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MMA Downunder - CFC # 6 - Full fightcard.

Ronnie Liddle — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:32:20 -0000

The guys at CFC have release their full fightcard for their Nov. 7th promotion, CFC #6.

Fight 1 - U93kg	Fred Chahrour Sinosic Perosh MMA	Vs	Andrew Profilli Newcastle Fight Gym
Fight 2 - U70kg	Carlos Gomes Lion's Den Academy	Vs	Robert Cooper Boxing Works
Fight 3 - U77kg	Adriano Magnani Gracie Oceania	Vs	Tiago Ferreira Gracie Sydney/TP Fight Team
Fight 4 - U70kg	Kian Pham KMA Liverpool	Vs	Neil Robertson Newcastle Fight Gym
Fight 5 - U84kg	Dylan Andrews Siam Fitness	Vs	Jacob O'Connell Gracie Sydney/TP Fight Team
Fight 6 - U93kg	Gordon Graff Penrith Elite	Vs	Priscus Fogagnolo Cazalys Fitness Tasmania
Fight 7 - U93kg (International Superfight)	Anthony Perosh Sinosic Perosh MMA	Vs	Bryan Harper Team Quest U.S.A.
Fight 8 - U93kg (International Superfight)	Jamie Tehuna Penrith Elite NZ	Vs	Antony Rea Team Quest U.S.A. (France)
Fight 9 - U70kg (Lightweight Eliminator)	Ian Shaffa Team Shaffa/Lion's Den Academy	Vs	Rob Hill Lange's Northside MMA
Fight 10 - U70kg (Lightweight Eliminator)	Bernardo Trekko TP Fight Team/Double Dragon	Vs	Adrian Pang Intergrated/Fairtex MMA
Fight 11 - U77kg (Welterweight World Title Fight)	Shane Nix Sinosic Perosh MMA	Vs	Brian Ebersole Fitness & Fight Centre, W.A.

Please note that this fight card is subject to change without notice.

Perosh is over his Staph infection and Jamie Te Huna will make his belated CFC debut after being stoodup at CFC #5. Jamie will fight a guy by the name of Antony Rea who is billed as having fought - Eastman, Franklin and Belfort - all of which he lost to via KO or TKO, but hey, it sells tickets. And of course fan favourite Priscus is on the card too. Can't say it enough, watchout for this Priscus in the future.

Word of warning if you hit the link... CFC have confused the numberings on their own events. CFC # 5 happened back in September so this should be CFC # 6.

hope to see you there.

Downunder MMA - CFC # 6 'Eliminator'

Ronnie Liddle — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:00:42 -0000

The guys at CFC have announced the some details about their next event which will take place on 7th of November at Luna Park, Sydney, Australia.

On the card so far:

Shane Nix will defend his Welterweight title against Brian Ebersole. Anthony Perosh and Jamie Te Huna will both be taking on as yet un-named international opponents and Priscus Fogagnolo will battle Gordan Graf.

There is also a Lightweight 'Eliminator' between: Bernardo Trekko, Rob Hill, Adrian Pang and Ian Schaffa. I'm unsure if the winner will be crowned the lightweight champ that night and/or if these guys will fight more then once on the night, but the line 'war of attrition' leads me to believe the later to be true.

I wondered where Hector Lombard might have been in all this because he's usually a feature in all the CFC but it seems Elite XC have book him for there Nov. 8. show. Was gonna happen eventually.

CFC #5 Fightcard – Hector "Shango" Lombard vs. Brian "Bad Boy" Ebersole

Ronnie Liddle — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:26:50 -0000

The people at Cage Fighting Championship have just release a preliminary fightcard for their September 12th show, CFC # 5 ‘Showdown’. It’s obviously going to feature the above fight along with a couple others, namely Kyle Noke vs. Carlo La Torre and Jamie Tehuna vs. Davion Peterson. The Lombard and Ebersole fight will be for the Middle-Weight belt but the CFC haven’t mentioned any other fights as of yet. Will keep you posted.

At CFC 4 Kyle beat La Torre’s training partner, Yoann Gouiada, and the CFC are trying to spin some sort of angst between them now. The, Belgium, La Torre is now vowing to defeat Noke and avenge the loss sort of thing. Tehuna is debuting in the CFC along with the USA based, Peterson. If Jamie can stay injury-free, he is someone to remember.

