Fedor Vs Hendo Tonight

Well in case it somehow slipped your mind, two MMA legends are duking it out tonight in a terrific card. If you have showtime it's definitely a must watch, there were rumors this matchup was going to be PPV but thanks the powers that be it isn't.

Strikeforce Fedor Vs Hendo



FEDOR EMELIANENKO vs DAN HENDERSON - I believe this is going to be a catchweight fight since Dan Henderson doesn't have the Light Heavyweight belt on the line. The advantage to this fight goes to Fedor, for the first time in a long time he's actually the bigger man in the cage and he's younger. I would also argue that Fedor fought tougher guys in Strikeforce then Dan. That doesn't mean Dan should be counted out either, Dan has his super right hand and his greco-roman clinch game to fall back on. There are rumors that who ever loses this fight is going to be cut but I believe this fight is more do or die for Fedor then it is for Dan. If Fedor looses to Dan, then I can see Strikeforce cutting him or Fedor takes a big pay cut. I don't however see Dan getting cut even if he looses simply cause Dan is a bigger star in American MMA and can still bring in the crowds.

MARLOES COENEN vs MIESHA TATE - This will be Coenen's 2nd title defense and 3rd title fight overall but many feel that she was run over by Liz in her last fight and pulled a hail Mary submission so she's coming in as the underdog. Tate is a power wrestler and she's looking to do exactly what Liz did to Coenen but people forget, Coenen has now fought 2 power grapplers and submitted them, it's possible that Coenen is a submission machine off her back and the bane of every wrestler. If Coenen Submits Tate in this fight then there can be no doubt that she deserves the belt and no one should attempt to ground and pound her again for fear of the subs. If the fight is to remain standing, I think Coenen will be the better technical striker but Tate does have the ability to land one solid punch to end the fight. I know one thing though, if Tate get's full mount it's over, unlike Liz, I'm sure Tate can deliver some devastation from that position.

ROBBIE LAWLER vs TIM KENNEDY - Lawler is going to have to knock out Kennedy in the first minute of the round or else he's going to end up on his back for the rest of the fight. Kennedy has terrific takedowns and cardio, there's no quit in the man. Lawler on the other hand has shown that if you take him down and stay on top, he eventually gets frustrated and gives up. Souza showed this in his title fight with Lawler and Kennedy has better takedowns then Souza so unless Lawler shows a CroCop like takedown defense I don't see him winning this.

PAUL DALEY vs TYRON WOODLEY - Daley was once the number one contender in the UFC till Koscheck beat him and insulted every fiber of his being. Woodley is a Strikeforce:challengers superstar and if he wins this fight, a big name in the organization (he sorta is now but like Jon Jones, I'll believe the hype when fights a name). I think if Woodley takes down Daley, he's got this fight in the bag, in fact, I'm sure Woodley can easily take down Daley and dominate him on the ground. If Woodley wants to make a statement however, he could keep it standing and show off his striking game but I wouldn't risk it against Daley, the guy has power but it all goes away on the ground.

SCOTT SMITH vs TAREC SAFFIEDINE - This will be a huge test for Saffiedine cause to stop Smith, you need to knock him out cold, not rock him or daze him but make sure he falls limp to the canvas or else Smith's Critical hit factor along with his high luck stats will win the day. Granted Saffiedine could try to decision Smith but as history has shown, Smith is a wildcard fighter if there ever was one and you don't want to go the distance with someone like that. I see this as do or die for Smith, less he falls down to Strikeforce Challengers and this is Saffiedine's way out of Strikeforce Challengers. Both guys are fighting for the future of their careers, one wants to remain a named fighter and other is looking to establish his name.

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I didn't post these last week cause I wanted to have a more substantial article for the blog then just another OMMA post but here's the fights I was in the last 2 weeks.

