http://odeo.com/channels/127125-Komikazee KomikazeePodcast no <p><span class="caps">MMA</span>, UFC, <span class="caps">IFL</span>, EliteXC, <span class="caps">PRIDE</span>, we have it all. Derek Alfonso is Host and Steven Molen is co-host.</p> MMA, UFC, IFL, EliteXC, PRIDE, we have it all. Derek Alfonso is Host and Steven Molen is co-host. MMA, UFC, IFL, EliteXC, PRIDE, we have it all. Derek Alfonso is Host and Steven Molen is co-host. en-us 40 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:56:24 -0700 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:56:24 -0700 http://odeo.com/episodes/13356563-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-29 This week we bring you all the news, rumors, events, and reviews that you have come to expect from Komikazee. We also review The Ultimate Fighter Season 5 finale. This week we bring you all the news, rumors, events, and reviews that you have come to expect from Komikazee. We also review The Ultimate Fighter Season 5 finale. This week we bring you all the news, rumors, events, and reviews that you have come to expect from Komikazee. We also review The Ultimate Fighter Season 5 finale. tag:odeo.com,2007-06-26,13356563 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:56:24 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/13313003-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-28 This week, Derek is back from vacation and we are getting the band back together!!! We preview the upcoming Strikeforce card AND we have an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Frank Shamrock! This week, Derek is back from vacation and we are getting the band back together!!! We preview the upcoming Strikeforce card AND we have an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Frank Shamrock! This week, Derek is back from vacation and we are getting the band back together!!! We preview the upcoming Strikeforce card AND we have an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Frank Shamrock! tag:odeo.com,2007-06-20,13313003 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:58:16 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/13231493-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-27-IFL-Special-Edition Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #27 SE&nbsp;(6/15/2007) News IFL enters into Awareness partnership with USO Komikazee featured on “Art of War” front page Justin Wren vs Justin Howard For full article, see here: http://mma.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/mma_art_of_war_1/ Fisher wins instant classic against Stout in UFC Fight Night Great three rounds of stand-up Not all time because there was lack of ground game Compare against Horodecki v Palaszewski John Stewart throws barb at MMA hidden in satirical comedy JS: Boxing, Wrestling, Karate are compelling because they have strict rules. Combining them loses all the form and artistry… EXPERT: Why combine a cell phone and a camera? JS: You get a crappy phone AND camera! Funny skit but demeaning to MMA underneath (what sattire isn’t) Rumors Big Nog possibly splitting from BTT http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=4132&zoneid=3 Not talking with Murilo Bustamante currently Signed with UFC at behest of Anderson Silva... Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #27 SE&nbsp;(6/15/2007) News IFL enters into Awareness partnership with USO Komikazee featured on “Art of War” front page Justin Wren vs Justin Howard For full article, see here: http://mma.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/mma_art_of_war_1/ Fisher wins instant classic against Stout in UFC Fight Night Great three rounds of stand-up Not all time because there was lack of ground game Compare against Horodecki v Palaszewski John Stewart throws barb at MMA hidden in satirical comedy JS: Boxing, Wrestling, Karate are compelling because they have strict rules. Combining them loses all the form and artistry… EXPERT: Why combine a cell phone and a camera? JS: You get a crappy phone AND camera! Funny skit but demeaning to MMA underneath (what sattire isn’t) Rumors Big Nog possibly splitting from BTT http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=4132&zoneid=3 Not talking with Murilo Bustamante currently Signed with UFC at behest of Anderson Silva Could go with Black House Team that has Silva, Belfort, and Machida Previews IFL 2007 Season Team Home City Overall Match x-Anacondas Los Angeles 3-0 11-4 x-Sabres Tokyo 3-0 9-6 Pitbulls New York 2-0 7-3 Silverbacks Quad Cities 2-1 9-6 z-Condors So. Calif. 2-1 8-7 Dragons Toronto 1-1 6-4 Lions Nevada 1-1 4-6 z-Tiger Sharks Seattle 1-2 8-7 z-Wolfpack Portland 1-2 7-8 z-Scorpions Tucson 0-2 3-7 z-Razorclaws San Jose 0-3 4-11 z-Red Bears Chicago 0-3 4-11 Dragons (1-1 team, 6-4 indiv.) vs. Pitbulls (2-0, 7-3) 3-2 Pitbulls predicted win 3-2 by Dragons puts them in tie with Silverbacks&nbsp; 155 lb: Wagnney Fabiano (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (2-0, 6-1) vs. Erik Owings (New York) (3-1, 3-1) Erik Owings Last lost to Chris Horodecki Ex-wrestler and football player Great ground skills and decent hands Wagnney Fabiano Brazillian JJ expert Hasn’t really been tested yet 170 lb: Gideon Ray (Roselle, Ill.) (1-0, 14-5-1) vs. Delson Heleno (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (3-1, 10-2) Delson Heleno Only lost to a DQ (illegal upkick) Dynamic fighter Great Hands TKO’ed Ben Uker in the IFL Strong BJJ expert Gideon Ray Journeyman MMA fighter Great hands Ex-boxer UFC vet 185 lb: Brent Beauparlant (Montreal, Quebec) (2-3, 5-4) vs. Fabio Leopoldo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (3-0, 5-1) Fabio Leopoldo Great Fighter Can take it either on the feet or to the ground Memorable win against McGivern Bren Beauparlant Nice guy Hasn’t fared well against some of the other good fighters in the IFL (Gusmao, Horwich, Mike C.) Wrestling background 205 lb: Wojtek Kaszowski (Winnipeg, Manitoba) (0-4, 0-6) vs. Jamal Patterson (Hoboken, N.J.) (3-1, 3-1) Jamal Patterson Very strong athlete, Very driven Regional Sales Rep for daytime job Beat Horwich twice Wojtek Kaszowski Winless in the IFL Drops from Heavyweight to Light Heavyweight Why is he in and John Krohn is alternate with a loss against John Krohn? 265 lb: Rafael Feijao (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (1-0, 4-0) vs. Marcio Cruz (0-0, 2-2) Marcio Cruz UFC Vet Wins against Keigo Kunihara and a waning Frank Mir Losses against Monson, Arlovsky BJJ practitioner with some striking skills Rafael Feijao Real Deal Beat Devin Cole Has his hands full with Marcio alt. 205 lb.: John Krohn (Gresham, Ore.) (1-0, 3-0) vs. Andre Gusmao (New York) (2-0, 3-0) &nbsp;Alt fight of the night Both are good fighters and John is better than some of the ppl on the Dragons team Scorpions (0-2, 3-7) vs. Lions (1-1, 4-6) Lions need 5-0 to get into playoff contention 155 lb.: Gabe Casillas (Tucson, Ariz.) (0-1, 9-7) vs. John Gunderson (Medford, Ore.) (1-1, 11-5) John Gunderson “Guns” Ex-military Lost a close one against Bart Won against Josh Odom Latest in the crop from the military Gabe Casillas Boxed in High School only fight in IFL was a loss against Gideon Ray Gracie JJ practicioner Part of the re-swizzle 170 lb.: Mike Guymon (Lake Forest, Calif.) (0-0, 6-1-1) vs. Pat Healy (St. Louis) (1-1, 17-12) Pat Healy UFC Vet (UFN 6) Brother is a professional fighter also Mike Guymon Ultimate Jokester New to the IFL 185 lb.: Seth Baczynski (Phoenix) (0-1, 4-4) vs. Daniel Molina (Carson City, Nev.) (0-2, 6-7) Daniel Molina Wrestler 2 losses in the IFL to McGivern and Foster Seth Baczynski Part of the re-swizzle Lost to Beauparlant who isn’t that great Only started practicing MMA in 2005 205 lb.: Mike Whitehead (Central Point, Ore.) (3-0, 18-5) vs. Vernon White (East Palo Alto, Calif.) (1-0. 25-30-2) Vernon White UFC veteran very whiley, and strong Beat Sam Hoger in the IFL Another tough bout original Lion’s Den alumni Mike Whitehead TUF Alumni and UFC Veteran Heavy hands and a good chin Fun to watch 265 lb.: Shane Ott (Philadelphia) (1-0, 3-0) vs. Roy Nelson (Las Vegas) (1-1, 7-2) Roy Nelson Took Ben Rothwell the full 3 rounds before getting decision loss Fitness belies his pot belly Good ground expert, ex wrestler Shane Ott Beat Chad Griggs as Dragon and now fights for the scorpions Moves up from light-heavyweight to heavyweight Met his match? alt. 170 lb.: Chris Kennedy (Las Vegas) (0-0, 3-2) vs. Rick Reeves (Reno, Nev.) (1-0, 2-1) Interviews Vernon White Introduce who you are and who you fight for. You are one of the few holdovers from the original Lion’s Den left fighting at a high level. What has given you your longevity? what brought you into the sport of MMA? What are your plans after you finish fighting? How have you found competition in the IFL so far? How is it different dealing with the IFL vs. the UFC? Do you think the PRIDE acquisition by Zuffa was a good thing? Why? Who’s your favorite superhero? If you could introduce or change one thing about current MMA. What would it be? Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #27 SE&nbsp;(6/15/2007) News IFL enters into Awareness partnership with USO Komikazee featured on “Art of War” front page Justin Wren vs Justin Howard For full article, see here: http://mma.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/mma_art_of_war_1/ Fisher wins instant classic against Stout in UFC Fight Night Great three rounds of stand-up Not all time because there was lack of ground game Compare against Horodecki v Palaszewski John Stewart throws barb at MMA hidden in satirical comedy JS: Boxing, Wrestling, Karate are compelling because they have strict rules. Combining them loses all the form and artistry… EXPERT: Why combine a cell phone and a camera? JS: You get a crappy phone AND camera! Funny skit but demeaning to MMA underneath (what sattire isn’t) Rumors Big Nog possibly splitting from BTT http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=4132&zoneid=3 Not talking with Murilo Bustamante currently Signed with UFC at behest of Anderson Silva Could go with Black House Team that has Silva, Belfort, and Machida Previews IFL 2007 Season Team Home City Overall Match x-Anacondas Los Angeles 3-0 11-4 x-Sabres Tokyo 3-0 9-6 Pitbulls New York 2-0 7-3 Silverbacks Quad Cities 2-1 9-6 z-Condors So. Calif. 2-1 8-7 Dragons Toronto 1-1 6-4 Lions Nevada 1-1 4-6 z-Tiger Sharks Seattle 1-2 8-7 z-Wolfpack Portland 1-2 7-8 z-Scorpions Tucson 0-2 3-7 z-Razorclaws San Jose 0-3 4-11 z-Red Bears Chicago 0-3 4-11 Dragons (1-1 team, 6-4 indiv.) vs. Pitbulls (2-0, 7-3) 3-2 Pitbulls predicted win 3-2 by Dragons puts them in tie with Silverbacks&nbsp; 155 lb: Wagnney Fabiano (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (2-0, 6-1) vs. Erik Owings (New York) (3-1, 3-1) Erik Owings Last lost to Chris Horodecki Ex-wrestler and football player Great ground skills and decent hands Wagnney Fabiano Brazillian JJ expert Hasn’t really been tested yet 170 lb: Gideon Ray (Roselle, Ill.) (1-0, 14-5-1) vs. Delson Heleno (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (3-1, 10-2) Delson Heleno Only lost to a DQ (illegal upkick) Dynamic fighter Great Hands TKO’ed Ben Uker in the IFL Strong BJJ expert Gideon Ray Journeyman MMA fighter Great hands Ex-boxer UFC vet 185 lb: Brent Beauparlant (Montreal, Quebec) (2-3, 5-4) vs. Fabio Leopoldo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (3-0, 5-1) Fabio Leopoldo Great Fighter Can take it either on the feet or to the ground Memorable win against McGivern Bren Beauparlant Nice guy Hasn’t fared well against some of the other good fighters in the IFL (Gusmao, Horwich, Mike C.) Wrestling background 205 lb: Wojtek Kaszowski (Winnipeg, Manitoba) (0-4, 0-6) vs. Jamal Patterson (Hoboken, N.J.) (3-1, 3-1) Jamal Patterson Very strong athlete, Very driven Regional Sales Rep for daytime job Beat Horwich twice Wojtek Kaszowski Winless in the IFL Drops from Heavyweight to Light Heavyweight Why is he in and John Krohn is alternate with a loss against John Krohn? 265 lb: Rafael Feijao (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (1-0, 4-0) vs. Marcio Cruz (0-0, 2-2) Marcio Cruz UFC Vet Wins against Keigo Kunihara and a waning Frank Mir Losses against Monson, Arlovsky BJJ practitioner with some striking skills Rafael Feijao Real Deal Beat Devin Cole Has his hands full with Marcio alt. 205 lb.: John Krohn (Gresham, Ore.) (1-0, 3-0) vs. Andre Gusmao (New York) (2-0, 3-0) &nbsp;Alt fight of the night Both are good fighters and John is better than some of the ppl on the Dragons team Scorpions (0-2, 3-7) vs. Lions (1-1, 4-6) Lions need 5-0 to get into playoff contention 155 lb.: Gabe Casillas (Tucson, Ariz.) (0-1, 9-7) vs. John Gunderson (Medford, Ore.) (1-1, 11-5) John Gunderson “Guns” Ex-military Lost a close one against Bart Won against Josh Odom Latest in the crop from the military Gabe Casillas Boxed in High School only fight in IFL was a loss against Gideon Ray Gracie JJ practicioner Part of the re-swizzle 170 lb.: Mike Guymon (Lake Forest, Calif.) (0-0, 6-1-1) vs. Pat Healy (St. Louis) (1-1, 17-12) Pat Healy UFC Vet (UFN 6) Brother is a professional fighter also Mike Guymon Ultimate Jokester New to the IFL 185 lb.: Seth Baczynski (Phoenix) (0-1, 4-4) vs. Daniel Molina (Carson City, Nev.) (0-2, 6-7) Daniel Molina Wrestler 2 losses in the IFL to McGivern and Foster Seth Baczynski Part of the re-swizzle Lost to Beauparlant who isn’t that great Only started practicing MMA in 2005 205 lb.: Mike Whitehead (Central Point, Ore.) (3-0, 18-5) vs. Vernon White (East Palo Alto, Calif.) (1-0. 25-30-2) Vernon White UFC veteran very whiley, and strong Beat Sam Hoger in the IFL Another tough bout original Lion’s Den alumni Mike Whitehead TUF Alumni and UFC Veteran Heavy hands and a good chin Fun to watch 265 lb.: Shane Ott (Philadelphia) (1-0, 3-0) vs. Roy Nelson (Las Vegas) (1-1, 7-2) Roy Nelson Took Ben Rothwell the full 3 rounds before getting decision loss Fitness belies his pot belly Good ground expert, ex wrestler Shane Ott Beat Chad Griggs as Dragon and now fights for the scorpions Moves up from light-heavyweight to heavyweight Met his match? alt. 170 lb.: Chris Kennedy (Las Vegas) (0-0, 3-2) vs. Rick Reeves (Reno, Nev.) (1-0, 2-1) Interviews Vernon White Introduce who you are and who you fight for. You are one of the few holdovers from the original Lion’s Den left fighting at a high level. What has given you your longevity? what brought you into the sport of MMA? What are your plans after you finish fighting? How have you found competition in the IFL so far? How is it different dealing with the IFL vs. the UFC? Do you think the PRIDE acquisition by Zuffa was a good thing? Why? Who’s your favorite superhero? If you could introduce or change one thing about current MMA. What would it be? tag:odeo.com,2007-06-15,13231493 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:37:56 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, fight, IFL, mma, ultimate fighting, lions den, vernon white http://odeo.com/episodes/13209553-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-27 Steven Molen is hosting yet again while Derek Alfonso is on vacation. To make up for Derek’s loss this week, we invite Zach Arnold of FightOpinion’s fame. We also preview UFC 72, what little there is to say about this card. Steven Molen is hosting yet again while Derek Alfonso is on vacation. To make up for Derek’s loss this week, we invite Zach Arnold of FightOpinion’s fame. We also preview UFC 72, what little there is to say about this card. Steven Molen is hosting yet again while Derek Alfonso is on vacation. To make up for Derek’s loss this week, we invite Zach Arnold of FightOpinion’s fame. We also preview UFC 72, what little there is to say about this card. tag:odeo.com,2007-06-13,13209553 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:11:23 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, fight, IFL, mma, smackdown, strikeforce, ufc 72 http://odeo.com/episodes/13145203-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-26 Derek is on vacation and Steven Molen takes the hosting responsibilities. We review both the 6/3 WEC event and the disastrous K-1 even in L.A. Derek is on vacation and Steven Molen takes the hosting responsibilities. We review both the 6/3 WEC event and the disastrous K-1 even in L.A. Derek is on vacation and Steven Molen takes the hosting responsibilities. We review both the 6/3 WEC event and the disastrous K-1 even in L.A. tag:odeo.com,2007-06-06,13145203 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:48:31 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, fight, IFL, mma, k-1, wec, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12728363-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-25-5-Special-Edition tag:odeo.com,2007-06-01,12728363 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:23:12 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12728343-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-25-5-Special-Edition tag:odeo.com,2007-06-01,12728343 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:14:44 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12729113-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-25-5-Special-Edition-fixed We had so much content this week this week that we couldn’t put it all in one show. For this edition of MMA Smackdown, we break down all the matchups in both K-1 and the IFL June 2nd and June 1st respectively. Royal Burnell is my co-host for this episode and we are punch drunk from staying up so late. We had so much content this week this week that we couldn’t put it all in one show. For this edition of MMA Smackdown, we break down all the matchups in both K-1 and the IFL June 2nd and June 1st respectively. Royal Burnell is my co-host for this episode and we are punch drunk from staying up so late. We had so much content this week this week that we couldn’t put it all in one show. For this edition of MMA Smackdown, we break down all the matchups in both K-1 and the IFL June 2nd and June 1st respectively. Royal Burnell is my co-host for this episode and we are punch drunk from