Warriors in the (North) East (WMMA2) - Page 5

PilotMan · 07-19-2010, 11:01 AM

Chuck Grigsby (19-5) has won the X-1 Light Heavyweight title with a decision win over Hector Ramirez (13-4-1). Ramirez had only held the title a few months.

Strikeforce ran their lastest show. There were no title fights up for contention, but there were still some good fights. The main event saw Robbie Lawler (22-5) get a TKO against Terry Martin (22-9). The co-main saw Chase Beebe (17-6) submit Mark Hominick (17-13). Other winners on the card were, Fabricio Werdum (18-4-1), Tim Kennedy (17-3), and Vitor Ribeiro (23-5).

PilotMan · 07-19-2010, 11:07 AM

Cage Warriors 40 is upon us. All the fighers have traveled here to San Diego for this big PPV. Tonight’s main event is the debut of long time, former WEC feathereright champ, Mike Brown. He will face Dominick Cruz in the cage. Cruz has only been beaten two times. One of those was against Uriah Faber. These guys are very similar in the way they fight. Brown has perhaps the better stand up, but I wouldn’t could Cruz out in any situation. The co-feature has the debut of Bones Jones. Jones has been training with Rashad Evans and Keith Jardine at Jackson’s Submission. He is young and undefeated. He takes on Glover Teixiera, who has been training with Chuck Liddell and Mayhem Miller at the Pit. The third main event fight sees Fabio Silva, the current middleweight champion, defend his title against Tom Waton, a boxer who still holds the UK UC Middleweight crown. Let’s get right to cage side for tonight’s action!

Josh Diekman (12-3, Hybrid Fighting, 257) takes on Gan McGee (14-6, Submission Wrestling, 280) in the heavyweight division. McGee towers 9 inches above Diekman and has an 11-inch reach advantage, not to mention the 23 pound weight advantage. How can Diekman manage here? He doesn’t. Gan McGee wins via TKO due to strikes in round 1. McGee used a brutal ground and pound to stop the fight. Fantastic fight.

Jason Norwood (11-3, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Ryan Ford (12-6, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Ford has had trouble rebounding since losing his shot at the title. Jason Norwood wins via unanimous decision. Norwood scored 3 takedowns, but found himself reversed in each round. Ford though couldn’t advance his position or do any damage when he was on top. Average fight.

Jared Hess (12-2-1, Freestyle) takes on Doug Marshall (12-4, Striker) in the middleweight division. Hess is the former champion, and in his first fight since losing the title to Silva. Marshall lost in his debut. Doug Marshall wins via KO, in the third round. Hess dominated round 1. Round 2 was a lot of striking, Hess got him to the ground at the end, but looked to be tiring. Hess was slowing in the 3rd and Marshall took advantage while grappling against the cage. Marshall caught him with a short elbow that stunned Hess. He followed it with an uppercut that put him down, then dropped a bomb on him that knocked him out. Good fight.

Javier Vasquez (17-5, BJJ) takes on Mike Easton (9-2, Wrestling/Muay Thai) in the featherweight division. A few wins for either of these guys and they could be in the title picture. Both are coming off of a loss. Javier Vasquez wins via submission, due to an Americana, in the first round. Vasquez went for a takedown, but Easton reversed and ended up in guard. Eason tried to escape but Vasquez closed guard and swept him with a guillotine. Vasquez quickly switched to the arm, and finished the fight. Fantastic fight.

Josh Thomson (19-3, Kick Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Joe Stevenson (31-12, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Both men are coming off of losses, and making their CW debut’s. Joe Stevenson wins via unanimous decision. Stevenson scored a big slam in round one, and got takedowns in the other two. Thomson was able to reverse from his back, but Stevenon defended well, and was never in any danger while on his back. Average fight.

Alexandre Ribeiro (5-1, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Arona (17-6, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Both fighters are making their CW debuts. How will these BJJ black belt’s match up? Poorly evidently. Ricardo Arona wins via unanimous decision. A lot of grappling, a couple of takedowns, but not much offense from either one. Arona won the first and second rounds while Ribeiro took the 3rd. Poor fight.

Our last prelim fight has Luciano Azevedo (18-8, Luta Livre) taking on Per Eklund (20-5-1, Freestlye) in the lightweight division. Eklund has a 4-inch height advantage. Azevedo is making his debut. Per Eklund wins via unanimous decision. Eklund really pushed hard, and used his grappling to his advantage in round 1. Azevedo came back in round 2 getting position and getting a takedown in round 2. Eklund came back and dominated round 3 by holding Azevedo against the cage and peppering him with short punches and elbows until the fight ended. Average fight.

We head to the start of the PPV card.

Jay Hieron (19-5, Wrestling/Boxing) takes on Tamden McCrory (16-4, Muay Thai/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Both men are just outside the top contenders in the welterweight division. McCrory has a big height and reach advantage. Tamden McCrory wins via submission due to an armbar in the first round. McCrory took Hieron down right away, Hieron escaped, only to be taken down again. Again he escaped, but was put down with a big punch. McCrory took the arm of the stunned fighter to finish it. Fantastic fight.

Andrei Arlovski (19-6, Sambo/Kick Boxing, 260) takes on Josh Hendricks (19-5, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. Arlovski is making his debut in Cage Warriors. Even though Arlovski is giving away 25 pounds, he has a 4-inch height advantage. Andrei Arlovski wins via TKO due to strikes in the third round. Hendricks was a game fighter, and defended well from his back. He needed a big punch in the last round, and took a chance, but got tagged and Arlovski was able to finish the fight. Great fight.

Fabio Silva (19-5, Muay Thai) defends his middleweight title against Tom Watson (13-3, Boxing). Neither fighter has been stopped yet in Cage Warriors. Look for this to be all about the strikes, and watch out for the Muay Thai clinch of Silva. FIGHT. OF. THE. NIGHT. Silva looked to finish this early on as he got Watson against the cage in a clinch. Watson took a series of knees to the body, before finally breaking free and getting some good shots of his own in. In the second a big head kick from Silva knocked Watson down. Typically this would be the end, but Watson hung on again, and defended, eventually got a scramble back to the feet and saw the 3rd round. In round 3 it was Watson who landed his big punch that knocked the champ down. Watson rained down hammer fists and Silva was overwhelmed. The ref had to jump in to stop the fight. Tom Watson wins via TKO due to strikes. Tom Watson wins the Cage Warriors Middleweight title. Excellent fight.

Jon Jones (11-0, Wrestling) takes on Glover Teixeira (12-2, BJJ/Kempo) in the light heavyweight division. Jones is considered one of the top pound for pound fighters in the world. Jon Jones wins by TKO, due to strikes at 0:32 of round 1. Yeah, that fast. Jones took him down and pounded him out in silly quick fashion. Great fight.

Mike Brown (24-4, Freestyle) takes on Dominick Cruz (18-2, Wrestling) in the featherweight division. This is the main event of the evening. Cruz is just a little bit smaller than the former WEC champ. Mike Brown wins via submission, due to rear naked choke, at 4:58 of the third round. Both men traded rounds as each got a takedown and the fight was tied going to the third. Brown reversed a takedown and used his skills to take Cruz’s back. Cruz fought him off as long as he could, but ultimately tapped just 2 seconds from the end of the fight. Good fight.

We had a crowd of 8,524 and over 154k PPV buys. The card was rated as being very poor.

Fight of the Night goes to Fabio Silva and Tom Watson
Knockout of the Night goes to Doug Marshall
Submission of the Night goes to Tamden McCrory

Good debut’s from our newest fighters in the main events. Tom Watson finds a way to stop the long win streak of Silva. Tamden McCrory serves notice that he is going to be a major factor in the welterweight division. Per Eklund really needed that win against Azevedo. He hasn’t been getting a lot of love lately, and a loss against the debuting fighter would have been hard to overcome. I liked the show. I know that it cost us some popularity, but those things are bound to happen. We are not able to sustain that high of a popularity right now. It won’t hurt us over the long haul.

PilotMan · 07-19-2010, 11:09 AM

Booking is completed for Cage Warriors 42. And there is a familiar face in the main event. Richie Whitson, coming off of his win over Kuniyoshi Hironaka, takes on Richard Crunkilton, who is coming off of his second round TKO of Donald Cerrone. Whitson wants to make his way to the top of the lightweight heap, and Crunkilton has won his first two fights in Cage Warriors. The co-feature sees the CW debut for Akitoshi Tamura. Tamura has won 3 of his last 4 fights, and is the former Shooto featherweight champion. He will take on underrated Mexican featherweight Yahir Reyes. Reyes is 7-2 in the last 2.5yrs with his losses coming to top featherweights Joe Soto, and Issei Tamura. The biggest fighter on the card is fighting on the prelim show. Cage Warriors 42 sees the debut of Mauricio Rua. Rua lost his last 4 fights in the UFC before being cut. Rua will be facing another former UFC fighter in Jared Hamman. This show will be held in San Antonio, Texas.

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Cage Warriors 42: Whitson v. Crunkilton

Richie Whitson (11-1) v. Rich Crunkilton (20-4) LW
Akitoshi Tamura (15-8-2) v. Yahir Reyes (19-7) FW
Jesse Bongfeldt (21-3) v. Marcus Hicks (13-4) WW
Ryan Jimmo (16-2) v. Hans Stringer (13-6-1) LHW
Dave Jansen (16-2) v. Shannon Gugerty (14-3) LW

----Prelims----

Trevor Prangley (23-8) v. Kendall Grove (12-8) MW
Mauricio Rua (18-7) v. Jared Hamman (13-3) LHW
Kuniyoshi Hironaka (20-8) v. Koetsu Okazaki (9-2-1) FW
Jose Aldo (16-4) v. John Hosman (21-7-1) FW
Thiago Tavares (15-4) V. Ricardo Lamas (9-3) LW
Jacob Volkmann (10-1) v. Alexander Trevino (9-4) WW
TJ Grant (14-5) v. Xavier Lucas (11-3-1) MW

Alright, so this isn’t a winner of a card. It has some important fights, but mostly just guys who are trying to set themselves apart. Whitson will have to be careful of Crunkilton. Jose Aldo is still looking for his first win since signing. Volkmann looks to rebound from his first loss of his career. Xavier Lucas, who has shown zero ground game takes on jiu-jitsu specialist TJ Grant. Good luck.

PilotMan · 07-22-2010, 10:19 AM

Following our last show a number of fighters were cut from Cage Warriors. The first is Martin Stapleton (7-4). Stapleton went 2-3 while he was here. His biggest win was stopping Cameron Dollar in his debut. Ryan Ford (12-7) is next. Ford was a part of the initial title tournament and fought for the welterweight title, losing to Lyman Good. Between here and DREAM, Ford has lost his last 5 fights. Ricco Rodriguez (39-14) is also cut. While putting together a couple of really good fights, he was very unpredictable in the cage. He was 2-3 in the cage for us, his last fight a TKO in the second round. Victor Valimaki (19-8) is cut. He holds wins against Travis Wiuff and Jeremiah Billington, but it was Ryan Jimmo that did him in. Jimmo knocked him out twice, and that pretty much put his future with the company on the back burner. Yves Edwards (38-18-1) is the last one to the door. Edwards was important in the beginning posting a win against Shonie Carter in the main event of Cage Warriors 7. Since he is 1-3.

Aaron Weatherspoon (12-4) scored a TKO in a fight with Alex Serdyukov (9-6) to win the KOTC welterweight title. It is the second title reign for Wetherspoon. He was the champion holding the belt for over 2 yrs and losing in February of last year. The title had been vacated by Gary Wright, when he signed an exclusive deal to fight for Cage Warriors.

Kazushi Sakuraba (28-14-1) has called it a career at the age of 42. Sakuraba made a long career of going after guys with the last name Gracie. He was out to prove a point that they were nowhere near as good as the fans were being led to believe. Sakuraba holds wins over both Renzo and Royce Gracie, beating Royce last year as both men’s careers were in the twilight. Sakuraba’s last win was over Minowaman just over a year ago.

UFC 126 was live last night. The main event saw Cain Velazquez (11-0) remained unbeaten as he scored a KO victory over Big Nog (35-7-1). Seven of Cain’s last eight fights have ended by KO or TKO. Three of the last four have ended by KO. Matt Hughes (44-9) won in the co-feature with a TKO over Marcus Davis (17-6). Other winners on the card were, Yoshihiro Akiyama (17-2), Aleksander Emilianenko (18-4), and Dan Henderson (27-8). Emilianenko’s win came by first round TKO over Kimbo Slice, and Henderson won via second round submission over Minowaman. After Hendo’s win, he spent some time in the center of the cage talking about his career. He announced his retirement effective immediately. Hendo had won 5 of his last 6, only losing in a title fight to Denis Kang. Henderson is regarded as the first fighter to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously.

In Japan, Satoshi Ishii (6-2) defended his WVR Heavyweight title with a 5-round decision win over Karol Bedorf (7-6).

MMA is now regulated in Japan.

Eddie Alvarez (22-4) defended his Bellator lightweight title with a early first round KO over Eric Reynolds (16-7). On the same card, Jens Pulver looked to make a clean start with Bellator, and was thrust into the Bellator featherweight title picture right away. The former UFC lightweight champion was beaten though. And it was Sami Aziz (8-3-1) who stopped him via TKO in round 1, to claim the featherweight crown. Pulver has now lost 9 fights in a row and 11 of his last 12.

Heath Herring has finally won an MMA title. He had to go to Poland to do it, but he has done it, by winning the KSW Heavyweight title. Herring (32-16) won a decision over Ibragim Magomedov (25-7-1). Magomedov had held the title for 16 months.

Maximum Fighting Championships 43 was held. The main event saw Canadian fighter Jason McDonald (24-12) defeat Cage WarriorDavid Heath (13-8) for the MFC Light Heavyweight title. Brock Larson (33-3), who has been fighting nearly non-stop for the last 2 years won in the co-main over Ryan Thomas (11-6). Larson is patiently waiting for his crack at CW welterweight champion Jason High.

Dean Amasinger (7-2) defended his Shooto welterweight title with a win over Tomokazu Yuasa (3-3-1). It was Amasinger’s first title defense in a year. And his first since he won the title.

PilotMan · 07-22-2010, 10:27 AM

Live from Biloxi, Mississippi, it’s time for Cage Warriors 41! We have a great card featuring the debut of Miguel Torres, as he takes on Abel Cullum, in a fight that will certainly test both men. Cullum, has been unstoppable lately, with only the loss to Issei Tamura blemishing his recent record. A lightweight battle between established fighter Roger Huerta and less experienced fighter from Cincinnati, Josh Souder supports the main event. Look for that to turn into a grappling contest with Souder hoping he can control the very physical Huerta. Undefeated Stanislov Nedkov fights, as does Brazilian fighter, Delson Heleno. George Bush is in the house! Bush takes on Dan Evensen in a heavyweight battle. Let’s get right to cage side!

We start off tonight with a Cage Warriors Juniors battle in the middleweight division. Teriuihi Akita (7-0, MMA-influenced Jiu-Jitsu) takes on Benjamin Rude (6-0, Muay Thai). Benjamin Rude wins by unanimous decision. Rude used better striking technique, and was able to kee Akita from taking him down. Akita showed a real lack of a stand-up game. Average fight.

Lavar Johnson (13-4, Muay Thai, 278) takes on Rex Richards (9-5, Wrestling, 290) in the heavyweight division. Rex Richards wins by TKO due to strikes at 3:24 of round 1. Johnson was tagged by a couple of big shots, and Richards didn’t waste any time in finishing the fight. Decent fight.

Ivan Lopez (12-3, Kick Boxing/Tae Kwon Do) takes on Cole Province (9-3, Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Ivan Lopez wins via unanimous decision. Lopez kept the fight standing and wouldn’t be taken down. He grappled well too, inflicting some good damage at close quarters. Decent fight.

Rory McDonald (9-2, Muay Thai/BJJ) takes on Steve Bruno (16-7, Muay Thai) in the welterweight division. Rory McDonald wins via TKO due to strikes at 4:50 of round 1. Bruno got an early takedown but was swept and dominated by McDonald. McDonald took Bruno’s back and landed heavy strikes to Bruno who failed to defend himself properly. Good fight.

Chris Wilson (17-9, Kick Boxing) takes on Danillo Villefort (12-4, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Danillo Villefort wins by unanimous decision. Wilson took the fight to Villefort in the first round, but slowly Villefort got his way back in with a good ground game, and forcing this fight to be fought on the ground. Good fight.

Ed Ratcliff (10-2, Karate) takes on Brian Cobb (19-6, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Ed Ratcliff wins via unanimous decision. Ratcliff avoided being taken down and used good strikes to win the first two rounds. He simply looked to be the more dangerous fighter. Cobb was in control in the third, but Ratcliff defended well. Decent fight.

The last prelim fight is in the light heavyweight division. Keith Jardine (16-7-1, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Tony Lopez (16-6, Kick Boxing). Tony Lopez wins via split decision. Lopez had a good first round taking Jardine down. The second round was very close to call, and both fighters were exhausted. Jardine wobbled Lopez twice in the third, but Lopez held on even though he clearly lost the round. Decent fight.

The main show begins with a heavyweight battle. Dan Evensen (14-6, Kick Boxing/BJJ, 270) takes on George Bush (9-3, Wrestling, 255). George Bush wins via submission due to armbar at 2:44 of round 1. Bush got the takedown right away and worked to get to mount. From there he elected to take the arm rather than throw punches and it worked. Fantastic fight.

Delson Heleno (17-5, BJJ) takes on Shamar Bailey (14-2, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Shamar Bailey wins via unanimous decision. Bailey did really well in round 1, but the other rounds were just a lot of cage leaning. Bailey was in control, and Heleno did little offensively. Very poor fight.

Stanislov Nedkov (13-0, Wrestling/BJJ) takes on Antwain Britt (11-2, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Antwain Britt wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:41 of round 3. This has to be considered a huge upset. Britt scored takedowns in each round, and both fighters tired out in round 2. Britt worked to mount in round 3 and finished the fight. Good fight.

Josh Souder (11-2, BJJ) takes on Roger Huerta (23-4-1, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. This is the co-main event. Huerta is massively more experienced, but is 2 years younger than Souder. Roger Huerta wins via unanimous decision. Huerta comfortably controlled the fight scoring takedowns in each round, and controlling the action, but unable to put the game Souder away. Average fight.

The main event is next up! Abel Cullum (21-3, Freestyle) takes on Miguel Torres (39-2, BJJ/Boxing) in the featherweight division. Miguel Torres wins via unanimous decision. These two put on a great show of fighting. Torres took round one with two takedowns, and near constant work. Cullum scored a big knockdown in the opening moments of round 2, but could not turn it into a finish. Round 3 was close, but Cullum was unable to stop the takedowns of Torres. Torres was swept, but escaped then scored another takedown. Both fighters did very well. Good fight.

There were 8,590 on hand for the show, and we had 150k PPV buys. The show was rated as being very poor.

Fight of the Night goes to Abel Cullum and Miguel Torres
Knockout of the Night goes to Rex Richards
Submission of the Night goes to George Bush

The show’s rating doesn’t bother me at all. Torres and Cullum put on a big show in the main event. The biggest issue was the lack of finishing and the number of fights that went to decision. Stanislov Nedkov was very close to a title shot, but his loss certainly takes him back a few notches. Delson Heleno and Roger Huerta are seriously boring fighters. George Bush looked good. This is the first of our shows for the next 3 weeks.

PilotMan · 07-22-2010, 10:31 AM

Following the show, Cole Province (9-4) and Steve Bruno (16-8) were cut from Cage Warriors’ roster. Province had lost his last 3 fights, and Bruno never did pick up a win, having been beaten in his 3 fights.

Cage Warriors: Unchained has been booked and is finalized for broadcast in the middle end of November. Our big TV show is going to be held in Los Angeles and is going to be a major event. Primarily because the main event features a title defense in our most competitive weight class. Karen Darabedyan will make his first defense of the lightweight title since winning it over Jeff Curran. It’s no secret who his opponent will be. Takeya Mizugaki has won 3 straight in CW, winning each by KO or TKO. Mizugaki is a shooto styled fighter, who makes his living with big kicks and strong takedown defense. He won’t need to worry about Darabedyan. He also prefers the standup game, and is equally adept with his hands and feet. In fact, Mizugaki will likely test Darabedyan’s grappling and clinch and dirty boxing defense. That looks to be the area where he can really make a difference.

Supporting the main event is a heavyweight battle between contenders Sergei Kharitonov and Brad Imes. Imes will come in with a big size advantage, he is going to outweigh the Russian by over 40 pounds for the fight. Kharitonov has heavy hands, and a well rounded grappling attack. No need to worry about kicks, he never throws them. Imes is even more one dimensional. He uses his wrestling backround and is a master submission artist. Here is a rundown of the rest of the full card.

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Cage Warriors: Unchained from Los Angeles, California

Cage Warriors Lightweight Title Fight
Karen Darabedyan (13-1) v. Takeya Mizugaki (16-5-2) LW
Sergei Kharitonov (19-4) v. Brad Imes (17-7) HW
Yosmanny Cabezas (12-4) v. Ben Holscher (10-2) WW
Akiyo Nishiura (13-4-1) v. Hideo Tokoro (26-18-1) FW
Karl Amoussou (17-2-1) v. Dan Hornbuckle (22-4) MW

----Prelims----

Jason Brilz (19-3-1) v. Vincius Magalhaes (7-4) LHW
Joey Villasenor (28-10) v. Ricardo Almeida (11-6) MW
Ross Pearson (13-5) v. Donald Cerrone (12-4) LW
Paul Sass (12-2) v. Joseph Benavidez (11-5) LW
Noah Thomas (16-8) v. Sidney Silva (10-4) WW
Taiki Tsuchiya (8-3) v. Manny Gamburyan (10-7) FW
Bobby Rehman (9-2) v. Damien Stelly (11-4) LHW

PilotMan · 07-27-2010, 09:29 AM

The UFC have announced that Brock Lesnar will return from his steroid suspension and take on Todd Duffee for the UFC Heavyweight title. Lesnar was stripped of the title when his suspension was announced. Duffee has not defended the title since winning it with a defeat of Gabe Gonzaga.

We have signed a new PPV deal with Shaw PPV, it’s the same company that we were with before, but a much bigger distribution now. On top of that we were able to negotiate a very favorable cut of the revenues so that our PPV’s should be able to draw big bucks to the company.

PilotMan · 07-27-2010, 09:35 AM

The international edition of Cage Warriors is about to begin. Tonight, from our home in Newark, New Jersey, Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV will be aired around the world, to homes in the US, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. We will show the best up and coming fighters in Mixed Martial Arts. Our main event is a middleweight battle between title hopefuls, Ryan Jensen and Nate Moore. Jensen, is coming off of a big submission win over Dan Miller, while Moore is coming off of a TKO win over Xavier Lucas. Jensen is a cage veteran with great takedowns, and a wide array of submissions. His last 5 wins are all by submission. His opponent Nate Moore, has certainly come of age in Cage Warriors. Moore is a well rounded fighter, who has very good power in his hands, good takedowns, and takedown defense, and is dominant when he gets his opponent to the ground.

There are also 3 Cage Warriors Juniors title fights on the card as well. It’s going to be a long night of good MMA, let’s head right to cage side for tonights show.

First up, Rick Legere (6-1, Vale Tudo) takes on Derrick Gumble (6-2, MMA influenced Jiu-Jitsu) in the welterweight division. Rick Legere wins via unanimous decision. The fight was punctuated with Legere’s two big slams, and general control over the entire fight. Average fight.

Demico Rogers (6-3, BJJ) takes on Joaquin Rocha (6-0, MMA-orientated wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Demico Rogers wins via submission due to an Americana in round 3. Rocha had a good first round, but Rogers stormed back with two good rounds, and then took care of the tiring fighter. Good fight.

Cameron Dollar (5-4, Wrestling) takes on Jung Hyun Cho (2-2, Kick Boxing) in the featherweight division. Cameron Dollar wins via submission due to armbar in the first round. Dollar waited for his chance to get the takedown, then fired off some ground and pound before taking Cho’s back and securing the win. Fantastic fight.

Jin Kyu-Lee (4-2, Striker) takes on Joe Aroma (6-0, MMA-influenced wrestling) in the welterweight division. Jin Kyu-Lee wins via unanimous decision. Lee scored a knockdown with his first punch. Aroma recovered well, but was nearly stopped in round 2. Aroma survived again, and won round 3, but just ran out of time. Good fight.

Popek Rak (6-1, Wrestling, 260) takes on Martin Mikhailov (6-0, MMA Striking, 255) in the heavyweight division. Popek Rak wins via unanimous decision. Rak took the first two rounds with good elusiveness and two big slams. Mikhailov survived, and had Rak on the ropes in the third but ran out of time. Decent fight.

Marcin Held (7-2, BJJ) takes on David Douglas (7-2, Kick Boxing/BJJ) in the lightweight division. Marcin Held wins via TKO in the first round. Held got the fast takedown, and had no trouble advancing to side control. Douglas panicked and gave up his back instead of the mount. From there Held rained down blows until it was called. Fantastic fight.

Wes Shivers (2-1, Muay Thai, 290) takes on Neil Cooke (8-2, Boxing/Wrestling, 290) in the heavyweight division. Neil Cooke wins via TKO in the first round. Cooke took Shivers down early and used an onslaught of a ground and pound to force the stoppage. Decent fight.

Ralek Gracie (5-2, BJJ) takes on Kevin Casey (6-3, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Kevin Casey wins via submission due to a guillotine choke in the third round. Gracie had won the first two rounds in unimpressive fashion. The fight was mostly a boring grappling contest until Gracie got the takedown, but was then caught by Casey while he was going for an armbar. Decent fight.

The main show is about to begin. The television audience is tuned in for this first contest. A battle for the Cage Warriors Juniors featherweight title. Peter Dominguez (3-3, Boxing/Wrestling) defends his title against Kentaro Hayashida (4-0, Jiu-Jitu). Dominguez has an 11-inch reach advantage and a 6-inch height advantage. Peter Dominguez wins via KO in the first round. Dominguez hit a massive punch early in round 1 that knocked Hayashida completely out. Great fight.

The second fight is for the Cage Warriors Middleweight title. Jacob O’Connell (8-1, BJJ) defends his title against Spencer Herns (5-1, Wrestling). Jacob O’Connell wins via submission, due to a guillotine choke, in round 2. This was a grappling contest from the word go, and it appeared that Herns had no answer for the takedown skills of O’Connell. Herns got into trouble against the cage where he was mounted and finished. Great fight.

Our co-main event is for the Cage Warriors Juniors lightweight title. Joe Brammer (9-0-1, Muay Thai/Wrestling) defends his title against Wesley Johnson (7-2, Freestyle). Joe Brammer wins via TKO in the third round. Johnson had taken each of the first two rounds, his grappling was good and he scored a knockdown at the end of the second round but couldn’t finish it. Brammer hammered Johnson early in the third, hurting him and sending him reeling. He followed up and the ref stopped the fight. Fantastic fight

We head to the main event. Ryan Jensen (18-6, BJJ/Kick Boxing) takes on Nate Moore (11-3, Wrestling) in the middleweight division. Nate Moore wins via TKO in the second round. Moore got the fight to the ground, and showed his great skill from on top. He evaded a number of Jensen’s submission attempts in the first, and in the second was able to shift to mount, where he devastating ground and pound secured the victory. Good fight.

We had 4.896 fans in attendance for the show, and it was rated as being excellent.

Fight of the Night goes to Joe Brammer and Wesley Johnson
Knockout of the Night goes to Peter Dominguez
Submission of the Night goes to Jacob O’Connell

All of our champions retained their titles in a good night of fights. I thought that the Juniors’ fighters performed well, and even though we saw a lot of guys take their first losses it’s still alright. Nate Moore’s big win in the main event will certainly be a boost to his stardom. Jensen is a quality opponent, even if he isn’t a superstar stud.

PilotMan · 07-27-2010, 09:38 AM

NOVEMBER 2011

What a huge month October was! Things are truly heading down the right path. October was the biggest month on record for our company, no two ways about it. It was big in the income we brought in, as well as the money that we spent, as well as our total profit. Just to give you an idea of how big it was, we nearly doubled our gate revenue from it’s previous high. PPV revenues were up almost 70% from the previous record high. We paid out a record 850k in prize money from the shows, well over twice what we did last month. We also cracked the 1 million mark in clear profit for the month, netting 1.3 million.

Popularity is solidly #2 in the world. We still can’t sniff the UFC, but we have put a lot of space between ourselves and the other top companies. We have passed UC UK in the UK for the #2 promotion there, and still are #3 in Canada and #2 in Mexico. Behind us in the world, WVR and DREAM are at #3 and #4 respectively. The Japan-based promotions have seen a surge lately and are looking good. Strikeforce is #5, and the WEC have fallen to #6. MFC from Canada is #7, Shooto is at #8, UK UC and Bellator round out the top 10.

This month we take another look at the welterweight division. Here are the top 10 fighters currently in the Cage Warriors welterweight division.

1. Jason High (15-2) Welterweight Champion
2. Brock Larson (33-3) Hopes to have a fight with High lined up soon.
3. Lyman Good (14-1) Former champ nears in his return to the cage.
4. Tamden McCrory (17-4) Undefeated since loss to current champ, wants rematch.
5. Jesse Bongfeldt (21-3) Unheralded but won in debut.
6. Nick Diaz (22-8) Won in debut.
7. Martin Kampmann (16-4) Stopped by Diaz in debut.
8. Jason Norwood (12-3) Only recent losses are to Good and Larson, good company.
9. Jacob Volkmann (10-1) Took a loss to Bongfeldt in debut.
10. JJ Ambrose (14-3) Huge win over Tyson Griffin puts him on the list

PilotMan · 08-03-2010, 02:55 PM

Luis Firmino (14-7) has won the FuryFC lightweight title with a win over Henrique Mello (12-4). Mello was making his first title defense.

Uriah Faber (28-2) has climbed back to the top of the WEC featherweight division winning the title with a first round TKO over Raphael Assuncao (17-3). Mike Brown vacated the title when he came to Cage Warriors. On the same card, a pair of Cage Warriors faced off. It was Mark Oshiro (13-5) beating Bill Boland (7-3) with a first round submission.

Over in the United Kingdom, UC UK featherweight champion, Robbie Oliver (19-8-1) defended his title with a difficult (?) 5 round decision over Kian Pham (3-3). This was Oliver’s second defense of his title.

PilotMan · 08-03-2010, 03:06 PM

Our next event takes us to San Antonio, Texas for Cage Warriors 42. Richie Whitson, currently ranked #4 in the lightweight division takes on Richard Crunkilton. Crunkilton has won his first two fights, with the most recent being a TKO stoppage of the Cowboy, Donald Cerrone, on national TV. Now he looks to get one over on Whitson, who is still on the mend from his loss to Ben Henderson. It was Henderson’s grappling that had Whitson in trouble, Crunkilton is a very similar fighter with good ground and pound, and good takedowns. His chin will be tested though, Whitson posses great power in his hands and feet, and a very underrated submission game. Every other win of his in Cage Warriors has been by TKO, his chin will be tested indeed. Whitson’s biggest weakness will be grappling with the proven wrestler. Can he leave enough space and get the win?

