Maghnus' MMA

UFC Events Coming to New York

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:06:00 +0000

With the economy in the dumps and states all over America feeling the pressure of the budget slashes city's such as New York are looking for new revenue streams. This opportunity is perfect for the UFC to make a case and I believe that the UFC will be coming to Madison Square Garden’s very soon!

Recently the UFC held a press conference about the issue and Dean Murray, a N.Y. State Assemblyman, was one of several high ranking officials to attend.
"The fact of the matter is, this another example of New York being a nanny state. We have to stop doing that. We have to give the choice," Murray said "How many TV stations do you have? How many radio stations do you have? You have choices. By us not legalizing this, it's removing that option of all these, literally millions of fans in New York state, having a chance to see their hometown heroes fighting."

Dana White announced that once MMA is regulated, the UFC will bring two or three UFC events to Madison Square Garden per year. According to studies from HR&A, those two shows would bring $23 million and more than 200 jobs to N.Y.

"The financial study [that HR&A did] is incredibly conservative. In that study we priced tickets cheaper than New Jersey, and we bring a lot of money into that state. We also conservatively projected only two events -- one big PPV at Madison Square Garden, and one upstate, which would be a fight night or a finale or something like that. White said "But who knows -- maybe we come into New York and we do three events, and you triple whatever that number is. It's absolutely insane and asinine for this not to be sanctioned."

White also when on to talk about other lower mma organizations that will also generate jobs and money in the state.
"When we're talking about the UFC coming to the state of New York, a lot of other mixed martial arts events will too. Which will create even more revenue. You're going to have all these other organizations that will come here and bring more money in and create more jobs," said White.

An additional $7 million would come from 70 more MMA events each year in N.Y. Springer based that estimate on the number of fight cards in states like New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania.

UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:27:00 +0000

UFC 127 will be the second event since UFC 110 to be held on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia. There will be a sellout crowd in attendance, tickets went on sale in December selling on within hours. This event along with UFC 110 goes down in record for the fastest selling event in UFC history.

ESPN in U.K. will air the Ross Pearson vs. Spencer Fisher fight, which was confirmed by Jon Anik on ESPN MMA Live.

NickTheFace2 @Youtube.

Fight Card
Welterweight bout: B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch (No.2)
Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Jorge Rivera
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. Dennis Siver
Welterweight bout: Chris Lytle vs. Brian Ebersole
Middleweight bout: Chris Camozzi vs. Kyle Noke

Preliminary Card (ESPN UK)
Lightweight bout: Ross Pearson vs. Spencer Fisher

Preliminary Card
Light Heavyweight bout: James Te-Huna vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Middleweight bout: Nick Ring vs. Riki Fukuda
Heavyweight bout: Chris Tuchscherer vs. Mark Hunt
Lightweight bout: Maciej Jewtuszko vs. Curt Warburton
Light Heavyweight bout: Anthony Perosh vs. Tom Blackledge
Featherweight bout: Zhang Tie Quan vs. Jason Reinhardt

Mags Picks

B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch (Decision)

Michael Bisping vs. Jorge Rivera (Decision)

George Sotiropoulos vs. Dennis Siver (Submission)

Chris Lytle vs. Brian Ebersole (Submission)

Chris Camozzi vs. Kyle Noke (TKO)

Ross Pearson vs. Spencer Fisher (TKO)

Who have you got?

Possible Match Up: Anderson Silva Vs Michael Bisping

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:00:00 +0000

Anderson Silva

Recently Anderson Silva was interviewed by ESPN UK about his upcoming Middleweight Championship fight Vs Vitor "The Phenom" Belfort at UFC 126 in Las Vegas this February. Silva is certainly not looking past Vitor but he started to speculate on his future. Silva has a desire to return to England to defend his belt against "The Ultimate Fighter 3" winner Michael Bisping. Many MMA fans will knows that Silva fought in the British MMA circuit where he became the Cage Rage Middleweight champion defeating "Lightning" Lee Murry.
"The British fans are very knowledgeable and passionate about MMA. I would love to fight there once more" said the Middleweight champ.
Silva last fought in England back in April 2006 where he knocked out Tony Fryklund with the famous uppercut elbow.
"I am the champion of the world, not just Brazil or America. Being a world champion means taking on the best fighters from around the world all over the world." said the Pound for Pound champ. "If the chance came I would like to fight Bisping in the UK if that's what the UFC put together."

