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TUESDAY, December 6th, 2016, AT 5:40 PM/ PST
Results From Adrenalin Fight Night's
WEDNESDAY, November 23rd, 2016, AT 7:05 PM/ PST --------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, November 22nd, 2016, AT 11:20 AM/ PST
Results From Origin Fight League's
FRIDAY, November 18th, 2016, AT 8:50 AM/ PST
Origin Fight League, LLC Presents
FRIDAY, November 14th, 2016, AT 5:20 PM/ PST
Results From Partridge Productions'
FRIDAY, November 11th, 2016, AT 9:10 AM/ PST
Partridge Productions, L.L.C. Presents
MONDAY, November 7th, 2016, AT 8:10 AM/ PST
Results From All In Promotions'
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FRIDAY, October 28th, 2016, AT 9:40 AM/ PST
THIS WEEKENDS
ISCF ACTION...
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All In Promotions Presents
"Armory Wars"
Sedalia, Missouri, USA
WEDNESDAY, October 26th, 2016, AT 9:20 AM/ PST
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Results From Rob Kimmons'
"MMA Kombat"
October 22nd, 2016 - Kansas City, Missouri,
USA
SUNDAY, September 11th 2016, AT 8:00 AM/ PST
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TUESDAY, September 6th, 2016, AT 3:44 PM/ PST
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Results From Breakthrough MMA's
"Breakthrough MMA 20"
September 3rd, 2016 - Daytona Beach, Florida,
USA
FRIDAY, September 2nd, 2016, AT 10:20 AM/ PST
THIS WEEKENDS
ISCF ACTION...
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Breakthrough MMA Presents
"Breakthrough MMA 20"
Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
WEDNESDAY, July 27th, 2016, AT 9:20 AM/ PST
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Results From All In Promotions'
"Armory Wars"
July 23rd, 2016 - Sedalia, Missouri, USA
FRIDAY, July 22nd, 2016, AT 10:10 AM/ PST
THIS WEEKENDS
ISCF ACTION...
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All In Promotions Presents
"Armory Wars"
Sedalia, Missouri, USA
THURSDAY, May 26th 2016, AT 2:10 PM/ PST
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Results From Florida Fight Foundation's
"FX3 CAGE WARS"
May 20th, 2016 - Lake City, Florida, USA
FRIDAY, May 20th 2016, AT 8:10 AM/ PST
THIS WEEKENDS
ISCF ACTION...
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Florida Fight Foundation Inc Presents
"FX3 CAGE WARS"
Lake City, Florida, USA
THURSDAY, May 5th, 2016, AT 9:AM/ PST
New Opponent Announced For
Tuck At
UFC
Rotterdam
By mmalatestnews.com
A new opponent has been announced for Jon Tuck at UFC Rotterdam and it's not one of the names on peoples lips yesterday.
Team Alpha Male (TAM), in their pursuit to challenge everyone, will enter a new contender, Josh Emmett (9-0), into the lightweight mix at UFC Rotterdam: Overeem vs. Arlovski on May 8, 2016. It's no secret to the Northern California region that Emmett belongs amongst elite mixed martial artists, and, accepting a short-notice fight against Jon "Super Saiyan" Tuck (9-2), after "Sergeant" Nick Hein (13-2) fell out of the bout, he will be afforded an opportunity to introduce himself to fans around the world on Fox Sports 1.
Typically, a fighter called up to the big show on short-notice is given a puncher's chance, but Emmett only needs a chance to punch. Training at TAM, Emmett regularly finds himself absorbing expertise from top-tier coaching, and many of his training partners have sent postcards from their trips to the UFC's Octagon.
Truth is, the timing for this ultimate invitation coincided perfectly with the timing of Emmett's hands on the focus mitts. When the UFC contract popped out of the fax machine, Emmett was nearing his peak for a title defense against a rangy, dangerous striker, scheduled for May 7, 2016 at WFC 17. Currently, Emmett is the reigning WFC and ISCF lightweight champion, (YouTube Of Bout - Click Here) and a win over Tuck triangulates his path toward, what Emmett would argue, the most meaningful piece of hardware in MMA.
Bruce Buffer's voice has rolled around in Emmett's imagination, over and over, for the past 10 years, and his intensity will likely pressure the judges to award him a 10-9 each round, whether it goes to a decision, securing a record of 10-0 in his new home: the UFC.
