RYAN BADER MAKES FIRST LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE DEFENSE AGAINST LINTON VASSELL IN MAIN EVENT
更多, FORMER STANDOUT NITTANY LIONS PHIL DAVIS AND ED RUTH SET TO COMPETE
LOS ANGELES– Bellator is set to make its debut at Bryce Jordan Center on the campus of Penn State University in University Park, 霸. 上 星期五, 十一月 3 为 Bellator 186: 贝德VS. 瓦塞尔.
在主要事件 Bellator 186, newly crowned light heavyweight champion瑞恩“达斯”巴德 (23-5) will make his first title defense against British sensation林顿的“群”瓦塞尔 (18-5, 1 NC).
此外, two Bellator competitors who spent their college years as members of the Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling team, 菲尔·戴维斯(17-4, 1 NC) 和 和露丝 (3-0), will return to their alma mater to compete in MMA for the first time in their careers. Their opponents are yet to be determined.
Bellator 186: 贝德VS. 瓦塞尔 将现场直播和免费秒杀 9 P.M. AND/8 P.M. CT, 而初步行动将流于Bellator.com和Bellator移动应用. 门票开始只是 $25 and will be available at the Bryce Jordan Center Box Office and Ticketmaster. A Bellator Nation presale takes place星期三, 八月 30 – Thursday, 八月 31, while public on-sale begins Friday, 九月 1 在 10 A.M. AND. Additional bouts will be announcing in the coming weeks.
Bader returns to the cage for the first time since dethroning former Penn State wrestling standout菲尔·戴维斯as light heavyweight champion in June atBellator 180. 战胜坦佩, 亚利桑那州。, Bader的职业生涯令人印象深刻, steamrolling the competition en route to a 12-fight winning streak and winning one of the most competitive seasons of The Ultimate Fighter in franchise history on Spike in 2008. “Darth” continued his path of dominance by collecting wins over some of the 205-pound division’s top talent, 包括对前世界冠军安东尼奥·罗杰里奥·诺盖拉的胜利, “狂暴”杰克逊, 拉沙德·埃文斯(Rashad Evans), as well as a previous win over菲尔·戴维斯. Currently riding a three-fight winning streak with victories in eight of his past nine bouts, the former two-time NCAA Division I All-American wrestler from Arizona State University will look to protect his belt on十一月 3.
Currently training at Combat Club in South Florida alongsideMatt Mitrione, 迈克尔·钱德勒and Robbie Lawler, Vassell has once again put himself in position to fight for Bellator’s 205-pound title. 在完成职业首秀后 2008, the Milton Keynes, England native has tallied 18 胜利, 含 14 finishes and 10 coming inside the first round, as well as seven wins over nine bouts in just four years with Bellator. Following three consecutive victories over two former champs in利亚姆McGeary and Emanuel Newton, as well as Francis Carmont, the 34-year-old Vassell will attempt to become the second-ever Bellator light heavyweight champion who hails from the United Kingdom.
A native of Harrisburg, 霸。, 菲尔“先生. Wonderful” attended Harrisburg High School and would go on to an extremely successful wrestling career at Penn State University. After transitioning to the sport MMA, Davis made his pro debut in 2008 and went on to win his first nine bouts. He’s established himself as one of the best light heavyweights in all of MMA, winning the Bellator Light Heavyweight Grand Prix and Bellator 205-pound title. The San Diego-based fighter now boasts career wins over利亚姆McGeary,亚历山大·古斯塔夫松, 町田龙太,“国王莫”拉瓦尔, 格洛弗·特谢拉, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Francis Carmont.
One of the most celebrated wrestlers in Penn State University history, Ed Ruth has followed in the footsteps of菲尔·戴维斯by pursuing a career in MMA. The 3x NCAA D1 champion, who now trains out of Fresno, 加利福尼亚州。, makes his fourth appearance inside the Bellator cage looking to keep his undefeated streak intact. With three consecutive KO finishes, Ruth has established himself as a new threat in the middleweight division. Born in Harrisburg, 霸。, Ruth returns to familiar territory for this upcoming bout with plans to put on another exciting bout for his hometown fans.
