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Combate AMERICAS TECKEN allra första, FEM-DIVISION boxningsvärldsmästaren AMANDA SERRANO

Fem division världen boxning Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano har tecknat ett exklusivt, flerårigt reklamavtal med Combate Americas, och är tänkt att göra henne MMA debut mars.

Pound-for-pound boxning phenom inställd på att göra henne mycket efterlängtade
MMA debut for world’s premier Hispanic MMA sports franchise

 

NEW YORK - Januari 11, 2018 - Combate Americas tillkännagav idag undertecknandet av fem division världen boxning, inklusive regerande World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamvikt (118 pounds) mästare, Amanda ”The Real Deal” Serrano (Boxning: 34-1-1, 26 KO: s; MMA: 0-0) till en exklusiv, flerårigt reklamavtal.

 

 

Den enda kvinnliga fighter i historien, liksom den enda puertoricanska konkurrent någonsin att vinna fem världstitlar i fem olika viktklasser, 29-årige Serrano som föddes i Carolina, Puerto Rico och slagsmål av Brooklyn, N.Y., kommer att göra hennes Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) debut i La Jaula, bur den Combate Americas, på ett datum mars att meddelas inom kort.

 

 

”Vi är glada att få Amanda Serrano, en boxnings mest spännande super i familia i Combate Americas, och ser fram emot att placera henne på en global scen som är den främsta sport egendom i 21 Spansktalande länder världen över,”Sade Combate Americas vd Campbell McLaren.

 

 

Serrano, en topp 10 pund-for-pound fighter, kommer att fortsätta sin spirande boxning karriär under främjande av DiBella Entertainment, och försöker bli den första idrottaren i historien för att samtidigt hålla världen titlar i MMA och boxning.

 

 

Serrano fångade hennes första stora VM-titel, Internationella Boxing Federation (IBF) super fjäderlätta krona, på bara 22 år gammal, med en brutal, andra omgången knockout av Kimberly Connor september 10, 2011.

 

 

Hon har sedan dess slits genom leden av soldater i fyra andra viktklasser, som sträcker sig från bantamvikt till lätta (135 pounds), och nu senast gjorde en första runda TKO på Marilyn Hernandez november 4, 2017.

 

 

Serrano blev inspirerad att gå över till en värld av MMA genom mästare pensionerad världen Miesha Tate, som har sedan dess blivit Serrano co-manager.

 

 

Combate Americas kommer från en banner år, producerar anmärkningsvärda TV-betyg i USA, Mexiko och Spanien, inklusive de två första Telemundo MMA händelser i historien som genererade de högsta betyg i alla spanska språket MMA visar i US. under sommaren och hösten 2017, och så många som 6.9 miljon tittare för en episod av sin veckovisa TV-serie på TV Azteca i Mexiko.

FNU Combat Sports Visa: 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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“Runda 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 “Runda 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), börjar vid 11 p.m. OCH / 8 p.m. 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. Stiftelsen ger nödvändigt stöd och tjänster för sårade soldater och deras familjer, varav många återvänder med traumatiska amputationer, skottskador, brännskador och blast skador. 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 och telekomleverantörer och via satellit på DirecTV Channel 221 och skålen nätverk Channel 158. För mer information, inklusive en fullständig programtablå och hur man får CBS Sports Network, gå till www.cbssportsnetwork.com
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“Runda 7, Operation Knockoutcharity event for Randy Couture’s G.I. Foundation To air Sunday, November. 27 på CBS Sports Network

LAS VEGAS (November 22, 2016) – Den “Runda 7, Operation Knockoutamateur mixed-martial-arts and grappling card, presented by Tuff-N-Uff in association with Neon Star Media, kommer luft Söndag, November 27 (11 p.m. OCH / 8 p.m. 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.
Denna spännande, 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 och Gray Maynard, tickets to Criss Angel, Rock of Ages och 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. Stiftelsen ger nödvändigt stöd och tjänster för sårade soldater och deras familjer, varav många återvänder med traumatiska amputationer, skottskador, brännskador och blast skador. 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.
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About Tuff-N- Uff: A 22-year old combat sports organization, the Las Vegas-based TUFF-N- UFF presents the best amateur mixed martial arts (MMA) action in the nation. It has given rise to some of the biggest stars in the sport today, including former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, as well UFC and Strikeforce veteran Ryan Couture and UFC welterweight Alan Jouban. TUFF-N-UFF has helped grow the careers of many other MMA athletes including Jessamyn Duke, Ashlee Evans-Smith, Tonya Evinger, Jon Fitch, Jesse Forbes, Chris Holdsworth, Brad Imes, Jimmy Jones och Jesse Taylor. I 2013, TUFF-N- UFF became the first combat sports organization to be included on the UFC International Fight Week schedule of events. I 2014,

