Combat Sports: An Encyclopedia

trianglejake:

Kurt Osiander - Leg drag pass variation

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flowwiththeroll:

Caio Terra vs Rodrigo Simoes

That kind of happened out of nowhere. 

This Week in Combat Sports (4/22 - 2//28)

We have another great week of action to finish up one an incredible month for combat sports. Just a heads up, finals are around the corner so I’ll be ghost for most of the week.

MMA

• Super Fight League 16: April 26 - headlined by Sascha Sharma (there is an entertaining video of him tapping a white belt that looks like he’s a good 50+lbs on him. He’s one of the rare Indian submission specialist that doesn’t the bulldog choke on his resume.That’s the extent of my knowledge on him.) His opponent is the 2-4 Spaniard Marc Gomez Sariol. My interest, however, lies in the kickboxing champion in the co-main event. The beautiful biter Lena Ovchynnikova, who’s probably best known for being 0-2 in SFL by critical WMMA fans. Her opponent is Lina Eklund. What’s most interesting about Lena’s bout, is that she’s scheduled to be in China to fight the very next day on a Muay Thai card that will be discussed later on.
• DEEP 62 Impact - Deep continues to troll us by putting together a fantastic card while having no stream, only promising that they’re working on their online service. Anyway, we have three title fights headlining this one. In the main event Satoru Kitoaka coming off loss to Will Brooks at NYE looks to snatch the DEEP lightweight title from Daisuke Nakamura in what has all the makings of a good fight. DEEP bantamweight champ and one of the most exciting bantamweights in the world, Yoshiro Maeda defends his DEEP bantamweight title from DJ.Taiki. Following the lackluster way his Bellator run ended, Dan Hornbuckle looks to turn it around Japan when he challenges DEEP Welterweight champ Yuya Shirai. Masanori Kanehara (who has wins over the Korean Zombie, Kid Yamamoto, and Michihiro Omigawa) looks to make it 5 in a row with a win over Wade Choate as he fights to finally secure a deal with the UFC. Akihiro Gono makes his return after a Michael Chandler clubbing last May and announcing his retirement. He fights Taisuke Okuno.
• Legend FC 11: April 27 - LFC makes their long awaited return after taking an 8 month hiatus because who the hell knows. WIth their fighters finally able to fight again, we’ll be getting 3 title fights on this one. In the main event we have top Chinese lightweight, Jadamba Narantungalag, defending his LW title against Japanese LW Koji Ando. With Myung Ho Bae being conscripted to the S. Korean army, we’ll be getting a welterweight title fight between Luke Jumeau of New Zealand and China’s Jingliang Li. The final title fight is at bantamweight and will feature submission special Xian Ji and Agustin Delarmino from the Philippines. Yeah, LFC wants more Chinese champs bad, understandably of course. If these fights go to decision, we already know who wins.
• UFC 159: April 27- What’s left to say about this main event. We all know what the main event is. We all know who we’re rooting for. We all know what is most likely to be the outcome. All that said, doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the ride. On the undercard, we have some good looking match ups. The dirty boxing Michael Bisping and the Duke Roufus standout Alan Belcher will meet in the co main event, hopefully settling all this trash talk. The top two gatekeepers at heavyweight face off when Roy Nelson takes on Cheick Kongo. D1 wrestling champ Phil Davis takes on Jiu Jitsu world champion Vinny Magalhaes in what will be an incredible grappling bout or an ugly ass kickboxing match. The main card is round out with a fight between my fellow Jersey boy Jim Miller and prospect-eater Pat Healy. The prelims are full of great match ups as well. Mexican superhero Erik Perez Mr. Tate aka Bryan “Ronda by Armbar” Caraway meets fellow TUF 14 alum and big as fuck bantamweight Johnny Brutal Bedford. Gian Villante finally gets to square off against fellow Strikeforce vet Ovince St. Preux. Olympic silver medalist Sara McMann makes her UFC debut after much anticipation against (what I assume will be) a bloated Sheila Gaff. Russian Combat Sambo champion and Kurt Angle impersonator Rustam Khabilov is back in the octagon and will face Strikeforce import Yancy Medeiros. In what I can only assume is a loser leaves town fight, Leonard Garcia will look for his first “win” in a long time (I count about 9 fights) when he takes on ‘that guy with the guillotine’ Cody McKenzie. (Note that Aoki was too much of a one trick pony for Dana, but Cody does his (literally) one trick so well that Dana was like fuck it, get this kid a deal.)

