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Komikazee's MMA Smackdown #30 Happy Canuck And Yanqui Day!!(7/4/2007)

News

Mirko "Cro Cop" Filopovic set to return to UFC at UFC 75

• Cheik Kongo will be next opponent
• London is the setting for UFC 75

 

TSAC withholds salary earnings for UFC 69

• MMAHQ started petition for the salaries
• Request went all the way up to the AG
• AG denied the request on privacy issues

 

Ken Shamrock released from UFC contract

• Ken had one more fight on his contract
• was released by Dana, saying something to the effect of "he can't hang with the rest of the fighters"
• Ken was told that he was released because he's working with the IFL
• Ken has hinted on talking with other promotions
• Big mistake by Dana.

Jeff Sherwood receives childish text message from Dana White

• http://www.whaledog.com/2007/06/until-day-i-die.php
• Sherdog has credentials revoked by WEC
  • Reason given is they gave K-1 too much coverage.

• Jeff Sherwood, owner of Sherdog, recieves text message from Dana.
• "You are my enemy until the day I die. F'ing embarrassing."
• Sherdog works with ESPN
  • If Dana cuts their Press all the time, how will he get coverage at ESPN?

• Dana's trying to force a media monopoly
  • calls Sherdog "tabloid".
  • No proof of lying or falsifying stories

• Dana obviously is acts like a child when it comes to Sherdog.

Sakakibara to make talk show appearance.

• http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=8132
• http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/06/28/getting-the-pride-story-straight/
• kami no puro-re-sue Magazine hosting event
• Subject is "What is Pride?".
• Dana says "Pride contracts are ironclad. Fighters need to sign with UFC"
  • If contracts are ironclad, then Zuffa owns them. Only if they're not ironclad, are they not transferable.
  • Zuffa will not answer depositions ordered by Ed Fishman
• Dana scoffs at questions pertaining to Pride starting up again
  • very bad move in Japan
  • will be looked at as a "stupid gaijin"
    

Rumors

Calendar

7/07 - UFC® 73: STACKED

• Nate Marquardt vs. Anderson Silva
• Tito Ortiz vs. Rashad Evans
• Hermes Franca vs. Sean Sherk
• Antonio Hodrigo Nogueria vs. Heath Herring 3
  

7/14 - Cage Rage 22: Hard As Hell

• Butterbean vs. Ten-giz Ted-dor-rad-zee
• Mario Sperry vs. Lee Has-dell
• Wes "Cabbage" Cor-rear-ria vs. James Thompson
• Edson Drago vs. "Smilin" Gary Turner
• Dave Leg-gen-oh vs. Herb Dean
• Mark Buchannan vs. "The Sweeny" James McSweeny (K-1 fight?)
• Paul Cha-hoon vs. Mark Epstein
• Ross Pointon vs. Dean Bray

7/14 - BoDogFight

• Championship Match - Eddie Alverez vs. Matt Lee
• Championship Match - Trevor Prangley vs. Yuki Kondo
• Jorge Masvidal vs. Yves Edwards
• "The Brandon Lee Hinkle Experience" vs. ROMAN Zentsov
• Amar Suloev vs. Chael Sonnen
• Mike Burch vs. Yoshiki Takehashi

7/16 - K-1 HEROS Middleweight GP Qualifiers

• Cowl Uno vs. Kat-sue-he-ko Na-ga-ta
• He-day-oh To-ko-ro vs. "The Black Mamba" Kul-tar Gill
• Vitor "Shoulin" He-bear-rio vs. Kazoo-you-key Me-ya-ta
• JZ Calvan vs. Andre Dida
  

TV Calendar

Wednesday (6/27)

9:00PM - 10:00PM CT - WrekCage

10:00PM - 11:00PM Ct - Tapout

 

Thursday (6/28)

 

Friday (6/29)

FSN: IFL (11 pm on most FSN affiliates)

Saturday (6/30)

Sunday (7/1)

Monday (7/2)

7-9 PM IFL Battleground - MyNetwork TV

Tuesday (7/3)

 

ION: BodogFIGHT (11 et / 10 ct)

Oxygen: FightGirls (10:30 / 9:30 ct)

Previews

UFC 73

Nate Marquardt (6'0"~185~28-6-1)  VS Anderson "The Spider" Silva (6'2"~185~18-4-0)

Anderson Silva

• Middleweight Champion
• Former Chute Boxe fighter
• World class Muy Thai expert
• Under-appreciated ground game
• First PRIDE fighter crossover
• highly experienced
  

Nate Marquardt

• Multi Pancrase Middleweight champ

• Muy Thai expert
• Young gun
• Heavy hands
• sick grappling
• Bad Matchup for Nate
  

Hermes Franca (5'6"~155~19-5-0) VS Sean Sherk (5'6"~155~35-2-1)

Sean Sherk

• Lightweight champion
• World class Wrestler
• Coming off of rehab and surgery
  • Last fought for the championship against Kenny Florian
  • Been out of action x months
• Very experienced
  

Hermes Franca

• Very exciting fighter
• Really on a tear in the last year (x wins)
• Was demoted to WEC at one time for losing

Rashad Evans (5'11"~205~15-0-0) VS Tito Ortiz (6'2"~204~16-5-0)

Tito Ortiz

• UFC ex-champion
• GNP expert
• Thrives on being a bully
• 3 wins against Ken Shamrock and 1 against Forrest Griffin are his latest conquests
  

Rashad Evans

• TUF Season 3 Champion
• Excellent wrestler
• Wins against Keith Jardine, Forrest Griffin?, Shawn Salmon
• Was a can, liked to sit in guard
• Been much more dynamic lately
• Pete Jackson camp

Heath Herring (6'4"~250~27-12-1) VS Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (6'1"~240~29-4-1)

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

• Big Nog
• PRIDE veteran
• World Class BJJ expert
• Only Kryptonite is Fedor Emelianenko (2 losses)
• Wins against Josh Barnett, CroCop, Mark Coleman
  

Heath Herring

• WFA acquisition
• Lost first fight back in UFC
• Won against Brad Imes in his last fight
• Well-rounded fighter
  

Alvin Robinson (5'8"~(173 cm)~155~9-1-0) VS Kenny Florian (5'10"~155~8-3-0)

Kenny Florian

• TUF Season 1 Finalist
• dropped to lightweight and has excelled since
• recently lost to Sean Sherk but damaged him so much he couldn't fight for 9 mo's
• Nasty Elbows
• Very good ground game
• Above average hands

Alvin Robinson

• Don't know him much
  

Mike Nickels (6'4"~205~5-1-0) VS Stephan Bonnar (6'4"~205~12-4-0)

Stephan Bonnar

• TUF Season 1 Finalist
• Known for Top 5 fight with Forrest Griffin in first UFC fight on cable
• Gracie product
• Recently tested positive for Boldenone and coming off suspension
• Middle tier fighter
• Decent hands and ground game
  

Mike Nickels

• TUF alumni
• Very good hands
• ground game?
• heavily tatooed
  

Diego Saraiva (5'6"~155~9-4-1) VS Jorge Gurgel (5'9"~155~13-2-0)

Chris Lytle (5'11"~170~32-14-4) VS TBA

Mark Bocek (5'8"~155~4-0-0) VS Frank Edgar (5'6"~155~6-0-0)

Reviews

Interviews

Tito Ortiz

Conclusions