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YOUNG FEMALE ATHLETES LOOK TO MAKE THEIR MARK AT NEF 27

Lewiston, Maine (Hakihea 14, 2016) -mo Ingarangi whawhai (Nef) returns to the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on February 11, 2017 with its next mixed-martial-arts event, “Nef 27: RESURGENCE.” I mua i teie mahana, the fight promotion announced the addition of an amateur women’s bout to the card. Alex Walker (2-1) makes her return to Lewiston to take on the debuting Katie Baker (0-0) in a strawweight matchup.

 

24-year-old Alex Walker has appeared twice previously in the NEF cage. Walker debuted in the spring of 2015 i “NEF 17against Randi Beth Boyington (1-3). She returned earlier this year to defeat Nicole Burgess (0-1) with a third-round armbar. This past summer, she captured her first regional title on a fight card in Vermont. Walker is a member of Team Kaze based in Lancaster, New Hampshire.

 

I can’t wait to get back to work in the NEF cage,” exclaimed Walker. “2017 is going to be a good year and I am looking forward to entertaining the great fans in Maine! I can’t think of a better way to start the year. The two times I have fought in Maine, they were both FOTN, looking to Threepeat!”

 

Katie Baker, an 18-year-old from Gardiner, Maine, might be new to the NEF cage, but she is well-known within martial arts circles in the Pine Tree State. Baker began training in combat sports at the age of five. She won the Isshinryu World Karate Championship in 2009 a 2013, and has been a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for seven years, regularly taking part in local tournaments. I mua i tēnei tau, Baker began competing in amateur boxing. She currently trains with Young’s MMA in Bangor, Maine.

 

I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to square off against Alex Walker at ‘NEF 27,'said Baker. “I have a high level of respect for Alex and her accomplishments. We’re not taking her lightly, and this is going to be a hell of a fight for my debut.

 

NEF’s next event, “Nef 27: RESURGENCE” e wahi i runga i Rāhoroi, February 11, 2017 i 7 p.m. Tīmata Tickets i $25 a kei runga i te hoko i teie nei i www.TheColisee.com ranei i karanga i te tari pouaka Colisee i 207.783.2009, extension 525.

 

For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, follow them on Twitter @nefights and join the official Facebook group “New Ingarangi whawhai."

 

Mō New Ingarangi whawhai

New Ingarangi whawhai ("Nef") Ko te whawhai whakatairanga ngā kaupapa kamupene. Misioni a nef ko ki te waihanga i te mau ohipa kounga teitei mō ngā whawhai, me pā o Maine rite tahi. Whānui wheako i roto i te whakahaere hākinakina whawhai he kapa whakahaere o nef, production ngā kaupapa, whanaungatanga pāpāho, marketing, ture me te pānuitanga.

FIGHT WEEK FOR ‘BELLATOR 169’ IN DUBLIN HAS ARRIVED

 

NEW WOMEN’S FEATHERWEIGHT FIGHT ADDED TO THE LAST EVENT OF THE YEAR

Santa MONICA, Calif (Hakihea 12, 2016) – After an incredible year that saw Bellator MMA host events in international territories all around the globe, it is only fitting that the promotion’s year-ending event, "Bellator 169: King Mo vs. Ishii," e wahi i tenei Rāmere, Hakihea 16 at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland.

 

Shortly after her fight against Helen Harper (4-1) was announced, Bruna Vargas (2-1) has withdrawn from the bout due to injury. Harper will be paid her show money and a new women’s featherweight bout has been added to the SPIKE-televised card between undefeated fighters Sinead Kavanagh (3-0) a Elina Kallionidou (5-0).

 

The Spike-televised main card will be highlighted by a heavyweight main event pitting “King Mo” (19-5, 1 NC) against Olympic Judo Gold Medalist Satoshi Ishii (14-6-1). I tua atu, a pair of anticipated featherweight scraps will see Anthony Taylor (1-1) look to quiet the crowd as he enters enemy territory to challenge Northern Ireland’s James Gallagher (4-0) a, Ireland o Brian Moore(9-4) take on the always-game Daniel Weichel (37-9).

Tikiti hoki "Bellator 169: King Mo vs. Ishii” are on sale now and start at 35€ at Bellator.com, Ticketmaster.ie and the 3Arena Box Office. The event can be seen free on SPIKE at 9 p.m. AND/8 p.m. CT, and will be immediately followed by "Bellator kickboxing: Florence.”

 

Fighting out of Straight Blast Gym (SBG) i roto i te Dublin, “KO” Kavanagh has fought all three of her professional bouts with BAMMA, and has earned her nickname bye scoring two knockouts in her first three fights. Kavanagh fought in BAMMA’s first-ever women’s fight, and ended her opponent’s night in just 17 hēkona. Originally slated to compete in a bantamweight fight against Eeva Siiskonen (5-4-2) on the BAMMA portion of this co-promoted night of fights, Kavanagh now moves up in weight to face Kallionidou under the Bellator banner.

 

I anake 18 tau o te ao, Kallionidou has already made a name for herself in her home country Greece, where she holds the Cage Survivor women’s featherweight title. Incredibly, “Gunner” started her professional career off with a bang, scoring a first-round TKO just a month after her 16th rā whānau. Mai i reira, the Greek fighter has gone 5-0, ki te toru knockouts. The fight this Friday night, will be her first fight outside of Greece.

 

In addition to a full card of Bellator action, ticketholders will also have the unique opportunity to experience an additional fight card from Europe’s leading mixed martial arts promotion, BAMMA. The bantamweight belt will be on the line at “BAMMA 27,” as Tom Duquesnoy (13-1, 1 NC) a Alan Philpott (16-8) prepare to duke it out for the division gold. Te mutunga, the stacked event features a featherweight world title fight pitting former Bellator competitors Ronnie Mann (25-8-1) ki Martin Stapleton (18-4).

 

 

Oti "Bellator 169: King Mo vs. Ishii” Main Card:

Heavyweight Main Event: Muhammed "Kingi Mo" Lawal (19-5, 1 NC) vs. Satoshi Ishii (14-6-1)

Featherweight Co-Main Event: James Gallagher (4-0) vs. Anthony Taylor (1-1)

Featherweight Feature Bout: Daniel Weichel (37-9) vs. Brian Moore (9-4)

Featherweight Feature Bout: Sinead Kavanagh (3-0) vs. Elina Kallionidou (5-0)

Bantamweight Feature Bout: Shay Walsh (14-4) vs. Luiz Tosta (9-2)

 

Updated “BAMMA 27” Main Card:

Bantamweight World Title Bout: Tom Duquesnoy (13-1, 1 NC) vs. Alan Philpott (16-8)

Featherweight World Title Bout: Ronnie Mann (25-8-1) vs. Martin Stapleton (18-4)

Featherweight Main Card Bout: Dylan Tuke (3-0) vs. Sean Tobin (4-2)

Featherweight Main Card Bout: Brian Moore (9-4) vs. Niklas Backstrom (10-2)

Welterweight Main Card Bout: Kiefer Crosbie (1-0) vs. Conor Riordan (Tuatahi)

Welterweight Main Card Bout: Nathan Jones (9-5) vs. Walter Gahadza (16-0)

THE BLACK WIDOW AND THE BLACK BELT; FIRST WOMEN’S FIGHT ANNOUNCED FOR NEF 26

Lewiston, Maine (October 6, 2016) – New Ingarangi whawhai (Nef) presents its next mixed-martial-arts event, “Nef 26: SUPREMACY,” i runga i Rāhoroi, Whiringa 19 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. I mua i teie mahana, NEF executives announced the addition of an amateur bantamweight women’s bout to the fight card. JessicaThe Black WidowBorga (2-2) returns to Maine to take on Brianne Genschel (0-0) i te taimaha o te 135, pauna whawhai.

