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Saturday, April 2, 2011
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Sanchez questions Kampmann’s wish for a rematch
After Diego Sanchez took a controversial decision from Martin Kampmann at UFC on Versus 3, Kampmann discussed why he thought that he won and the lure of a rematch.
"I would love to rematch Diego," Kampmann answered when asked about another opportunity to face Sanchez. "I feel I won the first time but I would love to fight him again. If I was him I wouldn't want the rematch either because imagine how his face would look after the second fight. I would love to beat him up one more time and hopefully not leave it up to the judges this time."
With a decision that close, an instant rematch wouldn't be unprecedented. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua was awarded a rematch with Lyoto Machida after Shogun lost their first title bout, and the same courtesy was awarded to B.J. Penn after he lost a close bout to Frankie Edgar.
But Sanchez is having none of that. On Twitter, he made it quite clear that Kampmann has no business getting a rematch.
"You really want a direct rematch? I trained no boxing! zero! I just wrestled my [expletive] off. I underestimated your [takedown] defense and had to resort to my streetfighting loco skills and almost dropped you I seen your legs. I was not in my best shape ... like @danawhite said that was the softest he ever seen me. That's 2 L's in a row you need a win real bad."
Then, after saying all that, he adds, "If I can't get a better fight that a win would move me up the ladder, I would love to fight you again! #Realtalk."
Oh, Diego, you crazy, crazy man. Your lunacy is what endears you to fans, even when you're spouting off complete nonsense. Did you see your face after the fight? Are you absolutely positive, without a shadow of a doubt that you won? And pulling out the "I was not in my best shape" defense is a little ridiculous, considering that you won.
Instead of Twitter-fights, you two should really just settle this in the cage. Oh wait, that would still be a rematch.
Love and Skydiving
Not to be confused with Love and Yoga. (A little self-promotion there, as Chicago’s newest Examiner!) If you’ve been following along it’s no secret that I’m passionate about everything in my life – my relationships, my job, my writing, even my sleep. No, I didn’t forget skydiving in that list. But I’d think on a [...]
Friday, April 1, 2011
The Truth About Fighting Your Friends
Filed under: UFC
If UFC president Dana White has said it once, he's said it a thousand times: MMA is not a team sport.It's a sport that's all about individual success and failure. It's about two men locked in a violent struggle for money and status, and there's not enough of either to go around.
This, of course, is the inexorable logic of the fight promoter, who stands to profit handsomely if he can convince friends, teammates, and training partners to forego all other loyalties and duke it out in the cage. But then, the promoter doesn't have to actually get in there and knock his best friend unconscious.
As UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub put it, "This isn't basketball. It's not like Magic [Johnson] and [Larry] Bird playing each other and being all buddy-buddy. Somebody's getting fu**ed up."
Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/31/the-truth-about-fighting-your-friends/
UFC 128′s Three Stars: Jon Jones, Jim Miller and Erik Koch
No. 1 star -- Jon Jones: He's young, he's still learning, and he's the UFC light heavyweight champ. Jones put on a clinic against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, throwing flying knees, spinning elbows, head kicks, jabs and the kitchen sink to win the belt. Next, he'll have to face his friend and teammate Rashad Evans to hold onto the championship. Maybe by then, I'll finally learn not to pick against Jones.
No. 2 star -- Jim Miller: Fighting at home in the Garden State, Miller ruined Kamal Shalorus' UFC debut with a dominating performance. His third-round TKO was Miller's seventh win in a row, and it's hard to dispute that Miller has earned a shot at the lightweight belt.
No. 3 star -- Erik Koch: Coming from the same camp as Anthony Pettis and Pat Barry, Koch showed off his own striking skills in a first-round KO of Raphael Assuncao, serving notice to the UFC's featherweight division. But he did leave one question unanswered: how does someone training in Wisconsin in winter get a tan like that? Perhaps GTL is part of the training routine at Duke Roufus' gym.