更新 Bellator 186: 贝德VS. 瓦塞尔 战卡:
Light Heavyweight Championship Main Event: 瑞安贝德 (23-5) VS. 林顿瓦塞尔 (18-5, 1 NC)
圣彼得堡, 俄罗斯 (八月 16, 2017) – M-1全球总裁 瓦迪姆·芬克尔希泰因recently sat down withmixfight.ruto discuss the recentM-1的挑战 82in Finland, M-1的挑战 83in next month in Kazan, 俄罗斯, and what fight he considers to be the most anticipated this autumn.
M-1的挑战 82 tournament has just ended in Helsinki. Tell us your impressions and did everything go as planned beforehand?
VF: “是的, the tournament fully met our expectations. We initially set it very high, promotingM-1的挑战 82at the largest venue in Finland, Hartwall Arena. In the history of Finland’s MMA tournaments, prior to our show, MMA shows had never been held in large arenas. There were halls for 1,500 到 2,000 观众, at most, and that’s why M-1 Global had such as a large responsibility. I am very glad that we managed to fill the arena by 70-80 百分, setting record attendance for MMA tournaments in Finland. Our matchmakers did a great job. They managed to gather some of the best Finnish fighters for this tournament and found some worthy opponents for them as well. This attracted a lot of attention to the tournament, 当然, for Finnish MMA fans.”
Do you plan to come back to Finland and hold tournaments on a regular basis there?
VF: “Undoubtedly! We have such intentions. We have seen good interest in our tournaments, not only on the part of the audience, but television and the media as well. This year we have signed a contract with one of the leading TV channels of Finland – RUUTU — to broadcast all M-1 Challenge tournaments. I think we will definitely return next year to Finland.”
When is the next M-1 Challenge tournament and where?
VF: “The next tournament will be held in Kazan (俄罗斯) 上 9月23日.This will be the first M-1 tournament in this city and we’re thoroughly prepared for it. The main event forM-1的挑战 83 is a fight between Brandon Halsey and Mikhail Ragozin, one of the most promising Russian heavyweights. Mikhail is a pupil of Alexander Shlemenko, who is also a New Stream team fighter.”
Fans are now excited about the tournament in St. 圣彼得堡, 当然, especially the title super-bout between two bright punchers, Alexei Kunchenko and Sergei Romanov. What do you expect from this fight?
VF: “I’m sure this fight will be the pinnacle of the entire season in Russian MMA. This will be a duel between the two strongest fighters in this weight category in Russia, but it’s also a fight between two bright and prominent shock-punchers. Kunchenko has never been defeated. He is more experienced of the two, he has already won the belt and has defended it a few times. And Romanov is very hungry, winning fighter, who improves progressively as a professional from fight to fight. 和, 当然, there will be crowded fan sectors on his side in St. 圣彼得堡. Already, as of today, 2 ½ months before the tournament, Sergey’s fans have bought more than 1000 门票! I myself am looking forward to this fight!”
HOUSTON, 得克萨斯州 – LegacyFighting Alliance (LFA) has had a busy summer. In last month’s newsletter, it was reported that LFA alum accumulated $200,000 in UFC bonus money in the month of June, former RFA headliner Zach Freeman secured an “Upset of the Year” nominee in New York City, and three inaugural LFA titles were awarded to get the summer started.
LFA LAUNCHING PAD
The summer continued to heat up in July. The UFC hosted 5 events along with the first 3 episodes of UFC President Dana White’s new weekly web series titled“Dana White’s星期二Night Contender Series” throughout the month.
The number of LFA alum that participated in those events was staggering. 19 fighters that have fought for LFA or the two promotions that merged to create it (RFA 和 Legacy FC) competed in the UFC. UFC 213 headliner Valentina Shevchenko would have made that 20 战士, but Amanda Nunes withdrew from their title fight on the day of the fight.
The presence of LFA alum on Dana White’s new show was just as impressive. In the first three episodes that aired in July, 17 的 30 竞争者 (56.6%) had previously competed for LFA, RFA, or Legacy FC. Each of the three episodes also featured two “LFA vs. LFA” 火柴. The most impressive stat, 然而, is the fact that an LFA fighter was signed by Dana White off of each episode.
