(Bobby Lashley vs. Bob Sapp. Props to MMA Scraps.)
We were promised a train-wreck — what we got was slower and far less dramatic. (An ice-cream truck crashing into a tree, maybe?) Bobby Lashley got down to business right away in his main event fight with Bob Sapp at last night’s "Ultimate Chaos" show in Biloxi, taking the Beast down immediately and working some steady ground-and-pound in half-guard for a couple minutes, until Sapp tapped from the abuse. Unfortunately the ref didn’t see it, so Lashley was forced to beat on the helpless 322-pounder some more until a second tap finally caught the ref’s attention. Lashley moves to 4-0 in his budding MMA career, and plans to fight again in September.
The co-headlining fight looked like it was going to turn out the same way, with Pedro Rizzo quickly establishing top position on Gilbert Yvel and throwing down elbows. But Yvel stayed active, kicked Rizzo off and escaped to his feet. Back to his comfort zone, Yvel unleashed a striking assault that sent Rizzo to the mat, and knocked him out cold with strikes from the top. Yvel increased his record to 35-12, with 30 wins by KO/TKO; after the fight, he confirmed that he’ll be facing Paul Buentello at Affliction: Trilogy on August 1st.
Affliction VP Tom Atencio was victorious as well, taking out Randy Hedderick by TKO stoppage due to a broken nose. The first round was all Hedderick, who outstruck Atencio and rocked him badly with punches. But Atencio kept his wits about him and finished the second round with a barrage of punches from the top that shattered Hedderick’s beak. Hedderick couldn’t come out for round 3, giving Atencio his second MMA win. Complete results, and video of the Yvel/Rizzo fight, are below.
- Bobby Lashley def. Bob Sapp via submission (strikes), 3:17 of round 1
- Gilbert Yvel def. Pedro Rizzo via KO, 2:10 of round 1
- Colin McKee def. Lance Thompson via submission (strikes), 4:16 of round 1
- Javier Vazquez def. Mark Kergosien* via submission (guillotine choke), 0:59 of round 1
- Chris Horodecki def. William Sriyapai via submission, 4:02 of round 1
- Waachim Spiritwolf def. Brett Cooper via TKO, 3:41 of round 1
- Tom Atencio def. Randy Hedderick via TKO, 5:00 of round 2 (Hedderick didn’t come out for round 3 due to a broken nose)
- Brandon Harder def. John Harris via submission (arm triangle choke), 4:31 of round 2
- James Orso def. Danny Abbadi via unanimous deecision
* Kergosian was a last-minute replacement for Din Thomas, who had to drop out of the fight after a weight-cutting misunderstanding left him too exhausted to compete.
For the Atencio/Hedderick fight, click here.
For the Horodecki/Sriyapai fight, click here.
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comments"no one is jealous of D Fag White, just think its unfair to pay people 5-10K a fight that they spend months training for. Giving TUF winners "6 figure contracts" then paying 10K for their first 6 fights. Then turning around and paying scrubs like Junie Browning 45K after he lost all his fights on the show. Or giving the HW championship to a guy with 2-3 total mma fights. Or being unable to give the best p4p a reasonable contract other than one that signs all your rights away and cheats you out of money. Or prohibiting fighters from certain sponsorships because of his own greed, and therefore taking away their money.
Forget Dana White's money, I dont think Id wanna be a 42 y/o bald ex-aerobics instructor from boston with reasoning of a 12 year old"
I dont even know where to begin with you. You call me a fifth grader and a loser for calling you out on an MMA forum You insult me by saying I am trying to bash you because of your opinion, No I am bashing you for calling Dana White a fag and saying he treats fighters unfairly when they are adults who make their own decisions. I will gladly appologize if you can point out to me in your post where you discussed the sport of MMA and not used homophobic slurs to describe the head of an mma org. Its funny to me how many people will jump on the Dana bashing train because its the popular thing to do. I also train MMA and if I could make it in the UFC I would gladly sign the contract, if you win and get popular the contracts do get better. And for the record I did to you what you were trying to do to Dana White and apparently I struck a nerve huh?
