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But he’d like to fight someone rich like Quinton “Rampage” Jackson or Tito Ortiz, or someone famous.

In all seriousness, Bonnar is ready for his rematch with Krzysztof Soszynski after their fight was stopped at UFC 110 in February. “The American Psycho” is happy that the fight will take place in Las Vegas instead of Australia with “better” qualified doctors who won’t stop a fight because they see some blood.

HT: Fight! Magazine

Paul “Semtex” Daley say’s that money will speak louder than his actions once fan pressure builds. He feels the UFC will have to take a hard look at him and the amount of money they could make from his return once he’s won the fans back and put together a successful win streak.

“I’m just going to be me now. When people say why am I not in the UFC I’ll say the same thing as ever. If you’re winning fights and a lot of people are talking about you… whether Dana White likes it or not, he’s all about the money,” he says.

“If I can bring money to the UFC, everybody’s talking about Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley, how much better he’s got since the Koscheck fight, all these top names he’s beaten outside of the UFC, Dana’s got to respond to the fans at some point.”

“…my intention is just to get better as a fighter anyway. I’m not looking to get back into the UFC. Obviously if they offered me I wouldn’t say no. I just want to keep fighting, keep winning and getting better.”

Daley was released by White after he punched opponent Josh Koscheck in the face after the bell sounded to end their fight at UFC 113 in Montreal.

The British welterweight is scheduled to appear at an Impact Fighting Championships event in Australia on July 3rd against an unnamed opponent.

HT: FightersOnlyMagazine

With their sites already firmly locked onto international markets such as Europe, Canada, and Australia, the UFC currently appears poised to take China by storm.

On the heels of announcing a recently assembled office in Canada, UFC President Dana White recently spoke optimistically on the prospect of the company taking its act to Asia in the very near future.

“Right now, what we’ve used to go into Europe and even Australia is our U.K. office,” said White during a recent report on MMAJunkie.com. “But we’re looking right now – and here I go jumping ahead of myself and saying stuff before we do it – but we’re going to open an office in China.”

White went on to speculate that the UFC could end up producing a total of 100 shows a year if everything continues going according to plan.

“This is is a work in progress,” White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “We bought this company, and we were doing five fights a year. If you would have told me six or seven years ago that we’d be doing 34 fights a year, I would have said, ‘That’s impossible. It’ll never happen. That’s crazy.’ We’re probably going to end up doing 100 fights a year.

“We could have a show [in the U.S.] on Saturday night and five more going on in five other countries. That’s what’s going to eventually happen. It’s figuring this thing out, putting the pieces together, and like I said, it’s a work in progress. But I’m telling you guys, I said it years ago, and I’ve been saying it – how big this thing is going to be. I think people are now really starting to realize how big this thing is really going to be.”

Here’s the latest predictions from my warped view of the upcoming UFC 114 card.
There’s five fights scheduled for the main PPV portion of the card and two fights slated to air on Spike TV. First up will be the Quick Hit predictions on the fights not slated for air, then the Spike TV fights and finally the PPV card.

Quick Hit’s

Ryan Jensen over Jesse Forbes.
Aaron Riley over Joe Brammer.
Luiz Cane over Cyrille Diabate
Melvin Guillard over Waylon Lowe

Spike TV fights

Efrain Escudero (13-1) vs. Dan Lauzon (12-3).
Escudero was one of the more highly touted fighters to come off The Ultimate Fighter reality show in recent memory. In his three post TUF bouts, he’s 2-1 and coming off a loss via submission in his last outing.

Lauzon is 0-2 in his two appearances in the UFC and the latest news on him is that he and his now former training camp have had an ugly split.

Prediction: Escudero over Lauzon.

Amir Sadollah (4-1) vs. Dong Hyun Kim (12-0-1, 1 NC)

Again we have another TUF winner in Sadollah. Sadollah has won his fights either via submission or decision. His one loss was a TKO.

Kim has two decisions and a TKO for his three wins in the UFC.

