Cage Wars 14 Results

Posted on by

Friday 10/26/2012 from the Crowne Plaza Hotel Ballroom in Albany, NY

Tonight was Cage Wars’ second amateur MMA event. The third will be held next month at the Washington Ave. Armory

RESULTS

  • Jahloni “Bruce Leroy” Kum (Tigon) def. Andrew Chirico (Atlas MMA) via Unanimous Decision.
  • Scott Affiniato (Independent) def. Matt Yarber (Independent) via Submission in R1 (RNC)
  • Steve “Baby Bear” Hebert (Tigon) def. Anthony Tedesco (MVMMA) via TKO in R1
  • Adam Barrett (Atlas MMA) def. Charra Phon (Lions Den) via Submission in R1 (Armbar)
  • Clayton Holmes (Atlas MMA) def. Joe Claudio (Team Knucklehead) via TKO in R2
  • Rob Best (MVMMA) def Mike Berrios via TKO in R2
  • Pete “Quick Draw” McGraw (MVMMA) def. Asi Somburu (Atlas MMA) via Unanimous Decision
  • Josh Armstrong (Trinity MMA) def. Josh Ricci (MVMMA) via Split Decision
  • Dan Van Alst (Atlas MMA) def. Eric “Money” Mendiola (MVMMA) via submission in R1 (Standing Guillotine)

 TITLE FIGHTS

  • Dan Ladd (Spa City) def. Ben Okerke (TNT) to retain the Cage Wars Heavyweight Title via DQ  Okerke hit Ladd with an illegal knee to the head. Cageside doctor wouldn’t allow it to continue.
  • Rigoberto Miranda (Team Knucklehead) def. Jay Valasco (Animals MMA) via R3 KO to win the Cage Wars Featherweight Title
  • Alfred Alo (TNT) def. Ronnie Torress (Trinity MMA) via R3 KO to win the Cage Wars Middleweight Title

Note: A scheduled undercard bout between Andrew Smith (USA Karate) and. Topher Herrara (Legion Training Center) was cancelled.

Cage Wars 14, the area’s 2nd MMA event, is TONIGHT at the Crowne Plaza in Albany

Posted on by

Below is the official press release from Five Guys Fighting.

I’ll be covering the event for the Knick Ledger and might try to write a feature piece to shop around. Time constraints may prevent me from following through on that threat.

——————-

 

5 Guys Fighting Presents the Areas Second Full Contact Mixed Martial Arts Event

Contact: Shannon Miller5 Guys Fighting

Cagewarsny.com

5guysfighting@gmail.com

Press Release

5 Guys Fighting and Cage Wars Ny Present Their Second Full Contact Mixed Martial Arts Event

Weigh ins open to the public and media tonight 10/25 at 6:30pm at Legion training facility located at 1208 route 146 Clifton Park Ny.

5 Guys fighting is proud to announce Cage Wars 14 the Capital Districts second amateur Mixed Martial Arts event.  Amateur athletes from around the northeast are scheduled to compete on Friday October 26th at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Albany. This will be the areas second fully sanctioned full contact fighting contest.  All the fight night action will follow similar rules and procedures as popular professional leagues such as the UFC, PRIDE, and IFL.  This event will be a followup of the highly successful and groundbreaking event held on August 11th of this year in which 5 guys fighting became the first promoter to hold a amateur MMA event in Albany.

Cage Wars 14 will feature contestants skilled in boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, ju-jitsu, and a number of other martial forms.  Contests will be held in a octagon and feature 3, 3 minute rounds. Our current fight card will include 3 Cage Wars championships. Sponsors for this event include Legion Training Center, Extreme Striker, New York Boxing and Atlas Jiu Jitsu.

Formed by Professional Boxer Shannon Miller and partners, 5 Guys Fighting has consistently worked to advance the cause of Mixed Martial Arts in the state of New York.  5 Guys Fighting has currently held 13 competitive martial arts events in venues around the Capital District and Western New York. We have conducted in excess of 140 individual fights and represent over 300 fighters from a number of gyms and schools.  As the areas premiere competitive martial arts promoter we offer an opportunity for fighters to compete locally for fans, friends and family at the highest levels with the largest crowds.

Doors open for the show at 7pm with fights starting at 8pm.

Please E-mail requests for additional information on rules, sanctioning, press conference, and access to the fighters to 5guysfighting@gmail.com

The MMA & Pro Wrestling Overlap

Posted on by

Check out this piece I did for MMA Uncensored Live (give ‘em a like on FB, will ya?) about MMA stars crossing into pro wrestling, which is a novelty here in the States with King Mo but is actually something of a tradition in Japan:

 

… It’s fairly common in Japan. That’s because MMA and professional wrestling are more intrinsically linked than fans of either sport likely realize and/or would like to admit here in the United States. The Japanese pro wrestling and MMA industries, however, have long flaunted the connection.