Who are your Three Stars? Tell us on Facebook or in the comments below.
Fred Norquist?s Dipper Creek Kayaking Video ? Thumbs Up
This is amazing footage of a run done by Fred Norquist and friends on Dipper Creek, BC, in October 2010.� Usually I’d have a hard time getting through an eleven-minute video but there’s something about this one that kept me glued to it the entire time – the drops are huge, the canyon setting is [...]
Source: http://www.ireneskayakingblog.com/paddle-trips/fred-norquists-dipper-creek-kayaking-video/
PWA Slalom Alacati 2010 is done
Straight after the Canary trip we flew back to Austria through D�sseldorf. We had just 1 and a half day to organise things for a 3 week Turkey-Greece trip, pick up the post, pick up a repaired sail, getting the right gear sorted out. What a stress! Thanks to the help of our friends J�rgen [...]
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Benson Henderson talks Anthony Pettis Kick, Whats Next - Benson Henderson
On his tour Inside Americas Gyms, Ron Kruck caught up with UFC lightweight Benson Henderson. ; The two talked everything from being on the receiving end of "the kick heard around the world" to who Henderson is taking on next
Video: Whitewater Kayakers on Icicle Creek Middle Section
This is the video that got me started looking for whitewater kayaking slalom instructional videos (my previous post).� It’s a bunch of kayakers on the Class V Middle section of Icicle Creek outside of Leavenworth, WA, one of my favorite places, and includes footage of Ricochet, The Sieve, Horseshoe and The Plunge. Thanks to Matt [...]
Bobby Lashley, Phil Baroni, Aaron Rosa Win at Titan Fighting
by Michael David Smith
Former pro wrestling star Bobby Lashley stepped back into the mixed martial arts cage Friday night for the Titan Fighting promotion, and the good news is he won.
The bad news is that he showed that he's still the one-dimensional fighter with absolutely no cardiovascular endurance that he's always been.
"It was not as good as I wanted," Lashley said afterward. "But it was a victory."
Former pro wrestling star Bobby Lashley stepped back into the mixed martial arts cage Friday night for the Titan Fighting promotion, and the good news is he won.The bad news is that he showed that he's still the one-dimensional fighter with absolutely no cardiovascular endurance that he's always been.
"It was not as good as I wanted," Lashley said afterward. "But it was a victory."
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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/26/bobby-lashley-phil-baroni-aaron-rosa-win-at-titan-fighting/
Team Pain To Build Williams Farm
It looks like Team Pain is the company designing Virginia Beach's new Williams Farm skatepark. Come to the design input meeting on April 7th to make sure they don't build some unskatable vertical monster. I'm really hoping for a small bowl that is more fun that scary.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Mahdia Madness!
While everyone else is obsessing about college basketball, I am obsessing about my oh-so-soft Mahdia… What is Mahdia? It is an amazing collection featuring organic and recycled fabric, hand-painted sublimated art, novelty dyed organic cotton and burnout jersey and rayon … Continue reading
Source: http://www.prana.com/blog/2011/03/30/mahdia-madness/
HDNet Offers an Honest Assessment of Bobby Lashley
by Michael David Smith
The worst thing a TV announcer can do is lie to the audience. That's true in any sport, but mixed martial arts has a particularly egregious history of announcers hyping up fighters at the expense of the truth: When a promoter wants to make one fighter or another into its next star, there are far too many announcers willing to overstate the fighter's abilities and mislead the viewers into thinking they're watching a better fighter than they are.
So it was refreshing on Friday night to hear the HDNet announcing team of Michael Schiavello and Frank Trigg tell the audience the truth about Bobby Lashley, who was fighting in the main event of a Titan Fighting card: Although the easy thing to do would have been to hype up Lashley as Titan Fighting's biggest star, Schiavello and Trigg instead offered a frank assessment of Lashley and told the audience the truth about who he is: A big, muscular former wrestler whose physique looks impressive but whose MMA skills are limited and whose cardiovascular conditioning is atrocious.