That trend carried over into August with a fourth LFA fighter being signed to the UFC off of the fourth episode of“Dana White’s星期二Night Contender Series”. The four LFA stars signed off of the show so far are Boston Salmon (周 1), 肖恩·奥马利 (周 2), 杰夫·尼尔 (周 3), and Julian Marquez (周 4). There are currently 32 fighters from LFA scheduled to compete on the星期二might summer series. LFA also currently has 19 alum ranked in the latest UFC fighter rankings.
LFA ALUM IMPRESS IN THE UFC
While former LFA fighters impressed in the UFC last month with the sheer number of participants, what they accomplished in those bouts is even more important. Perhaps the biggest shining star of the bunch was former RFA featherweight champion Brian Ortega. The man known as “T城” improved his perfect record to 12-0 and saw his UFC fighter ranking move up to #6 在世界上.
Ortega did this by breaking his own UFC record at UFC 214 on July 29th. Going into his bout with fellow unbeaten star Renato Moicano, Ortega held the UFC record for most consecutive third round finishes. He extended that streak by submitting Moicano in the final frame with a $50,000 UFC “当晚表演” bonus winning Guillotine Choke.
以下 星期六 在UFC搏击之夜 114, RFA great Dustin Ortiz broke another UFC record to secure his own $50,000 UFC “当晚表演” 奖金. Ortiz accomplished this feat by knocking out Hector Sandoval in 15-seconds to record the fastest finish in UFC flyweight history. His teammate and former RFA flyweight champion Sergio Pettis happened to headline the same card. Pettis won his marquee bout against Brandon Moreno unanimously in a pivotal battle between two Top 10 ranked UFC flyweights.
The UFC will be off for the next few weeks, but September looks to be just as big for the LFA greats competing inside the famed UFC Octagon. UFC 215 上 September 9thwill feature two LFA alum challenging for UFC world titles. Legacy FC great Ray Borg will headline the card for a shot at the UFC flyweight title, while Shevchenko will finally get a crack at the UFC women’s bantamweight title in the co-main event. Seven other LFA alum have UFC bouts already announced for next month as well.
4 SHOWS在 4 WEEKS
LFA started August with the first title defense in the promotion’s history. Two of the inaugural LFA champions that were just crowned in June (Eryk Anders and Roberto Sanchez) have already made their UFC debut, but LFA featherweight champion Kevin “Angel of Death” Aguilar was able to defend his title in the main event of LFA 18 过去的这个 星期五. He did so by sweeping the scorecards against a very game challenger in #1 contender and world-class BJJ black belt Justin Rader.
LFA is now set to end the summer with four showsin four weeksin four different states. The quadruple-header starts next week in South Dakota at LFA 19. The promotion then heads east to Minnesota the following week at LFA 20. LFA kicks off first day of September in Missouri at LFA 21. Then the final leg of the four week trip will go down in Colorado at LFA 22.
LFA 19 – Michaud vs. Rodrigues 发生 星期五, 8月18日 在桑福德五角大楼苏福尔斯, 南达科他州. The event will serve as the second LFA event to take place in the state of South Dakota. RFA visited “在拉什莫尔山国家” four times before the merger. LFA 19 is headlined with a welterweight war between three-time UFC vet David “Bulldawg” Michaud (11-3) and Brazilian powerhouse Ciro “坏男孩” Rodrigues (20-7).
LFA 20 – Curry vs. 巴恩斯 发生 星期五, August 25that the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, 明尼苏达州. The event will serve as the third LFA event to take place in the state of Minnesota. RFA 和 Legacy FC 在该赛事中总共举办了 9 场活动 “土地 10,000 湖泊” 合并前. LFA 20 is headlined with a welterweight showdown between rising star Chad “Blitz” Curry and former RFA title challenger Nick “凤凰” 巴恩斯.
LFA 21 – Noblitt vs. Branjão 发生 星期五, 9月1日at the Branson Convention Center in Branson, 密苏里州. The event will serve as the first LFA event to take place in the state of Missouri. RFA visited the “Show Me State” four times before the merger. LFA 21 is headlined with a light-heavyweight battle between undefeated American prospect Kyle James Noblitt (8-0) and undefeated Brazilian prospect Antônio Paulo “山” Branjão (4-0).