Boxing

• Sergio Martinez vs Martin Murray: April 27 - One of the topP4P boxer on the planet, Sergio Martinez looks to continue his dominance over the middleweight division when he defends his WBC title against the undefeated Brit Martin Murray. On the undercard we get Claudia Andrea Lopez and Dahiana Santana fighting for the IBF Featherweight title. Also on the undercard is a bout between Argentinian Luis Carlos Abregu and Canadian Antonin Decarie for the WBC Silver welterweight title.
• Zab Judah vs Danny Garcia: April 27 - At the Barclays Center (I guess the Nets didn’t think they’d make the playoffs) Zab Judah, who’s coming off knocking off an undefeated Vernon Paris, and Danny Garcia, who’s coming off knockouts of Erik Morales and Amir Khan, will battle it out for WBC, WBA, and the Ring Lightweight titles. Peter Quillin vs Fernando Guerrero is also on the undercard.
• Amir Khan vs Julio Diaz - Khan hopes to continue off the initial success he found with new trainer Virgil Hunter when he takes on Julio Diaz. On the undercard, Haroon Khan (Amir’s brother) will make his pro debut against Stefan Slavchev. Also, undefeated American heavyweight Deontay Wilder takes on one the UK’s top heavyweights in Audley Harrison.
• Bermane Stiverne vs Chris Arreola - One of America’s top heavyweights, Chris Arreola, takes on the 22-1-1 Bermane Stiverne from Canada.

Muay Thai and Kickboxing

• C3: Simon Marcus vs Dmitry Valent: April 27 - Top light heavyweight Simon Marcus goes back to China to fight Dmitry Valent (at least, it’s one opponent this time). Strangely enough, Lena Ovchynnikova makes her second appearance on this post. She’s scheduled to fight Tang Ji the day after her MMA fight with SFL.
  
• Kings of Kombat 9: After getting his knee kicked in at Glory 5, Steve Moxon returns to take on Dzhabar Askerov.
  

Other stuff going on:

• IBJJF - Vegas Spring International Open IBJJF Championship:good luck to anyone competing in the LV open.
  
• K-1 World Qualifying Tour 2013 in Vilnius: K-1 continues to not advertise their shows. Artur Kyshenko is on the card as well as 3 heavyweight and 3 max fights.
  
• URCC 23 - Unrivaled: The Philippines continue to put on entertaining cards. Not entirely clear on who’s fighting but the URCC are the ones who first showcased the Team Lakay fighters that are putting on some great fights in One FC. We could be seeing more talent erupt from this.
• Imperium - headlined by K-1 vet and Karate Champion Ewerton Teixeira.
  
• UWC Mexico - New Blood 2: With the UFC looking to capture Mexico like Hernan Cortes, it might be fruitful to watch some Mexican MMA events to see who’d be on TUF Mexico (if and when that happens).
  

trianglejake:

Roger Gracie Vs Jacare - 2005 Europeans

emerald-archer87:

BJJ Concepts: Becoming a Guard Passing Finisher - Jason Scully

This Week in Combat Sports (4/15-4/21)

I should really set a day of the week for these posts. I feel like I do them whenever. Anyway, April continues to heat up with some great fights happening this week.