The co-main tonight is at featherweight. Making his debut in Cage Warriors is former Strikeforce, WEC, and Shooto fighter, Akitoshi Tamura. Tamura is currently ranked #6 and is the former Shooto featherweight champion. He is a dangerous submission artist, who is difficult to keep a hold of. He has solid striking skills, but isn’t terribly dangerous while standing. He will face Yahir Reyes, who is more of a journeyman fighter, but who only has 2 losses in his last 2 years. Reyes is ranked #10 in the featherweight division. He is a well rounded fighter, with powerful strikes, he can fight anywhere, but has a very suspect chin. Marcus Hicks, Ryan Jimmo, and Dave Jansen round out the main show. Let’s head straight to the action!

TJ Grant (14-5, BJJ) takes on Xavier Lucas (11-3-1, Boxing) in the middleweight division. TJ Grant wins via unanimous decision. We have seen Lucan struggle on his back, and he did alright, except for 2 takedowns where he was again helpless on his back. As long as he was kept standing he was alright. Average fight.

Jacob Volkmann (10-1, Wrestling) takes on Alexander Trevino (9-4, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Jacob Volkmann wins via unanimous decision. Trevino stole the first round, and proved to be a handful getting a couple of takedowns, but Volkmann was dangerous on his back, and difficult to control. Volkmann was able to advance after his takedowns, although he didn’t dish out any punishment. Good fight.

Thiago Tavares (15-4, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Lamas (9-3, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Ricardo Lamas wins via submission, due to guillotine choke in the third round. A see-saw fight, with both men fighting from their backs, some good scrambles on the ground, and one tight guillotine choke. Both men looked dangerous and neither spent much time standing. Lamas has escaped 2 guillotine chokes before getting one locked on Tavares from almost the exact same position that he escaped from. Decent fight.

Jose Aldo (16-4, BJJ) takes on John Hosman (21-7-1, Wrestling) in the featherweight division. John Hosman wins via submission due to guillotine choke, in the first round. Aldo seriously hurt Hosman in the first exchange. Hosman went down and it looked to be over, Aldo rained down heavy blows, but Hosman recovered. Hosman was able to work him back to half guard, and Aldo made a mistake and left his head in, Hosman capitalized and quickly finished the fight. A bit of a shocker to be honest. Good fight.

Kuniyoshi Hironaka (20-8, BJJ) takes on Koetsu Okazaki (9-2-1, Freestlye) in the lightweight division. Hironaka is 6 inches taller and has a 6 inch reach advantage. Kuniyoshi Hironaka wins via split decision. Not a very good fight. When it went to the ground, nothing happened and they needed to be put back up again. Hironaka was the busier fighter, and much more aggressive. Okazaki was merely reactive in the cage. It really could have gone either way. Average fight.

Shogun Rua (18-7, BJJ/Muay Thai) takes on Jared Hamman (13-3, Kick Boxing) in the light heavyweight division. Rua is making his debut, and has had a rough go of late. Shogun Rua wins via knockout in the first round. Hamman went for a takedown and was nearly blasted. Rua was able to get Hamman into a muay thai clinch, and landed one of the most devastating knees you will ever see. Hamman was out before he hit the ground. Fantastic fight.

Trevor Prangley (23-8, Wrestling) takes on Kendall Grove (12-8, BJJ/Muay Thai) in the middleweight division. This is the last of the prelim fights. Grove has a 6 inch height advantage and an 11-inch reach advantage. Kendall Grove wins via unanimous decision. Uninspiring action. Lots of leaning on the cage and the ref had to step in multiple times. Grove grappled much better, and was in control throughout most of the fight. Poor fight.

The main show is set to begin. Dave Jansen (16-2, Wrestling) takes on Shannon Gugerty (14-3, Muay Thai/BJJ) in the lightweight division. Both men are just outside the top tier of fighters at lightweight. Shannon Gugerty wins via unanimous decision. Gugerty had better strikes, hurting Jansen right at the start of the fight, and showed that he was much stronger then him as well, controlling most of the grappling. Jansen appeared unable to do much of anything to put Gugerty in trouble. Average fight.

Ryan Jimmo (16-2, Karate) takes on Hans Stringer (13-6-1, BJJ/Muay Thai) in the light heavyweight division. Hans Stringer wins via unanimous decision. Stringer’s plan was to put Jimmo on his back, and that’s what he did. Jimmo could not stop the takedown, and Stringer could not be moved from the dominant position. Stringer doesn’t have a great record, but he has put together a couple of wins, and is still young and improving. Disappointing for Jimmo, he was so close to breaking into the top. Average fight.

Jesse Bongfeldt (21-3, Jeet Kune Do) takes on Marcus Hicks (13-4, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Marcus Hicks wins via submission due to guillotine choke in the third round. Bongfeldt dominated this fight. He was able to overpower the smaller fighter, and rocked him with a couple of big punches. Hicks was getting desperate toward the end of the fight, and jumped guard, dragging Bongfeldt down, and slapping a choke on shortly there after. Bongfeldt was caught by surprise, and had to tap out. Hicks pulled that out from nowhere! Great fight.

The co-main event is next. Akitoshi Tamura (15-8-2, Wajyutsu) takes on Yahir Reyes (19-7, Boxing/Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Akitoshi Tamura wins via unanimous decision. Tamura put Reyes on his back with takedowns twice in the first round, but couldn’t keep him there. In the second it was Reyes who scored a big punch that knocked Tamura down, but he was unable to finish. The third was boring as each fighter was trying to be defense oriented. Tamura just barely did enough to pull it out. Decent fight.

The main event is next. Richie Whitson (11-1, Boxing) takes on Richard Crunkilton (20-4, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Richie Whitson wins via KO in the second round. Whitson was able to keep Crunkilton at bay in the first and picked him off with a number of good strikes. The second ended quickly, as Whitson hit a big counterpunch that Crunkilton just walked into that put him out. Good fight.

We had an attendance of 7,786 and another 200k PPV buys with our new distribution deal. The show was rated as being awful.

Fight of the Night goes to Marcus Hicks and Jesse Bongfeldt
Knockout of the Night goes to both Richie Whitson and Shogun Rua
Submission of the Night goes to Marcus Hicks and John Hosman

Awful huh? Yeah, I guess, no real monster names on the main card. Rua just didn’t have the momentum to carry the main card. Now he might though. Tonight was about setting yourself up, keeping yourself alive, and making the most of your chances. Whitson keeps himself near the top of the heap with a decisive win. Tamura makes a good debut. Ryan Jimmo and Jesse Bongfeldt are hurting after tonight. Jose Aldo has likely seen his pink slip punched. So might a couple of others. The new PPV deal brought in major bucks. We were doing well before, but now, I think, we have passed the tipping point. Our income will now far outpace our expenses. Let the spending spree begin!

PilotMan · 08-03-2010, 03:15 PM

There was no question that a number of guys were going to get released. Looking back at the roster, there were a number of guys who for one reason or another I had a personal connection to, who in the name of business needed to be sent on further in their MMA careers. Cage Warriors was no longer the place of them. As a result of the last 2 cards all of these men are getting cut: Trevor Prangley, Jose Aldo, Bao Quach, Darren Uyenoyama, Derrick Gumble, Jung Hyun Cho, and Xavier Lucas. Prangley, Quach and Uyenoyama have been here the longest, and have put on some good fights, but we are going up, and they are not. Aldo had some bad circumstances and will likely head back to a major promotion. Gumble, Cho, and Lucas are going to spend a long time on the minor circuits, they have shown nothing in there time here.

Booking has been completed for Cage Warriors 43, to be held from the big island in Hawaii at the beginning of December of this year. The main event for our show is a light heavyweight showdown between title hopefuls. The main attraction will be the return of Bones Jones to the Cage Warriors cage. He puts his unbeaten streak on the line against Marcus Sursa, Sursa hasn’t been beaten since his loss to Jimi Manuwa one year ago. Both fighters are really similar fighters, and should match up well in the cage, both are comfortable on the feet or taking it to the ground. Jones is the more developed and skilled between them, but we have seen bigger underdogs pick up wins.

The co-main event sets up to be the fight that we have been waiting for here in Cage Warriors. Welterweight champion Jason High returns to defend his title against Brock Larson. Both of these guys are adept at submissions and this could be one helluva good ground battle. High beat Good in 5, so we know that he can go the distance, and he has submitted everyone else he has faced here. Larson has 3 wins by submission and 1 by TKO here in CW. Both men have been the cream of the crop and are certainly the top 2 fighters in the welterweight division right now. Ben Henderson, Rory Markham, and the debut of Josh Barnett in Cage Warriors round out the show. Here is the full rundown of the card.

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Cage Warriors 43: Jones v. Sursa

Jon Jones (12-0) v. Marcus Sursa (10-5) LHW

Cage Warriors Welterweight Title Fight
Jason High (15-2) v. Brock Larson (33-3) WW
Jim Miler (19-3) v. Ben Henderson (14-2) LW
Rory Markham (19-5) v. Siyar Bahadurzada (20-5-1) MW
Brendan Schaub (9-1) v. Josh Barnett (26-7) HW

----Prelims----

Diego Nunes (16-2) v. Alan Omer (17-3) FW
Daniel Puder (11-1) v. Jon Madsen (6-1) HW
Lyman Good (14-1) v. Magomed Shikshabekov (9-1) WW
Raphael Davis (12-2) v. Rafael Cavalcante (10-4) LHW
Isao Hirose (9-2) v. Henrique Bilcalho (13-5) FW
Jeremy Horn (84-22-5) v. Dan Miller (11-5) MW
Nate Diaz (13-7) v. Keita Nakamura (18-9-2) LW

There are 3 former champions on the undercard, all of them are making their returns after losing their titles, and all are taking on guys who would love to knock them off, and send them away from the title picture for a long time. The featherweight battle between Nunes and Omer is great on paper. Both of them are young lions with great records who are trying to get to the top a very rough division. There are a few guys fighting who qualify for Juniors competition, but who have much more to gain with a win on this card. I think that any one of them certainly has the skill to do so.

DeToxRox · 08-03-2010, 03:31 PM

Still digging this, keep it up.

PilotMan · 08-10-2010, 08:34 AM

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Thanks Danny, glad you are enjoying it.

There is a new Heavyweight King of Pancrase. Fabiano Scherner (10-8) beat Edson Draggo (11-5) by decision. On the same card, Takuya Wada (20-9-10), who has been the Welterweight King of Pancrase for over 3 and a half years, was beaten by upstart Djamal Kurbanov (6-1-1).

Brian Gassaway (28-21-2) has finally put an end to his career. Gassaway is a name that has been around MMA for a long, long time. One of the pioneers of the sport, he never quite made the best of the best, but he made a living out of it. His most famous losses were to Minnowaman and Diego Sanchez. He had been fighting for the MFC in Canada.

Brad Morris (12-4) defended his KOTC Light Heavyweight title with a 4th round submission over Christian Wellisch.

In Japan, Cage Warrior Kwang Hee Lee (8-6), was stopped in the first by MMA journeyman Satoru Kitaoka (27-12-9). Lee’s time on the Cage Warriors roster seems limited.

Bellator and Cage Warrior fighter, Jesse Juarez (15-8) picked up another win outside of CW as he wins over Nate Loughran (11-2).

Strikeforce’s latest show was last night. The main event saw the Strikeforce debut of Rampage Jackson. Jackson (34-9) picked up a 3 round decision over Sokoudjou (9-8). The co-feature saw Bigfoot Silva (17-4) take out Roger Gracie (4-3) by KO at the end of the 3rd round. Brett Rogers (13-2), Hiromasa Ogikubo (9-2-1), and Donnie Liles (13-8) all got wins on the main show. On the same card, Christian Uflacker (6-2), who fights for us, also picked up a win.

Jason Pierce (12-2) won the Shark Fights welterweight title last night with a 5-round decision over Emyr Bussade (13-6).

Polish welterweight champion Chris Liguori (14-9) defended his KSW title against Jedrez Kubski (16-10). Liguori makes his first defense since winning the title earlier this year.

The longest tenured champion in MMA, Brett Cooper (12-4), made his 5th defense of his Purecombat welterweight title. He beat Mike Campbell (8-5) via first round TKO. Tim Sylvia (30-7) made his debut for the promotion and came away with an impressive second round submission win.

UFC 127 was held in Cleveland last night. The main event was a middleweight battle that saw Ed Herman (17-8) stop The Axe Murderer by forcing him to tap one second before the end of the first round. It was Silva’s first loss in 18 months when he was stopped by Dan Henderson. The co-main was a heavyweight title fight between the Champ and former Champ. In the end it was Todd Duffee (9-0) who stopped Brock Lesnar (6-2) by TKO in the first round. Other winners on the card were Paulo Thiago (15-1) who beat Josh Koscheck (16-6), Frank Mir (16-4) and Thiago Silva (17-2).

PilotMan · 08-10-2010, 08:44 AM

Tonight on Unchained we have a fight for the Cage Warriors lightweight title, as current champion Karen Darabedyan, making his first defense since winning the title over Jeff Curran. Takeya Mizugaki is looking to claim his first title in the US with a win. Darabedyan’s fights have either gone the distance or he has won by KO or TKO. He is an accomplished striker whose feet are just as dangerous as his hands. His biggest weakness will be when things get close, or if he ends up on his back. As for Mizugaki, he is very well rounded, preferring to stop guys with his feet, or by using his ground and pound. His last three fights have gone a total of 4 rounds, and he won them all by KO or TKO. Also, don’t underestimate the submissions of Mizugaki.

In the co-main look for Brad Imes to try and make his size count, and get this to the floor. He will be very hesitant to stand with the Russian. For Kharitonov, his backround is in Sambo, and he is equally skilled at stopping it with strikes standing, on the ground, or with a submission. Also tonight, Yosmanny Cabezas, Hideo Tokoro, and the Cage Warriors debut of former UC UK fighter, undefeated in his last 6 fights, Karl Amoussou.

We are live on HD Net and broadcasting from California. This is Cage Warriors: Unchained!

Bobby Rehman (9-2, Muay Thai) takes on Damien Stelly (11-4, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Damien Stelly wins via TKO due to strikes in the first round. Stelly slammed Rehman hard to the mat, quickly mounted him and finished it with strikes. Great fight.

Taiki Tsuchiya (8-3, Shooto) takes on Manny Gamburyan (10-7, Judo) in the featherweight division. Taiki Tsuchiya wins via unanimous decision. Taiki won with a skillful ground game that saw Manny in trouble in most of the first and third rounds. Gamburyan did well in the second but never really mounted any offense. Decent fight.

Noah Thomas (16-8, Wrestling) takes on Sidney Silva (10-4, BJJ) in the welterweight division. Noah Thomas wins via unanimous decision. Thomas controlled the action from the top, Silva tried for the surprise submission again, but this time he couldn’t pull it off. Poor fight.

Paul Sass (12-2, Muay Thai/BJJ) takes on Joseph Benavidez (11-5, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Sass has a 10-inch height advantage and a 5 inch reach advantage. Joseph Benavidez wins via TKO due to strikes in the first round. Benavidez got the takedown right off the bat, and went for and got mount right away. Sass was in trouble and Benevidez made him pay. Good fight.

Ross Pearson (13-5, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Donald Cerrone (12-4, Wrestling/Kick Boxing) in the lightweight division. Donald Cerrone wins via unanimous decision. Pearson fought a good fight, but got stung by a big punch in the 3rd that knocked him down and turned the fight. Cerrone might have lost without it. Average fight.

Joey Villasenor (28-10, Boxing) takes on Ricardo Almeida (11-6, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Ricardo Almeida wins via unanimous decision. Fairly boring fight. Alemeida took Villasenor down a lot, and never let him get control of the fight. Neither fighter was in real danger. Average fight.

Our last prelim fight sees Jason Brilz (19-3-1, Wrestling) taking on Vinicius Magalhaes (7-4, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Vinicius Magalhaes wins via unanimous decision. This was a good ground battle, with the BJJ specialist almost getting caught in a triangle choke when he had dominant position. Both guys fought off good challenges in an entertaining fight. Average fight.

Karl Amoussou (17-2-1, Judo/Savate) comes out to take on Dan Hornbuckle (22-4, Muay Thai/BJJ) in a middleweight fight. Karl Amoussou wins via unanimous decision. Amoussou was able to get Hornbuckle in trouble a couple of times, and had him mounted twice as rounds ended. Hornbuckle also did well, locking in a deep triangle choke that Amoussou had to power out of. Decent fight.

Akiyo Nishiura (13-4-1, Shooto) takes on Hideo Tokoro (26-18-1, Boxing/Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Akiyo Nishiura wins via TKO due to strikes in the third round. This fight had it all, takedowns, escapes, reversals, and finally some great ground and pound from Nishiura who was making his debut. Great fight.

Yosmanny Cabezas (12-4, Judo) takes on Ben Holscher (10-2, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Ben Holscher wins via TKO due to strikes in the first round. Holscher got a big takedown and ended up in side control. Cabezas gave up his back, and Holscher stopped him with strikes. Great fight.

The co-main event is next. Sergei Kharitonov (19-4, Sambo, 240) takes on Brad Imes (17-7, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. That’s right, Imes has a 45-pound weight advantage. Brad Imes wins via submission from a guillotine choke in the second round. Kharitonov nearly finished it right away with a huge punch that knocked Imes down. Knowing the ground was not where he wanted to be he let him back up again. Imes got a takedown in round 2, but was swept in a reversal, but on his back was apparently where he wanted to be as the submission specialist caught and finished the Russian with a guillotine. Great fight.

The main event is next as lightweight champion Karen Darabedyan ( 13-1, Boxing/Judo) takes on Takeya Mizugaki (16-5-2, Muay Thai/Shooto). Darabedyan has a 5-inch height advantage. Mizugaki wanted this one to go to the ground, but Darabedyan was able to block every single one of his takedown attempts. Most of the fight was fought against the cage with Mizugaki in control. Darabedyan showed good heart and defense to keep from being overwhelmed. The third started and ended quickly as Mizugaki missed a big punch and walked into a Darabedyan strike that hurt him. The champ moved quickly to finish and the ref stopped it after a series of blows. Darabedyan with his first defense of his title. Great fight.

We had 4,644 fans on hand for the show, and it was rated as being excellent.

Fight of the Night goes to Akiyo Nishiura and Hideo Tokoro
Knockout of the Night goes to Karen Darabedyan
Submission of the Night goes to Brad Imes.

A couple of surprises here tonight. That is for sure. Mizugaki hadn’t been hurt by anyone, and even though he was the champ, Darabedyan hadn’t fought anyone quite as dynamic as Mizugaki either. Brad Imes rolls along with another submission win in another fight that he was supposed to lose. I am sure that he will find his way back to another big fight before long. Ben Holscher hasn’t lost since he vacated his Juniors title. Hideo Tokoro in another fight of the night, against the former Cage Force featherweight champion, a good debut for Tamura. Karl Amoussou is a total unknown in the US, it’s going to take some time to get him up the rankings, good debut for him here

PilotMan · 08-10-2010, 08:48 AM

As has been typical lately, there are a number of terminations following the event. Bobby Rehman (9-3), Ross Pearson (13-6), Sidney Silva (10-5), and Besiki Gerenava (7-3) are scheduled to be let go. Silva had been very close for a while, and neither Rehman or Gerenava have really impressed anyone. Gerenava is technically still a juniors fighter, but even with a win in his next fight, he wasn’t going to keep a spot on the roster so this move makes the most sense, and hopefully we can make better use of the roster spot he will free up. Pearson’s only win was against James Krause and he isn’t here anymore either. Good luck guys, it will be interesting to see where you end up at after a shot us.

December will see two PPV’s and the second of those has been booked. The main event will be a fight between two lightweight title contenders, Ran Weathers and Zach Micklewright. Weathers has won his last 5 fights in a row, and Mickleweight’s only loss is to the WEC’s lightweight champion, Jamier Varner. Each fighter has great potential and a win here is going to be another step forward toward Karen Darabedyan. To co-main will feature the debut of another former UFC fighter in Thomasz Drwal. Drwal will be facing off against Benji Radach. Neither guy has really fought anyone the caliber of their opponent in this one, so it should be a good test for them. Other fighters scheduled to appear are, Shogun Rua, Javier Vazquez, and Travis Wiuff. Here is the entire show.

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Cage Warriors 44: Weathers v. Micklewright

Ran Weathers (18-5) v. Zach Makeweight (10-1) LW
Thomasz Drwal (20-3) v. Benji Radach (22-8) MW
Young Choi (17-7) v. Shogun Rua (19-7) LHW
Javier Vazquez (18-5) v. Buck Bisbey (11-2) FW
Stipe Bekavac (17-4) v. Travis Wiuff (62-15) LHW

----Prelims----

Tim Hague (11-2) v. Kirill Sidelnikov (8-4) HW
JZ Calvancante (18-4-1) v. Jeff Curran (33-13-1) LW
Assuerio Silva (17-10) v. Chris Tuchscherer (18-3) HW
Justin Davis (12-8) v. David Loiseau (19-14) MW
Bryan Baker (12-3) v. Jason Lambert (24-12) MW
Toby Imada (26-12) v. Kyle Bradley (13-8) LW
Mike Easton (9-3) v. Shoji Maruyama (8-9-1) FW

Looking at the card again, the bigger stories are actually in the prelim fights. Jeff Curran returns after losing his title to take on one of the best lightweights in the world in JZ, making his return to the US after many years of fighting for DREAM. Bryan Baker returns to the cage in his first fight since being suspended for a year due to drugs. Young Choi, Showgun’s opponent is the former DEEP Midleweight champion, he prefers to fight at LHW, so we will let him go here. Tough first opponent.

EdReedIsGod · 08-12-2010, 12:26 AM

How does JZ/Curran not make the main bill?

PilotMan · 08-12-2010, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by EdReedIsGod

How does JZ/Curran not make the main bill?

They easily could, but I like to keep the main show to guys who are coming off of wins. They are both coming off of losses and that keeps them in the prelims for this show.

PilotMan · 08-15-2010, 11:45 AM

And with that we book the final show of this year. It will be Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV, held from New Jersey. Of course, FIGHT! Is the developmental show, and will feature 3 Cage Warriors Juniors titles on the line that night. The main event will be for the Juniors Welterweight title as Joe Scarola defends his title against Ben Askren. Supporting the main event will be the battle for the Juniors featherweight title between champion Peter Dominguez and Jussier Da Silva. Also defending his title will be the light heavyweight champion Danny Valimaki as he takes on former UC UK Light heavyweight champion Jamie Hern, who is making his debut in the US, attempting to follow in the footsteps of Tom Watson as an English boxer/striker to win a title here in Cage Warriors. Also appearing on the main show will be Bobby Lashley. Here is the rundown of the entire show:

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Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV as shown on The Fight Network and ESPN Deportes

Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight Title Fight
Joe Scarola (7-2-1) v. Ben Askren (5-0) WW

Cage Warriors Juniors Featherweight Title Fight
Peter Dominguez (4-3) v. Jussier Da Silva (5-2) FW

Cage Warriors Juniors Light Heavyweight Title Fight
Danny Valimaki (7-2) v. Jamie Hern (7-1) LHW
Bobby Lashley (7-2) v. Raymond London (6-0) HW

----Prelims----

Cristobal Verissimo (7-1) v. Benjamin Rude (7-0) MW
Marcin Held (8-2) v. Joe Duarte (8-2) LW
Dylan Clay (7-2) v. Michael Pastou (7-2) WW
Blagoi Ivanovo (6-3) v. Hae Joon Yang (4-2) HW
Dragan Tesanovic (8-2) v. Teriuihi Akita (7-1) MW
Karn Grigoryan (7-2-1) v. Joaquin Rocha (6-1) LHW
Ville Manninen (7-3) v. Bryan Joplin (6-2) LW
Kentaro Hayashida (4-1) v. Nariaki Fukazawa (6-1) FW

This in an entire show of Juniors fights and there are a bunch of guys who have been around with us for a little bit now fighting here. A few of these fighters are fighting for the last time as juniors and their progress will be watched closely from here on out. I think that Askren poses a big problem for Scarola, but he has been fighting very good lately so who knows. The featherweight fight is less than exciting, but despite the champ’s poor record, he is 3-1 in Cage Warriors, and on a bit of a tear. Da Silva is a rising star in MMA. Jamie Hern debuts right into the title picture. Especially as a former champion, we are sending a message that the best light heavyweight fighter in England can only compete in Cage Warriors at the Juniors level. We are setting the bar for ourselves. Hopefully, he will do well with his fans as it will be on live TV over there. Bobby Lashley could be carrying this card if he was fighting a named fighter, but he is fighting a guy fresh off the smaller circuits. London is every bit as big, and his Sambo background might just be enough to pull off the upset.

PilotMan · 08-15-2010, 11:49 AM

DECEMBER 2011

We close in on two years in the business and things are running smoothly. The company profited over a mil again last month, and that means that our company has been in the black for more than 6 months. We have carefully controlled our costs, and our income is riding high. With only the one PPV last month our expenses and income were a little bit less than they could have been, but it was still solid. We handed out some pretty good bonuses, but nothing close to the almost half a million that we did a few months ago.

Our popularity is holding strong at the high national level. We are at 86.6%, and due to the popularity level of most of our fighters it’s going to stay there for a bit anyway. We are almost at national popularity in Canada and are also a high regional in the UK. We are the #2 promotion worldwide and in the US, Mexico and the UK. We are #3 in Canada, but I think that we are going to pass MFC before long. Behind us in popularity the order is #3 Strikeforce, #4 Dream, #5 WEC, #6 WVR, #7 MFC, #8 Shooto, #9 Bellator, and #10 UC UK. We are truly the big #2 in all areas right now.

Our look at the middlweights returns this month. Here are the top 10 middleweights in Cage Warriors right now.

1. Tom Watson (14-3) CW Champion, Impressive 5-0 in CW
2. Tim Kennedy (17-3) recent signing from Strikeforce. Only 1 loss going back 4 years.
3. Paulo Filho (23-1) Won in his debut in Cage Warriors.
4. Gegard Mousasi (30-3-1) New signing, 3-0 since his loss to King Mo.
5. Rory Markham (19-5)
6. Karl Amoussou (18-2-1) Hardly known in the US
7. Tomasz Drwal (20-3) Debuting against Benji Radach
8. Fabio Silva (19-6) Long fall for the fomer champ
9. Gerald Harris (17-4) Three fight win streak
10. Doug Marshall (13-4) Big KO win over Jared Hess

There are certainly some big potential match ups here. Silva is going to have a tough road to get back to a title shot with guys like Filho, Mousasi, and Amassou in the way.

PilotMan · 08-15-2010, 11:54 AM

Down in New Zealand, Matt Cain (10-3-1), the CFC welterweight champion defended his title for the first time with a win over Michael Costa (12-7).

In Japan, Featherweight King of Pancrase champion Miki Shida (16-6-2) had one of the shortest title reign’s on record (not quite 3 months) as he was beaten by Koji Yoshimoto (7-3-2).

Another champion saw hit title reign end as well. X-1 heavyweight champion, Marcus Jones (7-4) was TKOed just 25 seconds into his fight with Chris Marez (7-2).

Yet another champion goes down. This time it’s UC UK lightweight champion, Jason Young (8-4), when he was submitted in the third round. Young had held the title for just over a year. He lost it to the man he took it from, Tim Radcliffe (13-4). Radcliff had previously held the title for just over 2 years, and now reigns again.

DEEP has a new middleweight champion. Katsuyori Shibata (10-8-1), a former professional wrestler who lost his first 4 MMA fights, has won with a second round submission over Eun Soo Lee (11-4). Shibata trains with Japanese legend Kazushi Sakubura. Sakubura now has 2 title holders in his camp. The other being the new Featherweight King of Pancrase, Koji Yoshimoto. On the same card, the lightweight champ and fomer Cage Warrior, Katsunori Kikuno (15-5-2) made the second defense of his title with a win over Yuki Inoue (12-3-4) .

Masashi Takeda (13-5-1) lost his Cage Force lightweight title to Jang Yong Kim (8-4). The fight was uninspiring and the crowd booed frequently. Kim is 6-1 in the last 2 years.

PilotMan · 08-19-2010, 10:32 AM

The first PPV of December is about to take place. Cage Warriors 43 is live and coming to you from Hawaii! Tonight we have the rise of a young MMA fighter to the top of the MMA world. We have the Cage Warriors welterweight title on the line and we have 3 former Cage Warriors’ title holders fighting in their return to the cage. We have 2 of the best lightweights in the world about to go at it, and the return to the US of heavyweight Josh Barnett. This is going to be a big, big show.

In the main event, we have Jon Bones Jones, widely considered already to be one of the most feared fighters in the cage. His last fight saw him TKO Glover Teixeira in under a minute. He is undefeated, well rounded, and exciting to watch. He takes on Marcus Sursa, a man feared by few, but only beaten in Cage Warriors by one, and that was former champ, Jimi Manuwa. Sursa is 7-1 in the last 2 years. He loves to fight close, has dangerous hands, and a dominating ground and pound. His biggest challenge will be to keep from being on the bottom as Jones has the wrestling pedigree to keep him there, and finish him with lethal strikes or submissions. Jones biggest weakness will be his head. He hasn’t lost yet. Will he overlook Sursa?

In the co-main, the welterweight title is on the line as Jason High makes his first defense of the title since beating Lyman Good for it 6 months ago. He takes on Brock Larson. Larson has fought 2 times since High took the title, and hasn’t lost in over 2 years. His record in Cage Warriors is perfect, with every fight being a win by TKO or submission. Larson is vastly experienced, and has heavy hands, and good wrestling and submission skills. How much of those 36 previous fights have taken out of him? High is also a finisher, and a damn good one. Outside of taking Good the distance, High has finished every one of his CW fights with a submission win. He too, hasn’t lost in over 2 years. 53 total fights between them, and only 5 losses. Something has to give tonight.

Let’s get right to cage side with Bas Rutten, Bill Goldberg, and Stephen Quadros.

Nate Diaz (13-7, Boxing/BJJ) takes on Keita Nakamura (18-9-2) in the lightweight division. Nate Diaz wins via TKO due to strikes at 1:19 of round 2. Diaz had taken the first round in a sloppy fight, but in round 2 he caught Nakamara wide open after a miss, hit him hard, then finished the hurt fighter. Average fight.

Jeremy Horn (84-22-5, Freestyle JJ) takes on Dan Miller (11-5, Freestyle) in the middleweight division. Jeremy Horn wins via unanimous decision. This was a terrible fight with very little action. Very Poor fight.

Isao Hirose (9-2, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Henrique Bilcalho (13-5, BJJ/Muay Thai) in the featherweight division. Henrique Bilcalho wins via unanimous decision. Bilcalho was better all around in this one. He strikes were better, he was in control of grappling and he defended the takedown well. Hiorse had him in trouble in the second round but Bilcalho was able to survive. Average fight.

Raphael Davis (12-2, Wrestling/BJJ) takes on Rafael Cavalcante (10-4, Muay Thai/BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Davis is making his return to the cage following his loss to Phil Davis. Raphael Davis wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:57 of round 1. The former champion was fast and aggressive in this fight. He took the fight to Cavalcante with a solid takedown of the JJ black belt, mounting him and pounding him out for the win. Great fight.