The worst thing a TV announcer can do is lie to the audience. That's true in any sport, but mixed martial arts has a particularly egregious history of announcers hyping up fighters at the expense of the truth: When a promoter wants to make one fighter or another into its next star, there are far too many announcers willing to overstate the fighter's abilities and mislead the viewers into thinking they're watching a better fighter than they are.
So it was refreshing on Friday night to hear the HDNet announcing team of Michael Schiavello and Frank Trigg tell the audience the truth about Bobby Lashley, who was fighting in the main event of a Titan Fighting card: Although the easy thing to do would have been to hype up Lashley as Titan Fighting's biggest star, Schiavello and Trigg instead offered a frank assessment of Lashley and told the audience the truth about who he is: A big, muscular former wrestler whose physique looks impressive but whose MMA skills are limited and whose cardiovascular conditioning is atrocious.
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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/28/hdnet-offers-an-honest-assessment-of-bobby-lashley/
Billy Morgan and India Stephenson take the Giro British Big Air titles
The BRITS Snow & Music Festival, 20th ? 27th March 2011, LAAX, Switzerland Wednesday 23rd March – Once again Laax was bathed in glorious sunshine and it was a go big or go home day for Britain?s finest snowboarders with Billy Morgan and India Stephenson bringing home the bacon in the Giro British Big Air [...]
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Eclectic
2nd nature just posted their video, Eclectic online. It's a good watch with solid parts and interesting, eclectic spots.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
If the new champ only had a personality: Jon Jones ‘Tonight Show’ photos with Jay Leno and Kirstie Alley
The UFC's light heavyweight division has been a revolving door at the top. The promotion's glamour division hasn't had that guy to pitch to the mainstream because no one has been able to defend the title. Jon Jones may change that.
If Jones can put together a long title reign, the champ's starpower is limitless. He's a smart cookie and savvy. You'll see that on "The Tonight Show" this evening. Jones is a guest along with Kirstie Alley. From some early photos he's posted via Twitter, it doesn't look like he's nervous.
Jones is pictured with former "Cheers" star Kirstie Alley and Jay Leno, the host of the show.
Julian Winkler 2010 Street Footage
Check a real nice euro part from Julian Winkler out of St. P�ltner, Austria. I love the tagline on their site, "we hate our city but we skate our city." Who can't identify with that statement?
UFC 132 shaping up: Faber plans to beat ‘not that cool’ Cruz
Urijah Faber is a great fighter, but let's face it his trash talk stinks.� "The California Kid" is trying really hard when it comes to Dominick Cruz but he's too nice to tear into the UFC bantamweight champ.
"People are always asking 'why don't you like him?' there's a bunch of little things, but the bottomline is, I just don't he's that cool," Faber said (1:20 mark).
Faber said Cruz shouldn't be upset by that.
"I'm just being honest dude. That's the way it is," Faber said. "Get the chip off your shoulder. Who cares what I think? You're a UFC world champion, You're a young guy, you're good looking. You got the title for another four months before I swipe it from you, and life is good."
Wait a second. What happened to the trash talk? You're good looking? Come on Urijah.
That's Faber in a nutshell. He's too nice to really smash Cruz, but make no mistake, Faber really dislikes the dude. The banter leading up to the fight should intensify during the early summer.
Faber versus Cruz is the headliner at UFC 132 on July 2nd in Las Vegas. It's lining up as a pretty deep card.
From MMAWeekly's rumor page:
Dominick Cruz vs. Urjiah Faber
B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch
George Sotiropoulos vs. Evan Dunham
Melvin Guillard vs. Shane Roller
Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman
Ryan Bader vs. Tito Ortiz
Deet Media Promo
Deet Media has a sick promo for a video dropping this summer.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Marquardt looks forward to ‘punching Bisping in the mouth’
There isn't a more thoughtful, docile guy in MMA than Nate Marquardt, but when it comes to Michael Bisping, he sounds like just about every other UFC middleweight.
