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Combate AMERICAS TEGN første gang, FEM-DIVISION World Boxing CHAMPION AMANDA SERRANO

Fem-divisjon verden boksing mester Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano har signert en eksklusiv, flerårig reklameavtale med combate Amerika, og er planlagt å gjøre sin MMA debut mars.

Pound-for-pound boksing phenom satt til å gjøre henne mye etterlengtede
MMA-debut for verdens fremste spanske MMA-sportsfranchise

 

NEW YORK - Januar 11, 2018 - Combate Amerika kunngjorde i dag signeringen av fem-divisjon verden boksing mester, inkludert regjerende World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamvekt (118 pounds) mester, Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano (Boksing: 34-1-1, 26 KO s; MMA: 0-0) til en eksklusiv, flerårig reklameavtale.

 

 

Den eneste kvinnelige fighter i historie så vel som den eneste puertoricanske konkurrent noensinne til å vinne fem verdensmesterskap i fem forskjellige vekt divisjoner, den 29-år gamle Serrano som ble født i Carolina, Puerto Rico og kamper ut av Brooklyn, N.Y., vil gjøre henne Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) debut i La Jaula, Combate Amerika buret, på en mars dato vil bli annonsert snart.

 

 

“Vi er glade for å bringe Amanda Serrano, en av boksing mest spennende superstjerner i Combate Amerika familia, og ser frem til å plassere henne på globalt nivå som er den fremste sportsmuligheter i 21 Spansktalende land over hele verden,”Sa Combate Amerika CEO Campbell McLaren.

 

 

Serrano, en topp 10 pound-for-pound fighter, vil fortsette sin spirende boksekarriere under promotering av DiBella Entertainment, og prøver å bli den første utøveren i historien til å samtidig holde verdens titler i MMA og boksing.

 

 

Serrano fanget hennes første store verden tittel, International Boxing Federation (IBF) super fjærvekt krone, på like 22 år, med en brutal, Tredje runde knockout av Kimberly Connor september 10, 2011.

 

 

Hun har siden revet gjennom rekkene av krigere i fire andre vekt divisjoner, alt fra bantamvekt å lette (135 pounds), og sist scoret et første runde TKO på Marilyn Hernandez november 4, 2017.

 

 

Serrano ble inspirert til å krysse over til en verden av MMA av pensjonerte verdensmester Miesha Tate, som har siden blitt Serranos co-manager.

 

 

Combate Amerika kommer av et banner år, produsere bemerkelsesverdig TV karakterer i USA, Mexico og Spania, inkludert de to første Telemundo MMA hendelser i historien som genererte de høyeste karakterer i alle spanske språket MMA viser i US-. i løpet av sommeren og høsten 2017, og så mange som 6.9 million seere for en episode av sitt ukentlige TV-serien på TV Azteca i Mexico.

FNU Kampsport Show: Miesha’s FU to Dana White, GSP and the Giant Fighters Union, Conor Being Conor and Ward vs. Kovalev recap

This week on the FNU Combat Sports Show we discuss a fantastic month of November as far as fighting goes. We only had two shows last month, so we kick off this week in catch up mode. We discuss Ward vs. Kovalev at length, go off on a few tangents and then get to Tony’s review ofBleed For This.We then go back to MMA for Rich’s commentary on Miesha Tate telling Dana White, “FU, you’re not my boss..after his request that she go to the hospital after her fight with Raquel Pennington. Tate retired earlier in the evening after a stellar career. Rich also gets going about the fighter union front and some new developments with Georges St. Pierre, Ex-Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney, Cain Velasquez, T.J. Dillashaw and other UFC notables breaking new ground in the niche with the founding of the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association. We also manage to preview the upcoming weekend’s boxing schedule before the end of the broadcast tonight.