 

Borga made her NEF cage debut last month against Rachael Joyce (2-0). She traveled more than 1500 miles from Lakeland, Florida for the fight. While Borga was on the losing end of a unanimous decision to Joyce, she realizes that the most important part of her amateur career is gaining experience through taking tough fights.

 

I’m not slowing down anytime soon,” said Borga, “and love to take on any challenges and get better each fight. The more experience the better! So thankful for the girls that are stepping up to fight! I’m ready to put on an amazing show.

 

Brianne Genschel, while making her in-cage debut atNEF 26,is a longtime practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) in which she holds a black belt. She is a BJJ instructor at The Foundry in Farmington, Maine. Genschel also trains with, and will represent, First Class MMA based in Brunswick, Maine. Like her opponent, she promises an exciting fight for the fans on Whiringa 19.

 

I’m really looking forward to stepping into the cage for my first fight with NEF, and especially against such an established opponent,” said Genschel. “I can’t wait to represent my teams- Foundry BJJ and First Class MMA. I have been training hard for this opportunity, and promise to put on a good show and leave it all in the cage!”

 

The opening bell on Saturday, Whiringa 19 Kei te whakaturia hoki 7 p.m. Tīmata Tickets i $25 a e wātea ana i www.TheColisee.com ranei i karanga i te tari pouaka Colisee i 207.783.2009, extension 525.

 

For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, follow them on Twitter @nefights and join the official Facebook group “New Ingarangi whawhai."

 

Mō New Ingarangi whawhai

New Ingarangi whawhai ("Nef") Ko te whawhai whakatairanga ngā kaupapa kamupene. Misioni a nef ko ki te waihanga i te mau ohipa kounga teitei mō ngā whawhai, me pā o Maine rite tahi. Whānui wheako i roto i te whakahaere hākinakina whawhai he kapa whakahaere o nef, production ngā kaupapa, whanaungatanga pāpāho, marketing, ture me te pānuitanga.

FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA, FINDING FIGHTS IS THE CHALLENGE FOR FEMALE MMA ATHLETES

 

Kia tukuna tonutia atu: Lewiston, Maine (Mahuru 4, 2016) – Rachael Joyce has her civil engineering degree from the University of Maine. Jessica Borga is a veterinary technician from Lakeland, Florida.

Read those one-line biographies of the two women and they probably do not fit whatever is your personal profile of a mixed-martial-artist. And perhaps that presumption, and maybe a lingering societal bias against female fighters, is the reason Joyce and Borga have struggled mightily to find opponents in their corners of the country.

Each woman will end what is almost a one-year hiatus from the cage when Joyce (1-0) welcomes Borga (2-1) to Maine in a bantamweight bout at “NEF 25: Heroes and Villains.” New England Fights returns to its hub venue, Androscoggin Bank Colisee, i runga i Rāhoroi, Mahuru 10.

“I’ve had one fight, October whakamutunga. I’ve found it really hard to find fights. It’s just tough. Maine doesn’t have the population density for it. It’s just hard to find that pool of fighters,” Joyce said. “Early in your career you want to build that experience close to home. It’s the best thing for your whole team, given the commitment that is involved.”

Joyce, who lives in the Penobscot County village of Veazie, splits her training time between Bangor, Portland and Boston.

The competitive grass is no greener for Borga, who is known to her fans as “The Black Widow” and is coached by Ross Kellin.

“My coach has scheduled fights for me that have fallen through. I was supposed to fight eight times this year, and this will be my first one.

Borga was beaten badly in her previous bout, a November 2015 clash against Caitlin Sammons for which she weighed in at 126.5 pauna, just above the flyweight limit.

She said that women feel added pressure to make drastic weight cuts due to the lack of available fight opportunities, and in her case it was especially dangerous.

“I learned that I will never fight at 125 ano,” Borga said “It was my own fault. I lost 25 pauna in two weeks. I was sick in camp, and I fought sick.”

Before the episode was over, Borga was hospitalized twice with strep throat, a kidney infection and a bladder infection.

“I do believe (the weight cut) was part of it,” she said. “You’re putting that strain on your body and your mind. My mental game struggled with what I had to put myself through. I think it’s harder for women, also. I won’t ever do that again. I learned that it’s better to withdraw than to take a loss.”

Borga has experienced no such issues in this camp. She said her energy level is way up and that she can train harder for longer periods of time.

She also is eager to visit from the Sunshine State, an eagerness that isn’t lost on her opponent.

“When an opponent is flying up from Florida, that’s exciting,” Joyce said. “It shows that she’s really committed to it. It is hard to find opponents who are as committed as you are.”

Both women are BJJ blue belts. Joyce has trained in the discipline for more than two years.

It is an extension of her childhood, when she played three varsity sports in each year of high school. She joked that she strongly considered a fourth.

“I was always the girl who tried to convince my parents to let me play football,” Joyce said. “They would not hear any of it. I’m sure they’re thrilled that their 20-something-year-old daughter is now a fighter. Kaua e, they’re supportive, but now it’s my decision.”

Joyce never tried individual sports before the combat realm, but she quickly developed into a fan of women’s MMA as it exploded in popularity at the UFC level.

“Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey were coming up, a ka (UFC president) Dana White had his famous line that ‘there will never be women in UFC,” Joyce said. “I saw what they were doing and I said, ‘I can do that. I’m going to do that.’”

Now the women wait for a spike in female participation that has not appeared to follow the success of those international role models.

Joyce said she received invitations to fight in New Jersey earlier this year but that those, also, would have required an uncomfortable cut to a same-day weigh-in of 125 or even 115 pauna.

So she retreated into a game of train-and-wait. Thanks to the like-minded, equally fight-challenged Borga, the wait is almost over.

“I’ve always loved MMA, always loved fighting. I guess I was known for that as a kid. Everybody who knows me always pushed me to get into this,” Borga said. “I tried eight years ago and found out right away that I was pregnant, so that put a stop to it. When my son turned five, Na ka mea ahau, ‘It’s now or never.’ I started training and developed really fast. My coaches said I had a knack for it.”

Ko te pere whakatuwheratanga i runga i Mahuru 10 Kei te whakaturia hoki 7 p.m. The current docket for “NEF 25: Heroes and Villains” includes four professional boxing matches, six pro mixed martial arts bouts and five amateur MMA scraps. Tīmata Tickets i $25 a e wātea ana i www.TheColisee.com ranei i karanga i te tari pouaka Colisee i 207.783.2009, extension 525.

For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, te whai ia ratou i runga i Twitternefights, me te uru atu ki te rōpū Facebook whaimana "New Ingarangi whawhai."

MARLOES COENEN RECEIVES NEW OPPONENT AHEAD OF ‘BELLATOR 155’ — ALEXIS DUFRESNE REPLACES JULIA BUDD

Santa MONICA, Calif. (Kia 10, 2016) – Due to injury, Julia Budd (8-2) has been forced to withdraw from her inaugural Bellator MMA Women’s Featherweight Championship Bout against Marloes Coenen (23-6). Ka rite ki te hua, Alexis Dufresne (5-2) will take her place and challenge Coenen during the featured preliminary contest of "Bellator 155: Carvalho vs. Manhoef " i CenturyLink Arena i Boise, Idaho, i runga i Kia 20.