Marquardt, who's been on the verge of a title shot for the last three years, wants a piece of the Brit.
"I would love to fight that guy, just to punch him in his mouth and shut him up. He's an ass," Marquardt told Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole. "He's a total punk, no respect. I don't like those kinds of people."
The spitting incident at UFC 127 pushed Marquardt over the edge.
"The crap-talking, whatever, that's one thing. Guys do things to hype up fights. And even guys who are just like that naturally, I don't hold that against them. But the fact that he goes and spits on an opponent's corner, that's so disrespectful," Marquardt said. "That's just not what a martial artist does and it's not what a sportsman does."
This kind of talk is completely out of character for Marquardt.
"I'd say 90, 95 percent of the time I like my opponents," Marquardt said. "I've always thought he was kind of an ass. He says disrespectful stuff, but the spitting is just a step farther, or two steps too far. It was horrible."
He still doesn't understand what sent Bisping into such a rage.
"It's one thing, the pre-fight stuff. Those are just words. They're not threats, they're not crossing the line. Making fun of his accent is something I would do to my buddy. It's not that big of a deal. Going around spitting on someone, I don't know," said Marquardt.
Marquardt has to take care of business first on Saturday against Dan Miller at UFC 128. Miller is filling in for Yoshihiro Akiyama.
Bisping's status is in limbo right now. The UFC plans on disciplining the Brit, but no official word has come down on whether that means he's kept away from the Octagon for any significant length of time.
Gas tanks on E: Lashley and Baroni win, but look exhausted
Bobby Lashley and Phil Baroni picked up wins last night at Titan Fighting Championship 17 in Kansas City, but neither did much to ease questions about their stamina issues.
Lashley pummeled 215-pound John Ott on the ground, but looked tired in the opening minutes of the second round. The former WWE star tried to put a positive spin on the lackluster decision win, 29-27, 30-27 and 29-27.
"No, no no ... I didn't punch myself out [in the first round]. I was looking for something that wasn't there. I felt good. I needed to spend some time out there," said Lashley.
The 6-foot-2, 252-pounder did get in his 15 minutes, but it was rough sledding at times. In the second and third, when it was standing, Lashley could barely hold his arms up and when he did throw punches, they lacked sting.
On the ground, Lashley (6-1) landed some good shots, but Ott wouldn't give in.
"Not as good as I wanted to, but it's a victory. We have stuff to work on, but I felt good out there. I felt like I was in control the whole time. That's what important," said Lashley.
HDNet MMA analyst Frank Trigg refused to put a positive spin on Lashley's effort.
"He showed he can't finish a fight unless it's a guy like Wes Sims, who stands there and let's himself get beat up," Trigg said. "Basically what he is, is a high caliber college wrestler, who spent some time in the WWE, that's crossed over into fighting without learning anything else."
Lashley, just six fights into his MMA career, was trying to get things back on track after a bad loss against Chad Griggs at a Strikeforce card last August.
Lashley, 34, was manhandling Griggs in the first round, but couldn't finish him. He tired badly and was blasted out in the second round. Following the fight, Lashley hit a Houston-area hospital complaining of abnormal fatigue during the match. He was eventually diagnosed with mononucleosis. He went four months with zero training, Five weeks ago when he signed with TFC, Lashley said he felt great.
Clearly, the bout with mono wasn't the only issue. The thickly-muscled Lashley appears to have only four or five good minutes in his gas tank.
Baroni is 27 fights into his career and is still battling a similar issue. "The New York Badass" beat a kid with five pro fights, but it wasn't easy. Baroni, who used to consider MMA wrestling kind of wimpy, was forced to scrap a striking gameplan. He scored takedowns against Nick Nolte (3-3) in each round and looked to grind down the clock. Baroni (14-13) limped across the finish line with a unanimous decision victory, 29-28, 30-27 and 29-28.
