DaMMAge Fight League – The Big Bang

Another Big fight of female division in 2010

Takayo Hashi vs. Tara LaRosa

at New MMA org “DaMMAge Fight League”

on Nov.24  2010

The Show will be live streamed on GoFightLive.com for $9.99
DaMMAge Fight League – The Big Bang

Exclusive Interview With Tara LaRosa on MMARising

 

 

He is OK

I have posted this ” He is NOT OK” over a year ago, BUT

HE is OK! He has been OK, Damn, MORE THAN OKAY lol

@jordanbreen
MFC has signed 16-year-old ZUMA talent Alexi Argyriou to provisional deal. Will debut for promotion when he’s 18. Setting a new precedent?

!!!

Then found this news on another site

MFC snares top young prospect

Press Release: If there ever was a top-ranked, first-overall pick to be selected in a mixed martial arts amateur draft, the Maximum Fighting Championship feels it has made the right choice by snaring a can’t-miss prospect.

The MFC has signed Alexi Argyriou to a provisional contract, and the 16-year-old is expected to make his professional debut when he turns 18. A product of the renowned ZUMA stable in Victoria, B.C., Argyriou is considered a young phenom with an incredibly bright future in the sport.

The National Hockey League has its next budding stars in Tyler Seguin and Taylor Hall. The National Football League boasts future standouts in Sam Bradford and Gerald McCoy. In Argyriou, the Maximum Fighting Championship has mined out the next big thing, the five-diamond prospect poised to make an impact in mixed martial arts.

“He is the No. 1 draft pick,” stated MFC Owner/President Mark Pavelich. “We have the best young fighter anywhere now in our organization. I can’t be any more succinct – he is the future.

“And not only is he a superb athlete, he is confident, he has great charisma, and best of all he is someone who brings that intangible quality of being able to hype and sell a fight. That is such a huge commodity and it jumps right out of him.”

HEEEE This is GREAT! He already has a lot of fans from all over the world !!

MFC has signed 16-year-old ZUMA talent Alexi Argyriou to provisional deal. Will debut for promotion when he’s 18. Setting a new precedent?

BOOOOMB

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=forum.posts&forum=1&thread=1646927&page=1

NOW 1-1 in MMA,
RUBBER MATCH !

Happy Warriors

The long time journslist of  the Combat sports, Eddie Goldman talked with Roxanne Modafferi on his podcast, which has the most longest history among Internet radio ” nhbnews“. They both are talking to each others about not only her last fight against Marloes Coenen, but also a lot of topics like the differences of coultures, Having a job and fighting as a pro-fighter at the same time, HOW TO COOK TURKEY(wtf? lol) in very relaxed mood.

Seems he liked the nick name a fan of Roxy had posted on her myspace blog b4 ” Happy Warrior”.

Thats it, This is  why we watch female divisions MMA. Those fighters fight for Big money or getting spotlight on TV, Movies?

No,  we watch female division coz the fighters are happy to fight in this sport, They shows skills which they have learned, Most of them like to challenge themselves and to fight tougher opponents, Enjoying everything around the competition like training, making wight, trevaling. They know each others and respect each others coz they know how this sport is tough.

That is  the ” Pure Athletism” ppl always wants to watchin any kind of sports, Don`t you think?

Other 2 Happy Warriors are on another popular Internet radio show this week. Kerry Vera who has destroyed some Madam at the last ShoMMA to step up to next level,  Sally Krumdiack who will fight Saori Ishioka at Japanese org ” Jewels”  on  Dec. 2009 were on joeted.com`s Rear Naked Choke Radio.

nhbnews is always informative and educational for various  kinds of the Combat  sport and it`s relative topics including MMA, Boxing, Wrestling with Eddie Goldman`s deep and inteligent view. RNC Radio is a fun show with 2 hosts Joe and Ted who have respects to the fighters and the sport. RNC also has ” Tara LaRosa” as  co-host .

More about Roxy vs. Coenen

Roxy took 1 week off(or more like 10 days-off?) from her job. Already She is int Chicago to get medical check of AC.  Coenen has landed to Chicago too. We could know it coz Roxy wrote that she met her and asked her autograph LMAO.

That is the way of Roxanne Modafferi. She took days off from job, she works in a high classed Language school as a English teacher in Japan. It means She mostly looses her money for each fights. Do you think she cares about it?

NO. She doesnt at all.