Prediction: Kim over Sadollah by unanimous decision.

PPV Main Card

Welterweight bout: Diego Sanchez (23-3) vs. John Hathaway (13-0).

After a three-fight foray in the Lightweight division, Sanchez is back in the welterweight division. His last fight saw him stopped by BJ Penn in the lightweight title bout at UFC 107.

Hathaway has won two straight decisions in his UFC run. All three of his bouts have been overseas and he’s looking to make an impression on a USA audience.

Prediction: Sanchez over Hathaway by unanimous decision.

Heavyweight bout: Todd Duffee (6-0) vs. Mike Russow (12-1-0, 1 NC).

Duffee’s UFC debut lasted all of six seconds before Duffee notched the fastest knockout in UFC history.

Russow is also making his second trip into the Octagon after picking up a win over Justin McCulley at UFC 102 via unanimous decision.

Prediction: Duffee over Russow by technical knockout.

Light-Heavyweight bout: Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (18-3-0) vs. Jason Brilz (18-2-1).

Nogueria was originally slated to face UFC poster boy Forrest Griffin at this event. But a shoulder injury to Griffin opened the door for Brilz.

Brilz has won 3 of 4 fights in the UFC. Nogueira has a TKO win in his lone fight in the UFC but has won pretty much everywhere he’s competed.

Prediction: Nogueira over Brilz via KO.

Co-Main Event

Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping (19-3) vs. Dan Miller (11-3-0, 1 NC).

Bisping, another TUF winner, is fighting to keep his status as the MMA poster boy across the pond. If not to stay relevant, never mind being in title contention.

Miller is looking to take a step up the ladder and Bisping is a big enough name to do that against.

Bisping’s been fighting at 185 pounds since losing to Rashad Evans at 205 at UFC 78 in November of 2007. He came out hot winning three straight fights at 185 before he ran into Dan Henderson at UFC 100.

Let’s just say that Bisping had a good nap that evening.

He bounced back with a TKO win over veteran Denis Kang at UFC 105 in his home country of England. He then lost a close decision to Wanderlei Silva in Sydney, Australia at UFC 110 in February.

Being 1-2 in his last three fights, “The Count” needs a win desperately.

Miller has lost two straight fights to guys that have either challenged for the middleweight title (Damien Maia) or will challenge for the belt (Chael Sonnen).

He also needs to pick up a win or it might mean the end of his run in the UFC.

Prediction: Bisping over Miller by unanimous decision.

MAIN EVENT

A LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT GRUDGE MATCH
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (30-7) vs. “Suga” Rashad Evans (19-1-1)

This all started easily enough. At UFC 96, Jackson beat Keith Jardine a teammate of Evans.

At the time Evans had the belt at 205 and it appeared that Jackson would be the first challenger in line to take a shot at Evans.

That didn’t happen and Evans suffered the first loss of his career to Lyoto Machida.

Then the two aficionados trash talk were picked as coaches for Season 10 of TUF to hype a fight between the two at the end of that season.

The fight still didn’t happen. Rampage went off to Canada to film the upcoming A-Team moive. Evans beat Thiago Silva at UFC 108.

Now, finally, here we are. UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans.

I still think a wildcard in this fight could be which one of these guys remembers that they have a base in wrestling.

I expect both to be launching bombs disguised as overhand rights or left hooks but I think both will be aware of that and Plan B may have to be used for one to finish the fight.

Prediction: I like Evans to remember his takedown skills and get Jackson in a Ground N Pound situation.

Rampage is bigger but I like Evans’ speed in this fight.

Prediction: Evans over Jackson via TKO.

Now watch there be a KO in the first 30 seconds. That’d be just my luck.

Until Next Time

I’m Q

CYA

“Words are important, I thank you for hearing my words.” George Carlin.

Elliot Worsell, UFC - Three months ago Michael 'The Count' Bisping was a guillotine choke and a right-handed haymaker away from beating Wanderlei Silva in Sydney, Australia. Comfortable and seemingly in control, Bisping poked and prodded his way around Silva's desperate swings in an attempt to cleverly diffuse the legendary striker for three rounds.