Lyman Good (14-1, Kick Boxing) takes on Magomed Shikshabekov (9-1, Sambo) in the welterweight division. Good is making his return since losing his title to Jason High. Magomed Shikshabekov wins via unanimous decision. Apparently I don’t see things as the judges do. I thought Good had this one. Good standup from Good, and he defended every takedown attempt but one. He was never in trouble and seemed to be in control of the fight. Tough loss, great win for Shikshabekov. Decent fight.

Daniel Puder (11-1, Wrestling, 255) takes on Jon Madsen (6-1, Wrestling, 260) in the heavyweight division. Puder returns after losing the heavyweight unification title fight to Dave Herman. Before that, Puder was untouchable. Will he be here? Daniel Puder wins via KO at 4:38 of the third round. Puder was actually losing because he couldn’t do much against the tough wrestler. But that was all he needed. He caught Madsen with a huge roundhouse kick to the head that put him out. Average fight.

The last prelim of the night sees Diego Nunes (16-2, Muay Thai/Boxing) take on Alan Omer (17-3, Submission Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Diego Nunes wins via KO at 2:12 of the third round. Nunes and Omer put on an exciting show. Both men got takedowns, reversals, and both were aggressive in the fight. Omer has appeared to be getting the better of the fight until Nunes caught him with another big kick to the head that finished the fight. Fantastic fight.

The main show begins with Brendan Schaub (9-1, Boxing/BJJ, 260) taking on Josh Barnett (26-7, Catch Wrestling, 270) in the heavyweight division. Barnett has a 10-inch reach advantage. Brenden Schaub wins via TKO, due to strikes at 1:49 of round 2. Barnett owned round 1 with a big takedown and complete control. It was Schaub who scored the takedown in round 2, and he quickly mounted Barnett who was helpless under the onslaught of punches. Great fight.

Rory Markham (19-5, Wrestling) takes on Siyar Bahadurzada (20-5-1, Muay Thai) in the middleweight division. Siyar Bahadurzada wins via unanimous decision. Markham started off like a tornado knocking Siyar down right away. He moved in to finish, but ended up in a kimura that saw him fighting for his life in the cage the rest of the round. From there he seemed to abandon his gameplan and grappled with Siyar. Siyar controlled most of the rest of the action thorough the rest of the fight. Decent fight.

We move on to the lightweight division. Jim Miller (19-3, Wrestling) takes on Ben Henderson (14-2, Wrestling/Tae Kwon Do). Jim Miller wins via TKO due to strikes at 4:58 of the third round. A bit controversial to stop it so close to the end. This was a tight fight where it looked like the deciding factor was going to be the takedown dominance of Jim Miller. Henderson defended well on his back, catching Miller in a triangle, but Miller escaped with a big slam. This was back and forth, but Henderson just got caught at the end of the round, and the ref stopped it. Average fight.

Jason High (15-2, Wrestling) defends his Cage Warriors Welterweight title against Brock Larson (33-3, Submission Wrestling). Jason High wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:30 of the first round. Larson charged at High right away getting a big takedown, but got caught with a guillotine on the way in. High had to let it go, but got another chance and swept Larson into side control. High was able to do a lot of damage with knees and took Larson’s back, forcing him to turtle up. High then finished the fight with big blows as Larson became overwhelmed. Fantastic fight.

Jon Jones (12-0, Wrestling) takes on Marcus Sursa (10-5, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. This is the main event of the night. Bones Jones wins via unanimous decision. A big letdown after the last fight. Jones seemed to control the fight, but he could not do much damage to Sursa. Sursa was taken down a couple of times, but defended well, and he also narrowly missed a couple of big punches. The fans are going home a little disappointed after this one. Poor fight.

We had 10,281 fans in attendance and another 248k PPV buys. The show was rated as being poor.

Fight of the Night goes to Diego Nunes and Alan Omer
Knockout of the Night goes to Diego Nunes and Daniel Puder
Submission of the Night goes to nobody.

Jones failed to live up to his hype here, and Jason High cemented himself as the top welterweight in Cage Warriors with a decisive win over an untouchable fighter. Diego Nunes pulled out a win in an exciting fight. 2 of the 3 former champs got over losing their titles with wins, while one did not. Jeremy Horn wins again. And Henrique Bilcalho finds a way to win, making him one tough customer. He probably is never going to fight for the title, but he is a roadblock. This was a big show, with starts all over it. I was very happy to see Raphael Davis and Daniel Puder come back with wins. We really need Puder at the top of the heap in the heavyweight division. He is one of the most popular fighters in Cage Warriors.

PilotMan · 08-19-2010, 10:42 AM

Two pink slips were handed out after the show. The first goes to Isao Hirose and the second to Keita Nakamura. Hirose is a natural flyweight who was unable to make the step up in weight, and will go back to flyweight fulltime with Pancrase, where he still works. Nakamura will continue to fight in Japan for Cage Force, and really didn’t do much in the US.

Booking is complete for Cage Warriors 45. The show will be held right in the UFC’s back yard, of Las Vegas. To add insult to injury, one of the guys headlining the main event was the current UFC Champ in his weight class, and we got him, and having fighting for the Cage Warriors title in his debut! How about that?!

The main event of the night will be for the Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight title. Phil Davis will make his first defense of the title since winning it in July. He will take on a guy with no previous fights in Cage Warriors. Ryan Bader was the current UFC 205lb champion before surrendering the title when he signed for Cage Warriors. Part of the deal, where we gave him a better contract, was the idea that he could challenge for the title right away. Bader had the submission of the year last year when he won the title from Lyoto Machida, he TKOed Matt Hamil to make his only defense of the title. These guys are near mirror images of each other. Both are former All-American wrestlers, both are undefeated, both are or were champions, and both are still getting better. Davis trains with Carlo Prater at Thugjitsu, while Bader trains with Daniel Puder, Cain Velasquez, Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck at the American Kick Boxing Academy. Both men are fantastic in their ground control, have great takedowns. It could be boring, but these guys are coming in to fight.

The co-main is a massive middleweight fight between former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight champion, Gegard Mousasi and former WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho. Mousasi has won 3 in a row and 11 of his last 12 fights. While Filho still only has one blemish on his career, that against Chael Sonnen in his last WEC fight. Mousasi has great standup and could use his long reach to keep Filho at bay. Filho wants to get this to the ground. His grappling is nearly unmatched and he could simply overpower Mousasi up close. Other fighters scheduled to appear are JJ Ambrose, Jimi Manuwa and the debut of Chris Horodecki. Here is the entire card:

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Cage Warriors 45: Davis v. Bader

Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight Title fight
Phil Davis (9-0)(#4 LHW) v. Ryan Bader (13-0)(#1 LHW) LHW
Gegard Mousasi (30-3-1) v. Paulo Filho (23-1)(#9 MW) MW
JJ Ambrose (14-3) v. Drew Fickett (40-14) WW
Jimi Manuwa (8-1) v. Andre Gusmao (11-1) LHW
Shane Roller (10-3) v. Chris Horodecki (16-3) LW

----Prelims----

Neil Cooke (9-2) v. George Bush (10-3) HW
Diego Saraiva (16-10-1) v. Ricardo Tirlone (11-4) LW
Gover Teixeira (12-3) v. Jake O’ Brien (16-5) LHW
Chris Price (18-3) v. Chris Leben (18-8) MW
Alberto Crane (16-5) v. David Baron (17-5) LW
Ryan Stonitsch (11-3) v. Alexander Trevino (9-5) WW
Josh Diekman (12-4) v. Dan Evensen (14-7) HW

JJ Ambrose comes back to the big stage looking to win again, this time against tough veteran fighter Drew Fickett. Fickett isn’t exactly a title contender at this point, but he could still get there and a win against Ambrose would be a great start. Jimi Manuwa and Andre Gusmao could be in line for a title shot with a win here. Both Roller and Horodecki make their Cage Warriors debuts.

PilotMan · 08-19-2010, 10:46 AM

A couple of new champions were crowned in KOTC last night. First off, Mario Rinaldi (13-3) took the KOTC Heavyweight title away from Manny Rodriguez (4-2) with a 3rd round submission. In the other title fight, Hong Man Choi (6-2) took the KOTC Super Heavyweight title with a win over Neil Barnes (4-1) with a TKO under a minute into the fight.

Bob Sapp (10-4-1) has retired from MMA at the age of 39. Sapp hadn’t fought in over 2 years. His last fight was a TKO loss to Sokoudjou.

MFC 44 ran last night with the Cro-Cop (26-11-2) headlining. He was taking on former MFC Heavyweight champion and Canadian fan favorite Steve Bosse (10-2). It was a very poor fight with Bosse pulling off the win over the aging legend. Jason Day (22-9) won in the co-main over Dave Mewborn (9-4-1).

Shark Fights ran a big show with two titles on the line. First, Nissen Osterneck (10-3) retained his SF Middleweight Title with a win over Prince Mclean (9-8). The other title fight saw Kyle Bracey (8-2) win the vacant SF Light Heavyweight Title with a win over Chad Vance (6-7).

A Strikeforce card saw the return of Fedor to the cage. He headlined the card taking on Justin McCully (10-9-2). Fedor (34-3) finished it early with a TKO in the first round. Gilbert Melendez (21-3) won in the co-main with a first round TKO over Justin Wilcox (11-4). Frank Shamrock (24-14) was notably TKOed in 40 seconds of the first round by Luke Rockhold (10-3). Anotonio Carvalho (15-5) also won on the card. Thomas Longacre (8-2), a Cage Warrior, knocked out Lyle Beerbohm (15-3) in the third round for the win.

We are going to lose our first fighter due to an inability to come to terms on a new contract. Welterweight contender Magomed Shikshabekov, who recently won over Lyman Good, will be leaving us in a couple of months. Certainly a frustrating development.

PilotMan · 08-30-2010, 11:13 AM

Cage Warriors 44 is live from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lightweight title contenders Ran Weathers and Zach Micklewright are headlining the show tonight. Weathers hasn’t been beaten in Cage Warriors, and neither has Micklewright. Weathers is a powerful puncher whether he gets you standing or on the ground, you are going to feel it. Four of his last 7 fights have ended with a KO or TKO in his favor, and he hasn’t lost since January of 2010, almost 2 years ago. As for Micklewright, he is a young wrestler who prefers to grapple up close and finish on the ground. He last lost to Jamie Varner for the WEC lightweight title last year.

In the co-main, Benji Radach takes of former UFC fighter Thomaz Drwal. Radach loves a stand up brawl and Drwal can give it to him. All it takes is one punch, this one will be exciting. Shogun Rua returns to the cage to take on the former DEEP Middleweight champion, Young Choi, who is making his debut in Cage Warriors. Javier Vazquez and Travis Wiuff are also on the main card.

Lets head right to the cage for tonight’s action!

Mike Easton (9-3, Wrestling/Muay Thai) takes on Shoji Maruyama (8-9-1, Muay Thai) in the lightweight division. Mike Easton wins via submission due to armbar at 3:26 of the second round. Easton wanted this on the ground and he put it there. He worked to mount before time expired in the first, and went right back to it in the second round. This time taking Maruyama’s back. Unable to finish with strikes, he took the arm and forced the tap right away. Good fight.

Toby Imada (26-16, Judo) takes on Kyle Bradley (13-8, Boxing) in the lightweight division. Bradley is a hometown boy, and has a 5-inch reach advantage. Toby Imada wins via submission due to an Americana at 4:54 of round 2. Imada put Bradley on his butt a few times and threw him once. Imada dominated the action on the ground and finished it nicely. Average fight.

Brian Baker (12-3, Judo/Wrestling) takes on Jason Lambert (24-12, Wrestling) in the middleweight division. Baker towers 5-inches over Lambert. Jason Lambert wins via unanimous decision. Oh God what a bad fight. Lambert didn’t do anything at all, Baker scored one takedown, and neither landed any meaningful punches. It was terrible, just an awful fight. Baker’s first fight back from his suspension.

Justin Davis (12-8, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on David Loiseau (19-14, Vale Tudo) in the middleweight division. David Loiseau wins via unanimous decision. Davis was knocked silly in round 1, and Loiseau landed a huge diving punch. Davis still survived, and tried like hell to get the fight to the ground, but Loiseau was to good and forced him to eat leather. Decent fight.

Assuerio Silva (17-10, Muay Thai/BJJ, 257) takes on Chris Tuchscherer (18-3, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. Chris Tuchscherer wins via TKO due to strikes at 2:54 of the first round. Tuchscherer scored a takedown and dominated from there. Silva at a series of elbows that nearly knocked him out. The ref jumped in to save him any more damage.

JZ Calvancante (18-4-1, BJJ/Kick Boxing) takes on Jeff Curran (33-13-1, BJJ) in the lightweight division. JZ Calvancante wins via submission due to a guillotine choke at 4:30 of round 3. Both men put on a good show. Curran came in the underdog but fought like hell. He was on top in a dominant position and working for the submission wihen JZ caught him in the choke. If he holds on he probably wins the fight. Great fight.

The last prelim fight is between Tim Hague (11-2, Wrestling, 265) and Kirill Sidelnikov (8-4, Sambo, 242) in the heavyweight division. Hague has a 5-inch height advantage for this fight. Tim Hague wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:29 of the third round. These two put on a good show. Hague was in real trouble in the second when Sidelnikov had his back for over half the round but was unable to finish the fight. Hague his a miracle shot in the third that stunned the Russian. He forced the stoppage from there. Fantastic fight.

The main show begins in the light heavyweight division as Stipe Bekavac (17-4, Kick Boxing) takes on Travis Wiuff (62-15, Wrestling). Stipe Bekavac wins via TKO at 3:56 of the first round. Wiuff was hurt with the first flurry from Bekavac. He has to be terribly disappointed with that performance. Decent fight.

Javier Vazquez (18-5, BJJ) takes on Buck Bisbey (11-2, Hybrid Fighting) in the featherweight division. Javier Vazquez wins by submission due to a guillotine choke at 2:14 of the first round. Bisbey had Vazquez pinned against the cage and was looking for the takedown, but Vazquez locked the choke and took him down instead. Bisbey had to tap quickly. Fantastic fight.

Young Choi (17-7-1, Judo) takes on Shogun Rua (19-7, Muay Thai) in the light heavyweight division. Shogun Rua wins via KO at 0:25 of the first round. Wow. Just. Wow. Choi wanted to get this to the ground fast. He threw a couple of jabs then shot fast. Shogun caught him with a hook right on the money and Choi just stumbled to the floor, out cold. Great fight.

The co-main is next. Thomaz Drwal (20-3, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Benji Radach (22-8, Facesmashing Fu) in the middleweight division. Thomaz Drwal wins via TKO at 0:44 of round 2. Drwal dominated the first round pummeling Radach while he was turtled up, but unable to finish it. Radach came out fast in round 2, but was planted on his back then destroyed in short order. Great fight.

The main event is next. Ran Weathers (18-5, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Zach Micklewright (10-1, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Zach Micklewright wins via TKO at 3:31 of the first round. Weathers scored a fast takedown, but was swept from the top. From there Mickelwright moved to side control and unleashed a great series of punches. Weathers defended at first, but eventually succumbed to the blows. Great fight.

We had a crowd of 9,379 on hand and another 195k PPV buys. The show was rated as being awful.

Fight of the Night goes to Tim Hague and Kirill Sidelnikov
Knockout of the Night goes to Shogun Rua
Submission of the Night goes to Javier Vazquez

Jeff Curran took a step back with his loss, he could have put himself right back into the title picture with a win. Rua with a fantasic win, and that will certainly put his career back on the upswing. Look for him in the title picture sooner rather than later. Tomasz Drwal looked very good just dominating Radach. He is a player in the division for sure. Tim Hague continues his development in the heavyweight division, beating a game young pup. Ran Weathers run to the top has been derailed, but Micklewright looks like he is just getting a head of steam. Not a great show at all, but some good fights on the card.

PilotMan · 08-30-2010, 11:18 AM

Wow, how many guys have we had suspended for drug use? Menne, Askren, Baker, Wren? Add Zach Micklewright to the list. He failed the test after the PPV, and is now out for a year. That means that we should probably give Weathers another shot before too long, clearly his loss was tainted.

Shooto ran a great card in Japan. The headliner, Takeshi Inoue (24-3), who we had tried to sign, retained his featherweight title with a 3rd round TKO over Tyler Toner (11-4). The lightweight champion, Ganjo Tentsuku (12-5-2) retained his title with second round TKO over Bendy Casmir (21-8-2).

KSW middleweight champion Nobutatsu Suzuki (8-0-2) retained his title with a first round TKO over Nabil Khatib (10-8) .

UFC 128 was run opposite our MMA show as well. The main event saw GSP defend his welterweight title against Jae Suk Lim, a relatively new fighter to the UFC, and the former Spirit MC middleweight champion. GSP scored a TKO at 4:48 of the first round to defend his title again. It is his 8th defense, and his reign is now over 3 and a half years long. In the co-main, Rashad Evans (18-1-1) scored a 3rd round TKO victory over Poai Suganuma (14-4). Dennis Kang (36-11-1) the UFC middleweight champion, successfully defended his title with a 3rd round submission win over the debuting Riki Fukuda (19-6) the former DEEP middleweight champion. It was Kang’s second defense of his title. Anderson Silva (28-5) knocked out Vitor Belfort (21-11) in the second round to keep in the hunt for his rematch with Kang. Gray Maynard (13-1) also won. Another interesting note about this card. Oleg Taktarov (17-6-2) made his return to the cage after a nearly 4 year layoff. He was TKOed by Mike Russow (14-3) in the first round.

Assuerio Silva, Kyle Bradley, Shoji Maruyama, and Travis Wiuff were all let go from the company yesterday. Wiuff had been the most recognizable of those fighters having been the highest profile fighter of the bunch. He is still working for WVR and MFC. Silva is 37 and well past his prime. Bradley didn’t even win one fight, and Maruyama is the longest tenured having fought at CW 5. Maruyama had been on the ropes for a long time.

PilotMan · 08-30-2010, 11:21 AM

Cage Warriors: Unchained is scheduled to air on HDNet in January, and we now have some fights to pimp for it. Our card is set perfectly for the national television audience that we are going to draw. The show will be headlined with a heavyweight battle between former Cage Warriors heavyweight and current (for now) Cage Warriors Juniors Heavyweight champion Brandon Cash. He will take on Ben Rothwell. Rothwell is massively experienced and well rounded. He is coming off of a win over Darril Schoonover. Cash has fought a wide variety of fighters and has heavy hands. He has won all of his last fights by KO or TKO. His only recent blemish was his loss to Dave Herman for the title.

The co-main event is a lightweight fight featuring Rich Clementi. He will take on Bobby Stack in another vet versus up and coming star fight. Stack is coming off of a win over Nate Diaz, while Clementi has won 5 of his last 6. His only loss was to Jeff Curran for the lightweight title. Clementi loves to use his wrestling to get in close and control the fight. Stack is also someone who likes to grapple and especially likes to punch down on a grounded foe. The one on top is going to win this one.

Other fighters scheduled to appear on the main card are, Yves Jabouin, former UFC fighter Dong Hyun Kim, and Pat Berry. Here is the rundown of the entire show.

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Cage Warriors: Unchained

Brandon Cash (9-2) v. Ben Rothwell (32-9) HW
Rich Clementi (37-16-1) v. Bobby Stack (10-3) LW
Yves Jabouin (17-7) v. Ivan Lopez (13-3) FW
Simeon Thoresen (16-2-1) v. Dong Hyun Kim (13-2-1) WW
Pat Berry (8-3) v. Tony Lopez (17-6) LHW

----Prelims----

Shane Carwin (13-2) v. Darril Schoonover (13-2) HW
Marin Kampmann (16-4) v. Jon Fitch (19-6) WW
Neil Joslin (7-1) v. Daniel Cormier (5-2) HW
Shane Primm (8-3) v. Jared Hamman (13-4) LHW
Jesse Forbes (14-5) v. Mike Swick (13-7) MW
Zac George (20-5) v. Scott McAfee (9-3) LW
Neil Wain (7-3) v. Lavar Johnson (13-5) HW

Ahhhhhh, a bit of a surprise here. We are pleased to be able to showcase the talents of fighters like Carwin, Kampmann and Fitch. They appear here on the undercard to gain some momentum. We have one Juniors battle in the heavyweight division and Neil Wain fighting for his career in the first fight. I like the show. We are able to showcase some of the less popular fighters who are trying to make their way to the top. Just the way that it should be.

PilotMan · 09-06-2010, 10:14 AM

Jeremy May (7-6) has won the Purecombat middleweight title with a submission win over Kyacey Uscola (15-17). The title was previously vacant.

Minnesota native Tommy Speer (13-4) has won the Fury FC welterweight title with a win over champion Pedro Santos (27-7). Speer had lost to Santos 17 months ago in a previous bid for the title.

Naoyuki Kotani (22-8-6) submitted Michael Kwok (12-9-2) to make his 3rd defense of his Lightweight King of Pancrase title. Kotani has held the title since March of 2010.

Phil Baroni (14-12) is the new DREAM Welterweight champion! Baroni got a title shot in his debut with the organization. He beat Tarec Saffendine (13-3) by submission in the second round. Baroni hadn’t won a fight in 3 years, this was only his 3rd fight since. He even lost in his Shark Fights debut.

MFC and former UFC Heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (30-7) has signed a deal to fight for the DREAM organization.

PilotMan · 09-06-2010, 10:27 AM

I only had to make a short trip to the show this week. I have been on the road a lot lately and it’s going to feel good to sit down here in the hometown and take in some of our younger guys at our FIGHT! TV show. This is the last fight for us this year, and crown a huge year of achievements.

Our main event for our internationally televised show is a battle for the Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight Title. Champion Joe Scarola will make his first and only defense of the title, in this, his last fight at the Juniors level. Scarola won the title earlier this year with a submission win over Dylan Clay. Scarola also holds a win over former Juniors WW champ Ben Holscher. Scarola posses dangerous submissions and a solid punch. His clinch and grappling are going to be a spot that his opponent will want to exploit. He will be defending his title against two-time NCAA wrestling champion Ben Askren. Askren was on a meteoric rise when he was suspended for a year for a substance violation. He came right back with a win, and now looks to put his non-stop work ethic and great wrestling skills to the test for the title.

The co-main event is a Juniors title fight in the featherweight division. Champion Pete Dominguez makes his second defense of his title tonight, after winning it earlier this year. Dominguez is a hard head who makes his living with his fists. He has won his last 3 fights. He will take on Jussier daSilva. DaSilva is a natural flyweight who has been carrying an extra 20 pounds in the cage for his Cage Warriors fights. He has found mixed success in the cage, but is coming off of a first round submission win over a previously undefeated opponent. He has great cardio and a dangerous ground attack.

The Cage Warriors Juniors Light Heavyweight title is also on the line, and former Pro Wrestler Bobby Lashley also fights. Let’s head right to cage side.

We start off with a battle of Japanese fighters. Kentaro Hayashida (4-1, BJJ) takes on Nariaki Fukazawa (6-1, Grego-Roman Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Eh, unimpressive. Both men stayed up for the entire fight, and neither one hurt the other. Nariaki Fukazawa wins via unanimous decision. Average fight.

Next up is Ville Manninen (7-3, Grappler) taking on Bryan Joplin (6-2, Striker) in the lightweight division. Ville Manninen wins via unanimous decision. Well I guess that’s why these guys are on the undercard. Manninen could not get the takedown, and was stunned badly in the second round. Manninen controlled the action in 1 and 3. Average fight.

Karn Grigoryan (7-2-1, Freestyle) takes on Joaquin Rocha (6-1, MMA-orientated Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Joaquin Rocha wins via unanimous decision. Rocha contolled all the ground action, scoring takedowns at will, but unable to do any damage. Grigoryan knocked Rocha down in the second, but Rocha recovered and ended up winning the round. Decent fight.

Dragan Tesanovic (8-2, Submission Wrestling) takes on Teriuihi Akita (7-1, MMA-influenced JJ) in the middleweight division. Dragan Tesanovic wins via TKO at 3:14 in the first round. Tesanovic proved too much. He scored a quick takedown, moved to side control and finished the fight with elbows. Great fight.

Blagoi Ivanov (6-3, Sambo, 265) takes on Hae Joon Yang (4-2, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. Hae Joon Yang wins via unanimous decision. No punches at all. Ivanov wanted to get it to the ground, but could not get the big Korean to the ground. Yang spent a lot of time controlling the grapple on the side of the cage, and stuffing takedowns. Poor fight.

Dylan Clay (7-2, BJJ) takes on Michael Pastou (7-2, Freestyle) in the welterweight division. Michael Pastou wins via unanimous decision. Pastou controlled the action with good takedowns and ground control. Clay had him hurt at the end of the second round, but Pastou was saved by the bell. Average fight.

Marcin Held (8-2, BJJ) takes on Joe Duarte (8-2, Muay Thai) in the lightweight division. Joe Duarte wins via unanimous decision. Both fighters took a defense first mentality in this one. Held wanted to get it to the ground, but was stopped over and over again. Duarte controlled the standing action, and even took Held down late in the fight. Poor fight.

Cristobal Verissimo (7-1, Kick Boxing) takes on Benjamin Rude (7-0, Muay Thai) in the middleweight division. Cristobal Verissimo wins via submission, due to rear naked choke, at 3:04 of the first round. Verissimo dominated Rude scoring a takedown and dominating the ground attack. A submission win proves that he isn’t a kick boxer alone. Great fight.

The main show begins with a heavyweight showdown. Bobby Lashley (7-2, Wrestling, 285) takes on Raymond London (6-0, Sambo, 290). Bobby Lashley wins via TKO at 2:09 of round 1. Lashley put in on the ground quick, went for an armbar, then took London’s back. A ferocious attack finished the fight. Fantastic fight.

Danny Valimaki (7-2, Wrestling) is defendind his CW Juniors LHW title against fomer UC UK LH champion Jamie Hern (7-1, Boxing) who is making his debut. Jamie Hern wins via unanimous decision. Valimaki looked dangerous as he had Hern on his back for most of the first round. Hern showed very good jiu-jitsu and had a number of submission attempts from the bottom. Valimaki then looked all out of sorts, as he didn’t want to wrestle or strike with Hern, and the fight decended into a strange set of circles with Hern going back and forth between attacking and counter attacking. Hern wins the Cage Warriors Juniors Light Heavyweight title with the win. Very Poor fight.

Peter Dominguez (4-3, Boxing/Wrestling) defends his Cage Warriors Juniors Featherweight Title against Jussier da Silva (5-2, BJJ). Jussier da Silva wins via submission due to guillotine choke at 3:20 of the 5th round. These two went back and forth for the fight. Dominguez landed his big punches, but da Silva was able to survive, and as the fight drug on it appeared that the champ was tiring much faster than his challenger. Da Silva was able to get Dominguez to the ground in the last round, using his jiu-jitus skills he was finally able to overpower the tiring champ and lock the choke on to finish the fight. Great fight.

The main event of the night has Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight champion, Joe Scarola (7-2-1, BJJ) taking on Ben Askren (5-0, Wrestling/BJJ). Scarola is a hometown boy, and the crowd is hot for him. Ben Askren wins via TKO at 1:59 of the first round. Askren made short work of the champ, taking him down and passing to side control quickly. From there he used a series of knees to the side to soften up the champ before laying the fists to him to finish the fight. Great fight.

We had a crowd of 3,222 on hand in New Jersey and the show was rated as being excellent.

Fight of the Night goes to Pete Dominguez and Jussier da Silva
Knockout of the Night goes to Ben Askren
Submission of the Night goes to Cristobal Verissimo

All three titles change hands at the show tonight. Bobby Lashley dominates, and the undercard is beset with a myriad of underwhelming fights. Cristobal Verissimo continues his upward march up the rankings. I am happy that Askren took the title, he is in a good spot to defend it a number of times and push his popularity up quite a ways. I expected more from Marcin Held. He is still very young, but a loss to Joe Duarte puts him back a few steps.

PilotMan · 09-06-2010, 10:28 AM

Mark Oshiro (13-6) who fights for Cage Warriors, was beaten last night, while fighting for the WEC. His lost to Chris Cariaso (12-1).

Only Karn Gregorian (7-3-1) gets the axe after that show. Karn only has one win in Cage Warriors, and will never be a contender here. He is unemployed now.

PilotMan · 09-17-2010, 07:09 PM

2011 END OF YEAR RUNDOWN and JANUARY 2012 Meeting

This has been a great year for Cage Warriors and MMA in general. Cage Warriors finished the year with over 13 million in the bank. That means that we are now over 8 million in operating profit from our original investment, and positive cash flow of about 1 million a month right now. That leaves considerable room for future investment. We also intend to increase revenue through more lucrative PPV contracts, while maintaining our current television structure.

Our last episode of Cage Warriors: FIGHT! TV drew 1.5 mil viewers on The Fight Network, and another .9 mil on ESPN Deportes. Cage Warriors: Unchained drew 2.1 mil on HDNet. There are only two other MMA shows on free TV right now. One belongs to Strikeforce, they are only drawing about .3 mil on CBS. The other is Sengoku (WVR), who draws about .1 mil in Japan. That lone television show in Japan though is one of the reasons that WVR is the biggest in Japan right now. WVR is number 3 in the world, even bigger than WEC and Strikeforce. The UFC still has the biggest PPV show in MMA right now. Cage Warriors, WEC, Strikeforce, and WVR are the only other companies with PPV deals at this time.

Our popularity is solid in the US, we are still at a high national level, albeit slightly lower than we were a few months ago. Popularity in the UK, and Canada are approaching national levels, and Mexico is lower, but still solid. We expect to hit international status sometime next year, depending on how our show progress, and when that happens, we expect to gain notoriety in most nations.

Here is a list of the current Cage Warriors title holders and the length of their title reigns:

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FEATHERWEIGHT: Cub Swanson (9/11; Interim since 5/11)
JUNIORS FW: Jussier da Silva (12/11)

LIGHTWEIGHT:  Karen Darabedyan (6/11)
JUNIORS LW:  Joe Brammer (6/11)

WELTERWEIGHT:  Jason High (6/11)
JUNIORS WW: Ben Askren (12/11)

MIDDLEWEIGHT:  Tom Watson (10/11)
JUNIORS MW:  Jacob O’Connell (6/11)

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT:  Phil Davis (7/11)
JUNIORS LHW: Jamie Hern (12/11)

HEAVYWEIGHT:  Dave Herman (3/11)
JUNIORS HW: Vacant (Vacated by Brandon Cash)

And since the UFC is still considered the home of the best MMA fighters in the world. Here is the list of current UFC Champions:

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LIGHTWEIGHT: Diego Sanchez (1/11)
WELTERWEIGHT:  Georges St. Pierre (4/08)
MIDDLEWEIGHT:  Denis Kang (8/10)
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT:  Vacant (Vacated by Ryan Bader)
HEAVYWEIGHT:  Todd Duffee (12/10)

As you can see, many of our titles changed hands over the last year. Most of that is attributed to the rapid growth of the company and the influx of better talent. I would expect just as much turnover heading into this next year.