TUFF-N- UFF presented a second event Torsdag, Juli 3 live från 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 över 15,000 fläktar, i en utsåld live event inuti Thomas and Mack Center. I 2014, TUFF-N- UFF partnered with the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) att presentera, som en del UFC International Fight veckan 2014, den första någonsin amatör 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 Combat Sports Visa: CM Punk’s Debut, UFC Fight Night Recap, 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” Vit!

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 milj. 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.

Denna vecka, 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” Vit.

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” Vit… 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

Hej, 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.

Nu, 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” Promotorn, Danaeffing” Vit???

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

Förlåt, DanaEffing” Vit, 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, klass, 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, starkare, 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, ändå?

UNLIKE YOU, DanaEffing” Vit, Holly actually respects Miesha Tate and thought it would be a challenge to fight her. Ja, 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.

Nu, 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, antingen, you dome-headed dimwit.

Fighters “effing” slagsmål, 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 är “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…och…förresten…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, period! 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” Vit, 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” dagar, 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, alltför.

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” Vit, and it’s a delusional place. Like on the distant planet you live on, people actually believe YOU really, ärligt, trulyeffingknow what it’s ACTUALLY like to be aneffing” kämpe? 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, är “one who fights.And let’s be clear about oneeffingthing, Danaeffing” Vit, I know fighters, och YOU are no fighter.

You are nothing like a fighter, Danaeffing” Vit, and you nevereffing” kommer vara. 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. Nu, 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” Vit. 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, period?

Så, you DON’T wanna be a fighter, Mr. Vit? 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” Vit…

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?

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

Ronda Rousey- The Cleaner


Foto Credit: Esther Lin / MMA Fighting

Med tanke på att det är skattesäsongen, det är en bra tid att komma ihåg att finns det tre garantier i livet: död, skatter och Ronda Rousey gång visar varför hon är den bästa kvinnliga fighter på planeten med en första rundan rivning av hennes motståndare.

Rousey prestanda på UFC 184 förra månaden var hennes finaste hittills. Hon lämnade in en nål Katt, allmänt betraktas som Rousey största utmaning, i 14 sekunder. Medan Rousey fick hjälp av en absolut hemskt strategi genom Zingano, hennes virtuosa prestanda ledde till en annan diskussion om vem som har vad som krävs för att detronisera Rousey. Det ledde också till en löjlig konversation om huruvida Rousey kunde konkurrera mot och besegra manliga fighters i UFC: s bantamvikt division. Ju mindre tid på att absurda tanken att utför ingenting men försöker misskreditera stor kämpe Rousey är, desto bättre.

Naturligtvis, det första namnet som alltid kommer upp är Cris "Cyborg" Justino, fjäderlätta mästaren Invicta FC. Hon väntas sjunka till 135 pund för en kamp med Invicta i sommar innan vi går vidare till en kamp med Rousey. Emellertid, Cyborg försökte en droppe till bantamvikt förra året och övergav dessa planer. Så jag skulle inte hålla andan på den efterlängtade agg match mellan Rousey och Cyborg händer något snart.

Rousey nyligen uttryckt en önskan att slåss Bethe Correia, som misshandlade två av Rousey s "Fyra Horsewomen" lagkamrater och har varit kallar Rousey ut ända sedan. Jessica Eye har också satsat sitt anspråk på en titel skott, men ingen av dessa kvinnor utgör ett verkligt hot mot Rousey. Under UFC 184 s postfight täckning, Daniel Cormier flöt idén om hans kollega Miesha Tate få en tredje spricka på Rousey.

Förutom det faktum tror jag trilogier bör reserveras endast när varje fighter har en seger över den andra, Jag ser ingen anledning till varför tredje gången skulle vara en charm för Tate. Medan hon är den enda kvinnan att gå längre än den första omgången med Rousey, Tate har planat som en kämpe, medan Rousey har blivit bättre. Om de två var att bekämpa en tredje gång, Jag ser ingen anledning att tro att resultatet skulle vara annorlunda.