BJ Penn’s Next Challenge

Ronnie Liddle — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:05:40 -0000

From the second the ref raised BJ Penn’s hand against Sherk the writing was on the wall for Penn in the lightweight division. He put on a clinic against Pulver last year, made Stevenson’s question his will to fight back in January, and destroyed the wrestling machine Sherk, last month. So the question was always going to be: What’s the next real challenge for Penn? The way I see it, there are currently two choices.

1. Stay in a division he already owns.

2. Move up and fight at 175.

So let’s play it out.

If Penn stays he only has the winner of the upcoming fight between Ken Flo and Roger Huerta as competition. And after that; it’s slim pickings to say the least. Think about that, is one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world really going to hang around waiting for a rematch with Sherk? He can’t, if he does, we’ll start to see the Penn that didn’t train properly a couple years back… nope, I believe Penn has learnt his lesson the hard way and won’t return to the bad old days and become stagnant again. Penn needs a challenge to keep the fires burning and he knows it.

So if Penn moves up does he get an immediate fight with GSP? Will it be a title fight? And what happens after the fight? If he wins, will Penn own two divisional belts at the same time? So then does he drop one title or try and defend concurrently? In an age were the TUF series is linked with the title defences, can the UFC seriously afford to tie up another title defence? And what if Penn did the unthinkable and lost to GSP? Would Penn be happy to go back down to the 155’s or try and make a home for himself, in the crowded 175’s, as some sort of Gatekeeper to GSP?

My money is on: Penn fighting the winner of Ken Flo and Huerta first, one tune up fight after at 175, and then GSP. This because the UFC has to look at getting as many fights out of Penn as possible, before he fights GSP, for fear that he might lose the fight. Then again, the UFC has found that Life’s script is often better then made up ones (Yes, you could see that as a slight dig at EliteXC) and this might work out for them especially if Penn can win their first rematch… Penn vs. GSP III.

Love to know how many fights BJ Penn has left on his contract.

CFC#4 Fightcard Update.

Ronnie Liddle — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:09:27 -0000

Carlo Lattore has been forced to withdraw, after breaking his hand, from his fight this Friday night with Kyle Noke. Also, Emerson Rushing has been forced to withdraw from his fight with Anthony Perosh after contracting a staff infection in his leg.

Yoann Gouiada, a training partner of Carlo Lattore, is stepping up to the plate to fight with Noke. A New Zealand fighter, Kaota Puna, was going to be a replacement for Rushing till Perosh also had to withdraw with an injured knee. No news if there is going to be another fight or not but at this late notice I would presume not.

They also have a short interview with Fabiano Capoani on the CFC homepage. It’s short, but it mentions him helping Rodrigo Nogueira before a fight back in the Pride days. Capoani (4-3-1 via Sherdog) will be fighting Lombard for the vacant CFC middleweight title.

http://www.cfcworld.com.au/index.php

Fightcard for CFC #4

Ronnie Liddle — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:25:40 -0000

This update from Australia promoted by Kid Nate. Thanks for the news from Downunder, Ronnie!

The people at CFC have announced their fightcard for the upcoming promotion on May the 23rd with a somewhat interesting line-up. Recent EliteXC signee, Hector Lombard and Kyle Noke will be fighting separate opponents on the same night. Interesting because I would have thought EliteXC would have wanted Lombard on one of their fightcards ASAP instead of `risking' him with another promotion. Also, Noke fighting Downunder too? Has his contract expired (and not been renewed) or are we starting to see a sort of cross promotion co-operation between EliteXC and CFC in the beginning stages?

Nice to see Lombard is not doing a cut-and-run with his fans Downunder. Thanks Hector.

Full Card below.

Josh Payne vs Kevin Croke

Kian Pham vs Matt Wilkin

Andy Kappas vs Urosh Pavicevic

Clint Joyce vs Priscus Fogagnolo

Bernado Trekko vs Denis Kelly

Anthony Perosh vs Emmerson Rushing

Kyle Noke vs Carlo La Torre

Brian Ebersole vs Wade Henderson

Shane Nix vs Xavier Lucas

Hector Lombard vs Fabiano Capoani

Bit of background - Priscus Fogagnolo trailed for the Beijing Games (in Judo) but lost in the final to Daniel Kelly. Priscus is an ex powerlifter... never seen him throw a punch but yep, my tip is to watch for Priscus in the future.

Brad Morris Signs with UFC

Ronnie Liddle — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:36:05 -0000

This diary entry was promoted to the front page by Luke Thomas.