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“Round 7, Operation Knockoutcharity event for Randy Couture’s G.I. Foundation Airing this Sunday night on CBS Sports Network

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LAS VEGAS (November 25, 2016) – Den “Round 7, Operation Knockoutamateur mixed-martial-arts and grappling card, presented by Tuff-N-Uff in association with Neon Star Media, will air TONIGHT (November. 27), starter på 11 pm. OG / 8 pm. PTCBS Sports Network.
The seventh annualOperation Knockout,” held last Saturday evening at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, was created to help Randy Couture’s G.I. Foundation raise funds and awareness for wounded soldiers and their families.
There was something for everyone with nine amateur MMA fights, four of which were for title belts, and six super-fight grappling bouts featuring Bellator’s Ryan Couture, ex-UFC fighter Ulysses Gomez and current UFC fighter Anthony Birchak, former Bellator fighter and active military, Michael Parker, former Lion Fight fighter Fanny Tommasino, and current Combate Americas fighter and former Tuff-N-Uff fighter, Kyra Batara.
Veteran MMA announcers Sean Wheelock, Joey Varner and living legend Couture called all the action live from ringside.
Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation gir nødvendig støtte og tjenester for sårede soldater og deres familier, mange av dem kommer tilbake med traumatiske amputasjoner, skuddsår, brannsår og blast skader. One-hundred percent of the proceeds are given as Operation Knockout continues to build on its efforts to raise more money and help more wounded soldiers and their families. With help of its generous sponsors and donations, “Operation Knockhad raised more than $170,000 going into this year’s event.
CBS Sports Network is available across the United States through local cable, video og telco-leverandører og via satellitt på DirecTV Channel 221 og oppvask nettverk Channel 158. For mer informasjon, inkludert en full programmering tidsplan og hvordan du får CBS Sports Network, gå til www.cbssportsnetwork.com
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“Round 7, Operation Knockoutcharity event for Randy Couture’s G.I. Foundation To air Sunday, November. 27 on CBS Sports Network

LAS VEGAS (November 22, 2016) – Den “Round 7, Operation Knockoutamateur mixed-martial-arts and grappling card, presented by Tuff-N-Uff in association with Neon Star Media, vil luften Søndag, November 27 (11 pm. OG / 8 pm. PT) på CBS Sports Network.
The seventh annualOperation Knockout,” held this past Nov. 19th på Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, was created to help Randy Couture’s G.I. Foundation raise funds and awareness for wounded soldiers and their families.
Denne spennende, unique charity event featured a night of amazing fights and a fabulous silent auction that featured gloves signed by Randy Couture, Luke Rockhold, Miesha Tate og Gray Maynard, tickets to Criss Angel, Rock of Ages og Legends in Concert, and many more items. There was something for everyone with nine amateur MMA fights, four of which were for title belts, and six super-fight grappling bouts featuring Bellator’s Ryan Couture, ex-UFC fighter Ulysses Gomez and current UFC fighter Anthony Birchak, former Bellator fighter and active military, Michael Parker, former Lion Fight fighter Fanny Tommasino, and current Combate Americas fighter and former Tuff-N-Uff fighter, Kyra Batara.
Veteran MMA announcers Sean Wheelock, Joey Varner and living legend Couture called all the action live from ringside.
Tuff-N-Uff is honored to have a hand in helping to raise funds for and bring awareness to our brave service members who have sacrificed so much for our great country,” Tuff-N-Uff CEO Jeff Meyer sa. “Any little bit helps and the least we could do was put together a fight card with the Future Stars of MMA, as well as some big names in MMA who participated. We can’t thank everyone enough for helping put this amazing event together for a good cause.
Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation gir nødvendig støtte og tjenester for sårede soldater og deres familier, mange av dem kommer tilbake med traumatiske amputasjoner, skuddsår, brannsår og blast skader. One-hundred percent of the proceeds are given as Operation Knockout continues to build on its efforts to raise more money and help more wounded soldiers and their families. With help of its generous sponsors and donations, “Operation Knockhad raised more than $170,000 going into this year’s event.
I can’t tell you how thankful I am for the support from Tuff-N-Uf, Downtown Las Vegas Events Center and the D Las Vegas of ‘Round 7, Operation Knockoutand wounded veterans through xcgif.org,” Couture commented. “We at XCGIF appreciate your help and support of this cause.
We train our warriors to suppress strong emotional reactions in the face of adversity, to tolerate physical and emotional pain, and overcome the fear of injury and death. The military can’t decrease the intensity of that conditioning without negatively affecting the fighting capability of our military. It is a Catch-22. A chilling truth is service members are, simply put, more capable of killing themselves by sheer consequence of their professional training and we are losing 22 a day. This must change. We need to retrain our warriors on what defines success for them.
It’s going to be a great night of fighting and grappling. Thank you all for your contributions.
CBS Sports Network is available across the United States through local cable, video og telco-leverandører og via satellitt på DirecTV Channel 221 og oppvask nettverk Channel 158. For mer informasjon, inkludert en full programmering tidsplan og hvordan du får CBS Sports Network, gå til www.cbssportsnetwork.com
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Twitter: @tuffnuff, @Neonstarmedia, @randy_Couture

