Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 4/28/07

-- By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- Just like Thursday's pro wrestling update we're catching up with all the latest news in MMA...

-- Last weekend in Manchester, fans watching UFC 70 on TV and at the MEN Arena saw quite the upset in the main event as Gabriel Gonzaga (who Casey, Euan and myself ignorantly gave no chance in hell of winning) defeated Mirko Cro Cop using Cro Cop's finishing move, a devastating high-kick which KILLED him and was sent into oblivion. At 4:51 of the first round Mirko landed in a very awkward position to the point that his leg buckled underneath and was bent in a way that a leg isn't supposed to.
If I remember correctly referee Herb Dean quickly dashed to put Cro Cop's leg in the proper position, I thought for sure that he fucked up his knee and ankle but reports stated that he was walking around fine after the match. So now Gonzaga advances to fight heavyweight champ Randy Couture, and if you think a Cro Cop/Couture encounter sounded scary for Couture's fate, one with Gonzaga will be even more insane, not only can he fight on his feet but if it goes to the ground Couture will be working overtime trying to keep up with Gonzaga.
The rest of the show was good, nothing spectacular but historic nonetheless. The David Heath/Lyoto Machida match, which was scheduled to air on the Spike TV broadcast in the States, was said to be so fucking boring that it didn't even make onto Spike.
Instead Spike showed the Matt Grice/Terry Etim dark match which made sense as Liverpool-based Etim got the victory and was the second Brit of the evening to score a victory for the crowd as Michael Bisping won his match against Elvis Sinosic.
The most BORING matches were the Andrei Arlovski/Fabricio Werdum and Assuerio Silva/Cheick Kongo fights, both of which went the distance. Kongo bored me again, not sure what the deal is because I could've sworn the first time I saw him in UFC I thought Kongo was a killer and could be a major deal in the heavyweight division but after seeing his recent fights I'm not sure what's going on. By the way Kongo won via majority (split) decision.
Remember when I said that the Heath/Machida fight was so bad that it didn't make the airwaves in the States? Well as Casey brought up on a recent podcast, one can wonder why the Arlovski/Werdum fight was aired when this had to be a fucking boring-ass fight. The crowd hated it booing like crazy and Joe Rogan was on Arlovski's back during commentary regarding his mundane performance. Arlovski won via unanimous decision but I have this feeling that he'll be going the route that Heath Herring did and work dark matches on Fight Night specials. Complete results can be read on UFC's site.

-- Attendance for the show was reported to be a sell-out at 14,921 with £1.3 million ($2,600,000 US) in ticket sales making UFC 70 MEN Arena's third highest-grossing event. The show did well on Spike TV which drew a 1.84 rating (2.8 million viewers) and peaked at 3.5 million viewers during the main event.

-- Gonzaga received a hero's welcome when the Ludlow, MA native arrived at the Marco Alvan Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training Center earlier this week and was greeted and congratulated by proud students and Alvan. "I want to thank all my teammates," Gonzaga said through his manager and translator, Alvan. "No one can be in the best of shape without their partners." Gonzaga's fight with Couture has been reported to take place on 8/25 but Gonzaga couldn't confirm that date.

-- If only Melvin Guillard was booked on UFC 69 or UFC 70... The Houston Chronicle reports that fighters who participated in UFC 69 and 70 weren't drug tested as according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation stated that was the responsibility of "sanctioning body" of the event, that being the UFC who ran UFC 69 in Houston earlier this month. As far as what happened at UFC 70 regarding testing: "We were ordering tests, but found we had no legal means to do it," said [UFC rep Marc] Ratner. "They had no commission there. There was no drug testing there." I was under the impression that Zuffa was going to fly people out to England to take care of this, those fighters who may have dabbled in any type of questionable substance better count their lucky stars and not fuck around with fate next time.

-- Matt Serra and Matt Hughes have been announced as the coaches for season six of The Ultimate Fighter. That will be GREAT~!