It was announced on infinitemma.com yesterday that local Aussie HW, Brad Morris has signed with the UFC. No news on opponents or which fightcard he'll be featured but will keep you posted when news comes through.

Brad holds a 9 - 2 record with wins over Kristof Midoux at the Bodog - Vancouver and another win over Masayuki Kono at the Warriors Realm 12 held in Sydney at the end of last month.

Interestingly back in 2002, Brad's lost to another MMA debut by the name of Soa Palelei. Check the Youtube link below at around the 2:40 mark (for this fight) and watch him scramble to get out of the armbar. Wasn't the best example by Soa but you got to admit in Brad's first fight, he did give his all.

That will make three Aussie heavy weights that have been signed by Danna in recent years. Perosh, Palelei and now Morris. Ask me and any MMA fan in Aust., we appreciate the support Dana has shown by taking the risk on signing our fighters in the last two years. I know it suits Dana's own purposes with the HW division starting to thin out but still... anyway, good luck Brad.

A highlight reel of Brad's fights:

CFC#3 Sydney - Australia - Results

Ronnie Liddle — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:49:30 -0000

Just a quick note before I get into the fight summaries. It was announced by ringside that Hector Lombard is now an Australian citizen. While local fight fans are excited (because we can claim him as ours), all it really means is Lombard can now get a working Visa on his Australian passport to fight in the USA. Yes, this is guy that couldn't get into the USA to fight at UFC 78 (Karo Parisyan) because he was born in Cuba. I'd expect to see him fighting in North America soon.

Fight results.

Hector Lombard vs. Tristan Yunker - Winner: Lombard - 1st round (3:10) - Corner Stoppage

Anthony Perosh vs. Moise Rimbon - Winner: Rimbon - 1st round (4:11) - KO (Knee)

Dylan Andrews vs. Brian Ebersole - Winner: Ebersole - 2nd round (4:26) - KO (GnP)

Bernardo Trekko vs. Gustavo Falciroli - Winner: Trekko - Unanimous Decision

Shane Nix vs. Brad Thompson - Winner: Nix - 1st round (4:01) - TKO (GnP)

Nick Pudney vs. Alex Shevtsov - Winner: Shevtsov - 1st round (0:42) - Submission (Armbar)

Gerald Burton-Batty vs. Francis Carmont - Winner: Carmont - 1st round (1:53) - KO (GnP)

Andy Kappas vs. Matt Burcher - Winner: Kappas - 1st round (1:50) - Submission (RNC)

Rob Hill vs. Jai Bradney - Winner: Bradney - 1st round (2:14) - TKO (GnP)

Fight summaries:

CFC#3 was a great night of fights, with only one fight going the distance and one other fight making it outside of the first round. Plenty of KO's and plenty of submissions.

The first fight saw Bradney get the better of Hill within the first few minutes. Bradney unleash a good combination and beat Hill soundly while in the second fight of the evening saw Kappas take Burcher's back quickly after a short exchange of punches. Burcher seemed to being defending well until he tapped and then started clutching his back. It may have gone down as a defeat due to a rear naked choke but from where I was sitting it looked nothing like it. The next fight saw the first of the two French fighters, Carmont, take on Burton-Batty. Carmont looked slow and lazy at first and it made me think for a second that Carmont might have been flown in to appease the local fans (a can) but I was proven wrong quickly. Carmont showed good straight punching, possessing a brutal right leg kick, sound takedown and finishing skills. This fight happen on the other side of the cage but the result was the same, Carmont took him down, was held in Burton-Batty's guard briefly before Carmont passed, worked the punches quickly and took the victory. The next fight happened so quickly and still I'm at a loss to figure how it finished. Shevtsov was on the bottom and Pudney transitioned to top positioned. Somehow he got caught in an armbar and didn't tap straight away. End result left Pudney with either a badly dislocated elbow or a broken arm.

Next fight saw Shane Nix vs. Brad Thompson and it looked good till Nix started to dominate the ground war through good body positioning. Nix is a smart fighter and during the closing minutes of the first round proved this by opening up Thompson with a good cut above the eye. The cut was the beginning of the end and Nix won the fight soon after with a flurry of punches before the end of the first round. The sixth fight of the evening was a ground war between Bernardo Trekko and Gustavo Falciroli. It was a good, technical fight, with some great sweeps and transitions. There was a little holding of the fence but nothing that anyone could cry foul over. The decision was fare and crowd appreciated the win by Trekko.

The next fight was something I'm not sure even took place, it made me look at my beer and wonder if it had been spiked. On paper Dylan Andrews and Brian Ebersole looked to be a serious fight but by the way Ebersole made his entrance (he looked to be taking on a cell phone the entire time to the cage) and by sitting down on the floor of the cage during the fighter's announcements I wasn't sure if they had the correct fighters. Either way Ebersole vs. Andrews was a good. Andrews nullified Ebersole wrestling for the first round by not letting Ebersole land one decent punch despite him owning the top position for most of the round. That all changed in the second round. Ebersole came out, pressed Andrews against the fence and landed three great punches from the top, knocking Andrews out. Ebersole then went on to tell the crowd that he had a contract to fight in Canada (in the interview after the fight). Ebersole is an entertaining fighter that was just too experienced for the young Andrews with Andrews confessing too as much after the fight.

The next fight saw Perosh (ex-UFC) take on the second of the touring Frenchmen. Rimbon also seemed slow as well but after a quick scramble to get back to their feet showed that he owns a brutal right knee. It broke Perosh's nose and if you ask me was one of the best knees I've for a long time. Right on the button and knocked Perosh out cold.

The last fight was something of an exhibtion. Just looking at the two fighters side by side and you knew it was never going to end well for Yunker. In fact, Yunker looked a weight division smaller then Lombard. The fight started quickly with both fighters ending up on the ground. Yunker in a scarf hold and Lombard flat on his back. It didn't last long. Lombard bridged and shoved Yunker against the fence before unleashed a mountain of punches. So many in fact that corner of Yunker's threw in the towel.

All in all, a good night at the fights. Besides the delay to get things rolling, there was only one major delay where the doctor had to help an injured fighter but nobody minded. The production standards were excellent and all the fighters showed a high standard of fighting ability. CFC#3 was a credit to everyone involved.

CFC#3 Fightcard Change

Ronnie Liddle — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:04:45 -0000

Seems the good people in Aust. Customs are conspiring against the local MMA fans here in Australia. According to the CFC Homepage, Jordan Radev, has had an issue obtaining a Visa to enter Australia. Tristan Yunker has stepped in as a last minute replacement and to be honest I don't know anything about Tristan except what can be found on Sherdog. Tristan has lost his last two fights and will be up against it in fighting Hector Lombard on the maincard.

Preview of CFC #3

Ronnie Liddle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:27:24 -0000

The people at CFC are being their usually non-cooperative selves before their February 15th event and not answering email enquires so unfortunately this is lifted pretty much straight from their homepage with additional comments made where necessary. (http://www.cfcworld.com.au/index.php)

Once again CFC will be going to the well and featuring Hector Lombard, in what I imagine will be the feature event, against two time UFC fighter Jordan Radev. That's three CFC events and three appearances from Hector. Hope they aren't going to depend on him for the next three events because I get the feeling fans might get tired of seeing Hector headline every event for '08.

Local Sydney fighter Anthony Perosh, and UFC veteran, will be up against Frenchman, Moise Rimbon. No word as yet if Rimbon will be jumping to 225 or Perosh will be dropping to 205 but it's good to see some imports making the trip Downunder.

Interestingly Brian Ebersole, a former D1 University wrestler, is set to take on Dylan Andrews who is currently undefeated. I say interesting because, Australians don't follow wrestling to the lengths that the North American's do (it's not as big in High school or College) so seeing how Andrews will combat Ebersole's uncommon fighting style will make for an interesting contest, strategic wise. Also Ebersole pushed Kyle Noke to a five round decision in late '06 so you can bet Ebersole has a gas tank. This is the fight I'm most excited about.

Gerald Burton Batty, a BJJ Black Belt, will return to the cage against Francis Carmont. Carmont holds a 10-6 record in MMA and trains with Europe Top Team and is the last of the two Frenchmen on the bill.

In the Under 170pnds division, Andy Kappas will touch gloves against Matt Bircher who is being billed as `having won his last three fights' but a quick look at the X-Agon results from Nov. 28th says otherwise. Did I mention that CFC won't answer my questions about their Fightcard? Bircher, who I really like as a fighter, lost via Armbar back in Nov.

A quick summary of the other fights have Shane Nix N.S.W. taking on Brad Thompson in the same division as above and Mick Putney against Alex Shevstov who will be taking the long trip from WA for this event.

All in all, a couple of fights that will keep the local MMA fans happy.