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COMBATE ASEMELIKA SIGNS FIRST-EVER, EZINHLANU-UPHIKO WORLD sibhakela okhokhelwayo Amanda Serrano

Five-division emhlabeni sibhakela okhokhelwayo Amanda “The Deal Real” Serrano usesayine okukhethekile, iminyaka eminingi sivumelwano sokukhangisa COMBATE Americas, futhi waphawulelwa ukwenza MMA DEBUT yakhe ngoMashi.

Pound i-ganda isibhakela phenom setha ukumenza ngabomvu
MMA debut for world’s premier Hispanic MMA sports franchise

 

I-NEW YORK - Januwari 11, 2018 - COMBATE Americas namuhla yamemezela ukusayinwa ezinhlanu-division emhlabeni sibhakela okhokhelwayo, kuhlanganise ebusa Umhlaba Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight (118 amakhilogremu) champion, Amanda "The Real Deal" Serrano (Boxing: 34-1-1, 26 KO sika; MMA: 0-0) i okukhethekile, iminyaka eminingi sivumelwano yokukhangisa.

 

 

Okuwukuphela fighter besifazane emlandweni kanye kuphela Puerto Rican esincintisana wake ukunqoba izihloko ezweni ezinhlanu ezinhlanu ezahlukene ukwehlukana isisindo, i-Serrano oneminyaka engu-29 ubudala owazalelwa Carolina, Puerto Rico nokulwisana eBrooklyn, N.Y., uzokwenza Mixed Martial Arts wakhe (MMA) okokuqala La Jaula, yezinyoni COMBATE Americas, ngosuku Mashi amenyezelwa ngokushesha.

 

 

"Thina yavusa ukuletha Amanda Serrano, omunye superstars isibhakela sika ejabulisa kakhulu phakathi COMBATE Americas familia, futhi babheke phambili ukubeka wakhe eziteji global okungukuthi impahla uNdunankulu wezemidlalo 21 amazwe iSpanishi ekhuluma emhlabeni wonke,"Kusho COMBATE Americas CEO Campbell McLaren.

 

 

Serrano, ophezulu 10 iphawundi i-ganda fighter, uzoqhubeka echumayo isibhakela umsebenzi wakhe ngaphansi ukukhuthazwa DiBella Ezokuzijabulisa, futhi uzame ukuba babe athlete ngqa emlandweni ukuba kanyekanye ubambe izihloko izwe e-MMA ne isibhakela.

 

 

Serrano ethumba isihloko yakhe yokuqala emikhulu yezwe, International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight umqhele, at nje 22 ubudala, nge ngesihluku, lesibili round Knockout ka Kimberly Connor ngoSepthemba 10, 2011.

 

 

Useke kusukela idabukile ngokusebenzisa kwababusi fighters kwezinye ukwahlukana ezine isisindo, ezisukela bantamweight ukuba engasindi (135 amakhilogremu), futhi asanda amaphuzu a round TKO kuqala ku UMarilyn Hernandez on November 4, 2017.

 

 

Serrano waphefumulelwa ukuba awelele ezweni MMA umhlalaphasi iqhawe emhlabeni Miesha Tate, ngubani liye kusukela baba co-Imenenja Serrano sika.

 

 

COMBATE Americas siyeza off ngonyaka banner, esikhiqiza emangalisayo izilinganiso kumabonakude e-U.S, EMexico naseSpain, kuhlanganise lokuqala izenzakalo ezimbili Telemundo MMA emlandweni ukuthi elakhiwe izilinganiso eliphakeme kwanoma yiluphi ulimi Spanish MMA libonisa U.S. ehlobo nokuwa 2017, futhi njengoba abaningi 6.9 abayizigidi ezingu ezibukelini Kwesinye isiqephu kwamasonto onke ewuchungechunge yethelevishini yayo ku-TV Azteca eMexico.