-- UFC 71 on 5/26 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena: (matches announced so far) Chuck Liddell Vs. Quinton Jackson; Josh Burkman Vs. Karo Parisyan; Thiago Silva Vs. James Irvin; Sean Salmon Vs. Eric Schafer; Jeremy Stevens Vs. Din Thomas

-- Chuck Liddell discusses his upcoming battle with Quinton Jackson on KCAL 9 in L.A. this morning, no NyQuil malfunction this time.

-- UFC 72 on 6/16 at the Odyssey in Belfast: (matches announced so far) Rich Franklin Vs. Martin Kampmann; Rory Singer Vs. Jason MacDonald; Scott Smith Vs. Ed Herman

-- Tickets are now on sale for The Ultimate Fighter 5 finale which takes place on 6/23 at the Palms Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas featuring TUF 5 coaches BJ Penn and Jens Pulver in the main event.

-- An interview with Tito Ortiz on MMANews.com.

-- Rashad Responds to Tito Ortiz

-- the Iowa Senate is looking to end state regulation of MMA claiming that the sport's so dangerous it cannot be regulated. Are these guys dipshits or what? “We’ve got a serious problem with shoot fighting. We’re either going to regulate it or we’re not,” said Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, the leading backer of the plan. The Senate had passed a deregulation bill last month but the House was indecisive on passing the bill so early this week the MMA proposal was lumped in with a larger budget bill to be voted on this week. The budget bill was passed but the MMA proposal was not discussed or settled. Throughout this tug of war on coming to a conclusion the state basically doesn't want to be liable for injuries and such resulting in fights. “I’ve got e-mails from Las Vegas and Canada telling me I’m a dummy,” [Sen. Bill Dotzler] said. “They don’t understand the bill. All it says is in Iowa, you can do all your events, just the state isn’t going to be liable for it because we can’t make the sport safe.”

-- Meanwhile in Nebraska, Legislative Bill 471 to regulate MMA events received first-round approval making the State Athletic Commission oversee the sport and events run in the state. State Sen. Ernie Chambers, who actually propsosed the bill, is not a fan of the sport and doesn't think the state should run events but states, "We should not want to drive it underground," he said. "Regulation is better than ignoring it or banning it."

-- Cage fight in legal gray area

-- MMA in Philly? After red tape

-- This coming Monday's IFL Battleground will feature DEAR DON~! as a regular segment, I so hope it's as great on TV as it has been on IFL's site. Here's a sample that may not make it to television.

-- IFL has moved its 6/16 show from Reno to the Las Vegas Hilton making it the first ever MMA event held there. “We were presented an opportunity for this breakthrough event in Las Vegas, and we felt it is an opportunity we could not pass up,” said IFL CEO and co-founder Gareb Shamus. The event, which will be the last of nine regular season IFL events, features the Nevada Lions against the Tucson Scorpions and the New York Pitbulls against the Toronto Dragons.

-- Seattle Tiger Sharks coach Maurice Smith will be fighting for the first time in almost seven years when he takes on SoCal Condors coach and rival Marco Ruas on 5/19 at the Sears Centre in Chicago.

-- WEC at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas on 5/12: Doug Marshall vs. Justin McElfresh; Lightweight Bout: Rich Crunkilton vs. Jamie Varner; Middleweight Bout: Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Hiromitsu Miura; Light Heavyweight Bout: Gary Padilla vs. Ariel Gandulla; Lightweight Bout: Marcus Hicks vs. Sergio Gomez; Welterweight Bout: Tom Speer vs. Sidney Silva; Bantamweight Bout: Brandon Foxworth vs. Manny Tapia; Lightweight Bout: Ed Ratcliff vs. Johnny Sampaio; Middleweight Bout: Eric Schambari vs. Art Santore

-- Frank Trigg has a new MMA radio show that airs daily from 9-10AM PST at www.taggradio.com.

-- Zach Arnold of Fight Opinion has the latest on the Ed Fishman/DSE lawsuit.

