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FURY MMA – 10th June 2012

FURY MMA was held on Sunday June 10th at The Coronet Theatre at The Elephant & Castle, London. The capital city could not have been a better place to host this night of action-packed fights including two battles for the FURY MMA Lightweight Belt and The FURY MMA Heavyweight Belt. Heavyweight stuff? Damn right. Promoters Steve and Dan had obviously put a lot of thought into this fight card which showed as the night of great action unfolded.

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Cage Girls Carmela, Jazz and Jessica added the glamour for the evening but were not just pretty faces and were a credit to LSA. Thanks to Judges Huseyin Garabet and Sam Amidi, Ring announcer Jim Greenan and Officials Dan Movahedi and last but certainly not least Garth Harriman. On the scene was London Ambulance Service who attended to any injured fighters.

The Dan and Stephen Interview with Fury Co-Owners Dan and Stephen

FURY MMA INTERVIEW

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Heavyweight Title Fight

Paul Saunders vs. Tomasz Czerwinski
Neither fighter was in the mood for the feeling-out-process, engaging in a frantic brawl right from the off. Czerwinski backed Saunders up against the fence, but Saunders was able to reverse the position. From the clinch Czerwinski fired off a series of knees to his opponent’s abdomen and escaped off the cage, before uncorking a thunderous straight-right that had Saunders staggered and on the back foot. A few more shots from the Polish giant were all that was needed to separate the Brit from his senses and leave him crumpled on the mat.
Tomasz Czerwinski defeats Paul Saunders by KO – Rnd 1 1:09 – to become the Fury MMA heavyweight champion.

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Co Main Event

Vitor Silva vs. Nigel Whitear
Despite a tentative start from both fighters, this lightweight title clash between Silva and Whitear was a gruelling back and forth battle with plenty of excitement. Whitear came close with a looping overhand-right late in the first, then slipped the jab and followed up with a series of leg kicks. Silva managed to catch one kick and drove his opponent to the floor, where he unleashed a barrage of vicious shots. Whitear looked to secure an arm bar just as the first round came to a close.
A spinning back fist from Silva got the second round off to a flying start. Whitear responded with a leg kick, which Silva was able to catch and slam his opponent to the mat and fire off several quick shots before Whitear was able to scramble back to his feet. This time it was Whitear’s turn to catch his opponent’s kick and he managed to connect with a straight-right to the chin that had the Brazilian reeling back against the cage. Silva shot in for the takedown, but Whitear managed to wind up in top position, where he went to work with a brutal display of ground and pound that soon had Silva bloodied up. Despite visibly looking rocked, Silva was able to latch onto his opponent’s leg and ride out the remainder of the round.
Whitear opened the third stanza by landing a crisp 1-2 combo, Silva looked for the takedown, but Whitear just shrugged him off. Using his jab to pepper the face of his opponent, Whitear seemed to step up a gear and began to take the fight to Silva. A spinning back fist from Whitear was partially blocked by Silva, who then shot in for the takedown. Whitear was able to out-power the tired Brazilian and worked his way into top-position just as the buzzer signalled the end of the fight.
Nigel Whitear defeats Vitor Silva via unanimous decision and is crowned the new Fury MMA lightweight champion.

 

Mak Mwanza vs. Gary Duffy
Duffy landed a leg kick early on, but Mwanza clinched and backed his opponent up against the fence. A slam from Duffy took the action to the ground and despite landing in his opponent’s guard, Mwanza was able to escape off the bottom and look for a darce choke. Duffy did a good job of scrambling back to his feet, but found himself locked in a standing guillotine just as the first round drew out.
Both fighters came out swinging in the second round. Duffy was able to trip his opponent to the mat, but Mwanza managed to roll free and take Duffy’s back and lock in a rear-naked choke. Duffy worked valiantly to roll over as he tried desperately to work himself free by kicking off the side of the cage, but with no options left he had no choice but to tap.
Mak Mwanza defeats Gary Duffy by tap out due to a rear-naked choke – Rnd 2 0:29
Paula Donnelly vs. Khadija Nathaniel
In the solo female MMA bout of the evening, Donnelly and Nathaniel set pulses racing with a relentless back and forth battle that took place over every square inch of the cage. As the fighters touched gloves, Nathaniel wasted no time in launching her assault and trading punches with Donnelly. From the clinch, Donnelly was able to back her opponent up against the fence, where Nathaniel found herself having a point deducted for repeatedly grabbing the cage. Nathaniel was able to finish the round strong by taking her opponent to the ground, where she worked her way into full mount, but just as time ran out in the first.
Again, Nathaniel came out all guns blazing and throwing an overhand-right. Donnelly was able to press her opponent back against the cage where, after repeated warning, she was docked a second point for continuously grabbing hold of the fence. As the action resumed, Donnelly took her opponent down and quickly transitioned into the crucifix position and began raining down blows to her opponent’s head. Nathaniel managed to power out and work her way back to the feet as the second round came to a close.
In the third and final round, neither fighter eased off the pace. Nathaniel came out with her trademark overhand-right, but Donnelly was able to tie her up and wrestle Nathaniel back against the cage. From the clinch, Nathaniel fired off a few quick knees to the body and Donnelly responded by taking the fight to the ground. Nathaniel was able to latch onto her opponent’s neck and looked to work for a guillotine choke, but Donnelly successfully worked her way into full mount and unleashed with some heavy hammer-fists. Nathaniel was able to wriggle free and scramble back to her feet. Both fighters finished the round, swinging furiously until the final buzzer.
Paula Donnelly defeats Khadija Nathaniel by unanimous decision