Roxanne Modafferi has interviewed Marloes Coenen as a writer in 2008. She has been writing for several webs and blogs for a while. You can see how Roxy respects Marloes from this.

Marloes Coenen is the one of real innovator of female division. has been fighting since the female division still didnt exist. Sha was introduced as a cute but skillful SHOOTO girl b4 her debut in Japan . i still remember the magazine which has reported  she had fought at ama SHOOTO even though she already had enough skill to fight at pro bouts. Also remember a TV program at the midnight had aired her training session in her Dojyo.

Marloes was still a teenager at that time and called ” Kuu nen chan” in Japanese. Her moves were so quick and skillful. i was really impressed at that time. Maybe there are still some of those Japanese other than me are left who got shocked to have seen Coenen.

This coverage of K-Grace by a Japanese blogger in 2007 has concluded that K-Grace was  worth to watch at the venue only for the final “Roxanne Modafferi vs. Marlose Coenen”

にかく、この興行はこの決勝戦があまりにも突出していたと思います。逆に言えば、この一戦だけでも「観た甲斐があった！」と思いましたよ。

You know what? This fight is not a “Tough girl” contest. It`s a skillful and athletic competition between real 2 top level fighters in the world.

もうお互いの階級と今の競技レベル考えたら二度とありえない・やらせてはいけない試合ではあるけど・・・

やるったらやるんだよ！もう一回勝つんだよ！！今度は明確に勝つんだよ！勝って発言権とって本来の135の激戦区にもう一度乗り込むんだよ！

頑張れロクサン

こっちの心臓に悪い・・・。(-_-;)

ATTN:CBS/Strikeforce/M-1

Why Coenen/Modafferi at Strikeforce on CBS matters to the women’s divisions

by  Keith Mills

If You are serious to build female division, Just listen to Keith Mills`s words. Thanx.

Analysis for Roxy vs. Coenen II

“lup” a.k.a.mad scientist of kangaroo land has corrected and checked my EngRish as usual. so if this post is unreadble for you, its not my fault, ok? I NO English 100% ok?

updated and fixed EngRish with a help from a professional language teacher.

Analysis for Roxy vs. Coenen II

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You can read a brief background of this Roxanne Modafferi vs. Marloes Coenen II at here and here . I don’t predict this rematch but here are several points of “What to watch” in this fight.

First of all, advantages and disadvantages.

a)weight

Roxy is originally a 135er.Fighting at 145 is oversize for her. At the same time, she is good at fighting bigger opponents. She proved it at vs. Coenen I in 2007. Although its still a  risky fight for a person who walks around 130 lbs. On the other hand Marloes Coenen must be walking around at 150-155 lbs. Fighting at 145 looks natural for current MMA. But remember that she has been fighting mostly in Japan which prefers open weight. Roxy doesn’t need to worry about making weight for 145, Coenen has to take that stressful process of dehydrade-rehydrade to fight under MMA unified rules in the north America. Still Coenen will have  the advantage of weight during the fight.

b)The influence of the mental condition of the location

Roxy is an American, she has fought in her country a lot of times. Chicago is not her home town but the USA is her home country. Its is the first time to fight in the States for legendary female MMA star in Japan “Marloes Coenen”. (Actualy she fought in the Abu Dhabi * side note from Roxy) She made weight for replacement on last Aug 15. but didn`t need to fight at that time. Most of things must be the first time for Coenen. Roxy has big advantage in this meeting with her old coach kirik who will corner her as usual, and maybe her friend/rival Tara LaRosa.

c)Short notice of the fight and Changing of the opponent

Roxy got very short notice for this fight like only 1 week b4 the fight day, even if  she is training for potential fight everyday. Coenen was scheduled to fight Cyborg at first, then Toughill. Both got pulled as her opponents and now the replacement is lighter weight but totally different type fighter than original strikers. Coenen also must have difficultiesmaking a new game plan even though she has been willing to avenge her loss against Roxy in 2007.

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Their first fight was an open weight / one night tournament “K-Grace”. Everybody thought Marloes Coenen would dominate the tourney. Coenen and her camp might have also thought so. Roxy and her striking coach at that time Kenji Osawa were obviously targeting Coenen only. Winning over Coenen=Winning the tourney. And their game plan and Roxy`s unbelievable guts made big success.