 

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TUFF-N- UFF presented a second event Torsdag, Juli 3 live fra Texas Station, earning status as the first event promotion to be listed on the UFC International Fight Week schedule two years in a row. TUFF-N- UFF celebrated its historic 20th anniversary Saturday, Juni 7, 2014, med over 15,000 fans, i et utsolgt live event inne i Thomas and Mack Center. I 2014, TUFF-N- UFF partnered with the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) å presentere, som en del av UFC International Fight Week 2014, de første noensinne amatør MMA VM. Jeff Meyer is the CEO of TUFF-N- UFF and runs the organization in dedication to his late brother, Barry Meyer, who founded TUFF-N- UFF in 1994. TUFF-N- UFF is committed to growing the sport of MMA and building theFuture Stars of MMA”.
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FNU Kampsport Show: CM Punk’s Debut, UFC Fight Night oppsummering, Brrok vs. Golovkin Preview

Tom, Tony and Rich discuss the week in Combat Sports, focusing on the recent UFC Fight Night in Hamburg, Tyskland, the UFC debut of Phil Brooks (A.K.A. CM Punk) and the upcoming battle between Kell Brook and Gennady Golovkin.

An Open FU to UFC President DanaEffing” White!

wtf

Av: Rich Bergeron

Those who know me personally would all say I am a mellow individual, until you seriously cross me, som, for instance, if you become the subject of an investigative report I’m working on, eller sue me for $25 millioner. 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.

Denne uka, 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. Så, 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.

Nå, 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” Arrangøren, 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, også) what she was doing and what she wanted. And guesseffingwhat, Dana? She wanted to fight.

Sorry, 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, klasse, 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, sterkere, 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, anyway?

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.

Nå, 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, enten, you dome-headed dimwit.

Jagerfly “effing” fight, Dana. That’s what theyeffingdo, which you should know, since I am pretty sure you used to be aneffingmanager of MMA fighters yourself. Ja, 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 jobb. It’s not. Det er “effinghard work.

Så, ja, 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.

Oh…og…forresten…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.

Så, 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, periode! 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.

Så, 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” dager, 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, også.

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, ærlig, trulyeffingknow what it’s ACTUALLY like to be aneffingfighter? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?

REALLY?

Du vet 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, er “one who fights.And let’s be clear about oneeffingthing, Danaeffing” White, I know fighters, og YOU are no fighter.

You are nothing like a fighter, Danaeffing” White, and you nevereffing” vil bli. 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,” eller “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. Nå, 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, periode?

Så, 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?

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

Ronda Rousey- The Cleaner


Photo Credit: Esther Lin / MMA Fighting

Given that it’s tax season, it’s a good time to remember that are there three guarantees in life: death, taxes and Ronda Rousey once again showing why she is the best female fighter on the planet with a first-round demolition of her opponent.

Rousey’s performance at UFC 184 last month was her finest to date. She submitted Cat Zingano, widely regarded as Rousey’s biggest challenge, i 14 sekunder. While Rousey was aided by an absolutely horrible strategy by Zingano, her virtuoso performance led to another discussion of who has what it takes to dethrone Rousey. It also led to a ridiculous conversation of whether or not Rousey could compete against and defeat male fighters in the UFC’s bantamweight division. The less time spent on that absurd notion that accomplishes nothing but trying to discredit the great fighter Rousey is, the better.

Selvfølgelig, the first name that always comes up is Cris “Cyborg” Justino, the Invicta FC featherweight champion. She is expected to drop to 135 pounds for a fight with Invicta this summer before moving on to a fight with Rousey. Men, Cyborg attempted a drop to bantamweight last year and abandoned those plans. So I wouldn’t hold my breath on the long-awaited grudge match between Rousey and Cyborg happening anytime soon.