To follow is a statement that was issued by Paul Nay, President of CAPO Powerlifting Australia, Inc.; who is affiliated with the WPC and GPC. Since Powerlifting Watch reports both sides, we contacted Mr. Wilks for a reply statement. Mr. Wilks did issue a statement; and so it is now up to the readers of Powerlifting Watch to read both statements and decide for themselves.

Dear members,

You may not be aware but over a long period of time I have worked very hard to have all of our CAPO Powerlifting events held at excellent venues for us. I have been working even longer on being able to build a relationship with Victorian Weightlifting Committee so we can have some of our events held there. This had been achieved up until a very short time ago.

Several UFC veterans are headed to Australia to compete on the Impact FC’s upcoming cards slated for July 3rd, 10, and 18. Some of the fighters include Josh Barnett, Paul Daley, Paulo Filho, Jeff Monson, Carlos Newton, Karo Parisyan, Ken Shamrock, and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou.

Both Filho and Monson are scheduled to participate in all three events spaced one week apart.

July 3rd – Perth, Australia:

Murilo “Ninja” Rua vs. Jeremy May
Ricco Rodriguez vs. Brad Morris
Jeff Monson vs. Jim Yorke
Paulo Filho vs. John Kolosci
Paul Daley vs. TBA

July 10 in Brisbane, Australia:

Josh Barnett vs. Geronimo Dos Santos
Carlos Newton vs. Brian Ebersole
Karo Parisyan vs. Luis “Besouro” Dutra Jr.
Jeff Monson vs. Bira Lima
Paulo Filho vs. Keith Johnson

July 18 in Sydney, Australia:

Ken Shamrock vs. Pedro Rizzo
Jeff Monson vs. Ricco Rodriguez
Murilo Bustamante vs. Jesse Taylor
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Joaquim Ferreira
Paulo Filho vs. Denis Kang

Considering Filho’s past record of not making events, three by our count at this time, Impact FC had hope they do all they can to bring the Brazilian to the land ‘Down Under.’

HT: MMAFighting.com for the update.

Michael Langhi (Alliance) defeats Phillip della Monica (Gracie Barra) at the 2009 World Championship.

Remember the word back in 2008 about the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation ramping up its push for membership? This year the IBJJF is taking some very concrete steps in that direction which affect the way the 2010 BJJ World Championships will be carried out. I’ll post them below but as you read them, if you have any questions about them, please email them to me by Monday! I will be interviewing an IBJJF representative this coming week on the matter!

Starting at the worlds 2010, at any IBJJF event. It is mandatory for all the black belts to carry their federation membership id cards. Its required to present the I.D card to the event official prior to the match.

IBJJF Membership ids and affiliated federation ids accepted for this event; IBJJF (for non US, Brazil, Japan, France and Portugal residents the IBJJF id is applicable), USBJJF for US residents, CBJJ for Brazil Residents, Japan federation for Japan residents, France Federation for France residentes Portugal federation for Portugal residents, Australia Federation for Australia residents.
For the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2010, IBJJF will release complimentary membership ids for the black belts registered in the world jiu-jitsu championship 2010. This includes the coaches with athletes registered in the event.

If you do not follow the guidelines, IBJJF reserves the right to deny participation of any athlete in this division. All registers in the Black Belt division are under IBJJF approval.

On Sunday during the black belt finals, coaches will be allowed next to the mat for the first time. Here are the rules about coaching that are new.

In any event, when coaches are allowed to be inside the competition area, the coach must wear the vest supplied by the event. The coach must present his/her black belt membership id from the authorized entities, valid for the current year. The coach must return the vest once he leaves the competition area, after the athletes match is over.

There will be 2 chairs located by the score keepers table per ring area, behind the publicity panels, where the coach will be seated.

The coach is responsible for the athletes conduct from the moment you enter and exit the event.