"I was really tired there. I was really tired in the second," Baroni said. "He got me with some good knees to the body. Give him credit, more than saying I was out of shape. I was in shape. I had to take the fight to the ground because [of the knees]."
The 30-27 score was baffling considering Baroni, leaning against the cage for much of the final round, basically allowed Nolte to beat the snot out of him with knees, kicks and punches.� Booing and screaming loudly, the Kansas City crowd didn't appreciate Baroni's efforts.
"I needed a win. I could've stood there and made it a shootout, but I needed the win. I'll give Nick Nolte another fight. Thank you very much. I appreciate all the applause. I'll do a little better next time," Baroni said sarcastically.
Abe Wagner, a former "Ultimate Fighter 10" alum, failed to build on the momentum from his upset win over Tim Sylvia in January. He lost via submission (rear-naked choke) against Aaron Rosa.
UFC Fight Night 24: Anthony Johnson Beats Dan Hardy
by Michael David SmithAnthony Johnson is back in the Octagon after an absence of more than a year, and he looks great.
Johnson, who had been sidelined since 2009 with a knee injury, stepped up and destroyed former No. 1 welterweight contender Dan Hardy Saturday at UFC Fight Night 24.
For Johnson, it was a big win that shows that when he's healthy and in shape, he's a force to be reckoned with at 170 pounds. For Hardy, the showed, a year after he lost his welterweight title fight to Georges St. Pierre, that he still doesn't have much in the way of takedown defense or ability to fight off his back. Any good wrestler is going to give Hardy problems until he shores up those weaknesses.
Johnson, who had been sidelined since 2009 with a knee injury, stepped up and destroyed former No. 1 welterweight contender Dan Hardy Saturday at UFC Fight Night 24.
For Johnson, it was a big win that shows that when he's healthy and in shape, he's a force to be reckoned with at 170 pounds. For Hardy, the showed, a year after he lost his welterweight title fight to Georges St. Pierre, that he still doesn't have much in the way of takedown defense or ability to fight off his back. Any good wrestler is going to give Hardy problems until he shores up those weaknesses.
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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/26/ufc-fight-night-24-anthony-johnson-beats-dan-hardy/
Dan Henderson Post Fight vs Feijao - Dan Henderson
The new Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, Dan Henderson talks with Showtime Sports. In this straight-from-the-cage interview, Hendo talks about the punching power that took down Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante.Source: http://mmalice.com/dan-henderson/dan-henderson-post-fight-vs-feijao-video_e3fbb5ae1.html
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Watch Junior dos Santos throw the ‘Showtime’ kick
Remember that kick Anthony Pettis threw against Ben Henderson that made us all go crazy? Now everyone is trying it, including UFC heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos.
It was impressive enough when Pettis did it, but this time, it was a heavyweight who weighed in at 240 lbs. in his last bout. Yet, he was nimble enough to run off a wall and kick Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, who was holding the Muay Thai pad.
Think we'll see him pull it off against Brock Lesnar in June?
Jorge Masvidal Post-Fight vs Billy Evangelista - Jorge Masvidal
Despite a late rally by Billy Evangelista, Jorge Masvidal won by unanimous decision. Showtime Sports and Heidi Androl interview the young Masvidal straight from the cage.
UFC Fight Night 24 Live Blog: Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Phil Davis Updates
Filed under: UFC
SEATTLE, Wash. -- This is the UFC Fight Night 24 live blog for Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Phil Davis, the main event of tonight's UFC on Spike TV event at the Key Arena.Nogueira (19-4) is coming off the first loss in three UFC fights, at the hands of Ryan Bader last September at UFC 119. Davis (8-0), who is stepping in for Tito Ortiz (stitches), has won all four of his UFC fights.
The live blog is below.
Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/26/ufc-fight-night-24-live-blog-antonio-rogerio-nogueira-vs-phil/
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