Rousey recently expressed a desire to fight Bethe Correia, who battered two of Rousey’s “Four Horsewomen” teammates and has been calling Rousey out ever since. Jessica Eye has also staked her claim to a title shot, but neither of these women pose a real threat to Rousey. During UFC 184’s postfight coverage, Daniel Cormier floated the idea of his colleague Miesha Tate getting a third crack at Rousey.

Besides the fact I think trilogies should be reserved only when each fighter has a victory over the other, I see no reason why third time would be a charm for Tate. While she is the only woman to go further than the first round with Rousey, Tate has plateaued as a fighter while Rousey has gotten better. If the two were to fight a third time, I see no reason to believe the result would be any different.

So where does this leave Rousey? Etter min mening, she has cleaned out the UFC women’s bantamweight division. There is no one who poses a credible threat to her. If Zingano adjusted her strategy and received another shot at Rousey, she might have a chance of winning. Beyond that, if Rousey decided to go out on top and build on her burgeoning film career, I don’t think anyone would hold it against her.

Rousey is currently on a run akin to Anderson Silva’s run atop the UFC’s middleweight division. He dominated everyone in his path and except for his first fight with Chael Sonnen, made it look easy. Rousey’s hardest fight to date was against Liz Carmouche, when she had Rousey in a rear naked choke in the first round of their fight in 2013 before Rousey was able to escape and secure another armbar victory.

Silva’s reign atop the middleweight division came to an end when the previously unknown Chris Weidman came along and showed no fear and took the fight to Silva. Maybe that’s what needs to happen with Rousey. She needs to find an opponent who will get right in her face, give her no quarter and take the fight to her. Zingano attempted that at UFC 184, but her overzealousness ended up costing her dearly.

Until Rousey finds her own Chris Weidman, we can add another superlative to the many that are already attached to the women’s bantamweight champion: cleaner. Rousey is fresh out of worthy challengers to her crown, a task she accomplished by cleaning out her division.

Chris Huntemann skriver om mixed martial arts i delstaten Maryland. Han deler også sine tanker om UFC, Bellator, og World Series of Fighting. Sjekk ut hans blog, eller følge ham på Twitter: mmamaryland.

Dana White and the Women


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Lørdag, Februar. 28, is going to be a landmark day for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. All the fighters on the pay-per-view card that day will pass their pre-fight drug…….never mind. That’s too easy.

That day will be the first time a UFC card features women’s bouts in both its co-main event and main event. After middleweight champion Chris Weidman was forced to withdraw from his fight against Vitor Belfort due to injury, the new main event at UFC 184 is Ronda Rousey defending her women’s bantamweight belt against Cat Zingano. I co-main event, much-heralded prospect Holly Holm will make her UFC debut against Raquel Pennington in another women’s bantamweight fight.

As I’ve mentioned before, UFC has come a long way from when Dana White told TMZ that women would “never” fight in his organization. Rousey will main event her third consecutive February PPV and Holm is widely believed to be the next in line for a shot at the title, should she defeat Pennington. Holm is still very raw in mixed martial arts, but trains with the world renowned coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn.

Rousey is carrying the flag for women’s MMA and for women in the UFC. Other female fighters have followed her into the Octagon, including Miesha Tate, Liz Carmouche and Alexis Davis. What do those three have in common? They all also fell to Rousey – Tate twice in Strikeforce and the UFC, and Carmouche and Davis both in the first round at UFC PPVs in 2013 og 2014, henholdsvis.

Rousey and Tate’s feud is well-chronicled. It led to the two being coaches on The Ultimate Fighter, which included female fighters for the very first time who greatly outshined their male counterparts on the show that season.

Given that season’s success, the most recent season of The Ultimate Fighter featured ALL female fighters and the debut of the UFC’s newest division, women’s strawweight. Carla Esparza, the former Invicta FC strawweight champion, won the inaugural UFC version of that belt after defeating Rose Namajunas.

So in the span of four years, UFC goes from having no female fighters and White emphatically stating that it never will, to being home to TWO female weight classes and undoubtedly the promotion’s biggest star right now in Rousey. Don’t believe me? Did you see the third Expendables movie? Or do you plan on seeing the film version of Entourage this summer? You might notice a familiar face.