Read more: The Wrestling and MMA Overlap on Spike’s MMA Uncensored blog

Zuffa did to Bellator and King Mo exactly what Dana White complained about them doing to others

Posted on by

Yesterday we talked about the myriad of complaints coming from Dana White this weekend. Chief among them: Bellator’s practice of having a clause in fighter contracts that stipulates they have the right to match an offer from a competitor even if they cut the fighter.

Which, as I pointed out, is fairly common.

I’ve also heard many times in the past that this has been the case even with some fighters under Zuffa, and it appears to have been when Bellator signed “King Mo” Muhammad Lawal.

From MMAFighting.com:

“We had to go through the exact same process with Zuffa when we signed ‘King Mo.’ Zuffa released ‘King Mo’ Lawal on March 27, 2012. They went public with their release, they put it up on their own website, on UFC.com, Dana confirmed the release of ‘King Mo’ to the media on the exact same day, and then in April, when Bellator looked to sign ‘King Mo,’ we had to submit our full contract to Zuffa. We sent it certified mail to their attorneys. Then we had to wait 14 full business days, which is typically 20-to-21 days in total, for them to decide if they were going to match or not going to match — which thankfully they didn’t, and we ended up with one of the most exciting and entertaining light heavyweights in the world — but, this is, to the letter, the exact same process.”

Nobody should really be surprised by this.

So here’s what Dana White was freaking out about…

Posted on by

…well, one of the things. From the Toronto Sun’s Steve Simmons:

This doesn’t mean the UFC is in any kind of serious trouble, it means it has hit a roadblock or two and is no longer this hard-to-explain meteoric star. Those who know the game best say it may be time for UFC to take a step backwards now, analyze where they are, where they aren’t going, take a deep breath and do some introspection, and compress its schedule ever so slightly.

 

Instead of having 12 bouts on a card, why not nine?

 

Instead of having too many pay-per-view cards, why not be more selective, and in this case take a page from the dreaded boxing world and do three or four huge events a year rather than push people — and bars — to have this happen so often it comes over exposed.

FWIW, I happen to think he’s right on the money. I even echoed (or whatever the equivalent is for when you do so beforehand) these sentiments in a recent piece for Spike TV (Injuries aren’t an epidemic, they’re a trend).

Basically, the UFC is getting greedy. They got overzealous in their booking, putting too many fights on too many shows without enough marquee stars. As a result, the last few months have happened. And are still happening, with Frank Mir getting injured last week.

This goes back to my feelings on the Jon Jones situation, which is that it wasn’t Jon Jones’s fault that UFC 151 was cancelled. But if Dana White is to be believed, it wasn’t the fault of Dan Henderson for withholding an injury from them until a week before belltime, or the UFC’s fault for having too many goddamn cards and not a good enough one to survive without the main event. Nope. It’s all Jon Jones’s fault for not taking the fight against “legal” steroid user Chael Sonnen.

The venom didn’t stop there. He then went on to attack Bellator because after contracts expire, it’s written in that they have the right to match any offer that comes their way. Which Dana White calls “scummy,” even though a similar clause appears in many, many athletes’ contracts, including but not limited all major sports in the United States.

Oh, and he also called Spike TV (disclosure: I obviously do work for them) a “terrible channel,” then immediately tried to convince us that “The Ultimate Fighter” is in a better place on FX in a terrible Friday night time slot that has done all but shit in the ratings. What he didn’t mention were all those FX and UFC on Fuel cards that were completely destroyed in the ratings by Spike TV showing reruns of fights from upwards of five years ago.

If your head is spinning, don’t worry. That’s just the alarm on your bullshit detector going off.

 

Explain Randy Orton to me

Posted on by

Random out of nowhere thought from watching Smackdown from last Friday on YouTube:

Randy Orton just might be the worst “top guy” in over a decade. So-so work, no passion, bad promos, charisma of a wet brick. Why do kids like this guy?

I don’t get the wrestling of these days.

Sorry guys, I totally Jon Jones’d this blog

Posted on by

I’ve been neglecting Mixed Marshall Arts the last several weeks, and for that I apologize. It’s mostly due to craziness, but a good kind of craziness!

In addition to my weekly contributions to the MMA Uncensored Live! blog, I’ve now taken over as the main blogger (via Tumblr) for Spike All Access Weekly and am contributing longer pieces for them on a weekly basis.

And just this week, I took over as the main guy behind the Spike TV Tumblr.

But I do want to get back to this, and promise I will soon. Although to be honest, I’m thinking of transferring this thing over to Tumblr too. Might be easier. Or not. We’ll see.

