan Ford ranked as the No.47 welterweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 18-4-0 while Kyle Baker had a record of 12-6-0. Ford vs Baker is on the undercard of Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-02, pretty good fight and spectacular finish between Douglas Lima and Jacob Ortiz: three stars. Douglas Lima ranked as the No.22 welterweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 21-5-0 while Jacob ‘Kobe’ Ortiz had a record of 13-3-0. Lima vs Ortiz is on the undercard of Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-02, good fight between Mike Richman and Shahbulat Shamhalaev: three stars. Mike Richman (13-1-0) entered as the No.33 featherweight in the world while Shahbulat Shamhalaev (10-1-1) entered as the No.84. Richman vs Shamhalaev is the semifinal of the Bellator featherweight tournament; undercard of Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-02, good start and heavy punches between Thiago Santos and Richard Hale but it is not enough to get three stars. Thiago Santos (11-1-0) entered as the No.26 heavyweight in the world while Richard Hale (20-4-1) entered as the No.33. Santos vs Hale is the semifinal of the Bellator heavyweight tournament – Bellator 79. Watch the video!
RFA 4: Griffin vs Escudero video promo
Former UFC fighters Tyson Griffin and Efrain Escudero are the headliners of tonight RFA 4, Resurrection Fighting Alliance, in Las Vegas.
Tyson Griffin, after a failed stint at featherweight, returns to lightweight with a great desire of revenge.
In fact he lost 4 of his last 5 matches. He comes back in the Octagon after more than a year: October 29, 2011, against Bart Palaszewski, and it was a bad KO (= Bart Palaszewski vs Tyson Griffin).
But when Griffin fights, often there are spectacular fights: in his last 13 matches, 5 were “Fight of the Night”, and one was
Video Abu Dhabi Warriors 1 promo
Tonight from the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre it’s time for Abu Dhabi Warriors Fighting Championship. A 10-fight Mixed Martial Arts card and the season-ending World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship (WPJJC) will be the headline events of the new UAE jiu-jitsu season.
The attention is all on the return of Jose “Pele” Landi-Jons. He is known for his eccentric attitude and exciting style of fighting. Pele’s style is primarily Muay Thai, but he also practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in which he holds a black belt. He holds notable wins over former UFC Welterweight Champion Pat Miletich, UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes and Alexander Shlemenko (x2).
He can also lay claim to landing a knockout victory over ‘pound for pound’ great Anderson Silva in Muay Thai competition. There is a lot of anger between them, and ‘Pele’ released and explosive interview about it full of insults and attacks against ‘The Spider’ (see the video at the bottom of this post).
The Bellator 79 weigh-ins have been completed from Orillia, Ontario for tonight event at Casino Rama, which features the semifinals of the Bellator Season 7 Heavyweight and Featherweight Tournaments.
The main event is Richard Hale (238.4 pounds) vs Thiago Santos (265.2 pounds), Heavyweight semifinal.
Richard ‘Rare Breed’ Hale (20–4–1) in his career has won the Rage in the Cage Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight championships, and in the quarterfinal defeated Mike Wessel by TKO.
Thiago ‘Big Monster’ Santos (11-1-1nc) has a very effective rear-naked choke submission and his huge weight can be an advantage against Hale. In his last two matches, he had a “groin issue” with Eric Prindle: he first gave it at Bellator 59 (= Prindle vs Santos 1), and than
“I said it in Brazil, and I’ll say it again: Hell yes, they will (fight)” Dana White said Tuesday during MetroPCS online chat.
But it will not be easy, because both of them have other plans (watch Anderson Silva UFC 153 post fight interview) and Jon ‘Bones’ Jones (17-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) said he wants to be a heavyweight as early as next year.
Anderson Silva (33-4 MMA, 16-0 UFC) has always said that his desire is to fight welterweight champ Georges St Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC), who will make his most-anticipated return in the Octagon in less than 3 weeks (UFC 154: St Pierre vs Condit).
White, though, isn’t buying that argument: “I guarantee you that fight will absolutely happen. When people say that, it’s crazy because a lot of people believe that Jon Jones should be fighting at heavyweight anyway,” he said. “So to say that GSP vs Anderson Silva doesn’t make
Sometimes words speak louder than actions, and this can be the case: a living kickboxing legend will provide a deep reservoir of experience for the three-man commentary team that will be calling the action for fight fans around the world at the GLORY 3 Rome ‘Final 8’ event at the historic PalaLottomatica arena in Rome, Italy on Saturday Nov. 3 (Glory World Series quarterfinals).
Ramon Dekkers blazed a trail for Europeans in the Muay Thai world at a time when it was thought none but native Thais could be successful in the sport and, to this day, if he enters an arena in Thailand, he will receive a standing ovation. Dekkers will provide colour commentary for the event, which will see one 70 kilogram (154 pound) tournament competitor walk away with a tournament grand prize of $300,000.
He will be supported by retired MMA legend and first-ever UFC Middleweight Champion Frank Shamrock, as well as former PRIDE Fighting
Now is official: Pat Barry (7-5 MMA, 4-5 UFC) and Shane del Rosario (11-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will meet on the main card of the TUF 16 Finale on December 15 at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The main event will be a fight between veteran “TUF 16” coaches Shane Carwin (12-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Roy Nelson (17-7 MMA, 4-3 UFC).
Pat Barry, one of the UFC’s most popular heavyweights is just 2-4 in his past six fights. However, he fought always with great opponents, including Mirko ‘Cro Crop’ Filipovic, Cheick Kongo (five star match for one of the most unpredictable endings ever!!!), Stefan Struve and Lavar Johnsony, so his bad record is understandable. His last victory was a great bout with Christian Morecraft on January 20, 2012 (Fight of the Night – look at that punch!).
Shane del Rosario, the first American to become the