So where does women’s MMA go from here? I am personally a big fan of female fights, as they tend to be among the more entertaining and action-packed fights on a UFC card. As I previously stated, female fighters are more than capable of outshining their male contemporaries. Why is that? Maybe female fighters feel they have more to prove inside the Octagon and always go for broke. Maybe they go into the Octagon with more of a “go for broke” mentality and actively seek a finish as opposed to “playing it safe.”

The fight between Rousey and Zingano on Feb. 28 will also go a long way toward determining the future of women’s MMA. Should Rousey defeat Zingano – which all signs indicate she will – she will have essentially cleaned out her division, with only unknown challengers like Holm and Bethe Correia left. If Zingano pulls the upset, then the division has a fresh batch of exciting matchups waiting.

But who knows what would have happened if Dana White kept his promise to TMZ?

Chris Huntemann skriver om mixed martial arts i delstaten Maryland. Han bidrar også sine tanker til nettstedet vårt på UFC, Bellator, og World Series of Fighting. Sjekk ut hans blog, eller følge ham på Twitter: mmamaryland.

UFC 183: Hvem vil dukke opp?


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The Ultimate Fighting Championship har truffet den ut av parken så langt i 2015, med sine første to store kort av året lever opp til hypen av sine viktigste hendelser. Lett tungvekt Jon Jones dominert Daniel Cormier å bevise at han er den pound-for-pound beste fighter i verden på UFC 182, og ved UFC live kortet i Boston, Mass., i januar, Conor McGregor sikret en fjærvekt tittel skutt mot José Aldo og kastet ikke bort tid på å komme i hans neste motstander ansikt.

Hvilket bringer oss til UFC 183 i kveld, og en main event som er ansett som en drøm matchup av mange. Anderson Silva returnerer til Octagon etter lider en grusom etappe skader i sin siste kamp mot UFC mellomvekt mester Chris Weidman i 2013. Nick Diaz gjør også hans tilbake til UFC etter å ha mistet sin siste kamp mot tidligere weltervekt mester Georges St. Pierre i 2013.

Kveldens kortet er ikke uten sine andre historier om. Et par av betydelige undercard kamper foregår under noe kontrovers, som fluevekt John Lineker kom i overvekt for hans kamp mot Ian McCall, som forventes å bestemme den neste uten. 1 kandidat til fluevekt tittel. I co-main event, Kelvin Gastelum kom i 9 pounds overvektig for sin kamp mot Tyron Woodley, som middel 30 prosent av Gastelum kamp vesken faktisk går til Woodley. Snakk om fornærmelse til skade.

Selvfølgelig, Det er alltid den wild card med Diaz også. Han spiller etter sine egne regler, har ingen viste de åpne treningsøkter tidligere denne uken. Vil han faktisk møter opp til buret for kveldens main event? Det gjenstår å se, selv om de fleste alle tror han vil.

Så, sagt alle, som jeg tror vinner i kveld?

Miesha "Cupcake" Tate (15-5) vs. Sara McMann (8-1) (Kvinners bantamvekt - 135 lbs.)

Dette er faktisk den viktigste hendelsen i den foreløpige kortet på Fox Sports 1. Tate bedt om å konkurrere på denne delen av kortet i stedet for pay-per-view-kort, ta en side fra Uria Fabers playbook. Tate er også ivrig for en tredje kamp med Ronda Rousey for kvinnenes bantamvekt tittel. Begge disse kvinnene led Rousey vrede, spesielt McMann, som ble revet av Rousey i omtrent et minutt i fjor.

McMann er en ren bryter med svært lite annet å repertoaret hennes, mens Tate bygget på hennes etablerte bryting ferdigheter til å bli en effektiv spiss. Jeg tror hun vil ting McMann forsøk på å ta denne kampen til matten og bruker henne langt overlegne slående ferdigheter til å holde McMann forvirret på vei til en dominerende seier.

Vinner: Tate ved enstemmig avgjørelse

Jordan "Young Gun" Mein (29-9) vs. Thiago "Pitbull" Alves (25-9) (Weltervekt - 170 lbs.)

Alves har vekslet seire og tap i sine siste seks kamper, mens Mein rir en to-kamp seier strek. Alves er alltid farlig med sin Muay Thai og slående, mens Mein landet en første runde TKO seier i sin siste kamp. Dette bør være en spennende stand-up kamp med verken fyr villig til å vike en tomme. Jeg tror Alves er mer farlig fighter her, og vil lande en god sjanse til å banke Mein dum.