PilotMan · 09-17-2010, 07:12 PM

The MMA Community handed our their yearly awards. A couple of Cage Warriors fighters made the list. Notably, Cristobal Verissimo was awarded Rookie of the Year, and Joe Brammer was awarded Rise of the Year. WVR won promotion of the year, as they have risen to be the top promotion in Japan. The coveted Fighter of the Year award went to Shooto Featherweight Champion Takeshi Inoue. Inoue won 4 times, all by stoppage this year. Inoue also fights for UC UK and DREAM. He won submission of the year for a fight he won over JZ while fighting for DREAM at 155lbs. He hasn’t been beaten in over 4 and a half years. We tried to sign him but his loyalty stayed with his current companies. He won’t be back on the market for us for another 2 years.

American Top Team won team of the year. UC UK put on the show, main event and fight of the year. Meanwhile, Pancrase was saddled with the worst fight of the year. Last year’s fighter of the year Masakazu Imnari won twice by submission this year and still holds the DEEP Bantamweight title.

It’s time to look at the current rankings in the Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight division.

1. Ryan Bader (13-0) Former UFC LHW Champ, fights for the CW LHW title in 2 weeks.
2. Jon Jones (13-0) Beaten 2 top 10 opponents. May get a contender fight next.
3. Lyoto Machida (17-1) Former UFC LHW Champ. Won in debut.
4. Phil Davis (9-0) Current LHW Champion, defends against Bader next.
5. Ricardo Arona (18-6) Former DREAM LHW Champ. Won debut.
6. Alexandre Ribeiro (5-2) Lost to Arona in debut.
7. Jimi Manuwa (8-1) Former CW LHW Champ. Fights Andre Gusmao next.
8. Raphael Davis (13-2) Fomer CW LHW Champ. Won fight after losing title.
9. Maurico Rua (20-7) After 4 straight losses in UFC, two devastating wins in CW.
10. Marcus Sursa (10-6) CW vet lost to Jones last fight.

This division is just flat out stacked. There are incredible fighters from top to bottom and the number of great fights to be made from this group is substantial. The biggest question will be where to the former CW champs and the newer, higher ranked fighters from outside fit into the picture. Davis v. Bader will huge, and Jones should get the next chance, but you can’t count out too many others from that list either.

PilotMan · 09-17-2010, 07:14 PM

The last episode of Strikeforce on CBS was held last night from Hawaii. The main event saw womens champ, Zoila Frausto (8-0) KO Marloes Coenen (22-5) in the third round to make her 3rd defense of the title. King Mo (9-0) defended his Light Heavyweight title against Mike Whitehead (27-8) with a second round TKO. Fabricio Werdum also won on the card.

X-1 Featherweight Champion Jarrod Card (11-5-1) was beaten in 5 rounds last night by Yaotzin Meza (16-8). Meza had lost to Card last year.

PilotMan · 09-21-2010, 09:58 AM

The first show of the year is about to begin. We are live from Las Vegas, Nevada tonight! This is Cage Warriors 45: Davis v. Bader!

Phil Davis won the title with a 4th round TKO over Raphael Davis last July. He has won all 5 Cage Warriors fights that he has been in, and looks to extend his title reign tonight. Davis has used his superior grappling and athletic skills to control his opponent, and has finished fights with strikes and submissions. He defends the title against the man that many consider to be the top fighter in the world at 205lbs, Ryan Bader. Bader abandon his UFC Light Heavyweight title over a high profile contract negotiation to sign with Cage Warriors. As part of that negotiation, Bader was promised a shot at the title upon stepping into the cage for the first time. It’s not something that you see very often. Bader is capable of matching Davis as he too, is a mulit-time All-American wrestler. Bader won the title from Lyoto Machida back in September of 2010. Bader stopped Matt Hamil by TKO in his only fight last year.

The co-main event is almost equally as anticipated. Former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight and DREAM Middleweight champion, Gegard Mousasi takes on former WEC Middleweight champion, Paulo Filho. Filho is a world class jiu-jitsu specialist whose submissions are legendary. Mousasi has 34 fights under his belt and is only 26 years old, wise beyond his cage years. Mousasi is already a two time champion, who prefers to use his incredible standup to punish his opponent. Mousasi was knocked out by King Mo for his only loss in 5 and a half years. Filho, who only has one career loss, is undefeated in the last 3 and a half. Something has to give. JJ Ambrose, a light heavyweight fight featuring former champion Jimi Manuwa, and the Cage Warriors’ debut of “The Polish Hammer” are also on the card.

Opening the show is a heavyweight showdown between Josh Diekman (12-4, Hybrid, 257) and Dan Evensen (14-7, Kick Boxing/BJJ, 270). Dan Evensen wins via submission, due to kimura, 2:39 of round 1. The big men grappled early on. Evensen landed a short hook that knocked Diekman down. Rather than go for the KO, he took the submission opportunity and finished the fight. Fantastic fight.

Ryan Stonitsch (11-3, Muay Thai) takes on Alexander Trevino (9-5, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Alexander Trevino wins via unanimous decision. Trevino dominated the fight with takedowns and controlled all the action on the ground. Stonitsch didn’t get one good punch off the whole fight. Decent fight.

Alberto Crane (16-5, BJJ) takes on David Baron (17-5, BJJ) in the lightweight division. Alberto Crane wins via TKO at 2:40 of round 1. Crane took Baron down right away, and pounded him out in short order. A real mismatch of talent in there. Fantastic fight.

Chris Price (18-3, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Chris Leben (18-8, Freestyle) in the middleweight division. A good fight from Leben as he pulls out the unanimous decision win here. Leben used some good strikes and great takedown defense during the fight. He didn’t let Price get settled at all, but he never really had Price hurt either. Decent fight.

Glover Teixeira (12-3, BJJ/Kempo) takes on Jake O’Brien (16-5, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Both men are coming off of tough losses, and both are keen to get back into the top 10. Teixiera wanted this fight. He wanted this fight on the ground. He had control of O’Brien the entire first round but could not get him off of his feet. He started the second round with an incredible flurry of punches, but O’Brien dodged every single one. Teixiera kept shooting though and O”Brien kept keeping him up. Finally, Glover just exhausted himself, and tried another shoot. This time, O’Brien landed a flush hook while he was coming in and knocked out Teixiera out. Good fight.

Diego Saraiva (16-10-1, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Tirlone (11-4, BJJ) in the lightweight division. Tirlone has 5 inches of height and 6 inches of reach on Saraiva. Sometimes this kind of fight is boring, but these two did a nice job of submission attemps, escapes, sweeps, submission defense, takedowns, pretty much all of the above. Tirlone won a very close unanimous decision. He scored more takedowns, and had one serious submission chance. Saraiva showed good skill though. Decent fight.

The last prelim fight of the night is in the heavyweight division. Neil Cooke (9-2, Boxing/Wrestling, 290) takes on George Bush (10-3, Wrestling, 255). Cooke has a big 35 pounds on Bush here, wow. Highlights include a big slam from Cooke at the end of the first round, a big punch that had Cooke wobbly at end of the second, and a inability of Bush to stop big takedowns from Cooke. Bush did well though, but Cooke got the better of him in the end. Cooke wins the unanimous decision. Decent fight.

Here we go. We start the main show with a lightweight battle of newcomers. Shane Roller (10-3, Wrestling) takes on Chris Horodecki (16-3, Kick Boxing). Chris Horodecki wins via KO at 2:56 of round 1. Roller could not keep control in the grapple, and when he shot, Horodecki caught him coming in and knocked him out. Fantastic fight.

Next up, we have former CW Light Heavyweight Champion, Jimi Manuwa (8-1, BJJ) taking on Andre Gusmao (11-1, BJJ). Gusmao hasn’t been stopped in Cage Warriors yet. He has a 5-inch reach advantage over Manuwa. What do you expect from these two. Both got takedowns, but the ground game was a stalemate. Neither could do anything, and the ref kept having to stand them back up. Manuwa was in control on top in the second round, when Gusmao nailed him with a triangle choke. Manuwa struggled to escape, and picked up and dropped Gusmao in a big slam. Gusmao was stunned and it allowed Manuwa to take side control. Manuwa landed a huge shot that knocked out Gusmao in the scramble. Decent fight.

JJ Ambrose (14-3, BJJ) takes on Drew Fickett (40-14, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Drew Fickett wins via submission due to armbar, at 2:26 of round 3. The experience and wrestling of Fickett was clearly on display here. His standup was outstanding and he really showed up to win this fight. In the end it was a takedown that set up the mount that set up the armbar that finished the fight. Decent fight.

The co-main event is up next. Gegard Mousasi (30-3-1, Judo/Kick Boxing) takes on Paulo Filho (23-1, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Mousasi has a 5-inch height advantage, but actually a reach disadvantage. A hugely disappointing show from these two. Filho would not let Mousasi settle down, and pressed him throughout. Both defended very well, but ultimately it was the relentless takedowns from Filho that decided the fight. Even though Mousasi was really never in trouble, he was really never in control either. Filho wins via unanimous decision. Poor fight.

Alright, here we go!! The Main event of the evening. This fight is for the Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight title. Defending Champion, Phil Davis (9-0, Wrestling) takes on the challenger, undefeated, former reigning UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Ryan Bader (13-0, Wrestling). These two are mirror images of each other in size and skill. What a fight! What a fight! Exactly what we were hoping to see with two of the best light heavyweights in the world. Both exchanged strikes in round one, but it was a big slam from Bader on the champ that set the tone for the round. Round 2 saw Davis answer in a big way, knocking Bader down with a big punch then following up with a diving punch that landed squarely on Bader. Bader, tough as nails, managed to survive and get Davis into guard, where he rode out the round. The third was back to Bader. He took Davis down and had him in trouble early on. Bader managed to use a Davis mistake to get side control, and then took Davis’ back. He landed a few huge punches, and some of them clearly hurt Davis, but he still managed to defend himself, and stayed defensive forcing a stalemate. Here is where the big controversy came in. The ref stood them back up! Who knows why, or what long term effects it had, but he stood them up. Davis survived the round. Bader was breathing hard between rounds, he used up a lot of energy to get Davis down, and may have punched himself out. Davis thundered in for a big takedown to start round 4. He looked like a man on a mission. He quickly advanced past guard into side, then quickly to mount. From there he launched a barrage of blows that finally stopped the former UFC champion. Bader was clearly gassed in the 4th. Fantastic fight.

We drew a crowd of 11,677 for our show in Las Vegas, and another 309k PPV buys. The show was rated as being fantastic.

Fight of the Night was clearly Davis v. Bader
Knockout of the Night goe to Chris Horodecki
Submission of the Night goes to Drew Fickett

Nice to see Manuwa stay in the thick of it at 205lb. Very happy to see Davis storm back from the edge of defeat with a win, but you have to wonder if there shouldn’t be a rematch. Paulo Filho has pretty much put himself at the top of the list for the 185lb title, even though he is terribly boring. Jake O’Brien keeps plugging along. He is probably our toughest “gatekeeper” at the moment. George Bush losing is a bummer. I would have liked to see him keep moving up. He will likely never go anywhere, but I like seeing him on the cards. Another show that is a big success for us. This was possibly the best main event in company history, possibly the best overall show too.

PilotMan · 09-21-2010, 10:06 AM

Phil Davis is going to be the highest paid fighter in the company very soon. His contract has one fight left, and I will bet that the UFC will come calling. It’s going to get rich, but we vow not to lose him.

David Baron (17-6) and Josh Diekman (12-5) were both shown the door after this show. Diekman lost all 3 of his fights, and Baron only managed one win. Both guys are pretty old, Baron is 38 and Diekman is 35, so they were never going to make anything of themselves here. Both are unemployed now.

Former Cage Warrior, Reese Andy (11-7) who had recently signed with UC UK, was thrust into the light heavyweight title picture against Evangelista Santos (18-17) and stopped him with a first round TKO to win the title. Also on the same card, UC UK Heavyweight Ashley Pollard (5-2) scored a 4th round KO of Tom Blackledge (10-9) to defend his title for the first time.

PilotMan · 09-21-2010, 10:11 AM

As is standard, we announce our next PPV, to take place next month. This time, we return to Ohio for our show. Our next show features another title defense, this one for the Cage Warriors featherweight title. Cub Swanson (19-2) hasn’t lost since losing to Jose Aldo on the undercard of Brown/Faber II back in ‘09. On that night, Swanson was embarrassingly stopped 8 seconds into the first round, and Mike Brown stopped Faber to retain his WEC Featherweight crown. Two and a half years later, Jose Aldo is an unemployed MMA fighter, Cub Swanson is on a six-fight winning streak and is the featherweight champion. Mike Brown is the challenger, but still unbeaten since his beat down of Faber. You see, Brown was still the WEC featherweight champ, and is still considered the best featherweight in the world. He defended his title 5 times before vacating it. He gets his chance to return to the top now. Cub Swanson has matured into a very well rounded fighter who is capable of fighting standing, grappling, or on the ground. He presents a multi-faceted problem for Brown who is still considered the best in his weight class.

The co-main event is an outstanding light heavyweight battle between two Brazilian, title contenders. Lyoto Machida is coming off of good but not great win over Jake O’Brien. He is a former champion and at one time was considered the best in the world at 205. He is trying to get back to the top, but his road will go through BJJ specialist and former DREAM Light Heavyweight champion, Ricardo Arona. Arona has fought some of the biggest names in the business and he will not be intimidated. The biggest issue is going to be the standup of Machida v. the grappling of Arona. Machida fought a grappler last time out, had trouble, but ended up with the win. His standup is far superior to Arona though, and Arona will need a good gameplan. Victor Ribeiro, the former Strikeforce lightweight, will make his debut. Shamar Bailey will fight and so will John Hosman. Here is the full fight card:

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Cage Warriors 46: Swanson v. Brown

Cage Warriors Featherweight Title Fight
Cub Swanson (19-2) (#4 FW) v. Mike Brown (25-4) (#1 FW) FW
Lyoto Machida (17-1)(#3 LHW) v. Ricardo Arona (18-6)(#6 LHW) LHW
Victor Ribeiro (23-5) v. Ricardo Lamas (10-3) LW
Shamar Bailey (15-2) v. Rory MacDonald (10-2) WW
John Hosman (22-7-1) v. LC Davis (16-4) FW

----Prelims----

Doug Marshall (13-4) v. Danillo Villefort (13-4) MW
Jay Hieron (19-6) v. Tyson Griffin (15-4) WW
Hidenori Nishino (6-6-2) v. Charles Bennett (22-17-2) LW
Raymond London (6-1) v. Douglas Liddell (4-0) HW
Shigekazu Sassa (6-1) v. Gustavo Fabiano (7-1) HW
Todd Rhodes (4-0) v. Tsurayaki Toyotomi (5-0) LHW
Clarence Sims (3-0) v. Theordore Pelletier (3-0) MW

There are a whole bunch of juniors fighters on the undercard. That’s a fine place for them to be. A lot of them we signed when we opened the Juniors division, and a lot of them haven’t seen a fight yet. So this will be a good place to see them. Hopefully we can get a good look at some of them and see if they can break out of the pack. Tyson Griffin is ready to hit the reboot button. He takes on a guy who is a lot more difficult than JJ Ambrose, in former IFL welterweight champion Hieron. Crazy Horse makes his debut with the company, we know the public has been clamoring for him in Cage Warriors.

PilotMan · 09-27-2010, 09:35 PM

Jose Aldo has landed in Japan, having signed a deal with Shooto.

Bellator 33 was held last night in Florida. The main event featured the Cage Warriors Heavyweight Champion, Dave Herman (23-3). Yeah, I wasn’t too happy about it, but seeing as all of my fighters still aren’t under exclusive deals, there isn’t much I can do about it. Anyway, Herman won his fight with 3rd round TKO over Karl Diaz (7-2). I was happy to see that, but it’s going to be another couple of months before we get him back in our cage.

Top Japanese promotion WVR ran their 35th show. The main event was the WVR Middleweight affair that saw reigning champion Mamed Khalidov (25-4-1) score a first round TKO over Kazuhiro Nakamura (17-12).

I was right, UFC is making a move and coming after Phil Davis. Looks like he is going to get paid in a big way, one way or another.

Tito Ortiz (17-7-1) has landed in Canada with Maximum Fighting Championships.

PilotMan · 09-27-2010, 09:43 PM

Tonight, Cage Warriors has made the short trip up to Hartford for tonight’s show. Cage Warriors: Unchained airs live tonight on HDNet, in full 1080p. The main event tonight is a titanic heavyweight battle between Brandon Cash, the former Juniors Heavyweight and Heavyweight champion and Ben Rothwell. Rothwell became the first person to put a loss on the record of young Darril Schoonover. Rothwell has fought in 30 more professional MMA fights than Cash has, even though he is only 1 year older. Rothwell trains with Pat Miletich, he is exceptionally well rounded and a dangerous fighter. Cash has a similar background in MMA, he trains with Xtreme Couture . Rothwell is going to come into the cage with at least a 25 pound weight advantage and a 7 inch reach advantage. He feels confident he can handle the former champion. Cash loves coming in as the underdog, his only loss has been to current champion Dave Herman when he was knocked out in the 4th round.

The co-main tonight is a lightweight feature bout. Ranked contender Rich Clementi, looks to keep his 2-fight win streak alive by taking on rising star Bobby Stack. Clementi is an exciting fighter with very good grappling skills. He also has some good kicks, and his striking game cannot be overlooked. Stack is coming off of a win over Nate Diaz, and also has a grappling background. Three of his 4 wins have gone the distance, and that is the same for Clementi with 3 of his 4 wins also going the distance.

We head down to cage side to get right to the action!

Neil Wain (7-3, Brawler, 285) takes on Lavar Johnson (13-5, Muay Thai, 278) in the heavyweight division. A couple of heavyweights that stood and kept the fight a striking contest. Neither fighter was hurt, but Wain did the majority of the damage. Wain wins the decision. Average fight.

Zac George (20-5, Wrestling) takes on Scott McAfee (9-3, BJJ) in the lightweight division. Not a great fight. McAfee dominated the fight, as George could not stop from being taken down. The jiu-jitsu fighter looked comfortable on top, and the wrestler struggled on his back. Unanimous decision win for McAfee. Poor fight.

Jesse Forbes (14-5, Wrestling) takes on Mike Swick (13-7, Kick Boxing) in the middleweight division. Swick took round one with a takedown and good control on the ground. Forbes took round 2 with the same thing. It all came down to round 3. Swick scored 2 takedowns, but got caught in a triangle, slammed his way out of it, and gave it his all to take the fight. Forbes was expected to win here. Good for Swick. Average fight.

Shane Primm (8-3, Boxing/BJJ) takes on Jared Hamman (13-4, Kick Boxing) in the light heavyweight division. Hamman came in the slight favorite, but it was Primm who came to fight. Primm defended the strikes well, and was ready to dominate the fight with some takedowns and good ground control. Hamman landed a clean shot in round 3 that put Primm down, but Primm outlasted the round with good defense and did not let him finish the fight. Primm wins the decision. Good fight.

Neil Joslin (7-1, Freestyle Wrestling, 273) takes on Daniel Cormier (5-2, Wrestling, 265) in the heavyweight division. This is a Cage Warriors Juniors fight. This looked like a good battle on paper, but Cormier dominated it from the start. He took Joslin down at will, and controlled him liberally. Joslin could not defend the takedown and it was his undoing. Cormier wins via decision. Poor fight.

Martin Kampmann (16-4, Thai Boxing) takes on Jon Fitch (19-6, Kick Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Kampmann looked to over power Fitch early on. He did a lot damage against the cage. Fitch again was over powered in the second round, but as the round wore on, Kampmann looked tired. Fitch knew he needed something big in the last round. He scored a takedown, and worked to mount. With half the round to go, Fitch threw punches then took Kampmann’s back when he rolled. Fitch had the hooks in working for the rear naked, but the fight ended. Kampmann takes the fight via decision. Great fight.

Up next is the last preliminary fight. Shane Carwin (13-2, Wrestling, 290) takes on Darril Schoonover (13-2, BJJ/Kick Boxing, 265) in the heavyweight division. This was a grappling contest, and Schoonover gave everything that he had. He stood with the big man, pushed him against the cage, took him down. Still, neither man could really make much happen. Carwin started to tire at the end of the second round, and Schoonover pressed in the third, but it wasn’t enough. Carwin took a close decision. Average fight.

We head to the main show where Pat Barry (8-3, Kick Boxing) takes on Tony Lopez (17-6, Kick Boxing) in the light heavyweight division. Lopez has a six-inch height and reach advantage. They stood on the outside, and traded kicks for a while, but you knew Lopez wanted this on the ground. Barry was ready for him and caught him with a big blow that send him to the ground. Barry finished the fight with strikes from there. Good fight.

Next up is a welterweight fight with Simeon Thoresen (16-2-1, Submission Wrestling) taking on Dong Hyun Kim (13-2-1, Judo). Many expected Kim, coming from the UFC to have a big advantage here, but Thoresen made good on his promises before the fight. Kim found himself on his back constantly defending submissions. Thoresen even jumped guard and locked an oomaplata on, but the round ended. Thoresen managed to avoid the judo locks and throws, and controlled the fight with strong wrestling, and pulled off the unanimous decision. Average fight.

Yves Jabouin (17-7, Kick Boxing) takes on Ivan Lopez (13-3, Kick Boxing/ Tae Kwon Do) in the featherweight division. Jabonin looked exciting here. He knocked Lopez down with a big shot, and seized the arm of his dazed opponent, forcing him to tap just 2 minutes into the fight. Fantastic fight. Impressive win.

The co-main event is next. Rich Clementi (37-16-1, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Bobby Stack (10-3, Wrestling/Muay Thai) in the lightweight division. Clementi really showed his wrestling was superior in this one. Stack tried to stay with him but found himself on his back. Clementi didn’t do much damage with his advantage, and ran out of gas at the end of the fight. By then though, he had build an insurmountable lead. Clementi wins via decision. Average fight.

On to the main event. Brandon Cash (9-2, Boxing/Wrestling, 265) takes on Ben Rothwell (32-9, Boxing/Wrestling, 290) in the heavyweight division. Cash is the former Juniors Heavyweight and Heavyweight champion. Rothwell has a 7-inch reach advantage. By all accounts, Rothwell was the better fighter on paper. His experience, and size were going to be just too much to overcome. The former champ had other ideas. Rothwell landed some really blistering kicks early on, but abandon that attack for some reason. Cash got the better of the striking dual, knocking Rothwell down at the end of the round. Round 2 was close to a stalemate, but Cash was very busy, and Rothwell started to tire. The last round had Cash pinning Rothwell for most of the round, and trying and failing to get the takedown. Rothwell had very little offense. Cash comes away with the victory in a unanimous decision. Average fight.

We had a crowd of 5,300 on hand for the show and it was rated as being fantastic.

Fight of the Night goes to Martin Kampmann and Jon Fitch
Knockout of the Night goes to Pat Barry
Submission of the Night goes to Yves Jabouin

I think that even though Fitch and Schoonover have been on the losing end for a number of fights with us, that their performances have been good enough to warrant staying with the organization. I was glad to see the former champ get the win when he was such and underdog. Tony Lopez really got his bell rung. This was a good show for television. Too many decisions, and some really average fights, but better for free than for 50 bucks.

PilotMan · 09-27-2010, 09:45 PM

It still doesn’t mean that some guys won’t get fired. Jared Hamman, Lavar Johnson and Zac George are all cut from the roster. Hamman was beaten three times in a row, never picking up a win. Lavar Johnson won his first fight and then dropped 3 in a row. At 36, his career is limited. Zac George, started with 3 wins and finished with 3 losses. His losses were to fighters who were not marquee names either. He will do well in the regional circuit, but not where we are going.

We weren’t even going to give the UFC a sniff of a chance to sign Phil Davis. Our champion just left my office with a raise that takes him from 1300/fight to 275k per fight. That is one hell of a raise. He is our most popular fighter, and a fighter with a near limitless potential. Our pockets are well lined with coin and they needed to be opened for our top fighter.

PilotMan · 10-03-2010, 03:20 PM

The bookings are finalized for Cage Warriors 47. We are returning to Florida for our next show. The main event of our show features the Cage Warriors debut of the #2 lightweight fighter in the world, Shinya Aoki. Aoki was undefeated in his 3 fights for the UFC, and hasn’t lost since his Mach Sakurai almost 3 years ago. He beat Clay Guida, Joe Lauzon, and Ken-Flo, and now sets his sights on another former UFC figher, Joe “Daddy” Stevenson. Stevenson won his debut fight over Josh Thompson, and has a shot here at one of the best. Stevenson signed with us after losing out to Diego Sanchez in a UFC lightweight title fight, then in his next fight he lost to Gray Maynard. Stevenson’s best bet is to try and stand with the submission master. Aoki is least dangerous when he is on his feet.

The co-main of the night is a heavyweight fight with another debuting former UFC and Strikeforce fight, Allistar Overeem. Overeem is coming off of a win over Gabriel Gonzaga, and won both of his fights. He takes on Brock Lesnar training partner Chris Tuchscherer. Tuchscherer will be a heavy underdog, but if he can control Overeem in the grapple, might be able to pull it out. Overeem’s striking will be far superior. Other fighters scheduled to appear are Javier Vazquez, Nick Diaz, and Xande Ribeiro. Here is the entire card.

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Cage Warriors 47: Aoki v. Stevenson

Shinya Aoki (26-4)(#2 LW) v. Joe Stevenson (32-12) LW
Allistar Overeem (33-12)(#10 HW) v. Chris Tuchscherer (19-3)(#8 SHW) HW
Javier Vazquez (19-5) v. Joseph Benavidez (12-5) FW
Nick Diaz (22-8) v. Brett Cooper (12-4) WW
Xande Ribeiro (5-2) v. Stanislov Nedkov (13-1) LHW

----Prelims----

Antwain Britt (12-2) v. Damien Stelly (12-4) LHW
Jeremy Horn (85-22-5) v. Kendall Grove (13-8) MW
Josh Thompson (19-4) v. Brian Cobb (19-7) LW
Dominick Cruz (18-3) v. Joe Soto (12-2) FW
Joe Riggs (33-12) v. Dan Hornbuckle (22-5) MW
Jeffrey Hall (3-0) v. Paul Carvill (3-0) FW
Frank Brook (3-0) v. Tadayuki Asuhara (3-0) LW

Couple of juniors fights to open the card up. A smattering of big names here and there, but none it a lot of momentum. This card will kill us, but it has to run. Brett Cooper makes his debut, after leaving Purecombat where he vacated his title after one of the longest title reigns in MMA history. We are slowly starting to break the divisions open. Benavidez makes his debut at featherweight after 3 fights at lightweight here.

PilotMan · 10-03-2010, 03:25 PM

At an MMA show in New Zealand, Tristan Yunker (17-9) retained his CFC Lightweight title with a boring win over Adrian Pang (16-8-1). The win was Yunker’s first defense of the title that he has held for about a year.

In Japan, the Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase title was up for grabs. Current champ, Takenori Sato (12-10-5) was defending his title against the man he took it from two years earlier Ryo Kawamura (16-6-2). Sato had only made one defense during that time, as he had spent most of his title fighting with WVR, where he went 1-3. Meanwhile, Kawamura had been fighting everyone that they put in front of him, 5 in all, and beat every one. The fight ended in the second round when Kawamura finished it via TKO, beginning his second reign (the first one lasted 15 months) as the Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase.

KSW crowned a new heavyweight champion last night. IN a battle between Jakob Lovstad (14-5) and Klad Akesson (9-7) it was Lovstad who finished the fight via TKO in the second round to win the title. On the same card, the lightweight champion, Vladamir Zenin (11-6) lost his title in his first defense of it, to Bojan Kosednar (11-4) in an exceptionally boring 3 round fight. This is the second time that Kosednar has beaten Zenin.

The Friday in the last week of January is apparently the most desirable date in MMA history. Five, count’em five of the biggest companies are running shows. The UFC has Penn v. Florian II. World Victory Road has their TV show with the main event being the WVR Light Heavyweight title fight between Hiroshi Izumi (Champ) and Adam Maciejewski (Challenger). Strikeforce has the welterweight title on the line with current champ Nick Thompson taking on former Cage Warrior Rudy Bears. Lawler and Mayhem support the card in the co-main. In Canada, Maximum’s main event is for the MFC Light Heavyweight title. Champion Jason MacDonald will fight Cage Warriors Andrew Buckland. Buckland has won 4 fights in a row with us, and the funny thing is that he has a win over Rudy Bears, the guy fighting for the Strikeforce Welterweight title. But the funny thing is that Buckland is supposedly fighting at 205lb for the first time in his career. In fact, he told me the highest he is ever going to fight is 185, so to see him at 205 is really something. The last of the big shows is Dream. They are running a main event of Kid Yamamoto against Tetsu Suzuki in a fight that on paper, looks like a gigantic mismatch.

We continue to expand around the world. I have just finished negotiations on two new PPV deals that will bring our top level shows into more homes around the world. The first will provide new coverage to all of Europe, while the second gives us a PPV presence in Japan and the rest of Asia. In addition to a new revenue stream our popularity should also be given a big boost.

PilotMan · 10-03-2010, 03:29 PM

There’s a lot to report today after the big shows last night.

Kid Yamamoto (22-4) scored a TKO win at the end of the first round over Tetsu Suzuki (9-10-3). On the same card, Hector Lombard (28-2-1) stopped Melvin Manhoef (25-9-1) in the first round. Lombard still holds the CFC and Bellator middleweight titles. He has held the CFC title for over 4 years, and hasn’t lost in over 5. Cage Warriors welterweight title hopeful, Tamden McCrory (18-4) scored a TKO win over Chris Lytle (30-18-5). McCrory is likely to get the next title shot against Tom Watson in Cage Warriors.

At UFC 129, BJ Penn (18-6-1) won for the second time over Kenny Florian (14-6). This fight went the distance and was far from exciting. Penn has now beaten two top contenders since his loss to Diego Sanchez. Fedor’s brother Aleksander (19-4) won over Gabriel Gonzaga (13-7) in the co-main. Other winners on the card were, Dan Hardy (24-7), Brian Foster (13-5) and Nate Marquardt (32-10-1) who beat Sexyama (17-3) via second round TKO.

At MFC 45, it was Jason MacDonald retaining his title with a first round TKO over a very odd looking Andrew Buckland (13-8). IT was MacDonald’s 3rd defense of the title.

Rudy Bears (14-6) submitted Nick Thompson (43-14-1) in the second round of their fight to win the Strikeforce Welterweight title. Jason Miller (26-9) won a controversial split-decision over Robbie Lawler (22-6). Lawler had won 6 in a row. This was a big card. Other winners were Jesse Taylor (18-6) over Marius Zagorskis (17-4), Cung Le (9-2) over Terry Martin (22-10) and Cyborg Santos (9-3) over Elisha Helsper (4-6).

Lastly, Hiroshi Izumi (3-2) submitted Adam Maciejewski (10-8) to retain his WVR Light Heavyweight title.

We have expanded our reach even further with the agreement of a new contract with a German television station to air episodes of Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV, a show that features our developmental fighters. That show will now be seen in the US, Mexico, Canada, the UK and most of Europe.

PilotMan · 10-06-2010, 09:13 AM

The new episode of Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV is set and the bookings are complete. The show is going to take place right here in New Jersey, where we typically run our FIGHT! TV show. The card features four title fights, with the most prestigious being the main event fight for the Cage Warriors Juniors Heavyweight title.

