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Monday, April 2, 2012
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Four New Champs Crowned, Philippou Tops Hall at Ring of Combat 34
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Ring of Combat 34 saw four North American champions crowned to cap a 14-fight card at the Tropicana Casino and Resort Friday night.
In the evening’s main event, featherweight Jacob Kirwan made it 2-0 on the night for the Kirwan family, submitting Ryan Vaccaro via guillotine in just 86 seconds to become ROC’s featherweight North American champion.
After being taken down, Kirwan managed to get back up to his feet. With Vaccaro still in position for another double-leg takedown, Kirwan pulled guard and slapped on a guillotine, forcing the tap from Vaccaro. With the win, Kirwan, who trains out of Ferocity MMA in Frederick, Md., moved his record to 8-2.
Dustin Pague's right hook led
him to victory.Kurt Pellegrino disciple Steve Deangelis started strong against Dustin Pague, but ultimately fell prey to Pague’s brutal right hand in their ROC North American bantamweight title bout.
Deangelis outworked Pague on the ground to start the fight and looked fit to dominate proceedings on the ground. However, in round two, Pague came out on fire, taking the bout to his fellow lightweight. Countering a low kick, Pague answered back with a huge right hook that knocked Deangelis out cold just 25 seconds into the second frame.
The win was the fifth straight for the 23-year-old Pague.
The ROC North American lightweight title bout was decided in controversy, as Marques Daniels took a first-round disqualification win over Gabriel Miglioli.
Late in the opening stage, as Daniels pushed for takedown against the fence, Miglioli threw a hard knee to the downed Daniels that opened up a cut, and enraged TUF 12 vet and Daniels cornerman Marc Stevens. After a doctor consult Daniels was deemed unfit to continue, and since the stoppage came from an illegal strike, Daniels was declared the winner by DQ at 4:27 of the first round.
Jessica Eye destroyed Ashley Nee.
Following the bout, Sherdog.com learned that a Daniels-Miglioli rematch is likely for Ring of Combat 35 on April 8.
In a bout for the vacant ROC North American 130-pound women’s title, 24-year-old unbeaten prospect Jessica Eye ran over late replacement Ashley Nee, who replaced an injured Justine Kish. Eye wasted little time, plowing Nee from the opening bell. Eye was connecting with almost everything she threw and forcing referee Keith Peterson to finally stop the bout at 4:34 in the first as the Parma, Ohio, native pummeled Nee along the fence.
In the most pressing bout of the undercard, TUF 11 vet Costantinos Philippou defeated Team Tiger Schulmann product Uriah Hall by majority decision in a foul-filled contest.
Philippou (left) may have earned a
title shot with his win.
Early in the contest, Philippou caught Hall in the eye and in the groin, prompting respites from referee Dan Miragliotta. In the second frame, Hall returned the favor with a series of low blows to Philippou, though neither fighter was deducted a point.
The Serra-Longo representative won the bout on the back of hard single punches and well-timed takedowns that allowed him to shut down Hall’s big-kicking offense. After three four-minute rounds, judge Vincent Sinclair scored the bout a 29-29 draw. However, judges Cardo Urso and Michelle Agustin saw it 29-28 for Philippou, who took the majority decision.
With the win, Philippou is a likely contender for ROC middleweight champion Chris Weidman in April.
At 185 pounds, Drew Puzon started strong against Joey Kirwan courtesy of his wrestling, but early in the second round, a desperate Puzon single-leg attempt led to a fight-ending guillotine choke from Kirwan, just like his headliner brother, who got the tap at the 69 second mark.
Noah Faunce weighed in at 173.75 pounds for his welterweight contest with against Rich Ashkar, and used the weight to his advantage, shrugging off Askhar's takedown attempts and putting his foe on the floor. After three rounds, Faunce's total ground control was enough to take 30-27 scorecards across the board.