staying up so late. tag:odeo.com,2007-06-01,12729113 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:41:43 -0700 no Komikazee IFL, mma, k-1, wec, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12726863-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-25-5-Special-Edition tag:odeo.com,2007-06-01,12726863 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:10:57 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12714743-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-25 News, Rumors, Events, and a breakdown of what happened at UFC 71. We also have Charlie Valencia, a WEC fighter, on the show and he gave a great interview. News, Rumors, Events, and a breakdown of what happened at UFC 71. We also have Charlie Valencia, a WEC fighter, on the show and he gave a great interview. News, Rumors, Events, and a breakdown of what happened at UFC 71. We also have Charlie Valencia, a WEC fighter, on the show and he gave a great interview. tag:odeo.com,2007-05-30,12714743 Wed, 30 May 2007 05:12:57 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12662313-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-24 tag:odeo.com,2007-05-22,12662313 Tue, 22 May 2007 21:01:22 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/12551653-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-23 tag:odeo.com,2007-05-15,12551653 Tue, 15 May 2007 20:43:04 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, fight, Sport, IFL, mma, mixed martial arts http://odeo.com/episodes/11314023-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-22 All the news, rumors, previews, and reviews you have come to expect. We talk about ADCC and even have an interview with Brad Pickett of Cage Rage and BodogFIGHT fame. All the news, rumors, previews, and reviews you have come to expect. We talk about ADCC and even have an interview with Brad Pickett of Cage Rage and BodogFIGHT fame. All the news, rumors, previews, and reviews you have come to expect. We talk about ADCC and even have an interview with Brad Pickett of Cage Rage and BodogFIGHT fame. tag:odeo.com,2007-05-08,11314023 Tue, 08 May 2007 20:39:05 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, fight, IFL, mma, ultimate fighting, komikazee, bodogfight, bodog, brad pickett http://odeo.com/episodes/11279353-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-21 Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #21 (5/02/2007) News Coaches announced for The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=5470 Matt Serra vs. Matt Hughes Matt Serra pulled a funny: “I win either way the match goes. I get to punch him in the face”\ Tito Ortiz to fight Rashad Evans in July Posted initial challenge on MMA.TV Underground Tito pulls an “Imus” ” Rashad Evans!!! He will be my Nappy Headed Ho. On 7-7-07…Let The Punishment Begin!!! Tito Ortiz www.Punishment.com” Dana White Replies: “Tito Ortiz was my ‘NO-SHO-HO’ on 3-24-07” Chuck Liddell to appear on Entourage http://ufcmania.com/2007/04/26/hbos-entourage-to-feature-chuck-liddell-this-sunday/ Premieres on 4/29/2007 Gets in a fight with the character “Drama” over a parking spot Army Held Successful MMA Cage Tournament http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/04/army_combativestournament_070425w/ results: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/04/army_combativesfinal_70429/ Army has been using BJJ to do their Le... Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #21 (5/02/2007) News Coaches announced for The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=5470 Matt Serra vs. Matt Hughes Matt Serra pulled a funny: “I win either way the match goes. I get to punch him in the face”\ Tito Ortiz to fight Rashad Evans in July Posted initial challenge on MMA.TV Underground Tito pulls an “Imus” ” Rashad Evans!!! He will be my Nappy Headed Ho. On 7-7-07…Let The Punishment Begin!!! Tito Ortiz www.Punishment.com” Dana White Replies: “Tito Ortiz was my ‘NO-SHO-HO’ on 3-24-07” Chuck Liddell to appear on Entourage http://ufcmania.com/2007/04/26/hbos-entourage-to-feature-chuck-liddell-this-sunday/ Premieres on 4/29/2007 Gets in a fight with the character “Drama” over a parking spot Army Held Successful MMA Cage Tournament http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/04/army_combativestournament_070425w/ results: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/04/army_combativesfinal_70429/ Army has been using BJJ to do their Level 1 combat training for awhile Army good at marketing to the younger generation “America’s Army” Video Game “I’m a man now” commercials Sherdog to provide MMA content for ESPN http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=559288 Some have issues with Sherdog and their objectivity Reno 9-1-1 style MMA Production announced President James Hergott announced today the production of a brand new fictional MMA TV show. Will be a comedy a la Reno 9-1-1 Spoof of “The Ultimate Fighter” James Hergott is the ex-president of Imperia Films Cage Rage 21 Judgement Day aired on ION bodogFIGHT special Possible partnership? could this be the TV deal that they were alluding to? No Drug testing performed for UFC 69 and 70 http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/no_drug_testing_for_ufc_69_and_70/ TDLR (Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation) dropped the ball Were under the the assumption that UFC used same business model as boxing Boxing has separate Sanctioning Bodies and Promoters UFC is only a promoter and relies on the States to be sanctioning bodies TDLR elected to not provide drug tests with this false assumption U.K. did not have a sanctioning body for UFC 70 UFC says they tried to get drug testing but didn’t have legal rights to do so UFC as promoter supposedly cannot drug test because conflict of interest (Q) Does this really mean anything and did UFC drop the ball? (Q) What needs to be done in the future to rectify the issue? (Q) If the UFC is promoting themselves as a league, then why can’t they do like MLB, NFL, etc? Rumors Calendar 5/11 – Art of War – Austin, TX and eventually HDNET Wes Sims&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Chris Guillen David “The Crow” Loiseau&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Freddie Espiricueta Brandon McDowell&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Alex “El Toro” Andrade Chris Bowles vs.&nbsp; Randy Hauer Klas Akensson vs.&nbsp; Damien Stelly Mat Thompson vs.&nbsp; Justin Wren Tim Snyder&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Jason Palacios Jimmy Jones&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Ryan Larson David Rivera&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Justin Howard Jarrot Lewis&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Kamal Shalorus 5/12 – WEC Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Hiromitsu Miura 5/19 – Gracie FC Jeff Monson vs. Wes Sims * “The Wildman” Thomas Denny vs. Steve Heath Alex Fierra Cacareco vs. Brandon Lee Hinkle Chris Brennan vs. Adam Disabato Ronaldo de Souza “Jacare” vs. Bill Vucick * Daniel Moraes vs. Matt Brown Vinicious Malgahaes vs. George Bush Leopoldo Serao vs. Robert Wince Rafeal Dias vs. Phil Cardella Nissen Osterneck vs. Chris Meyers Damian Maia vs. Ryan Stout 5/19 – IFL: Chicago Razorclaws vs. Condors Red Bears vs. Silverbacks (third and final match before playoffs) Mauricio Smith vs. Marco Huas TV Calendar Wednesday (5/2) Thursday (5/3) Spike TV: The Ultimate Fighter Ep. 5 (10 et / 9 ct) Friday (5/4) FSN: IFL (11 pm on most FSN affiliates) - Lion’s vs. Silverbacks Part II Saturday (5/5) Sunday (5/6) Monday (5/7) MyNetworkTV: IFL Battlegrounds – Pitbulls vs. Wolfpack headline plus update on league’s top athletes Tuesday (5/8) ION: BodogFIGHT Ep. 3 (11 et / 10 ct) Evensen vs. Constant Haigh vs. Wada Previews Reviews New: We are going to start reviewing some TV action TUF 5: Andy Wang vs. Brandon Melendez Mudzilla (Gabe Ruediger). Only man brave enough to get a Colonic on national tv. Mudzilla offers to fight the easiest guy in the house, Wayne Weems. Gabe went onto the UnderGround pre-emptively to “apologize” for his behavior Brandon picks Andy to fight Gabe advises B.J. that Andy doesn’t listen to directions when in ring B.J. gameplans and tells Andy to take Brandon down Both rounds B.J. was screaming for takedown Andy stands up and bangs with Brandon whole time Andy is eliminated Wang goes on UnderGround and outright says that he was wrong IFL Lion’s Vs. Silverbacks: Part 1 FSN is finally getting a hint and not editing the fights The league is starting to catch up to the Silverbacks Rory Markham is a beast For boxers that think that MMA ppl don’t have fast hands, see third round Rory knockout Stephen Quadros asks the exact question to Ken Yasuda that I did when I first interviewed Ken. “Ironic that Tokyo Sabres only have 1 japanese fighter, will that change in the future?” The Post-Production voice talent mis-pronounced Ryan McGivern and said “Bryan McGivern” Pat Healy (17-11, 1-0) vs. Rory Markham (10-2, 4-1) Pat Healy got first knockdown Dominates first round Healy constantly pushing the pace has some nice takedowns Pat finally found the formula and continues to take Rory to the ground and GNP Rory finally challenged Markham’s face was really bloodied up Rory has an uncanny ability to get back up Rory able to open up in the second round and land some leather Markham found the zone finally and got a spectacular knockout in the third Ryan McGivern vs. Dan Molina Crotch shots are ftl (“I got hit in the nuts. Ref: I heard it”) Dan Molina’s plan was to take Ryan to the ground and use his jiu-jitsu Very good rope presence by Ryan McGivern Ryan is a strong person. All three rounds were dominated by Ryan Great Knees Constant ties ups great takedowns Vernon “The Tiger” White vs. Sam Hoger Vernon White fought in the same league as Bas Rutten in ‘92 Round one went back and forth with neither gaining advantage Sam Hoger tried a nasty guillotine but Vernon escaped Vernon takes advantage of the slip and got a rear naked choke without the hooks Sam dominated the match but Vernon won Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #21 (5/02/2007) News Coaches announced for The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=5470 Matt Serra vs. Matt Hughes Matt Serra pulled a funny: “I win either way the match goes. I get to punch him in the face”\ Tito Ortiz to fight Rashad Evans in July Posted initial challenge on MMA.TV Underground Tito pulls an “Imus” ” Rashad Evans!!! He will be my Nappy Headed Ho. On 7-7-07…Let The Punishment Begin!!! Tito Ortiz www.Punishment.com” Dana White Replies: “Tito Ortiz was my ‘NO-SHO-HO’ on 3-24-07” Chuck Liddell to appear on Entourage http://ufcmania.com/2007/04/26/hbos-entourage-to-feature-chuck-liddell-this-sunday/ Premieres on 4/29/2007 Gets in a fight with the character “Drama” over a parking spot Army Held Successful MMA Cage Tournament http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/04/army_combativestournament_070425w/ results: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/04/army_combativesfinal_70429/ Army has been using BJJ to do their Level 1 combat training for awhile Army good at marketing to the younger generation “America’s Army” Video Game “I’m a man now” commercials Sherdog to provide MMA content for ESPN http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=559288 Some have issues with Sherdog and their objectivity Reno 9-1-1 style MMA Production announced President James Hergott announced today the production of a brand new fictional MMA TV show. Will be a comedy a la Reno 9-1-1 Spoof of “The Ultimate Fighter” James Hergott is the ex-president of Imperia Films Cage Rage 21 Judgement Day aired on ION bodogFIGHT special Possible partnership? could this be the TV deal that they were alluding to? No Drug testing performed for UFC 69 and 70 http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/no_drug_testing_for_ufc_69_and_70/ TDLR (Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation) dropped the ball Were under the the assumption that UFC used same business model as boxing Boxing has separate Sanctioning Bodies and Promoters UFC is only a promoter and relies on the States to be sanctioning bodies TDLR elected to not provide drug tests with this false assumption U.K. did not have a sanctioning body for UFC 70 UFC says they tried to get drug testing but didn’t have legal rights to do so UFC as promoter supposedly cannot drug test because conflict of interest (Q) Does this really mean anything and did UFC drop the ball? (Q) What needs to be done in the future to rectify the issue? (Q) If the UFC is promoting themselves as a league, then why can’t they do like MLB, NFL, etc? Rumors Calendar 5/11 – Art of War – Austin, TX and eventually HDNET Wes Sims&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Chris Guillen David “The Crow” Loiseau&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Freddie Espiricueta Brandon McDowell&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Alex “El Toro” Andrade Chris Bowles vs.&nbsp; Randy Hauer Klas Akensson vs.&nbsp; Damien Stelly Mat Thompson vs.&nbsp; Justin Wren Tim Snyder&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Jason Palacios Jimmy Jones&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Ryan Larson David Rivera&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Justin Howard Jarrot Lewis&nbsp; vs.&nbsp; Kamal Shalorus 5/12 – WEC Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Hiromitsu Miura 5/19 – Gracie FC Jeff Monson vs. Wes Sims * “The Wildman” Thomas Denny vs. Steve Heath Alex Fierra Cacareco vs. Brandon Lee Hinkle Chris Brennan vs. Adam Disabato Ronaldo de Souza “Jacare” vs. Bill Vucick * Daniel Moraes vs. Matt Brown Vinicious Malgahaes vs. George Bush Leopoldo Serao vs. Robert Wince Rafeal Dias vs. Phil Cardella Nissen Osterneck vs. Chris Meyers Damian Maia vs. Ryan Stout 5/19 – IFL: Chicago Razorclaws vs. Condors Red Bears vs. Silverbacks (third and final match before playoffs) Mauricio Smith vs. Marco Huas TV Calendar Wednesday (5/2) Thursday (5/3) Spike TV: The Ultimate Fighter Ep. 5 (10 et / 9 ct) Friday (5/4) FSN: IFL (11 pm on most FSN affiliates) - Lion’s vs. Silverbacks Part II Saturday (5/5) Sunday (5/6) Monday (5/7) MyNetworkTV: IFL Battlegrounds – Pitbulls vs. Wolfpack headline plus update on league’s top athletes Tuesday (5/8) ION: BodogFIGHT Ep. 3 (11 et / 10 ct) Evensen vs. Constant Haigh vs. Wada Previews Reviews New: We are going to start reviewing some TV action TUF 5: Andy Wang vs. Brandon Melendez Mudzilla (Gabe Ruediger). Only man brave enough to get a Colonic on national tv. Mudzilla offers to fight the easiest guy in the house, Wayne Weems. Gabe went onto the UnderGround pre-emptively to “apologize” for his behavior Brandon picks Andy to fight Gabe advises B.J. that Andy doesn’t listen to directions when in ring B.J. gameplans and tells Andy to take Brandon down Both rounds B.J. was screaming for takedown Andy stands up and bangs with Brandon whole time Andy is eliminated Wang goes on UnderGround and outright says that he was wrong IFL Lion’s Vs. Silverbacks: Part 1 FSN is finally getting a hint and not editing the fights The league is starting to catch up to the Silverbacks Rory Markham is a beast For boxers that think that MMA ppl don’t have fast hands, see third round Rory knockout Stephen Quadros asks the exact question to Ken Yasuda that I did when I first interviewed Ken. “Ironic that Tokyo Sabres only have 1 japanese fighter, will that change in the future?” The Post-Production voice talent mis-pronounced Ryan McGivern and said “Bryan McGivern” Pat Healy (17-11, 1-0) vs. Rory Markham (10-2, 4-1) Pat Healy got first knockdown Dominates first round Healy constantly pushing the pace has some nice takedowns Pat finally found the formula and continues to take Rory to the ground and GNP Rory finally challenged Markham’s face was really bloodied up Rory has an uncanny ability to get back up Rory able to open up in the second round and land some leather Markham found the zone finally and got a spectacular knockout in the third Ryan McGivern vs. Dan Molina Crotch shots are ftl (“I got hit in the nuts. Ref: I heard it”) Dan Molina’s plan was to take Ryan to the ground and use his jiu-jitsu Very good rope presence by Ryan McGivern Ryan is a strong person. All three rounds were dominated by Ryan Great Knees Constant ties ups great takedowns Vernon “The Tiger” White vs. Sam Hoger Vernon White fought in the same league as Bas Rutten in ‘92 Round one went back and forth with neither gaining advantage Sam Hoger tried a nasty guillotine but Vernon escaped Vernon takes advantage of the slip and got a rear naked choke without the hooks Sam dominated the match but Vernon won tag:odeo.com,2007-05-02,11279353 Wed, 02 May 2007 11:19:36 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, fight, fighting, IFL, mma, ultimate fighting championship, art of war http://odeo.com/episodes/11232213-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-20 Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #20 (4/25/2007) News UFC teleconference o http://www.mmanews.com/pride/Tons-Of-PRIDE-News-From-Dana-White-Conference-Call.html o Zuffa working with NJSAC (New Jersey State Athletic Commission) to legalize knees to the head on the ground o UFC 72 will be in N.Ireland and possibly on SPIKE o UFC will be on HBO + HBO Sports will produce event o PRIDE Lightweight Grand Prix in July + According to Dana White, No UFC Fighters will be in the LWGP + PRIDE and UFC are separate entities + “You won’t see UFC vs. PRIDE until we do the big event.” o Fertittas aiming to get PRIDE on American TV + That’s great, but you’re based in Japan and the fanbase is Japanese + No Japanese TV = Less money to filter into PRIDE + Need to drop the gaijin attitude and adopt Japanese mindset FTW. o PRIDE Superheavy division is abolished along with freak fights o Dana doesn’t understand why Sakuraba is back in PRIDE + FEG loaned Sakuraba to PRIDE for his big match against Tamura + loaning ... Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #20 (4/25/2007) News UFC teleconference o http://www.mmanews.com/pride/Tons-Of-PRIDE-News-From-Dana-White-Conference-Call.html o Zuffa working with NJSAC (New Jersey State Athletic Commission) to legalize knees to the head on the ground o UFC 72 will be in N.Ireland and possibly on SPIKE o UFC will be on HBO + HBO Sports will produce event o PRIDE Lightweight Grand Prix in July + According to Dana White, No UFC Fighters will be in the LWGP + PRIDE and UFC are separate entities + “You won’t see UFC vs. PRIDE until we do the big event.” o Fertittas aiming to get PRIDE on American TV + That’s great, but you’re based in Japan and the fanbase is Japanese + No Japanese TV = Less money to filter into PRIDE + Need to drop the gaijin attitude and adopt Japanese mindset FTW. o PRIDE Superheavy division is abolished along with freak fights o Dana doesn’t understand why Sakuraba is back in PRIDE + FEG loaned Sakuraba to PRIDE for his big match against Tamura + loaning out fighters has been a natural thing + business move carried over from Japanese pro-wrestling; used to promote the fighter as well as brand rivalry. + PRIDE allowed fighters to fight in two or three promotions at a time thanks to loaning + Because the fight started out from Pro-Wrestling, the fight has a big possibility of not happening under Ferttitas. # if so, PRIDE will lose a large part of their fanbase. # Already have one strike against them for being gaijin; it would be strike two if fight is not promoted due to fighters former professions. UFC and HBO Ink deal o Dana gave up production control to get deal done o Bill Goldberg and Joe Rogan will not commentate o First show slated for sometime in the Summer o The quality of the shows will be in between UFC Fight Night and PPV BodogFIGHT Season 3: Costa Rica already started o Still airing on ION + Paid Programming and Oldies programs on ION + PANCRASE fighters will be featured. # http://www.pancrase.co.jp/en/index.html # PANCRASE is the oldest MMA league in Japan. # Hybrid Pro Wrestling and Real Fighting # Before the transition into full MMA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HwcIXu8Cck # The last of the “Big Three” shootfight promotions (RINGS, UWFi/PRIDE, Foo-gee-wa-ra goo-me/PANCRASE) # Bas Rutten, Frank Shamrock, Josh Barnett, Matt Hume, Keith Jardine, Gen-key Sue-doe, Nathan Marquardt, Me-nor-roo Sue-zoo-key all came from Pancrase # Ayre has a financial relationship with PANCRASE Mike “Quick” Swick moving to Welterweight o http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/04/23/exclusive-swick-to-fight-at-welterweight.aspx o Was last seen complaining in his corner how strong Okami was o Is a light Middleweight o This move will further degrade the Middleweight division + Kendall Grove, Rich Franklin, Chris Leben, Ed Herman, Anderson Silva o Welterweight division is star studded + Josh Koscheck, Diego Sanchez, Matt Hughes, Karo Parisyan, GSP Floyd Mayweather challenges Chuck Liddell o http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/floyd_mayweather_jr_challenges_chuck_liddell/ o Says that MMA is for chumps o He can beat any MMA fighter o Dana called his bluff + Would like to put Mayweather against “Muscle Shark” Shawn Sherk + Will put up money needed to satisfy Mayweather for fight + Guarantee’s K.O. in under 2 minutes o Typical Boxer arrogance vs. MMA Frank Shamrock vs. Phil Baroni on June 22nd o EliteXC card o Dana White offers to double Baroni’s purse if he beats Shamrock o Dana does not like Frank Shamrock CondomDepot.com Sponsors Andrei ‘The Pitbull’ Arlovski o UFC 70 featured the ex-champion wearing their logo o Arlovski rumored to be wearing a full cuirass and roman helmet to go into the ring (tongue in cheek) o Will enter the ring to the tunes of “Trojan Man”!!!! UFC considers UK version of The Ultimate Fighter o http://ufcjunkie.com/2007/04/23/dana-white-ufc-considering-uk-edition-of-the-ultimate-fighter/ o News broke at UFC 70 post fight news conference o Dana wants it done o Dana called out David Clarke at Bravo o Shown in the U.S.? U.K. papers perplexed and horrified by UFC debut o The Independent + http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article2474455.ece + Perplexed + exhilarating but boring at times + Some fans fought when fights got boring o Manchester Evening News + http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/s/1005/1005189_ultimate_fighting_championships__men_arena.html + Horrified + Compared it to gladiatorial combat + Lots of blood + No Skill + No education on the venue # called UFC the WFC # Said WFC was banned from UK at one time o Daily Star + http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=1589 + Used every blood reference in the book + Described event like a massacre + Claims that health campaigners are going to try and ban sport o Why the uproar? Cage Rage been running for years + sport is still very young; going on five years + A striker nation. ground fighting not even on a cult level like in the US o Double standard excruciating + Soccer players don’t get broken or bloody noses? + Splintered shins no big deal + Split foreheads never happen + Broken limbs never materialize Calendar 5/11 – Art of War – Austin, TX and eventually HDNET 5/12 – WEC Rich Crunkilton vs. Rob McCullough 5/19 – Gracie FC Jeff Monson vs. Wes Sims TBA vs. Marcus Avellan “The Westside Strangler” Chris Brennan vs. Adam De-sa-bay-to Dorian Price vs. Phil Cardell-la Vin-nes-see-us Mag-el-hays vs. “The President” George Bush Honaldo “Jah-Car-re” Souza vs. Jeremy Jackson Thomas Denny vs. TBA Daniel More-rhys vs. TBA Nissen Osterneck vs. TBA 5/19 – IFL: Chicago Razorclaws vs. Condors Red Bears vs. Silverbacks Mauricio Smith vs. Marco Huas Reviews UFC 70 Cheek Kongo (win) vs. A-swear-eeyoh Silva http://mma.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/ufc_70_review/ (S)First round entertaining o Lots of strikes from Cheick o Great slams from Assuerio (R)Second and third rounds snooze except for brief moments where Kongo opened up on his feet. (S)Lack of Submissions on ground = snooze fest (R)Cheek Kongo Highlights o Cheek Kongo showed flashes of brilliance in standup o Once taken to the ground, Cheek was out of his league o Stiff on the ground (almost robotic). o Extremely strong though and was able to advert many problems o Joe was right, He needs to be kidnapped and taken to a wrestling camp for 6 months (S)Assuerio Silva Highlights o Silva was getting the takedowns at will o Spectacular single leg grabs and subsequent slams o Slams are great but you need to finish after you slam o Assuerio needs to work on his submission game more Cheick Kongo wins unanimous decision Terry Etim (win) vs. Matt Grice Fans really got into fight Terry Etim clear fan favorite. Very entertaining bout with a finish in the first round Terry Etim almost made a critical mistake by rushing in after stunning Matt Matt takes Terry down and starts to work him over with GNP Terry manages to get himself upright and gets standing guillotine Guillotine didn’t look deep but Matt slumps out of the hold Terry drops to the ground and re-applies the move for the KO. Terry Etim Highlights o Almost paid for rookie mistake by rushing in o Needs to learn about window of opportunity on stuns o Tough kid to take the pounding he did o Unorthodox Guillotine wins it for him Matt Grice Highlights o Took control early on o Very good GNP. + Hip movement with hits + Nasty punches messed up Terry’s face o Needs to learn how to keep control o Don’t slot head underneath person’s armpit o Don’t let a person snake hand around head o Very easily correctable mistake Terry Etim wins in last 15 seconds of first round via guillotine choke Michael Bisping (win) vs. Elvis Sinosic Another crowd favorite that almost brought the house down Bisping almost ran past safety inspection and into ring Elvis was game but not in league with Bisping Exciting fight to watch Round one dominated by Bisping o Elvis didn’t control Bisping posture o Bisping relentless in GNP o Face a mess at the end of round Round two gave Bisping a scare o Elvis lands a good knee o Drops the favorite o Gets Bisping’s back but can’t do anything with it o Bisping reverses and drops massive blows o Ref stops bout Bisping Highlights Elvis Highlights Michael Bisping wins by ref stoppage in the second round Andrei Arlovski (win) vs. Fab-reese-eeoh Verdoom Almost too boring to recount Andrei has skills, needs to remember entertainment is factor Fabricio can’t fight on the same card as Mirko One judge was so disgusted that he gave it a draw Great first round with Andrei controlling tempo and staying engaged Second and third round was snooze fest o Andrei was worried about take downs o Andrei stuck with gameplan and didn’t stay engaged o Andrei Constantly stalking but not engaging Andrei Arlovski wins by Majority Decision Mirko “Cro Cop” Filopovic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga (win) Gabriel came into the ring confident. Was stalking Cro-Cop Took Cro-Cop down easily Dropped elbows and bloodied Mirko Ref (Herb Dean) prematurely stood the fighters up Gabriel landed a headkick that folded the PRIDE star Mirko’s leg folded up underneath him after KO GONZAGA LANDS THE HEADKICK ON CRO-COP AND KNOCKS HIM OUT COLD IN FIRST ROUND!!!!!!!!!!! Discuss possible implications for UFC with loss o Damage Cro-Cop’s value? o Who will Cro-Cop fight next? o Is Gabriel Gonzaga for real? o Will Gonzaga vs. Couture be interesting? o Who will win? Royal Burnell o kakutogigumi.blogspot.com o mma-madess.com Cage Rage (If we have time) Tank Abbott vs. Gary Turner Disgraceful that they actually allowed this Tank came in with 3 days notice against a well trained fighter Charged in and started to pummel Gary Burned himself out after a minute then rolled over in exhaustion Gary Turn Vitor Belfort vs. Ivan Serrati Both came out striking Vitor landed a knee from the clinch and took down Ivan Got his back and started some fierce GNP Vitor wins by ref stoppage in the first round Ross Pointon vs. Abdul Mohammed Decent action with some stand-up flurries Spectacular spinning hammerfist from Abdul Knocks out Ross. Abdul wins by KO first round. Brad Pickett vs. Alex Owens Fight of the night Brad was crowd favorite Entered with a hat plus cutoffs and reading a newspaper Back and forth battle for three round Alex finally get Brad’s back in the third round Works whole round to get rear naked but never gets it Last 10 seconds Brad reverses and starts pounding away Alex Owens wins by majority decision Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #20 (4/25/2007) News UFC teleconference o http://www.mmanews.com/pride/Tons-Of-PRIDE-News-From-Dana-White-Conference-Call.html o Zuffa working with NJSAC (New Jersey State Athletic Commission) to legalize knees to the head on the ground o UFC 72 will be in N.Ireland and possibly on SPIKE o UFC will be on HBO + HBO Sports will produce event o PRIDE Lightweight Grand Prix in July + According to Dana White, No UFC Fighters will be in the LWGP + PRIDE and UFC are separate entities + “You won’t see UFC vs. PRIDE until we do the big event.” o Fertittas aiming to get PRIDE on American TV + That’s great, but you’re based in Japan and the fanbase is Japanese + No Japanese TV = Less money to filter into PRIDE + Need to drop the gaijin attitude and adopt Japanese mindset FTW. o PRIDE Superheavy division is abolished along with freak fights o Dana doesn’t understand why Sakuraba is back in PRIDE + FEG loaned Sakuraba to PRIDE for his big match against Tamura + loaning out fighters has been a natural thing + business move carried over from Japanese pro-wrestling; used to promote the fighter as well as brand rivalry. + PRIDE allowed fighters to fight in two or three promotions at a time thanks to loaning + Because the fight started out from Pro-Wrestling, the fight has a big possibility of not happening under Ferttitas. # if so, PRIDE will lose a large part of their fanbase. # Already have one strike against them for being gaijin; it would be strike two if fight is not promoted due to fighters former professions. UFC and HBO Ink deal o Dana gave up production control to get deal done o Bill Goldberg and Joe Rogan will not commentate o First show slated for sometime in the Summer o The quality of the shows will be in between UFC Fight Night and PPV BodogFIGHT Season 3: Costa Rica already started o Still airing on ION + Paid Programming and Oldies programs on ION + PANCRASE fighters will be featured. # http://www.pancrase.co.jp/en/index.html # PANCRASE is the oldest MMA league in Japan. # Hybrid Pro Wrestling and Real Fighting # Before the transition into full MMA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HwcIXu8Cck # The last of the “Big Three” shootfight promotions (RINGS, UWFi/PRIDE, Foo-gee-wa-ra goo-me/PANCRASE) # Bas Rutten, Frank Shamrock, Josh Barnett, Matt Hume, Keith Jardine, Gen-key Sue-doe, Nathan Marquardt, Me-nor-roo Sue-zoo-key all came from Pancrase # Ayre has a financial relationship with PANCRASE Mike “Quick” Swick moving to Welterweight o http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/04/23/exclusive-swick-to-fight-at-welterweight.aspx o Was last seen complaining in his corner how strong Okami was o Is a light Middleweight o This move will further degrade the Middleweight division + Kendall Grove, Rich Franklin, Chris Leben, Ed Herman, Anderson Silva o Welterweight division is star studded + Josh Koscheck, Diego Sanchez, Matt Hughes, Karo Parisyan, GSP Floyd Mayweather challenges Chuck Liddell o http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/floyd_mayweather_jr_challenges_chuck_liddell/ o Says that MMA is for chumps o He can beat any MMA fighter o Dana called his bluff + Would like to put Mayweather against “Muscle Shark” Shawn Sherk + Will put up money needed to satisfy Mayweather for fight + Guarantee’s K.O. in under 2 minutes o Typical Boxer arrogance vs. MMA Frank Shamrock vs. Phil Baroni on June 22nd o EliteXC card o Dana White offers to double Baroni’s purse if he beats Shamrock o Dana does not like Frank Shamrock CondomDepot.com Sponsors Andrei ‘The Pitbull’ Arlovski o UFC 70 featured the ex-champion wearing their logo o Arlovski rumored to be wearing a full cuirass and roman helmet to go into the ring (tongue in cheek) o Will enter the ring to the tunes of “Trojan Man”!!!! UFC considers UK version of The Ultimate Fighter o http://ufcjunkie.com/2007/04/23/dana-white-ufc-considering-uk-edition-of-the-ultimate-fighter/ o News broke at UFC 70 post fight news conference o Dana wants it done o Dana called out David Clarke at Bravo o Shown in the U.S.? U.K. papers perplexed and horrified by UFC debut o The Independent + http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article2474455.ece + Perplexed + exhilarating but boring at times + Some fans fought when fights got boring o Manchester Evening News + http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/s/1005/1005189_ultimate_fighting_championships__men_arena.html + Horrified + Compared it to gladiatorial combat + Lots of blood + No Skill + No education on the venue # called UFC the WFC # Said WFC was banned from UK at one time o Daily Star + http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=1589 + Used every blood reference in the book + Described event like a massacre + Claims that health campaigners are going to try and ban sport o Why the uproar? Cage Rage been running for years + sport is still very young; going on five years + A striker nation. ground fighting not even on a cult level like in the US o Double standard excruciating + Soccer players don’t get broken or bloody noses? + Splintered shins no big deal + Split foreheads never happen + Broken limbs never materialize Calendar 5/11 – Art of War – Austin, TX and eventually HDNET 5/12 – WEC Rich Crunkilton vs. Rob McCullough 5/19 – Gracie FC Jeff Monson vs. Wes Sims TBA vs. Marcus Avellan “The Westside Strangler” Chris Brennan vs. Adam De-sa-bay-to Dorian Price vs. Phil Cardell-la Vin-nes-see-us Mag-el-hays vs. “The President” George Bush Honaldo “Jah-Car-re” Souza vs. Jeremy Jackson Thomas Denny vs. TBA Daniel More-rhys vs. TBA Nissen Osterneck vs. TBA 5/19 – IFL: Chicago Razorclaws vs. Condors Red Bears vs. Silverbacks Mauricio Smith vs. Marco Huas Reviews UFC 70 Cheek Kongo (win) vs. A-swear-eeyoh Silva http://mma.