Brandon Cash vacated the title and that means it is ready to be awarded to the winner of this battle. Bobby Lashley has won two fights by TKO and in exciting fashion. He will take of Polish wrestler Popek Rak. Rak is also undefeated in Cage Warriors, having also won two fights. Both fighters are very similar, with gifted wrestling backgrounds and great ground control. Lashley is going to come into the cage with a 25-pound weight advantage, so his size certainly could play into it. But the one knock on Lashley has been his stamina, carrying around that weight and those muscles could hurt him if the fight goes more than 2 rounds. It’s an exciting fight to say the least.

In the co main, the Javier Vasquez - Joseph Benevidez featherweight fight has been pushed back from the previous week’s pay per view, and will now be shown on FIGHT! TV. Ben Askren will make his first title defense against Rick Legere. Jacob O’Connell makes his second title defense against Guilherme Contreras. And the last title fight will be between Christian Uflacker and Charles Diaz for the Juniors lightweight title. The Uflacker/Diaz fight is not currently scheduled to be shown on television. Here is the entire rundown of the show:

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Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV from Newark, New Jersey.

Cage Warriors Juniors Heavyweight Title Fight
Bobby Lashley (8-2) v. Popek Rak (7-1) HW

Javier Vazquez (19-5) v. Joseph Benavidez (12-5) FW

Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight Title Fight
Ben Askren (6-0) v. Rick Legere (7-1) WW

Cage Warriors Juniors Middleweight Title Fight
Jacob O’ Connell (9-1) v. Guilherme Contreras (4-0) MW

----Prelims----

Cage Warriors Juniors Lightweight Title Fight
Christian Uflacker (6-2) v. Charles Diaz (6-1) LW

Kevin Casey (7-3) v. Rawdon Lee (4-2) LHW
Wes Shivers (2-2) v. Orvil Palmer (5-2) HW
Cameron Dollar (6-4) v. Sadhu Bott (5-2) FW
David Douglas (7-3) v. Bill Boland (7-3) LW
Brian Barnes (6-1) v. Melvin Bailey (4-1) MW
James Caron (4-1) v. Kenataro Hayashida (4-2) FW

It’s not to often that you get put in a position where you need to put a title fight on the undercard. I think that it is justified in this case simply because we are only allowed 4 fights as a maximum by one of our distributors. Hopefully, in our next contract, we can get that moved to five, so that great fights like the Uflacker/Diaz title fight can appear as well. As for the main show, O’ Connell makes his last fight at Juniors, he is favored in his defense, as is Askren. The undercard is pretty blah, but this is the developmental show, so deal with it.

PilotMan · 10-06-2010, 09:17 AM

X-1 Middleweight Champion, Richard Montoya (10-5) retained his title with a 3rd round submission over Joey Guel (14-12). Montoya has held the title 14 months, and this is his second defense.

FEBRUARY 2012

What’s new to report this month that we haven’t already said? Last month was another profitable month, putting 1.4 million dollars for the company. It looks like our revenue stream is going strong now, and we can expect it to continue with some potential new expansions to it.

Our single biggest expense last month was the signing bonus for Phil Davis’ contract to stay with us. We haven’t signed any big names for a while, and while that may happen occasionally, we would rather see our fighters get big, not just bring in already big names.

Our popularity finished last month at an all-time high. We were finally able to break into international status. That gave us national status in all areas of the world, which will finally allow us to start running shows all over, and keep the pressure on the UFC. I fully expect that the next two shows will bring us back to our lower level, but even with the ups and downs we are still making progress up the ladder. We are now the number 2 promotion in the world, hands down, WVR and Strikeforce are a considerable way behind us now.

This month we take a look at the heavyweight division so you can see the progress and see our top fighters. Here they are:

The top 10 Heavyweights in Cage Warriors.

1. Daniel Puder (12-1) Ready to avenge his loss to Herman.
2. Andrei Arlovski (20-6) Reborn, 5 fight win streak.
3. Brenden Schaub (10-1) Big TKO win over Barnett vaults him to title contender.
4. Alistair Overeem (33-12) Fights Chris Tuchscherer in debut fight.
5. Dave Herman (23-3) Heavyweight Champion, last fight was a win in Bellator.
6. Brandon Cash (10-2) Former Champ, Juniors Champ Beating Rothwell was a big step.
7. Shane Carwin (14-2) Won but fought poorly in debut
8. Josh Hendricks (19-6) Lost to Arlovski last
9. Brad Imes (18-7) On a 4 fight win streak
10. Jon Madsen (6-2) Back to Back losses in Cage Warriors

The champ is still getting no love at #5, and the weight class gets tougher each month.

Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, Duane Ludwig (22-10) has been stolen by the UFC.

Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV has another television station to hang it’s hat on. As a result the Cage Warriors show will now be shown on a small Japanese station. ImaginAsian TV had carried Sengoku TV, but that contract expired and Cage Warriors was ready to snap it up. FIGHT! TV typically features up and coming MMA fighters, while the company’s Unchained show in HDNet, seen widely across the US and Canada features more of the big MMA fights. Cage Warriors will be broadcast in Japan and Asia for the first time later this week as the company has only recently signed a PPV deal with an Asian distributor.

PilotMan · 10-06-2010, 09:25 AM

We have arrived in Ohio for tonight’s Cage Warriors Fighting Championships show. This is Cage Warriors 46: Swanson v. Brown. It’s no secret we have been waiting for tonights big featherweight showdown. Both fighters are former WEC fighters, but it was Brown who was the champion there, and it is Swanson who is the current champion here. So who is going to leave here tonight with the strap around their waist? At 33, Mike Brown knows what it takes to be a champion. Remember he didn’t lose his title, he vacated it. Brown is a workhorse who likes a close fight where he can dominate with knees, elbows. He has strong legs, and is difficult to takedown. For Cub Swanson, he won’t mind a stand up fight, where his strikes are more dangerous. Where he doesn’t want to be is pressed against the cage with Brown brutalizing him. Swanson is equally dangerous on his back as he is punching down. He has won his last 6 fights, and 4 have gone the distance, and the other 2 were submission wins. If this goes the distance I like Brown’s conditioning better and would have to give him the advantage. This will be the biggest featherweight fight in CW history.

The co- main event pit’s the Dragon versus the Tiger. Machida versus Arona. We have all see Machida’s fights. He is a clinical striker with hands and feet, and his ground game is top notch. But I am not sure he wants to go to the ground with the BJJ Blackbelt Arona. Arona’s grappling is better, his ground game is better, and his submissions are better. But he is in trouble if Machida stands and fires at long range. He has to get this fight to the ground.

We head right to cage side for tonight’s action!

We start off a series of Juniors fights with this one from the middleweight division. Clarence Sims (3-0, MMA Influenced JJ) takes on Theordore Pelletier (3-0, Wrestling). At first Sims was hesitant to get close, using some strikes to create distance, but he eventually got the takedown. Sims realized he was too much for the Canadian and was able to lock a standing guillotine on. He took Pelletier down and tapped him out. Good fight.

Todd Rhodes (4-0, Kick Boxing) takes on Tsurayaki Toyotomi (5-0, Muay Thai) in the light heavyweight division. Pretty much a standup battle here. Neither guy was to keen on anything else. Rhodes strikes were far better. Neither fighter was in trouble, but it was a clear win for Rhodes. Poor fight.

Shigekazu Sassa (6-1, Karate, 260) takes on Gustavo Fabiano (7-1, Brawling, 230) in the heavyweight division. Fabiano hit some big shots, and used his jab very effectively. There was next to no grappling here at all. Fabiano clearly won the fight, although he did begin to tire before his opponent. Average fight.

Raymond London (6-1, Sambo, 290) takes on Douglas Liddell (4-0, Judo, 240) in the heavyweight division. London has a 50 pound weight advantage. London used his big mass in round 1 to his advantage, but got hit with some heavy blows in round 2, that nearly finished the fight. It all came down to round 3 with both men tiring. Liddell tried some sloppy punches, and fruitless takedowns, and London just wouldn’t budge. Both fighters did minimal damage, but the judges saw the fight for London. It could easily have gone the other way. Decent fight.

Hidenori Nishino (6-6-2, Shooto) takes on Krazy Horse (22-17-2, Brawling) in the lightweight division. We know Nishino wanted to take this to the ground. He tried in round one, but Bennett timed him perfectly and rang his bell over and over. Nishino hung in there and didn’t go down. Until the second round that is. He came in again and this time Bennett nailed him again. Nishino finally went down, and Bennett dove in and was able to finish the fight. Good fight.

Jay Hieron (19-6, Wrestling/Boxing) takes on Tyson Griffin (15-4, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Hieron has a 5 inch height advantage, and a 4 inch reach advantage. He also happens to be, at 35, 8 years older than his opponent. Both men appeared to put their wrestling pedigrees on the line in this one. Griffin came in time and time again, taking Hieron down at will, and controlling him on the ground, even if he wasn’t doing any damage. Hieron was unable to match his opponent and lost every round of the fight. Average fight.

The last preliminary fight sees Doug Marshall (13-4, Striker) taking on Danillo Villefort (13-4, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Marshall was taken down so fast it was crazy. Villefort moved to mount almost immediately. Marshall was defenseless as the BJJ specialist instead pounded him out for the win. Fantastic fight.

Next up on the main portion of the PPV is a lightweight battle between John Hosman (22-7-1, Wrestling) and LC Davis (16-4, Wrestling). Hosman scored a takedown right away, but was swept by Davis when Hosman was caught in a guillotine. Davis controlled much of the first round, and used some good elbows to soften Hosman up. Round 2 stared the exact same way, with Hosman scoring another takedown. Davis defended well from his back trying another guillotine and a couple of triangles. It was the old fashioned armbar that did Hosman in though as Davis locked on the hold and forced the tap. Good fight.

Next up is Shamar Bailey (15-2, Wrestling) and Rory MacDonald (10-2, Muay Thai/BJJ) in the welterweight division. Bailey got a fast takedown, and moved to mount with some slick ground work. MacDonald tried and failed from his back, and Bailey pounded him out with blow after blow until he was no longer defending himself. Great fight.

Shaolin Ribeiro (23-5, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Lamas (10-3, Wreslting) in the lightweight division. Ribeiro, making his debut, with much more experience, was handed all he could manage in this one. Both men traded takedowns, and reversals. Ribeiro found Lamas nearly impossible to control on the ground, while both men found themselves in danger from submission attempts, neither succumbed. Round 3 was very close, with Lamas controlling early on, but Ribeiro finishing strong. IN the end it was Lamas who was victorious. Decent fight.

The co-main event is next. Lyoto Machida (17-1, Karate ) takes on Ricardo Arona (18-6, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. D.O.M.I.N.A.T.I.O.N. Arona wanted this fight to go one place and that was down. Machida’s butt hit the floor mere seconds into the fight. The BJJ blackbelt had him in trouble right away moving to mount and forcing his countryman to give up his back. Arona blew Machida away with powerful blows until the ref stopped it just under 3 minutes into the fight. Fantastic fight.

The next fight is for the Cage Warriors Featherweight title. The challenger Mike Brown (25-4, Freestyle) is the former WEC Featherweight Champion and is considered one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world. Cub Swanson (19-2, BJJ) is the reigning champion. He would like to keep it that way, and show that he deserves his rightful place as best in the world. And they did, just what we thought they would do. Brown wanted this fight up close and as the rounds wore on, he got stronger. Swanson showed early dominance with takedowns and a lot of ground control, but neither man was really in trouble. There was a moment in round 4 where Swanson was getting very tired, and it looked like it might swing all the way to Brown, but he couldn’t finish it. Swanson hung on in round 5, and even though he was on his back, he didn’t take damage and showed he could still be dangerous nearly locking an armbar in at the end of the fight. Tonight was an epic war of champions, both men left it all in the cage, but the man leaving with the strap was none other than…Cub Swanson. He defended his title, and laid to rest any question that he is the best fighter at 145lbs. Average fight.

We had 10,267 on hand for the show and another 320k PPV buys. The show was rated as being awful.

Fight of the Night was Mike Brown and Cub Swanson
Knockout of the Night goes to Ricardo Arona
Submission of the Night goes to LC Davis

I thought it was a great show. The title fight to top it off, the total beat down of the underdog Arona, the upset of Ribeiro, the fists of Krazy Horse. Some good story lines in there. Clearly Machida won’t get the next shot at Phil Davis, maybe it should be Arona? That is one fat division. Tyson Griffin’s win puts him name one step closer back to title contention. Hieron is good, and that win will go a long way, but he still has a long way to go.

DeToxRox · 10-06-2010, 09:41 AM

Still reading along. Have you been keeping up with the WAMMA 3 Developmenta Journal? Sounds awesome.

PilotMan · 10-06-2010, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by DeToxRox

Still reading along. Have you been keeping up with the WAMMA 3 Developmenta Journal? Sounds awesome.

Yeah, I have, I am really excited. There are a number of quirks with this version that I think will be ironed out there I think.

One of them is the fog of war with fighters as they progress through their careers. That is going to change the entire dynamic of playing the game. The game has made some really good strides in the last 2 versions. I'll certainly be picking up 3.

Thanks for reading! I think my file for this dynasty is now over 173 pages long. And that's with no graphics. It's really long now! So count yourself lucky if you have made it this far. lol.

My goal is still to take over the world, and that I think I would like to switch, but switching in the game is nearly impossible, because vacancies just don't happen. At least not with this database.

I think that the dynasty is really just starting to take shape as our roster turnover drops and we start to see the same names at the top of the contenders list month after month. It gives it a more real world feel, and the matchups get a lot more hype with them (love that in 3 too!)

DeToxRox · 10-06-2010, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by PilotMan

Yeah, I have, I am really excited. There are a number of quirks with this version that I think will be ironed out there I think.

One of them is the fog of war with fighters as they progress through their careers. That is going to change the entire dynamic of playing the game. The game has made some really good strides in the last 2 versions. I'll certainly be picking up 3.

Thanks for reading! I think my file for this dynasty is now over 173 pages long. And that's with no graphics. It's really long now! So count yourself lucky if you have made it this far. lol.

My goal is still to take over the world, and that I think I would like to switch, but switching in the game is nearly impossible, because vacancies just don't happen. At least not with this database.

I think that the dynasty is really just starting to take shape as our roster turnover drops and we start to see the same names at the top of the contenders list month after month. It gives it a more real world feel, and the matchups get a lot more hype with them (love that in 3 too!)

For sure. I'm very excited to crank out a UFC WAMMA dynasty as I learn the game and then starting off a lower level fictional game.

PilotMan · 10-11-2010, 11:38 AM

Cage Warriors 48 is the next PPV to be scheduled. I have decided that we need to return to the great state of Hawaii. Our show will take place the first week of March, or just about a month away. Our middleweight champion, Tom Watson is getting ready for his first title defense, he has been a wrecking ball since he has come to the US, winning his last 4 fights by TKO. His first opponent is going to be against proven finisher, Gerald Harris. Harris was in the initial title tournament that was won by Jared Hess. In that tournament he lost to Terry Martin, who then bolted for Strikeforce. Since then, Harris has beaten Loiseau, Moore, and Price. Guys who have been title hopefuls but not top contenders. He has however, done it with style, winning two by submission and one by TKO. One thing is for certain, this fight will not go the distance.

In the co-main event, the #1 contender spot in the featherweight division is on the line. Marlon Sandro will take on Jorge Evangelista with the winner getting a shot at Cub Swanson and his featherweight title. Both fighters have won 2 fights since joining Cage Warriors last year, and both men have beaten title contenders. Sandro holds hasn’t lost since 2009, and beat Joe Soto, and Alan Omer. Meanwhile Evangelista has beaten Javier Vazquez. All of Evangelista’s wins in the last 2 years have come via submission. Sandro only has one career loss, and is a BJJ blackbelt to boot.

The card doesn’t stop there though. Former Light Heavyweight champion, Raphael Davis looks to return to the top in the packed 205lb division as he takes on Shogun Rua. In two fights, Rua has spent all of 2:30 in a Cage Warrior cage. A win against the former champ is going to put him that much closer to a title fight.

Just like we have a #1 contender fight in the featherweight division, we also have a #1 contender fight in the lightweight division. Richie Whitson will take on Per Eklund. Whitson’s path to the title fight was sidelined last year when he was beaten by Ben Henderson, while Eklund took a loss to Mizugaki. Since, both men have posted multiple wins. The winner will get the fight with current champ, Karen Darabedyan.

Here is the rundown of the entire show:

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Cage Warriors 48: Watson v. Harris

Cage Warriors Middleweight Championship
Tom Watson (14-3) v. Gerald Harris (17-4) MW

Marlon Sandro (22-1) v. Jorge Evangelista (14-3-1) FW
Raphael Davis (13-2) v. Mauricio Rua (20-7) LHW
Richie Whitson (12-1) v. Per Eklund (21-5-1) LW
Jason Norwood (12-3) v. Luke Rockhold (10-3) WW

----Prelims----

Keith Jardine (16-8-1) v. Ryan Jimmo (16-3) LHW
Abel Cullum (21-4) v. Issei Tamura (9-2) FW
Fabio Silva (19-6) v. Chris Wilson (17-10) MW
Josh Souder (11-3) v. Paul Sass (12-3) LW
Jesse Bongfeldt (21-4) v. Yosmany Cabezas (12-5) WW
Young Choi (17-8-1) v. Razak Al-Hassan (10-3) LHW
Dan Evensen (15-7) v. Gan McGee (15-6) HW

A couple of notes about this show. For those who haven’t been with us the whole time, the Cullum/Tamura fight is a rematch from a fight where Tamura pulled off a huge upset, and launched himself from unknown to known. For Cullum, that loss has been a big, black mark on his career. Fabio Silva fights in his first fight since being beaten by Watson for the title. He takes on Wilson, in a tough fight that will test him. Young Choi will never get a second chance to make a first impression but he would like it if we stopped showing that vicious knockout he suffered at the hands of Rua in our opening credits.

PilotMan · 10-11-2010, 11:41 AM

Eddie Alvarez (23-4) made the 3rd defense of his Bellator Lightweight title with a 5th round submission of Josh LaBerge (7-8). Bellator sadly has no competition for Alvarez. In the co-main, Jens Pulver (23-17-1) got his first win in over 5 years, and he did it with a submission win over rising star, Henry Martinez (7-2), who was doing very well in Cage Warriors. A loss to a guy who is clearly on the backside of his career really hurts.

UFC had over 16,000 on hand in Las Vegas for their latest big show. UFC 130: Sanchez v. Escudero was last night. Diego Sanchez was making the second defense of his lightweight title, and he did it in exciting fashion as he TKOed Escudero in the third round. Spencer Fisher (25-6) won a unanimous decision over Hermes Franca (20-11) in the co-main. Other winners were Chael Sonnen (26-13-1), Junior Dos Santos (10-3) with a one minute submission win over Kimbo Slice (6-6), and Thiago Alves (19-6) defeated Dustin Hazlett (14-6).