LFA 22 – 海尼希vs. 佩雷斯 发生 星期五, 9月8日at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, 科罗拉多州. The event will serve as the third LFA event to take place in the state of Colorado. RFA visited “The Centennial State” eight times before the merger. LFA 22 is headlined with an LFA middleweight title fight between Colorado’s own Ian “飓风” Heinisch (8-0) and Brazilian dynamo Markus “Maluko” 佩雷斯 (8-0).
HELSINKI, 芬兰 (八月 6, 2017) – 俄罗斯轻重量级 Mikhail Zayats 打败 马库斯 “穴居人” 万蒂宁by unanimous decision in last night’sM-1的挑战 82主要事件, which headlined the first M-1 Global event held in Finland during the last nine years.
Zayats (23-8-0, M-1的: 13-5-0) returned to an M-1 Global-promoted event for the first time in nearly six years. The Russian strongman see pictured below), who had fought the past few years in Bellator, ruined the night for local favorite Vanttinen (24-6-0, M-1的: 2-3-0), one of six Finnish fighters on the Helsinki card.
International fighters represented nine different countries: 俄罗斯, 芬兰, 巴西, 美国, 葡萄牙, 法国, 瑞士, Ukraine and Sweden.
同样在主卡, Finnish welterweight尤霍·瓦拉玛 (15-4-0, M-1的: 1-0-0) made a successful M-1 debut with a first-round technical knockout victory of Portugal’sAires Bendrouis (10-6-0, M-1的: 0-1-0).
Valamaa celebrated
对初步卡, Swedish bantamweight他的 “布达” 步兵 (5-3-0, M-1的: 1-2-0) lost a three-round unanimous decision to奥列格·利奇科瓦卡 (8-1-0, M-1的: 1-0-0), 从战斗的俄罗斯, and Ukrainian heavyweight鲍里斯 “宝来” Polezhay (17-6-0, M-1的: 2-1-0) defeated Finland’sToni Valtonen (27-16-0, M-1的: 6-3-0) 的决定.
俄中量级 Ruslan Shamolov (3-0-0, M-1的: 3-0-0) stopped American“Motown” Moses Murrietta (5-1-0, M-1的: 1-1-0) 在首轮, 法国轻量级Arnaud Kherfallah (4-1-0, M-1的: 1-0-0) used a guillotine choke to forcePatrik Pietila (8-5-0, M-1的: 0-1-0), 芬兰, to tap-out in round one, and Russian flyweightAkaki Khorava (2-2-0, M-1的: 0-1-0) tapped out in the second round as his Swiss opponent,Frederico “Muskito” Gutzwiller (3-2-0, M-1的: 1-0-0), locked on an arm-bar.
In M-1’s popular Medieval Fight, Ukrainian heavyweightVladimir Nicheporenko击败俄罗斯人 Yuro Slobodyanikby way of a first-round knockout.
下面的完整结果:
官方结果
主卡
MAIN EVENT – 轻重量级
Mikhail Zayats (23-8-0, M-1的: 13-5-0), 俄罗斯
WDEC3
Marcus Vanttinen (24-7-0, M-1的: 2-3-0), Finland lbs. (公斤)
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即时发布: 拉姆福德, 缅因 (八月 3, 2017) – New Mike Hansen’s dreams of becoming a mixed martial arts (MMA) champion were admittedly premature. Then they were derailed for nearly a decade by a combination of injuries, service to his country and fatherhood.
The teenage ambition that made Hansen believe he could conquer the world, or at least his little corner of it, never went away, 虽然.
Twenty-nine months after resurrecting his career with New England Fights, Rumford’s Hansen (5-5) finally gets that coveted title shot. He will battle hometown favorite C.J. 壶 (2-0) 在“NEF 30: Rumble in Bangor” this星期六, 八月 5at Cross Insurance Center for the organization’s vacant middleweight title. 该卡在开始 7 P.M.
汉森, 谁把 32 七月 21, says the opportunity fulfills an early goal while living and fighting in Massachusetts back in 2005.
“我曾是 19 years old and thought I had a great head on my shoulders, so I called out the (世界格斗联盟) champion at the time, who was John “Doomsday” Howard,” Hansen said. “I said that I wanted that belt and that I was coming after him. Knowing what I know now, he probably would have whipped the (掷骰子) out of me.”