The coach’s action inside the competition area is limited to the communication to the athlete. Tactics and strategies advises, motivating, instructions to umpredictable situations, injuries.
The coach must remain seated during he whole match.

More details about the coaching situation can be found here, and full details about black belt registration requirements are here.

Like I said, if you have any comments about these changes, please email them to me as soon as possible so I can get those questions answered for you.

Press Conference

“Moosin: God of Martial Arts” PPV card stacked from top to bottom

Sylvia-Pudzianowski headlines May 21 at DCU Center in Worcester

WORCESTER, Mass. (May 14, 2010) – The first major mixed-martial-arts show in Massachusetts history, the May 21st “Moosin: God of Martial Arts” pay-per-view event, offers much more than the much-anticipated super heavyweight showdown between 2-time UFC heavyweight champion Tim“Maine-iac” Sylvia and 5-time World’s Strong Man, Mariusz“Dominator” Pudzianowski, at the DCU Center in Worcester.

Fans in attendance, as well as PPV viewers, will watch entertaining fights featuring many of the leading MMA fighters in the world. The main event between Sylvia (25-6-0), a native of Eastbrook, Maine, and Polish sports icon Pudzianowski, promises to climax an evening of explosive action.

“God of Martial Arts” is being presented by Moosin, the South Korea-based promotional company, which has promoted MMA shows in South Korea and the United States. Moosin, in conjunction with the International Taekwon-Do Federation, plans expansion into to China, Poland and Australia.

“God of Martial Arts” is being distributed by Integrated Sports Media at 9:00PM ET/6:00PM PT in North America on cable and satellite Pay-Per-View via iN Demand, DIRECTV, TVN and DISH Network, as well as Viewer’s Choice, Bell TV and Shaw PPV in Canada, for a suggested retail price of only $29.95 (also available in HD). It is also available on www.GoFightLive.TV outside of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Poland.

Korean heavyweight Mu Bae “The Heavy Tank of Busan” Choi (9-4-0) meets veteran Travis “Diesel” Wiuff (59-14-0) in the co-main event. Choi is a former Greco-Roman wrestling champion, who has fought in Pride and Sengoku, making his U.S. debut. One of the most experienced MMA fighters in the world, Wiuff was a 2-time NJCAA All-American wrestler whose MMA victims include former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez and other UFC fighters such as Keith Jardine, Sean Salmon and Chris Tuchscherer, in addition to former IFL titlist Matt Horwich.

Brazilian middleweight Rafael “Sapo” Natal (11-2-0) takes on The Ultimate Fighter 4 winner Travis “The Serial Killer” Lutter (10-5-0) in a match between Brazilian Jui-Jitsu specialists. Natal, representing Gracie Fusion, started out fighting
in the art of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian style using a lot of sweeps and kicks. A BJJ black belt, Lutter gained fame by winning TUF4, defeating Patrick Cote in the finale with an arm-bar. The experienced Lutter has fought Anderson Silva,
Rich Franklin and Matt Lindland.

Bahamian lightweight Yves “The Texas Gunslinger” Edwards (37-15-1) squares-off against rising New England star Mike “The Beast” Campbell (7-2-0). An all-around fighter, Edwards, has fought all over the world, including Pride and Bodog, and the Texas resident has registered wins versus the likes of Rich Clementi and Hermes Franco (twice). Providence-native Campbell, who was a potential Olympian in power lifting, outgrew the New England MMA circuit and is ready for the larger stage.

A special attraction features two of the premier female MMA fighters in the U.S., Tara LaRosa (18-1-0) and Roxy Modafferi (13-4-0), at a 130-pound catch-weight, in a rematch of their March 4, 2006 fight that LaRosa won by decision. Modafferi, however, has defeated (submission by triangle choke in 2005) the only woman to ever defeat LaRosa, Jennifer Howe, by TKO (punches) in 2003.