07-19-2010, 11:01 AM	#201
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Chuck Grigsby (19-5) has won the X-1 Light Heavyweight title with a decision win over Hector Ramirez (13-4-1). Ramirez had only held the title a few months. Strikeforce ran their lastest show. There were no title fights up for contention, but there were still some good fights. The main event saw Robbie Lawler (22-5) get a TKO against Terry Martin (22-9). The co-main saw Chase Beebe (17-6) submit Mark Hominick (17-13). Other winners on the card were, Fabricio Werdum (18-4-1), Tim Kennedy (17-3), and Vitor Ribeiro (23-5). __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-19-2010, 11:07 AM	#202
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Cage Warriors 40 is upon us. All the fighers have traveled here to San Diego for this big PPV. Tonight’s main event is the debut of long time, former WEC feathereright champ, Mike Brown. He will face Dominick Cruz in the cage. Cruz has only been beaten two times. One of those was against Uriah Faber. These guys are very similar in the way they fight. Brown has perhaps the better stand up, but I wouldn’t could Cruz out in any situation. The co-feature has the debut of Bones Jones. Jones has been training with Rashad Evans and Keith Jardine at Jackson’s Submission. He is young and undefeated. He takes on Glover Teixiera, who has been training with Chuck Liddell and Mayhem Miller at the Pit. The third main event fight sees Fabio Silva, the current middleweight champion, defend his title against Tom Waton, a boxer who still holds the UK UC Middleweight crown. Let’s get right to cage side for tonight’s action! Josh Diekman (12-3, Hybrid Fighting, 257) takes on Gan McGee (14-6, Submission Wrestling, 280) in the heavyweight division. McGee towers 9 inches above Diekman and has an 11-inch reach advantage, not to mention the 23 pound weight advantage. How can Diekman manage here? He doesn’t. Gan McGee wins via TKO due to strikes in round 1. McGee used a brutal ground and pound to stop the fight. Fantastic fight. Jason Norwood (11-3, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Ryan Ford (12-6, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Ford has had trouble rebounding since losing his shot at the title. Jason Norwood wins via unanimous decision. Norwood scored 3 takedowns, but found himself reversed in each round. Ford though couldn’t advance his position or do any damage when he was on top. Average fight. Jared Hess (12-2-1, Freestyle) takes on Doug Marshall (12-4, Striker) in the middleweight division. Hess is the former champion, and in his first fight since losing the title to Silva. Marshall lost in his debut. Doug Marshall wins via KO, in the third round. Hess dominated round 1. Round 2 was a lot of striking, Hess got him to the ground at the end, but looked to be tiring. Hess was slowing in the 3rd and Marshall took advantage while grappling against the cage. Marshall caught him with a short elbow that stunned Hess. He followed it with an uppercut that put him down, then dropped a bomb on him that knocked him out. Good fight. Javier Vasquez (17-5, BJJ) takes on Mike Easton (9-2, Wrestling/Muay Thai) in the featherweight division. A few wins for either of these guys and they could be in the title picture. Both are coming off of a loss. Javier Vasquez wins via submission, due to an Americana, in the first round. Vasquez went for a takedown, but Easton reversed and ended up in guard. Eason tried to escape but Vasquez closed guard and swept him with a guillotine. Vasquez quickly switched to the arm, and finished the fight. Fantastic fight. Josh Thomson (19-3, Kick Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Joe Stevenson (31-12, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Both men are coming off of losses, and making their CW debut’s. Joe Stevenson wins via unanimous decision. Stevenson scored a big slam in round one, and got takedowns in the other two. Thomson was able to reverse from his back, but Stevenon defended well, and was never in any danger while on his back. Average fight. Alexandre Ribeiro (5-1, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Arona (17-6, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Both fighters are making their CW debuts. How will these BJJ black belt’s match up? Poorly evidently. Ricardo Arona wins via unanimous decision. A lot of grappling, a couple of takedowns, but not much offense from either one. Arona won the first and second rounds while Ribeiro took the 3rd. Poor fight. Our last prelim fight has Luciano Azevedo (18-8, Luta Livre) taking on Per Eklund (20-5-1, Freestlye) in the lightweight division. Eklund has a 4-inch height advantage. Azevedo is making his debut. Per Eklund wins via unanimous decision. Eklund really pushed hard, and used his grappling to his advantage in round 1. Azevedo came back in round 2 getting position and getting a takedown in round 2. Eklund came back and dominated round 3 by holding Azevedo against the cage and peppering him with short punches and elbows until the fight ended. Average fight. We head to the start of the PPV card. Jay Hieron (19-5, Wrestling/Boxing) takes on Tamden McCrory (16-4, Muay Thai/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Both men are just outside the top contenders in the welterweight division. McCrory has a big height and reach advantage. Tamden McCrory wins via submission due to an armbar in the first round. McCrory took Hieron down right away, Hieron escaped, only to be taken down again. Again he escaped, but was put down with a big punch. McCrory took the arm of the stunned fighter to finish it. Fantastic fight. Andrei Arlovski (19-6, Sambo/Kick Boxing, 260) takes on Josh Hendricks (19-5, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. Arlovski is making his debut in Cage Warriors. Even though Arlovski is giving away 25 pounds, he has a 4-inch height advantage. Andrei Arlovski wins via TKO due to strikes in the third round. Hendricks was a game fighter, and defended well from his back. He needed a big punch in the last round, and took a chance, but got tagged and Arlovski was able to finish the fight. Great fight. Fabio Silva (19-5, Muay Thai) defends his middleweight title against Tom Watson (13-3, Boxing). Neither fighter has been stopped yet in Cage Warriors. Look for this to be all about the strikes, and watch out for the Muay Thai clinch of Silva. FIGHT. OF. THE. NIGHT. Silva looked to finish this early on as he got Watson against the cage in a clinch. Watson took a series of knees to the body, before finally breaking free and getting some good shots of his own in. In the second a big head kick from Silva knocked Watson down. Typically this would be the end, but Watson hung on again, and defended, eventually got a scramble back to the feet and saw the 3rd round. In round 3 it was Watson who landed his big punch that knocked the champ down. Watson rained down hammer fists and Silva was overwhelmed. The ref had to jump in to stop the fight. Tom Watson wins via TKO due to strikes. Tom Watson wins the Cage Warriors Middleweight title. Excellent fight. Jon Jones (11-0, Wrestling) takes on Glover Teixeira (12-2, BJJ/Kempo) in the light heavyweight division. Jones is considered one of the top pound for pound fighters in the world. Jon Jones wins by TKO, due to strikes at 0:32 of round 1. Yeah, that fast. Jones took him down and pounded him out in silly quick fashion. Great fight. Mike Brown (24-4, Freestyle) takes on Dominick Cruz (18-2, Wrestling) in the featherweight division. This is the main event of the evening. Cruz is just a little bit smaller than the former WEC champ. Mike Brown wins via submission, due to rear naked choke, at 4:58 of the third round. Both men traded rounds as each got a takedown and the fight was tied going to the third. Brown reversed a takedown and used his skills to take Cruz’s back. Cruz fought him off as long as he could, but ultimately tapped just 2 seconds from the end of the fight. Good fight. We had a crowd of 8,524 and over 154k PPV buys. The card was rated as being very poor. Fight of the Night goes to Fabio Silva and Tom Watson Knockout of the Night goes to Doug Marshall Submission of the Night goes to Tamden McCrory Good debut’s from our newest fighters in the main events. Tom Watson finds a way to stop the long win streak of Silva. Tamden McCrory serves notice that he is going to be a major factor in the welterweight division. Per Eklund really needed that win against Azevedo. He hasn’t been getting a lot of love lately, and a loss against the debuting fighter would have been hard to overcome. I liked the show. I know that it cost us some popularity, but those things are bound to happen. We are not able to sustain that high of a popularity right now. It won’t hurt us over the long haul. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-19-2010, 11:09 AM	#203
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Booking is completed for Cage Warriors 42. And there is a familiar face in the main event. Richie Whitson, coming off of his win over Kuniyoshi Hironaka, takes on Richard Crunkilton, who is coming off of his second round TKO of Donald Cerrone. Whitson wants to make his way to the top of the lightweight heap, and Crunkilton has won his first two fights in Cage Warriors. The co-feature sees the CW debut for Akitoshi Tamura. Tamura has won 3 of his last 4 fights, and is the former Shooto featherweight champion. He will take on underrated Mexican featherweight Yahir Reyes. Reyes is 7-2 in the last 2.5yrs with his losses coming to top featherweights Joe Soto, and Issei Tamura. The biggest fighter on the card is fighting on the prelim show. Cage Warriors 42 sees the debut of Mauricio Rua. Rua lost his last 4 fights in the UFC before being cut. Rua will be facing another former UFC fighter in Jared Hamman. This show will be held in San Antonio, Texas. Code: Cage Warriors 42: Whitson v. Crunkilton Richie Whitson (11-1) v. Rich Crunkilton (20-4) LW Akitoshi Tamura (15-8-2) v. Yahir Reyes (19-7) FW Jesse Bongfeldt (21-3) v. Marcus Hicks (13-4) WW Ryan Jimmo (16-2) v. Hans Stringer (13-6-1) LHW Dave Jansen (16-2) v. Shannon Gugerty (14-3) LW ----Prelims---- Trevor Prangley (23-8) v. Kendall Grove (12-8) MW Mauricio Rua (18-7) v. Jared Hamman (13-3) LHW Kuniyoshi Hironaka (20-8) v. Koetsu Okazaki (9-2-1) FW Jose Aldo (16-4) v. John Hosman (21-7-1) FW Thiago Tavares (15-4) V. Ricardo Lamas (9-3) LW Jacob Volkmann (10-1) v. Alexander Trevino (9-4) WW TJ Grant (14-5) v. Xavier Lucas (11-3-1) MW Alright, so this isn’t a winner of a card. It has some important fights, but mostly just guys who are trying to set themselves apart. Whitson will have to be careful of Crunkilton. Jose Aldo is still looking for his first win since signing. Volkmann looks to rebound from his first loss of his career. Xavier Lucas, who has shown zero ground game takes on jiu-jitsu specialist TJ Grant. Good luck. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-22-2010, 10:19 AM	#204
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Following our last show a number of fighters were cut from Cage Warriors. The first is Martin Stapleton (7-4). Stapleton went 2-3 while he was here. His biggest win was stopping Cameron Dollar in his debut. Ryan Ford (12-7) is next. Ford was a part of the initial title tournament and fought for the welterweight title, losing to Lyman Good. Between here and DREAM, Ford has lost his last 5 fights. Ricco Rodriguez (39-14) is also cut. While putting together a couple of really good fights, he was very unpredictable in the cage. He was 2-3 in the cage for us, his last fight a TKO in the second round. Victor Valimaki (19-8) is cut. He holds wins against Travis Wiuff and Jeremiah Billington, but it was Ryan Jimmo that did him in. Jimmo knocked him out twice, and that pretty much put his future with the company on the back burner. Yves Edwards (38-18-1) is the last one to the door. Edwards was important in the beginning posting a win against Shonie Carter in the main event of Cage Warriors 7. Since he is 1-3. Aaron Weatherspoon (12-4) scored a TKO in a fight with Alex Serdyukov (9-6) to win the KOTC welterweight title. It is the second title reign for Wetherspoon. He was the champion holding the belt for over 2 yrs and losing in February of last year. The title had been vacated by Gary Wright, when he signed an exclusive deal to fight for Cage Warriors. Kazushi Sakuraba (28-14-1) has called it a career at the age of 42. Sakuraba made a long career of going after guys with the last name Gracie. He was out to prove a point that they were nowhere near as good as the fans were being led to believe. Sakuraba holds wins over both Renzo and Royce Gracie, beating Royce last year as both men’s careers were in the twilight. Sakuraba’s last win was over Minowaman just over a year ago. UFC 126 was live last night. The main event saw Cain Velazquez (11-0) remained unbeaten as he scored a KO victory over Big Nog (35-7-1). Seven of Cain’s last eight fights have ended by KO or TKO. Three of the last four have ended by KO. Matt Hughes (44-9) won in the co-feature with a TKO over Marcus Davis (17-6). Other winners on the card were, Yoshihiro Akiyama (17-2), Aleksander Emilianenko (18-4), and Dan Henderson (27-8). Emilianenko’s win came by first round TKO over Kimbo Slice, and Henderson won via second round submission over Minowaman. After Hendo’s win, he spent some time in the center of the cage talking about his career. He announced his retirement effective immediately. Hendo had won 5 of his last 6, only losing in a title fight to Denis Kang. Henderson is regarded as the first fighter to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously. In Japan, Satoshi Ishii (6-2) defended his WVR Heavyweight title with a 5-round decision win over Karol Bedorf (7-6). MMA is now regulated in Japan. Eddie Alvarez (22-4) defended his Bellator lightweight title with a early first round KO over Eric Reynolds (16-7). On the same card, Jens Pulver looked to make a clean start with Bellator, and was thrust into the Bellator featherweight title picture right away. The former UFC lightweight champion was beaten though. And it was Sami Aziz (8-3-1) who stopped him via TKO in round 1, to claim the featherweight crown. Pulver has now lost 9 fights in a row and 11 of his last 12. Heath Herring has finally won an MMA title. He had to go to Poland to do it, but he has done it, by winning the KSW Heavyweight title. Herring (32-16) won a decision over Ibragim Magomedov (25-7-1). Magomedov had held the title for 16 months. Maximum Fighting Championships 43 was held. The main event saw Canadian fighter Jason McDonald (24-12) defeat Cage WarriorDavid Heath (13-8) for the MFC Light Heavyweight title. Brock Larson (33-3), who has been fighting nearly non-stop for the last 2 years won in the co-main over Ryan Thomas (11-6). Larson is patiently waiting for his crack at CW welterweight champion Jason High. Dean Amasinger (7-2) defended his Shooto welterweight title with a win over Tomokazu Yuasa (3-3-1). It was Amasinger’s first title defense in a year. And his first since he won the title. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-22-2010, 10:27 AM	#205
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Live from Biloxi, Mississippi, it’s time for Cage Warriors 41! We have a great card featuring the debut of Miguel Torres, as he takes on Abel Cullum, in a fight that will certainly test both men. Cullum, has been unstoppable lately, with only the loss to Issei Tamura blemishing his recent record. A lightweight battle between established fighter Roger Huerta and less experienced fighter from Cincinnati, Josh Souder supports the main event. Look for that to turn into a grappling contest with Souder hoping he can control the very physical Huerta. Undefeated Stanislov Nedkov fights, as does Brazilian fighter, Delson Heleno. George Bush is in the house! Bush takes on Dan Evensen in a heavyweight battle. Let’s get right to cage side! We start off tonight with a Cage Warriors Juniors battle in the middleweight division. Teriuihi Akita (7-0, MMA-influenced Jiu-Jitsu) takes on Benjamin Rude (6-0, Muay Thai). Benjamin Rude wins by unanimous decision. Rude used better striking technique, and was able to kee Akita from taking him down. Akita showed a real lack of a stand-up game. Average fight. Lavar Johnson (13-4, Muay Thai, 278) takes on Rex Richards (9-5, Wrestling, 290) in the heavyweight division. Rex Richards wins by TKO due to strikes at 3:24 of round 1. Johnson was tagged by a couple of big shots, and Richards didn’t waste any time in finishing the fight. Decent fight. Ivan Lopez (12-3, Kick Boxing/Tae Kwon Do) takes on Cole Province (9-3, Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Ivan Lopez wins via unanimous decision. Lopez kept the fight standing and wouldn’t be taken down. He grappled well too, inflicting some good damage at close quarters. Decent fight. Rory McDonald (9-2, Muay Thai/BJJ) takes on Steve Bruno (16-7, Muay Thai) in the welterweight division. Rory McDonald wins via TKO due to strikes at 4:50 of round 1. Bruno got an early takedown but was swept and dominated by McDonald. McDonald took Bruno’s back and landed heavy strikes to Bruno who failed to defend himself properly. Good fight. Chris Wilson (17-9, Kick Boxing) takes on Danillo Villefort (12-4, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Danillo Villefort wins by unanimous decision. Wilson took the fight to Villefort in the first round, but slowly Villefort got his way back in with a good ground game, and forcing this fight to be fought on the ground. Good fight. Ed Ratcliff (10-2, Karate) takes on Brian Cobb (19-6, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Ed Ratcliff wins via unanimous decision. Ratcliff avoided being taken down and used good strikes to win the first two rounds. He simply looked to be the more dangerous fighter. Cobb was in control in the third, but Ratcliff defended well. Decent fight. The last prelim fight is in the light heavyweight division. Keith Jardine (16-7-1, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Tony Lopez (16-6, Kick Boxing). Tony Lopez wins via split decision. Lopez had a good first round taking Jardine down. The second round was very close to call, and both fighters were exhausted. Jardine wobbled Lopez twice in the third, but Lopez held on even though he clearly lost the round. Decent fight. The main show begins with a heavyweight battle. Dan Evensen (14-6, Kick Boxing/BJJ, 270) takes on George Bush (9-3, Wrestling, 255). George Bush wins via submission due to armbar at 2:44 of round 1. Bush got the takedown right away and worked to get to mount. From there he elected to take the arm rather than throw punches and it worked. Fantastic fight. Delson Heleno (17-5, BJJ) takes on Shamar Bailey (14-2, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Shamar Bailey wins via unanimous decision. Bailey did really well in round 1, but the other rounds were just a lot of cage leaning. Bailey was in control, and Heleno did little offensively. Very poor fight. Stanislov Nedkov (13-0, Wrestling/BJJ) takes on Antwain Britt (11-2, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Antwain Britt wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:41 of round 3. This has to be considered a huge upset. Britt scored takedowns in each round, and both fighters tired out in round 2. Britt worked to mount in round 3 and finished the fight. Good fight. Josh Souder (11-2, BJJ) takes on Roger Huerta (23-4-1, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. This is the co-main event. Huerta is massively more experienced, but is 2 years younger than Souder. Roger Huerta wins via unanimous decision. Huerta comfortably controlled the fight scoring takedowns in each round, and controlling the action, but unable to put the game Souder away. Average fight. The main event is next up! Abel Cullum (21-3, Freestyle) takes on Miguel Torres (39-2, BJJ/Boxing) in the featherweight division. Miguel Torres wins via unanimous decision. These two put on a great show of fighting. Torres took round one with two takedowns, and near constant work. Cullum scored a big knockdown in the opening moments of round 2, but could not turn it into a finish. Round 3 was close, but Cullum was unable to stop the takedowns of Torres. Torres was swept, but escaped then scored another takedown. Both fighters did very well. Good fight. There were 8,590 on hand for the show, and we had 150k PPV buys. The show was rated as being very poor. Fight of the Night goes to Abel Cullum and Miguel Torres Knockout of the Night goes to Rex Richards Submission of the Night goes to George Bush The show’s rating doesn’t bother me at all. Torres and Cullum put on a big show in the main event. The biggest issue was the lack of finishing and the number of fights that went to decision. Stanislov Nedkov was very close to a title shot, but his loss certainly takes him back a few notches. Delson Heleno and Roger Huerta are seriously boring fighters. George Bush looked good. This is the first of our shows for the next 3 weeks. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-22-2010, 10:31 AM	#206
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Following the show, Cole Province (9-4) and Steve Bruno (16-8) were cut from Cage Warriors’ roster. Province had lost his last 3 fights, and Bruno never did pick up a win, having been beaten in his 3 fights. Cage Warriors: Unchained has been booked and is finalized for broadcast in the middle end of November. Our big TV show is going to be held in Los Angeles and is going to be a major event. Primarily because the main event features a title defense in our most competitive weight class. Karen Darabedyan will make his first defense of the lightweight title since winning it over Jeff Curran. It’s no secret who his opponent will be. Takeya Mizugaki has won 3 straight in CW, winning each by KO or TKO. Mizugaki is a shooto styled fighter, who makes his living with big kicks and strong takedown defense. He won’t need to worry about Darabedyan. He also prefers the standup game, and is equally adept with his hands and feet. In fact, Mizugaki will likely test Darabedyan’s grappling and clinch and dirty boxing defense. That looks to be the area where he can really make a difference. Supporting the main event is a heavyweight battle between contenders Sergei Kharitonov and Brad Imes. Imes will come in with a big size advantage, he is going to outweigh the Russian by over 40 pounds for the fight. Kharitonov has heavy hands, and a well rounded grappling attack. No need to worry about kicks, he never throws them. Imes is even more one dimensional. He uses his wrestling backround and is a master submission artist. Here is a rundown of the rest of the full card. Code: Cage Warriors: Unchained from Los Angeles, California Cage Warriors Lightweight Title Fight Karen Darabedyan (13-1) v. Takeya Mizugaki (16-5-2) LW Sergei Kharitonov (19-4) v. Brad Imes (17-7) HW Yosmanny Cabezas (12-4) v. Ben Holscher (10-2) WW Akiyo Nishiura (13-4-1) v. Hideo Tokoro (26-18-1) FW Karl Amoussou (17-2-1) v. Dan Hornbuckle (22-4) MW ----Prelims---- Jason Brilz (19-3-1) v. Vincius Magalhaes (7-4) LHW Joey Villasenor (28-10) v. Ricardo Almeida (11-6) MW Ross Pearson (13-5) v. Donald Cerrone (12-4) LW Paul Sass (12-2) v. Joseph Benavidez (11-5) LW Noah Thomas (16-8) v. Sidney Silva (10-4) WW Taiki Tsuchiya (8-3) v. Manny Gamburyan (10-7) FW Bobby Rehman (9-2) v. Damien Stelly (11-4) LHW __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-27-2010, 09:29 AM	#207
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	The UFC have announced that Brock Lesnar will return from his steroid suspension and take on Todd Duffee for the UFC Heavyweight title. Lesnar was stripped of the title when his suspension was announced. Duffee has not defended the title since winning it with a defeat of Gabe Gonzaga. We have signed a new PPV deal with Shaw PPV, it’s the same company that we were with before, but a much bigger distribution now. On top of that we were able to negotiate a very favorable cut of the revenues so that our PPV’s should be able to draw big bucks to the company. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-27-2010, 09:35 AM	#208
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	The international edition of Cage Warriors is about to begin. Tonight, from our home in Newark, New Jersey, Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV will be aired around the world, to homes in the US, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. We will show the best up and coming fighters in Mixed Martial Arts. Our main event is a middleweight battle between title hopefuls, Ryan Jensen and Nate Moore. Jensen, is coming off of a big submission win over Dan Miller, while Moore is coming off of a TKO win over Xavier Lucas. Jensen is a cage veteran with great takedowns, and a wide array of submissions. His last 5 wins are all by submission. His opponent Nate Moore, has certainly come of age in Cage Warriors. Moore is a well rounded fighter, who has very good power in his hands, good takedowns, and takedown defense, and is dominant when he gets his opponent to the ground. There are also 3 Cage Warriors Juniors title fights on the card as well. It’s going to be a long night of good MMA, let’s head right to cage side for tonights show. First up, Rick Legere (6-1, Vale Tudo) takes on Derrick Gumble (6-2, MMA influenced Jiu-Jitsu) in the welterweight division. Rick Legere wins via unanimous decision. The fight was punctuated with Legere’s two big slams, and general control over the entire fight. Average fight. Demico Rogers (6-3, BJJ) takes on Joaquin Rocha (6-0, MMA-orientated wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Demico Rogers wins via submission due to an Americana in round 3. Rocha had a good first round, but Rogers stormed back with two good rounds, and then took care of the tiring fighter. Good fight. Cameron Dollar (5-4, Wrestling) takes on Jung Hyun Cho (2-2, Kick Boxing) in the featherweight division. Cameron Dollar wins via submission due to armbar in the first round. Dollar waited for his chance to get the takedown, then fired off some ground and pound before taking Cho’s back and securing the win. Fantastic fight. Jin Kyu-Lee (4-2, Striker) takes on Joe Aroma (6-0, MMA-influenced wrestling) in the welterweight division. Jin Kyu-Lee wins via unanimous decision. Lee scored a knockdown with his first punch. Aroma recovered well, but was nearly stopped in round 2. Aroma survived again, and won round 3, but just ran out of time. Good fight. Popek Rak (6-1, Wrestling, 260) takes on Martin Mikhailov (6-0, MMA Striking, 255) in the heavyweight division. Popek Rak wins via unanimous decision. Rak took the first two rounds with good elusiveness and two big slams. Mikhailov survived, and had Rak on the ropes in the third but ran out of time. Decent fight. Marcin Held (7-2, BJJ) takes on David Douglas (7-2, Kick Boxing/BJJ) in the lightweight division. Marcin Held wins via TKO in the first round. Held got the fast takedown, and had no trouble advancing to side control. Douglas panicked and gave up his back instead of the mount. From there Held rained down blows until it was called. Fantastic fight. Wes Shivers (2-1, Muay Thai, 290) takes on Neil Cooke (8-2, Boxing/Wrestling, 290) in the heavyweight division. Neil Cooke wins via TKO in the first round. Cooke took Shivers down early and used an onslaught of a ground and pound to force the stoppage. Decent fight. Ralek Gracie (5-2, BJJ) takes on Kevin Casey (6-3, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Kevin Casey wins via submission due to a guillotine choke in the third round. Gracie had won the first two rounds in unimpressive fashion. The fight was mostly a boring grappling contest until Gracie got the takedown, but was then caught by Casey while he was going for an armbar. Decent fight. The main show is about to begin. The television audience is tuned in for this first contest. A battle for the Cage Warriors Juniors featherweight title. Peter Dominguez (3-3, Boxing/Wrestling) defends his title against Kentaro Hayashida (4-0, Jiu-Jitu). Dominguez has an 11-inch reach advantage and a 6-inch height advantage. Peter Dominguez wins via KO in the first round. Dominguez hit a massive punch early in round 1 that knocked Hayashida completely out. Great fight. The second fight is for the Cage Warriors Middleweight title. Jacob O’Connell (8-1, BJJ) defends his title against Spencer Herns (5-1, Wrestling). Jacob O’Connell wins via submission, due to a guillotine choke, in round 2. This was a grappling contest from the word go, and it appeared that Herns had no answer for the takedown skills of O’Connell. Herns got into trouble against the cage where he was mounted and finished. Great fight. Our co-main event is for the Cage Warriors Juniors lightweight title. Joe Brammer (9-0-1, Muay Thai/Wrestling) defends his title against Wesley Johnson (7-2, Freestyle). Joe Brammer wins via TKO in the third round. Johnson had taken each of the first two rounds, his grappling was good and he scored a knockdown at the end of the second round but couldn’t finish it. Brammer hammered Johnson early in the third, hurting him and sending him reeling. He followed up and the ref stopped the fight. Fantastic fight We head to the main event. Ryan Jensen (18-6, BJJ/Kick Boxing) takes on Nate Moore (11-3, Wrestling) in the middleweight division. Nate Moore wins via TKO in the second round. Moore got the fight to the ground, and showed his great skill from on top. He evaded a number of Jensen’s submission attempts in the first, and in the second was able to shift to mount, where he devastating ground and pound secured the victory. Good fight. We had 4.896 fans in attendance for the show, and it was rated as being excellent. Fight of the Night goes to Joe Brammer and Wesley Johnson Knockout of the Night goes to Peter Dominguez Submission of the Night goes to Jacob O’Connell All of our champions retained their titles in a good night of fights. I thought that the Juniors’ fighters performed well, and even though we saw a lot of guys take their first losses it’s still alright. Nate Moore’s big win in the main event will certainly be a boost to his stardom. Jensen is a quality opponent, even if he isn’t a superstar stud. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

07-27-2010, 09:38 AM	#209
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	NOVEMBER 2011 What a huge month October was! Things are truly heading down the right path. October was the biggest month on record for our company, no two ways about it. It was big in the income we brought in, as well as the money that we spent, as well as our total profit. Just to give you an idea of how big it was, we nearly doubled our gate revenue from it’s previous high. PPV revenues were up almost 70% from the previous record high. We paid out a record 850k in prize money from the shows, well over twice what we did last month. We also cracked the 1 million mark in clear profit for the month, netting 1.3 million. Popularity is solidly #2 in the world. We still can’t sniff the UFC, but we have put a lot of space between ourselves and the other top companies. We have passed UC UK in the UK for the #2 promotion there, and still are #3 in Canada and #2 in Mexico. Behind us in the world, WVR and DREAM are at #3 and #4 respectively. The Japan-based promotions have seen a surge lately and are looking good. Strikeforce is #5, and the WEC have fallen to #6. MFC from Canada is #7, Shooto is at #8, UK UC and Bellator round out the top 10. This month we take another look at the welterweight division. Here are the top 10 fighters currently in the Cage Warriors welterweight division. 1. Jason High (15-2) Welterweight Champion 2. Brock Larson (33-3) Hopes to have a fight with High lined up soon. 3. Lyman Good (14-1) Former champ nears in his return to the cage. 4. Tamden McCrory (17-4) Undefeated since loss to current champ, wants rematch. 5. Jesse Bongfeldt (21-3) Unheralded but won in debut. 6. Nick Diaz (22-8) Won in debut. 7. Martin Kampmann (16-4) Stopped by Diaz in debut. 8. Jason Norwood (12-3) Only recent losses are to Good and Larson, good company. 9. Jacob Volkmann (10-1) Took a loss to Bongfeldt in debut. 10. JJ Ambrose (14-3) Huge win over Tyson Griffin puts him on the list __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-03-2010, 02:55 PM	#210
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Luis Firmino (14-7) has won the FuryFC lightweight title with a win over Henrique Mello (12-4). Mello was making his first title defense. Uriah Faber (28-2) has climbed back to the top of the WEC featherweight division winning the title with a first round TKO over Raphael Assuncao (17-3). Mike Brown vacated the title when he came to Cage Warriors. On the same card, a pair of Cage Warriors faced off. It was Mark Oshiro (13-5) beating Bill Boland (7-3) with a first round submission. Over in the United Kingdom, UC UK featherweight champion, Robbie Oliver (19-8-1) defended his title with a difficult (?) 5 round decision over Kian Pham (3-3). This was Oliver’s second defense of his title. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-03-2010, 03:06 PM	#211
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Our next event takes us to San Antonio, Texas for Cage Warriors 42. Richie Whitson, currently ranked #4 in the lightweight division takes on Richard Crunkilton. Crunkilton has won his first two fights, with the most recent being a TKO stoppage of the Cowboy, Donald Cerrone, on national TV. Now he looks to get one over on Whitson, who is still on the mend from his loss to Ben Henderson. It was Henderson’s grappling that had Whitson in trouble, Crunkilton is a very similar fighter with good ground and pound, and good takedowns. His chin will be tested though, Whitson posses great power in his hands and feet, and a very underrated submission game. Every other win of his in Cage Warriors has been by TKO, his chin will be tested indeed. Whitson’s biggest weakness will be grappling with the proven wrestler. Can he leave enough space and get the win? The co-main tonight is at featherweight. Making his debut in Cage Warriors is former Strikeforce, WEC, and Shooto fighter, Akitoshi Tamura. Tamura is currently ranked #6 and is the former Shooto featherweight champion. He is a dangerous submission artist, who is difficult to keep a hold of. He has solid striking skills, but isn’t terribly dangerous while standing. He will face Yahir Reyes, who is more of a journeyman fighter, but who only has 2 losses in his last 2 years. Reyes is ranked #10 in the featherweight division. He is a well rounded fighter, with powerful strikes, he can fight anywhere, but has a very suspect chin. Marcus Hicks, Ryan Jimmo, and Dave Jansen round out the main show. Let’s head straight to the action! TJ Grant (14-5, BJJ) takes on Xavier Lucas (11-3-1, Boxing) in the middleweight division. TJ Grant wins via unanimous decision. We have seen Lucan struggle on his back, and he did alright, except for 2 takedowns where he was again helpless on his back. As long as he was kept standing he was alright. Average fight. Jacob Volkmann (10-1, Wrestling) takes on Alexander Trevino (9-4, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Jacob Volkmann wins via unanimous decision. Trevino stole the first round, and proved to be a handful getting a couple of takedowns, but Volkmann was dangerous on his back, and difficult to control. Volkmann was able to advance after his takedowns, although he didn’t dish out any punishment. Good fight. Thiago Tavares (15-4, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Lamas (9-3, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Ricardo Lamas wins via submission, due to guillotine choke in the third round. A see-saw fight, with both men fighting from their backs, some good scrambles on the ground, and one tight guillotine choke. Both men looked dangerous and neither spent much time standing. Lamas has escaped 2 guillotine chokes before getting one locked on Tavares from almost the exact same position that he escaped from. Decent fight. Jose Aldo (16-4, BJJ) takes on John Hosman (21-7-1, Wrestling) in the featherweight division. John Hosman wins via submission due to guillotine choke, in the first round. Aldo seriously hurt Hosman in the first exchange. Hosman went down and it looked to be over, Aldo rained down heavy blows, but Hosman recovered. Hosman was able to work him back to half guard, and Aldo made a mistake and left his head in, Hosman capitalized and quickly finished the fight. A bit of a shocker to be honest. Good fight. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (20-8, BJJ) takes on Koetsu Okazaki (9-2-1, Freestlye) in the lightweight division. Hironaka is 6 inches taller and has a 6 inch reach advantage. Kuniyoshi Hironaka wins via split decision. Not a very good fight. When it went to the ground, nothing happened and they needed to be put back up again. Hironaka was the busier fighter, and much more aggressive. Okazaki was merely reactive in the cage. It really could have gone either way. Average fight. Shogun Rua (18-7, BJJ/Muay Thai) takes on Jared Hamman (13-3, Kick Boxing) in the light heavyweight division. Rua is making his debut, and has had a rough go of late. Shogun Rua wins via knockout in the first round. Hamman went for a takedown and was nearly blasted. Rua was able to get Hamman into a muay thai clinch, and landed one of the most devastating knees you will ever see. Hamman was out before he hit the ground. Fantastic fight. Trevor Prangley (23-8, Wrestling) takes on Kendall Grove (12-8, BJJ/Muay Thai) in the middleweight division. This is the last of the prelim fights. Grove has a 6 inch height advantage and an 11-inch reach advantage. Kendall Grove wins via unanimous decision. Uninspiring action. Lots of leaning on the cage and the ref had to step in multiple times. Grove grappled much better, and was in control throughout most of the fight. Poor fight. The main show is set to begin. Dave Jansen (16-2, Wrestling) takes on Shannon Gugerty (14-3, Muay Thai/BJJ) in the lightweight division. Both men are just outside the top tier of fighters at lightweight. Shannon Gugerty wins via unanimous decision. Gugerty had better strikes, hurting Jansen right at the start of the fight, and showed that he was much stronger then him as well, controlling most of the grappling. Jansen appeared unable to do much of anything to put Gugerty in trouble. Average fight. Ryan Jimmo (16-2, Karate) takes on Hans Stringer (13-6-1, BJJ/Muay Thai) in the light heavyweight division. Hans Stringer wins via unanimous decision. Stringer’s plan was to put Jimmo on his back, and that’s what he did. Jimmo could not stop the takedown, and Stringer could not be moved from the dominant position. Stringer doesn’t have a great record, but he has put together a couple of wins, and is still young and improving. Disappointing for Jimmo, he was so close to breaking into the top. Average fight. Jesse Bongfeldt (21-3, Jeet Kune Do) takes on Marcus Hicks (13-4, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Marcus Hicks wins via submission due to guillotine choke in the third round. Bongfeldt dominated this fight. He was able to overpower the smaller fighter, and rocked him with a couple of big punches. Hicks was getting desperate toward the end of the fight, and jumped guard, dragging Bongfeldt down, and slapping a choke on shortly there after. Bongfeldt was caught by surprise, and had to tap out. Hicks pulled that out from nowhere! Great fight. The co-main event is next. Akitoshi Tamura (15-8-2, Wajyutsu) takes on Yahir Reyes (19-7, Boxing/Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Akitoshi Tamura wins via unanimous decision. Tamura put Reyes on his back with takedowns twice in the first round, but couldn’t keep him there. In the second it was Reyes who scored a big punch that knocked Tamura down, but he was unable to finish. The third was boring as each fighter was trying to be defense oriented. Tamura just barely did enough to pull it out. Decent fight. The main event is next. Richie Whitson (11-1, Boxing) takes on Richard Crunkilton (20-4, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Richie Whitson wins via KO in the second round. Whitson was able to keep Crunkilton at bay in the first and picked him off with a number of good strikes. The second ended quickly, as Whitson hit a big counterpunch that Crunkilton just walked into that put him out. Good fight. We had an attendance of 7,786 and another 200k PPV buys with our new distribution deal. The show was rated as being awful. Fight of the Night goes to Marcus Hicks and Jesse Bongfeldt Knockout of the Night goes to both Richie Whitson and Shogun Rua Submission of the Night goes to Marcus Hicks and John Hosman Awful huh? Yeah, I guess, no real monster names on the main card. Rua just didn’t have the momentum to carry the main card. Now he might though. Tonight was about setting yourself up, keeping yourself alive, and making the most of your chances. Whitson keeps himself near the top of the heap with a decisive win. Tamura makes a good debut. Ryan Jimmo and Jesse Bongfeldt are hurting after tonight. Jose Aldo has likely seen his pink slip punched. So might a couple of others. The new PPV deal brought in major bucks. We were doing well before, but now, I think, we have passed the tipping point. Our income will now far outpace our expenses. Let the spending spree begin! __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-03-2010, 03:15 PM	#212
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	There was no question that a number of guys were going to get released. Looking back at the roster, there were a number of guys who for one reason or another I had a personal connection to, who in the name of business needed to be sent on further in their MMA careers. Cage Warriors was no longer the place of them. As a result of the last 2 cards all of these men are getting cut: Trevor Prangley, Jose Aldo, Bao Quach, Darren Uyenoyama, Derrick Gumble, Jung Hyun Cho, and Xavier Lucas. Prangley, Quach and Uyenoyama have been here the longest, and have put on some good fights, but we are going up, and they are not. Aldo had some bad circumstances and will likely head back to a major promotion. Gumble, Cho, and Lucas are going to spend a long time on the minor circuits, they have shown nothing in there time here. Booking has been completed for Cage Warriors 43, to be held from the big island in Hawaii at the beginning of December of this year. The main event for our show is a light heavyweight showdown between title hopefuls. The main attraction will be the return of Bones Jones to the Cage Warriors cage. He puts his unbeaten streak on the line against Marcus Sursa, Sursa hasn’t been beaten since his loss to Jimi Manuwa one year ago. Both fighters are really similar fighters, and should match up well in the cage, both are comfortable on the feet or taking it to the ground. Jones is the more developed and skilled between them, but we have seen bigger underdogs pick up wins. The co-main event sets up to be the fight that we have been waiting for here in Cage Warriors. Welterweight champion Jason High returns to defend his title against Brock Larson. Both of these guys are adept at submissions and this could be one helluva good ground battle. High beat Good in 5, so we know that he can go the distance, and he has submitted everyone else he has faced here. Larson has 3 wins by submission and 1 by TKO here in CW. Both men have been the cream of the crop and are certainly the top 2 fighters in the welterweight division right now. Ben Henderson, Rory Markham, and the debut of Josh Barnett in Cage Warriors round out the show. Here is the full rundown of the card. Code: Cage Warriors 43: Jones v. Sursa Jon Jones (12-0) v. Marcus Sursa (10-5) LHW Cage Warriors Welterweight Title Fight Jason High (15-2) v. Brock Larson (33-3) WW Jim Miler (19-3) v. Ben Henderson (14-2) LW Rory Markham (19-5) v. Siyar Bahadurzada (20-5-1) MW Brendan Schaub (9-1) v. Josh Barnett (26-7) HW ----Prelims---- Diego Nunes (16-2) v. Alan Omer (17-3) FW Daniel Puder (11-1) v. Jon Madsen (6-1) HW Lyman Good (14-1) v. Magomed Shikshabekov (9-1) WW Raphael Davis (12-2) v. Rafael Cavalcante (10-4) LHW Isao Hirose (9-2) v. Henrique Bilcalho (13-5) FW Jeremy Horn (84-22-5) v. Dan Miller (11-5) MW Nate Diaz (13-7) v. Keita Nakamura (18-9-2) LW There are 3 former champions on the undercard, all of them are making their returns after losing their titles, and all are taking on guys who would love to knock them off, and send them away from the title picture for a long time. The featherweight battle between Nunes and Omer is great on paper. Both of them are young lions with great records who are trying to get to the top a very rough division. There are a few guys fighting who qualify for Juniors competition, but who have much more to gain with a win on this card. I think that any one of them certainly has the skill to do so. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-03-2010, 03:31 PM	#213
DeToxRox Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Michigan	Still digging this, keep it up.