Bispings next fight is in Sidney at UFC 127 where he will face off against Jorge Rivera. Bisping has been on good form recently winning 6 of his 8 last fights dropping a decision to Wanderlie Silva and the famous knockout to Dan Handerson, so he is clearly in the title picture. The Ultimate Fighter winner has recently responded to the comments made by the Blackhouse member saying "It's nice to hear nice things from the best in the world, and hopefully soon I will earn the honour of fighting him"

I am really hoping that all things align and this fight takes place because I would like to see Anderson Silva fight live before he retires and this is the best possible chance I have. Anderson is by far my favourite fighter ever and is the fighter that got me hooked in MMA.
I see 3 things stopping this fight from taking place.

1) Anderson needs to beat Vitor
2) Bisping needs to beat Rivera
3) Dana White needs to want to make it happen and forget about Okami as No.1 Contender.

I would sell my soul for this to happen!!

UFC Fight For The Troops 2

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:27:00 +0000

UFC Fight For the Troops 2 or Fight Night 23 will be the third event that the UFC has held in cooperation with a military base. This event will take place on January 22nd at Fort Hood in Texas. This is a great card for a Fight Night with some really exciting fights.

Main Card

Lightweight bout: Evan Dunham vs. Melvin Guillard
Heavyweight bout: Matt Mitrione vs. Tim Hague
Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick vs. George Roop
Heavyweight bout: Pat Barry vs. Joey Beltran
Lightweight bout: Cole Miller vs. Matt Wiman

Preliminary Card

Lightweight bout: Cody McKenzie vs. Yves Edwards
Welterweight bout: DaMarques Johnson vs. Mike Guymon
Featherweight bout: Mike Brown vs. Rani Yahya
Lightweight bout: Waylon Lowe vs. Willamy Freire
Welterweight bout: Charlie Brenneman vs. Amilcar Alves
Bantamweight bout: Will Campuzano vs. Chris Cariaso

Mag's Picks

Melvin Guillard
Matt Mitrione
Mark Hominick
Pat Barry
Cole Miller
Yves Edwards
Mike Guymon
Mike Brown
Willamy Freire
Amilcar Alves
Chris Cariaso

So whos your money on?

UFC 122: The Results

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:19:00 +0000

Results

Carlos Eduardo Rocha def. Kris McCray via submission (kneebar) at 2:21 of Round 1
Karlos Vemola def. Seth Petruzelli via TKO (strikes) at 3:46 of Round 1
Kyle Noke def. Rob Kimmons via submission (rear naked choke) at 1:33 of Round 2
Pascal Krauss def. Mark Scanlon via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Vladimir Matyushenko def. Alexandre “Cacareco” Ferreira via TKO (strikes) at 2:20 of Round 1
Duane Ludwig def. Nick Osipczak via split decision (28-30, 29-28, 29-28)
Krzysztof Soszynski def. Goran Reljic by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Amir Sadollah def. Peter Sobotta via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Dennis Siver def. Andre Winner via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:37 of Round 1
Yushin Okami def. Nate Marquardt via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 29-28)

My Picks

Duane Ludwig
Krzysztof Soszynski
Amir Sadollah
Dennis Siver
Nate Marquardt

This week I only took the main card and get a pretty good 4/5

UFC 122: Marquardt Vs Okami

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:29:00 +0000

UFC 122 kicks off tonight at 8:00am GMT from König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. This
event will air on the same day, via tape delay, on Spike TV in the U.S. This will be the second event the UFC has held in continental Europe.

Fight Card

Kyle Noke vs.  Rob Kimmons
Vladimir Matyushenko vs.  Alexandre Ferreira
Kris McCray vs. Carlos Eduardo Rocha
Seth Petruzelli vs. Karlos Vemola
Duane Ludwig vs. Nick Osipczak
Pascal Krauss vs.  Mark Scanlon

Main Card:
Nate Marquardt vs. Yushin Okami
Dennis Siver vs. Andre Winner^{Amir Sadollah vs. Peter}
Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Goran Reljic

^{^{My Predictions:}}
*Soszynski
*Sadollah
*Siver
*Marquardt

WEC 52: Results

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:17:00 +0000

The anticipation is building as we are only a few hours away till WEC 52 kicks off. I've placed my bets and provide my picks all is left to do is wait on the out come! The results will be posted here after the event.