-- Total Fighting Alliance's War on the Shore event will be broadcast live online for free. The event takes place on Saturday between 6-9PM PST at the Santa Monica Civic Center an can be viewed at www.totalfighting.net.

-- Rumble in Round Up City II at the Pendleton Convention Center on Saturday , go to www.thefcff.com for more info.

-- Palace Fighting Championships hold its first title fight on 7/19 at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, CA when David Espinosa fights Shawn Klarcyk for the bantamweight (135 pounds) title. Other fights include: Jason Von Flue vs. Chris Botelho, Ruben Villareal vs. Rafael Del Real, Kenny Ento vs. Palika Drummondo, Jeremy Freitag vs. Lamont Lister and Angelo Antuna vs. Seth Dikun. Tickets are priced at $20, $30 and $40, on-sale date is 5/18 at 10AM at tickets.com outlets, the Palace Gift Shop or by calling (800) 225-2277.
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Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 4/2/07

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- As expected, the whole Donald Trump/Vince McMahon head shaving bit from Sunday night's Wrestlemania 23 show made it to various press and news outlets including both men appearing on the Today show Monday morning. Ric Gillespie wrote on his site CanvasChronicle.com: Got a chance to catch Vince McMahon and Donald Trump on 'Today.' Wasn't a whole lot to it, but the public did get its first look at McMahon's completely bald pate, and also saw a shiner on McMahon's left eye, courtesy of Trump's punches at 'WrestleMania.'

-- Final tally for Wrestlemania: Attendance announced was 80,103 at Detroit's Ford Field and brought in a live gate of $5.38 million making it the highest grossing one-day live event in company history.

-- Raw will be in Dayton tonight, expect insanity that only Vince McMahon can deliver now that he's been humbled on the grandest stage of them all and other follow-up from Mania with Cena, HBK and more.

-- Injury report from ROH's shows this weekend from ROHWrestling.com: Mark Briscoe suffered a concussion after landing bad on a shooting star press to the floor. He was in the hospital for the entire weekend. He is now questionable for 4/13 & 4/14. We hope to have an update later this week. BJ Whitmer will be forced to miss 4/13 & 14 for a neck injury he suffered in the Steel Cage Showdown against Jimmy Jacobs last Saturday. Fans are calling this brutal match the greatest cage match in ROH history. Unfortunately both Whitmer and Jacobs paid the price. Jacobs suffered worst of all. He had half of one of his front teeth chipped. Worst yet, he will need major surgery to repair a completely torn my Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in his left knee. Jacobs will miss 6-9 months of action, but will still have a role on most of the ROH shows.

-- The Evening Tribune out of Hornell, NY has an article on ‘Leapin' Lanny Poffo about his appearance at the 34th Annual Sports Night on Saturday. Poffo also discusses his SNME with Hogan, what he did to stand out amongst the typical WWF wrestler look, his wrestling family and his literary career where Poffo wants to help today's youth from taking up smoking which he states is part of the five nightmares of youth which also includes dropping out of school, teenage pregnancy, drugs and suicide.

-- TNA will hold its Slammiversary pay-per-view on 6/17 in Nashville.

-- TNA has a show this Saturday at The Crossroads Arena [2800 South Harper Road] in Corinth, MS featuring NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage, Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, Abyss, “The War Machine” Rhino, X Division Champion Chris Sabin, “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Petey Williams, “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels, Team 3D, Sonjay Dutt, The Naturals, “Wildcat” Chris Harris and “Cowboy” James Storm. Tickets available at particpating Subway restaurants or call (662) 287-7779.

-- Sting on retirement: “Last year, I said 2006 probably would be my last year, my last hurrah in wrestling. But then (TNA President) Dixie (Carter) started talking to me about 2007, as well as other TNA executives. So I figured I’d go another year. But, after 2007, I can’t make any promises. I have a feeling this, 2007, will be it,” said Sting. “I’m not a commentator or manager type. Not in my blood. Wrestling is the only thing in my blood.”

