Archive for June, 2008
Dewees Replaces White at Affliction: Banned
Posted by Selina Wong on June 30th, 2008“Babyface” Edwin Dewees (35-12; 1 NC) has signed on to fight “Minotoro” Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (13-3) at Affliction’s 19 July event in Anaheim, he confirmed to Full Contact Fighter this weekend.
Dewees replaces “Tiger” Vernon White (26-32-2), who was pulled from the card after he tested positive for a banned diuretic.
Dewees is excited to face Nogueira and said, “This is going to be my first fight at 205, now that I’m bigger, and I wanted to fight somebody good right away. My confidence is higher than it’s ever been and I’m really excited to get an opponent like this to show what I got at 205.”
His last match was a submission win over Richard Blake (4-7) in April, ending a four-fight losing streak.
Nogueira last fought in February, when he TKO’d Todd Gouwenberg (7-4) in the second round.
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Wellisch: “I love the UFC.”
Posted by Chad Edward on June 29th, 2008Heavyweight “Hungarian Nightmare” Christian Wellisch (8-4) loves the UFC, and told Fighters.com about it Thursday at Javier Mendez’s American Kickboxing Academy after the afternoon pro training session.
Wellisch also told Fighters.com, “I was never out,” after getting stung by a Shane Carwin (9-0) right hook 44 seconds into their fight 24 May in Las Vegas. The referee ruled a knockout.
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The Fickett Saga Ends…
Posted by Chad Edward on June 29th, 2008Maximum Fighting Championship President Mark Pavelich announced Sunday that Drew Fickett (34-5) will not fight “Real Deal” Ryan Ford (6-0) for the MFC welterweight title.
“Drew Fickettwill never fight in the MFC,” Pavelich said.
Fickett was contracted to fight Ford in Edmonton 25 July, but agreed on a day’s notice to fill-in for “Diesel” Joe Riggs (27-10) Friday in San Jose after Riggs was denied a license by the California State Athletic Commission.
Pavelich said, “We were shocked to learn Drew agreed on one day’s notice to fight as a middleweight in another organization’s event this past Friday. When I contacted this other organization, its owner immediately cancelled Drew’s fight when informed that he was under contract to fight on the MFC show and as part of Mr. Fickett’s contract he was not allowed to take another fight up to five weeks before the MFC show.”
Fickett told MMA Rated that, “Some jerk-off wanna-be like promoter, some tough guy, like calls us and he’s like pullin’ the frickin’ contract card on me. I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t care. I just want to fight.’ This guy’s like, ‘Oh, you M-F this, you M-F that, frickin’ son-of-a-bitch. I’m going to fly down there and I’m going to kill you.’”
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Shields: “If [Thompson] wants to fight me, he better watch what he asks for.”
Posted by Chad Edward on June 29th, 2008Fighters.com caught eighth-ranked welterweight Jake Shields (20-4-1) on his way to a date in San Jose Thursday night and asked him about his upcoming EliteXC title fight versus ninth-ranked “Goat” Nick Thompson (36-9-1).
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J-Lau Draws Bradley
Posted by Chad Edward on June 28th, 2008“J-Lau” Joe Lauzon (16-4) announced Saturday that he will fight lightweight Kyle Bradley (13-5) in Omaha 17 September.
Bradley took a man-sized 33-second ass whoopin’ from welterweight “Lights Out” Chris Lytle (25-15-5), but had taken the fight at 170-pounds on short notice.
“J-Lau” has fewer excuses for the thrashing he suffered through in April courtesy of Fighters.com’s seventh-ranked lightweight “KenFlo” Kenny Florian (9-3).
Omaha will host SpikeTV-broadcast UFC Fight Night 14 headlined by another lightweight thriller between TUF 6 Champ Mac Danzig (18-4-1) and “Carpenter” Clay Guida (23-9).
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Thomson: “There was no way I was going to lose this fight.”
Posted by Chad Edward on June 28th, 2008Strikeforce Lightweight Champion “Punk” Josh Thomson (15-2) talked to reporters in San Jose 27 June, 2008 after taking the title from “El Niño” Gilbert Melendez (14-2) by unanimous decision.
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AKA MMA Part 2
Posted by Chad Edward on June 28th, 2008UFC heavyweights “Hungarian Nightmare” Christian Wellisch (8-4) and Cain Velasquez (3-0) roll on the mat at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose Thursday.
Velasquez is a rising star in the UFC heavyweight division, debuting in the Octagon in April with a TKO of Brad Morris (9-3) in 2:10.
Fighters.com confirmed Velasquez will fight “Irish” Jake O’Brien (10-1) next.
Wellisch (8-4) is a veteran of four Octagon battles, going 2-2.
After getting knocked out in May by Octagon debuting Shane Carwin (9-0), Wellisch awaits a call from the UFC for his next showing.
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Southworth: “I’d like to maybe fight some bigger names.”
Posted by Chad Edward on June 28th, 2008Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Bobby Southworth (9-5) talked to reporters Friday in San Jose after defending his title from “El Toro” Anthony Ruiz (20-11) in a five-round UD.
Southworth spoke about where he’s come from and where he’s going, the prospect of landing bigger fights, and the crowd’s reaction to his victory.
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Melendez: “I wouldn’t mind running that [fight] back.”
Posted by Chad Edward on June 28th, 2008After his loss to “Punk” Josh Thomson (15-2) Friday in San Jose, “El Niño” Gilbert Melendez (14-2) spoke to reporters.
Melendez seemed comfortable with the loss and actually entered the press conference in better condition than Thomson, despite losing by 50-45 on all cards.
Thomson Topples Melendez, Southworth Defends at Strikeforce
Posted by Chad Edward on June 27th, 2008“Punk” Josh Thomson (15-2) won a five-round unanimous decision over “El Niño” Gilbert Melendez (14-2) for the Strikeforce lightweight title Friday night in San Jose by scores of 50-45 on all three cards.
“[Melendez] is the toughest motherfucker I’ve ever fought,” Thomson declared after dominating the former top ten 155-pounder.
In the final round, Thomson landed a front kick to Melendez’s face as if to say, “All night, Gil”
All night, Thomson kept Melendez at bay with a front kick. And, when Melendez passed that, he got zapped with a jab, and a hammered with a knee after that.
Melendez stalked for five rounds, right hand cocked; but, Thomson never set long enough for Melendez to get a beat on him with his knockout punch.
In the fourth and fifth rounds, Thomson shot and scored takedowns, nearly finding a rear naked choke as the fourth round dinged closed.
But, Melendez was just out-kickboxed in every round and gassed trying to corner Thomson for the big shot.
Stack Attacks Palacios
Crowd favorite Bobby Stack (5-1) out-wrestled lightweight San Shou fighter Jose Palacios (3-1) over three rounds for a UD by scores of 29-28 three times.
The southpaw Palacios’s right hook over Stack’s jab convinced Stack to take the fight to the mat after that punch popped Stack’s mouthpiece free in the first round.
Stack took damage for the single-leg shots, but muscled Palacios down and nearly sank an armbar with 25 seconds left in round two.
Stack declined the stand-up again in the third session and rode Palacios across the mat most of the round, though Palacios defended adeptly. The “W” was sealed in the last half of the round when Stack mounted and landed shots to Palcios’s head.
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