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th Dec 10 7:28 am by
rayang
Today, the Sengoku Soul of Fight super event featuring fighters like Marlon Sandro, Hatsu Hioki, Kazuo Misaki, Mamed Khalidov, Megumi Fujii, Roxanne Modafferi, and many others took place in Japan. Here are the results starting with the top of the card. Women’s 105 pound bout: Misaki Takimoto vs Amy Davis Takimoto defeated Davis via split [...]
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th Dec 10 9:52 am by
rayang
Lost in most of the hype surrounding UFC 125 is the fact that a solid veteran fighter named Antonio McKee has finally gotten a shot to prove himself in the UFC. McKee has made some headlines for claiming racism was preventing him from getting to a bigger stage as well as promising to retire if [...]
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th Dec 10 4:31 pm by
rayang
If anyone doubted it before, Anthony Pettis showed everyone once and for all why his nickname is Showtime. At the WEC’s finale event, Pettis faced Ben Henderson for the WEC lightweight title. The winner would get a shot at unifying the WEC and UFC lightweight belts against the winner of the New Year’s Day battle [...]
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th Dec 10 5:15 pm by
rayang
In a year that saw Takanori Gomi announcing he was back by knocking out Tyson Griffin, scary moments like Pablo Garza’s flying knee on Fredson Paixao or Eddie Wineland slamming Ken Stone, and epic comebacks like Robbie Lawler knocking out Melvin Manhoef after almost having his legs knocked into the audience, our Knockout of the [...]
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th Dec 10 6:27 pm by
rayang
In a year of Phil Davis and Dan Hornbuckle coming up with super kimuras, Nick Pace having a submission named after him (will the Pace choke get used as often as the D’Arce choke?), a super Brabo choke aka Ninja choke, the use of the classic flying armbar by Michelle Waterson (“The Karate Hottie”) on [...]
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th Dec 10 2:33 pm by
rayang
In 2009, Jorge Santiago and Kazuo Misaki met for the 1st time and produced a Fight of the Year calibre match (yes, it was on the level of Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida). In August 2010 at Sengoku 14, they fought again for the Sengoku 185 pound belt in Santiago’s possession. Featuring Michael Schiavello, Frank [...]
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th Dec 10 1:48 pm by
rayang
At one point, Miguel Torres was consistently in the top 5 of the vast majority of pound for pound rankings. As the 2nd most recognisable star the WEC had, Torres was a great ambassador for the sport. You really couldn’t ask for a more dedicated guy. Unfortunately, after getting beat up by Brian Bowles and [...]
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rd Dec 10 7:16 pm by
rayang
With no more events to be held under the WEC banner, Urijah Faber is the man that will be associated with the WEC. He was the promotion’s most popular fighter and golden boy, holding the 145 pound belt from 2006-2008 and putting together 5 title defences during that stretch. Faber finally met his match in [...]
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nd Dec 10 5:26 pm by
rayang
There are times where you just want to see a guy who looks like Alistair Overeem beat the hell out of someone. Our next batch of end of the year recaps make the list for delivering one sided beatdowns that you can’t help but applaud, because let’s face it: if we didn’t want to see [...]
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