The fight joins a card that already features a colossal Middleweight World Championship main event, i roto i te e Rafael Carvalho (12-1) tohe tona whitiki ki te rawa nei te ngiha Melvin "No te aroha" Manhoef (30-12-1). I tua atu, former Bellator MMA featherweight titlist Pat Curran (21-7) ka hoki ki te mahi mo te wa tuatahi mai i Pipiri, ina anga ia te manahau Georgi Karakhanyan (24-5-1) i roto i te hui tahi-matua o te kāri. The last two men to challenge for Will Brooks’ lightweight title, Marcin Held (21-4) a Dave Jansen (20-3) e hoki i roto i te mahi. Rounding out the televised portion of the event will be two heavyweight fights, ka Rana Charles (10-3) tutaki Augusto Sakai (9-0) a Joey Beltran (17-12) e i runga i Chase Gormley (12-5).

Tikiti hoki "Bellator 155: Carvalho vs. Manhoef " tīmata i te tika $25 a kei runga i te hoko i Bellator.com inaianei, te Tari Pouaka Arena CenturyLink CenturyLinkArenaBoise.com ranei. Tags ora me te noa i runga i te Koi i te hui 9 p.m. AND/8 p.m. CT, while the can’t-miss preliminary card airs live on Bellator.coma Te Bellator Mobile App.

A former Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion, Marloes Coenen, is riding a two-fight winning streak and undefeated record under the Bellator MMA fray into her bout with Dufresne. “Rumina” began her career winning eight consecutive fights and 13 of her first 14. The 35-year-old has been competing professionally since 2000 and has been an integral part of the progression of women’s mixed martial arts, challenging some of the best that the sport has to offer. Na, it’s back to the drawing board for the Dutch submission specialist when she looks to spoil the Bellator MMA debut of Alexis Dufresne.

The 25-year-old Alexis Dufresne began her career with a blazing start, earning victories in her first five scraps, all of which she ended in the first round. Born in Temecula, Calif., “Sneaky Zebra” has strung together an impressive resume, including three straight first round knockout wins dating back to her 2013-14 seasons and most recently two appearances for the UFC. Dufresne will be making her Bellator MMA debut Rāmere muri and hopes to get back to her winning ways when she fills in for the absent Julia Budd on short notice.

Oti "Bellator 155: Carvalho vs. Manhoef "Kāri Fight

Whawhai Bellator MMA whitu World Taitara: Rafael Carvalho (12-1) vs. Melvin Manhoef (30-12-1)

Bellator MMA mā whitu Co-Main Takahanga: Pat Curran (21-7) vs. Georgi Karakhanyan (24-5-1)

Bellator MMA taumahamaha Āhuahira a'ee: Rana Charles (10-3) vs. Augusto Sakai (9-0)

Bellator MMA Āhuahira Kōmāmā a'ee: Dave Jansen (20-3) vs. Marcin Held (21-4)

Bellator MMA taumahamaha Āhuahira a'ee: Joey Beltran (17-12) vs. Chase Gormley (12-5)

 

Kāri hukihuki

 

Bellator MMA mā whitu kë ngä a'ee: Marloes Coenen (23-6) vs. Alexis Dufresne (5-2)

Bellator MMA whā tuatahi a'ee: Joe Kirikiriroa (3-0) vs. Tyler Freeland (3-0)

Bellator MMA mā tuatahi a'ee: Veta Arteaga (1-0) vs. Jackie Vandenburgh (0-1)

Bellator MMA mā whitu kë ngä a'ee: Vince Morales (3-1) vs. Kirikiriroa Ash (3-1)

Bellator MMA whā tuatahi a'ee: Brendon Raftery (4-2) vs. Casey Johnson (4-0)

Bellator MMA Kōmāmā tuatahi a'ee: Scott Thometz (9-5) vs. Josh Tyler (7-3)

Bellator MMA whitu kë ngä a'ee: Sean Powers (9-5) vs. Will Noland (15-6)

Bellator MMA whā tuatahi a'ee: Ricky Steele (5-0) vs. Erick Cronkhite (2-1)

Bellator MMA whā tuatahi a'ee: Hehe Brock (21-8) vs. Olly Bradstreet (39-12)

 

An Open FU to UFC President DanaEffing” White!

wtf

By: Rich Bergeron

Those who know me personally would all say I am a mellow individual, until you seriously cross me, rite, for instance, if you become the subject of an investigative report I’m working on, ranei sue me for $25 miriona. Sometimes I may take things like that as a sign you might not want me to really find out who you are and what you do behind closed doors to screw hard working people over.

This week, a certain individual who won’t even let me follow him in Twitter (https://twitter.com/danawhite) pissed me off to the point where I could only think of one thing to do. Because I’m officially blacklisted in every possible way by the UFC brass, and have even had restraining orders placed against my directly contacting the Fertittas and ANY UFC fighter, my best option is to publish a drastic diatribe here I am just going to call myOPEN FUto DanaEffing” White.

I’m sure Mr. White will not take my calls or subject himself to a one on one interview with me. Na, I will have to settle for a written FUand a multi-tiered and multi-purpose FU.

FU, DanaEffing” White… for many, many reasonstoo many for one small blog post to do justice, but let’s just say Most of all FU….

For what you THINK you know about Holly Holm

Hey, Dana, you wanna talk about youreffingreality showLooking For a Fight????” I was actually looking for a fight when I watched that old realityshit show when you were supposed to box Tito Ortiz, but HE magically backed out at the last minute.

Na, you, DANAEFFINGWHITE, are telling Holly Holm about a decision YOU think she didn’t think through enough??? And now you act like someone pissed in your Wheaties because you have two upset wins at UFC 196 to work around and figure out how to make sense of somehow.

Booeffinghoo, buddy.

Welcome to how things don’t go as planned sometimes in the fight business, you ungrateful prick.

Do you wanna be aneffing” Kaiwhakatairanga, Danaeffing” White???

Holly Holm Was the Bantamweight Champion of the UFC when she allowed HER Manager (not Danaeffing” White) to negotiate the Tate fight on her behalf, and she knew (and her long-time manager knew, rawa) what she was doing and what she wanted. And guesseffingwhat, Dana? She wanted to fight.

Aroha mai, DanaEffing” White, but Holly didn’t want to sit on aneffingsideline waiting for Ronda Rousey to finish hereffingROADHOUSE REMAKE!

Holly wanted to go to workbut unfortunately she has to work for a boss who has no idea what it’s like to step into HER office and handle HER daily workload with such tenacity, piha haapiiraa, dignity and grace.

And I think maybe she looks back a bit differently than you do, Dana, with noeffingregrets whatsoever for putting her absolute all into that fight and just plain getting caught in her one area of weakness in a battle where she likely would have won a three-round fight. Maybe if YOU were a fighter, Dana, you might get that whole concept. Maybe losing in this case only makes her better, kaha, and more durable as a career mixed martial artist. Who gives a damn if it makes her less marketable in your eyes? What do you really know, ahakoa?

UNLIKE YOU, DanaEffing” White, Holly actually respects Miesha Tate and thought it would be a challenge to fight her. Yeah, she lost, but damn, she was absolutely correct about it being a challenge. I think the fight will go down as one of the greatest battles in female MMA history.

Na, why don’t you open youreffingeyes, Dana, watch the fight again, and quit bitching about what should have happened in that cage you never fought in yourself.

Be grateful you have a champion you just paid $92,000 in fight pay (before bonuses) to take your organization’s belt from the girl you WANTED TO WIN (and paid $500,000 just to be there). It may not be what you expected, but the anxiety you feel about it is what you DESERVE to feel for being such a douchebag to the fighters who built the UFC.