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/ufc_70_review/ (S)First round entertaining o Lots of strikes from Cheick o Great slams from Assuerio (R)Second and third rounds snooze except for brief moments where Kongo opened up on his feet. (S)Lack of Submissions on ground = snooze fest (R)Cheek Kongo Highlights o Cheek Kongo showed flashes of brilliance in standup o Once taken to the ground, Cheek was out of his league o Stiff on the ground (almost robotic). o Extremely strong though and was able to advert many problems o Joe was right, He needs to be kidnapped and taken to a wrestling camp for 6 months (S)Assuerio Silva Highlights o Silva was getting the takedowns at will o Spectacular single leg grabs and subsequent slams o Slams are great but you need to finish after you slam o Assuerio needs to work on his submission game more Cheick Kongo wins unanimous decision Terry Etim (win) vs. Matt Grice Fans really got into fight Terry Etim clear fan favorite. Very entertaining bout with a finish in the first round Terry Etim almost made a critical mistake by rushing in after stunning Matt Matt takes Terry down and starts to work him over with GNP Terry manages to get himself upright and gets standing guillotine Guillotine didn’t look deep but Matt slumps out of the hold Terry drops to the ground and re-applies the move for the KO. Terry Etim Highlights o Almost paid for rookie mistake by rushing in o Needs to learn about window of opportunity on stuns o Tough kid to take the pounding he did o Unorthodox Guillotine wins it for him Matt Grice Highlights o Took control early on o Very good GNP. + Hip movement with hits + Nasty punches messed up Terry’s face o Needs to learn how to keep control o Don’t slot head underneath person’s armpit o Don’t let a person snake hand around head o Very easily correctable mistake Terry Etim wins in last 15 seconds of first round via guillotine choke Michael Bisping (win) vs. Elvis Sinosic Another crowd favorite that almost brought the house down Bisping almost ran past safety inspection and into ring Elvis was game but not in league with Bisping Exciting fight to watch Round one dominated by Bisping o Elvis didn’t control Bisping posture o Bisping relentless in GNP o Face a mess at the end of round Round two gave Bisping a scare o Elvis lands a good knee o Drops the favorite o Gets Bisping’s back but can’t do anything with it o Bisping reverses and drops massive blows o Ref stops bout Bisping Highlights Elvis Highlights Michael Bisping wins by ref stoppage in the second round Andrei Arlovski (win) vs. Fab-reese-eeoh Verdoom Almost too boring to recount Andrei has skills, needs to remember entertainment is factor Fabricio can’t fight on the same card as Mirko One judge was so disgusted that he gave it a draw Great first round with Andrei controlling tempo and staying engaged Second and third round was snooze fest o Andrei was worried about take downs o Andrei stuck with gameplan and didn’t stay engaged o Andrei Constantly stalking but not engaging Andrei Arlovski wins by Majority Decision Mirko “Cro Cop” Filopovic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga (win) Gabriel came into the ring confident. Was stalking Cro-Cop Took Cro-Cop down easily Dropped elbows and bloodied Mirko Ref (Herb Dean) prematurely stood the fighters up Gabriel landed a headkick that folded the PRIDE star Mirko’s leg folded up underneath him after KO GONZAGA LANDS THE HEADKICK ON CRO-COP AND KNOCKS HIM OUT COLD IN FIRST ROUND!!!!!!!!!!! Discuss possible implications for UFC with loss o Damage Cro-Cop’s value? o Who will Cro-Cop fight next? o Is Gabriel Gonzaga for real? o Will Gonzaga vs. Couture be interesting? o Who will win? Royal Burnell o kakutogigumi.blogspot.com o mma-madess.com Cage Rage (If we have time) Tank Abbott vs. Gary Turner Disgraceful that they actually allowed this Tank came in with 3 days notice against a well trained fighter Charged in and started to pummel Gary Burned himself out after a minute then rolled over in exhaustion Gary Turn Vitor Belfort vs. Ivan Serrati Both came out striking Vitor landed a knee from the clinch and took down Ivan Got his back and started some fierce GNP Vitor wins by ref stoppage in the first round Ross Pointon vs. Abdul Mohammed Decent action with some stand-up flurries Spectacular spinning hammerfist from Abdul Knocks out Ross. Abdul wins by KO first round. Brad Pickett vs. Alex Owens Fight of the night Brad was crowd favorite Entered with a hat plus cutoffs and reading a newspaper Back and forth battle for three round Alex finally get Brad’s back in the third round Works whole round to get rear naked but never gets it Last 10 seconds Brad reverses and starts pounding away Alex Owens wins by majority decision tag:odeo.com,2007-04-24,11232213 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:56:10 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, IFL, mma, komikazee, cro-cop, ufc 70 http://odeo.com/episodes/11180193-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-19 Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #19 (4/18/2007) News Phil Baroni Arrested o http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/phil_baroni_arrested_in_miami/ o Protecting his girlfriend against two guys that were harassing o One even boldly kissed the lady o Charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and threatening a public servant (Most likely a policeman). NSAC Hands down suspensions o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3754&zoneid=2 o Kit Cope, Joe Pearson, and Nick Diaz all suspended o Joe Pearson was suspended for Delta-9-THC (Marijuana) for 6 months and fined $800 + Said it was a 1 time thing and that he was sorry o Kit Cope was suspended for the anabolic Boldenone for 9 months and fined $1200 + Same steroid Stephan Bonnar tested positive for and usually used on livestock + Claimed he had 30-40 shots from surgery in 2005 and that is what could have caused the problem o Nick Diaz suspended for Delta-9-THC (Marijuana) for 6 months and fined $3000 + Was ... Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #19 (4/18/2007) News Phil Baroni Arrested o http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/phil_baroni_arrested_in_miami/ o Protecting his girlfriend against two guys that were harassing o One even boldly kissed the lady o Charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and threatening a public servant (Most likely a policeman). NSAC Hands down suspensions o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3754&zoneid=2 o Kit Cope, Joe Pearson, and Nick Diaz all suspended o Joe Pearson was suspended for Delta-9-THC (Marijuana) for 6 months and fined $800 + Said it was a 1 time thing and that he was sorry o Kit Cope was suspended for the anabolic Boldenone for 9 months and fined $1200 + Same steroid Stephan Bonnar tested positive for and usually used on livestock + Claimed he had 30-40 shots from surgery in 2005 and that is what could have caused the problem o Nick Diaz suspended for Delta-9-THC (Marijuana) for 6 months and fined $3000 + Was at a level of 175. 50 tests you positive + Doctor said that the lack of pain helped him win + Fight with Gomi changed to a “No-Contest” Hid-day-hee-ko Yo-shee-da to fight in the UFC in the summer o Olympic gold medalist in Judo o Sorta the fighters “figurehead” in PRIDE, especially for the Japanese contingent. o Broke Don Frye’s arm in first match. o Will fight as a Light-Heavy o Submission Master o Ground Master o Striking ok, but growing. o Can take a licking (See vs. Wanderlei Silva #1) o Gi might be a weakness. Only fought once (twice?) without a gi o Unified Rules might hinder more then reward Yoshida. Pride Lightweight Grand Prix Postponed by Fertittas o Sak-kaki-bara will be talking to Fertittas this week o Pride still run by DSE until May 1st. o Pride Worldwide would have less then three weeks to produce event; “There is not enough time for production and promotion.” o Reasons could range from fighter assessment to wresting production duties from Gerry Millen. o Perfectly natural to postpone. o Japanese media reports that Takada is aiming for July 16th (Rumor: http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3791&zoneid=1) Could not find BodogFIGHT: Clash of Nations on PPV o DISH Network didn’t have it. o No bars were carrying it either. o Doesn’t bode well if your clientele can’t have access to your event o http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?search=yes&EventID=4683 o Matt Lindland lost in first round via armbar to Fedor o Aleksander Emelianenko won vs. Pele in first round TKO o Julie Kedzie won second round TKO strikes o Jean Claude Van-Damme, President Putin among the fans. o Fedor vs. Lindland: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pxg9_fedor-vs-matt-14-april-2007 o “Lil” Aleks vs. “Big” Pele: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pwyf_erik-pele-vs-aleks-emelianenko-bodo Tito Ortiz was a no-show for the Dana / Tito bout o So Dana decides to fuel the fire and show a 90 minute documentary about the no-fight to make Tito look foolish o SPIKE uses marketing deception to make it look like they were going to fight when in reality they weren’t o Lots of angry fans (http://ufcmania.com/2007/04/11/bad-blood-dana-white-vs-tito-ortiz-vs-fan-apathy/) o Tito then releases a press release rebutting the 90 minutes (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=239168) Calendar 4/21 – UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV; PPV for UK folk.) Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel “Nah-Pow” Gonzaga Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongo 4/21 – Cage Rage 21: Judgement Day (Sky3 for UK folks; http://www.proelite.com for the world) http://www.cagerage.tv/nextevents.htm Bob Sapp vs. Gary Turner Ivan Serati vs. Vee-tor Belfort Cage Rage Lightheavyweight Title Match: “Cyborg” Eve-and-jel-ee-sta vs. James Zee-kick Kickboxing: James McSweeney vs. Mike Macdonald Die-jeer-oh Mat-sue-ee vs. Mark Weer Mer-rill-oh “Ninja” vs. Alex Reid Roman Webber vs. Mark Epstein Cage Rage British Welterweight Title: Paul Jenkins vs. Paul Daley Ross Pointon vs. Abdul Mohammed Alex Owen vs. Brad Pickett 5/11 – Art of War 5/12 – WEC Rich Crunkilton vs. Rob McCullough 5/19 – Gracie FC Jeff Monson vs. Wes Sims Marcelo Garcia vs. Marcus Avellan Chris Brennan vs. Adam Disabato Dorian Price vs. Phil Cardella Vinicius Magalhaes vs. George Bush Ronaldo “Jah-Car-re” Souza vs. Jeremy Jackson o Jacare + Great Grappler + Abu Dahbi Champ + Wrestled Couture to a draw at a submission wrestling tournament. + vs. Couture: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mq0f_randy-couture-vs-ronaldo-jacare-sou Thomas Denny vs. TBA Daniel Moraes vs. TBA Nissen Osterneck vs. TBA Preview UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV April 21st) http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/official_fight_card_for_ufc_70_nations_collide_released/ Heavyweight (205-265): Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel “Nah-Pow” Gonzaga o Gabriel “Napao” -B + Submission Specialist + Top Grade Grappler + Questionable Chin + Only Loss to Werdum. He defeated him in Brazil via TKO (Strikes) o Mirko “CROCOP” -S + Former Counter-Terrorist SWAT + Former Politician + Left High Kick + Great Hands + Awesome Sprawl + Growing Ground Game + Gets Rough When Booked With Werdum on Same Card, Makes Mistakes Light Heavyweight (205): Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic o Michael Bisping -S + TUF Alumni + Good striker + Haven’t seen his ground game + Long time since a fight + Home Favorite o Elvis Sinosic-B + http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=281 + 1 win 4 losses in the UFC + Lost against Forrest, Henato Sobral, Evan Tanner, Tito Ortiz + Did win last 2 fights, one in Cage Rage Heavyweight (205-265): Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom o Andre Arlovski -S + Former Cop + Awesome Striking + Sambo Background + Tentative When Makes Mistakes (see vs. Sylvia 3) o Fabricio Werdum -B + Multi BJJ World Champ + Top Grade Grappler + Has Grappling Wins Over Matt Lindland and Marcio Cruz + Good Striking + Like Crocop, Work Gets Rough When Both Are On The Same Card. Heavyweight (205-265): As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongoh o Assuerio Silva -B + http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=1587 + Strong Man + Short for a heavyweight + Lost to Tim Silvia + Grappler primarily + Former Chute Boxe student o Cheick Kongo -S + Muy Thai specialist first and foremost + Weak against the ground game + Heavy Hands + Lost his last Light Heavyweight (205): DAVID HEATH vs. Ree-YOTO Maw-cheeda o “Lee-OTO” Maw-cheeda: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmx66_ryoto-machida -B + Started in Karate + Great hands + Trained by Antonio Ee-no-key; Pro-wrestling and BJJ grappling background. + Don’t know extent of grappling because he’s comfortable with striking and neutralizing ground technique. + Holds wins over Rich Franklin, Stephan Bonnar, Mike MacDonald, BJ Penn and Sam Hoger. + Dana temporarly “banished” Franklin, for signing with Inoki and losing to LYOTO + Vs. Franklin: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1krok_lyoto-machida-vs-rich-franklin + Vs. Bonnar: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjgwo_stephan-bonnar-vs-lyoto-machida-jf o David Heath -S + http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=11483 + Relative newcomer to UFC + 2 wins in UFC against no-names + Free style fighter. Comfortable with both ground and stand-up + Biggest test yet. * MATT GRICE vs. TERRY ETIM (Prelim) * JUNIOR ASSUNCAO vs. DAVID LEE (Prelim) * VICTOR VALIMAKI vs. ALESSIO SAKARA (Prelim) * DENNIS SIVER vs. JESS LIAUDIN (Prelim) * EDILBERTO CROCOTA vs. PAUL TAYLOR (Prelim) Reviews IFL : Mohegan Sun, Connecticut Ryan Schultz vs. Joe Sampieri o Did not see because FSN cut in late o Ryan won via decision Michael Dolce vs. Delson Heleno o Dolce won via KO in his last bout in 29 seconds o Dolce was overmatched by Heleno on the ground o Dolce very tentative after being taken down o Heleno put on a ground clinic o Heleno wins by unanimous decision in three rounds Gerald Harris vs. Fabio Leopoldo o Almost the fight of the night o Gerald Harris continually picked up Fabio Leopoldo and slammed him down o Harris Constantly changed grip mid-air to avoid the Guillotine o Was always on top o Fabio put on a submission clinic but never could quite finish the deal o Seemed like every submission was tried except for ankle locks o Harris gassed by the third round from all the slams. o Fabio won via split decision. Gerald didn’t agree. o I can respect the judges that knew enough about MMA to value the plethora of submission attempts Jamal Patterson vs. Matt Horwich o Lasted all of 25 seconds. o Matt fell straight into a guillotine o Jamal Patterson wins via Guillotine choke R1 Devin Cole vs. Brian Vettell o Fight of the Night o Devin came into the fight having lost his last 4 bouts. o Cole Looked to be on the way to his fifth loss in the first o Devin was bonked on his nose, previously broken, in the first round o Roars back in the second o Lands a great superman punch then follows with an uppercut after the clinch o Gets on top and then pummels Vettell to unconsciousness Interview * Matt Horwich * Royal Burnell o kakutogigumi.blogspot.com o mma-madness.com Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #19 (4/18/2007) News Phil Baroni Arrested o http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/phil_baroni_arrested_in_miami/ o Protecting his girlfriend against two guys that were harassing o One even boldly kissed the lady o Charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and threatening a public servant (Most likely a policeman). NSAC Hands down suspensions o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3754&zoneid=2 o Kit Cope, Joe Pearson, and Nick Diaz all suspended o Joe Pearson was suspended for Delta-9-THC (Marijuana) for 6 months and fined $800 + Said it was a 1 time thing and that he was sorry o Kit Cope was suspended for the anabolic Boldenone for 9 months and fined $1200 + Same steroid Stephan Bonnar tested positive for and usually used on livestock + Claimed he had 30-40 shots from surgery in 2005 and that is what could have caused the problem o Nick Diaz suspended for Delta-9-THC (Marijuana) for 6 months and fined $3000 + Was at a level of 175. 50 tests you positive + Doctor said that the lack of pain helped him win + Fight with Gomi changed to a “No-Contest” Hid-day-hee-ko Yo-shee-da to fight in the UFC in the summer o Olympic gold medalist in Judo o Sorta the fighters “figurehead” in PRIDE, especially for the Japanese contingent. o Broke Don Frye’s arm in first match. o Will fight as a Light-Heavy o Submission Master o Ground Master o Striking ok, but growing. o Can take a licking (See vs. Wanderlei Silva #1) o Gi might be a weakness. Only fought once (twice?) without a gi o Unified Rules might hinder more then reward Yoshida. Pride Lightweight Grand Prix Postponed by Fertittas o Sak-kaki-bara will be talking to Fertittas this week o Pride still run by DSE until May 1st. o Pride Worldwide would have less then three weeks to produce event; “There is not enough time for production and promotion.” o Reasons could range from fighter assessment to wresting production duties from Gerry Millen. o Perfectly natural to postpone. o Japanese media reports that Takada is aiming for July 16th (Rumor: http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3791&zoneid=1) Could not find BodogFIGHT: Clash of Nations on PPV o DISH Network didn’t have it. o No bars were carrying it either. o Doesn’t bode well if your clientele can’t have access to your event o http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?search=yes&EventID=4683 o Matt Lindland lost in first round via armbar to Fedor o Aleksander Emelianenko won vs. Pele in first round TKO o Julie Kedzie won second round TKO strikes o Jean Claude Van-Damme, President Putin among the fans. o Fedor vs. Lindland: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pxg9_fedor-vs-matt-14-april-2007 o “Lil” Aleks vs. “Big” Pele: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pwyf_erik-pele-vs-aleks-emelianenko-bodo Tito Ortiz was a no-show for the Dana / Tito bout o So Dana decides to fuel the fire and show a 90 minute documentary about the no-fight to make Tito look foolish o SPIKE uses marketing deception to make it look like they were going to fight when in reality they weren’t o Lots of angry fans (http://ufcmania.com/2007/04/11/bad-blood-dana-white-vs-tito-ortiz-vs-fan-apathy/) o Tito then releases a press release rebutting the 90 minutes (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=239168) Calendar 4/21 – UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV; PPV for UK folk.) Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel “Nah-Pow” Gonzaga Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongo 4/21 – Cage Rage 21: Judgement Day (Sky3 for UK folks; http://www.proelite.com for the world) http://www.cagerage.tv/nextevents.htm Bob Sapp vs. Gary Turner Ivan Serati vs. Vee-tor Belfort Cage Rage Lightheavyweight Title Match: “Cyborg” Eve-and-jel-ee-sta vs. James Zee-kick Kickboxing: James McSweeney vs. Mike Macdonald Die-jeer-oh Mat-sue-ee vs. Mark Weer Mer-rill-oh “Ninja” vs. Alex Reid Roman Webber vs. Mark Epstein Cage Rage British Welterweight Title: Paul Jenkins vs. Paul Daley Ross Pointon vs. Abdul Mohammed Alex Owen vs. Brad Pickett 5/11 – Art of War 5/12 – WEC Rich Crunkilton vs. Rob McCullough 5/19 – Gracie FC Jeff Monson vs. Wes Sims Marcelo Garcia vs. Marcus Avellan Chris Brennan vs. Adam Disabato Dorian Price vs. Phil Cardella Vinicius Magalhaes vs. George Bush Ronaldo “Jah-Car-re” Souza vs. Jeremy Jackson o Jacare + Great Grappler + Abu Dahbi Champ + Wrestled Couture to a draw at a submission wrestling tournament. + vs. Couture: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mq0f_randy-couture-vs-ronaldo-jacare-sou Thomas Denny vs. TBA Daniel Moraes vs. TBA Nissen Osterneck vs. TBA Preview UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV April 21st) http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/official_fight_card_for_ufc_70_nations_collide_released/ Heavyweight (205-265): Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel “Nah-Pow” Gonzaga o Gabriel “Napao” -B + Submission Specialist + Top Grade Grappler + Questionable Chin + Only Loss to Werdum. He defeated him in Brazil via TKO (Strikes) o Mirko “CROCOP” -S + Former Counter-Terrorist SWAT + Former Politician + Left High Kick + Great Hands + Awesome Sprawl + Growing Ground Game + Gets Rough When Booked With Werdum on Same Card, Makes Mistakes Light Heavyweight (205): Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic o Michael Bisping -S + TUF Alumni + Good striker + Haven’t seen his ground game + Long time since a fight + Home Favorite o Elvis Sinosic-B + http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=281 + 1 win 4 losses in the UFC + Lost against Forrest, Henato Sobral, Evan Tanner, Tito Ortiz + Did win last 2 fights, one in Cage Rage Heavyweight (205-265): Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom o Andre Arlovski -S + Former Cop + Awesome Striking + Sambo Background + Tentative When Makes Mistakes (see vs. Sylvia 3) o Fabricio Werdum -B + Multi BJJ World Champ + Top Grade Grappler + Has Grappling Wins Over Matt Lindland and Marcio Cruz + Good Striking + Like Crocop, Work Gets Rough When Both Are On The Same Card. Heavyweight (205-265): As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongoh o Assuerio Silva -B + http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=1587 + Strong Man + Short for a heavyweight + Lost to Tim Silvia + Grappler primarily + Former Chute Boxe student o Cheick Kongo -S + Muy Thai specialist first and foremost + Weak against the ground game + Heavy Hands + Lost his last Light Heavyweight (205): DAVID HEATH vs. Ree-YOTO Maw-cheeda o “Lee-OTO” Maw-cheeda: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmx66_ryoto-machida -B + Started in Karate + Great hands + Trained by Antonio Ee-no-key; Pro-wrestling and BJJ grappling background. + Don’t know extent of grappling because he’s comfortable with striking and neutralizing ground technique. + Holds wins over Rich Franklin, Stephan Bonnar, Mike MacDonald, BJ Penn and Sam Hoger. + Dana temporarly “banished” Franklin, for signing with Inoki and losing to LYOTO + Vs. Franklin: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1krok_lyoto-machida-vs-rich-franklin + Vs. Bonnar: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjgwo_stephan-bonnar-vs-lyoto-machida-jf o David Heath -S + http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=11483 + Relative newcomer to UFC + 2 wins in UFC against no-names + Free style fighter. Comfortable with both ground and stand-up + Biggest test yet. * MATT GRICE vs. TERRY ETIM (Prelim) * JUNIOR ASSUNCAO vs. DAVID LEE (Prelim) * VICTOR VALIMAKI vs. ALESSIO SAKARA (Prelim) * DENNIS SIVER vs. JESS LIAUDIN (Prelim) * EDILBERTO CROCOTA vs. PAUL TAYLOR (Prelim) Reviews IFL : Mohegan Sun, Connecticut Ryan Schultz vs. Joe Sampieri o Did not see because FSN cut in late o Ryan won via decision Michael Dolce vs. Delson Heleno o Dolce won via KO in his last bout in 29 seconds o Dolce was overmatched by Heleno on the ground o Dolce very tentative after being taken down o Heleno put on a ground clinic o Heleno wins by unanimous decision in three rounds Gerald Harris vs. Fabio Leopoldo o Almost the fight of the night o Gerald Harris continually picked up Fabio Leopoldo and slammed him down o Harris Constantly changed grip mid-air to avoid the Guillotine o Was always on top o Fabio put on a submission clinic but never could quite finish the deal o Seemed like every submission was tried except for ankle locks o Harris gassed by the third round from all the slams. o Fabio won via split decision. Gerald didn’t agree. o I can respect the judges that knew enough about MMA to value the plethora of submission attempts Jamal Patterson vs. Matt Horwich o Lasted all of 25 seconds. o Matt fell straight into a guillotine o Jamal Patterson wins via Guillotine choke R1 Devin Cole vs. Brian Vettell o Fight of the Night o Devin came into the fight having lost his last 4 bouts. o Cole Looked to be on the way to his fifth loss in the first o Devin was bonked on his nose, previously broken, in the first round o Roars back in the second o Lands a great superman punch then follows with an uppercut after the clinch o Gets on top and then pummels Vettell to unconsciousness Interview * Matt Horwich * Royal Burnell o kakutogigumi.blogspot.com o mma-madness.com tag:odeo.com,2007-04-17,11180193 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:37:47 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/11134023-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-18 News 23 MMA Athletes test positive in California for banned substances over the last year o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3704&zoneid=13 o California doesn’t test for Steroids but plans to do so soon o Bas Rutten gives a rambling rebuttal (http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showpost.php?p=14357377&postcount=45) o Cesar Gracie denies the allegations and says he wasn’t given due process o A lot of Mary Jane smokers in there. 1 guy gets busted twice. Ka-zoo-shi Sak-u-ra-ba and Key-yo-shi Tah-mur-rah to finally fight in PRIDE o http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/04/08/pride-34-media-coverage/ o All over Japanese media. Was first announced in the intermission of PRIDE 34 o Bringing back Tamura was Sa-kak-key-bara’s final business move. o K-1 loaning out Sakuraba for this fight o The fight to end PRIDE. The ultimate match up. Think Ortiz vs. Liddell, Ali vs. Frazier o The match is built to get PRIDE TV time. o Ferttita’s had to dump a lot of money to get t... News 23 MMA Athletes test positive in California for banned substances over the last year o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3704&zoneid=13 o California doesn’t test for Steroids but plans to do so soon o Bas Rutten gives a rambling rebuttal (http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showpost.php?p=14357377&postcount=45) o Cesar Gracie denies the allegations and says he wasn’t given due process o A lot of Mary Jane smokers in there. 1 guy gets busted twice. Ka-zoo-shi Sak-u-ra-ba and Key-yo-shi Tah-mur-rah to finally fight in PRIDE o http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/04/08/pride-34-media-coverage/ o All over Japanese media. Was first announced in the intermission of PRIDE 34 o Bringing back Tamura was Sa-kak-key-bara’s final business move. o K-1 loaning out Sakuraba for this fight o The fight to end PRIDE. The ultimate match up. Think Ortiz vs. Liddell, Ali vs. Frazier o The match is built to get PRIDE TV time. o Ferttita’s had to dump a lot of money to get this one going, despite nobody caring in the U.S. Shows dedication o Tamura and Sakuraba were friends from their pro-wrestling days in UWFi o Sakuraba vs. Tamura in UWFi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1fcCtN-68I o Sakuraba overlooked when becoming the face of UWFi. Tamura given the title. o Tamura gets big head, heads to RINGS when UWFi starts going bankrupt. o UWFi is bought by Antonio Inoki; becomes PRIDE o Sakuraba does well in MMA; Wins in UFC Japan, then taps out four Gracies in PRIDE o Tamura signs with PRIDE, Career flounders. UFC Finally on sportscenter o http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/ivp/index?id=2829797&cobrand=espnsearch&lpos=srch_c1_r1_mvideo&source=boxing o Dana White has been working with ESPN for a long time on this o Helps that the main event showed like a highlight reel in the first place o Too long in coming. For a non-major media source to be that unyielding is ridiculous o Still no substance in the report. Just fluff and stuff. Josh Koscheck and Diego Sanchez continue their love / hate relationship o Earlier this year Diego left a simple comment on Josh’s page o HAPPY VALENTINES DAY HUMAN BLANKET, I HOPE YOU PACK SOME BALLS IN YOUR SUIT CASE WHEN YOU COME TO H TOWN, PLEASE DONT TRY TO DRY HUMP ME LIKE ALL YOUR OTHER BORING ASS FIGHTS. IM READY RIGHT NOW!!!! I ASKED DANA FOR YOU!! P.S. YOU AINT GOT HANDS o Josh has since left him a comment after Diego’s loss, that has since gotten deleted: Happy Easter!!!! 19-1 :))) xoxo KOS o Gotta love cyber warfare. Too bad neither could deliver the goods when it came to getting in the ring. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera signs with UFC o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3747&zoneid=1 o Sources saw him at the thursday fight with Dana but deal hadn’t been inked yet o Inked deal a couple hours before announced in the ring at UFC 69 in Houston o Ranked #3 heavyweight in the world o 29-4-1 record Rumors Diego Sanchez and Matt Hughes could be part of the Lightweight PRIDE Grand Prix o Several Japanese newsites are reporting this information o An insert in the PRIDE 34 Program (seen here) has Diego as well as Matt Hughes in the promo (hat tip: Fight Opinion) o No confirmation…so far. Calendar 4/13 IFL Connecticut (Mohegan Sun) Dragons vs. Scorpions Pitbulls vs. Wolfpack 4/14 BodogFIGHT Fay-door E-million-nen-ko vs. Matt Lindland Alexander E-million-nen-ko vs. Eric Pele Eddie Alvarez vs. Nick Thompson Roman Zent-tov vs. TBA Amanda Buckner vs. Hit-toe-me Ah-kan-no Andrei Sem-men-nov vs. George Santiago 4/21 – UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV) Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel “Nah-Pow” Gonzaga Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongo 5/10 – PRIDE Lightweight Grand Prix Possible PRIDE Contenders o Ta-ka-nor-ee Go-me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjIhwtUtjok o Shin-yah A-oh-ki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffdSeM5SfZw o Hi-ya-to Sa-ker-rye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqgDSV4kQD8 o Mass-a-ka-zoo Ee-man-nar-re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ldw-TFeZqY o Gilbert Melendez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSrU3g-KdtY o Wah-keem Hansen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkjUcKq-eM o Luiz Boo-ska-peh o Luiz Az-za-ray-doe o Marcus Ah-rel-lee-oh o T-BLOOD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUKirBsydXg + Tat-sue-ya Ka-wa-jeer-re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-UAbGbC3o + Mitts-sue-hero Ee-she-da o Matt Hughes o Nick Diaz o Sean Sherk o Joe Stevenson o Melvin Guillard Previews BodogFIGHT (April 14th) Fay-door E-million-nen-ko vs. Matt Lindland o Matt Lindland + Olympic Silver Medalist + God-like Wrestling + Good Submission Defense + Usually fights as a Middleweight o Fedor + P4P greatest fighter in the world + Former SPETNAZ (spetz-naz) + multi-Judo Champ + multi-Sambo Champ + M.O. like Karnak. He looks for the weakest point in your strongest asset. Alexander E-million-nen-ko vs. Eric Pele o “Lil’” Aleks + Middle child, Fedor’s little brother + Great hands, KO in both + Good GnP + Submission defense is questionable + over-billed at times because he’s Fey-dor’s brother o “Big” Pele + A Heavyweight who can move + Has KO and Submission powers + Has Gas Tank + Very Hard Worker Eddie Alvarez vs. Nick Thompson Roman Zent-tov vs. TBA o ROMAN + Fedor’s trusty sidekick + KO Machine + Likes breaking out new stuff he learned. + Has a questionable chin Amanda Buckner vs. Hit-toe-me Ah-kan-no o Hitomi Akano + Submission specialist + Training partner for Meg-gumi Fujii, SMACKGIRL champion and P4P Female Fighter + trains under Josh Barnett and Hero-ukey Ah-bea, a big independant fighter in Japan o Amanda Buckner + Submission specialist + Weak submission defense Andrei Sem-men-nov vs. George Santiago Reviews PRIDE 34 http://www.mmanews.com/page.php?page=pride34results Edson Drago vs. Yoshihiro Nakao Yoshihiro Nakao def. Edson Drago via Submission (neck-crank) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1no6c_edson-drago-vs-nakao-kiss-pride-34 Butterbean vs. Zulu Butterbean def. Zulu via Submission (kimura?) in round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nopx_eric-butterbean-vs-zuluzinho-pride The guy in the suit during the intro is Tanagawa, K-1 president. Zelg Galesic vs. Makoto Takimoto Makoto Takimoto def. Zelg Galesic via Submission (kimura) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nohu_makoto-takimoto-vs-zelg-galesic-pri Gilbert Yvel vs. Akira Shoji Gilbert Yvel def. Akira Shoji via TKO (strikes) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1no0g_gilbert-yvel-vs-shoji-akira-pride-3 Don Frye vs. James Thompson James Thompson def. Don Frye via TKO (strikes) in Round 1 (at 9 minutes in). http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nped_don-frye-vs-james-thompson-pride-34 Great start of the fight Jumping thrust kick to start out from Don Frye Hockey punches at the start of the fight was great Don gassed and couldn’t defend himself for a minute before the ref stepped in Don needs to retire Shinya Aoki vs. Brian Lo-A-Njoe Shinya Aoki def. Brian Lo-A-Njoe via Submission (armbar) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1noct_shinya-aoki-vs-brian-loanjoe-pride Ricardo Arona vs. Sokoudjou Sokoudjou def. Ricardo Arona via TKO (strikes) in Round 1. http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/sokoudjou_defeats_ricardo_arona/ Nasty upper cut You don’t defeat 2 top 10 fighters in as many fights and not be the real deal http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1np7k_ricardo-arona-vs-sokoudjou-pride-34 Jeff Monson vs. Kazuyuki Fujita Jeff Monson def. Kazuyuki Fujita via Submission (rear naked choke) in Round 1. Typical Jeff Monson fight. Boring up until the submission. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1np16_jeff-monson-vs-kazuyuki-fujita-prid UFC 69 Brad Imes VS Heath Herring o Unanimous Decision to Heath Herring o GNP for 3 rounds Thales Leites VS Pete Sell o Unanimous Decision to Thales Leites o Stellar Ground Game display for 3 rounds Marcus Davis VS Pete Spratt o Marcus Defeats Pete in 2nd round by ankle lock. o Pete was giving him all he could handle in the first round o Pete gets caught delivering a lazy up kick in the second Josh Haynes VS Luke Cummo o Luke Cummo wins in 2nd round by TKO o Josh was cutting weight hardcore and you could tell in his performance o To go from 205 to 170 in such a short time is rough Roger Huerta VS Leonard Garcia o Unanimous Decision o Leonard’s face looked like hamburger afterwards o Great action in the fight. Leonard Garcia really gave it his all o Roger Huerta being padded? o Although the fight had great action, Roger Huerta still didn’t impress Yushin Okami VS Mike Swick o Unanimous Decision o Mike got of some combos but not enough o Okami played his game and took the Texan to the ground Alan Belcher VS Kendall Grove o Defeats Alan Belcher with North-South Arm Triangle round 2 o This was a no contest really. They need to throw some real competition Kendall’s way Diego Sanchez VS Josh Koscheck o Unanimous Decision o Boring fight. Didn’t live up to the pre-fight hype and drama o Diego was psyched out. Lack of adjustment in Diego’s corner was telling o Koscheck didn’t fight to win although he did control the tempo o Diego lost more than Koscheck won Georges St-Pierre VS Matt Serra o First round KO Royal Burnell o Blog: http://kakutogigumi.blogspot.com/ o Fantasy MMA: http://www.mma-madness.com/ News 23 MMA Athletes test positive in California for banned substances over the last year o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3704&zoneid=13 o California doesn’t test for Steroids but plans to do so soon o Bas Rutten gives a rambling rebuttal (http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showpost.php?p=14357377&postcount=45) o Cesar Gracie denies the allegations and says he wasn’t given due process o A lot of Mary Jane smokers in there. 1 guy gets busted twice. Ka-zoo-shi Sak-u-ra-ba and Key-yo-shi Tah-mur-rah to finally fight in PRIDE o http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/04/08/pride-34-media-coverage/ o All over Japanese media. Was first announced in the intermission of PRIDE 34 o Bringing back Tamura was Sa-kak-key-bara’s final business move. o K-1 loaning out Sakuraba for this fight o The fight to end PRIDE. The ultimate match up. Think Ortiz vs. Liddell, Ali vs. Frazier o The match is built to get PRIDE TV time. o Ferttita’s had to dump a lot of money to get this one going, despite nobody caring in the U.S. Shows dedication o Tamura and Sakuraba were friends from their pro-wrestling days in UWFi o Sakuraba vs. Tamura in UWFi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1fcCtN-68I o Sakuraba overlooked when becoming the face of UWFi. Tamura given the title. o Tamura gets big head, heads to RINGS when UWFi starts going bankrupt. o UWFi is bought by Antonio Inoki; becomes PRIDE o Sakuraba does well in MMA; Wins in UFC Japan, then taps out four Gracies in PRIDE o Tamura signs with PRIDE, Career flounders. UFC Finally on sportscenter o http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/ivp/index?id=2829797&cobrand=espnsearch&lpos=srch_c1_r1_mvideo&source=boxing o Dana White has been working with ESPN for a long time on this o Helps that the main event showed like a highlight reel in the first place o Too long in coming. For a non-major media source to be that unyielding is ridiculous o Still no substance in the report. Just fluff and stuff. Josh Koscheck and Diego Sanchez continue their love / hate relationship o Earlier this year Diego left a simple comment on Josh’s page o HAPPY VALENTINES DAY HUMAN BLANKET, I HOPE YOU PACK SOME BALLS IN YOUR SUIT CASE WHEN YOU COME TO H TOWN, PLEASE DONT TRY TO DRY HUMP ME LIKE ALL YOUR OTHER BORING ASS FIGHTS. IM READY RIGHT NOW!!!! I ASKED DANA FOR YOU!! P.S. YOU AINT GOT HANDS o Josh has since left him a comment after Diego’s loss, that has since gotten deleted: Happy Easter!!!! 