TUESDAY, May 3rd, 2016, AT 11:50 PM/ PST
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THE BAD NEWS IS...
ISCF MMA:
No Worries, this is what we all wanted for you Champ! |
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TUESDAY, April 12th, 2016, AT 8:50 AM/ PST
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Results From All In Promotions'
"Armory Wars"
April 2nd, 2016 - Sedalia, Missouri, USA
THURSDAY, March 31st, 2016, AT 12:10 PM/ PST
THIS WEEKENDS
ISCF ACTION...
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All In Promotions Presents
"Armory Wars"
Sedalia, Missouri, USA
ISCF AMATEUR MISSOURI
STATE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
#3 ISCF
Ranked Heavyweight
Steven Nevels
Warrensburg,
Missouri, USA, 6-0, 5'10", 8-10-92, Billy Matheny, 660-747-2546
VS
#4 ISCF Ranked Heavyweight
Travis Edwards
Jefferson
City, Missouri, USA, 16-7, 6'5", 3-10-79, Rob Howard, (573) 301-9854
MONDAY, February 22nd, 2016, AT 6:45 PM/ PST
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Results From Breakthrough MMA's
"CHAMPIONS EMERGE"
February 20th, 2016 - Orlando, Florida, USA
FRIDAY, February 19th, 2016, AT 9:45 PM/ PST
THIS WEEKENDS
ISCF ACTION...
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Breakthrough MMA Presents
"CHAMPIONS EMERGE"
Orlando, Florida, USA
TUESDAY, February 9th, 2016, AT 7:25 PM/ PST Stephen "Wonderboy"
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Since the early 2000's, we've been telling everyone just how "Special & Different" Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson is as a fighter. How he had a different style of stance, explosive, blitz style attacks, amazing accuracy and how he would methodically pick his opponents apart with well timed, well targeted strikes. Unlike a lot of fighters, Thompson uses "Economy of movement" in pretty much every strike he throws. He doesn't just strike to strike, he strikes with a pin point accuracy of a specific target in mind... AND HITS IT! So where do these "Special" skills come from? NOT from "Fight" training... They can only be attained from one type of training... "Karate" Training. Yes, you read that correctly, "KARATE!" You know, the style of Martial Arts without the word "Mixed" in front of it. The martial art no one wants to give credit to when people like Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson makes a splash. Well, the critics can no longer ignore "Karate" as a viable "Fighting" style. At least not with an exciting "KARATE" style fighter like Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson making headlines in Pro MMA under the banner of the largest MMA organization, the UFC... Lets face it though... Isn't ANY form of Karate a "Mixed" Martial Art? Of course it is. There are many "Styles" of "Karate" though, or at least in general. However, most Tae Kwon Do practitioners will tell you they do not do "Karate", they do "Tae Kwon Do". Still, put them all together, call them what you want from Kenpo to Kempo to Kajukenbo, Shotokan to Kung Fu, Judo to JuJitsu and on and on and in the end, they are all Martial Arts. That being said, when we say Thompson has a "Karate" background, what we really mean is the actual "Art" form and "Discipline" that you only see in true "Karate" or "Martial Arts" training. If you've never trained in a "Belt" Martial Art system, you may have no idea what we're referring to. Thompson's strike accuracy started with "Point" Karate fighting, where simple activity or impact damage have little to do with winning. The ONLY things that matters in "Point" Karate are "Timing, Speed and Accuracy!" One of the many reason IKF Point Kickboxing is so popular, as it truly prepares fighters for the next level of full contact competition. A lot of fighters today simply kick and or punch to stay active, with no real "Set-Up" of a target. They just throw a kick, throw a punch, with little thought of things like fakes, counters, double-ups, transition of speed let alone the even deeper details of Psychological maneuvering or other "Karate" point fighting terms. It's a "discipline", not just a "Technique" and this's what set fighters like Thompson apart from fighters who have never taken any "disciplined" Martial Art. Although Thompson may be one of the most explosive Karate Fighters MMA has seen he isn't the first to makes waves in MMA with such skills. There were others before him who also took headlines of being Exciting Fighters. Fighters such as Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Georges St. Pierre, Cung Le, Anthony Pettis, Ronda Rousey, Pat Miletich, Bas Rutten, Chuck Liddell and even Conor McGregor, just to name a few. All of these fighters have a very "Different" style of fighting in MMA, a style that brought all of them success. Thankfully, what we've been telling everyone for years about Thompson is finally getting some deserving press from everyone else now... Enjoy Chad Dundas piece below from bleacherreport.com |