Vinner: Alves etter andre runde TKO

Thales Leites (24-4) vs. Tim "The Barbarian" Boetsch (18-7) (Mellomvekt - 185 lbs.)

Leites kommer inn i denne kampen på en rull, etter å ha vunnet sine siste syv kamper, med de to siste som kommer i form av TKO. Boetsch har vekslet seire og tap i sine siste fire kamper, inkludert en TKO seier i sin siste kamp mot Brad Tavares.

Boetsch er en langsom, plodding bruiser best kjent for avsporing av Hector Lombard hype toget når han først gjorde sin UFC-debut. Leites er en durkdreven, farlig fighter som kan fullføre deg med hendene eller ved innsending. Jeg tror Leites vil unngå Boetsch makt og vente på Boetsch å gjøre en feil, hvor Leits vil kapital.

Vinner: Leites etter tredje runde innsending

Joe Lauzon (24-10) vs. Den "Raging" Iaquinta (10-3-1) (Lett - 155 lbs.)

Du vet hva du får med en Joe Lauzon kamp. Du kommer til å se det spennende, actionfylte bout som vil mest sannsynlig ende med ham låsing i en sleip innsending eller, i tilfelle av kampen mot Jim Miller, lider en gnarly kutt som vil garantere en blod kamp.

Iaquinta har vært på en rull siden hans tid på The Ultimate Fighter Live-, har bare tapt én gang på sine siste seks kamper. En seier mot Lauzon ville være en flott fjær i hatten, og kan drive ham til tittelen contendership diskusjon. Men Lauzon er en av de beste innsending spesialister i UFC, og jeg tror den crafty veteran har et eget brev i ermet.

Vinner: Lauzon etter andre runde innsending

Tyron "The Chosen One" Woodley (14-3) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (11-0) (Weltervekt - 170 lbs.)

Som ovenfor nevnt, Gastelum veide inn 9 pounds over for denne kampen og vil miste 30 prosent av sin pung direkte til Woodley. Det ble rapportert at Gastelum brukt tid på sykehuset leder opp til denne kampen, noe som bidro til at han kommer i overvekt.

Woodley vil være sint i denne kampen, og med rette. Det er ikke rettferdig at hans motstander vil ha en vektfordel på grunn av sin egen manglende evne til å gjøre hva han skulle gjøre. Gi Woodley kreditt for å ville fortsette å kjempe når det ville ha vært helt forståelig å utsette det.

Woodley vil kanalisere sitt raseri i en blitzkrieg lovbrudd ved Gastelum, og sløv og trolig fortsatt skadet Gastelum vil ikke ha noen svar.

Vinner: Woodley etter andre runde TKO

Anderson "The Spider" Silva (33-6) vs. Nick Diaz (27-9-1) (Mellomvekt - 185 lbs.)

Dette er ett av flere hoved hendelser som har slåss fans summende i 2015. Mange trodde ikke Silva noen gang ville gå igjen etter sin skade beinet mot Weidman, enn si komme tilbake til UFC å kjempe. Matchup stil av Diaz som ønsker å presse tempoet, komme i motstanderens ansikt og suger ham inn i handels slag mot Silva ubestridte elusiveness vil være interessant å se på.

Diaz sa han ikke ville kaste snakk Silva under denne kampen ut av respekt. Men hvis Silva holder dupper og veving og unnvike Diaz slag, vi får se hvor lenge Diaz forplikter seg til at. Jeg tror vi vil se vintage Silva i denne kampen, gjør Diaz se dumt på noen flekker mens landing godt timet streik som vil forvirre og frustrere Diaz, som vil tillate Silva å lande enda mer.

Diaz er for tøft å fullføre, men denne kampen vil vise at Silva har det fortsatt, og er det langt bedre fighter.

Vinner: Silva etter enstemmig beslutning

Chris Huntemann skriver om mixed martial arts i delstaten Maryland. Han bidrar også sine tanker til nettstedet vårt på UFC, Bellator, og World Series of Fighting. Sjekk ut hans blog, eller følge ham på Twitter: mmamaryland.