My biggest questions on this subject for Dana are: Why are you such a biased, crooked asshole who can’t bother to give Miesha the time of day FOR ALL HER HARD WORK? Why can’t you give credit where it is dueon both sides of that fight? Why can’t you shut theeffup about what you think Holly or her management should have or could have waited for?

It’s not your place to look back with 20/20 hindsight and act like Holly and her manager should have gone all Nostradamus on this fight when you obviously didn’t see this shit coming, rānei, you dome-headed dimwit.

Toa “effing” whawhai, Dana. That’s what theyeffingdo, which you should know, since I am pretty sure you used to be aneffingmanager of MMA fighters yourself. Ae, that was many moons ago, but how could you forget?

Fighters don’t sit on their asses on corporate jets and stand at podiums in front of the press all day to earn theeffingpaltry paychecks your organization pays out to most of them. Most fighters simply cannot afford to wait around for shit to happen or for someoneworthyenough in your eyes to step up and fight them.

Some fighters need to feed their kids. All of them need to pay their bills and for everything else involved with training camps, daily living expenses, travel and whatever costs medical insurance doesn’t cover when they have to address nagging injuries. Your shitty Reebok deal made it virtually impossible to get any other outside sponsors to help pay for anything like that stuff for many fighters, Dana.

Welcome to selling out and forgetting where you came from, Dana. You used to care more about fighters. Now you act like fighting in a cage is just like doing any other 9-5 mahi. It’s not. Te reira “effinghard work.

Na, yeah, Holly chose to fight instead of waiting for Rousey to be ready for the rematch. And you think she needs your opinion now that everything didn’t work out as planned for you both?

FU, Dana.

She hurts a lot worse than you, and I can guaran-effing-tee that.

Aue…a…i te ara…fighters are way more responsible for the growth and success of the UFC/Zuffa organization than you ever have been. And that’s real talk, you rich bitch with a stick up your ass because you were never good enough in your life to ever have your own official fight.

Na, get over the God complex and learn to respect ALL of your fighters, not just the ones you want to see win because you might think you can work with them better or you think they will move the organization in a better direction. Respect the effort, the sacrifice and the pain ALL your fighters go through each and every day to get where they get. That belt you put on Miesha’s waist was EARNED, and don’t you ever think it iseffingcool to call the fact that Holly Holm had the guts to face Miesha Tatea mistake.

It rings hollow, especially when I would consider that handing you a microphone to talk about MMA at all was THE greatest mistake the sport ever made, wā! Anyone who would try to knock a former champion down a peg that way in his own organization does not deserve to be recognized as that organization’s president.

You have no clue what it’s really like to fight, and your criticism of Holly Holm tells me you can never possibly understand the mindset that led her to take the Tate fight and not wait an idle year for RondaeffingRousey to be ready to appear at one of your precious shows.

Na, FU Dana White for treating your former champ like she’s an idiot who doesn’t know how to control her own career without you butting your stupid, bald head into it. Holly’s fine without your advice, and she trusts her manager, which might be something you’re not familiar with, but for other people it is actually a reality of doing business with legitimate people.

 

FU, Dana for being a piss-poor ambassador for the sport, disrespecting fighters who bleed (and sometimes suffer lifelong injuries) for you and the sport, and totally underestimating and failing to grasp what it really takes to actually be a professional fighter who actually competes against other fighters

Do you remember the days when you had to settle for being a lowly boxercise instructor because your boxing trainer Boston slapped you too hard in the ear once? You never had a single competitive fight in your life, Danaeffing” White, and that’s a DOCUMENTED FACT!

Do you ever even look back at those days before the silver-spoon-fed Fertittas helped you claw your greedy, selfish, egotistical ass into the position of OFFICIAL UFC MOUTHPIECE?

Do you remember those hairy days when you blew through $40 million of Fertitta funds to perpetrate theZuffa Mythwhile claiming credit for the UFC brass singlehandedly legitimizing the sport and getting it regulated all by youreffingselves? As if not a single FIGHTER nor any other industry professional who pioneered MMA before you dipped your greedy little paws into it had anything to do with it?

Your Mom remembers thosecoulda been a contender” ra, Dana..when you thought you might be able to have an actual fight with another human being. Your own mother remembers even though you and one of your sleazy friends tried to silence her, BASH HER ONLINE, and even blacklist her BOOK, rawa.

Do you remember the days when even Floyd Mayweather, JR. thought you were cool, back when your daily driver was aneffingHonda, Dana? Floyd Remembers. He knew you long before you could afford to blow a normal person’s yearly pay on a single hand of poker.

You’re in a different place now, Danaeffing” White, and it’s a delusional place. Like on the distant planet you live on, people actually believe YOU really, tika, trulyeffingknow what it’s ACTUALLY like to be aneffingfighter? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?

REALLY?

E mohio ana koe what A FIGHTER is, don’t you, Dana? A fighter is a man or woman who has the courage to willingly step into unarmed combat against another actual man or woman instead of just criticizing up and down the guys and girls who do have the guts to actually stand across from another human being while knowing and internalizing that the accepted goal is to physically destroy each other.

A fighter, in more simple terms, Ko “one who fights.And let’s be clear about oneeffingthing, Danaeffing” White, I know fighters, a YOU are no fighter.

You are nothing like a fighter, Danaeffing” White, and you nevereffing” ka waiho. You are too weak, both physically and mentally. Until we see you go through a six-week training camp and then get into the cage against someone and kick his ass, we shouldn’t have to listen to one damncoulda,” “shoulda,” ranei “wouldaout of your cornfed mouth about what you think of any particular fighter’s performance or decision making process. Those people have the guts to do what you will NEVER do yourself, and you ought to respect that.

FU Dana WhiteFor not recognizing Real Fighters Like Miesha Tate and Nate Diaz who keep at it no matter what and NEVER seem to earn your ULTIMATE RESPECT….

Nate Diaz stepped up to fight Conor McGregor for a reason. He had nothing to lose, and he wasn’t intimidated one bit. He famoulsy went on television with Fox Sports 1 on a split screen with Conor before that welterweight fight and quipped that his nemesis had already been choked out before, “by two lames.Diaz also had the perfect instinct to add humourously that McGregor’s choke losses happened, “like a week ago.

Diaz beat Conor in the shit-talk game long before he ever slapped him down and slipped that choke around his neck in the cage. The media created by that freakshow fight might have stopped the unchecked rise of your big, bold, six-headed dragon champion, but it created a new monster at the same time. And he’s a Reebok-hating, scowling, swearing, Stockton-slapping Mother-F$#king BEAST who doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about what he does or says.

You might think Diaz and his attitude arebad for business,” but I think his victory was the best thing that could ever happen to all you smug punks running the UFC. It just proves once and for all that you do not control the MMA universe.

Nate Diaz went without respect and credit for being an MMA pioneer and a good UFC soldier for far too long. The bitterness brewed and boiled within him, and I loved every second of him letting it pour out in post-fight interviews after he choked the shit out of Conor until the Irish bloke tapped theeffout and left Dana White drooling in a stupor at the thought of having to congratulate a man who’s become more of a mortal enemy than a member of the bigteam.

More power to Nate and all the crazy, abrasive, in-your-face Diaz brother types out there in the UFC who will fight DanaeffingWhite’s flamboyant fire with even more bravado and brash talk of their own. They can always say, “I learned it by watching you, Baldfather!”

