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Full Lineup Set For Tim Sylvia’s Boxing Debut; Arlovski’s Postponed Due to KO


(Tim Sylvia — undisputed heavyweight champion of the Comfort Inn.)

Remember that thing about Tim Sylvia boxing a 50-year-old man? Yeah, that’s happening this Saturday, in the main event of "Adrenaline MMA III: Bragging Rights" at the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center. MMA Junkie has the list of the MMA fights that will be supporting Sylvia/Mercer, and they’re only slightly less pointless than the show-closing boxing exhibition.

For instance, you’ve got Rich "No Love" Clementi taking on a guy named Sasuke Zapata, who isn’t quite established enough to have a fighter profile on Sherdog or mixedmartialarts.com. (You can get a shaky look at him here.) Then, there’s Jeremy Horn with his 104 career fights taking on the allegedly 5-0 Chris Davis, who might be one of these guys. Also, jiu-jitsu-champ-turned-MMA-fighter Roberto Traven takes on John Salter, who you might have heard of if you’re related to him. Anyway, I just don’t have the energy to cut-and-paste, so if you really want to look at the complete lineup for this show, click away. And speaking of boxing…


Andrei Arlovski, whose beep-beep-beep Tim Sylvia may have inadvertently tasted at some point, will have to wait even longer to make his pro boxing debut, due to a 60-day precautionary medical suspension resulting from his knockout loss to Brett Rogers at Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields. MMA Mania recaps Arlovski’s bad luck with the sweet science:

Arlovski will not be medically cleared in time to make his professional boxing debut on June 27 at The Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on the undercard of the Victor Ortiz vs. Marcos Maidana fight on HBO…
 
While no injuries were reported, the suspension will remain in effect, forcing the popular Belarusian to postpone his boxing debut until later this year.
 
He was originally rumored to be making his debut last September in the opening fight on the Casamayor vs. Marquez card on an HBO pay-per-view (PPV) telecast against an unnamed opponent.
 
While that bout, as well as an attempt to get him on the undercard of the Paul Williams vs. Winky Wright event on April 11 didn’t materialize, Roach was eager to get him lined up after the Emelianenko fight, even mentioning a possible throwdown with current WBA heavyweight title holder Nikolai Valuev.
 
Fortunately cooler heads prevailed.
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ScrambledEggs- June 11, 2009 at 9:06 am
What a fucking douche bag!
ItburnswhenIpee- June 10, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Maybe Slyvia and Arlovski could have a boxing rematch, the ultimate who-gives-a-shit bout...

When Hal's around, why are we wondering who's the biggest douche?
UFC fan- June 10, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Hey look a reason to post on this waste of space thread ( cause who gives two snake fucks about TIMMY?)
HAL you are a cockgobbler, thanks for being there for all to see.
My Fight Wiffa Cheeto- June 10, 2009 at 8:16 pm
@ HAL... It's cool man, but you should apologize to him maybe.

Also, wasn't this the card that was rumored to have Lashley vs. Sapp?! That's not on there leading to my theory that one Mr. Robert Lashley is currently in Las Vegas, NV on Team Sugar.
HAL_13- June 10, 2009 at 8:14 pm
OH YES SIR. I'M SORRY SIR. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING. WILL YOU PLEASE FORGIVE ME MASTER SIR.
My Fight Wiffa Cheeto- June 10, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Hal, don't fuck with OBI...
HAL_13- June 10, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@ Old_Bald_and_Irish. THAT WOULD BE YOU PAL, YOU ARE THE BIGGER DOUCHE NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE IS WEARING. I'M SURE THAT YOU AND TIM WEAR THE SAME STYLE SPEEDOS AS WELL YOU BIG FAT QUEER.
Old_Bald_and_Irish- June 10, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Oh God. I have 4 pairs of those same socks.

Who's the bigger douche? Me or Sylvia?
Swedish- June 10, 2009 at 3:33 pm
d-bag of the year vs. the worlds oldest boxer

Timmay needs to go back to shitting his pants and fighting in b-level orgs
Dr.- June 10, 2009 at 3:14 pm
LOL

Be interesting to see Tim's duck footwork. He does have a ridiculous oddness about him.
straight face-tim sylvia vs fedor- June 10, 2009 at 3:03 pm
gosh. part of me was tempted to go see this. sad to say i live in birmingham alabama and for a second i thought, "maybe i should go check this out." tickets being over $3.00 ended that thought. i dont know, we'll see. to tell tim sylvia that my cage potato screen name is (straight face-tim sylvia vs fedor), might be worth it.

we'll see what happens.
831 Son- June 10, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Chicken legs.
Polish- June 10, 2009 at 1:56 pm
It's hard to look extremely uncoordinated in a still photo but Sylvia pulls it off with ease.
Mike Milbury- June 10, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Nice socks.
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