As for the cancellation of UFC 151: the UFC books more events than it can handle and put a 42-year-old guy on TRT in the main event, yet somehow it’s all Jon Jones’s fault that the event got cancelled and he’s the bad guy for not taking a fight on eight days’ notice that was all risk and no reward. Yep, he’s the jerk. Keep drinking that Kool Aid, kids.

But on a more positive note, a very belated but deserved congrats to the guys at Five Guys Fighting for pulling off Albany, NY’s first ever amateur MMA event at the Armory two weeks ago. Look forward to making the next one! I was at a wedding, hanging around two drunk weirdos that would not leave me alone and were being super creeps. True story.

Amateur MMA & Cage Wars 13 have two primary opponents: ignorance and laziness

Posted on by

First, Bob Reilly:

 ”And the commissioner better get on the ball and do her job, as well as the rest of the commission,” Reilly said. ”So this is an illegal activity by any call, by any interpretation of the law and the commission (State Athletic Commission) has to do their job.”

Christ.

It came in this piece from WNYT, where Bill Lambdin basically presents this as a renegade show:

Apparently, whoever did the legwork for this piece doesn’t know about a thing called Google. If they did, they’d find that amateur MMA has been legal in New York all along due to a loophole, which was admitted by the Attorney General back in January.

Lambdin, who delivers the story on-air, presents it as if Shannon Miller and Five Guys Fighting are simply ASSUMING it’s legal. Not true, and any basic work done on this would reveal that wasn’t the case. And yet there’s no mention from the reporter in this piece that amateur MMA was specifically cited as being legal back in January in that aforementioned motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against New York to get MMA legalized:

The statute’s provision on its face explicitly speaks to ‘professional’ combative sports and does not address amateur sports. Moreover, while the legislature, in another statute, regulates amateur boxing and wrestling, the legislature has not enacted a provision expressly addressing any amateur martial arts activity. Accordingly, the statute does not treat amateur MMA bouts any differently from amateur bouts involving traditional martial arts.

Guys, c’mon. There are slow-witted gits on blogspot who can barely string a sentence together that do a more comprehensive job than this.

As for Bob Reilly, I continue to be astonished that a guy can be that passionate about something while maintaining that level of ignorance and outright stupidity on the subject. To say he comes across as an uninformed petulant child with his whining and demand that the Athletic Commission do its job (which they will; they’ll be at the damn thing, Bob) would be unfairly dismissive of the capability of children to exercise reason.

Pretty alarming considering his position.

Previously: Cage Wars 13: area’s first sanctioned MMA event on August 11th

Rua/Vera winner will not automatically get a title shot

Posted on by

Dana White has backed down on the promise to give the winner of Rua vs. Vera a title shot after pretty much everyone, including Jon Jones himself on Twitter, was like “WHAAAAAAA”

From USA Today:

…co-headliners Ryan Bader (14-2, 7-2) and Lyoto Machida (17-3, 9-3) also will have that opportunity.

 

“Whoever wins the most impressively on Saturday night gets the shot at the title,” White said.

 

Yeah, good call. The idea of Brandon Vera headlining a UFC card is absurd enough, let alone also saying he has the opportunity to get a shot at a title.  He’s one of those guys that has always had the tools but could never quite put it together.

He’s going into this Saturday’s fight with Rua having only one win since 2009. He was originally released from the UFC after a brutal loss to Thiago Silva, but was retained after Silva was suspended for providing animal urine to the commission for his drug test and the bout was changed to a No Contest. He fought Jones in 2010 and was felled by punches in the first round.

Rua would be a better opponent for Jones than Vera, but that isn’t saying much. He’s coming off a loss to Dan Henderson in a fight of the year candidate, but two fights before dropped the Light Heavyweight title to Jones, the current champion, in very decisive fashion.

There’d be absolutely no money in either fight and neither man would be a convincing sell as a contender. I can’t say Bader or Machida would be, either. Just a perplexing call all-around.

For what it’s worth? I say give the title shot to Glover Teixeira if he’s able to beat Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.

More evidence that Hector Lombard might be a huge dick

Posted on by

From Sherdog:

“It was grappling time and he asked me to wrestle him,” said [Jacob] Volkmann, in a recent interview with Sherdog.com. “I went over and we got our own little mat area like the size of a circle on a regular mat. We started wrestling. I was doing collar ties, and then all of a sudden, he karate chopped me in the side of the neck. I was light, ‘Alright.’ I didn’t really take any shots because I felt that he was kind of a spaz. Then all of a sudden, he pushes me away and punches me in the face.”

 

I was annoyed as anyone else at Volkmann’s relentless and annoying post-fight videos where he tried to do political comedy, but c’mon. You don’t sucker-punch (or sucker-karate-chop then sucker-punch) a guy during grappling. Especially after you ask him to grapple with you.

What’s this guy’s deal, anyway?

WordPress theme: Kippis 1.15