As for Miesha Tate, she deserves true respect and admiration for being champ now after picking herself off the mat twice in the face of grueling losses to Rousey. Kudos to Tate for continuing her career and relentlessly focusing on getting by that Rousey armbar once and for all.

Though Miesha never did solve that Rousey submission dilemma, trying at all costs to get another crack at the belt paid dividends at UFC 196. Her never quit attitude led her to an opportunity of a lifetime, and she capitalized on it. Na, Dana, you actually have to pay this young lady what most of her fans would say she was worth a long time ago.

And now you simply have to treat Tate with a bit of reverence and appreciation for once in your ungrateful life, Danaeffing” White. I know it must pain you so much to give this young lady the credit she’s worked so incredibly hard for, because maybe she touched a nerve when she called you out in the past for being the true clueless and disrespectful prick you really are. She was right, and you were wrong about how great she really is at fighting. Then again, weren’t you also WRONG about women fighting in the cage, wā?

Na, you DON’T wanna be a fighter, Mr. White? Then step aside and let the people who DO wanna be fighters go to battle for you so you can ride around the world on your jet and act like you know what theeffyou’re talking about when you stand in front of a microphone to describe the sport’s true athletes and what they do to make a living in mixed martial arts.

The line from Dana that most stands out to me as comblete BS in this whole debacle is this one:

“He’s an old boxing guy who thinks he’s smart and he isn’t,” White said of Fresquez [Holm’s Manager]. “I feel bad for Holly because I don’t know if she really knows what she lost.”

I have only two moreeffingquestions for you Danaeffing” White…

1.) What makes you think you are really in anyeffingposition to EVER know or understand what Holly Holm lost the other night? Aside from a few bad poker hands and tons of respect, the only thing you ever lost is your mind.

2.) Doesn’t your backhanded quote about Holm’s manager describe your own shitty character a whole lot better than that of Mr. Fresquez?

ME…just in case after reading all this anyone STILL needs yet another reason to have beef with the Baldfather:

Wahine hoki e kingi TE MMA whare herehere i NEF XIX I Lewiston

 

Kira Innocenti (l) a Angela Young (r) angalelei whakaahua o Tracey McCue
Kira Innocenti (l) a Angela Young (r), angalelei whakaahua o Tracey McCue

Lewiston, Maine (August 31, 2015) - New Ingarangi whawhai (Nef), Tau-kotahi whakatairanga whawhai rohe Amerika o, Ka mau i ona tekau ma iwa whakauru-hōia-toi (MMA) takahanga, “NEF XIX,” i runga i Rāhoroi, Mahuru 12, 2015 i te Androscoggin Bank Colisée i Lewiston, Maine. The fight card will feature two amateur women’s bouts. Angela Young (0-0) o te MMA o Young i roto i te Bangor whakaritea ki te hanga ia tuatahi ki Rahera Reinheimer (1-0) from team Sityodtong. Young’s teammate Kira Innocenti (0-0) Kei te whakaritea hoki ki te hanga ia tuatahi ki Hana Sparrell (0-0) i Tuatahi Class MMA i Brunswick.

 

Ko Angela Young te wahine o Chris Young – owner and founder of Young’s MMA. She views her debut fight as a way of testing herself.

 

It’s important for me to test myself,” ka mea Young, “e kore anake i roto i te whare herehere maiMahuru 12, but also through the fight that’s happened the last eight weeks leading up to the NEF event. I feel the fight is essentially a showcase and representation of the grueling training sessions and endless hours in the gym that took place prior to fight night. Living the MMA lifestyle to me meant more than diet modifications and strict training schedules. Athletically, ko reira atu e pā ana kātaki i roto i te mau fifi, me aki oku rohe rite i te whakataetae i roto i te ara kihai i i i whakamatautauria. Ko te pā ana ki ata mohiotia ki ahau, oku kaiako me oku hoa tākaro i roaa e ahau toku tika ki te manga i roto i te whare herehere.”

 

Hea i roto i te wahine mua kua parea ki te mataraharaha, me te minamina ana wahi o ngā hākinakina whawhai, rite mekemeke, e kore kua MMA wahine a ara anake ki te rite tahi te mana ki a te tangata MMA, te mea, i roto i te tahi mau rave'a, surpassed it. One has to look only to the highest level of the sport to see this trend. Women’s fights are now routinely present on the main cards of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The promotion’s top star, me ona kaipara rawa utua, Ko o ona wahine whā toa Ronda Rousey (12-0). The women competing on the September 12 ka hei kāri i te aronga o te kaupapa ki te whakawhānui i ngā whai wāhitanga mō wahine i te taumata-rohe.

 

“E kore he tino rerekē atu i te mea mo te tangata MMA mō wahine,” kī Young. “Oia mau, MMA Ko te hākinakina nuinga tane, but successful women in the MMA world are on the rise. Na roto i tenei puni whawhai ua uiui e ahau, sparred a nonoke ana raua kapa whawhai a te Feia Apî MMA me kua ratou unrelentingly tautoko. Te riroraa tetahi te whawhai wahine tuatahi o roto o Young o tino nei ona tenge (me te mali ki Mr. Young) but it’s also a spotlight I’m hoping will inspire other women who otherwise wouldn’t have pursued MMA. I would bet the women’s fights on September 12th won’t be unlike the others we’ve seen at prior NEF events. Titau ahau nga wahine ki te hoatu i runga i te whakaatu nui no te e tatou i te tahi mea ki te whakamatau. Kua waiho e ahau te toto, werawera me te roimata ki te whakangungu, me te koe pai whakapono ka whakaatu ahau ki oku hoariri mahi te taua. E te mea, nga wahine e haere ana ki te haere mai i muri i ki reira whakato ratou tĭtĭ i roto i te whare herehere NEF.”

 

Hoa tākaro o rua Young, Kira Innocenti, me te nei tona hoariri i “NEF XIX,” Rahera Reinheimer, titiro ki te whakaae ki te whakaaro a Young i runga i te tupu tere o MMA o te wahine.

 

“Ko Women o MMA i runga i te ara,” Said Innocenti. “Haapii ia ako te wahine te tahi mea e kore ia e mohio e pā ana ia. Kua kite ahau i hanga reira te ti'aturiraa i roto i ahau, me te tini ke atu. Ko te atu wahine i runga i nga whariki, the better. Fans can expect my teammate, Angie, a ki ahau hoatu te reira i to tatou katoa, me te haere ki te whawhai kia rite ki noa te toa tane i MMA o Young e rave. Kua mahi matou pakeke ki te tohu i to tatou omaoma. Ka whawhai matou ki te whakakake, weriweri, a ki te koki kaha titiro atu hoki ia tatou. Ka taea e ahau haapapû atu ia outou e, e pāngia te wahine a fakangalongata'a.”

 

“Women o MMA he tika rite he hākinakina tetahi atu,” kī Reinheimer o Everett, Massachusetts. “Ehara i te he kiriata mahi i reira rere te hero ki te ngahere ki te toru nga ra te whakangungu ki te ariki toi hōia, me te ka patu te ope katoa. Ehara i te he whawhai pae. Ehara i te he pehipehi kūiti hoki. Enei wahine he kaitäkaro nui nei whakangungu ata mo tau mā te whakamahi i te whakangungu pai, taputapu me ngā rauemi e wātea ana. Women nei whakataetae i roto i te hākinakina whawhai fakamoleki mano o haora o te toto, werawera me te roimata te tino ratou hākinakina. Hanga ana e ratou patunga tapu. I tua atu, reira ture me ngā tepe wā me whakatūpatotanga haumaru e. A, no te tangata he tauhou ki te whakaaro o MMA o te wahine, Whakarite e ahau ki te mekemeke taiapa ranei, something else that people are more familiar with. The pool of women fighters in New England is deepening fast and the fact that there are more women’s bouts on fight cards reflects that. Toku hoariri, me te ahau he i nui e rua, puni pukumahi. He whaea e rua matou, a e te reira te rota o te faaotiraa, me te puku ki te mahi i tēnei hākinakina i te hunga maminga, mahi me ngā tamariki. Kua mahi ahau i kaha ki taku rōpū mai i toku whawhai whakamutunga ki te whakapai ake i toku kēmu i roto i nga āhuatanga. Na mauruuru no te whakangungu mīharo me hoa tākaro i Sityodtong e pana ahau kia pakeke ahau. I te Mahuru 12, Ka taea e koe e mahara he whawhai.”