FNU Combat Sports 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, UKhayini 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

Uyekele NGOKUSHESHA
Las Vegas (November 25, 2016) – The “Round 7, Operation Knockoutamateur mixed-martial-arts and grappling card, presented by Tuff-N-Uff in association with Neon Star Media, will air TONIGHT (Nov. 27), ukuqala at 11 p.m. KANYE / 8 p.m. PT on CBS 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 inikeza ukwesekwa ezidingekayo futhi azuze ezinkonzweni for amasosha alimele nemindeni yabo, abaningi babo babuya amputations esibuhlungu, okudutshulwa, ukusha nokulimala blast. 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 and telco kanye nge satellite on DirecTV Channel 221 nesitsha Network Channel 158. Ukuze uthole ukwaziswa okwengeziwe, kuhlanganise nesimiso full izinhlelo nendlela uthole CBS Sports Network, iya ku www.cbssportsnetwork.com
ULWAZI:
Twitter: @tuffnuff, @Neonstarmedia, @randy_Couture

“Round 7, Operation Knockoutcharity event for Randy Couture’s G.I. Foundation To air Sunday, Nov. 27 on CBS Sports Network

Las Vegas (November 22, 2016) – The “Round 7, Operation Knockoutamateur mixed-martial-arts and grappling card, presented by Tuff-N-Uff in association with Neon Star Media, ngeke baveze Sunday, November 27 (11 p.m. KANYE / 8 p.m. PT) on CBS Sports Network.
The seventh annualOperation Knockout,” held this past Nov. 19th 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.
Lokhu okuthakazelisayo, 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 futhi Gray Maynard, tickets to Criss Angel, Rock of Ages futhi 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 wathi. “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 inikeza ukwesekwa ezidingekayo futhi azuze ezinkonzweni for amasosha alimele nemindeni yabo, abaningi babo babuya amputations esibuhlungu, okudutshulwa, ukusha nokulimala blast. 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 and telco kanye nge satellite on DirecTV Channel 221 nesitsha Network Channel 158. Ukuze uthole ukwaziswa okwengeziwe, kuhlanganise nesimiso full izinhlelo nendlela uthole CBS Sports Network, iya ku www.cbssportsnetwork.com
ULWAZI:
Twitter: @tuffnuff, @Neonstarmedia, @randy_Couture

 

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 and Jesse Taylor. In 2013, TUFF-N- UFF became the first combat sports organization to be included on the UFC International Fight Week schedule of events. In 2014,

TUFF-N- UFF presented a second event Thursday, July 3 ukuphila 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, June 7, 2014, kanye kuka 15,000 fans, in a umcimbi wathengisa-bukhoma ngaphakathi Thomas futhi Mack Center. In 2014, TUFF-N- UFF partnered with the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) ukwethula, njengengxenye Week UFC International Fight 2014, yokuqala ngqa amateur MMA World Championships. 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 Show: CM Punk’s Debut, I-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, Germany, 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 DanaEffingWhite!

wtf

By: Rich Bergeron

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

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

FU, DanaEffingWhitefor 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.

Manje, 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” Umgqugquzeli, DanaeffingWhite???

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

Uxolo, DanaEffingWhite, 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, class, 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, kunamandla, 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, DanaEffingWhite, 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.

Manje, 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, noma, you dome-headed dimwit.

Fighters “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. Yebo, 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 Umsebenzi. It’s not. Kuba “effinghard work.

Ngakho, 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.

Oh…futhi…konje…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.

Ngakho, 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, isikhathi! 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.

Ngakho, 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, DanaeffingWhite, 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” izinsuku, 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, too.

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, DanaeffingWhite, and it’s a delusional place. Like on the distant planet you live on, people actually believe YOU really, ngokwethembeka, trulyeffingknow what it’s ACTUALLY like to be aneffingfighter? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?

REALLY?

Uyazi 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, kuba “one who fights.And let’s be clear about oneeffingthing, DanaeffingWhite, I know fighters, futhi YOU are no fighter.

You are nothing like a fighter, DanaeffingWhite, and you nevereffing” ngizo. 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,” noma “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. Manje, 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, DanaeffingWhite. 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, isikhathi?

Ngakho, 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 DanaeffingWhite

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?

KANYE…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

Njengoba sazi ukuthi kungcono isizini yentela, kungcono isikhathi kuhle ukukhumbula ukuthi zikhona iziqinisekiso ezintathu ekuphileni: ukufa, izintela Ronda Rousey waphinda okubonisa ukuthi kungani yena iyona fighter umhlabeleli female osemhlabeni nge yokudilizwa lokuqala nxazonke isitha sakhe.