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The fight

a)on the feet=striking

Coenen is taller and bigger than Roxy, has a lot of advantages of reach on the feet. On Boxing/Kickboxing demention of MMA, Roxy has to avoid the range that Coenen can throw power strikes. Roxy needs to take Coenen to grappling game  first. But still Coenen has a mealy weapon, vicious knee striking from MuayThai clinch. Roxy and her corner men Kenji Osawa and K-taro Nakamura made good game plan for that at K-Grace. Underhooking Coenen`s arms,pushing Coenen`s chest with fore head. It`s an old and familiar move for Japanese, especially in Sumo wrestling. I believe you can see same move in any kind of wrestling like Greco Roman, Free Style, American Folk Style, Mongolian wrestling or Korean Wrestling. And IT WORKS. Roxy also used the cage to kill the power of Coenen.

“waki o sashi te atama o tsukeru”

ワキをさして頭をつける

We have to watch carefully about the “range” on the feet. Roxy has been training striking. Not only thinking about rematch against Coenen , but also concerned  about Tara LaRosa,Shayna Baszler or the most complete all-rounde  female fighter “Amanda Buckner“, there are new comers like Sarah Kaufman who have heavy hands and crazy cardio to keep throwing punch from quick steps and Katlin Young who has a deadly kick which can finish the fight in a moment at the 135 class. The striking game will be different from Roxy vs. Coenen I in 2007. But still keys on the feet will be

“range” and “clinch”.

b)on the ground=Grappling with Ground and Pound

Overall, the most notable thing about MMA female division is,  its` ground fight. It is said that females are flexible and joints are kinda loose. Looseness of joints does not mean “tough joints”, but its true this factor makes the fights interesting and exciting. We often see unbelievable submission attempts and escaping at female division. You gotta remember  that Roxy and Coenen are both skilful grapplers. It means that we can not blink once they go to the ground.

Most of the top female MMA fighters are good at guard games. Closed guard is not defensive in the female division, especially at top level fighters` bouts. A Typical fighter of this must be  “Queen of Spades” Shayna Baszler. Her guard position is the most dangerous trap among all of MMA fighters` aside from Miuguel Torres`s one. Even Roxy got trapped at bodogFIGHT. Keeping the top position doesn’t always mean she is controlling the fight. Most  top female fighters can control opponents and attack from bottom position using their flexibility. Roxy and Coenen are not an exception, or should i say “They are typical dangerous grapplers when they are at the bottom position” ?

Roxy is basically a jujitsu-based fighter, good at positioning.Ground and Pound which she has been training a lot for a while will work with it. Coenen`s fight style on the ground is a bit aggressive, trying to hit sub from any position. It often reminds us of old “Catch wrestling” or SAMBO. I have watched Coenen focusing on GnP in a video on youtube at her fight in 2008.

“Guard position” and “GnP” will be the keys on the ground.

Anyways, This rematch will be a good showcase of female division. I HOPE CBS and Strikeforce will air this fight on Nov. 7th (8th for us  Japanese).

LUP U ZACK !!!  Miss Modafferi who is a professional English teacher fixed my EngRish ! How long have you been chatting over the net with me? ALMOST 10 YEARS now. And you still don`t learn Japanese ! NOT FAIR !!!

But as you have mentioned Roxy also found my tendency of missing plural(?) and articles. I know it`s a general problem of Japanese English learners.

Thanx for fixing my EngRish, Roxy and “LAZY” lup !

my friend “lup”

s s s s , the the the, a a a <— Practicing myself

Roxy vs Coenen II

Roxanne Modafferi vs. Marloes Coenen II at Strikeforce has been confirmed ! The world will be shocked AGAIN

WAR ROXY

Roxy vs. Coenen at K-Grace in 2007

Dan “The Handler” Hornbuckle vs. Courtney Ray

DAAAMMMN  !!!  The former WEC Champ Miguel Torres is coming to JAPAN to corner The Handler! Nick has to have good corner man. Maybe Derrick Noble ?

 !!!

 

Finally i found the video in my storage.

Dan “The Handler” Hornbuckle vs. Courtney Ray at the final of HOOKnSHOOT Tournament on March 24th 2007. http://fightworld.com/

This segment was a part of promo video for HOOKnSHOOT on Nov. 24 2007, the event Kaitlin Young won the 8 women tourny with 3 KOs less than 2 mins total.

