Upcoming MMA Cards....

[LEONARD]

added

Soa Palalei signed 3 fight deal, fight debut against Eddie Sanchez at UFC 79

LW Per Eklund signed 4 fight deal...will debut at UFC 80 in New Castle
http://asgardmma.com/2007/10/24/per-eklund-in-ufc/

ShoXC card for tomorrow
http://bloodyelbow.com/story/2007/10/23/191811/17

[LEONARD]

updated...

Sat Night - LIVE on MyNetworkTV at 7:00 CT (First live IFL event)

http://www.ifl.tv/Event-Grand-Prix.html

IFL Grand Prix: NOVEMBER 3, 2007 (Chicago)
LW - Chris Horodecki vs Bart Palaszewski
LW - Wagnney Fabiano vs John Gunderson.
WW - Donnie Liles vs Jay Hieron
WW - Delson Heleno vs Gideon Ray
MW - Benji Radach vs Brent Beauparlant
MW - Matt Horwich vs Brian Foster
LHW - Vladimir Matyushenko vs Alex Schoenauer
HW - Bryan Vetell vs Roy "Buffalo Head" Nelson
HW - Antoine Jaoude vs Shane Ott

Horodecki vs Palaszewski alone makes it a can’t miss…

[mardigan]

Hey Leonard, whats the deal with Josh Barnett? Who is he fighting for and when will he fight again?

[LEONARD]

No clue...I think Monte Cox said they've talked to him (M-1) but he said he's close to signing with somebody else. Who knows!!

[Evan]

Hey Leonard, whats the deal with Josh Barnett? Who is he fighting for and when will he fight again?

Probably sitting somewhere over estimating his value.

[Evan]

UFC 78: Validation scheduled for the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. on Nov. 17.

Rashad Evans vs. Michael Bisping
Karo Parisyan vs. Ryo Chonan
Houston Alexander vs. Thiago Silva
David Terrell vs. Ed Herman
Spencer Fisher vs. Frankie Edgar
Joe Lauzon vs. Jason Reinhardt
Chris Lytle vs. Thiago Alves
Luke Caudillo vs. Marcus Aurelio
Akihiro Gono vs. Tamden McCrory


Not the best card but not as bad as people are making it out to be.

[LEONARD]

Don't forget...2 live IFL fights on Saturday night on regular TV...
Chris Horodecki vs Bart Palaszewski
Vladimir Matyushenko vs Alex Schoenauer


IFL Grand Prix: NOVEMBER 3, 2007 (Chicago) - LIVE on MyNetworkTV at 7:00 CT
LW - Chris Horodecki vs Bart Palaszewski
LW - Wagnney Fabiano vs John Gunderson.
WW - Donnie Liles vs Jay Hieron
WW - Delson Heleno vs Gideon Ray
MW - Benji Radach vs Brent Beauparlant
MW - Matt Horwich vs Brian Foster
LHW - Vladimir Matyushenko vs Alex Schoenauer
HW - Bryan Vetell vs Roy "Buffalo Head" Nelson
HW - Antoine Jaoude vs Shane Ott


also made some updates...

EliteXC: NOVEMBER 10, 2007 (Corpus Christi, TX)
- Nick Diaz vs KJ Noons (LW le)
- Jake Shields vs Mike Pyle
- Kimbo vs Bo Cantrell
- James Thompson vs Jon Murphy
- Antonio Silva vs Jonathan Wiezorek
- Yves Edwards vs Moses Baca
- Seth Kleinbeck vs Kyle Noke


UFC 80: JANUARY XX, 2008 in New Castle England ( e TV)
-BJ Penn vs Joe Stevenson (LW le)
-Werdum vs Gonzaga
-Sam Stout vs. Terry Etim
-Bonnar vs Machida
-Per Eklund vs TBA
-Kendall Grove vs TBA


UFC 81 - Feb 2, 2007 - Las Vegas
-Big Nog vs TBA (Couture?)
-Brock Lesnar vs TBA


Feb 15th - M-1 Global in Chicago
-Fedor Emelianenko vs TBA

[Evan]

-BJ Penn vs Joe Stevenson (LW le)

This could be true in 2 weeks.

-Feb 15th - M-1 Global in Chicago
-Fedor Emelianenko vs TBA

They better do this right and have a solid card.

[mardigan]

Probably sitting somewhere over estimating his value.

You think he's overated? I think he could win the UFC hw belt pretty easily

[Evan]

You think he's overated?

Depends on how you look at it.

I think he overates himself moneywise.

I am basing this off his blog posts on myspace whenever he comments on who and where he wants to fight.