 

Te nuinga o te taata, e rua nga tangata me nga wahine, who join MMA gyms do not do so initially intending to become an active cage fighter. On any given day, one can walk into any MMA gym and find a diverse population of trainees. Men and women, tawhito, e te taitamariki, kara puru, me te kara ma, all train side by side. Most will never step foot in a cage in front of thousands of screaming fans. Most are there to get in shape or learn self-defense. Some, Heoi, E ngaua e te bug whakataetae.

 

“I whakaurua e ahau ki te ao MMA i muri i te hainatanga taku tamahine ki he ngaahi kalasi Jiu Jitsu te whakaaro 'e' aonga ki a ia mo whai wāhi i roto i te hākinakina te āhuatanga korero whaiaro,” haamana'o Hanna Sparrell. “I ahau i tiaki rite hinga ia i roto i te aroha ki te kēmu, whiwhi kaha me te māia, and was quick to decide that it was something I needed to be doing too. It didn’t take long before I fell in love with Jiu Jitsu myself, a ka mutunga hiahia ki te tūhura i te tahi atu mau tuhaa o te ao MMA. Te riroraa i roto i te omaoma hei kua he whare tuarua mo ahau me taku tamahine, oku hoa whakangungu, a second family. Every day I walk through the doors of the gym is a test, te reira i te tamataraa o te tākaro, me te pai, hei whakamatautau ano i te puku hinengaro, ā-whatumanawa. Mai i whakaurua ki te ao toi hōia whakauru kua hoatu e ahau toku tinana, ngakau, me te wairua ki te whakangungu, a whakataetae i roto i tenei a'ee he nui ki ahau mo te maha ngā take, e kore anake ki te tohu ahau me toku mahi pakeke, engari ki te hoki tohu katoa te mahi pakeke, fakatapui, me te faaitoitoraa i riro mai i ahau i oku hoa, e tohutohu ana, hoa whakangungu, and fellow fighters along the way. I think MMA training for woman is a great outlet for many reasons, te reira i te pae tino ko te īngoa nui, a ka he ano hoki he ahua pai o "therapy" i te mutunga o te ra pea taumaha. I ahau he tini nga wahine whakangungu ahau ki, e kore e whakamahere i katoa o ratou i runga i whawhai, engari nga painga o te hākinakina e tonu i reira, a ka aroha ratou i te reira noa te taua.”

 

Innocenti, rite maha, ka whai wāhi i roto i te hākinakina whawhai rite te ara ki te tiki i roto i, a noho i roto i, shape. Little did she know when her journey started some two years ago that it would take her into an MMA cage with thousands watching her compete.

 

“Te whakamatautau i ahau i roto i te a'ee toi hōia whakauru he nui ki ahau i roto i maha i te pā. E rua tau ki muri, Ko ahau te taumaha, me te aro ki te kitea he hauora, ara fakahoko. Kotahi ra, Ara ahau ki runga ka mau ki te ora i nga kingi, i roto i te hawhe tau, ngaro e ono tekau pauna i runga i toku ake. Pōwhiritia ahau e wero, muri, e ua hinaaro te tahi. Arona “He whakangungu” Lacey korerotia ki ahau e pā ana ki MMA o Young, a meinga ana e ahau ki te taki i te reira i roto i. I muri takahi i roto i te tatau, tamata i katoa o te akomanga, me te whakatutuki i te whānau nei i hanga te reira na motuhake, I potae, ahau. Hanga e ahau te reira i te opuaraa ia kia kotahi te whawhai wahine tuatahi i runga i te rōpū whawhai Ninety tino whaimana i roto New England o. Kua tonu ahau i te kaiwhakataetae. He pārekareka ki ahau wero ahau me aki rohe e whakaaro ki te e taea ki te whakatutuki i. Te oraraa i te āhua toi hōia whakauru he uaua. E titau te reira nui atu fakatapui atu ahau ake whakaaro taea. Wawahi te reira koutou ka hanga i a koutou hoki ki te tangata e koe pono e. He mea nui tenei whawhai, no te mea kua pahuatia ano e ahau ki te kapa mīharo i toku taha whakaako e te i te kaiako te nuinga o whakaihiihi me te akiaki. Ko ahau fakapapau'i ki te hanga whakakake ratou, ka whakawhetai ki a ratou ki toku ringa i ara.”

 

“Mixed Arts ko te whakamātautau hopea o te wairua o te tangata i runga i nga taumata: te pae tino, hinengaro, , ā-waiora,” Na ka mea a Reinheimer. “I ahau i te hiahia tahu ki te mohio pehea te tawhiti e taea e ahau te haere. I like exceeding expectations and pushing my limits and that’s MMA in a nutshell. Since I started training in martial arts, hei toku ora, kua rohe-iti. Kua pai ake toku ora toku ora i runga i te whāriki atu te whāriki me te hurihia. Ngā huia te reira atu i te mau faaoaoaraa faufaa katoa me maturuturu iho ana aku ora ki raro, ki te mea faufaa tino, i roto i a roto o te whakakai. Ite e ahau kia rite ki ngā tauturu te reira riro ahau nui ofi ki toku whaiaro tūturu. Ko te te pai o toi hōia tahito, me te ora hou.”

 

O nga wahine e wha whawhai i runga i te “NEF XIX” kāri, only Reinheimer has actively competed in the past. She dominated her opponent this past spring on her way to a unanimous decision victory in her debut. All of the women fighting on September 12 i roto i te Lewiston e oaoa no te rave'a.

 

“NEF Ko te whakatairanga totoka ki te ingoa nui,” Na ka mea a Reinheimer. “I was a spectator at their very first fight card back in 2012. I love Maine and the crowd is awesome there. E kore e taea e ahau tatari!”

 

“Whakaaro ahau e taea e te pā e titau i te whakaatu nui pono,” ka mea Sparrell. “More maha atu i te kore i kï whawhai nga wahine a ki te kia tino ngahau, e hiahia ana o te akoranga tatou ki faaite ua ti'amâ tatou i roto i tenei hākinakina paitia tane-te nuinga. Ko te tuatahi hoki e toru i roto o wha o nga wahine i runga i tenei kāri tenei, na e mohio ana ahau ki reira kei te haere ki te waiho i te rota o te ngakau, me te faaotiraa maka ki enei whawhai. E mohio ana ahau ki, fakatāutaha, Ko ahau rawa fiefia ki te tohu! I couldn’t be more excited to be making my MMA debut in the NEF cage; I ahau i tiaki pera maha nga whawhai ngākaunui ahau o ka titiro ake ki roto i tenei hākinakina i te turanga o te Androscoggin Bank Colisée, i te whai wāhi ki te inaianei hei i roto i reira ki a ratou tino ko te honore pono.”

