New UFC Heavyweight Champion!!!!
On Saturday night November 12, 2011 the UFC held it’s Heavyweight Championship bout on Fox for the fight fans to watch for free on network television. Surprisingly it was between two of the best Heavyweights in the division and the world, what a treat for the fight fans who can’t afford to purchase the high priced pay-per views.
Photo Courtesy of espn.com
The current Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez was set to defend his title for the first time against the #1 Contender Junior Dos Santos. Both men are excellent fighters and have devastating knockout power. Cain is the better wrestler and Dos Santos probably has the best boxing in the heavyweight division. This fight looked to be an awesome showdown between the two behemoths.
When the fight started the Champ Cain Velasquez came out looking like he was trying to feel out Dos Santos throwing a few leg kicks and a couple of punches. Dos Santos landed a straight right and then stepped back, as they came back in Cain came forward and Dos Santos threw a weak left hook to set up his overhand right that landed on the ear of Velasquez and dropped him. Dos Santos pounced on him and started landing shot after shot until John McCarthy stepped in and stopped the fight after only 1 minute and 4 seconds in the first round. Giving Junior Dos Santos the Heavyweight Championship and the belt.
I predicted that Dos Santos would win this fight but I truly believed it would go a lot longer than it did. Although I wanted and picked Dos Santos to win, I do like Cain Velasquez very much so it was hard to root against him also. Whatever the outcome would have been I would still have been happy. They are both very talented and gifted fighters who will only get better. I really don’t know if I can see anyone in the Heavyweight division beating Dos Santos, I just think he is too good. Former Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar who was beat by Cain Velasquez will fight Allistair Overeem who was the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion and recently signed with the UFC. Whoever the winner of that fight is will face Junior Dos Santos for the championship. Regardless of who wins that fight, I don’t think either of them will beat Dos Santos regardless of the fact that many believe Allistar is the best Heavyweight in the world.
Well I would like to congratulate Junior Dos Santos for his victory against Cain Velasquez and earning his new Heavyweight Title. He deserves it and is a great person and fighter. Much respect to Cain Velasquez too who is hardworking beast and got caught with a great punch by a great fighter. Cain will be back and will more than likely get another shot at the title in the future.
Congratulations Junior Dos Santos, new Heavyweight Champion of the World!!!
Fighting For The Future
Hey everybody, I won’t to share this promo video with you that is intended for the youth. It is a non-profit organization created by some friends of mine that are Professional MMA fighters. They have created an organization for youths to try and keep them out harmful situations that a lot of societies youths are in. These guys are great guys and have trained with them in the past for many years, I still train with some of them.
It is an MMA program that helps youth stay out of trouble and possibly getting dragged into bad situations brought on by others. I myself was a very troubled kid in my younger ages all the way up into my teens. I had severe anger issues and I was constantly getting into fights on the street and at school. Most of it was brought on from the child hood I had but i had to find a way to control it because it was getting me into serious trouble and it just wasn’t the person I needed to be. I started on the right path when I joined the U.S. Army and I started training in boxing and MMA, which I also trained in advanced combat for the MOS I had in the Army. When I got out of the military I started training more and more into MMA. I will say that it was the best thing for me, not only did it teach me how to control things better and keep myself out of trouble, I always exerted all of my energy in the gym training. After training you are too tired to get in trouble, you don’t even want to eat you just wanna fall on the bed and pass out.
A friend of my sons had an older brother who was a lot like with me with anger issues and getting in trouble and fighting and I tried to take him under my wing and show him about MMA. I started taking him to classes with me when he was 16 and he loved it. I talked with him a lot and we trained together almost every day. He started getting a lot better from all this and now he is a solid United States Marine and a very stable young man.
Many people feel like MMA or any type of fighting systems are all brutal and will not allow their children to participate in it, and they feel like anybody that does it is just a bully or a douchebag that wants to go around beating the hell out of people. That’s not the case. Even though when you watch UFC or something and there are guys that act like douchebags, but most of that is just hype for the fight to bring in more ticket sales. Most of these guys are stand up people even the ones that act like asses when the camera is rolling.
This is a great program for teens to be involved with and you should definitely give it a try. A lot of parents work, there are a lot of single parents out there like myself that can’t be there all the time when their kids get dismissed from school, so this would be a great program for their children. I mean would you rather have your kids in a good program with good people teaching them or have them running around doing God knows what with their friends being put in peer pressure situations and/or dangerous situations?
Give it shot, if you don’t like it then that’s fine but I can promise you the kids will love it and it will make them feel better and will make them better people.
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You Can’t Quit That Easy In This Sport Son
Did anyone else watch the give up by Charlie Rader in last nights episode of “The Ultimate Fighter”? It was quite ridiculous how quick he gave up on the rear naked choke. Ramsey Nijem went into the fight determined to beat Rader and he did just that. Now I was rooting for Ramsey because I don’t like fighters who constantly talk about how good they are and they can do this and that to the other fighter and I absolutely love to see them get their asses whipped after talking all kinds of smack.
Obviously all the tough looking tattoos can't help last longer than one second in a choke
I don’t blame Brock Lesnar for being pissed off and throwing a stool into the Octagon because Charlie just made his team look like a group of pussies. I mean this guy was the second pick of Team Lesnar’s and he tapped almost as soon and the choke was put on, there was no way he was already passing out or gasping for air. He didn’t even have the choke for a full second I don’t think. I know what the choke feels like I have been in it plenty of times in training and fights and it takes a bit longer than a second for some to tap unless that person has already given up and just wants to end the fight. To do it while competing for a spot in the UFC is absurd, I mean why in the hell did you even want to be on the show if you weren’t going to give it everything in the cage? That wasn’t a training session it was a fight. I know Dana White sure as hell don’t want anyone that will give up that easy to fight for his promotion.
As for Nijem he did what he needed to do and he came to fight. He kept busy pressuring Rader and kept his fists in Rader’s face, when he had a chance to shoot he did and kept Charlie
I think even Ramsey was surprised at how quick the guy tapped out
against the fence. Ramsey had a very good slam and I think that’s when Charlie realized Ramsey was the better wrestler, hell the better overall fighter. Good job Ramsey, hope to see you win another one.
Damn, I still can’t get over the quick give up I mean he didn’t even attempt to get out of the choke!!!! NOTHING!!!! How he made it on the show beats me, that was just…well a pussy tap!!