[Evan]

The Carioca Gabriel “Napao”Gonzaga (8-2-0) finally shall have a chance to avenge his knockout loss to Fabricio Werdum (9-3-1) in Jungle Fight 1, in September, 2003. Marco Alvan, leader of Team Link confirmed today exclusively to Graciemag.com that the battle between the black belts will take place in January, at UFC 80, in Newcastle, England.

[dallaskd]

The Carioca Gabriel “Napao”Gonzaga (8-2-0) finally shall have a chance to avenge his knockout loss to Fabricio Werdum (9-3-1) in Jungle Fight 1, in September, 2003. Marco Alvan, leader of Team Link confirmed today exclusively to Graciemag.com that the battle between the black belts will take place in January, at UFC 80, in Newcastle, England.

That should be a of a fight. I dont think Werdum is a top 10 HW, Arlovski handled him too easily.

[dallaskd]

haha when my eyes first scanned over that post by evan i saw the word "jungle". and the first thought was Sokus back!!!!

[Evan]

I think its great he is on the shelf right now. He is so young and he needs to round his game. I want to see him fight but sometimes these guys need to stall and train.

[LEONARD]

Lots of updates...

Strikeforce NOVEMBER 16, 2007 @ the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif
-Cung Le vs Sam Morgan


UFC 79: DECEMBER 29, 2007 ON PAY-PER-VIEW (LAS VEGAS, NV)
-Manny Gamburyan vs Nate Mohr


UFC 80: JANUARY XX, 2008 in New Castle England ( e TV)
-Sam Stout vs. Per Eklund
-Marcus Davis vs. Jess Liaudin
-Paul Taylor vs. Paul Kelly
-Kendall Grove vs Jorge Rivera
-Antoni Hardonk vs. Colin Robinson


UFC 81 - Feb 2, 2007 - Las Vegas
-Big Nog vs Tim Sylvia (HW le) - pending Couture news
-Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir
-Tyson Griffin vs Gleison Tibau


Feb 15th - M-1 Global in Chicago
-Fedor Emelianenko vs Jeff Monson

[Evan]

Feb 15th - M-1 Global in Chicago
-Fedor Emelianenko vs Jeff Monson

Shaky.

[dallaskd]

That's gonna be ugly

[oligarchy]

Shaky.

People were ing about Monson fighting Sylvia and how he shouldn't even be in the ring with Sylvia. Of course, they wanted Monson to win, but that's the nature of Sylvia's fan afair. It's going to be worse with him fighting Fedor. Interesting fight to anybody? Fedor was taken down quite frequently by Arona in their RINGS fight, so I believe that Jeff can get him to the ground. Can he do anything with it though? He couldn't submit Sylvia.

[Evan]

Just to clarify, what I mean by shaky is shaky as in its going to happen. Its seems every time a non UFC organization needs a "Big Name" to fight at HW in the main event, its him as a possibility. I can't even keep track of how many times I have seen his name on a card and the fight happens and he is nowhere to be found.

But, I find this somewhat of an interesting match up and likely he will face Fedor, next Rizzo if they can't get Jeff. It still won't get many people to buy the PPV if they can't do better than that. Even Josh Barnett won't help much. They need a solid top to bottom card. MMA PPV's are about the entire card and the main event as gravy. Fedor means ZERO to the vast majority of MMA fans, who are only UFC fans.

M-1 will fail and it will fail badly. I wish Fedor had gone to EliteXC if not the UFC.

[oligarchy]

HDNET Fights "Reckless Abandon"
American Airlines Center
Dallas, Texas
Dec 15th 2007

Current Fight Card:
Sean Salmon vs. Jason "Mayhem" Miller
Chris Bowles vs. Cory Mahon
Pete Spratt vs. Tristan Yunker
Patrick Castillo vs. Jay White
Freddie Espiricueta vs. CB Dollaway

[LEONARD]

add Trigg vs Dewees, among others to that...
http://www.mmahaven.com/2007/11/08/e...-hdnet-fights/

[LEONARD]

added...

UFC 79
-Doug Evans vs Mark Bocek
-James Irvin vs TBA (Sokodjou??)

UFC 80
-Alessio Sakara vs James Lee

I've been wondering where Lee was...he flat dominated Travis Wiuff at Pride 33...

[oligarchy]

UFC 79
-Doug Evans vs Mark Bocek
-James Irvin vs TBA (Sokodjou??)

I thought I read somewhere (I can't find the stupid link) that the match was Lyoto Machida and Sokodjou. Now that would be a test for Sokodjou. Are you making a guess at the Irvin fight? It would seem logical though rather than feeding him to Machida.

[LEONARD]

Machida is the stronger rumor now...

Irvin has been rumor'd on the card for a while but no matchup, so there was speculation that it'd be him...

[oligarchy]

Dan Henderson versus Anderson Silva, UFC 82 (in Ohio)