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Johny Hendricks vs. Stephen Thompson - UFC Fight Night Highlights UFC's 'Wonderboy'
and the Re-Emergence of the Every time Stephen "Wonderboy"
Thompson hit him on Saturday night, Johny Hendricks got a look on
his face like, | |
Over the course of their three minutes and 31 seconds together, Hendricks' face took on that look quite frequently. It's hard to blame him; we were all shocked. Thompson's funky punches and kicks came from all angles during the main event of UFC Fight Night 82, and he outlanded Hendricks 24-7 in significant strikes en route to a first-round TKO victory. "I came out here to put on a good show," Thompson (12-1 overall, 7-1 UFC) told play-by-play man Jon Anik in the cage when the fight was over. "Hopefully everyone was impressed I didn't look for the knockout, I just let it happen. Hopefully I'll get that title shot, baby, that's what I want." To say the win was eye-opening would be an understatement. In one fell swoop, Thompson extended his welterweight-best win streak to six fights, made his bones as a serious man in the Octagon and perhaps established himself as the surprise No. 1 contender in the 170-pound division. More importantly, he might also have cemented the return of karate as a viable fighting style in the UFC. The traditional martial arts have long gotten short shrift in modern MMA. The Gracie family sponsored early UFCs as glorified infomercials for their Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighting style and quickly proved their pointthat a fighter had to know how to grapple to succeed in real-world hand-to-hand combat situations. Their early dominance briskly undid many previously long-held conventions about how to fight. Simply put, the Gracies made a lot of traditional, stand-up-oriented martial artists look like fools. Even as the legendary family faded from prominence in MMA, practitioners of no-frills Western systems like wrestling and kickboxing largely went on to dominate the next two decades. Classic movie-house forms were summarily overshadowed. A lot of professional fighters may well have started in karate, taekwondo or kung fu as kids, but few of them fought like it once they arrived in the Octagon. Former light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell, or at least his deltoid tattooclaimed allegiance to kempo karate, but he fought like a brawling kickboxer when it mattered. Welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre boasted a background in kyokushin, but he was known more for his dynamic wrestling during the heart of his UFC career. Only light heavyweight titlist Lyoto Machida stood out for his classic karate fighting styleand his reign on top was so short it became a punch line. Machida's elusiveness and counterstriking were always his calling card, but his patient, unorthodox methods sometimes seemed to work against him when judged according to MMA's unified rules. The Octagon forced fighting styles to evolve with unprecedented speed, and efficiency was at a premium. Techniques that were deemed outlandish or ineffective were quickly cast aside while less flashy but operational skills became the bedrock of modern MMA. However, this latestand arguably most unexpectedbend in the evolutionary road makes it seem as though some brands of traditional martial arts were dismissed too hastily. Without warning, our sport has perhaps crossed another generational threshold. Suddenly, little by little, MMA appears to be headed back to the dojo. Methods that were once considered dead on arrival in the Octagon are experiencing a revival. The results can be breathtaking to watch, as Bleacher Report's Jonathan Snowden noted: { TWITTER: Jonathan Snowden ? @JESnowden: There's nothing more beautiful than a really fluid karate guy. I think Thompson exceeds even Machida when it comes to pure aesthetics. 10:12 PM - 6 Feb 2016} Conor McGregor recently won the UFC featherweight title using a wide-open stance plucked straight from a 1970s grindhouse film. Despite a recent loss, 19-year-old Sage Northcutt has become one of the UFC's preferred young stars with his effortless front flips and his mashup of taekwondo and something called kajukenbo. It's also tempting to include Ronda Rousey in this group, as she cruised to the women's bantamweight title primarily on judo throws and a single submission hold (the armbar). None of them is purely one-dimensional, of course, but they are all more entrenched in their base styles than many successful MMA fighters of the recent past. Now comes Thompson, who is as pure and impressive a karate man as we have ever seen. The child prodigy started following his father to the gym at age three and began fighting in kickboxing and karate competitions at age 15. Martial arts were a Thompson family affair, and the tale he told