Nathan Shark vs. Jason Black
Shark came out quick with a leg kick, but Black checked the kick and shot in for a takedown. Fighting off of his back, Shark locked in an arm-in guillotine, but Black was able to wriggle free, and as he did, Shark latched onto his opponent’s arm and secured the arm bar for a quick submission finish.
Nathan Shark defeats Jason Black by arm bar submission – Rnd 1 0:52

Roger Griffin vs. Jarvis Gray
Gray come flying out of the gate with a left hook that just whizzed past Griffin’s temple. Griffin attempted a single leg take down, but Gray was able to keep his balance. Gray scored a takedown attempt of his own and quickly transitioned into full mount with his opponent pinned against the fence. Griffin does well to scramble free and get back to his feet, but again the fight spills to the floor with Griffin now in full-mount. Gray escapes from off the bottom and as he tries to scramble back to his feet Griffin is able to take his back and sink in a rear-naked choke for the submission finish.
Roger Griffin defeats Jarvis Gray by rear-naked choke submission – Rnd 1 1:47

Bill Beaumont vs. George Chase
Chase took the centre of the cage, but Beaumont landed first with a crisp 1-2 combination. After a brief exchange of leg kicks, Beaumont pushed the fight against the cage and begun to pour it on with shots to the body and head. Chase looked to be visibly stunned and a cut had opened up on his face. Chase pulled guard and attempted a guillotine choke, but Beaumont was able to work his way into half-guard and set about to attacking the ribs and the head of his opponent. The referee called for a break in the action for a doctor to inspect the cut on Chase’s brow, and after a brief discussion with the referee the fight is stopped.
Bill Beaumont defeats George Chase via doctor stoppage due to a cut – Rnd 1 2:47

Jamie Ings vs. Stephen Black
Black immediately backed Ings up against the cage and shoots for the takedown. Ings was able to reverse the position and wind up in top-position before transitioning to full mount, where he opened up with a brutal display of ground and pound, landing with precision perfect shots and forcing the referee to step in and save Black from any further damage.
Jamie Ings defeats Stephen Black by referee stoppage due to ground and pound – Rnd 1 1:07

George Grainger vs. Lewis Butterworth
Grainger got the action underway with a low kick, before tripping Butterworth to the canvas, where he was able to move into side control and sink in an arm-triangle. Butterworth fought desperately to twist out, but was eventually forced to tap.
George Grainger defeats Lewis Butterworth by arm-triangle submission – Rnd 1 0:30
Full Card Results
• Tomasz Czerwinski defeats Paul Saunders by KO – Rnd 1 1:09 – to become the Fury MMA heavyweight champion.
• Nigel Whitear defeats Vitor Silva via unanimous decision and is crowned the new Fury MMA lightweight champion.
• Mak Mwanza defeats Gary Duffy by tap out due to a rear-naked choke – Rnd 2 0:29
• Paula Donnelly defeats Khadija Nathaniel by unanimous decision
• Nathan Shark defeats Jason Black by arm bar submission – Rnd 1 0:52
• Roger Griffin defeats Jarvis Gray by rear-naked choke submission – Rnd 1 1:47
• Bill Beaumont defeats George Chase via doctor stoppage due to a cut – Rnd 1 2:47
• Jamie Ings defeats Stephen Black by referee stoppage due to ground and pound – Rnd 1 1:07
• George Grainger defeats Lewis Butterworth by arm-triangle submission – Rnd 1 0:30

In the boxing section of the card
• Jerome Daley defeated Roger Griffin by TKO – Rnd 1 1:57
• Luke Robinson defeated David Zotolofski by unanimous decision
• Luke Robinson defeated Cliff Meeks by TKO – Rnd 1 0:32
• Ryan Edinburgh defeated Tommy Scully by verbal retirement – Rnd 2 1:59
The evening was a great success and we now had two new FURY champions. All the staff at FURY and everyone involved made it a night not too miss.
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The big night of Heavyweights was a great card, but we did not get a new champ as predicted.
Mir just could not handle the pace of Junior and lost in the second round, as many of my friends predicted he would.