As you see in this video, bodogFIGHT was still alive at this time, The Champion of bodogFIGHT welter weight was ,

YES, NICK “THE GOAT” THOMPSON

3 MMA events on this weekend

ShoMMA Strikeforce Challenger Series 2
ShoWare Center,Kent, Wash. 6/19 11:00PM ET(12:00 6/20 JST)

Bellator Fighting Championships 10
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino,
Hollywood, Fla. 6/19 Air on ESPN on 6/20

Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale
Palms Casino Resort,Las Vegas
6/20 9:00PM ET/PT(6/21 10:00AM JST)

ShoMMA Strikeforce Challenger Series 2

ShoWare Center,Kent, Wash.
6/19 11:00PM ET(12:00 6/20 JST)

Joey Villasenor vs. Evangelista Santos
Nick Thompson vs. Tim Kennedy
Jorge Gurgel vs. Conor Heun
Sarah Kaufman vs. Shayna Baszler
Cory Devela vs. Luke Rockhold
Dennis Hallman vs. Cedric Marks
Duane Ludwig vs. Lyle Beerbohm
Brian Caraway vs. Alex Zuniga
Landon Showalter vs. Travis Doerge
Len Bentley vs. Marques Daniels
Steve Hadsel vs. Taylor Roberts

Bellator Fighting Championships 10

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino,
Hollywood, Fla. 6/19 Air  ESPN on 6/20

BFC Lightweight Championship
Eddie Alvarez (No. 3 LW) vs. Toby Imada
BFC Middleweight Championship
Hector Lombard vs. Jared Hess

Jorge Masvidal vs. Eric Reynolds
Brad Pickett vs. Sami Aziz
Sergio Moraes vs. Josh Martin
Jessica Aguilar vs. Rosi Sexton
Moyses Gabin vs. Virgil Lozano
Troy Gerhart vs. Luis Palomino

Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale

Palms Casino Resort,Las Vegas
6/20 9:00PM ET/PT(6/21 10:00AM JST)
“The Ultimate Fighter 9” Lightweight Final
Andre Winner vs. Ross Pearson

Diego Sanchez vs. Clay Guida
Nate Diaz vs. Joe Stevenson
Chris Lytle vs. Kevin Burns
Mike Ciesnolevicz vs. Tomasz Drwal
Brad Blackburn vs. Edgar Garcia
Gleison Tibau vs. Melvin Guillard

took from sherdog

Win a Date with the Queen of MMA

Original Thread is here

WHAT

Hey guys!  Let’s kill 2 birds with one stone here:  “Win a date with Tara to UFC 101!”  We just need someone to put up 2 tix!  Kirik…?????

UFC 101 will be when… oh, its on Aug 8 . Still have enough time to find Sponsors… Watching UFC with the top female fighter must be fun. but the prize includes Air ticket from Japan to the States?

AIR TICKET ! we can use it for Roxy to let her kick Tara`s A$$ hard!!

WEEEEEEEEEEE im gonna win !!

How much to get my name on your shorts?

kaitlinrosie –  How much to get my name on your shorts?

Sarah Kaufman –  Thanks guys! The underground rocks! Sorry Kaitlin…your name wasn’t spelled correctly! :)

The video I watched was poor quality…I didn’t realize you weren’t kidding until now! Well played! HAHAHAHA

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!!!?

KAITLAN YOUNG??

!!!!

LMAOOO

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She smiled and waved to the cam

Sarah Kaufman  or  Miesha Tate, Who will get the ticket to the top league of female 135 class?

Miesha walks in to the cage

Sarah comes… with big smile

Waving to the cam in the cage?? ITS NOT PICNIK !!

See ! You  got in trouble !!

wait… whose blood is that???

She becomes a punching robot as usual

O M F G that blood was Meisha`s

but Meisha doesn`t quit !

She smiles again

and… WAVES

So, Non-Stop Punching Robot girl ” Sarah Kaufman” got it, BUT its a ONE-WAY ticket. She can NOt go back anymore.  Shayna is waiting, Not only the Queen of Spade,  She can not pass  Roxy and Amanda to the Top of the moutain where Tara LaRosa is sitting on.

Kaitlin Young the another striker of her Generation will try to stop her. Kailtlin Young who has KOed Tate less than a minute in 2007. Of course Meisha Tate will come back to Stop this unstoppable brizzard.

Strikeforce signed with Tonya Evinger? uh oh