Results

Urijah Faber defeats Takeya Mizugaki via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:50 of round 1

Joseph Benavidez defeats Wagnney Fabiano via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:45 of round 2

Erik Koch defeats Francisco Rivera via technical knockout (strikes) at 1:36 of round 1

Chad Mendes defeats Javier Vazquez via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Demetrius Johnson defeats Damacio Page via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:27 of round 3

Dustin Poirier defeats Zack Micklewright via technical knockout (strikes) at 0:53 of round 1

Michael McDonald defeats Clint Godfrey via submission (armbar) at 2:42 of round 1

Cub Swanson defeats Mackens Semerzier via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)

Raphael Assuncao defeats L.C. Davis via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Anthony Njokuani defeats Edward Faaloloto via technical knockout (strikes) at 4:54 of round 2

Yves Jabouin defeats Brandon Visher via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

My Picks:

Urijah Faber defeats Takeya Mizugaki
Joseph Benavidez defeats Wagnney Fabiano
Erik Koch defeats Francisco Rivera
Chad Mendes defeats Javier Vazquez
Demetrius Johnson defeats Damacio Page
Dustin Poirier defeats Zack Micklewright
Michael McDonald defeats Clint Godfrey
Cub Swanson defeats Mackens Semerzier
Raphael Assuncao defeats L.C. Davis
Anthony Njokuani defeats Edward Faaloloto
Yves Jabouin defeats Brandon Visher

As you can see from above i got 8/10 which in my opinion is pretty good!

Fight of the Night:

FOTN has to go to Cub Swanson vs Mackens Semerzier. This was a total back and foward war. You have head kicks, massive body shots, excellent combinations and perfectly set up take downs. This was a true mixed martial arts war.

So you want to train MMA? Heres your martial arts supplies.

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:21:00 +0000

You’ve seen a few MMA events or even been watching for a long time and have decided that you would like to try that out. Well I’ve been there and I had a hard time figuring out exactly what I needed and didn’t need and more importantly where was the best place to get it, keeping in mind I didn’t have much cash. So I set off in my quest to find the best gear for a bargain and this is what I landed on.

The MOST important item in an amature mixed martial artists bag is his MOUTHGUARD that is if you’d like to keep your teeth! There are many different types of mouth guards available from professionally fitted to boil and bite. In my experience the boil and bite just does not cut it and getting a mouth guard fitted can be quite costly so I settled for the best of both which was:

Shock Doctor Adult Gel Max Strapless Mouthguard

Price: $8.99 - $14.50

Another important item in your bag should be TRAINING gloves. A lot of people get this one wrong (Including me!!) and buy the 4 ounce gloves which are the official gloves for a fight but you need gloves to train with first! I wanted a good durable glove that would last me for a few years. I settled on Everlast gloves:

Everlast Train Advanced MMA 7-Ounce Striking / Training Gloves

Price: $17.50 - $39.99

The next item on my list was the head guard and I went again with the Everlast brand. The head guard has a flexible design and can pretty much fit all sized head unless your head is exceptionally bag, Tito Ortiz comes to mind. You can't see from the picture but it has an ear guard as well which is always a plus. I can honestly say that this head guard makes getting punched and kicked in the head fun!

Everlast Mixed Martial Arts Full Head Guard

Price: $37.50

You will be glad to read that there is only one more item of necessity on the list that should have you on your way to training in no time and this is the shin guard. These are very flexible shin guards around the ankle which does not restrict your moment at all which you can't say for most shin guards.

Throwdown Hybrid Shin Guards

Price: $33.50

So there you have it! All you need to get your MMA career started for the grand total of: 97.49 which you would agree is a modest sum.

There is only one more item I would recommend that is not a necessity but will really help out in the long run and that is a rash guard. The reason for this is that the rash guard will help prevent you from getting things like staph infection. When you're rolling with people there is always a change of getting scratched or cut and this will prevent that.

Body Glove 540 8-Ounce Long Sleeve Lycra Rash Guard

$29.99 - $34.49

WEC 52: Faber vs. Mizugaki

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:39:00 +0000

This is the second last event that WEC will host under the brand and they are looking to go out with a bang. This will be a very entertaining card, I'm counting down the days with anticipation. Not long to go!

Fight Card

Urijah Faber (No. 4 FW) Vs. Takeya Mizugaki (No. 6 BW)

Joseph Benavidez (No. 3 BW) Vs. Wagnney Fabiano (No. 10 BW)

Chad Mendes Vs. Javier Vazquez

Damacio Page (No.7 BW) Vs. Demetrious Johnson

Zachary Micklewright Vs. Dustin Poirier

Anthony Njokuani Vs. Edward Faaloloto

Yves Jabouin Vs. Brandon Visher

Michael McDonald Vs. Clint Godfrey

Cub Swanson Vs. Mackens Semerzier

L.C. Davis Vs. Raphael Assuncao

My Predictions

*Urijah Faber
*Joseph Benavidez
*Chad Mendes
*Damacio Page
*Dustin Poirier
*Anthony Njokuani
*Yves Jabouin
*Michael McDonald
*Cub Swanson
*Raphael Assuncao

So, Who you taking?

Privacy Policy

noreply@blogger.com (Maghnus) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:01:00 +0000

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.

Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.