 

Cain destroyed the Big Foot Silva and showed his winning ways are here again and he will now face Junior later this year for the title. As you can see by the photo, Cain messed this guy up big time.

Wins for Roy Nelson and our very own Dan Hardy leaves the question where do these guys go next?

Roy Nelson

RESULTS

Main Card
Weight Class Method Round Time Notes
Heavyweight Junior dos Santos (c) defeated Frank Mir TKO (punches) 2 3:04 Note 1
Heavyweight Cain Velasquez defeated Antonio Silva TKO (punches) 1 3:36
Heavyweight Roy Nelson defeated Dave Herman KO (punch) 1 0:51
Heavyweight Stipe Miočić defeated Shane del Rosario TKO (elbows) 2 3:14
Heavyweight Stefan Struve defeated Lavar Johnson Submission (armbar) 1 1:05
Preliminary Card on FX
Featherweight Darren Elkins defeated Diego Brandao Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) 3 5:00
Lightweight Jamie Varner defeated Edson Barboza TKO (punches) 1 3:23 Note 2
Middleweight C.B. Dollaway defeated Jason Miller Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–26, 29–28) 3 5:00
Welterweight Dan Hardy defeated Duane Ludwig KO (punch and elbows) 1 3:51 Note 3
Preliminary Card on Facebook
Lightweight Paul Sass defeated Jacob Volkmann Submission (triangle armbar) 1 1:54 Note 6
Light Heavyweight Glover Teixeira defeated Kyle Kingsbury Submission (arm-triangle choke) 1 1:53 Note 5
Featherweight Mike Brown defeated Daniel Pineda Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) 3 5:00

Now we await the rematch of the decade Anderson (The Spider) Silva and Chael Sonnen. Far too much trash talk has been involved with this fight and Sonnen only just beat Brit hero the count to get the match. Check out Motor Mouth’s interview.

Chael is a tough guy and a great talker but we must remember he battered Silva for four rounds and lost by submission.

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JONES TAKES IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones answered any remaining critics with a virtuoso performance on Saturday night. He completely shut down arch nemesis Rashad Evans in every facet of the game. The win erased any doubt over the legitimacy of his championship reign.

Remember that it was Evans, not Jones, who was originally supposed to face Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 128 in Newark, New Jersey. When Evans injured himself, the UFC opted to substitute Jones rather than delay the championship bout until the rightful number one contender healed. That decision sparked controversy inside one of the most successful mixed martial arts teams in the world – Jackson-Winklejohn MMA – and ultimately left a cloud of doubt lingering over Jones’ reign.

Jones not only cleared the skies with his win. He firmly placed himself in the middle of the vaunted pound-for-pound debate with fellow mega stars Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva. If one just considers fights since January 1, 2011, it is tough to argue that anyone other than Jones deserves to be considered the sport’s single best competitor.

Let’s take a look at the comparables.

During that span, Jones has five annihilation wins in five fights. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Shogun Rua, Lyoto Machida, and Rashad Evans were all reigning or former champions at the time they faced him. Yet, “Bones” Jones literally outclassed each of them, making it seem like they didn’t belong on the same level as him. Oh yes, before dispatching with all those elite stars, Jones thrashed then-undefeated star prospect Ryan Bader.

GSP and Silva are also undefeated over the last 16-plus months. But the two have combined for only three fights during that period due to injuries. GSP’s lone victory was a decision win over Jake Shields, who arguably has been the best fighter in the world outside of the UFC for the past few years leading up to the GSP fight. While GSP’s win was impressive, it was just one win. Had the champion also faced and defeated Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit, then one could make a great case for GSP being the sport’s most accomplished fighter since January 1, 2011. One win isn’t enough.

Silva only holds two victories during that span. He made former champion Vitor Belfort and perennial top contender Yushin Okami look amazingly ordinary in those two bouts. That in itself is an amazing feat. Add to the mix that Silva, who is currently in the midst of a 14 fight UFC winning streak, holds just about every UFC championship record imaginable, and it is tough to argue that anyone other than Silva deserves the top spot based on a complete body of work.

But we aren’t looking at entire careers right now. We are just looking at the last 16 months. Nobody in the sport has accomplished more than Jones during that period. Nobody has faced tougher competition. And nobody has made more successful title defenses.

2011 was undoubtedly the “Year of Jon Jones.” 2012 might not be any different.

HENDO NEXT UP FOR THE CHAMP

It doesn’t take long for UFC officials to add a sobering dose of reality to a champion’s victory party. Dana White announced after Jones’ dominating win over his bitter rival that Dan Henderson will be up next. For those who don’t have a long memory, this is the same Dan Henderson who won the PRIDE 183-pound and 205-pound belts. He remains the only man in history to simultaneously reign over two divisions of a major fight promotion. This is the same Dan Henderson who savagely knocked out Fedor Emelianenko in a heavyweight bout. Yes, the same Fedor who was once thought to be the most dangerous man on the planet. It is the same Dan Henderson who represented the United States in two separate Olympic games.