"What may be slipping through the cracks is the fact that, by being concerned about making money for themselves, the UFC is in fact making money for fighters. Why should maintaining control of their organization and trying to make as much cash as possible off the rise of the sport - which they are solely responsible for - be looked at in any way as a bad thing? Its no secret that a lot of the money they make goes right back into the business, growing the sport and expanding to audiences around the globe, making MMA mainstream and breaking down barriers of old. We wouldn't be posting on this site if it weren't for the UFC, because the site wouldn't exist. We fans can and should respect Tom, but it's the UFC and Dana White that we owe."
-I especially agree that controlling the organization shouldn't be viewed as bad (like I said: the next step is top notch agents, fighters...).
As far as the contracts go:
If their contracts seem that unfair to you then you should blame the fighter for not having someone there to negotiate more effectively for them. I wonder who will emerge as the first Drew Rosenhaus/Scott Boras type agent in mma...
To drivel on about Dana's business tactics:
One thought on the matter which is generally accepted is that once you consider everything that has changed over the years, it's pretty impressive that they have been able to bring the organization to where it is. The truth is, it's not by mistake. Dana spent years working on tying infinite loose ends that would affect the organization's direction as well as how the sport itself is regulated and perceived in the U.S. To follow through with such success is just remarkable when you look at where they were when they started and what they had to overcome to get where they are now.
Fuck I'm sick of typing this shit, if you can't recognize good business sense then you SHOULD fucking hate him; go watch Affliction and Bellator exclusively. Because you're fucking retarded and for some reason don't realize that he plays under the same rules as everyone else in America, and...
I'm just fucking done with this topic; I think I feel like Lesnar probably does when he gets asked about performance enhancing drugs (except I have a legit argument).
Darkside Says:
Sun, 06/28/2009 - 11:16
Great post fight interview! Screw Dana White! Awesome"
Yeah you, Attencio and antonG420 all have one thing in common, you are all losers. Well at least atencio has some money and a life compared to you 2 losers, but you all 3 hate Dana cause he has what you 3 losers don't have: respect and power. You can't buy it, and you can't type on website and gain it, you hate Dana cause he represents what you wont ever attain. Way to be losers. keep whining you bitches.
Not really the point of my argument or his for that matter. My point is fighters sign contracts, they have to be 18 to sign a binding legal agreement. If they are not happy with the contract then dont sign it, if you sign it then you have no right to bitch later. And please dont make assumptions about my life, I am sure my point to him just hit too close to home with you. Walk upstairs and give mom a hug that should make you feel better.
Just because you dont like your life and would switch with someone else if you had the chance doesn't mean others would.
I agree with cwr but I would add that you should stop fucking lying as well asshole. You know damn well you would trade your pathetic ass life in your momma's basement for Dana's life. Even trying to argue is pointless, I hate how fanboys get on here and talk shit about Dana because of what he pays his fighters. Newsflash if they dont care enough to do something about it then neither should you, its not your life its the fighters. They are grown ass men and they dont have to sign the contract.
If you are going to insult someone, especially if you are having a go at their intellect, you should probably not use terms like fag in the paragraph above... It just makes you seem ignorant and almost ensures that no one will care about anything you say past that point.
Forget Dana White's money, I dont think Id wanna be a 42 y/o bald ex-aerobics instructor from boston with reasoning of a 12 year old.
Ha, I'm not disagreeing with you, because that comment was batshit retarded by the announcer, but it actually just reminded me of one of my favorite fighters- Kenny Florian. He's sort of employed that gameplan when it comes to fence grabbing. He even eluded to not being afraid of grabbing the fence since you only get a warning the first time once on MMA Live when they were recapping someone else's fight (can't remember who's or which episode it was, but it was a while ago, definitely last year).
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