Så varifrån kommer denna ledighet Rousey? Enligt min åsikt, hon har rensat ut UFC kvinnors bantamvikt division. Det finns ingen som utgör ett trovärdigt hot mot henne. Om Zingano justerade hennes strategi och fått en ny chans på Rousey, Hon kanske har en chans att vinna. Utöver det, om Rousey beslutat att gå ut på toppen och bygga vidare på sin spirande filmkarriär, Jag tror inte att någon skulle hålla den mot hennes.

Rousey är för närvarande på en körning besläktad med Anderson Silvas run ovanpå UFC: s mellanvikt. Han dominerade alla i hans väg, och med undantag för hans första kamp med Chael Sonnen, gjorde det ser lätt. Rousey hårdast kamp hittills var mot Liz Carmouche, när hon hade Rousey i en rear naked choke i den första omgången av deras kamp i 2013 innan Rousey lyckades fly och säkra en annan armbar segern.

Silvas regeringstid ovanpå mellanvikt tog slut när den tidigare okända Chris Weidman kom och visade ingen rädsla och tog kampen till Silva. Kanske det är vad som måste ske med Rousey. Hon måste hitta en motståndare som kommer att få rätt i ansiktet, ge henne något kvartal och ta kampen till henne. Nål som försökte på UFC 184, men hennes overzealousness hamnade kostar henne dyrt.

Fram Rousey finner sin egen Chris Weidman, Vi kan lägga till ytterligare superlativ till de många som redan är knutna till kvinno bantamvikt mästare: renare. Rousey är färskt av värdiga utmanare till hennes krona, en uppgift som hon åstadkommit genom att rensa ut sin division.

Chris Huntemann skriver om mixed martial arts i delstaten Maryland. Han delar också hans tankar om UFC, Bellator, och World Series of Fighting. Kolla in hans blogg, eller följa honom på Twitter: mmamaryland.

Dana White and the Women


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Lördag, Februari. 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 och 2014, respektive.

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 också sina tankar till vår webbplats på UFC, Bellator, och World Series of Fighting. Kolla in hans blogg, eller följa honom på Twitter: mmamaryland.

UFC 183: Vem kommer att dyka upp?


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The Ultimate Fighting Championship har drabbat det ut i parken hittills 2015, med sina första två stora kort av året lever upp till hype av de viktigaste händelser. Lätt tungvikt Jon Jones dominerade Daniel Cormier att bevisa att han är pound-for-pound bästa fighter i världen på UFC 182, och på UFC live kort i Boston, Mass., i januari, Conor McGregor säkrade en fjäderlätt titel skott mot Jose Aldo och slösat bort någon tid att få i sin nästa motståndare ansikte.

Vilket leder oss till UFC 183 i kväll, och en main event som anses vara en dröm matchup av många. Anderson Silva återvänder till Octagon efter att ha lidit en ohygglig benskada i sin sista kamp mot UFC mellanvikt mästaren Chris Weidman i 2013. Nick Diaz gör också sin återkomst till UFC efter att ha förlorat sin sista kamp mot förre weltervikt mästaren Georges St. Pierre i 2013.

Kvällens kort är inte utan sina andra berättelser om. Ett par av betydande undercard slagsmål sker under någon kontrovers, som Mellanvikt John Lineker kom i övervikt för sin kamp mot Ian McCall, vilket förväntas bestämma nästa nej. 1 CONTE till svängvikt titeln. I co-main event, Kelvin Gastelum kom 9 pounds övervikt för sin kamp mot Tyron Woodley, vilket betyder 30 procent av Gastelum kamp plånbok faktiskt går till Woodley. Snacka om förolämpning mot skada.

Naturligtvis, det finns alltid wild card med Diaz också. Han spelar med sina egna regler, har ingen visade öppna träning tidigare i veckan. Kommer han verkligen visa upp till buren för kvällens main event? Det återstår att se, även om de flesta alla tror att han kommer.

Så, efter att ha sagt att, som jag tror vinner ikväll?

Miesha "muffin" Tate (15-5) vs. Sara McMann (8-1) (Kvinnors bantamvikt - 135 Ibs.)

Detta är faktiskt den viktigaste händelsen i den preliminära kortet på Fox Sports 1. Tate uppmanas att konkurrera på denna del av kortet i stället för pay-per-view-kort, ta en sida från Uria Fabers Playbook. Tate är också angelägna om en tredje kamp med Ronda Rousey för damernas bantamvikt titel. Båda dessa kvinnor drabbades Rousey vrede, särskilt McMann, som revs av Rousey i ungefär en minut förra året.