Anyone who thinks that his better days are behind him at 41 years old need only look back to UFC 139, where Hendo survived a back-and-forth war with former champion Shogun Rua in what many believe was the best fight in UFC history. We will break down the fight from every angle as it approaches, but Hendo might just be the toughest matchup for Jones so far in his illustrious career – at least on paper that seems to be the case.

IS MACDONALD-GSP THE NEXT JONES-EVANS?

Rory MacDonald won’t turn 23 years old until July 22. Yet, he is already a veteran of five UFC bouts. His only loss among them was a dramatic, come-from-behind win by Carlos Condit at UFC 115. Had he survived seven more seconds, he would be a perfect 5-0 right now, because he was ahead on two of the three scorecards at the time of the stoppage.

Condit is the reigning interim UFC welterweight champion, just in case you forgot. That tells you just how good MacDonald really is. The question now is whether this guy is the future of a division currently ruled by his mentor and training partner Georges St-Pierre?

Several youngsters have entered the UFC amidst tremendous hype. None more so than Vitor Belfort, who, at 19 years old, won a UFC heavyweight tournament. He instantly became one of the sport’s favorite sons. His lightning-fast hands, Gracie pedigree and good looks made him an instant star in the sport’s early years. Yet, it took Belfort seven more years before he finally won his first UFC title. And he wasn’t able to successfully defend it.

Belfort has had a great career and remains one of the very best fighters in the sport, but he has never quite lived up to the tremendous hype that followed him during his early years.

Jon Jones didn’t enter the UFC with the same wave of popular support as Belfort. Some could argue that he competed under the radar for his first several fights before finally getting everyone’s attention with his destruction of Brandon Vera two fights before capturing the 205-pound championship. There is little doubt that Jones has exceeded all but probably his own expectations at this early point in his career. Of course, the expectations for him now are through the proverbial roof. Unless he becomes the next Anderson Silva (or first Jon Jones), I’m not sure whether people will view him as fulfilling his destiny or not.

That brings us to Rory MacDonald. This guy is definitely the real deal. His near-miss with Condit and win over Nate Diaz are vivid evidence of that truism. Expectations for him are building like those for few other 22-year-old fighters in the sport. I’m not so sure he will be able to live up to them any time soon.

That isn’t by any means meant to be a knock on his skills. MacDonald has plenty of those. It is instead the reality of competing in a division that is currently ruled by an all-time great who remains squarely in the prime of his athletic career. GSP turns 31 next month.

Unless GSP starts to decline due to injuries or accumulated cage mileage, it is tough to imagine anyone derailing his career in the short term. Condit certainly has a shot at it. Maybe Johny Hendricks and Nick Diaz, too. But none of those guys will be betting favorites against the champion.

It is equally tough to imagine MacDonald staying out of the welterweight title picture during the next couple of years. So it seems that GSP and MacDonald two are on a collision course, much like Evans and Jones when the two were both training under the same roof. I know I’m getting way ahead of myself. GSP is currently recovering from an ACL tear and MacDonald is not yet considered a true welterweight contender. He’s also gone on the record saying that he won’t fight his training partner. But I have no doubt that GSP will be back as good as before and MacDonald will enter contender status by the end of the year or possibly early in 2013.

So when the time comes…if the time comes…will GSP and MacDonald compete as teammates? Will one of them leave Zahabi MMA and Tristar Gym as their collision course starts to draw near?

Those questions will make MacDonald’s rise through the division that much more interesting in the coming months and years, in my opinion.

THE TIME IS NOW FOR BROWNE

The UFC heavyweight division is about as deep as it has ever been with guys like Junior dos Santos, Cain Velasquez, Frank Mir, Alistair Overeem, Mark Hunt, “Minotauro” Nogueira and others. The UFC now has the luxury of putting on non-title marquee matchups, just like it does in other divisions, to sort out the championship challenger queue.

Travis Browne is ready for one of those marquee matchups.

Five fights into his UFC career, Browne already owns a couple of bonus checks for Submission of the Night and Knockout of the Night. He also has a draw on his record against the well-respected Cheick Kongo – a fight that many believe he should have won. Still undefeated through 14 professional fights, “Hapa,” as he is known, is now ready for the big time.

UFC NEWs

Alistair Oveream is out of the big Heavyweight Fight and has been replaced by Frank Mir who is The best Submissionist in the division. Silva and Sonnen is on and from what people are saying it could not come sooner as Sonnen has continuously mocked the champ.

There is so great stuff coming up and we are teying to get an Interview with UFC Star Olly Thompson in the very near future.
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