08-10-2010, 08:44 AM	#215
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Tonight on Unchained we have a fight for the Cage Warriors lightweight title, as current champion Karen Darabedyan, making his first defense since winning the title over Jeff Curran. Takeya Mizugaki is looking to claim his first title in the US with a win. Darabedyan’s fights have either gone the distance or he has won by KO or TKO. He is an accomplished striker whose feet are just as dangerous as his hands. His biggest weakness will be when things get close, or if he ends up on his back. As for Mizugaki, he is very well rounded, preferring to stop guys with his feet, or by using his ground and pound. His last three fights have gone a total of 4 rounds, and he won them all by KO or TKO. Also, don’t underestimate the submissions of Mizugaki. In the co-main look for Brad Imes to try and make his size count, and get this to the floor. He will be very hesitant to stand with the Russian. For Kharitonov, his backround is in Sambo, and he is equally skilled at stopping it with strikes standing, on the ground, or with a submission. Also tonight, Yosmanny Cabezas, Hideo Tokoro, and the Cage Warriors debut of former UC UK fighter, undefeated in his last 6 fights, Karl Amoussou. We are live on HD Net and broadcasting from California. This is Cage Warriors: Unchained! Bobby Rehman (9-2, Muay Thai) takes on Damien Stelly (11-4, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Damien Stelly wins via TKO due to strikes in the first round. Stelly slammed Rehman hard to the mat, quickly mounted him and finished it with strikes. Great fight. Taiki Tsuchiya (8-3, Shooto) takes on Manny Gamburyan (10-7, Judo) in the featherweight division. Taiki Tsuchiya wins via unanimous decision. Taiki won with a skillful ground game that saw Manny in trouble in most of the first and third rounds. Gamburyan did well in the second but never really mounted any offense. Decent fight. Noah Thomas (16-8, Wrestling) takes on Sidney Silva (10-4, BJJ) in the welterweight division. Noah Thomas wins via unanimous decision. Thomas controlled the action from the top, Silva tried for the surprise submission again, but this time he couldn’t pull it off. Poor fight. Paul Sass (12-2, Muay Thai/BJJ) takes on Joseph Benavidez (11-5, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Sass has a 10-inch height advantage and a 5 inch reach advantage. Joseph Benavidez wins via TKO due to strikes in the first round. Benavidez got the takedown right off the bat, and went for and got mount right away. Sass was in trouble and Benevidez made him pay. Good fight. Ross Pearson (13-5, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Donald Cerrone (12-4, Wrestling/Kick Boxing) in the lightweight division. Donald Cerrone wins via unanimous decision. Pearson fought a good fight, but got stung by a big punch in the 3rd that knocked him down and turned the fight. Cerrone might have lost without it. Average fight. Joey Villasenor (28-10, Boxing) takes on Ricardo Almeida (11-6, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Ricardo Almeida wins via unanimous decision. Fairly boring fight. Alemeida took Villasenor down a lot, and never let him get control of the fight. Neither fighter was in real danger. Average fight. Our last prelim fight sees Jason Brilz (19-3-1, Wrestling) taking on Vinicius Magalhaes (7-4, BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Vinicius Magalhaes wins via unanimous decision. This was a good ground battle, with the BJJ specialist almost getting caught in a triangle choke when he had dominant position. Both guys fought off good challenges in an entertaining fight. Average fight. Karl Amoussou (17-2-1, Judo/Savate) comes out to take on Dan Hornbuckle (22-4, Muay Thai/BJJ) in a middleweight fight. Karl Amoussou wins via unanimous decision. Amoussou was able to get Hornbuckle in trouble a couple of times, and had him mounted twice as rounds ended. Hornbuckle also did well, locking in a deep triangle choke that Amoussou had to power out of. Decent fight. Akiyo Nishiura (13-4-1, Shooto) takes on Hideo Tokoro (26-18-1, Boxing/Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Akiyo Nishiura wins via TKO due to strikes in the third round. This fight had it all, takedowns, escapes, reversals, and finally some great ground and pound from Nishiura who was making his debut. Great fight. Yosmanny Cabezas (12-4, Judo) takes on Ben Holscher (10-2, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Ben Holscher wins via TKO due to strikes in the first round. Holscher got a big takedown and ended up in side control. Cabezas gave up his back, and Holscher stopped him with strikes. Great fight. The co-main event is next. Sergei Kharitonov (19-4, Sambo, 240) takes on Brad Imes (17-7, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. That’s right, Imes has a 45-pound weight advantage. Brad Imes wins via submission from a guillotine choke in the second round. Kharitonov nearly finished it right away with a huge punch that knocked Imes down. Knowing the ground was not where he wanted to be he let him back up again. Imes got a takedown in round 2, but was swept in a reversal, but on his back was apparently where he wanted to be as the submission specialist caught and finished the Russian with a guillotine. Great fight. The main event is next as lightweight champion Karen Darabedyan ( 13-1, Boxing/Judo) takes on Takeya Mizugaki (16-5-2, Muay Thai/Shooto). Darabedyan has a 5-inch height advantage. Mizugaki wanted this one to go to the ground, but Darabedyan was able to block every single one of his takedown attempts. Most of the fight was fought against the cage with Mizugaki in control. Darabedyan showed good heart and defense to keep from being overwhelmed. The third started and ended quickly as Mizugaki missed a big punch and walked into a Darabedyan strike that hurt him. The champ moved quickly to finish and the ref stopped it after a series of blows. Darabedyan with his first defense of his title. Great fight. We had 4,644 fans on hand for the show, and it was rated as being excellent. Fight of the Night goes to Akiyo Nishiura and Hideo Tokoro Knockout of the Night goes to Karen Darabedyan Submission of the Night goes to Brad Imes. A couple of surprises here tonight. That is for sure. Mizugaki hadn’t been hurt by anyone, and even though he was the champ, Darabedyan hadn’t fought anyone quite as dynamic as Mizugaki either. Brad Imes rolls along with another submission win in another fight that he was supposed to lose. I am sure that he will find his way back to another big fight before long. Ben Holscher hasn’t lost since he vacated his Juniors title. Hideo Tokoro in another fight of the night, against the former Cage Force featherweight champion, a good debut for Tamura. Karl Amoussou is a total unknown in the US, it’s going to take some time to get him up the rankings, good debut for him here __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-10-2010, 08:48 AM	#216
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	As has been typical lately, there are a number of terminations following the event. Bobby Rehman (9-3), Ross Pearson (13-6), Sidney Silva (10-5), and Besiki Gerenava (7-3) are scheduled to be let go. Silva had been very close for a while, and neither Rehman or Gerenava have really impressed anyone. Gerenava is technically still a juniors fighter, but even with a win in his next fight, he wasn’t going to keep a spot on the roster so this move makes the most sense, and hopefully we can make better use of the roster spot he will free up. Pearson’s only win was against James Krause and he isn’t here anymore either. Good luck guys, it will be interesting to see where you end up at after a shot us. December will see two PPV’s and the second of those has been booked. The main event will be a fight between two lightweight title contenders, Ran Weathers and Zach Micklewright. Weathers has won his last 5 fights in a row, and Mickleweight’s only loss is to the WEC’s lightweight champion, Jamier Varner. Each fighter has great potential and a win here is going to be another step forward toward Karen Darabedyan. To co-main will feature the debut of another former UFC fighter in Thomasz Drwal. Drwal will be facing off against Benji Radach. Neither guy has really fought anyone the caliber of their opponent in this one, so it should be a good test for them. Other fighters scheduled to appear are, Shogun Rua, Javier Vazquez, and Travis Wiuff. Here is the entire show. Code: Cage Warriors 44: Weathers v. Micklewright Ran Weathers (18-5) v. Zach Makeweight (10-1) LW Thomasz Drwal (20-3) v. Benji Radach (22-8) MW Young Choi (17-7) v. Shogun Rua (19-7) LHW Javier Vazquez (18-5) v. Buck Bisbey (11-2) FW Stipe Bekavac (17-4) v. Travis Wiuff (62-15) LHW ----Prelims---- Tim Hague (11-2) v. Kirill Sidelnikov (8-4) HW JZ Calvancante (18-4-1) v. Jeff Curran (33-13-1) LW Assuerio Silva (17-10) v. Chris Tuchscherer (18-3) HW Justin Davis (12-8) v. David Loiseau (19-14) MW Bryan Baker (12-3) v. Jason Lambert (24-12) MW Toby Imada (26-12) v. Kyle Bradley (13-8) LW Mike Easton (9-3) v. Shoji Maruyama (8-9-1) FW Looking at the card again, the bigger stories are actually in the prelim fights. Jeff Curran returns after losing his title to take on one of the best lightweights in the world in JZ, making his return to the US after many years of fighting for DREAM. Bryan Baker returns to the cage in his first fight since being suspended for a year due to drugs. Young Choi, Showgun’s opponent is the former DEEP Midleweight champion, he prefers to fight at LHW, so we will let him go here. Tough first opponent. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-12-2010, 12:26 AM	#217
EdReedIsGod n00b Join Date: May 2009	How does JZ/Curran not make the main bill?