McMann är en ren brottare med mycket lite annat att hennes repertoar, medan Tate byggde på hennes etablerade brottning färdigheter för att bli en effektiv anfallare. Jag tror att hon kommer att stoppa McMann försök att ta denna kamp på mattan och använda henne vida överlägsna slående färdigheter för att hålla McMann befuddled på väg till en dominerande seger.

Vinnare: Tate genom enhälligt beslut

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

Alves har varvat vinster och förluster i sina senaste sex matcher, medan Mein rider en två-kamp vinna strimma. Alves är alltid farligt med sin Muay Thai och slående, medan Mein landade en första omgången TKO seger i sin sista kamp. Detta bör vara en spännande stand-up kamp med varken kille beredd att ge en tum. Jag tror Alves är desto farligare fighter här, och kommer att landa en bra chans att slå Mein dumt.

Vinnare: Alves från andra omgången TKO

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

Leites kommer in i denna kamp på en rulle, att ha vunnit sina sista sju matcher, med de två sista som kommer genom TKO. Boetsch har varvat vinster och förluster i sina fyra senaste matcher, inklusive en TKO seger i sin sista kamp mot Brad Tavares.

Boetsch är en långsam, grubblande bruiser mest känd för att spåra ur Hector Lombard hype tåget när han gjorde först sin UFC-debut. Leites är en slug, farlig fighter som kan avsluta du med händerna eller genom underkastelse. Jag tror Leites kommer att undvika Boetsch makt och vänta Boetsch att göra ett misstag, där Leits kommer kapitalisera.

Vinnare: Leites från tredje omgången underkastelse

Joe Lauzon (24-10) vs. Al "Raging" Iaquinta (10-3-1) (Lätt - 155 Ibs.)

Du vet vad du får med en Joe Lauzon kamp. Du kommer att se ett spännande, actionspäckade match som med största sannolikhet kommer att avslutas med honom låsning i en slick underkastelse eller, När det gäller hans kamp mot Jim Miller, lider en gnarly snitt som kommer att garantera en blod strid.

Iaquinta har varit på en rulle sedan sin tid på The Ultimate Fighter Live, har bara förlorat en gång i sina senaste sex matcher. En seger mot Lauzon skulle vara en riktig fjäder i mössan och kan driva honom till titeln conte diskussion. Men Lauzon är en av de bästa underkastelse specialister inom UFC, och jag tror att sluga veteranen har en annan inlämning i rockärmen.

Vinnare: Lauzon från andra omgången underkastelse

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

Såsom nämnts ovan, Vägs i Gastelum 9 pounds över för denna kamp och kommer att förlora 30 procent av hans plånbok direkt till Woodley. Det rapporterades att Gastelum tillbringade tid på sjukhuset som leder fram till denna kamp, vilket bidrog till honom komma i övervikt.

Woodley kommer att vara arg i denna kamp, och det med rätta. Det är inte rättvist att hans motståndare kommer att ha en viktfördel på grund av sin egen underlåtenhet att göra vad han skulle göra. Ge Woodley kredit för att vilja fortsätta kämpa när det skulle ha varit fullt förståeligt att skjuta upp det.

Woodley kommer att kanalisera sin ilska i en blixtkrig av brott på Gastelum, och slöa och förmodligen fortfarande skadad Gastelum har inget svar.

Vinnare: Woodley från andra omgången TKO

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

Detta är en av flera viktiga händelser som har bekämpa fläktar surr i 2015. Många trodde inte att Silva någonsin skulle gå igen efter sin benskada mot Weidman, att inte tala om att komma tillbaka till UFC för att bekämpa. Den matchup stil Diaz vill skjuta takten, får i sin motståndares ansikte och sucker honom i handels slag mot Silvas oöverträffad elusiveness ska bli intressant att titta på.

Diaz sade att han inte skulle Trash Talk Silva under denna kamp med respekt. Men om Silva håller guppade och vävning och ducka Diaz slag, Vi får se hur länge Diaz förbinder sig att det. Jag tror att vi kommer att se vintage Silva i denna kamp, gör Diaz ser dum i vissa fläckar medan landning vältajmade strejker som kommer att förvirra och försvåra Diaz, som gör det möjligt för Silva landa ännu mer.

Diaz är alltför svårt att avsluta, men denna kamp kommer att visa att Silva har det fortfarande och är vida överlägsen fighter.

Vinnare: Silva genom enhälligt beslut

Chris Huntemann skriver om mixed martial arts i delstaten Maryland. Han bidrar också sina tankar till vår webbplats på UFC, Bellator, och World Series of Fighting. Kolla in hans blogg, eller följa honom på Twitter: mmamaryland.