 

“Ka rite ki Mahuru 12 tere whakatata, Au hoko e ahau ake oaoa, me te rite ki te tiki i roto i te whare herehere,” ka mea Young. “Kua tēnei rawa i te haere, me te mauruuru nei au no te rave'a o te toku tuatahi MMA amateur ki te NEF.”

 

“Ahau miharo ki te hanga i toku tuatahi MMA ki te NEF i runga i Mahuru 12 ahau,” Said Innocenti. “Kua mahi ahau kaha ki te tiki i tenei faingamālie me ahau oaoa kua tae mai e te wa e ahau.”

 

New Ingarangi whawhai’ takahanga muri, “NEF XIX,” e wahi i runga i te Rāhoroi, Mahuru 12, 2015 i te Androscoggin Bank Colisée i Lewiston, Maine. Tikiti hoki “NEF XIX” tīmata i te tika $25 a kei runga i te hoko i teie nei i www.TheColisee.com ranei na roto i te te karanga i te tari pouaka Colisée i 207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, te whai ia ratou i runga i Twitternefights, me te uru atu ki te rōpū Facebook whaimana "New Ingarangi whawhai."

 

Mō New Ingarangi whawhai

 

New Ingarangi whawhai ("Nef") Ko te whawhai whakatairanga ngā kaupapa kamupene. Misioni a nef ko ki te waihanga i te mau ohipa kounga teitei mō ngā whawhai, me pā o Maine rite tahi. Whānui wheako i roto i te whakahaere hākinakina whawhai he kapa whakahaere o nef, production ngā kaupapa, whanaungatanga pāpāho, marketing, ture me te pānuitanga.

Toa-wā e rua ao, kaimekemeke wahine Amanda Serrano blasts kaiwhakangungu Ronda Rousey o, a ka hanga wero

Serrano with the WBO title
Toa-wā e rua ao, Amanda Serrano (24-1-1, 18 KO o) i Puerto Rico, me tona kaiwhakangungu / kaiwhakahaere, Whakaaro Horano Maldonado rawa faatura i te reira mo te hapori mekemeke, nga kōrero i hanga e Edmond Tarverdyan, kaiwhakangungu o te UFC World Champion, Ronda Rousey i roto i www.mmafighting.com.
“E mohio ana ahau e taea e rave i te reira e ia,” Ka korerotia e Tarverdyan MMA whawhai, “E mohio ana ahau e taea e ia riro i te taitara mekemeke te ao. Te rākau Ronda ki mekemeke toa ao e Kilisimasi ara maro atu i Cyborg,”, Tarverdyan hoki tapiritia e, “E kore kua Ronda ngaro te a tawhio noa i roto i te whare hākinakina. He tawhio noa. Ki te toa mekemeke te ao”.
“Tino kore e kaiwhakangungu o Rousey i tetahi matauranga e pā ana ki te hākinakina o te mekemeke. Ko ia he toa tino pai i roto i te Tapawaru, a ka mihi ahau tino ia mo nga mea katoa i mea ai ia. E kore e taea tona hoariri pouaka me te mea ohie ki te titiro nui, engari, ka anga ana ki te kaipatu o te kounga teitei ki te meke kaha rite ahau, whakapono ki ahau, mea he huringa pepa. I roto i te mowhiti mekemeke, te koaka e koutou rohe whakamarie”.
Mō te Rousey whawhai Rāhoroi whakamutunga, i reira patua ia Bethe Correia i roto i 34 hēkona, Na ka mea a Serrano, “Ka rite ki te wāhi mekemeke o te tirohanga, titiro ia, ano he toa ihupuku runaruna, i whiua e nifó rawa whānui ki kahore cordination. Rongo ahau e kore he pai Cyborg kia haere mai ki raro, ki te wehenga ono tekau ki te whawhai ki Ronda, engari e taea e ahau te haere ki runga, ki te 135, a nehenehe ta tatou e whakatau i te kēmu mekemeke kia taea e ahau te whakamatau ia ia kaiwhakangungu he. Kotahi ka haere ahau ki runga, ki te wehenga ono tekau, a ka haere ki Argentina mo te whawhai taitara ao. I te mutunga, nga hua i e meinga e ahau te Puerto ake Rican kaimekemeke wahine tuatahi ki te riro i te taitara te ao i roto i te akomanga taimaha e rua”.
Kaiwhakahaere o Serrano me te kaiwhakangungu, Tohu Horano Maldonado i taua “e kore tatou e wero atu momo whawhai. Tohu tatou i mekemeke me te hiahia tatou ki te tiki i te tahi faatura. E wātea ana hoki i tetahi sparring kia hiahia ratou he kēmu mekemeke ranei matou, ia nehenehe ia tatou whakaatu pēhea te he Edmond Tarverdyan ko ia e pā ana ki mekemeke”.
I te August 15, 2014, Ka haere Serrano ki Argentina ki te kanohi WBO Kōmāmā World Champion Maria 'Tily’ Maderna, ko wai i taua wa, i toru angitu parepare taitara, otiia kihai i taea rahurahu te fakaaoao o te Puerto puncher te mana Rican, nana nei i mutu te whawhai i roto i te ono o nga tawhio noa i te ara o te knockout.
Ki te tenei wikitoria, Ka Serrano te kaimekemeke wahine Puerto Rican tuatahi ki te riro taitara ao i roto i te rua wehenga (130-135).
Ka haere mai i kingi ai taitara tuatahi a Serrano i Mahuru 2011 , no te patototanga ia i roto i Kimberly Connor i roto i te taka noa tuatahi ki te riro i te IBF World Champion i te wehenga tekau mā super.

BELLATOR MMA SIGNS KERI ANNE TAYLOR-MELENDEZ TO AN EXCLUSIVE, MULTI-FIGHT KICKBOXING & MMA CONTRACT

 

Santa MONICA, Calif. (Hōngongoi 24, 2015) – Bellator MMA is pleased to announce the signing of Keri Anne Taylor-Melendez ki te motuhake, maha-whawhai mahi. The 31-year-old has previously competed in kickboxing and muay Thai, but fully intends on transitioning to the sport of mixed martial arts in the future.

 

Taylor-Melendez will debut as a kickboxer in front of her home town on Pipiri 19 at the highly anticipated "Bellator: Dynamite”show in San Jose, Calif. An opponent for Taylor-Melendez has yet to be decided upon.

 

Ko te hoa o mua WEC me Strikeforce Champion Gilbert Melendez me te tahi-rangatira o El Nino Center Training i roto i San Francisco, Ka tango tuatahi Taylor-Melendez ake hākinakina whawhai tata ki 10 matahiti i ma'iri a'e, making a name for herself on unsanctioned cards held in the Bay Area. I muri i racking ake te 4-1 record amateur, ka tango ia i ona mau taleni ki te ara iahiko ngaio, te wahi i te ia wā mau 2-1 lekooti kickboxing.

 

“I’m very honored for the opportunity to fight on such a big stage with a great promotion and promoter. I actually fought for Scott Coker before Gilbert and we both have a great relationship with him, so I feel very comfortable with this situation,” Taylor-Melendez said. “Even though I haven’t been super active as a fighter I have never really stopped training and look forward to testing my skills as a muay Thai fighter and a mixed martial artist. My goal is to go out there and do my best and make my daughter, my family and team proud.”