-- The Best Of AJ Styles DVD Vol. 2 is available on Tuesday which will cover:
- AJ as a kid growing up
- Memories and stories about his family and friends
- Excelling in sports in high school and college
- How and why he got into wrestling
- Stories about his time in NWA Wildside and WCW
- Finding faith and religion in his life
- Meeting his wife and beginning their family
- The birth of his first son and what it meant to him
- His career in TNA, including his favorite matches and stories
- His love of video games and more

-- Female wrestlers: Friends outside ring, foes inside

-- Patrick Stoetzer of Carroll County Times reminisces about old-school WWF wrestling and pay-per-views

-- Father charged with assaulting son - An East Pennsboro Twp. man faces charges after police said he punched his 11-year-old son and made him run laps around their vehicle because he cried on the mat during a wrestling practice, police said.

-- Multiplayer: Putting Up A Fight

-- It's a busy week in mixed martial arts as we have two UFC events (Fight Night this Thursday night on Spike TV followed by the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter 5, UFC 69 on Saturday) and Pride 34 on pay-per-view this Sunday. Myself, Casey and Euan from Old Country Times and Ric from Canvas Chronicle will be recording a podcast to review only a few of the fights from each card (although we're each picking three to review so we can either have a bunch of different fights to discuss or talk about the same ones, we'll see), that will take place on Wednesday so expect to be posted maybe by Thursday. Fight cards: UFC Fight Night; UFC 69: Shootout; Pride 34: Kamikaze

-- Swick discusses UFC 69, Okami and going home

-- Penn wants to pulverize rival

-- Here's some interesting build-up for the Josh Koscheck/Diego Sanchez fight this Saturday:
- Five Ounces of Pain: An interview with Josh Koscheck
- The Fringe: An interview with Diego 'The Nightmare' Sanchez

-- The Iowa Senate voted 35-12 last Wednesday to end state regulation for mixed martial arts. Democratic senator Bill Dotzler, who spearheaded this move, states that the bill would ban any MMA event to take place and will protect the state from any liability due to a fighter's death or injury, the bill is a result of not enough senators being able to agree whether to ban the sport or not. Promoter Monte Cox stated, "De-regulating it is the biggest pansy way out of this situation," and is concerned that de-regulation will encourage fly-by-night promoters to run shows and cause more chances of injuries or death for fighters. The state obviously is covering their ass over fighters' safety and regulations would be more of a help to the sport so that jack-ass dishonest promoters don't come in and make money without any regard to fighters' safety. The bill is headed to the House.

-- IFL ratings info:
“IFL Battleground” has achieved record numbers for MyNetworkTV in just its first three weeks.

Those numbers include:

• A 60% increase in overall audience size over MyNetworkTV February sweeps prior program numbers, including a 250% increase in males 18-49.

• A three-telecast viewer reach of over 6.1 million, the best first three telecast cume for any show since the Network launched last September.

• The February 26 “IFL Battleground” show featuring the New York Pitbulls set a record for males watching MyNetworkTV, delivering a 0.7 in the male 18-49 category.

On the sports cable side, the IFL’s weekly Friday night matchup on FSN has seen:

• An impressive 24% increase in the 11 p.m. window from other programming that has held that time slot in the first quarter of 2006 (FSN’s “Best Damn Sports Show Period”).

• Overall the program rose in all key male demos, with men 18-34 up 41%, men 18-49 up 15% and men 25-54 up 27%.

-- DEAR DON~!

-- Robbie Lawler won the Icon middleweight champion Saturday night when he KO'ed Frank Trigg at Honolulu's Blaisdell Arena making him the promotion's first ever two-time middleweight champ.