Snowden this week made his journey sound more like a quest to claim his birthright than a way to target college scholarships or earn a career as a professional athlete: "We just grew up in it. There are football families, baseball families, basketball families. We're a karate family. We're a martial arts family. That's what we did. If we even hinted at wanting to do something else, it was like 'Nope.' This is it. This is what you're focusing on, and you're going to be great at it." In certain waysfrom his flashy striking style, to his fade haircut and Wonderboy nickname, Thompson is a throwback to bygone days. And yet he is also part of a meticulously cross-trained next generation. His brother-in-law is BJJ legend Carlos Machado, and these days he prepares for MMA bouts alongside former middleweight champion Chris Weidman. Thompson's performance on Saturday drew rave reviews from his training partner: {TWITTER: Chris Weidman ? @ChrisWeidmanUFC What!!!!! My brother @WonderboyMMA is a beast ! 9:55 PM - 6 Feb 2016} Still, it begs mentioning that Thompson's traditional martial arts upbringing made him the exact opposite of a guy like Hendricks. The former welterweight champion was forged by a much more common (and Western) lifestyle, going from high school wrestler to All-American at Oklahoma State University before transitioning to MMA. And maybe those differences were to blame for our hesitance to take Thompson seriously leading up to this bout. Even though he'd already won five in a row, including a highlight-reel spinning-hook-kick knockout of Jake Ellenberger last July, he entered this weekend as nearly a 2-1 underdog, according to Odds Shark. Hendricks was the more proven commodity, and maybe some of that anti-karate bias still kicked around in the back of our minds. We've had 20 years to convince ourselves that stuff doesn't work in MMA, after all. If that was the prevailing mindset, though, Thompson single-handedly did a lot to undo our prejudices. He battered Hendricks from start to finish. From the moment he threw a jumping kick during the fight's first 15 seconds, his speed advantage was evident. He disrupted Hendricks' plan to wrestle with a continual barrage of long-range strikes from his karate stance. With one minute and 30 seconds gone, Thompson landed a side kick to the body and immediately followed it up with a side kick to the head, and Hendricks made that face for the first time. Wait, what? Many of us who had anticipated a quick-and-easy win for the Oklahoma native likely had the same expression. This didn't go at all how we expected. The end began for Hendricks when Thompson blasted him with a right hand with 1:45 left in the opening stanza. Thompson followed it up with a series of strikes against the fence, including one kick that appeared to stray low. There was a spinning kick mixed in there and then another series of punches before Hendricks collapsed against the chain link, prompting referee John McCarthy to call a stop to the action. Every technique Thompson threw on the feet was picture-perfect. It's clear now that the sheer diversity of his stand-up attack, his speed and power make him a threat to anyone in the welterweight division, including strike-friendly champion Robbie Lawler. Thompson's most important accomplishment in this fight, however, was warding off Hendricks' only takedown attempt during the first minute. His defensive wrestling appears to have improved greatly since his loss to Matt Brown in April 2012. Perhaps that wrinkle underscores the most significant difference between the new breed of traditional martial artist and the generation we saw undone in MMA during the early 1990s. Not only are Thompson and those of his ilk incredible athletes who have been impeccably trained from the time they could walk but they also understand the need to possess well-rounded skills. Today's martial artists simply have more information than the fighters of two decades ago. They understand that the grappling game is vital for success in mixed combat sports. It's their ability to stay on the feet in the first place that allows them to bring these age-oldand previously discreditedstriking techniques to bear. And if Thompson can stay off his back in future MMA fights, there's a good chance the karate master will leave his opponents with that same confused and painful look on their faces. |
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FRIDAY, January 27th, 2016, AT 9:10 AM/ PST
Results From All In Promotions'
WEDNESDAY, January 27th, 2016, AT 6:40 PM/ PST
Results From West Coast Fighting Championship's
FRIDAY, January 22nd, 2016, AT 9:10 AM/ PST
West Coast Fighting Championship Presents
WFC 16 Press Conference #2
All In Promotions Presents
WEDNESDAY, January 6th, 2016, AT 10:00 AM/ PST
January 6th, 2016 PRESS CONFERENCE TONIGHT
Co-Main Event of the evening
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