Ukusebenza Rousey sika at UFC 184 ngenyanga edlule kwaba abachwepheshile iphole. SHE sithunyelwe Cat inaliti, ithathwa kabanzi inselele enkulu Rousey sika njengoba, in 14 seconds. Nakuba Rousey kwaba esizwa iqhinga ngokuphelele enyantisayo by Zingano, ukusebenza kwakhe virtuoso yaholela kwenye ingxoxo onesifo yini edingekayo ukuze dethrone Rousey. Liphinde kwaholela engxoxweni engenangqondo noma cha Rousey babekwazi ukuncintisana ngokumelene futhi ukuhlulwa fighters abesilisa UFC sika bantamweight division. Isikhathi esingaphansi esichithwa lowo mbono okungenangqondo ukuthi efeza lutho kodwa uzama ukuliveza lingamanga fighter omkhulu Rousey kuyinto, ngcono.

Kunjalo, igama lokuqala njalo iza kuyinto Cris "Cyborg" UJustino, the Invicta FC featherweight iqhawe. Kulindeleke ukuba lehle ku 135 amakhilogremu for a fight with Invicta kuleli hlobo ngaphambi kokudlulela nilwe Rousey. Nokho, Cyborg ukubulala iconsi ukuba bantamweight ngonyaka odlule futhi washiywa labo izinhlelo. Ngakho Bengingeke ukubamba umoya wami phezu eside elindelwe igqubu umdlalo phakathi Rousey futhi Cyborg kwenzekani sifike maduze.

Muva Rousey waveza isifiso ukulwa Bethe Correia, ashaya amabili "Four Horsewomen" nabalingani Rousey kanye bekulokhu ebiza Rousey out selokhu. Jessica Eye futhi uye elibekwe claim wakhe shot isihloko, kodwa akekho laba besifazane iwusongo lwangempela ukuba Rousey. Ngesikhathi Ukusabalala UFC 184 sika postfight, Daniel Cormier wahamba umqondo ka uzakwabo Miesha Tate ukuthola ufa lwesithathu Rousey.

Ngaphandle Ngicabanga ukuthi trilogies kufanele reserved kuphela uma fighter ngalinye ukunqoba phezu kwezinye, Angisiboni isizathu esenza okwesithathu bekungaba charm for Tate. Nakuba ibe nguye owesifazane kuphela ukuya ngaphezu emzuliswaneni wokuqala kanye Rousey, Tate uye plateaued empini ngesikhathi Rousey uye ayithole kangcono. Uma ababili kwakumelwe ukulwa okwesithathu, Angisiboni isizathu sokukholelwa umphumela kungaba yisiphi ezahlukene.

Ngakho Siphi Rousey? Ngombono wami, uye ayeka bantamweight amadivishini UFC yabesifazane. Akukho lowo uyingozi obuphathekayo wakhe. Uma Zingano kushintshwe isu lakhe futhi wathola esinye shot at Rousey, angahle abe nethuba lokuwina. Beyond ukuthi, uma Rousey wanquma ukuphuma phezulu nokwakhela film echumayo career yakhe, Angicabangi umuntu uyibambe ngokumelene wakhe.

Rousey okwamanje on a run lifana run Anderson Silva sika phezu UFC sika middleweight division. Yena wabusa wonke umuntu endleleni yakhe futhi ngaphandle impi yakhe yokuqala kanye enku- Sonnen, Kwakungijabulisa ukubheka lula. Mpi Rousey sika kunzima suku ngokumelene Liz Carmouche, lapho yena kwadingeka Rousey in a ezingemuva naked binda emzuliswaneni wokuqala mpi zabo 2013 ngaphambi Rousey wakwazi ukubaleka futhi baqinisekise omunye ukunqoba armbar.