-- One-on-one with UFC heavyweight Heath Herring

-- TV schedule for WEC on Versus Network this summer:
6/3/2007 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
6/3/2007 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING
6/6/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
6/13/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
8/5/2007 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
8/5/2007 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING
8/8/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
8/15/2007 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm WEC HIGHLIGHTS
9/5/2007 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING

-- HBO looking outside the boxing ring

-- Florian ready for comeback

-- Former baseball player Welker wins debut in cage match

-- Mayweather/De La Hoya Conference Call Transcript

-- De La Hoya adds bit of Sugar to his training regimen
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Pro Wrestling/Mixed Martial Arts news and notes 1/20/07

By Art Shimko
shimko_7@hotmail.com

-- Pro wrestling and MMA news from the last few days...

-- Colorful Pro Wrestler 'Bam Bam' Bigelow Found Dead

-- He was a celebrity with a name all wrestling fans knew

-- Superstars reflect on Bam Bam

-- WWE released more talent from its roster between Thursday and Friday including Tatanka, Greg Groothius (Jack Bull), Steven Adkins (Seth Skyfire), and Ryan Reeves (all three were development talent training at OVW). The company has signed former TNA wrestler Cassidy Riley (who wrestled Monty Brown/Marquis Cor Von on ECW Tuesday) and ROH wrestler Ace Steel to developmental deals.

-- I recommend everyone check out this New York Times article: Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage. Dave Meltzer mentioned it in his Thursday update and the NYT article very educational and scary, it mainly discusses NFL football players and how concussions can effect their mental and physical states in the long run focusing on the suicide of Andre Waters and the condition of his brain from numerous concussions in his career. The pro wrestling/MMA connection here, besides the effects of concussions can have on wrestlers, fighters and boxers, is that former WWE wrestler and Harvard grad Chris Nowinski has done lots of research connecting concussions to depression and drastic results leading to premature deterioration of a person's brain. Another point brought up is the fact that many football players, and this seems to be the nature and attitude with athletes in general, would shake off a concussion and not tell their coaches or rest and not get back in action so soon.

-- "Dirty Dick" Slater's in trouble, this time accused of harassing a woman he attacked years ago: Ex-wrestler accused of contacting stab victim

-- Yes, this really happened: Jerry Lawler interviews David Arquette. So do you think that WWE 24/7 Online offers the match where Arquette won the big gold belt later this week?

-- J.R.'s got some new blogs: J.R. Remembers Bam Bam Bigelow and Marquis Cor Von… Russ… Punk… HBK… ECW… Stupidity

-- ECW rating: 1.52; Impact rating: 1.1 (www.f4wonline.com)

-- Casey's 1/19/2007 TNA iMPACT recap

-- Tickets are still available for Saturday's TNA show in Irondale, AL at the Zamora Shrine Temple located at 3521 Ratliff Road. The box office opens at 3PM

-- Mike Mooneyham's latest article on midget wrestling: Big controversy surrounds smallest wrestlers

-- Weekend Cover Story: High-flying Hardy

-- National Wrestling Superstars 1/27 at the Brick Elks Lodge, 2491 Old Hooper Ave., Brick, NJ: "The Anvil" Niedhart, the Famous Clown, Sychodelic Sissies (Ace Darling and Mr. Motion Shane Taylor) vs Team Supreme (Nicky Oceans and Corvis Fear), Ice Fire Steve Zaft, Strange Resin, The Hurtin Hillbillies, AC Kewl, Rocco Dorsey, of Brick, Corrupted Youth, The Great Garoffollo of Toms River and others. Tickets in Brick: Tony's Pizza, 2115 Route 88; The Brick Convenience Store No. 2, 438 Mantoloking Road; Baseball Cards of Brick, 2715 Hooper Ave.; Herbertsville Coin Laundry and Dry Cleaning, 1820 Lanes Mill Road and Stewards of Kearny, 245 Drumpoint Road. Tickets in Toms River: Rivoli's Restaurant and Store, 781 Fisher Blvd.; Antonio's Pizza, 1213 Route 37 east in the Toms River Mall; and Johnny G's Italian Restaurant and Pizza, 1812 Hooper Ave. Details: (732) 888-1704. http://www.doubleplaytixx.com