• EFC Africa 19: April 19th - Africa’s biggest promotion returns with a whole new card. This card is headlined by two of the best 145ers in Africa, Demarte Pena and Wentzel Nel. Also on the card is Martin van Staden (who’s 5-1 in EFC Africa) who’ll fight Adam Speechly. The prelims are free and the main card (only 3 fights) is $25.
• IBJJF New York Open 2013: April 20th - Biggest Jiu Jitsu competition in the Northeast US. Good luck to everyone who plans on competing this year. Hopefully I’ll be there next year. 
• Tyson Fury vs Steve Cunningham: April 20th - Heavyweight boxing returns to MSG. Outspoken and undefeated British heavyweight Tyson Fury comes stateside for the first time to take on one of the US’ best heavyweights in Steve Cunningham. With promoters saying Fury is only two fights away from fighting Wladimir Klitschko, you can bet there is gonna be big interest in this one.
• XFC 23 Louisville Slugfest: April 19th - Regional MMA with the headliner being former UFC fighter Shamar Bailey taking on Bellator vet  Luis “Sapo” Santos. If you’re interested check AXS TV Friday night.
• Celestino Caballero vs Robinson Castellanos: April 20th - Card featuring 3 world title fights. The headliner between Caballero and Castellanos (ranked 10th) for the WBC silver featherweight belt. Also featured on the undercard is Alicia Ashley vs Chanttall Martinez (ranked #3 at BW in the world) for the WBC super bantamweight title.
• Christian Mijares vs Vikingo Terrazas: April 20th - title fight
• UFC on Fox 7: April 20th - I have nothing negative to say about this card. Every single fight interests me and holds some sort of weight. Will write about it later to fully expound on how awesome it is. For now let’s go with Olympic Wrestler, Strikeforce GP Champion, and undefeated Daniel Cormier makes his UFC debut against former UFC Heavyweight champ Frank Mir. In the main event we get a lightweight title fight between UFC champ Benson Henderson and Strikeforce Lightweight Champ Gilbert Melendez.
• Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs Austin Trout: April 20th - Trout is coming off of ruining the Canelo camp’s plans for a Cotto-Canelo fight by upsetting Cotto himself. Mexico’s next superstar looks to end most of the questions about how “unproven” he is. Trout looks to shake any talks about how far he can go. Battle of the prospects in Omar Figueroa-Abner Cotto also on the undercards.
• Glory 7: April 20th - Being in Milan, it’s only fitting that the best kickboxer in the world headlines in his home country. Giorgio Petrosyan fights Hafid El Boustati in the main event. On the under card we have Artem Levin taking former It’s Showtime -85kg champion Sahak Parparyan. Rico Verhoeven will take on Jhonata Diniz (who’s got some buzz based off his performance against Daniel Ghita during the NYE show). Murthel Groenhart returns to Glory a K-1 GP champion and looks to continue the momentum he built up in 2012 by beating Glory 2012 Middleweight Tournament runner up Robin van Roosmalen. Australian Muay Thai champ Steve McKinnon makes his Glory debut against Nenad Pagonis. And more of course, but it’s gonna be a great card for standup fans.
  

• Fight Nights - Battle of Moscow 11: April 20 Headlined by a flyweight title bout between Russia’s top flyweight Ali Bagautinov and Japan’s Seiji Ozuka. Sambo Champion Shamil Zavurov (of Dagestan!), a man who has been considered just as good a talent as Alex Sarnavskiy, will fight Thiago Meller of Brazil. Shamil is signed to Bellator, so look forward to seeing him stateside sometime this year. Also featured on the card e have Murad Machaev, a Bellator vet who’s only loss was to Marcin Held, takes on Andrius Hobaldo.

Other Fights not featured above:

• Shooto - Gig Tokyo 14: Will be headlined between two Japanese bantamweight prospects in Yuta Saski and Kota Onojima.
• Pancrase - Sakaguchi Dojo vs. Pancrase: April 21st - Headlined by top Japanese middleweight and dancer Ryo Kawamura and Kosei Kubota. Other fights to watch are Kikuyo Ishikawa (Invicta FC fighter) vs Miyoko Kusaka and Top Japanese Flyweight Mitsuhisa Sunabe vs Shingo Yakul.