Wokubusa Silva sika phezu division middleweight kwaphela lapho ngaphambili ayaziwa Chris Weidman wafika wabonisa Ungesabi futhi wathatha empini Silva. Mhlawumbe yilokho okudingeka kwenzeke Rousey. Yena udinga ukuthola Umphikisi ngubani ozothola ilungelo ebusweni, mnikeni akukho ikota futhi uthathe ukulwa kuye. Zingano lokuzama ukuthi at UFC 184, kodwa overzealousness wakhe ngagcina ebiza wakhe ayengeve.

Kuze Rousey uthola Chris wakhe siqu Weidman, thina banganezela omunye izikhuliso kwabaningi ukuthi kakade exhunywe bantamweight iqhawe labesifazane: wezindlu. Rousey isiphumile fresh of Challengers okufanelekelayo ukuba umqhele wakhe, umsebenzi yena ifezwa bahlanze division wakhe.

Chris Huntemann ubhala kuxutshwe karate isimo Maryland. Wabuye ohlanganyela imicabango yakhe phezu UFC, Bellator, futhi World Series of Fighting. Hlola yakhe blog, ungamlandeleli on Twitter: mmamaryland.

Dana White and the Women


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Saturday, Feb. 28, kuzoba usuku mlando Ultimate Fighting Championship. Zonke fighters ekhadini pay-per-umbono ngalolo suku ngeke kudlule pre-mpi zabo izidakamizwa ...... ingqondo .Masingalokothi. Lokho kulula kakhulu.

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. In the umcimbi co-main, 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 namanje raw kakhulu ubuciko okuxubile bokulwa, kodwa eqeqesha nezwe abaqeqeshi odumile Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn.

Rousey Siyanda ifulege for MMA besifazane futhi abesifazane ukuthi UFC. Ezenye fighters female baye balandela wakhe wangena Octagon, kuhlanganise Miesha Tate, Liz Carmouche and Alexis Davis. Yini labo ezintathu enifana? Bonke futhi wawela Rousey - Tate kabili Strikeforce and the UFC, futhi Carmouche futhi Davis kokubili emzuliswaneni wokuqala at UFC PPVs e 2013 futhi 2014, ngokulandelana.

Rousey futhi Tate sika umbango kahle yabonisa. It kwaholela abaqeqeshi ababili on The Ultimate Fighter, eyayihlanganisa fighters besifazane ngokokuqala ngqa ngubani outshined kakhulu nozakwabo besilisa on the show ukuthi isizini.

Njengoba sazi impumelelo ukuthi isikhathi sonyaka, isizini yamuva iningi The Ultimate Fighter iyavela BONKE fighters female kanye DEBUT of division the UFC olusha olwakhiwayo lwemikhumbi, strawweight yabesifazane. Carla Esparza, yangaphambili Invicta FC strawweight iqhawe, wawina UFC version mcimbi of ukuthi ibhande emva ukwehlula Rose Namajunas.

Ngakho span iminyaka emine, UFC isuka ekubeni akukho fighters female and White sigcizelele esibeka ukuthi asisoze, ekubeni ekhaya EZIMBILI female isisindo amakilasi futhi ngokungangabazeki star enkulu ekugqugquzeleni njengamanje e Rousey. Ningakholwa yimi? Ingabe ubona owesithathu Expendables movie? Noma ohlela ebona version ifilimu Entourage kuleli hlobo? Ungase uphawule othile engimaziyo.

Pho MMA yabesifazane hamba lapho kusuka lapha? I am uqobo a fan enkulu ukulwa female, 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 ubhala kuxutshwe karate isimo Maryland. He also contributes his thoughts to our site on the UFC, Bellator, futhi World Series of Fighting. Hlola yakhe blog, ungamlandeleli on Twitter: mmamaryland.

UFC 183: Ngubani sizobonisa up?


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The Ultimate Fighting Championship ishayé it out of the park kangaka 2015, ngamakhadi zayo zokuqala ezimbili eziyinhloko ngonyaka ngokuvumelana hype izenzakalo zawo main. Light iqhawe wesibhakela Jon Jones wabusa Daniel Cormier ukufakazela nguye fighter ganda-for-ganda best in the world at UFC 182, futhi ngesikhathi ikhadi the UFC bukhoma in Boston, Mass., ngoJanuwari, Conor McGregor bathola featherweight isihloko shot ngokumelene uJosé Aldo futhi abachithanga sikhathi ukuthola ubuso umphikisi wakhe ozayo.