Bushido:
Bushido 29 "Invincible"
Bushido 30 "No Fear"

My Bushido CAFs
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sylvester Stallone
Ray Burns

Ultimate Combat:
Ultimate Combat 9"Capital Carnage"
Ultimate Combat 10"Supremacy"

My Ultimate Combat CAFs
Ultimate Warrior
Kevin Smith
Jason Mewes

Strikers Challenge:
Strikers Challenge 6 "Only the Strong Survive"
Strikers Challenge 7 "MegaFight"

My Striker's Challenge CAFs
Charlie Sheen
Bert Castro

For those who were keeping track of my guys and are wondering why they got shuffled around the leagues. Here's a press release explaining it

OMMA post

Righto, you know the drill, here's the fights I had last weekend in OMMA

Bushido:

Sylvester Stallone vs Roland Pavlinsky (LHW)
Rick Bowman vs Arnold Schwarzenegger (HW championship)

Strikers Challenge (Kickboxing):
Hugh Garrett vs Charlie Sheen (LHW, sheen got fat)

Some guys have "let's plays" I guess I have "Let's fights".


For those that enjoy humor here's some fun stuff involving MMA.






Seanbaby wrote a MMA article a while back, seems he thought the Thiago vs Vera fight was lol worthy as well.

SB's MMA article page 1
SB's MMA article page 2

Another OMMA post

Yeah I know, this site is starting to be more about videogame MMA then about real MMA. I'll get back to work on articles and videos about MMA when I'm not so busy with other things. I really want to do something for the Fedor vs Hendo fight later this month whether it's just an article or I do a video of just the main event but with Summer comes more distractions, maybe during the winter months I'll be more active.

Either way here's the OMMA fights I was in last weekend.

Fight Force
Eli Leo vs Kevin Smith (LHW Championship)

Bushido
Greg Crawford vs Charlie Sheen (WW Championship)

Ultimate Combat
Ultimate Warrior vs Eli Kang(HW)
Ricco Fernandez vs Bert Castro (MW)

EA had their live broadcast yesterday and it was a pretty good one since it was all CAFs and there was only 1 no show.

Stikforce 3.1 Scars and Stripes
Stikforce 3.2 Scars and Stripes


The stand out fights for me were

Doctor Knockout vs Smoke Em- DK showed patience and resilience in the first round when he was mounted. Most people who play this game knows that mount is a death sentence but DK kept in there and waited for Smoke Em to make a mistake which he eventually did. Smoke unlike NRG was trying to finish while in mount and when he had DK's back, he just couldn't do enough damage through DK's block and didn't have a sub to put the nail in the coffin. Don't know if Smoke rage quit at the end of round 2 but it looked like momentum was in DK's favor at the end of the 2nd round anyways, sucks cause I really wanted to see what would happen in round 3. Fight of the Night.

Doctor Agee vs q TaKe NOtEz p- This was a back and fourth slug fest ala Pat Barry vs Cheick Kongo, good title fight, in fact I give this KO of the night.

Afrokiwi91 VS MMA Bless- This gets sub of the night. I've noticed more people using the boxer specialty and doing the kneebar sub and getting it. Bless seems to have built his guy as a boxer with subs since 89 subs means he's maxed out all his subs as a boxer. It'll be interesting to see if this isn't overpowered when it comes to leg subs cause if guys are getting the kneebar with 89 sub rating against guys with 95+ grapple defense, then it's overpowered and needs to be patched pronto cause why play as a Sambo fighter when a boxer seems to be better on the ground and can get leg subs with their 89 stat vs the sambo's 100 leg stat. I'm hoping it isn't overpowered and that Bless is just really good at the sub mini-game.


bladeflyer94 VS chinowales- This fight really confuses me cause I have no idea why it didn't' end in round 1. Many mistakes were made on the ground, for instance Chinowales could have uses a major transition in round 1 when he had Blade's stamina drained to achieve full mount but he didn't, he just stayed in half guard and pounded away doing minimal damage since Blade could just block and didn't have to worry about being KOed. In round 3 when Chino gets the slam and ends up in side control he could have majored to full mount postured up since having no stamina gives the other fighter a free pass. This means that either the 2 fighters made some kinda agreement not to go to the mount or they lack the knowledge of how the ground game works. I sure hope it's the latter cause I'm not very interested in watching scripted fights or special rules fight on the live broadcast, this is EA MMA not EA Pro Wrestling. I'll give the 2 the benefit of the doubt and just chalk it up to nerves or lag for the reason why the ground game wasn't used for a finish by Chinowales (screwed him in the end since he looses the decision).