FIGHT KĀRI ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 11 Nef MMA MAHI IN LEWISTON

Lewiston, Maine (March 18, 2015) - New Ingarangi whawhai (Nef), Tau-kotahi whakatairanga whawhai rohe Amerika o, hoki ki te Androscoggin Bank Colisée i Lewiston, Maine i runga i April 11, 2015 me ona whitu whakauru-hōia-toi (MMA) takahanga. I mua i teie mahana, the company announced the full fight card for the event. The card is scheduled to feature a full slate of both professional and amateur bouts. NEF executives report that fan reaction to the matchups already announced has been overwhelmingly positive.

 

“E kore e taea e mahara ahau ia tenei ahua o te whakautu ki te kāri whawhai i mua i,” said NEF co-owner and promoter Nick DiSalvo. “There has been so much excitement over every fight we’ve announced. We sold out of all cage-side tickets four weeks prior to the event, and the general admission are very close to being gone. We’ve never seen that happen so early before. It really says something about the quality of the product we’re putting on here in Lewiston. There’s no doubt NEF is the hottest ticket in town.

 

I roto i te hui matua o te ahiahi, Bruce “Boy ātaahua” Boyington(10-7) tohe te Ingoa Kōmāmā nef MMA ki te maha-kotahi nguha Jamie Harrison (5-1). The bout was made in the hours following “Nef XV” Whiringa whakamutunga ka pai te awhina Boyington te taitara ki Hehe Erickson (3-4) a manhandled Harrison Tollison Lewis (0-4) on his way to a quick submission victory. The fight will be Boyington’s second defense of the title since winning it last September.

 

Ka ngā te hui tahi-matua o te ahiahi he a'ee Welterweight tino-wawata i waenganui i Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) whitiki pango Jarod “Minute Last” Lawton (4-1) a Bellator hōia Dennis “Ko te Tuhinga” Olson (12-7). In recent weeks, Kua whai wāhi Lawton me Olson i roto i te pakanga o te kupu i runga i pāpāho pāpori i kite kaitäkaro e rua’ peke kaitautoko mahi i roto i te whakawehi.

 

“Shatterproof 2.0” Derek Shorey (1-1), hou atu te waitohu i te kirimana maha-whawhai hou ki nef, ka tutaki John “Class Tuatahi” Ray (2-6) i roto i te “kēmu rapa.” The rivalry has seen each fighter win one bout against the other. Te April 11 whawhai, whakaritea ki te tango i te wahi i te catchweight o 150-pauna, Ka whakatau i te toa ení i roto i te wehewehe,.

 

Kaline “Ko te Dark anahera” Medeiros (3-4) a tūturu Calie “Ko te Honey Badger” Cutler (3-0) will make history when they contest the first professional women’s MMA fight on a regional card in Maine. It will not be the first time Medeiros has been a part of history. She competed in the first women’s fight in Rhode Island two years ago.

 

Ano i roto i te mahi i runga i te taha ngaio o te kāri, ka paingia regulars nef MMA Hehe “Ko te Viking” Erickson (3-4), “Ko te kitenga i Dog” Ryan Cowette (2-2), Iraia “Danger Kiore” Leland (2-0) a Mike “te ngutu” Hansen (2-1), i roto i ētahi atu.

 

Ka headlined te wahi amateur o te kāri e te “Hiamoe” Norman Fox (3-1) a “Te taone” Dave Brown (1-2) in a flyweight contest. Fox is undefeated on Maine soil and is currently the number-three ranked amateur flyweight in the Northeast. Brown wrestled for Plymouth State University where he was a four-time All-New England winner.

 

Ka ngā ano te kāri runaruna he a'ee Kōmāmā i waenganui iRicky Dexter (2-0) i Marcus Davis’ Team Airihi me te Steven Bang (3-3) i Central Maine Jiu-Jitsu (CMBJJ) – TEAM New Ingarangi United (NEW). Dexter’s teammate Jeremy Tyler (4-3) tapawhā atu ki Alex Johnson (1-1) o nanakia MMA & Boxing in a featherweight bout. And Bruce Boyington’s wife, Randi Beth Knowles (0-0), ka tutaki Alex Walker (0-0) i roto i te whawhai strawweight tuatahi-rua.

 

Ko te kāri whawhai tonu mō te “Nef XVII” (kaupapa ki te huri i me te whakaaetanga o te aro Hākinakina Mana o Maine):

 

NGAIO

 

155*TITLE Bruce Boyington 10-7 (MMA o Young) vs Jamie Harrison 5-1 (Tuatahi Coast Full Whakapā)

170 Jarod Lawton 4-1 (Team NEW) vs Dennis Olson 12-7 (Boston BJJ / Team whakamanamana)

265 Brent Dillingham 1-1 (MMA Athletix) vs Mike Hansen 2-1 (BerzerkersMMA)

185 Ryan Cowette 2-2 (MMA Athletix) vs John Daniels 2-3 (Rock City MMA)

155 Hehe Erickson 3-4 (Team NEW - CMBJJ) vs. Mark DeFord 0-3 (F2 Arena)

150 John Ray 2-6 (Tuatahi Class MMA) vs Derek Shorey 1-1 (Aro Club Shatterproof)

135 Iraia Leland 2-0 (Ko te Academy) vs Jay Perrin 1-0 (Boston BJJ / Team whakamanamana)

115 Kaline Medeiros 3-4 (Gracie Fitness) vs Calie Cutler 3-0 (Jacked N Tan whawhai Team)

 

AMATEUR

 

125 Norman Fox 3-1 (MMA Athletix) vs Dave Brown 1-2 (Plymouth Whawhai Club)

265 Ryan Glover 1-0 (BerzerkersMMA) vs Jason Field 0-0 (Independent)

265 Dave Smith 0-0 (BerzerkersMMA) vs. Rana Marley 0-0 (Independent)

185 Ruben Redman 0-1 (Independent) vs Chris Rideout 0-0 (Independent)

185 Chris Smith 0-0 (BerzerkersMMA) vs Nash Roy 2-1 (MMA o Young)

185 Heath Hanson 0-2 (3Ronin Athletics) vs Brandon Russell 0-1 (Team Nitemare)

155 Ricky Dexter 2-0 (Team Irish) vs Steve Bang Jr. 3-3 (Team NEW – CMBJJ)

155 Rick Matthews 1-1 (Team Irish) vs. Matthew Hanning 0-1 (Independent)

155 Jason Lachance 1-1 (MMA Athletix) vs Hehe Herrick 1-0 (Ko te Academy)

145 Clifford Redman 0-1 (Independent) vs Karepe Serra 0-1 (Team Kaže)

145 Jeremy Tyler 4-3 (Team Irish) vs Alex Johnson 1-1 (Nanakia MMA & Mekemeke)

135 Mike Crespo 2-1 (MMA Athletix) vs Sheldon Bang 1-2 (Team NEW – CMBJJ)

115 Randibeth Knowles 0-0 (TKD o Boyington / MMA o Young) vs Alex Walker 0-0 (Team Kaže)

 

 

Tikiti hoki “Nef XVII” tīmata i te tika $25 a kei runga i te hoko i teie nei iwww.TheColisee.com ranei na roto i te te karanga i te tari pouaka Colisée i207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, te whai ia ratou i runga i Twitternefights, me te uru atu ki te rōpū Facebook whaimana "New Ingarangi whawhai."

 

Mō New Ingarangi whawhai

 

New Ingarangi whawhai ("Nef") Ko te whawhai whakatairanga ngā kaupapa kamupene. Misioni a nef ko ki te waihanga i te mau ohipa kounga teitei mō ngā whawhai, me pā o Maine rite tahi. Whānui wheako i roto i te whakahaere hākinakina whawhai he kapa whakahaere o nef, production ngā kaupapa, whanaungatanga pāpāho, marketing, ture me te pānuitanga.