Yikuphi kusiletha UFC 183 tonight, kanye umcimbi main ukuthi kubhekwa a matchup dream abaningi. Anderson Silva ubuyela Octagon hlupheka a ezesabekayo leg ukulimala empini yakhe yokugcina yokulwa UFC middleweight iqhawe Chris Weidman in 2013. Nick Diaz futhi kwenza ukubuya kwakhe ukuze UFC ngemuva kokulahlekelwa impi yakhe yokugcina yokulwa zangaphambili welterweight iqhawe Georges St. Pierre in 2013.

Ikhadi Tonight ayilona ngaphandle kwezinye storylines yayo noma. A pair of eziphawulekayo undercard ukulwa kwenzeka ngaphansi ezinye mpikiswano, njengoba flyweight John Lineker wangena ukhuluphele for ekulweni Ian McCall, lelindzeleke ukunquma no olandelayo. 1 Olwa isihloko flyweight. In the umcimbi co-main, Kelvin Gastelum wangena 9 amakhilogremu ukhuluphele for ukulwa Tyron Woodley, okuchaza 30 Amaphesenti angu Gastelum sika impi esikhwameni empeleni uya Woodley. Khuluma mayelana hlambalaza ukulimala.

Kunjalo, kukhona futhi kuhlale ikhadi sasendle Diaz. Udlala imithetho yakhe siqu, kokuphunyuka no-wabonisa ukusebenzisa evulekile ngasekuqaleni kwaleli sonto. Ingabe empeleni ukukhombisa kuze yezinyoni umcimbi main kusihlwa? It kusazobonakala, nakuba wonke umuntu iningi ecabanga kuthanda.

Ngakho, esetshilo konke, abenza Ngicabanga kwi tonight?

Miesha "Ikhekhe" Tate (15-5) vs. Sara McMann (8-1) (Bantamweight Yabesifazane - 135 lbs.)

Lokhu empeleni lo mcimbi main of the ikhadi wokulungiselela on Fox Sports 1. Tate eceliwe ukuncintisana kule ngxenye of the ikhadi esikhundleni ikhadi pay-per-view, ukuthatha nekhasi Playbook Urija Faber sika. Tate ulangazelela for a fight yesithathu Ronda Rousey for bantamweight isihloko labesifazane. Bobabili laba besifazane bahlupheka ulaka Rousey sika, ikakhulukazi McMann, ngubani ladilizwa ngo Rousey cishe umzuzu ngonyaka odlule.

McMann kuyinto wrestling elihlanzekile nazo kancane kakhulu futhi ku repertoire wakhe, kanti Tate wakha phezu esungulwe amakhono yakhe wrestling ukuba abe striker ngempumelelo. Ngicabanga ukuthi ngeke izinto imizamo McMann ithathe le mpi ukuba mat futhi usebenzise wakhe omkhulu kakhulu amakhono yesiteleka ukugcina McMann befuddled endleleni eya ukunqoba okudlangile.

Winner: Tate by isinqumo ngazwilinye

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

Alves uye alternated kwi nekulahlekelwa wakhe wokugcina eziyisithupha ukulwa, kanti Mein ugibele ezimbili-fight win streak. Alves kuhlale ngengozi Muay Thai wakhe nokubulawa, kanti Mein lawela a lokuqala round TKO siyonqoba empini yakhe yokugcina. Lokhu kufanele kube okujabulisayo ukuma-up empini neither guy uzimisele ukunikeza ngamasentimitha. Ngicabanga Alves yiyona fighter esiyingozi more lapha, futhi liyothi cababa eyodwa shot okuhle knock Mein silly.

Winner: Alves yesibili round TKO

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

Leites engena kule mpi a roll, kokuphunyuka wawina wakhe wokugcina eziyisikhombisa ukulwa, kanye emibili ezayo ngendlela TKO. Boetsch uye alternated kwi nekulahlekelwa wakhe wokugcina amane ukulwa, kuhlanganise ukunqoba TKO empini yakhe yokugcina yokulwa Brad Tavares.