Howard went on to compete at the highest level with Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) and is now a veteran of 37 journeys into the cage. Hansen’s career path had many more stops, starts and detours.
He started with six amateur wins out of the gate and won his initial professional foray with ease. The title fight will take place on the eve of the 12日anniversary of that pro debut.
“Being 19 岁, I was kind of cocky. I remember telling my dad nobody could compete with my wrestling,” Hansen said. “Back then, MMA hadn’t really evolved. The wrestler had the advantage over the jiu-jitsu guy. You could just hold a guy down and snuggle and hug and sweat out a win.”
After his first knockout loss, Hansen promised his father he would quit the sport. But he had already caught the fever, and his confidence was sky high.
Hansen was training for a bout at Laconia, New Hampshire’s bike week when he suffered a broken ankle two weeks before the weigh-in. He recovered and was in training for another fight when he was stabbed and beaten with a baseball bat in what could have been a fatal case of mistaken identity.
He remarkably walked out of the hospital a day later and soon embarked on a more structured path as a combat engineer in the United States Army. While enlisted, Hansen suffered a serious shoulder injury. Even after retirement, a return to the MMA cage seemed unlikely.
Then came a fateful call from an old friend and neighbor, NEF co-owner and matchmaker Matt Peterson, 剩下的就是历史. Hansen has carved out a reputation as one who will take on any opponent in any weight class at any time, and perhaps there is no greater example than the Ewer matchup.
“The belts are vacant at 170, 185 和 205 (英镑). I can make weight for all those if I have enough time,” Hansen said. “I guess Peterson thought it made sense to kill two birds with one stone and put me in with Ewer at 185. Six weeks ago is when they called me, and at first they asked me about 170. I really liked the fight, but the weight didn’t make sense. I was sitting on the couch at 248.”
Hansen has spent most of his time in the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions. He was glaringly outweighed in his last bout, a February loss to Ras Hylton.
Only once previously has he downsized to the middleweight threshold, a February 2016 loss to Zach Elkins. In the case of Ewer, who has done most of his work at 170, meeting in the middle might play to Hansen’s advantage.
“We’re two different styles of fighters. He’s coming up in weight and I’m coming down,” Hansen said. “He’s never been in the cage against anybody with my kind of power. When I’m hitting somebody at 200 英镑, I’m hitting them with the force of somebody who’s 245. My opponents have told me they’ve never been hit harder by a guy my size. I feel like it’s my fight to lose, as long as I don’t make any mistakes and go in there with the stamina I need to have.”
Hansen is confident against Ewer, who had a 5-2 amateur record with notable wins over Ricky Dexter and Crowsneck Boutin before turning pro. He knows better, 然而, than to underestimate any fighter out of the Young’s MMA stable.
“I feel like I’m the more talented fighter and that I have more tools in my tool box. But I know Young’s MMA is a great camp and that he trains with a lot of great guys,” Hansen said. “Chris (年轻) finds a way to set you up to fight the fight you need to win. Look at the Pat Kelly fight (against Rafael Velado). They prepared to turn that into a kickboxing fight, and then he went out and did just that.”
Hansen has seen his name rise into the New England top-five conversation. Most of the fighters ahead of him have experience with larger promotions.
He said a win over Ewer could inspire him to travel and continuing to pursue the dream. That’s consistent with the personality he has shown through this second act of his career.
“I’ve been fighting the top-level guys in NEF for about the past two-and-a-half years,” Hansen said, “I always told Peterson to set me up with a guy who’s in the top 10 or just above me. I wanted to work my way up.”
From his days as a high school state wrestling champion at Mountain Valley High School, Hansen flaunted a distaste for winning that served him well.
In those days, he wore a T-shirt that read, ‘Nobody remembers second place,’ with four gold medals beneath it. Hansen’s attitude remains, but the mainstay of Berserker’s MMA out of the Greater Rumford Community Center noted that it is never only about himself.
“I want to win the title for all the people who have supported me and trained with me in Rumford. I also want it for my gym. We’ve done this three times in the amateurs and now we’re going to do it with a pro,“他说,. “(GRCC is) just a little on-profit that helps people pursue their dreams. I’d love to hang that belt on the wall. It shows people in the community what we’re capable of here, and hopefully it gets them interested and grows the gym. That’s my goal.”
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