Aung La Nsang sat pretty in guard for the opening minutes of his middleweight bout with Mitch Whitesel until "The Burmese Python" swiftly took the back of his journeyman foe and sunk a fight-ending rear-naked choke 3:09 into the fight. The loss was Whitesel's fifth straight loss since last September.
Giedrius Karavackas spotted late replacement Joshua Key seven-and-a-half pounds in their 180-pound catch-weight bout, and proceedings showed he had little to fear in doing so: Karavackas quickly put the self-trained Key on the mat, and sunk in a rear-naked choke for the win at 3:31 of the first round.
Giedrius Karavackas dominated
Joshua Key.
Ariel Sepulveda was on his back quickly against Steve Durig in their middleweight affair, but the native New Yorker threw up a clever triangle that forced Durig to tap at 2:24 of the first round.
Alptekin Ozkilic wrestled his way past Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro understudy Sergio Da Silva over two rounds, taking three 20-18 scorecards.
At 145 pounds, Jimbo Hoffman ran over Yaser Shaukat, crushing Shaukat with a right hand, following up with punches and a fight-ending guillotine choke to earn the W in just 47 seconds.
In the featherweight opener, Mike Benoit outgrappled Manny Millan to a unanimous 20-18 decision following two rounds.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Prospects Villante, Weidman Impress at Ring of Combat 33
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Gian Villante captured the vacant Ring of Combat light heavyweight title in 63 seconds with a brutal ground-and-pound victory over Joseph Reyes at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino on Friday night.
Villante was just too much for Reyes at ROC 33, as he was not able to get off a single offensive move. This is Villante’s second title; he clinched the ROC heavyweight crown earlier this year.
In the co-main event, promotional middleweight ace Chris Weidman showed off his hands while successfully defending his title against a game opponent in Valdir Arraujo. A recipe of strikes, smothering takedowns and ground-and-pound was enough to keep Arraujo off balance for most of the fight.
Weidman was declared the winner by unanimous decision following three rounds.
Reminiscent of K.J. Noons’ knockout loss to Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett, Aviles was hit with a right hand that sent him staggering back while Sheppard hit the deck.
Although Sheppard was completely knocked out, Aviles landed two more blows for good measure, catapulting himself into discussion as one of the East Coasts’ top prospects.
Nova Uniao standout Marcos Galvao dominated from bell-to-bell against Ryan Vaccaro to claim the promotion’s featherweight title. Galvao used a mixture of knees and a smothering ground game to keep Vaccaro uncomfortable throughout the fight. All three judges scored each round for Galvao.
In other title action, Sean Santella submitted Mikey Lovato to take the vacant 125-pound title. After a first period of mostly grappling, each fighter had their chances and appeared to be equal on the mat. However, Lovato was playing right into the AMA Fight Club product’s game and Santella secured an armbar victory at 2:56 of round two.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Filho-Sasaki Announced for Bitetti Combat 8
Brazilian promotion Bitetti Combat has announced three bouts for its eighth edition on Dec. 4, a tribute card celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sao Paulo soccer club Sport Club Corinthians Paulista at the team’s home arena, Alfredo Schurig Stadium.
Wednesday, promoter Amaury Bitetti and his new partner, Fernando Chacur, announced a pair of Brazil-versus-Japan middleweight bouts, as Brazilian 185-pounders Paulo Filho and Thiago “Jambo” Goncalves meet Grabaka teammates Yuki Sasaki and Eiji Ishikawa, respectively.
In a lightweight affair, Cristiano Marcello will look to avenge his controversial May loss to Costa Rica’s Alejandro “Mandarina” Solano Rodriguez.
“We’ll put much more out there,” said Bitetti. “We'll announce more fights with international athletes and of course, with fighters from Sao Paulo.”
The Filho-Sasaki match-up was originally slated for Feb. 25’s Bitetti Combat 6 card. In a bizarre twist of events, the embattled Filho reportedly failed to appear at the weigh-ins, resulting in the cancellation of the bout.