The non-PPV scheduled part of the Moosin show also has worldwide appeal yet features several local favorites on the undercard: Korean light heavyweight Chang Seob Lee (2-4-0) vs. Lukasz “Juras” Jurkowski (5-6-0), Clinton’s Matt Lee (11-8-1) vs. Bridgewater’s Brett Oteri (5-0-0) in a match-up of Massachusetts lightweights, unbeaten Worcester (Mass.) welterweight Ralph Johnson vs. NAAFS champion Forrest “The Meat Clever” Petz (23-7-0 undefeated Rockland (Mass.) heavyweight Paul Barry(3-0-0) vs. Stipe Miocic (1-0-0),Stoughton (Mass.) middleweight Fred “French Foot Fighter” Belleton (6-2-0) vs. Anthony “The Recipe” Lapsley(14-5-0).

Also, fan favorite Eric “Butterbean” Esch (98-18-5, all-fighting) squares-off against former Boston Bruins enforcer and popular WAAF sports personality, Lyndon “LB” Byers, in a charity fundraiser. All fights and fighters are subject to change.

Tickets, priced at $35.75, $55.75, $75.75, $150.75 and $250.75, are on sale at the DCU Center Box Office (50 Foster St., Worcester, MA), all Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com, or by calling 1.800.745.3000.

Doors open at 7:30 PM/ET, first bout 8:00 PM/ET, first PPV bout 9 PM/ET (6 PM/PT). Go to www.MoosinUSA.com or www.dcucenter.com for additional information. For odds on the fights go to http://betus.com.

Moosin: A global event promoter based out of Seoul, South Korea, in conjunction with the International Taekwon-Do Federation, Moosin is known for bringing fans the finest in mixed martial arts competition. Moosin is revolutionizing
the MMA industry by merging an international roster of talented fighters with recognizable stars from the world or music, sports and popular culture. Moosin pits warrior against warrior, featuring a hybrid of MMA and hard-hitting Moosin-style kickboxing, in hand-to-hand battles of skill, honor and art.

DCU Center: A multi-purpose arena and convention center uniquely designed to accommodate the needs of any size group from 15 to 15,000 DCU Center is owned by the City of Worcester and managed by SMG, the world’s leading private management and developing firm for public assembly facilities. Headquartered on Philadelphia, SMG provides management services to over 200 public assembly facilities internationally and also offers food and beverage operations through SAVOR…Catering by SMG. For more information, please visit www.dcucenter.com.

Integrated Sports Media:North America’s leading distributor of International Pay-Per-View and Closed Circuit sports events has presented World Championship and world-class boxing matches featuring Ricky Hatton, Christian Mijares, Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones, Jr., Ivan Calderon, Rocky Martinez, Nicolai Valuev, Amir Kahn, Marco Antonio Barrera, Arthur Abraham, David Haye, John Ruiz, Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr., and Ruslan Chagaev. In addition, Integrated Sports Media distributed numerous International soccer matches showcasing teams like Club America of Mexico and the National Teams of Argentina, Honduras, El Salvador and the USA, as well as World Championship and world-class mixed martial arts shows featuring Fedor Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia, Bobby Lashley, Bob Sapp, Jeff Monson, and Roy Nelson. For more information on upcoming Integrated Sports events visit www.integratedsportsnet.com.

Karo “The Heat” Parisyan will next strap on the gloves against Brazilian Luis Dutra Jr. at Impact Fighting Championships in Australia on July 10. The former UFC welterweight standout was unable to reach an agreement with Strikeforce this week so instead opted to join fellow UFC outcasts Paul Daley and Josh Barnett on the upstart promotions inaugural Aussie card.

“I [haven't] fought for a year-and-a-half, (so) it’s exciting…time to get on top again,” Parisyan told MMAJunkie.com.

Parisyan (18-5-0) last saw action at UFC 94 in January 2009, defeating Dong Hyun Kim by split decision. The result was later changed to a no-contest when a post-fight drug test revealed the presence of prescription painkillers. He was later released from the world’s premiere MMA organisation after pulling out of his scheduled UFC 106 bout with Dustin Hazelett in November 2009.