-- JAPW Saturday night @ 8PM at The Rahway Rec Center (275 East Milton Ave), Rahway, NJ: JAPW World Heavyweight Champion Teddy Hart vs The Necro Butcher; Jack Evans vs Chuck Taylor vs Ricochet vs The Grim Reefer; JAPW World Tag Team Champions Jay Lethal & Azrieal vs The SAT; Colt Cabana vs. Delirious; Ruckus w/Eddie Kingston vs B-Boy; Daizee Haze vs Alicia

-- American Combat Wrestling Every Tuesday Night
@ Club Bourbon Street, 4331 US HWY 19 in New Port Richey, FL
Show starts @ 8:45 pm
25 cent Drafts 5 dollar admission

January 23rd event information:

ACW Heavyweight champion “the Marquee” Bruce Santee (w/Supermodel Amy Love) vs. “Raging Bull” Eddie Taurus

ACW Tag Team champions Dogmatika (Sideshow and Dany Only) Joshua Masters and Sedrick Strong (w/Fetish)

Open House with Host “Roughhouse” Ralph Mosca with guest “the Marquee” Bruce Santee
Any Questions for Bruce Santee please email acwoffice@aol.com

ACW Cruiserweight champion Nooie Lee vs. Austin Amadeus

#1 Contender Cruiserweight Title Match
Nick Fame vs. Jason Moore

As always this event is subject to change without notice by the offices of ACW. ACW’s website BRAND NEW will be online in the coming days. Check out www.floridaindies.com for information. (thanks to Alan Wojcik)

-- Quite a bit of UFC press lately:

-- There's an interview with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and another Rampage article with audio.

-- NBC Sports has opened a UFC webpage featuring a Dana White interview.

-- CNBC's Business Nation is airing a special titled Fighting, Inc. on Wednesday 1/24 at 10PM EST, check this description out from UFC's website: It's one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. In its beginnings in the 1990s, MMA was thought of as barbaric, human cockfighting, and was vilified by both the press and politicians. Today, due to increased safety regulations and sanctioning, it's becoming big business - thanks to the branding and popularity of it's flagship - Ultimate Fighting Championship, and it's no-holds-barred leader, Dana White. Here we go again~!

-- Matt Hughes will be speaking at a Family Life Fellowship event on 1/28, 10:30AM at Family Life Fellowship's Destiny Dome in Moberly, IL

-- UFC's perfect antagonist

-- UFC ultimate goal for 'Peg scrapper

-- The Versus Network will be airing WEC fight shows this summer, the WEC is now owned by Zuffa.

-- Ultimate fighter Couture returns

-- IFL live show report from Oakland: Tiger Sharks vs. Condors/Lions vs Razor Claws

-- Saul Soliz's Renegades Extreme Fighting MMA show on Saturday night at the Verizon Wireless Theater in Houston sold out the 2,250-seat venue on Tuesday.

-- Rumble on the River boxing and MMA event at hosted by The Eagles Aerie 3775 at 321 N. Spring St. in Cape Girardeau, MO. The card will include competitors from the Miletich Fighting Systems of Southeast Missouri and Bootheel Bombers Boxing Club. Mixed martial arts bouts will include championships in the Sikeston-based Absolute Fighting Challenge. Competitors are expected from seven different states. The card will have 15 to 20 bouts, with about a 50-50 split on boxing and mixed martial arts. For ticket information, call 335-0931

-- Jiu jitsu instructor accused of molestation

-- Eric "Butterbean" Esch KO's Charles Hodges in 45 seconds of the main event of Palace Fighting Championships: Card a knockout at first blush

-- Promoter to diversify with mixed martial arts

-- Shamrock, Gracie, Shaw Conference Call Quotes

-- Norris hopes combat league kick-starts his pet cause
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