Filho, 32, is coming off of an Oct. 23 unanimous decision loss to hot light heavyweight prospect Marcos Rogerio “Pezao” de Lima in Sao Paulo. In his first bout of 2010, the 34-year-old Sasaki was knocked out on Nov. 5 by South African Xavier Lucas in Sydney, Australia.
Goncalves is coming off a July loss to Canadian Cory MacDonald by split decision, the Brazilian’s only loss in his last 12 bouts. Ishikawa, winner of five of his last six fights, defeated South Korean A Sol Kwon in Deep in July.
Marcello and Rodriguez met at Bitetti Combat 7 in May. Marcello dominated early proceedings, but in round two, was staggered by a Rodriguez flurry. Referee Osiris Maia stopped the fight with Marcello still on his feet, seemingly unhurt, igniting controversy and paving the way for a rematch.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Is Mixed Martial Arts Effective For the Streets Or is it Purely a Combat Sport?
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few years or so, you would have noticed that thanks to competitions such as UFC the steady emergence of Mixed Martial Arts.
Now before you go on and rave about how amazing and fantastic this idea actually is, the truth is that hybrid martial arts have been around for centuries already!
In early civilizations, the Greeks had pankration as part of the Olympic games. These were hard, rough and brutal no holds barred contests which involved elements or striking, grappling and takedowns. Over time, this brutal sport disappeared, however, elements of it can be seen in modern day mixed martial arts.
In the past 100 years or so, mixed martial arts underwent a revival of sorts. Boxers would compete with wrestlers and vice versa in fairs and special events. Sometimes, western wrestlers were pitted against Japanese judoka.
One Englishman named Edward William Barton-Wright even went so far as to invent a hybrid mixed martial art system called Bartitsu which encompassed Boxing, Jujitsu, judo and french cane techniques. During the 1960s and 1970s, a young Chinese man by the name of Bruce lee created his own form of martial art by blending various eastern and western arts to form what we know today as Jeet Kune Do.
Many people still wondered what it would be like if a boxer faced off against a wrestler, a karate man took on a judoka, a muay thai fighter battled with a Brazilian jujitsu practitioner. It was this idea that gave birth to major mixed martial arts competition such as The Ulitmate Fighting Championship (UFC).
But despite organized modern day gladiator-style competitions such as the UFC, not everyone is convinced that mixed martial arts is useful in the street because of the rules that mixed martial arts organizations have to prevent fatal or serious injuries happening to their fighters.
Can Mixed Martial Arts work in the streets?
There's two ways you can look at it:
No - Some argue that MMA competitions are mainly sporting events and there are loads of rules that limit a fighter's true potential; for example, no strikes to the back of the head, no eye gouging, no biting, no groin strikes, no throat strikes. So fighters used to such rules might not resort to dangerous but effective self defence techniques such as the above on the street in a flash. But in a life and death situation on the streets, all these moves could come in handy for you to escape your attacker. After all, he isn't interested in submitting you, but injuring, raping or causing grevious bodily harm.
Yes - Mixed Martial Artists supposedly (or rather, they need to) have heaps of stamina and thanks to training in different disciplines such as Muay Thai, Brazilian jujitsu, boxing and wrestling can subdue would be attackers in certain situations.
If possible, to avoid being outnumbered by a group of aggressive individuals a fit individual could also flee on foot. It may not sound like the most heroic option but would you rather be alive or left bleeding on the streets from a mortal knife wound? Ultimately, whether or not mixed martial arts manifests itself as a combat sport or an effective self defense system depends on the person utilizing his skills.
Gabriel Huang is an amateur Mixed Martial Arts practitioner who has years of training in Brazilian jujitsu, boxing and Jeet Kune Do. He co-owns an online shop with a fellow martial artist producing a wide range of martial arts gear and apparel at http://www.zealfightgear.com/
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