Boetsch kuyinto slow, plodding bruiser umhlabeleli aziwa derailing the Hector Lombard hype isitimela lapho kuqala UFC DEBUT yakhe. Leites kuyinto kobuqili, fighter eyingozi abangakwazi ukuqedela wena ngezandla zakhe noma by ukuzithoba. Ngicabanga Leites uyogwema amandla Boetsch kanye ulinda Boetsch ukwenza iphutha, lapho Leits ngeke kuzongisiza.

Winner: Leites by wesithathu round ukuzithoba

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

Uyazi yini wena uya nge fight Joe Lauzon. You siwubone okujabulisayo, action iziqubu phama ukuthi cishe kuphele naye uvala in a submission bahlakaniphe noma, esimweni ukulwa Jim Miller, ukuhlupheka a cut gnarly ukuthi nakanjani empini igazi.

Iaquinta ubelokhu umqulu kusukela ngesikhathi sakhe phezu The Ultimate Fighter Live, kokuphunyuka kuphela walahlekelwa once in wakhe wokugcina eziyisithupha ukulwa. A win ngokumelene Lauzon bekungaba feather wangempela cap yakhe futhi kungenzeka iya naye zibe isihloko contendership ingxoxo. But Lauzon is one of the best submission specialists in the UFC, and I think the crafty veteran has another submission up his sleeve.

Winner: Lauzon by second round submission

Tyron “The Chosen One” Woodley (14-3) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (11-0) (Welterweight - 170 lbs.)

As mentioned above, Gastelum weighed in 9 pounds over for this fight and will forfeit 30 percent of his purse directly to Woodley. It was reported that Gastelum spent time in the hospital leading up to this fight, which contributed to him coming in overweight.

Woodley will be angry in this fight, futhi kufanele. Akulungile ukuthi imbangi yakhe uyoba sethubeni isisindo ngenxa yokwehluleka kwakhe siqu ukuba enze lokho okufanele bakwenze. Nikeza Woodley credit zokufuna ukuba balwe lapho bekuzoba kuyaqondakala ngokuphelele ukuhlehlisa kwalo.

Woodley ngeke kuqondiswe ukufutheka kwakhe ibe blitzkrieg lokucasula at Gastelum, kanye Gastelum lethargic futhi mhlawumbe namanje-abalimele bayoba engasabeli.

Winner: Woodley yesibili nxazonke TKO

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

Lona omunye izenzakalo eziningana eziyinhloko eziye ukulwa abalandeli kuyachwaza e 2015. Abaningi abazange bacabange Silva uyoke ukuhamba emva emlenzeni wakhe yokulimala ngokumelene Weidman, ingasaphathwa babuyele UFC ukulwa. Isitayela matchup of Diaz ngilangazelela ibenze ijubane, uthole ebusweni abaphikisi bakhe bese sucker wamyisa Ukuhweba Amagalelo ngomkhuba wokuzifihla Silva sika esingenakuqhathaniswa kuyoba ezithakazelisayo ukubukela.

Diaz wathi wayengeke kudoti inkulumo Silva ngesikhathi impi ngenxa yenhlonipho. Kodwa uma Silva egcina bobbing kanye ukwelukwa futhi dodging punches Diaz sika, Sizobona esingakanani Diaz bophezela ukuthi. Ngicabanga ukuthi uzobona Silva amagilebhisi kule mpi, okwenza Diaz bheka silly e ezinye izindawo ngenkathi kokufika iziteleka kahle usheshile ukukwenza lokho ngeke ukudida futhi zishafise Diaz, okuyokwenza Silva nomhlaba ngisho nangokwengeziwe.

Diaz kakhulu ezinzima ukuze uqede, kodwa kule mpi ngeke ibonise ukuthi Silva usenayo kube kanti iyona fighter kakhulu kunabantu.

Winner: Silva by isinqumo abavumelene

Chris Huntemann ubhala kuxutshwe karate isimo Maryland. He also contributes his thoughts to our site on the UFC, Bellator, futhi World Series of Fighting. Hlola yakhe blog, ungamlandeleli on Twitter: mmamaryland.