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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Despite earning Strikeforce’s first-ever 135-pound title in the main event of Friday’s “Strikeforce Challengers VI” event in San Jose, Calif., Canadian Sarah Kaufman was unable to deliver the type of brutal striking finish that has quickly Nevertheless, after earning all five rounds of a 25-minute affair with grappling ace Takayo [...] You’ll excuse Strikeforce’s Trevor Prangley (22-5 MMA, 3-1 SF) if he’s not buying into the hype. Prangley’s opponent at tonight’s “Strikeforce Challengers VI: Kaufman vs. Hashi” event in San Jose, Calif., Karl Amoussou (11-2-1 MMA, 0-0 SF), enters the contest as a much ballyhooed prospect. But Prangley, a nine-year veteran, has dealt with his share of [...] Props: Tatame.com Quoteworthy: “This isn’t jiu-jitsu, it’s MMA, a sport that involves many techniques and elements. It’s hard to say that I would beat him standing up and he would defeat me on the canvas. Logically, each one of us owns a specialty but a fight is always a fight. MMA is a new sport and there’s [...] The UFC’s first-ever lightweight champion, current WEC featherweight Jens Pulver has never felt better. While that might be difficult to believe when it relates to a 35-year-old prizefighter who has just one win in his past seven trips Since electing to end a brief retirement, [...] Gray Maynard is a pretty grounded and patient dude. That’s why it was shocking to see him lose his cool and throw his gameplan out the window at Ultimate Fight Night 20 against Nate Diaz. With an impressive win, Maynard was in line to get the next shot at B.J. Penn’s UFC lightweight title. It [...] Props: ShoSports Quoteworthy: “I’m proud to be doing what I do. I wasn’t hurt at all [in this fight]. My lip got cut a little, but I wasn’t hurt, I was fine…. My gameplan was that I am a better all-around fighter than him, so I was going take what I was going to get. Try and [...] Putting together a gameplan for an opponent known as “One Punch” would seem a simple task. Kyle Dietz (5-2 MMA, 0-2 WEC) found that assumption untrue when he was submitted by Brad Pickett (18-4 MMA, 1-0 WEC) via Peruvian necktie at December’s WEC 45 event. The slick move earned the WEC newcomer the evening’s “Submission of [...] Anytime you fight a Diaz it can turn ugly. Nate and his brother Nick, have a way of throwing guys off their games physically and mentally. Nate threw a wrench into Maynard’s smooth path to a UFC lightweight title shot. “The Bully” became a one punch fighter and brawler but it was just enough to [...] Chris Leben has plenty of experience and he’s shown a pretty well-rounded game at times but he’s known for his penchant to slug away standing. Leben clearly had a gameplan it involved not playing into Silva’s only strength, his stand-up game. Leben scored takedowns in all three rounds and rolled to a unanimous decision win, [...] World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) will begin the new decade with a bang this Sunday night (Jan. 10) when lightweight champion Jamie “C-4″ Varner and interim title holder Ben “Smooth” Henderson meet to unify their belts in the main event of WEC 46 from the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California. The main card, including the featured 155 [...] |
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