Archive for the 'Alan Conceicao' Category

In a move that has to be considered stunning at the least, its been announced that Affliction is loaning out Roy Nelson and Andrei Arlovski to EliteXC for the October 4th event roughly two weeks away. Its a move that pleases Arlovski by giving him a fight and a lot of money, it gives EXC a fight for hardcore fans, it provides CBS one of the top heavyweights in the world and a recognizable name for UFC fans, and so, so much more. How much more? Well, depends how much speculation you want to put in to all this.

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(Your new DREAM Middleweight Champion, Gegard Mousasi)

Okay, another Dream card has come and gone. We were gonna do a preview, honest. We just got sidetracked. But whatever. The event is over and things happened. So why not read about them? Andrew Rosebrock is on to help.

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(Ishida and Misaki are among Japan’s best. How would their first stateside forays go? [Pictures: Sherdog])

This past weekend saw a pair of live events broadcast in the US for the benefit of American MMA fans. Each was shown on what would be considered “21st century media”, as Strikeforce made a return to the Playboy Mansion that was shown by webcast on Sherdog, while HDNet put on yet another live event, this time the 24th installment of Sportfight from Portland, OR. Dave Walsh is on board to help out with this weekend’s fight action.

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M-1 Challenge is the newest program to enter the MMA TV lottery and is the brain child of Vadim Finkelstein. In the US, it’ll be brought on a weekly basis by the good folks over at HDNet, who have to be considered something of a necessity for the hardcore fan by now. The one hour show will, on a weekly basis, show 5 full and edited fights from the M-1 Challenge Tournament. This tournament features 10 teams from across the globe with 5 fighters per team in weight classes from 155 to heavyweight. Sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it? There are 2 teams from Russia (Team Legion and Team Red Devil), then the US, Japan, South Korea, Finland, France, Spain, Germany, and Holland. Interesting that no UK team was chosen for the inaugural season or whatever they wish to call this. Our first episode comes to us from The Netherlands and there’s a pretty good size live crowd present. Recording date goes all the way back to March of this year.

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Late last night, it was made official that the body of Evan Tanner had been found in the desert of Southern California. Tanner was champion for the United States Shoot Wrestling Federation, a UFC Middleweight champion, and a one time challenger to the light heavyweight crown in the UFC. He has been on a myriad of adventures over the last few years and has blogged extensively about them. Recently, Evan notified the MMA community at large of his plans to enter the desert, informing all that “any failure of equipment” could prove deadly. Sadly, it is apparent that such has occured.

Our various writers now remember Evan Tanner:

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This Saturday, ZUFFA presents their best-ever lineup of semi-main events and undercard bouts.  UFC 88 is stacked top to bottom with compelling matchups in four weight divisions, many with title fight implications.  Though it lacks a title bout or the kind of transcendent matchup which would cap off a truly classic card, it’s a night of fights which, on paper, should not disappoint.  Our panel -

• CH: Chris Henderson
• AC: Alan Conceicao
• TH: Thomas Hackett
• DW: Dave Walsh
• LC: Lee Casebolt

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There’s still a haze in the air after the warfare that took place over two weeks in Beijing. Vasyl Lomachenko (pictured above) was perhaps the only soul to come out above it all, because everyone else took a beating. The judges, referees, officials, boxing as a sport, announcers…well, not many of the fighters took beatings. This was hardly the most action packed of tournaments, after all. So with the AIBA under fire from both the outside and within, trying to start up a pro league, and 270+ bouts having happened in the meantime, where to start? The scoring is the obvious place. While other subjective sports don’t allow for statistical comparison, amateur boxing does. Do the statistics say anything at all about whether or not there were issues with the Olympic Games?

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After over 270 fights, boxing at the Olympics finally wrapped up earlier this afternoon. Sadly, NBC showed very limited coverage of the last day’s gold medal matches, which comes as a surprise after such extensive coverage earlier. Still, three of the 6 bouts saw airtime in the US.

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The first day of gold medal finals saw both exciting performances and some sloppy brawls and one major surprise. We’ll review that action and preview tommorrow’s final day.

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Freshly edited late in the evening of the 22nd, the review also happens to include a guide of what to expect in tommorrow’s gold medal finals in 5 weight classes.

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