08-15-2010, 11:45 AM	#219
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	And with that we book the final show of this year. It will be Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV, held from New Jersey. Of course, FIGHT! Is the developmental show, and will feature 3 Cage Warriors Juniors titles on the line that night. The main event will be for the Juniors Welterweight title as Joe Scarola defends his title against Ben Askren. Supporting the main event will be the battle for the Juniors featherweight title between champion Peter Dominguez and Jussier Da Silva. Also defending his title will be the light heavyweight champion Danny Valimaki as he takes on former UC UK Light heavyweight champion Jamie Hern, who is making his debut in the US, attempting to follow in the footsteps of Tom Watson as an English boxer/striker to win a title here in Cage Warriors. Also appearing on the main show will be Bobby Lashley. Here is the rundown of the entire show: Code: Cage Warriors FIGHT! TV as shown on The Fight Network and ESPN Deportes Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight Title Fight Joe Scarola (7-2-1) v. Ben Askren (5-0) WW Cage Warriors Juniors Featherweight Title Fight Peter Dominguez (4-3) v. Jussier Da Silva (5-2) FW Cage Warriors Juniors Light Heavyweight Title Fight Danny Valimaki (7-2) v. Jamie Hern (7-1) LHW Bobby Lashley (7-2) v. Raymond London (6-0) HW ----Prelims---- Cristobal Verissimo (7-1) v. Benjamin Rude (7-0) MW Marcin Held (8-2) v. Joe Duarte (8-2) LW Dylan Clay (7-2) v. Michael Pastou (7-2) WW Blagoi Ivanovo (6-3) v. Hae Joon Yang (4-2) HW Dragan Tesanovic (8-2) v. Teriuihi Akita (7-1) MW Karn Grigoryan (7-2-1) v. Joaquin Rocha (6-1) LHW Ville Manninen (7-3) v. Bryan Joplin (6-2) LW Kentaro Hayashida (4-1) v. Nariaki Fukazawa (6-1) FW This in an entire show of Juniors fights and there are a bunch of guys who have been around with us for a little bit now fighting here. A few of these fighters are fighting for the last time as juniors and their progress will be watched closely from here on out. I think that Askren poses a big problem for Scarola, but he has been fighting very good lately so who knows. The featherweight fight is less than exciting, but despite the champ’s poor record, he is 3-1 in Cage Warriors, and on a bit of a tear. Da Silva is a rising star in MMA. Jamie Hern debuts right into the title picture. Especially as a former champion, we are sending a message that the best light heavyweight fighter in England can only compete in Cage Warriors at the Juniors level. We are setting the bar for ourselves. Hopefully, he will do well with his fans as it will be on live TV over there. Bobby Lashley could be carrying this card if he was fighting a named fighter, but he is fighting a guy fresh off the smaller circuits. London is every bit as big, and his Sambo background might just be enough to pull off the upset. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-15-2010, 11:49 AM	#220
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	DECEMBER 2011 We close in on two years in the business and things are running smoothly. The company profited over a mil again last month, and that means that our company has been in the black for more than 6 months. We have carefully controlled our costs, and our income is riding high. With only the one PPV last month our expenses and income were a little bit less than they could have been, but it was still solid. We handed out some pretty good bonuses, but nothing close to the almost half a million that we did a few months ago. Our popularity is holding strong at the high national level. We are at 86.6%, and due to the popularity level of most of our fighters it’s going to stay there for a bit anyway. We are almost at national popularity in Canada and are also a high regional in the UK. We are the #2 promotion worldwide and in the US, Mexico and the UK. We are #3 in Canada, but I think that we are going to pass MFC before long. Behind us in popularity the order is #3 Strikeforce, #4 Dream, #5 WEC, #6 WVR, #7 MFC, #8 Shooto, #9 Bellator, and #10 UC UK. We are truly the big #2 in all areas right now. Our look at the middlweights returns this month. Here are the top 10 middleweights in Cage Warriors right now. 1. Tom Watson (14-3) CW Champion, Impressive 5-0 in CW 2. Tim Kennedy (17-3) recent signing from Strikeforce. Only 1 loss going back 4 years. 3. Paulo Filho (23-1) Won in his debut in Cage Warriors. 4. Gegard Mousasi (30-3-1) New signing, 3-0 since his loss to King Mo. 5. Rory Markham (19-5) 6. Karl Amoussou (18-2-1) Hardly known in the US 7. Tomasz Drwal (20-3) Debuting against Benji Radach 8. Fabio Silva (19-6) Long fall for the fomer champ 9. Gerald Harris (17-4) Three fight win streak 10. Doug Marshall (13-4) Big KO win over Jared Hess There are certainly some big potential match ups here. Silva is going to have a tough road to get back to a title shot with guys like Filho, Mousasi, and Amassou in the way. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-15-2010, 11:54 AM	#221
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Down in New Zealand, Matt Cain (10-3-1), the CFC welterweight champion defended his title for the first time with a win over Michael Costa (12-7). In Japan, Featherweight King of Pancrase champion Miki Shida (16-6-2) had one of the shortest title reign’s on record (not quite 3 months) as he was beaten by Koji Yoshimoto (7-3-2). Another champion saw hit title reign end as well. X-1 heavyweight champion, Marcus Jones (7-4) was TKOed just 25 seconds into his fight with Chris Marez (7-2). Yet another champion goes down. This time it’s UC UK lightweight champion, Jason Young (8-4), when he was submitted in the third round. Young had held the title for just over a year. He lost it to the man he took it from, Tim Radcliffe (13-4). Radcliff had previously held the title for just over 2 years, and now reigns again. DEEP has a new middleweight champion. Katsuyori Shibata (10-8-1), a former professional wrestler who lost his first 4 MMA fights, has won with a second round submission over Eun Soo Lee (11-4). Shibata trains with Japanese legend Kazushi Sakubura. Sakubura now has 2 title holders in his camp. The other being the new Featherweight King of Pancrase, Koji Yoshimoto. On the same card, the lightweight champ and fomer Cage Warrior, Katsunori Kikuno (15-5-2) made the second defense of his title with a win over Yuki Inoue (12-3-4) . Masashi Takeda (13-5-1) lost his Cage Force lightweight title to Jang Yong Kim (8-4). The fight was uninspiring and the crowd booed frequently. Kim is 6-1 in the last 2 years. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-19-2010, 10:32 AM	#222
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	The first PPV of December is about to take place. Cage Warriors 43 is live and coming to you from Hawaii! Tonight we have the rise of a young MMA fighter to the top of the MMA world. We have the Cage Warriors welterweight title on the line and we have 3 former Cage Warriors’ title holders fighting in their return to the cage. We have 2 of the best lightweights in the world about to go at it, and the return to the US of heavyweight Josh Barnett. This is going to be a big, big show. In the main event, we have Jon Bones Jones, widely considered already to be one of the most feared fighters in the cage. His last fight saw him TKO Glover Teixeira in under a minute. He is undefeated, well rounded, and exciting to watch. He takes on Marcus Sursa, a man feared by few, but only beaten in Cage Warriors by one, and that was former champ, Jimi Manuwa. Sursa is 7-1 in the last 2 years. He loves to fight close, has dangerous hands, and a dominating ground and pound. His biggest challenge will be to keep from being on the bottom as Jones has the wrestling pedigree to keep him there, and finish him with lethal strikes or submissions. Jones biggest weakness will be his head. He hasn’t lost yet. Will he overlook Sursa? In the co-main, the welterweight title is on the line as Jason High makes his first defense of the title since beating Lyman Good for it 6 months ago. He takes on Brock Larson. Larson has fought 2 times since High took the title, and hasn’t lost in over 2 years. His record in Cage Warriors is perfect, with every fight being a win by TKO or submission. Larson is vastly experienced, and has heavy hands, and good wrestling and submission skills. How much of those 36 previous fights have taken out of him? High is also a finisher, and a damn good one. Outside of taking Good the distance, High has finished every one of his CW fights with a submission win. He too, hasn’t lost in over 2 years. 53 total fights between them, and only 5 losses. Something has to give tonight. Let’s get right to cage side with Bas Rutten, Bill Goldberg, and Stephen Quadros. Nate Diaz (13-7, Boxing/BJJ) takes on Keita Nakamura (18-9-2) in the lightweight division. Nate Diaz wins via TKO due to strikes at 1:19 of round 2. Diaz had taken the first round in a sloppy fight, but in round 2 he caught Nakamara wide open after a miss, hit him hard, then finished the hurt fighter. Average fight. Jeremy Horn (84-22-5, Freestyle JJ) takes on Dan Miller (11-5, Freestyle) in the middleweight division. Jeremy Horn wins via unanimous decision. This was a terrible fight with very little action. Very Poor fight. Isao Hirose (9-2, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Henrique Bilcalho (13-5, BJJ/Muay Thai) in the featherweight division. Henrique Bilcalho wins via unanimous decision. Bilcalho was better all around in this one. He strikes were better, he was in control of grappling and he defended the takedown well. Hiorse had him in trouble in the second round but Bilcalho was able to survive. Average fight. Raphael Davis (12-2, Wrestling/BJJ) takes on Rafael Cavalcante (10-4, Muay Thai/BJJ) in the light heavyweight division. Davis is making his return to the cage following his loss to Phil Davis. Raphael Davis wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:57 of round 1. The former champion was fast and aggressive in this fight. He took the fight to Cavalcante with a solid takedown of the JJ black belt, mounting him and pounding him out for the win. Great fight. Lyman Good (14-1, Kick Boxing) takes on Magomed Shikshabekov (9-1, Sambo) in the welterweight division. Good is making his return since losing his title to Jason High. Magomed Shikshabekov wins via unanimous decision. Apparently I don’t see things as the judges do. I thought Good had this one. Good standup from Good, and he defended every takedown attempt but one. He was never in trouble and seemed to be in control of the fight. Tough loss, great win for Shikshabekov. Decent fight. Daniel Puder (11-1, Wrestling, 255) takes on Jon Madsen (6-1, Wrestling, 260) in the heavyweight division. Puder returns after losing the heavyweight unification title fight to Dave Herman. Before that, Puder was untouchable. Will he be here? Daniel Puder wins via KO at 4:38 of the third round. Puder was actually losing because he couldn’t do much against the tough wrestler. But that was all he needed. He caught Madsen with a huge roundhouse kick to the head that put him out. Average fight. The last prelim of the night sees Diego Nunes (16-2, Muay Thai/Boxing) take on Alan Omer (17-3, Submission Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Diego Nunes wins via KO at 2:12 of the third round. Nunes and Omer put on an exciting show. Both men got takedowns, reversals, and both were aggressive in the fight. Omer has appeared to be getting the better of the fight until Nunes caught him with another big kick to the head that finished the fight. Fantastic fight. The main show begins with Brendan Schaub (9-1, Boxing/BJJ, 260) taking on Josh Barnett (26-7, Catch Wrestling, 270) in the heavyweight division. Barnett has a 10-inch reach advantage. Brenden Schaub wins via TKO, due to strikes at 1:49 of round 2. Barnett owned round 1 with a big takedown and complete control. It was Schaub who scored the takedown in round 2, and he quickly mounted Barnett who was helpless under the onslaught of punches. Great fight. Rory Markham (19-5, Wrestling) takes on Siyar Bahadurzada (20-5-1, Muay Thai) in the middleweight division. Siyar Bahadurzada wins via unanimous decision. Markham started off like a tornado knocking Siyar down right away. He moved in to finish, but ended up in a kimura that saw him fighting for his life in the cage the rest of the round. From there he seemed to abandon his gameplan and grappled with Siyar. Siyar controlled most of the rest of the action thorough the rest of the fight. Decent fight. We move on to the lightweight division. Jim Miller (19-3, Wrestling) takes on Ben Henderson (14-2, Wrestling/Tae Kwon Do). Jim Miller wins via TKO due to strikes at 4:58 of the third round. A bit controversial to stop it so close to the end. This was a tight fight where it looked like the deciding factor was going to be the takedown dominance of Jim Miller. Henderson defended well on his back, catching Miller in a triangle, but Miller escaped with a big slam. This was back and forth, but Henderson just got caught at the end of the round, and the ref stopped it. Average fight. Jason High (15-2, Wrestling) defends his Cage Warriors Welterweight title against Brock Larson (33-3, Submission Wrestling). Jason High wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:30 of the first round. Larson charged at High right away getting a big takedown, but got caught with a guillotine on the way in. High had to let it go, but got another chance and swept Larson into side control. High was able to do a lot of damage with knees and took Larson’s back, forcing him to turtle up. High then finished the fight with big blows as Larson became overwhelmed. Fantastic fight. Jon Jones (12-0, Wrestling) takes on Marcus Sursa (10-5, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. This is the main event of the night. Bones Jones wins via unanimous decision. A big letdown after the last fight. Jones seemed to control the fight, but he could not do much damage to Sursa. Sursa was taken down a couple of times, but defended well, and he also narrowly missed a couple of big punches. The fans are going home a little disappointed after this one. Poor fight. We had 10,281 fans in attendance and another 248k PPV buys. The show was rated as being poor. Fight of the Night goes to Diego Nunes and Alan Omer Knockout of the Night goes to Diego Nunes and Daniel Puder Submission of the Night goes to nobody. Jones failed to live up to his hype here, and Jason High cemented himself as the top welterweight in Cage Warriors with a decisive win over an untouchable fighter. Diego Nunes pulled out a win in an exciting fight. 2 of the 3 former champs got over losing their titles with wins, while one did not. Jeremy Horn wins again. And Henrique Bilcalho finds a way to win, making him one tough customer. He probably is never going to fight for the title, but he is a roadblock. This was a big show, with starts all over it. I was very happy to see Raphael Davis and Daniel Puder come back with wins. We really need Puder at the top of the heap in the heavyweight division. He is one of the most popular fighters in Cage Warriors. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-19-2010, 10:42 AM	#223
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Two pink slips were handed out after the show. The first goes to Isao Hirose and the second to Keita Nakamura. Hirose is a natural flyweight who was unable to make the step up in weight, and will go back to flyweight fulltime with Pancrase, where he still works. Nakamura will continue to fight in Japan for Cage Force, and really didn’t do much in the US. Booking is complete for Cage Warriors 45. The show will be held right in the UFC’s back yard, of Las Vegas. To add insult to injury, one of the guys headlining the main event was the current UFC Champ in his weight class, and we got him, and having fighting for the Cage Warriors title in his debut! How about that?! The main event of the night will be for the Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight title. Phil Davis will make his first defense of the title since winning it in July. He will take on a guy with no previous fights in Cage Warriors. Ryan Bader was the current UFC 205lb champion before surrendering the title when he signed for Cage Warriors. Part of the deal, where we gave him a better contract, was the idea that he could challenge for the title right away. Bader had the submission of the year last year when he won the title from Lyoto Machida, he TKOed Matt Hamil to make his only defense of the title. These guys are near mirror images of each other. Both are former All-American wrestlers, both are undefeated, both are or were champions, and both are still getting better. Davis trains with Carlo Prater at Thugjitsu, while Bader trains with Daniel Puder, Cain Velasquez, Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck at the American Kick Boxing Academy. Both men are fantastic in their ground control, have great takedowns. It could be boring, but these guys are coming in to fight. The co-main is a massive middleweight fight between former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight champion, Gegard Mousasi and former WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho. Mousasi has won 3 in a row and 11 of his last 12 fights. While Filho still only has one blemish on his career, that against Chael Sonnen in his last WEC fight. Mousasi has great standup and could use his long reach to keep Filho at bay. Filho wants to get this to the ground. His grappling is nearly unmatched and he could simply overpower Mousasi up close. Other fighters scheduled to appear are JJ Ambrose, Jimi Manuwa and the debut of Chris Horodecki. Here is the entire card: Code: Cage Warriors 45: Davis v. Bader Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight Title fight Phil Davis (9-0)(#4 LHW) v. Ryan Bader (13-0)(#1 LHW) LHW Gegard Mousasi (30-3-1) v. Paulo Filho (23-1)(#9 MW) MW JJ Ambrose (14-3) v. Drew Fickett (40-14) WW Jimi Manuwa (8-1) v. Andre Gusmao (11-1) LHW Shane Roller (10-3) v. Chris Horodecki (16-3) LW ----Prelims---- Neil Cooke (9-2) v. George Bush (10-3) HW Diego Saraiva (16-10-1) v. Ricardo Tirlone (11-4) LW Gover Teixeira (12-3) v. Jake O’ Brien (16-5) LHW Chris Price (18-3) v. Chris Leben (18-8) MW Alberto Crane (16-5) v. David Baron (17-5) LW Ryan Stonitsch (11-3) v. Alexander Trevino (9-5) WW Josh Diekman (12-4) v. Dan Evensen (14-7) HW JJ Ambrose comes back to the big stage looking to win again, this time against tough veteran fighter Drew Fickett. Fickett isn’t exactly a title contender at this point, but he could still get there and a win against Ambrose would be a great start. Jimi Manuwa and Andre Gusmao could be in line for a title shot with a win here. Both Roller and Horodecki make their Cage Warriors debuts. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-19-2010, 10:46 AM	#224
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	A couple of new champions were crowned in KOTC last night. First off, Mario Rinaldi (13-3) took the KOTC Heavyweight title away from Manny Rodriguez (4-2) with a 3rd round submission. In the other title fight, Hong Man Choi (6-2) took the KOTC Super Heavyweight title with a win over Neil Barnes (4-1) with a TKO under a minute into the fight. Bob Sapp (10-4-1) has retired from MMA at the age of 39. Sapp hadn’t fought in over 2 years. His last fight was a TKO loss to Sokoudjou. MFC 44 ran last night with the Cro-Cop (26-11-2) headlining. He was taking on former MFC Heavyweight champion and Canadian fan favorite Steve Bosse (10-2). It was a very poor fight with Bosse pulling off the win over the aging legend. Jason Day (22-9) won in the co-main over Dave Mewborn (9-4-1). Shark Fights ran a big show with two titles on the line. First, Nissen Osterneck (10-3) retained his SF Middleweight Title with a win over Prince Mclean (9-8). The other title fight saw Kyle Bracey (8-2) win the vacant SF Light Heavyweight Title with a win over Chad Vance (6-7). A Strikeforce card saw the return of Fedor to the cage. He headlined the card taking on Justin McCully (10-9-2). Fedor (34-3) finished it early with a TKO in the first round. Gilbert Melendez (21-3) won in the co-main with a first round TKO over Justin Wilcox (11-4). Frank Shamrock (24-14) was notably TKOed in 40 seconds of the first round by Luke Rockhold (10-3). Anotonio Carvalho (15-5) also won on the card. Thomas Longacre (8-2), a Cage Warrior, knocked out Lyle Beerbohm (15-3) in the third round for the win. We are going to lose our first fighter due to an inability to come to terms on a new contract. Welterweight contender Magomed Shikshabekov, who recently won over Lyman Good, will be leaving us in a couple of months. Certainly a frustrating development. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-30-2010, 11:13 AM	#225
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Cage Warriors 44 is live from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lightweight title contenders Ran Weathers and Zach Micklewright are headlining the show tonight. Weathers hasn’t been beaten in Cage Warriors, and neither has Micklewright. Weathers is a powerful puncher whether he gets you standing or on the ground, you are going to feel it. Four of his last 7 fights have ended with a KO or TKO in his favor, and he hasn’t lost since January of 2010, almost 2 years ago. As for Micklewright, he is a young wrestler who prefers to grapple up close and finish on the ground. He last lost to Jamie Varner for the WEC lightweight title last year. In the co-main, Benji Radach takes of former UFC fighter Thomaz Drwal. Radach loves a stand up brawl and Drwal can give it to him. All it takes is one punch, this one will be exciting. Shogun Rua returns to the cage to take on the former DEEP Middleweight champion, Young Choi, who is making his debut in Cage Warriors. Javier Vazquez and Travis Wiuff are also on the main card. Lets head right to the cage for tonight’s action! Mike Easton (9-3, Wrestling/Muay Thai) takes on Shoji Maruyama (8-9-1, Muay Thai) in the lightweight division. Mike Easton wins via submission due to armbar at 3:26 of the second round. Easton wanted this on the ground and he put it there. He worked to mount before time expired in the first, and went right back to it in the second round. This time taking Maruyama’s back. Unable to finish with strikes, he took the arm and forced the tap right away. Good fight. Toby Imada (26-16, Judo) takes on Kyle Bradley (13-8, Boxing) in the lightweight division. Bradley is a hometown boy, and has a 5-inch reach advantage. Toby Imada wins via submission due to an Americana at 4:54 of round 2. Imada put Bradley on his butt a few times and threw him once. Imada dominated the action on the ground and finished it nicely. Average fight. Brian Baker (12-3, Judo/Wrestling) takes on Jason Lambert (24-12, Wrestling) in the middleweight division. Baker towers 5-inches over Lambert. Jason Lambert wins via unanimous decision. Oh God what a bad fight. Lambert didn’t do anything at all, Baker scored one takedown, and neither landed any meaningful punches. It was terrible, just an awful fight. Baker’s first fight back from his suspension. Justin Davis (12-8, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on David Loiseau (19-14, Vale Tudo) in the middleweight division. David Loiseau wins via unanimous decision. Davis was knocked silly in round 1, and Loiseau landed a huge diving punch. Davis still survived, and tried like hell to get the fight to the ground, but Loiseau was to good and forced him to eat leather. Decent fight. Assuerio Silva (17-10, Muay Thai/BJJ, 257) takes on Chris Tuchscherer (18-3, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. Chris Tuchscherer wins via TKO due to strikes at 2:54 of the first round. Tuchscherer scored a takedown and dominated from there. Silva at a series of elbows that nearly knocked him out. The ref jumped in to save him any more damage. JZ Calvancante (18-4-1, BJJ/Kick Boxing) takes on Jeff Curran (33-13-1, BJJ) in the lightweight division. JZ Calvancante wins via submission due to a guillotine choke at 4:30 of round 3. Both men put on a good show. Curran came in the underdog but fought like hell. He was on top in a dominant position and working for the submission wihen JZ caught him in the choke. If he holds on he probably wins the fight. Great fight. The last prelim fight is between Tim Hague (11-2, Wrestling, 265) and Kirill Sidelnikov (8-4, Sambo, 242) in the heavyweight division. Hague has a 5-inch height advantage for this fight. Tim Hague wins via TKO due to strikes at 3:29 of the third round. These two put on a good show. Hague was in real trouble in the second when Sidelnikov had his back for over half the round but was unable to finish the fight. Hague his a miracle shot in the third that stunned the Russian. He forced the stoppage from there. Fantastic fight. The main show begins in the light heavyweight division as Stipe Bekavac (17-4, Kick Boxing) takes on Travis Wiuff (62-15, Wrestling). Stipe Bekavac wins via TKO at 3:56 of the first round. Wiuff was hurt with the first flurry from Bekavac. He has to be terribly disappointed with that performance. Decent fight. Javier Vazquez (18-5, BJJ) takes on Buck Bisbey (11-2, Hybrid Fighting) in the featherweight division. Javier Vazquez wins by submission due to a guillotine choke at 2:14 of the first round. Bisbey had Vazquez pinned against the cage and was looking for the takedown, but Vazquez locked the choke and took him down instead. Bisbey had to tap quickly. Fantastic fight. Young Choi (17-7-1, Judo) takes on Shogun Rua (19-7, Muay Thai) in the light heavyweight division. Shogun Rua wins via KO at 0:25 of the first round. Wow. Just. Wow. Choi wanted to get this to the ground fast. He threw a couple of jabs then shot fast. Shogun caught him with a hook right on the money and Choi just stumbled to the floor, out cold. Great fight. The co-main is next. Thomaz Drwal (20-3, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Benji Radach (22-8, Facesmashing Fu) in the middleweight division. Thomaz Drwal wins via TKO at 0:44 of round 2. Drwal dominated the first round pummeling Radach while he was turtled up, but unable to finish it. Radach came out fast in round 2, but was planted on his back then destroyed in short order. Great fight. The main event is next. Ran Weathers (18-5, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Zach Micklewright (10-1, Wrestling) in the lightweight division. Zach Micklewright wins via TKO at 3:31 of the first round. Weathers scored a fast takedown, but was swept from the top. From there Mickelwright moved to side control and unleashed a great series of punches. Weathers defended at first, but eventually succumbed to the blows. Great fight. We had a crowd of 9,379 on hand and another 195k PPV buys. The show was rated as being awful. Fight of the Night goes to Tim Hague and Kirill Sidelnikov Knockout of the Night goes to Shogun Rua Submission of the Night goes to Javier Vazquez Jeff Curran took a step back with his loss, he could have put himself right back into the title picture with a win. Rua with a fantasic win, and that will certainly put his career back on the upswing. Look for him in the title picture sooner rather than later. Tomasz Drwal looked very good just dominating Radach. He is a player in the division for sure. Tim Hague continues his development in the heavyweight division, beating a game young pup. Ran Weathers run to the top has been derailed, but Micklewright looks like he is just getting a head of steam. Not a great show at all, but some good fights on the card. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-30-2010, 11:18 AM	#226
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Wow, how many guys have we had suspended for drug use? Menne, Askren, Baker, Wren? Add Zach Micklewright to the list. He failed the test after the PPV, and is now out for a year. That means that we should probably give Weathers another shot before too long, clearly his loss was tainted. Shooto ran a great card in Japan. The headliner, Takeshi Inoue (24-3), who we had tried to sign, retained his featherweight title with a 3rd round TKO over Tyler Toner (11-4). The lightweight champion, Ganjo Tentsuku (12-5-2) retained his title with second round TKO over Bendy Casmir (21-8-2). KSW middleweight champion Nobutatsu Suzuki (8-0-2) retained his title with a first round TKO over Nabil Khatib (10-8) . UFC 128 was run opposite our MMA show as well. The main event saw GSP defend his welterweight title against Jae Suk Lim, a relatively new fighter to the UFC, and the former Spirit MC middleweight champion. GSP scored a TKO at 4:48 of the first round to defend his title again. It is his 8th defense, and his reign is now over 3 and a half years long. In the co-main, Rashad Evans (18-1-1) scored a 3rd round TKO victory over Poai Suganuma (14-4). Dennis Kang (36-11-1) the UFC middleweight champion, successfully defended his title with a 3rd round submission win over the debuting Riki Fukuda (19-6) the former DEEP middleweight champion. It was Kang’s second defense of his title. Anderson Silva (28-5) knocked out Vitor Belfort (21-11) in the second round to keep in the hunt for his rematch with Kang. Gray Maynard (13-1) also won. Another interesting note about this card. Oleg Taktarov (17-6-2) made his return to the cage after a nearly 4 year layoff. He was TKOed by Mike Russow (14-3) in the first round. Assuerio Silva, Kyle Bradley, Shoji Maruyama, and Travis Wiuff were all let go from the company yesterday. Wiuff had been the most recognizable of those fighters having been the highest profile fighter of the bunch. He is still working for WVR and MFC. Silva is 37 and well past his prime. Bradley didn’t even win one fight, and Maruyama is the longest tenured having fought at CW 5. Maruyama had been on the ropes for a long time. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-30-2010, 11:21 AM	#227
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Cage Warriors: Unchained is scheduled to air on HDNet in January, and we now have some fights to pimp for it. Our card is set perfectly for the national television audience that we are going to draw. The show will be headlined with a heavyweight battle between former Cage Warriors heavyweight and current (for now) Cage Warriors Juniors Heavyweight champion Brandon Cash. He will take on Ben Rothwell. Rothwell is massively experienced and well rounded. He is coming off of a win over Darril Schoonover. Cash has fought a wide variety of fighters and has heavy hands. He has won all of his last fights by KO or TKO. His only recent blemish was his loss to Dave Herman for the title. The co-main event is a lightweight fight featuring Rich Clementi. He will take on Bobby Stack in another vet versus up and coming star fight. Stack is coming off of a win over Nate Diaz, while Clementi has won 5 of his last 6. His only loss was to Jeff Curran for the lightweight title. Clementi loves to use his wrestling to get in close and control the fight. Stack is also someone who likes to grapple and especially likes to punch down on a grounded foe. The one on top is going to win this one. Other fighters scheduled to appear on the main card are, Yves Jabouin, former UFC fighter Dong Hyun Kim, and Pat Berry. Here is the rundown of the entire show. Code: Cage Warriors: Unchained Brandon Cash (9-2) v. Ben Rothwell (32-9) HW Rich Clementi (37-16-1) v. Bobby Stack (10-3) LW Yves Jabouin (17-7) v. Ivan Lopez (13-3) FW Simeon Thoresen (16-2-1) v. Dong Hyun Kim (13-2-1) WW Pat Berry (8-3) v. Tony Lopez (17-6) LHW ----Prelims---- Shane Carwin (13-2) v. Darril Schoonover (13-2) HW Marin Kampmann (16-4) v. Jon Fitch (19-6) WW Neil Joslin (7-1) v. Daniel Cormier (5-2) HW Shane Primm (8-3) v. Jared Hamman (13-4) LHW Jesse Forbes (14-5) v. Mike Swick (13-7) MW Zac George (20-5) v. Scott McAfee (9-3) LW Neil Wain (7-3) v. Lavar Johnson (13-5) HW Ahhhhhh, a bit of a surprise here. We are pleased to be able to showcase the talents of fighters like Carwin, Kampmann and Fitch. They appear here on the undercard to gain some momentum. We have one Juniors battle in the heavyweight division and Neil Wain fighting for his career in the first fight. I like the show. We are able to showcase some of the less popular fighters who are trying to make their way to the top. Just the way that it should be. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-06-2010, 10:14 AM	#228
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Jeremy May (7-6) has won the Purecombat middleweight title with a submission win over Kyacey Uscola (15-17). The title was previously vacant. Minnesota native Tommy Speer (13-4) has won the Fury FC welterweight title with a win over champion Pedro Santos (27-7). Speer had lost to Santos 17 months ago in a previous bid for the title. Naoyuki Kotani (22-8-6) submitted Michael Kwok (12-9-2) to make his 3rd defense of his Lightweight King of Pancrase title. Kotani has held the title since March of 2010. Phil Baroni (14-12) is the new DREAM Welterweight champion! Baroni got a title shot in his debut with the organization. He beat Tarec Saffendine (13-3) by submission in the second round. Baroni hadn’t won a fight in 3 years, this was only his 3rd fight since. He even lost in his Shark Fights debut. MFC and former UFC Heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (30-7) has signed a deal to fight for the DREAM organization. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-06-2010, 10:27 AM	#229
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	I only had to make a short trip to the show this week. I have been on the road a lot lately and it’s going to feel good to sit down here in the hometown and take in some of our younger guys at our FIGHT! TV show. This is the last fight for us this year, and crown a huge year of achievements. Our main event for our internationally televised show is a battle for the Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight Title. Champion Joe Scarola will make his first and only defense of the title, in this, his last fight at the Juniors level. Scarola won the title earlier this year with a submission win over Dylan Clay. Scarola also holds a win over former Juniors WW champ Ben Holscher. Scarola posses dangerous submissions and a solid punch. His clinch and grappling are going to be a spot that his opponent will want to exploit. He will be defending his title against two-time NCAA wrestling champion Ben Askren. Askren was on a meteoric rise when he was suspended for a year for a substance violation. He came right back with a win, and now looks to put his non-stop work ethic and great wrestling skills to the test for the title. The co-main event is a Juniors title fight in the featherweight division. Champion Pete Dominguez makes his second defense of his title tonight, after winning it earlier this year. Dominguez is a hard head who makes his living with his fists. He has won his last 3 fights. He will take on Jussier daSilva. DaSilva is a natural flyweight who has been carrying an extra 20 pounds in the cage for his Cage Warriors fights. He has found mixed success in the cage, but is coming off of a first round submission win over a previously undefeated opponent. He has great cardio and a dangerous ground attack. The Cage Warriors Juniors Light Heavyweight title is also on the line, and former Pro Wrestler Bobby Lashley also fights. Let’s head right to cage side. We start off with a battle of Japanese fighters. Kentaro Hayashida (4-1, BJJ) takes on Nariaki Fukazawa (6-1, Grego-Roman Wrestling) in the featherweight division. Eh, unimpressive. Both men stayed up for the entire fight, and neither one hurt the other. Nariaki Fukazawa wins via unanimous decision. Average fight. Next up is Ville Manninen (7-3, Grappler) taking on Bryan Joplin (6-2, Striker) in the lightweight division. Ville Manninen wins via unanimous decision. Well I guess that’s why these guys are on the undercard. Manninen could not get the takedown, and was stunned badly in the second round. Manninen controlled the action in 1 and 3. Average fight. Karn Grigoryan (7-2-1, Freestyle) takes on Joaquin Rocha (6-1, MMA-orientated Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Joaquin Rocha wins via unanimous decision. Rocha contolled all the ground action, scoring takedowns at will, but unable to do any damage. Grigoryan knocked Rocha down in the second, but Rocha recovered and ended up winning the round. Decent fight. Dragan Tesanovic (8-2, Submission Wrestling) takes on Teriuihi Akita (7-1, MMA-influenced JJ) in the middleweight division. Dragan Tesanovic wins via TKO at 3:14 in the first round. Tesanovic proved too much. He scored a quick takedown, moved to side control and finished the fight with elbows. Great fight. Blagoi Ivanov (6-3, Sambo, 265) takes on Hae Joon Yang (4-2, Wrestling, 285) in the heavyweight division. Hae Joon Yang wins via unanimous decision. No punches at all. Ivanov wanted to get it to the ground, but could not get the big Korean to the ground. Yang spent a lot of time controlling the grapple on the side of the cage, and stuffing takedowns. Poor fight. Dylan Clay (7-2, BJJ) takes on Michael Pastou (7-2, Freestyle) in the welterweight division. Michael Pastou wins via unanimous decision. Pastou controlled the action with good takedowns and ground control. Clay had him hurt at the end of the second round, but Pastou was saved by the bell. Average fight. Marcin Held (8-2, BJJ) takes on Joe Duarte (8-2, Muay Thai) in the lightweight division. Joe Duarte wins via unanimous decision. Both fighters took a defense first mentality in this one. Held wanted to get it to the ground, but was stopped over and over again. Duarte controlled the standing action, and even took Held down late in the fight. Poor fight. Cristobal Verissimo (7-1, Kick Boxing) takes on Benjamin Rude (7-0, Muay Thai) in the middleweight division. Cristobal Verissimo wins via submission, due to rear naked choke, at 3:04 of the first round. Verissimo dominated Rude scoring a takedown and dominating the ground attack. A submission win proves that he isn’t a kick boxer alone. Great fight. The main show begins with a heavyweight showdown. Bobby Lashley (7-2, Wrestling, 285) takes on Raymond London (6-0, Sambo, 290). Bobby Lashley wins via TKO at 2:09 of round 1. Lashley put in on the ground quick, went for an armbar, then took London’s back. A ferocious attack finished the fight. Fantastic fight. Danny Valimaki (7-2, Wrestling) is defendind his CW Juniors LHW title against fomer UC UK LH champion Jamie Hern (7-1, Boxing) who is making his debut. Jamie Hern wins via unanimous decision. Valimaki looked dangerous as he had Hern on his back for most of the first round. Hern showed very good jiu-jitsu and had a number of submission attempts from the bottom. Valimaki then looked all out of sorts, as he didn’t want to wrestle or strike with Hern, and the fight decended into a strange set of circles with Hern going back and forth between attacking and counter attacking. Hern wins the Cage Warriors Juniors Light Heavyweight title with the win. Very Poor fight. Peter Dominguez (4-3, Boxing/Wrestling) defends his Cage Warriors Juniors Featherweight Title against Jussier da Silva (5-2, BJJ). Jussier da Silva wins via submission due to guillotine choke at 3:20 of the 5th round. These two went back and forth for the fight. Dominguez landed his big punches, but da Silva was able to survive, and as the fight drug on it appeared that the champ was tiring much faster than his challenger. Da Silva was able to get Dominguez to the ground in the last round, using his jiu-jitus skills he was finally able to overpower the tiring champ and lock the choke on to finish the fight. Great fight. The main event of the night has Cage Warriors Juniors Welterweight champion, Joe Scarola (7-2-1, BJJ) taking on Ben Askren (5-0, Wrestling/BJJ). Scarola is a hometown boy, and the crowd is hot for him. Ben Askren wins via TKO at 1:59 of the first round. Askren made short work of the champ, taking him down and passing to side control quickly. From there he used a series of knees to the side to soften up the champ before laying the fists to him to finish the fight. Great fight. We had a crowd of 3,222 on hand in New Jersey and the show was rated as being excellent. Fight of the Night goes to Pete Dominguez and Jussier da Silva Knockout of the Night goes to Ben Askren Submission of the Night goes to Cristobal Verissimo All three titles change hands at the show tonight. Bobby Lashley dominates, and the undercard is beset with a myriad of underwhelming fights. Cristobal Verissimo continues his upward march up the rankings. I am happy that Askren took the title, he is in a good spot to defend it a number of times and push his popularity up quite a ways. I expected more from Marcin Held. He is still very young, but a loss to Joe Duarte puts him back a few steps. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-06-2010, 10:28 AM	#230
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Mark Oshiro (13-6) who fights for Cage Warriors, was beaten last night, while fighting for the WEC. His lost to Chris Cariaso (12-1). Only Karn Gregorian (7-3-1) gets the axe after that show. Karn only has one win in Cage Warriors, and will never be a contender here. He is unemployed now. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-17-2010, 07:09 PM	#231
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	2011 END OF YEAR RUNDOWN and JANUARY 2012 Meeting This has been a great year for Cage Warriors and MMA in general. Cage Warriors finished the year with over 13 million in the bank. That means that we are now over 8 million in operating profit from our original investment, and positive cash flow of about 1 million a month right now. That leaves considerable room for future investment. We also intend to increase revenue through more lucrative PPV contracts, while maintaining our current television structure. Our last episode of Cage Warriors: FIGHT! TV drew 1.5 mil viewers on The Fight Network, and another .9 mil on ESPN Deportes. Cage Warriors: Unchained drew 2.1 mil on HDNet. There are only two other MMA shows on free TV right now. One belongs to Strikeforce, they are only drawing about .3 mil on CBS. The other is Sengoku (WVR), who draws about .1 mil in Japan. That lone television show in Japan though is one of the reasons that WVR is the biggest in Japan right now. WVR is number 3 in the world, even bigger than WEC and Strikeforce. The UFC still has the biggest PPV show in MMA right now. Cage Warriors, WEC, Strikeforce, and WVR are the only other companies with PPV deals at this time. Our popularity is solid in the US, we are still at a high national level, albeit slightly lower than we were a few months ago. Popularity in the UK, and Canada are approaching national levels, and Mexico is lower, but still solid. We expect to hit international status sometime next year, depending on how our show progress, and when that happens, we expect to gain notoriety in most nations. Here is a list of the current Cage Warriors title holders and the length of their title reigns: Code: FEATHERWEIGHT: Cub Swanson (9/11; Interim since 5/11) JUNIORS FW: Jussier da Silva (12/11) LIGHTWEIGHT: Karen Darabedyan (6/11) JUNIORS LW: Joe Brammer (6/11) WELTERWEIGHT: Jason High (6/11) JUNIORS WW: Ben Askren (12/11) MIDDLEWEIGHT: Tom Watson (10/11) JUNIORS MW: Jacob O’Connell (6/11) LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT: Phil Davis (7/11) JUNIORS LHW: Jamie Hern (12/11) HEAVYWEIGHT: Dave Herman (3/11) JUNIORS HW: Vacant (Vacated by Brandon Cash) And since the UFC is still considered the home of the best MMA fighters in the world. Here is the list of current UFC Champions: Code: LIGHTWEIGHT: Diego Sanchez (1/11) WELTERWEIGHT: Georges St. Pierre (4/08) MIDDLEWEIGHT: Denis Kang (8/10) LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT: Vacant (Vacated by Ryan Bader) HEAVYWEIGHT: Todd Duffee (12/10) As you can see, many of our titles changed hands over the last year. Most of that is attributed to the rapid growth of the company and the influx of better talent. I would expect just as much turnover heading into this next year. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-17-2010, 07:12 PM	#232
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	The MMA Community handed our their yearly awards. A couple of Cage Warriors fighters made the list. Notably, Cristobal Verissimo was awarded Rookie of the Year, and Joe Brammer was awarded Rise of the Year. WVR won promotion of the year, as they have risen to be the top promotion in Japan. The coveted Fighter of the Year award went to Shooto Featherweight Champion Takeshi Inoue. Inoue won 4 times, all by stoppage this year. Inoue also fights for UC UK and DREAM. He won submission of the year for a fight he won over JZ while fighting for DREAM at 155lbs. He hasn’t been beaten in over 4 and a half years. We tried to sign him but his loyalty stayed with his current companies. He won’t be back on the market for us for another 2 years. American Top Team won team of the year. UC UK put on the show, main event and fight of the year. Meanwhile, Pancrase was saddled with the worst fight of the year. Last year’s fighter of the year Masakazu Imnari won twice by submission this year and still holds the DEEP Bantamweight title. It’s time to look at the current rankings in the Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight division. 1. Ryan Bader (13-0) Former UFC LHW Champ, fights for the CW LHW title in 2 weeks. 2. Jon Jones (13-0) Beaten 2 top 10 opponents. May get a contender fight next. 3. Lyoto Machida (17-1) Former UFC LHW Champ. Won in debut. 4. Phil Davis (9-0) Current LHW Champion, defends against Bader next. 5. Ricardo Arona (18-6) Former DREAM LHW Champ. Won debut. 6. Alexandre Ribeiro (5-2) Lost to Arona in debut. 7. Jimi Manuwa (8-1) Former CW LHW Champ. Fights Andre Gusmao next. 8. Raphael Davis (13-2) Fomer CW LHW Champ. Won fight after losing title. 9. Maurico Rua (20-7) After 4 straight losses in UFC, two devastating wins in CW. 10. Marcus Sursa (10-6) CW vet lost to Jones last fight. This division is just flat out stacked. There are incredible fighters from top to bottom and the number of great fights to be made from this group is substantial. The biggest question will be where to the former CW champs and the newer, higher ranked fighters from outside fit into the picture. Davis v. Bader will huge, and Jones should get the next chance, but you can’t count out too many others from that list either. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-17-2010, 07:14 PM	#233
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	The last episode of Strikeforce on CBS was held last night from Hawaii. The main event saw womens champ, Zoila Frausto (8-0) KO Marloes Coenen (22-5) in the third round to make her 3rd defense of the title. King Mo (9-0) defended his Light Heavyweight title against Mike Whitehead (27-8) with a second round TKO. Fabricio Werdum also won on the card. X-1 Featherweight Champion Jarrod Card (11-5-1) was beaten in 5 rounds last night by Yaotzin Meza (16-8). Meza had lost to Card last year. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-21-2010, 09:58 AM	#234
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	The first show of the year is about to begin. We are live from Las Vegas, Nevada tonight! This is Cage Warriors 45: Davis v. Bader! Phil Davis won the title with a 4th round TKO over Raphael Davis last July. He has won all 5 Cage Warriors fights that he has been in, and looks to extend his title reign tonight. Davis has used his superior grappling and athletic skills to control his opponent, and has finished fights with strikes and submissions. He defends the title against the man that many consider to be the top fighter in the world at 205lbs, Ryan Bader. Bader abandon his UFC Light Heavyweight title over a high profile contract negotiation to sign with Cage Warriors. As part of that negotiation, Bader was promised a shot at the title upon stepping into the cage for the first time. It’s not something that you see very often. Bader is capable of matching Davis as he too, is a mulit-time All-American wrestler. Bader won the title from Lyoto Machida back in September of 2010. Bader stopped Matt Hamil by TKO in his only fight last year. The co-main event is almost equally as anticipated. Former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight and DREAM Middleweight champion, Gegard Mousasi takes on former WEC Middleweight champion, Paulo Filho. Filho is a world class jiu-jitsu specialist whose submissions are legendary. Mousasi has 34 fights under his belt and is only 26 years old, wise beyond his cage years. Mousasi is already a two time champion, who prefers to use his incredible standup to punish his opponent. Mousasi was knocked out by King Mo for his only loss in 5 and a half years. Filho, who only has one career loss, is undefeated in the last 3 and a half. Something has to give. JJ Ambrose, a light heavyweight fight featuring former champion Jimi Manuwa, and the Cage Warriors’ debut of “The Polish Hammer” are also on the card. Opening the show is a heavyweight showdown between Josh Diekman (12-4, Hybrid, 257) and Dan Evensen (14-7, Kick Boxing/BJJ, 270). Dan Evensen wins via submission, due to kimura, 2:39 of round 1. The big men grappled early on. Evensen landed a short hook that knocked Diekman down. Rather than go for the KO, he took the submission opportunity and finished the fight. Fantastic fight. Ryan Stonitsch (11-3, Muay Thai) takes on Alexander Trevino (9-5, Boxing/Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Alexander Trevino wins via unanimous decision. Trevino dominated the fight with takedowns and controlled all the action on the ground. Stonitsch didn’t get one good punch off the whole fight. Decent fight. Alberto Crane (16-5, BJJ) takes on David Baron (17-5, BJJ) in the lightweight division. Alberto Crane wins via TKO at 2:40 of round 1. Crane took Baron down right away, and pounded him out in short order. A real mismatch of talent in there. Fantastic fight. Chris Price (18-3, Boxing/Wrestling) takes on Chris Leben (18-8, Freestyle) in the middleweight division. A good fight from Leben as he pulls out the unanimous decision win here. Leben used some good strikes and great takedown defense during the fight. He didn’t let Price get settled at all, but he never really had Price hurt either. Decent fight. Glover Teixeira (12-3, BJJ/Kempo) takes on Jake O’Brien (16-5, Wrestling) in the light heavyweight division. Both men are coming off of tough losses, and both are keen to get back into the top 10. Teixiera wanted this fight. He wanted this fight on the ground. He had control of O’Brien the entire first round but could not get him off of his feet. He started the second round with an incredible flurry of punches, but O’Brien dodged every single one. Teixiera kept shooting though and O”Brien kept keeping him up. Finally, Glover just exhausted himself, and tried another shoot. This time, O’Brien landed a flush hook while he was coming in and knocked out Teixiera out. Good fight. Diego Saraiva (16-10-1, BJJ) takes on Ricardo Tirlone (11-4, BJJ) in the lightweight division. Tirlone has 5 inches of height and 6 inches of reach on Saraiva. Sometimes this kind of fight is boring, but these two did a nice job of submission attemps, escapes, sweeps, submission defense, takedowns, pretty much all of the above. Tirlone won a very close unanimous decision. He scored more takedowns, and had one serious submission chance. Saraiva showed good skill though. Decent fight. The last prelim fight of the night is in the heavyweight division. Neil Cooke (9-2, Boxing/Wrestling, 290) takes on George Bush (10-3, Wrestling, 255). Cooke has a big 35 pounds on Bush here, wow. Highlights include a big slam from Cooke at the end of the first round, a big punch that had Cooke wobbly at end of the second, and a inability of Bush to stop big takedowns from Cooke. Bush did well though, but Cooke got the better of him in the end. Cooke wins the unanimous decision. Decent fight. Here we go. We start the main show with a lightweight battle of newcomers. Shane Roller (10-3, Wrestling) takes on Chris Horodecki (16-3, Kick Boxing). Chris Horodecki wins via KO at 2:56 of round 1. Roller could not keep control in the grapple, and when he shot, Horodecki caught him coming in and knocked him out. Fantastic fight. Next up, we have former CW Light Heavyweight Champion, Jimi Manuwa (8-1, BJJ) taking on Andre Gusmao (11-1, BJJ). Gusmao hasn’t been stopped in Cage Warriors yet. He has a 5-inch reach advantage over Manuwa. What do you expect from these two. Both got takedowns, but the ground game was a stalemate. Neither could do anything, and the ref kept having to stand them back up. Manuwa was in control on top in the second round, when Gusmao nailed him with a triangle choke. Manuwa struggled to escape, and picked up and dropped Gusmao in a big slam. Gusmao was stunned and it allowed Manuwa to take side control. Manuwa landed a huge shot that knocked out Gusmao in the scramble. Decent fight. JJ Ambrose (14-3, BJJ) takes on Drew Fickett (40-14, Wrestling) in the welterweight division. Drew Fickett wins via submission due to armbar, at 2:26 of round 3. The experience and wrestling of Fickett was clearly on display here. His standup was outstanding and he really showed up to win this fight. In the end it was a takedown that set up the mount that set up the armbar that finished the fight. Decent fight. The co-main event is up next. Gegard Mousasi (30-3-1, Judo/Kick Boxing) takes on Paulo Filho (23-1, BJJ) in the middleweight division. Mousasi has a 5-inch height advantage, but actually a reach disadvantage. A hugely disappointing show from these two. Filho would not let Mousasi settle down, and pressed him throughout. Both defended very well, but ultimately it was the relentless takedowns from Filho that decided the fight. Even though Mousasi was really never in trouble, he was really never in control either. Filho wins via unanimous decision. Poor fight. Alright, here we go!! The Main event of the evening. This fight is for the Cage Warriors Light Heavyweight title. Defending Champion, Phil Davis (9-0, Wrestling) takes on the challenger, undefeated, former reigning UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Ryan Bader (13-0, Wrestling). These two are mirror images of each other in size and skill. What a fight! What a fight! Exactly what we were hoping to see with two of the best light heavyweights in the world. Both exchanged strikes in round one, but it was a big slam from Bader on the champ that set the tone for the round. Round 2 saw Davis answer in a big way, knocking Bader down with a big punch then following up with a diving punch that landed squarely on Bader. Bader, tough as nails, managed to survive and get Davis into guard, where he rode out the round. The third was back to Bader. He took Davis down and had him in trouble early on. Bader managed to use a Davis mistake to get side control, and then took Davis’ back. He landed a few huge punches, and some of them clearly hurt Davis, but he still managed to defend himself, and stayed defensive forcing a stalemate. Here is where the big controversy came in. The ref stood them back up! Who knows why, or what long term effects it had, but he stood them up. Davis survived the round. Bader was breathing hard between rounds, he used up a lot of energy to get Davis down, and may have punched himself out. Davis thundered in for a big takedown to start round 4. He looked like a man on a mission. He quickly advanced past guard into side, then quickly to mount. From there he launched a barrage of blows that finally stopped the former UFC champion. Bader was clearly gassed in the 4th. Fantastic fight. We drew a crowd of 11,677 for our show in Las Vegas, and another 309k PPV buys. The show was rated as being fantastic. Fight of the Night was clearly Davis v. Bader Knockout of the Night goe to Chris Horodecki Submission of the Night goes to Drew Fickett Nice to see Manuwa stay in the thick of it at 205lb. Very happy to see Davis storm back from the edge of defeat with a win, but you have to wonder if there shouldn’t be a rematch. Paulo Filho has pretty much put himself at the top of the list for the 185lb title, even though he is terribly boring. Jake O’Brien keeps plugging along. He is probably our toughest “gatekeeper” at the moment. George Bush losing is a bummer. I would have liked to see him keep moving up. He will likely never go anywhere, but I like seeing him on the cards. Another show that is a big success for us. This was possibly the best main event in company history, possibly the best overall show too. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? 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09-21-2010, 10:06 AM	#235
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Phil Davis is going to be the highest paid fighter in the company very soon. His contract has one fight left, and I will bet that the UFC will come calling. It’s going to get rich, but we vow not to lose him. David Baron (17-6) and Josh Diekman (12-5) were both shown the door after this show. Diekman lost all 3 of his fights, and Baron only managed one win. Both guys are pretty old, Baron is 38 and Diekman is 35, so they were never going to make anything of themselves here. Both are unemployed now. Former Cage Warrior, Reese Andy (11-7) who had recently signed with UC UK, was thrust into the light heavyweight title picture against Evangelista Santos (18-17) and stopped him with a first round TKO to win the title. Also on the same card, UC UK Heavyweight Ashley Pollard (5-2) scored a 4th round KO of Tom Blackledge (10-9) to defend his title for the first time. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-21-2010, 10:11 AM	#236
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	As is standard, we announce our next PPV, to take place next month. This time, we return to Ohio for our show. Our next show features another title defense, this one for the Cage Warriors featherweight title. Cub Swanson (19-2) hasn’t lost since losing to Jose Aldo on the undercard of Brown/Faber II back in ‘09. On that night, Swanson was embarrassingly stopped 8 seconds into the first round, and Mike Brown stopped Faber to retain his WEC Featherweight crown. Two and a half years later, Jose Aldo is an unemployed MMA fighter, Cub Swanson is on a six-fight winning streak and is the featherweight champion. Mike Brown is the challenger, but still unbeaten since his beat down of Faber. You see, Brown was still the WEC featherweight champ, and is still considered the best featherweight in the world. He defended his title 5 times before vacating it. He gets his chance to return to the top now. Cub Swanson has matured into a very well rounded fighter who is capable of fighting standing, grappling, or on the ground. He presents a multi-faceted problem for Brown who is still considered the best in his weight class. The co-main event is an outstanding light heavyweight battle between two Brazilian, title contenders. Lyoto Machida is coming off of good but not great win over Jake O’Brien. He is a former champion and at one time was considered the best in the world at 205. He is trying to get back to the top, but his road will go through BJJ specialist and former DREAM Light Heavyweight champion, Ricardo Arona. Arona has fought some of the biggest names in the business and he will not be intimidated. The biggest issue is going to be the standup of Machida v. the grappling of Arona. Machida fought a grappler last time out, had trouble, but ended up with the win. His standup is far superior to Arona though, and Arona will need a good gameplan. Victor Ribeiro, the former Strikeforce lightweight, will make his debut. Shamar Bailey will fight and so will John Hosman. Here is the full fight card: Code: Cage Warriors 46: Swanson v. Brown Cage Warriors Featherweight Title Fight Cub Swanson (19-2) (#4 FW) v. Mike Brown (25-4) (#1 FW) FW Lyoto Machida (17-1)(#3 LHW) v. Ricardo Arona (18-6)(#6 LHW) LHW Victor Ribeiro (23-5) v. Ricardo Lamas (10-3) LW Shamar Bailey (15-2) v. Rory MacDonald (10-2) WW John Hosman (22-7-1) v. LC Davis (16-4) FW ----Prelims---- Doug Marshall (13-4) v. Danillo Villefort (13-4) MW Jay Hieron (19-6) v. Tyson Griffin (15-4) WW Hidenori Nishino (6-6-2) v. Charles Bennett (22-17-2) LW Raymond London (6-1) v. Douglas Liddell (4-0) HW Shigekazu Sassa (6-1) v. Gustavo Fabiano (7-1) HW Todd Rhodes (4-0) v. Tsurayaki Toyotomi (5-0) LHW Clarence Sims (3-0) v. Theordore Pelletier (3-0) MW There are a whole bunch of juniors fighters on the undercard. That’s a fine place for them to be. A lot of them we signed when we opened the Juniors division, and a lot of them haven’t seen a fight yet. So this will be a good place to see them. Hopefully we can get a good look at some of them and see if they can break out of the pack. Tyson Griffin is ready to hit the reboot button. He takes on a guy who is a lot more difficult than JJ Ambrose, in former IFL welterweight champion Hieron. Crazy Horse makes his debut with the company, we know the public has been clamoring for him in Cage Warriors. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

09-27-2010, 09:35 PM	#237
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	Jose Aldo has landed in Japan, having signed a deal with Shooto. Bellator 33 was held last night in Florida. The main event featured the Cage Warriors Heavyweight Champion, Dave Herman (23-3). Yeah, I wasn’t too happy about it, but seeing as all of my fighters still aren’t under exclusive deals, there isn’t much I can do about it. Anyway, Herman won his fight with 3rd round TKO over Karl Diaz (7-2). I was happy to see that, but it’s going to be another couple of months before we get him back in our cage. Top Japanese promotion WVR ran their 35th show. The main event was the WVR Middleweight affair that saw reigning champion Mamed Khalidov (25-4-1) score a first round TKO over Kazuhiro Nakamura (17-12). I was right, UFC is making a move and coming after Phil Davis. Looks like he is going to get paid in a big way, one way or another. Tito Ortiz (17-7-1) has landed in Canada with Maximum Fighting Championships. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam