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Fighter to watch: Kiko France
by snet tim on Apr 11, 2010 8:55 PM EDT
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Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery on May 15th in St. Louis is coming up and Strikeforce has finally announced the the prelims for the card (maybe the main card will be finalized soon). But fight I'm excited to see involves Francisco "Kiko" France.
Kiko France is a Brazilian Jiujitsu black belt hailing from American Top Team Missouri. All four of his fights have ended in a first round submission, the first three being arm-triangles. When asked why he favors the arm-triangle he laughingly said that they "just give it to him". His longest fight has lasted a mere 82 seconds.
France is fighting Lee "Manimal" Brousseau. Brousseau hails from Illinois fighting out with War Room MMA. His record is 4-1. All 4 of his wins ended in the 1st round. One win by KO, 2 by TKO, and one by guillotine. His one loss was by submission to Greg Lofink, whom he has fought twice and on the second meeting TKOed in 18 seconds.
In France's last fight, he was able to dismantle the tractor. Will he be able to cage the Manimal?
For any of those interested, links to their fights are after the jump.
Prelims Announced for Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery
Justin DeMoney (8-1-1) vs. Jesse Finney (4-0)
Lee Brousseau (3-1) vs. Fransisco "Kiko" France (4-0)
Mike Chandler (2-0) vs. Sal Woods (3-7)
Pat Benson (4-4-2) vs. Erik Steenberg (3-0)
Tom Aaron (6-2) vs. Matt Ricehouse (2-1)
Darryl Cobb (3-1) vs. Booker DeRousse (2-2)
PureFight.org is streaming the Victory Fighting Championship: XXX live for free.
Today they're going to stream the weigh-ins and tomorrow at 7:30 pm CST the show will begin.
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Patriot Act 2 Recap
by snet tim on Apr 26, 2009 2:28 PM EDT
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So I'm a bit late in getting this up, but late is better than never. It became a lengthy, yet awesome night.
A few corrections from my last post. I erroneously used Sherdog.com as my source for the records of the fighters and would now like to correct that. Lucas Lopes' record was not 8-8 before last night but was 27-8. How Sherdog missed those other 19 fights, I'm not sure. Also, he did not fight CJ Fernandes, but rather fought Whisper Goodman. So I've learned my lesson that in regards to the next Patriot Act card (which is around June 20th), I will not use Sherdog as a source. (And one more thing on Sherdog is that "Eduardo Silva" is really Eduardo Cunha, there was a mix up in communicating the proper name.)
The rest of the info after the jump will be from the events program (unless stated as IMO).
Pic via www.purefight.org
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The Patriot Act 2
by snet tim on Apr 25, 2009 3:12 PM EDT
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Today is the day for the Patriot Act 2 by Headhunters Productions. The event will be occuring at the Holiday Inn Express in Columbia, MO. Headlining the event is Jeff "Snowman" Monson versus Pat Smith and Ben "Funky" Askren versus Mitchell Harris.
This will be Askren's second professional MMA match. He won his first fight against David Flowers by TKO in the first round back in February. Harris is coming in with a record of 1-3 with his most recent fight resulting in a win by decision. His losses are 1 by submission and 2 by TKO. If I were to bet on this fight, I'd have to pick Askren.
Also fighting tonight is ATTs Lucas Lopes against CJ Fernandes. Lopes (8-8) has a strong background in Muay Thai and a brown belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu, I am excited to see him fight tonight. Fernandes has more experience with a record of 14-8-3, but I'm still going to go for Lopes to pull out the W.
Purefight.org will provide live coverage of the event here.
It appears as Monson's fight has been canceled according to the event update on Sherdog. When I find out why I'll let you all know.
Pic via www.yorkblog.com
Akiyama sporting the UFC logos.
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Megumi Fuji No-Gi Grappling Tournament. She's pretty amazing!
Fast and Furious
This is by far the best promo for a Fast and the Furious movie. (Also does not feature Vin Diesel or Paul Walker).
personal favorite is #7.
The Best MMA Fighter in the World Video
Greatest Fighter in the world, at least that's his notion. I really enjoy the 3:30 mark. :D
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Speculation on Gina Carano
by snet tim on Mar 23, 2009 4:49 PM EDT
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In watching the interview where Carano talks about Strikeforce and Cyborg, I couldn't help but notice that she seemed a bit burned out in regards to MMA. There's several things from this interview that have me concerned.
First off, she was most excited at the beginning of the interview talking about hanging out with the Make-A-Wish kids, which is a great thing. But when asked where has she been, she talks about traveling, "detoxing", and training "here and there".
What I'm most concerned about is how's she handling her training regime if she's wanting her next fight to be against Cristina "Cyborg" Santos. Cyborg is no joke of a competitor, and this fight is getting a lot of tension built up under it in anticipation for it to happen. It's becoming quite "surreal". Hopefully it's not as mythic as the Fedor-Coutue fight. But, a Carano walking in 4.5 lbs overweight again just would not fly.
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