19-1 :))) xoxo KOS o Gotta love cyber warfare. Too bad neither could deliver the goods when it came to getting in the ring. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera signs with UFC o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3747&zoneid=1 o Sources saw him at the thursday fight with Dana but deal hadn’t been inked yet o Inked deal a couple hours before announced in the ring at UFC 69 in Houston o Ranked #3 heavyweight in the world o 29-4-1 record Rumors Diego Sanchez and Matt Hughes could be part of the Lightweight PRIDE Grand Prix o Several Japanese newsites are reporting this information o An insert in the PRIDE 34 Program (seen here) has Diego as well as Matt Hughes in the promo (hat tip: Fight Opinion) o No confirmation…so far. Calendar 4/13 IFL Connecticut (Mohegan Sun) Dragons vs. Scorpions Pitbulls vs. Wolfpack 4/14 BodogFIGHT Fay-door E-million-nen-ko vs. Matt Lindland Alexander E-million-nen-ko vs. Eric Pele Eddie Alvarez vs. Nick Thompson Roman Zent-tov vs. TBA Amanda Buckner vs. Hit-toe-me Ah-kan-no Andrei Sem-men-nov vs. George Santiago 4/21 – UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV) Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel “Nah-Pow” Gonzaga Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongo 5/10 – PRIDE Lightweight Grand Prix Possible PRIDE Contenders o Ta-ka-nor-ee Go-me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjIhwtUtjok o Shin-yah A-oh-ki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffdSeM5SfZw o Hi-ya-to Sa-ker-rye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqgDSV4kQD8 o Mass-a-ka-zoo Ee-man-nar-re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ldw-TFeZqY o Gilbert Melendez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSrU3g-KdtY o Wah-keem Hansen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkjUcKq-eM o Luiz Boo-ska-peh o Luiz Az-za-ray-doe o Marcus Ah-rel-lee-oh o T-BLOOD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUKirBsydXg + Tat-sue-ya Ka-wa-jeer-re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-UAbGbC3o + Mitts-sue-hero Ee-she-da o Matt Hughes o Nick Diaz o Sean Sherk o Joe Stevenson o Melvin Guillard Previews BodogFIGHT (April 14th) Fay-door E-million-nen-ko vs. Matt Lindland o Matt Lindland + Olympic Silver Medalist + God-like Wrestling + Good Submission Defense + Usually fights as a Middleweight o Fedor + P4P greatest fighter in the world + Former SPETNAZ (spetz-naz) + multi-Judo Champ + multi-Sambo Champ + M.O. like Karnak. He looks for the weakest point in your strongest asset. Alexander E-million-nen-ko vs. Eric Pele o “Lil’” Aleks + Middle child, Fedor’s little brother + Great hands, KO in both + Good GnP + Submission defense is questionable + over-billed at times because he’s Fey-dor’s brother o “Big” Pele + A Heavyweight who can move + Has KO and Submission powers + Has Gas Tank + Very Hard Worker Eddie Alvarez vs. Nick Thompson Roman Zent-tov vs. TBA o ROMAN + Fedor’s trusty sidekick + KO Machine + Likes breaking out new stuff he learned. + Has a questionable chin Amanda Buckner vs. Hit-toe-me Ah-kan-no o Hitomi Akano + Submission specialist + Training partner for Meg-gumi Fujii, SMACKGIRL champion and P4P Female Fighter + trains under Josh Barnett and Hero-ukey Ah-bea, a big independant fighter in Japan o Amanda Buckner + Submission specialist + Weak submission defense Andrei Sem-men-nov vs. George Santiago Reviews PRIDE 34 http://www.mmanews.com/page.php?page=pride34results Edson Drago vs. Yoshihiro Nakao Yoshihiro Nakao def. Edson Drago via Submission (neck-crank) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1no6c_edson-drago-vs-nakao-kiss-pride-34 Butterbean vs. Zulu Butterbean def. Zulu via Submission (kimura?) in round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nopx_eric-butterbean-vs-zuluzinho-pride The guy in the suit during the intro is Tanagawa, K-1 president. Zelg Galesic vs. Makoto Takimoto Makoto Takimoto def. Zelg Galesic via Submission (kimura) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nohu_makoto-takimoto-vs-zelg-galesic-pri Gilbert Yvel vs. Akira Shoji Gilbert Yvel def. Akira Shoji via TKO (strikes) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1no0g_gilbert-yvel-vs-shoji-akira-pride-3 Don Frye vs. James Thompson James Thompson def. Don Frye via TKO (strikes) in Round 1 (at 9 minutes in). http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nped_don-frye-vs-james-thompson-pride-34 Great start of the fight Jumping thrust kick to start out from Don Frye Hockey punches at the start of the fight was great Don gassed and couldn’t defend himself for a minute before the ref stepped in Don needs to retire Shinya Aoki vs. Brian Lo-A-Njoe Shinya Aoki def. Brian Lo-A-Njoe via Submission (armbar) in Round 1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1noct_shinya-aoki-vs-brian-loanjoe-pride Ricardo Arona vs. Sokoudjou Sokoudjou def. Ricardo Arona via TKO (strikes) in Round 1. http://mma.komikazee.com/news/comments/sokoudjou_defeats_ricardo_arona/ Nasty upper cut You don’t defeat 2 top 10 fighters in as many fights and not be the real deal http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1np7k_ricardo-arona-vs-sokoudjou-pride-34 Jeff Monson vs. Kazuyuki Fujita Jeff Monson def. Kazuyuki Fujita via Submission (rear naked choke) in Round 1. Typical Jeff Monson fight. Boring up until the submission. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1np16_jeff-monson-vs-kazuyuki-fujita-prid UFC 69 Brad Imes VS Heath Herring o Unanimous Decision to Heath Herring o GNP for 3 rounds Thales Leites VS Pete Sell o Unanimous Decision to Thales Leites o Stellar Ground Game display for 3 rounds Marcus Davis VS Pete Spratt o Marcus Defeats Pete in 2nd round by ankle lock. o Pete was giving him all he could handle in the first round o Pete gets caught delivering a lazy up kick in the second Josh Haynes VS Luke Cummo o Luke Cummo wins in 2nd round by TKO o Josh was cutting weight hardcore and you could tell in his performance o To go from 205 to 170 in such a short time is rough Roger Huerta VS Leonard Garcia o Unanimous Decision o Leonard’s face looked like hamburger afterwards o Great action in the fight. Leonard Garcia really gave it his all o Roger Huerta being padded? o Although the fight had great action, Roger Huerta still didn’t impress Yushin Okami VS Mike Swick o Unanimous Decision o Mike got of some combos but not enough o Okami played his game and took the Texan to the ground Alan Belcher VS Kendall Grove o Defeats Alan Belcher with North-South Arm Triangle round 2 o This was a no contest really. They need to throw some real competition Kendall’s way Diego Sanchez VS Josh Koscheck o Unanimous Decision o Boring fight. Didn’t live up to the pre-fight hype and drama o Diego was psyched out. Lack of adjustment in Diego’s corner was telling o Koscheck didn’t fight to win although he did control the tempo o Diego lost more than Koscheck won Georges St-Pierre VS Matt Serra o First round KO Royal Burnell o Blog: http://kakutogigumi.blogspot.com/ o Fantasy MMA: http://www.mma-madness.com/ tag:odeo.com,2007-04-10,11134023 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:38:00 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, mma, bodogfight, bodog, ufc 69, georges st. pierre, fedor, fedor emelianenko, matt serra http://odeo.com/episodes/11029143-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-16 Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #16 News Diego Sanchez tests positive for marijuana o http://ufcmania.com/2007/03/22/ufc-miramar-diego-sanchez-tested-postive-for-marijuana/ o Nobody knew until this last week o 3 month suspension and $500 fine Mike C. out, Sam Hoe-ger In for Apr. 7 Silverbacks vs. Lions o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3666&zoneid=3 o Stems from broken nose he received at IFL Houston Feb. 2nd fighting Alex Schoenauer o Nose healed but then had to be fixed due to breathing problems o Sam Hoger lost his last fight at UFC 67 against Ryoto Machida o Fight of the Night Apr. 7 IFL (Sam Hoger vs. Vernon White) K-1 HERO’s coming to L.A. July 7 o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3625&zoneid=6 o Just as PRIDE stalls here in America, K-1 and F-E-G take aim for the US o Teaming with Pro Elite and Elite XC to do marketing o Coming to L.A. Memorial Coliseum which can seat 92,000 o L.A. has a history of problems ... Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #16 News Diego Sanchez tests positive for marijuana o http://ufcmania.com/2007/03/22/ufc-miramar-diego-sanchez-tested-postive-for-marijuana/ o Nobody knew until this last week o 3 month suspension and $500 fine Mike C. out, Sam Hoe-ger In for Apr. 7 Silverbacks vs. Lions o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3666&zoneid=3 o Stems from broken nose he received at IFL Houston Feb. 2nd fighting Alex Schoenauer o Nose healed but then had to be fixed due to breathing problems o Sam Hoger lost his last fight at UFC 67 against Ryoto Machida o Fight of the Night Apr. 7 IFL (Sam Hoger vs. Vernon White) K-1 HERO’s coming to L.A. July 7 o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3625&zoneid=6 o Just as PRIDE stalls here in America, K-1 and F-E-G take aim for the US o Teaming with Pro Elite and Elite XC to do marketing o Coming to L.A. Memorial Coliseum which can seat 92,000 o L.A. has a history of problems drawing to MMA events. o K-1 is big in Japan. o HERO’s is the MMA incarnation of K-1 kickboxing o “Kid” Yamamoto, Brock Lesnar, and Hong Man Choi, the 7-foot 2-inch goliath from South Korea o Japanese love the freak show. U.S. not so much Liddell to Fight Rampage at UFC 71 o http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-spw-ufc26mar26,1,2089192.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-boxing&ctrack=1&cset=true o Rampage says he’s ready, but only after Dana White tore up his old contract and offered him a 4 fight deal o o o NSAC (Nevada State Athletic Commision) had him take a drug test which he passed * Diego Sanchez taking boxing lessons from Oscar De La Hoya o http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/mixedmartialarts/4660559.html o o o o Diego Sanchez with boxing skills is a scary dude Rumors UFC to buy PRIDE for 68 Million o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3669&zoneid=2 o http://www.prophetfighting.com/?p=341 o http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/03/25/nikkan-sports-ufc-pride-will-be-like-raw-smackdown/ o http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=7068 o Sakakibara told PRIDE USA that an offer was tendered o Traveling to Las Vegas this last weekend o More sources coming out and saying that it was “agreement of principle” and only awaiting due diligence o Fighter contracts at the center of the question. o Japanese papers reporting this as reality. o Owned by Fertitas and not under Zuffa umbrella o Dana White possibly showing up in Japan for Tuesday news conference o Possible Raw vs. Smackdown model o PRIDE will be japanese based only if this goes through o Spurred by K-1 teaming up with Elite XC Calendar 4/5 – UFC Fight Night 9 Joe Stevenson vs. Melvin Gill-ard 4/5 – The Ultimate Fighter 5 Season Opener 4/7 – IFL Moline, Ill. Silverbacks playoff chances on the line Ken Shamrock’s Lions vs. Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks Maurice Smith’s Tigersharks vs. Igor Zin-ovee-yev Red Bears 4/7 – UFC 69 Houston GSP vs. Matt Serra Koscheck vs. Sanchez Swick vs. Okahh-mi 4/8 – PRIDE 34 Kamikaze 4/21 – UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV) Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel Gonzaga Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongo Previews UFC Fight Night – 4/5 UFC 69 Houston – 4/7 Georges St-Pierre (5’10”17013-1-0) VS Matt Serra (5’6”17015-4-0) Georges St-Pierre UFC welterweight champion All-around fighter Dynamic personality Canadian Beat Matt Hughes for title Matt Serra Won against Chris Lytle at TUF4 finale for title shot Short, stocky, atypical looking fighter Jiu-Jitsu specialist but can strike some resurrected career from TUF series Wins against Shoney Carter, Yves Edwards BIIIIG underdog Roger Hwer-tuh (5’9”15518-1-1) VS Leonard Garcia (5’10”15513-1-0) Roger Hwer-tuh http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=10089 Banger Heavy Hands but not as quick as some 2 previous wins in the UFC (67: John Halverson, 63: Jason Dent) Cardio still needs work Will have a nasty mouse underneath the eye from a sparring session with Melvin Guillard Leonard Garcia Newcomer to UFC Played in a lot of the regional shows Submission Specialist Diego Sanchez (5’11”17019-0-0) VS Josh Koscheck (5’10”17010-1-0) Diego Sanchez Tito-level fitness Great Jiu-Jitsu skills Budding boxing skills stand-offish demeanor TUF Alumni Only undefeated welterweight Josh Koscheck TUF Alumni. Nemesis of Diego from show World class wrestler Weak Jiu-Jitsu Weak stand-up Dynamic personality You-shin Okahh-mi (6’2”18520-3-0) VS Mike Swick (6’1”18510-1-0) You-shin Okahh-mi http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=5569 3 UFC wins in a row with his latest coming against Rory Singer Swick is big step up in competition Judo background Mike Swick http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=5199 Quick Swick Finished first 4 UFC fights in first round to gain nickname Didn’t look so “quick” against David Low-a-zow but eked out a decision Great fast hands. Good combo guy. Supposedly has a good ground game but hasn’t seen the light of day yet Alan Belcher (6’2”1859-2-0) VS Kendall Grove (6’6”1859-3-0) Kendall Grove http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=10126 Hawaiian Winner of TUF3 finale against Ed Herman Very tall and long limbed. Muy Thai guy Still not truly battle-tested Alan Belcher Striker Recently come up from “little league” Loss against Okahh-mi who is on same card, win against Jorge Santiago Brad Imes (6’7”2606-2-0) VS Heath Herring (6’4”25026-12-1) (Prelim) Brad Imes TUF3 Participant Big Dude with decent hands Bad Knee has really prohibited from showing his best Heath Herring http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=13 Texas Crazy Horse Acquired when the UFC bought the WFA contracts Poor showing in last fight against Jake O’Brien Usually a decent all-around fighter Thales Leites (6’1”1859-1-0) VS Pete Sell (5’11”1857-3-0) (Prelim) Thales Leites http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=8593 Coming off a suspension where he took diuretics in his win over Tony De Souza (UFC 66) Great Muy Thai specialist Laser-precise fists Dynamic young fighter. Fun to watch. Pete Sell Protege of Matt Serra Heavy hands Decent chin, although not infallible (see Scott Smith fight) average ground game A bit undisciplined in his fighting Marcus Davis (5’10”17015-4-0) VS Pete Spratt (5’9”17016-7-0) (Prelim) Marcus Davis http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=8592 the “Irish Hand Grenade” Ex-Boxer with great hands Been working his Jiu-Jitsu with success against Forrest Petz and Mike Vaughn Recently won against Shoney Carter by decision Pete Spratt Ex-Boxer, Muy Thai expert Currently trains with Team Punishment at Houston Metro Fight Club Saul Soliz is his trainer Working his ground game extensively Has had trouble with ground specialists in the past Josh Haynes (5’9”1859-6-0) VS Luke Cummo (6’0”1707-4-0) (Prelim) Josh Haynes All Heart Got to the Finales in TUF Too short Great Chin Heavy hands weak to ground-game Luke Cummo TUF Alumni, went to Finals Weird dude decent ground game decent hands Doesn’t have the “it” factor Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #16 News Diego Sanchez tests positive for marijuana o http://ufcmania.com/2007/03/22/ufc-miramar-diego-sanchez-tested-postive-for-marijuana/ o Nobody knew until this last week o 3 month suspension and $500 fine Mike C. out, Sam Hoe-ger In for Apr. 7 Silverbacks vs. Lions o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3666&zoneid=3 o Stems from broken nose he received at IFL Houston Feb. 2nd fighting Alex Schoenauer o Nose healed but then had to be fixed due to breathing problems o Sam Hoger lost his last fight at UFC 67 against Ryoto Machida o Fight of the Night Apr. 7 IFL (Sam Hoger vs. Vernon White) K-1 HERO’s coming to L.A. July 7 o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3625&zoneid=6 o Just as PRIDE stalls here in America, K-1 and F-E-G take aim for the US o Teaming with Pro Elite and Elite XC to do marketing o Coming to L.A. Memorial Coliseum which can seat 92,000 o L.A. has a history of problems drawing to MMA events. o K-1 is big in Japan. o HERO’s is the MMA incarnation of K-1 kickboxing o “Kid” Yamamoto, Brock Lesnar, and Hong Man Choi, the 7-foot 2-inch goliath from South Korea o Japanese love the freak show. U.S. not so much Liddell to Fight Rampage at UFC 71 o http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-spw-ufc26mar26,1,2089192.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-boxing&ctrack=1&cset=true o Rampage says he’s ready, but only after Dana White tore up his old contract and offered him a 4 fight deal o o o NSAC (Nevada State Athletic Commision) had him take a drug test which he passed * Diego Sanchez taking boxing lessons from Oscar De La Hoya o http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/mixedmartialarts/4660559.html o o o o Diego Sanchez with boxing skills is a scary dude Rumors UFC to buy PRIDE for 68 Million o http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3669&zoneid=2 o http://www.prophetfighting.com/?p=341 o http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/03/25/nikkan-sports-ufc-pride-will-be-like-raw-smackdown/ o http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=7068 o Sakakibara told PRIDE USA that an offer was tendered o Traveling to Las Vegas this last weekend o More sources coming out and saying that it was “agreement of principle” and only awaiting due diligence o Fighter contracts at the center of the question. o Japanese papers reporting this as reality. o Owned by Fertitas and not under Zuffa umbrella o Dana White possibly showing up in Japan for Tuesday news conference o Possible Raw vs. Smackdown model o PRIDE will be japanese based only if this goes through o Spurred by K-1 teaming up with Elite XC Calendar 4/5 – UFC Fight Night 9 Joe Stevenson vs. Melvin Gill-ard 4/5 – The Ultimate Fighter 5 Season Opener 4/7 – IFL Moline, Ill. Silverbacks playoff chances on the line Ken Shamrock’s Lions vs. Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks Maurice Smith’s Tigersharks vs. Igor Zin-ovee-yev Red Bears 4/7 – UFC 69 Houston GSP vs. Matt Serra Koscheck vs. Sanchez Swick vs. Okahh-mi 4/8 – PRIDE 34 Kamikaze 4/21 – UFC 70 UK (Free on Spike TV) Meer-ko “Cro-Cop” Filo-puvich vs. Gabriel Gonzaga Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Andre Ar-loff-ski Vs. Fab-rees-io Ver-doom As-wear-io Silva Vs. Cheek Kongo Previews UFC Fight Night – 4/5 UFC 69 Houston – 4/7 Georges St-Pierre (5’10”17013-1-0) VS Matt Serra (5’6”17015-4-0) Georges St-Pierre UFC welterweight champion All-around fighter Dynamic personality Canadian Beat Matt Hughes for title Matt Serra Won against Chris Lytle at TUF4 finale for title shot Short, stocky, atypical looking fighter Jiu-Jitsu specialist but can strike some resurrected career from TUF series Wins against Shoney Carter, Yves Edwards BIIIIG underdog Roger Hwer-tuh (5’9”15518-1-1) VS Leonard Garcia (5’10”15513-1-0) Roger Hwer-tuh http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=10089 Banger Heavy Hands but not as quick as some 2 previous wins in the UFC (67: John Halverson, 63: Jason Dent) Cardio still needs work Will have a nasty mouse underneath the eye from a sparring session with Melvin Guillard Leonard Garcia Newcomer to UFC Played in a lot of the regional shows Submission Specialist Diego Sanchez (5’11”17019-0-0) VS Josh Koscheck (5’10”17010-1-0) Diego Sanchez Tito-level fitness Great Jiu-Jitsu skills Budding boxing skills stand-offish demeanor TUF Alumni Only undefeated welterweight Josh Koscheck TUF Alumni. Nemesis of Diego from show World class wrestler Weak Jiu-Jitsu Weak stand-up Dynamic personality You-shin Okahh-mi (6’2”18520-3-0) VS Mike Swick (6’1”18510-1-0) You-shin Okahh-mi http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=5569 3 UFC wins in a row with his latest coming against Rory Singer Swick is big step up in competition Judo background Mike Swick http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=5199 Quick Swick Finished first 4 UFC fights in first round to gain nickname Didn’t look so “quick” against David Low-a-zow but eked out a decision Great fast hands. Good combo guy. Supposedly has a good ground game but hasn’t seen the light of day yet Alan Belcher (6’2”1859-2-0) VS Kendall Grove (6’6”1859-3-0) Kendall Grove http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=10126 Hawaiian Winner of TUF3 finale against Ed Herman Very tall and long limbed. Muy Thai guy Still not truly battle-tested Alan Belcher Striker Recently come up from “little league” Loss against Okahh-mi who is on same card, win against Jorge Santiago Brad Imes (6’7”2606-2-0) VS Heath Herring (6’4”25026-12-1) (Prelim) Brad Imes TUF3 Participant Big Dude with decent hands Bad Knee has really prohibited from showing his best Heath Herring http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=13 Texas Crazy Horse Acquired when the UFC bought the WFA contracts Poor showing in last fight against Jake O’Brien Usually a decent all-around fighter Thales Leites (6’1”1859-1-0) VS Pete Sell (5’11”1857-3-0) (Prelim) Thales Leites http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=8593 Coming off a suspension where he took diuretics in his win over Tony De Souza (UFC 66) Great Muy Thai specialist Laser-precise fists Dynamic young fighter. Fun to watch. Pete Sell Protege of Matt Serra Heavy hands Decent chin, although not infallible (see Scott Smith fight) average ground game A bit undisciplined in his fighting Marcus Davis (5’10”17015-4-0) VS Pete Spratt (5’9”17016-7-0) (Prelim) Marcus Davis http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?FighterID=8592 the “Irish Hand Grenade” Ex-Boxer with great hands Been working his Jiu-Jitsu with success against Forrest Petz and Mike Vaughn Recently won against Shoney Carter by decision Pete Spratt Ex-Boxer, Muy Thai expert Currently trains with Team Punishment at Houston Metro Fight Club Saul Soliz is his trainer Working his ground game extensively Has had trouble with ground specialists in the past Josh Haynes (5’9”1859-6-0) VS Luke Cummo (6’0”1707-4-0) (Prelim) Josh Haynes All Heart Got to the Finales in TUF Too short Great Chin Heavy hands weak to ground-game Luke Cummo TUF Alumni, went to Finals Weird dude decent ground game decent hands Doesn’t have the “it” factor tag:odeo.com,2007-03-29,11029143 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:00:57 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, Sport, mma, komikazee, ufc 69 http://odeo.com/episodes/10947403-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-16 tag:odeo.com,2007-03-28,10947403 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:48:56 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/10070653-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-15 News Gary “Jerry” Millen caught in a lie (many lies actually) o http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showpost.php?p=13906415&postcount=14 o Real name is Gary Millen o Cheated to get gig in PRIDE (friend on mic whispering in earbud) o Lied to both CBS Sports and MMANews o Fired Stephen Quadros o Said that he fired Bas Roo-ten and Mauro Ran-ayo when in reality, they quit because of him o Started Internet war with Bas and now Bas is telling all. TUF 5 announced o http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=4855 o starts right after the next UFC Fight Night Live o B.J. Penn and Jens “lil Evil” Pulver are the coaches o They WILL fight after the end of the show. Forrest Griffin has Staph infection and won’t make UFC 70 o Nasty, Nasty, gaping wound that can be seen on youtube. o Forrest look really run down and must be experiencing the flu-like symptoms that can come with staph infection Jeff Osborne named as new commissioner for BODOGFight o http://www.mmaontap.com/mma/entry/bodogfight-names... News Gary “Jerry” Millen caught in a lie (many lies actually) o http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showpost.php?p=13906415&postcount=14 o Real name is Gary Millen o Cheated to get gig in PRIDE (friend on mic whispering in earbud) o Lied to both CBS Sports and MMANews o Fired Stephen Quadros o Said that he fired Bas Roo-ten and Mauro Ran-ayo when in reality, they quit because of him o Started Internet war with Bas and now Bas is telling all. TUF 5 announced o http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=4855 o starts right after the next UFC Fight Night Live o B.J. Penn and Jens “lil Evil” Pulver are the coaches o They WILL fight after the end of the show. Forrest Griffin has Staph infection and won’t make UFC 70 o Nasty, Nasty, gaping wound that can be seen on youtube. o Forrest look really run down and must be experiencing the flu-like symptoms that can come with staph infection Jeff Osborne named as new commissioner for BODOGFight o http://www.mmaontap.com/mma/entry/bodogfight-names-new-commissioner/ o Commissioner is the rules and regulations man Jeff Osborne is also the commentator on St. Petersburg show o Founded Hook and Shoot, an MMA organization affiliated with Fight Network (http://www.thefightnetwork.com/programming.php), in 1996 Kurt Otto apologizes for IFL Battlegrounds season opener o 9-1-1 call to start out the show o Repeated stretcher references o Focus on the really aggressive comments by coaches and players o Not a good way to intro new fans to the sport o Need a more sports aspect view rather than Pro Wrestling storylines o Let the stories find their way out instead of forcing the stories o Lots of great personalities in the IFL, let them do the talking and be subtle about the edits Bahs Roo-ten steps down as IFL Anacondas head coach o http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news_detail.php?nid=3446 o Will now provide commentary full time for IFL o Shawn Tompkins, (Horu-deski’s personal coach) will take over the team o Shawn has known Bas 8 yrs so shouldn’t be that much of a drop-off o Shawn has been training the guys 70-80% of the time anyways IFL finally shows the Anacondas vs. Silverbacks on FSN (March 16) o They cut the Show-en-ower / Mike C. fight totally. + Not missing much + there were allegations of Schow-en-ower holding the cuffs of Mike C.’s gloves. o They cut round 1 of the Rad-ich / McGivern fight which is a shame o Horu-deski / Pal-a-shefski was shown in its entire glory Rumors Liddell vs. Rampage 2 announced for UFC 71 (May 26) o http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=7015 o Should officially be announced Tuesday o Only unavenged loss left for Liddell o Rampage took down Liddell in a PRIDE semi-final in 2003 Calendar 3/24 – WEC John Alee-sio vs. Carlos Con-dit Your-eye-hah Faber vs. Dominick Cruz 4/5 – UFC Fight Night 9 Joe Stevenson vs. Melvin Gill-ard 4/5 – The Ultimate Fighter 5 Season Opener 4/7 – IFL Moline, Ill. Ken Shamrock’s Lions vs. Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks Maurice Smith’sTigersharks vs. Igor Zin-ovee-yev Red Bears 4/7 – UFC 69 Houston GSP vs. Matt Serra Koscheck vs. Sanchez Swick vs. Ok-ahhmi 4/8 – PRIDE 34 Kamikaze 4/21 – UFC 70 UK Review http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=7009 Overall Entertaining, according to most of the sources out there. IFL is a different experience because there is no headliner, everything is team focused Still a satisfying night overall if you ever get a chance to go or watch on TV Anacondas (Los Angeles) def. Razorclaws (San Jose), 5-0 205 lb.: Alex Schoenauer, Anacondas, def. Brian Ebersole, Razorclaws, via decision (split), after 3 rounds Show-en-ower actually stood and banged with Ebersole which is contrary to what we have seen recently 2nd round went to Ebersole 3rd round Ebersole almost lost to a guillotine Show-en-ower limped out of the ring with a bum left knee 185 lb.: Benji Radach, Anacondas, def. Brian Foster, Razorclaws, via TKO (guillotine choke), 1:04, 1st Quick double leg takedown by Radach allowed him to then pass to better position Guillotine applied and that is all she wrote Radach is a really strong guy (Sean Sherk-type) If his neck injury is truly healed, then he will be a force to be reckoned with in the IFL 155 lb.: Chris Horodecki, Anacondas, def. Josh Odom, Razorclaws, via decision (unanimous) after 3 rounds Josh Odom was very defensive and took a pounding Chris was very dominating Chris is a force to be reckoned with 170 lb.: Jay Hieron, Anacondas, def. Donnie Liles, Razorclaws, via submission(guillotine choke), 2:49, 1st Jay overmatched Donnie Liles Double leg takedown by Jay led to GNP from up top and then guillotine Jay really is scary good. How good remains to be seen Rory Markham is the only good competition in the IFL at his weight class 265 lb.: Krzysztof Soszynski, Anacondas, def. Dan Christison, Razorclaws, via decision (unanimous), after 3 rounds Dominated Christison Punishing strikes to the body and a couple to the head as well as some takedowns Sosh-inski was possibly mad missing his chance against Ben Rothwell at IFL Houston Sabres (Tokyo) def. Condors (Southern Calif.), 3-2 155 lb.: Savant Young, Sabres, def. Adam Lynn, Condors, via KO (strikes), 0:21, 2nd Savant Young caught him with some haymakers in the second round Savant is a very strong guy and not afraid to mix it up on his feet or on the ground Fun to watch 170 lb.: Antonio McKee, Sabres, def. Rodrigo Ruas, Condors, via decision (unanimous) after 3 rounds Grounded out win with “boring” wrestling (Matt Hughes model) Very confident in his style and not afraid to be “boring” 185 lb.: Jeremy Williams, Condors, def. Kazuhiro Hamanaka, Sabres, via TKO (triangle choke), 0:59, 1st * Kazuhiro went for a double leg takedown and fell into the triangle choke Possible hangover effect from the Houston event. He couldn’t fight in Houston so he was probably too eager and left himself exposed 205 lb.: Vladimir Matyushenko, Sabres, def. Justin Levens, Condors, via TKO (ref stoppage), 3:53, 1st Levens was overmatched. competitive at first until it hit the mat. Don’t mess with Mat-yew-shenko on the ground. He is incredibly strong. 265 lb.: Antoine Jaoude, Condors, def. Wayne Cole, Sabres, via KO, 0:56, 2nd Both wrestlers but match decided on the feet Kicks set up the straight right that landed flush for the KO Interviews News Gary “Jerry” Millen caught in a lie (many lies actually) o http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showpost.php?p=13906415&postcount=14 o Real name is Gary Millen o Cheated to get gig in PRIDE (friend on mic whispering in earbud) o Lied to both CBS Sports and MMANews o Fired Stephen Quadros o Said that he fired Bas Roo-ten and Mauro Ran-ayo when in reality, they quit because of him o Started Internet war with Bas and now Bas is telling all. TUF 5 announced o http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=4855 o starts right after the next UFC Fight Night Live o B.J. Penn and Jens “lil Evil” Pulver are the coaches o They WILL fight after the end of the show. Forrest Griffin has Staph infection and won’t make UFC 70 o Nasty, Nasty, gaping wound that can be seen on youtube. o Forrest look really run down and must be experiencing the flu-like symptoms that can come with staph infection Jeff Osborne named as new commissioner for BODOGFight o http://www.mmaontap.com/mma/entry/bodogfight-names-new-commissioner/ o Commissioner is the rules and regulations man Jeff Osborne is also the commentator on St. Petersburg show o Founded Hook and Shoot, an MMA organization affiliated with Fight Network (http://www.thefightnetwork.com/programming.php), in 1996 Kurt Otto apologizes for IFL Battlegrounds season opener o 9-1-1 call to start out the show o Repeated stretcher references o Focus on the really aggressive comments by coaches and players o Not a good way to intro new fans to the sport o Need a more sports aspect view rather than Pro Wrestling storylines o Let the stories find their way out instead of forcing the stories o Lots of great personalities in the IFL, let them do the talking and be subtle about the edits Bahs Roo-ten steps down as IFL Anacondas head coach o http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news_detail.php?nid=3446 o Will now provide commentary full time for IFL o Shawn Tompkins, (Horu-deski’s personal coach) will take over the team o Shawn has known Bas 8 yrs so shouldn’t be that much of a drop-off o Shawn has been training the guys 70-80% of the time anyways IFL finally shows the Anacondas vs. Silverbacks on FSN (March 16) o They cut the Show-en-ower / Mike C. fight totally. + Not missing much + there were allegations of Schow-en-ower holding the cuffs of Mike C.’s gloves. o They cut round 1 of the Rad-ich / McGivern fight which is a shame o Horu-deski / Pal-a-shefski was shown in its entire glory Rumors Liddell vs. Rampage 2 announced for UFC 71 (May 26) o http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=7015 o Should officially be announced Tuesday o Only unavenged loss left for Liddell o Rampage took down Liddell in a PRIDE semi-final in 2003 Calendar 3/24 – WEC John Alee-sio vs. Carlos Con-dit Your-eye-hah Faber vs. Dominick Cruz 4/5 – UFC Fight Night 9 Joe Stevenson vs. Melvin Gill-ard 4/5 – The Ultimate Fighter 5 Season Opener 4/7 – IFL Moline, Ill. Ken Shamrock’s Lions vs. Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks Maurice Smith’sTigersharks vs. Igor Zin-ovee-yev Red Bears 4/7 – UFC 69 Houston GSP vs. Matt Serra Koscheck vs. Sanchez Swick vs. Ok-ahhmi 4/8 – PRIDE 34 Kamikaze 4/21 – UFC 70 UK Review http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=7009 Overall Entertaining, according to most of the sources out there. IFL is a different experience because there is no headliner, everything is team focused Still a satisfying night overall if you ever get a chance to go or watch on TV Anacondas (Los Angeles) def. Razorclaws (San Jose), 5-0 205 lb.: Alex Schoenauer, Anacondas, def. Brian Ebersole, Razorclaws, via decision (split), after 3 rounds Show-en-ower actually stood and banged with Ebersole which is contrary to what we have seen recently 2nd round went to Ebersole 3rd round Ebersole almost lost to a guillotine Show-en-ower limped out of the ring with a bum left knee 185 lb.: Benji Radach, Anacondas, def. Brian Foster, Razorclaws, via TKO (guillotine choke), 1:04, 1st Quick double leg takedown by Radach allowed him to then pass to better position Guillotine applied and that is all she wrote Radach is a really strong guy (Sean Sherk-type) If his neck injury is truly healed, then he will be a force to be reckoned with in the IFL 155 lb.: Chris Horodecki, Anacondas, def. Josh Odom, Razorclaws, via decision (unanimous) after 3 rounds Josh Odom was very defensive and took a pounding Chris was very dominating Chris is a force to be reckoned with 170 lb.: Jay Hieron, Anacondas, def. Donnie Liles, Razorclaws, via submission(guillotine choke), 2:49, 1st Jay overmatched Donnie Liles Double leg takedown by Jay led to GNP from up top and then guillotine Jay really is scary good. How good remains to be seen Rory Markham is the only good competition in the IFL at his weight class 265 lb.: Krzysztof Soszynski, Anacondas, def. Dan Christison, Razorclaws, via decision (unanimous), after 3 rounds Dominated Christison Punishing strikes to the body and a couple to the head as well as some takedowns Sosh-inski was possibly mad missing his chance against Ben Rothwell at IFL Houston Sabres (Tokyo) def. Condors (Southern Calif.), 3-2 155 lb.: Savant Young, Sabres, def. Adam Lynn, Condors, via KO (strikes), 0:21, 2nd Savant Young caught him with some haymakers in the second round Savant is a very strong guy and not afraid to mix it up on his feet or on the ground Fun to watch 170 lb.: Antonio McKee, Sabres, def. Rodrigo Ruas, Condors, via decision (unanimous) after 3 rounds Grounded out win with “boring” wrestling (Matt Hughes model) Very confident in his style and not afraid to be “boring” 185 lb.: Jeremy Williams, Condors, def. Kazuhiro Hamanaka, Sabres, via TKO (triangle choke), 0:59, 1st * Kazuhiro went for a double leg takedown and fell into the triangle choke Possible hangover effect from the Houston event. He couldn’t fight in Houston so he was probably too eager and left himself exposed 205 lb.: Vladimir Matyushenko, Sabres, def. Justin Levens, Condors, via TKO (ref stoppage), 3:53, 1st Levens was overmatched. competitive at first until it hit the mat. Don’t mess with Mat-yew-shenko on the ground. He is incredibly strong. 265 lb.: Antoine Jaoude, Condors, def. Wayne Cole, Sabres, via KO, 0:56, 2nd Both wrestlers but match decided on the feet Kicks set up the straight right that landed flush for the KO Interviews tag:odeo.com,2007-03-20,10070653 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:50:28 -0700 no Komikazee UFC, mma, ufc 69, melvin guillard, saul soliz, pete spratt http://odeo.com/episodes/10015743-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-14 Derek is back and this is our slickest show yet. We go over all the normal news, rumors, and events coming up. We also review the event “Art of War” that went down in Dallas and do a brief preview of IFL L.A. We also bring Josh Odom and Ryan Schultz of the Condors and Wolfpack respectively onto the show and interview them. Derek is back and this is our slickest show yet. We go over all the normal news, rumors, and events coming up. We also review the event “Art of War” that went down in Dallas and do a brief preview of IFL L.A. We also bring Josh Odom and Ryan Schultz of the Condors and Wolfpack respectively onto the show and interview them. Derek is back and this is our slickest show yet. We go over all the normal news, rumors, and events coming up. We also review the event “Art of War” that went down in Dallas and do a brief preview of IFL L.A. We also bring Josh Odom and Ryan Schultz of the Condors and Wolfpack respectively onto the show and interview them. tag:odeo.com,2007-03-14,10015743 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:27:05 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/9949923-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-13 Zach Arnold as guest host. Ex-UFC Lion’s Den fighter Interviews with Komikazee. Zach Arnold as guest host. Ex-UFC Lion’s Den fighter Interviews with Komikazee. Zach Arnold as guest host. Ex-UFC Lion’s Den fighter Interviews with Komikazee. tag:odeo.com,2007-03-07,9949923 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:32:54 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/9685473-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-12 This week we bring you all the news, events, reviews, and previews that you have come to expect from Komikazee. We specifically review some of the best matches from PRIDE 33 and review the upcoming UFC 68 event scheduled for March 3 in Ohio. This week we bring you all the news, events, reviews, and previews that you have come to expect from Komikazee. We specifically review some of the best matches from PRIDE 33 and review the upcoming UFC 68 event scheduled for March 3 in Ohio. This week we bring you all the news, events, reviews, and previews that you have come to expect from Komikazee. We specifically review some of the best matches from PRIDE 33 and review the upcoming UFC 68 event scheduled for March 3 in Ohio. tag:odeo.com,2007-02-27,9685473 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:37:27 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/9237273-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-11 We review all the news, rumors, and events in the mma community. This week we go over PRIDE 33 and have 2 exclusive interviews with Sokoudjou and superstar Dan Henderson We review all the news, rumors, and events in the mma community. This week we go over PRIDE 33 and have 2 exclusive interviews with Sokoudjou and superstar Dan Henderson We review all the news, rumors, and events in the mma community. This week we go over PRIDE 33 and have 2 exclusive interviews with Sokoudjou and superstar Dan Henderson tag:odeo.com,2007-02-20,9237273 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:09:58 -0800 no Komikazee martial arts, mma, pride, komikazee, sokoudjou, dan henderson http://odeo.com/episodes/8810913-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-10 This week we delve into the news, rumors, and events that we normally cover. SystemX breaks down the Elite XC fight and we go interview heavy with Pat Miletich, Ken Yasuda, Horodecki, Jay Hieron, and Ryan McGivern. This week we delve into the news, rumors, and events that we normally cover. SystemX breaks down the Elite XC fight and we go interview heavy with Pat Miletich, Ken Yasuda, Horodecki, Jay Hieron, and Ryan McGivern. This week we delve into the news, rumors, and events that we normally cover. SystemX breaks down the Elite XC fight and we go interview heavy with Pat Miletich, Ken Yasuda, Horodecki, Jay Hieron, and Ryan McGivern. tag:odeo.com,2007-02-14,8810913 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:12:28 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/8327763-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-9 This week we review UFC 67 as well as IFL Houston. We were at IFL Houston personally covering the event and have lots of interviews from fighters to share. This week we review UFC 67 as well as IFL Houston. We were at IFL Houston personally covering the event and have lots of interviews from fighters to share. This week we review UFC 67 as well as IFL Houston. We were at IFL Houston personally covering the event and have lots of interviews from fighters to share. tag:odeo.com,2007-02-09,8327763 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:42:35 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/7403753-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-8 This week we bring you all the latest news, rumors, and upcoming events. We also preview IFL Houston and UFC 67. This week we bring you all the latest news, rumors, and upcoming events. We also preview IFL Houston and UFC 67. This week we bring you all the latest news, rumors, and upcoming events. We also preview IFL Houston and UFC 67. tag:odeo.com,2007-01-30,7403753 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:43:41 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/6820643-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-7 This week we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night 8: Rashad Evans vs. Sean Salmon. We also go over all the matchups in the upcoming fight as well as news, rumors, and upcoming calendar events. This week we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night 8: Rashad Evans vs. Sean Salmon. We also go over all the matchups in the upcoming fight as well as news, rumors, and upcoming calendar events. This week we discuss the upcoming UFC Fight Night 8: Rashad Evans vs. Sean Salmon. We also go over all the matchups in the upcoming fight as well as news, rumors, and upcoming calendar events. tag:odeo.com,2007-01-24,6820643 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:10:58 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/5576153-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-6 We finish up the Ben Rothwell interview as well as deal with various pieces of news from around the MMA world. We finish up the Ben Rothwell interview as well as deal with various pieces of news from around the MMA world. We finish up the Ben Rothwell interview as well as deal with various pieces of news from around the MMA world. tag:odeo.com,2007-01-10,5576153 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:57:50 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/5256013-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-5 This week we review UFC 66 (http://www.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/ufc_66_liddell_vs_ortiz_2/) and Ben Rothwell stops by the show with some great stories. This week we review UFC 66 (http://www.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/ufc_66_liddell_vs_ortiz_2/) and Ben Rothwell stops by the show with some great stories. This week we review UFC 66 (http://www.komikazee.com/reviews/comments/ufc_66_liddell_vs_ortiz_2/) and Ben Rothwell stops by the show with some great stories. tag:odeo.com,2007-01-05,5256013 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:17:51 -0800 no Komikazee Sports, UFC, fight, IFL, mma, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/4630023-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-4 This week we give an in-depth preview of UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2. This week we give an in-depth preview of UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2. This week we give an in-depth preview of UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2. tag:odeo.com,2006-12-28,4630023 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:48:36 -0800 no Komikazee UFC, fight, Sport, mma, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/4325833-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-3 Stephen Quadros Interview and IFL Preview. Stephen Quadros Interview and IFL Preview. Stephen Quadros Interview and IFL Preview. tag:odeo.com,2006-12-20,4325833 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:14:36 -0800 no Komikazee UFC, fight, Sport, IFL, mma http://odeo.com/episodes/3878083-MMA-Smackdown-Show-2 Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #2 – We preview UFC Fight Night Live: Sanchez vs. Riggs as well as bring you the news and rumors that you want to hear. Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #2 – We preview UFC Fight Night Live: Sanchez vs. Riggs as well as bring you the news and rumors that you want to hear. Komikazee’s MMA Smackdown #2 – We preview UFC Fight Night Live: Sanchez vs. Riggs as well as bring you the news and rumors that you want to hear. tag:odeo.com,2006-12-12,3878083 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:05:43 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/3673813-Komikazee-s-MMA-Smackdown-Show-1 This first episode is MMA 101 and is a great way to get to know Mixed Martial Arts if you already don’t know the sport. This first episode is MMA 101 and is a great way to get to know Mixed Martial Arts if you already don’t know the sport. This first episode is MMA 101 and is a great way to get to know Mixed Martial Arts if you already don’t know the sport. tag:odeo.com,2006-12-08,3673813 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:44:25 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/3488853-Komikazee-Interviews-Shane-Johnson-and-Brad-Blackburn IFL Fighters Shane “Battlecat” Johnson and Brad Blackburn were interviewed at Wizard World Dallas and we have the scoop. IFL Fighters Shane “Battlecat” Johnson and Brad Blackburn were interviewed at Wizard World Dallas and we have the scoop. IFL Fighters Shane “Battlecat” Johnson and Brad Blackburn were interviewed at Wizard World Dallas and we have the scoop. tag:odeo.com,2006-11-30,3488853 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:03:04 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/3018623-Komikazee-Interviews-Don-Frye This interview was done at Wizard World Dallas. Don Frye was a hoot to talk to and a regular stand-up kinda guy. This interview was done at Wizard World Dallas. Don Frye was a hoot to talk to and a regular stand-up kinda guy. This interview was done at Wizard World Dallas. Don Frye was a hoot to talk to and a regular stand-up kinda guy. tag:odeo.com,2006-11-21,3018623 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:57:59 -0800 no Komikazee fight, IFL, mma, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2966643-Silver-Comics-Interview I sit down with Jaun Ortiz and Dan Beltran of Silver Comics to find out what makes Silver Comics a diamond in the rough. I sit down with Jaun Ortiz and Dan Beltran of Silver Comics to find out what makes Silver Comics a diamond in the rough. I sit down with Jaun Ortiz and Dan Beltran of Silver Comics to find out what makes Silver Comics a diamond in the rough. tag:odeo.com,2006-11-20,2966643 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:00:18 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2672243-Komikazee-Interviews-IFL-coach-Maurice-Smith We had the opportunity to interview IFL Tiger shark and MMA Legend Maurice Smith at Wizard World Dallas. We had the opportunity to interview IFL Tiger shark and MMA Legend Maurice Smith at Wizard World Dallas. We had the opportunity to interview IFL Tiger shark and MMA Legend Maurice Smith at Wizard World Dallas. tag:odeo.com,2006-11-17,2672243 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:04:52 -0800 no Komikazee fight, IFL, mma, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2354624-Ultimate-Fan-Roundtable-11-6-2006 tag:odeo.com,2006-11-07,2354624 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:40:06 -0800 no Komikazee Sports, UFC, mma, komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2331956-Pat-Miletich-Interview-2006 This was an interview that we did over the phone while he was in Portland waiting for the Semi-finals of the IFL to begin. This was an interview that we did over the phone while he was in Portland waiting for the Semi-finals of the IFL to begin. This was an interview that we did over the phone while he was in Portland waiting for the Semi-finals of the IFL to begin. tag:odeo.com,2006-11-03,2331956 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:29:01 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2304450-Ultimate-Fan-Roundtable-10282006 tag:odeo.com,2006-11-01,2304450 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:56:54 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2278160-Interview-With-IFL-SilverBack-Mike-C tag:odeo.com,2006-10-30,2278160 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:58:32 -0800 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2252413-Comic-Book-Legend-Neal-Adams-in-Komikazee-Exclusive Listen to what one of the greatest comic book talents has to say about the industry, young artists, new comic projects and some really cool theories on how the Earth was formed. Listen to what one of the greatest comic book talents has to say about the industry, young artists, new comic projects and some really cool theories on how the Earth was formed. Listen to what one of the greatest comic book talents has to say about the industry, young artists, new comic projects and some really cool theories on how the Earth was formed. tag:odeo.com,2006-10-27,2252413 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:43:41 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2138962-UFC-64 The Komikazee team breaks down the fights and fighters with special MMA trainer Willie Thompson. Listen to what the guys have to say about Ken Shamrocks retirement. The Komikazee team breaks down the fights and fighters with special MMA trainer Willie Thompson. Listen to what the guys have to say about Ken Shamrocks retirement. The Komikazee team breaks down the fights and fighters with special MMA trainer Willie Thompson. Listen to what the guys have to say about Ken Shamrocks retirement. tag:odeo.com,2006-10-11,2138962 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:55:55 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2093200-The-Black-Coat-Creators-Tell-All Ben Lichius and Adam Cogan give us the low down on one of my favorite books, The Black Coat. Ben Lichius and Adam Cogan give us the low down on one of my favorite books, The Black Coat. Ben Lichius and Adam Cogan give us the low down on one of my favorite books, The Black Coat. tag:odeo.com,2006-10-05,2093200 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:50:45 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2085422-Ultimate-Fight-Night-7-Preview tag:odeo.com,2006-10-05,2085422 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:09:17 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2085651-UFC-s-Ultimate-Fight-Night-7-Preview The Komikazee Krew preview Ultimate Fight Night 7 and things get a little crazy. The Komikazee Krew preview Ultimate Fight Night 7 and things get a little crazy. The Komikazee Krew preview Ultimate Fight Night 7 and things get a little crazy. tag:odeo.com,2006-10-04,2085651 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:24:39 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2019254-Interview-with-Jon-Goff-Tyler-Jeffers-of-Adventures-of-Spawn-Online-Comic Curvezilla interviews Writer Jon Goff and Editor Tyler Jeffers of a new online Spawn Comic. This is different than anything you have ever seen from Spawn. It is a must see! Curvezilla interviews Writer Jon Goff and Editor Tyler Jeffers of a new online Spawn Comic. This is different than anything you have ever seen from Spawn. It is a must see! Curvezilla interviews Writer Jon Goff and Editor Tyler Jeffers of a new online Spawn Comic. This is different than anything you have ever seen from Spawn. It is a must see! tag:odeo.com,2006-09-29,2019254 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:11:03 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2007178-The-Guardian-Line-Interview-with-Jeff-Wright tag:odeo.com,2006-09-29,2007178 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:21:26 -0700 no Komikazee http://odeo.com/episodes/2008519-The-Guardian-Line-Interview-with-Jeff-Wright I interview President and CEO of Urban Ministries Inc. about their new comic line! I interview President and CEO of Urban Ministries Inc. about their new comic line! I interview President and CEO of Urban Ministries Inc. about their new comic line! tag:odeo.com,2006-09-28,2008519 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:21:21 -0700 no Komikazee