Dream Match

By Paul Sims 

http://www.octaringsports.blogspot.com 

Anderson vs Jones

Imagine Hulk vs Juggernaut, Jordan vs Kobe, Floyd vs Leonard, or Superman vs Thor.  Vis a vis that will turn your torso upside down.  These compelling fights never happened and hardly could you toss them into reality as obviously those conflicts ripen into young or yet business prohibits.  Nevertheless, there are plenty that resembles such competition that could occur anytime soon.

Anderson Silva vs Jon Jones.  Two of the current best combat fighters in the world perhaps considered greatest of all time particularly in the world of MMA. 

Jon Jones, a young lion, started his career for being recognized as a versatile and skilled fighter with perfect body structure et al. Just several fights after Brandon Vera, he by now succeeded to annihilate a champion and defended his belt against future Hall of Famers and top Contenders in a single division not by just a decision but in a dominating fashion such as submission and one sided unanimous decision.  To make it more savage, most of his opponents that were known of knocking their opponents down or being skilled in a standup onslaught were all backpedalling could not even throw a series of combination against him.  The only person did not reel under his bed was Lyoto Machida, however, he was being submitted and lost his consciousness afterwards.  His next slated bout will be against a big time knockout artist Dan Henderson which we may consider a little bit tougher than his last fight.  Jones cited about moving into the Heavyweight divisions that we may find not easier to conquer with the likes of Dos Santos, Velasquez, Overeem, and Carwin.  That obviously sums up into one conclusion- he is just too much for Light Heavyweight Division.

Anderson Silva, many considers as a Legend, greatest MMA and UFC fighter in the World ever, and most skilled fighter.  He is not being tagged as hyped or overrated because his multiple fights proves how dominating he is knocking, submitting or even toying opponents down with embarrassment.  With a win with his upcoming fight, that would put him as the certain best Middleweight champion in the world and there will be no reason for him to stay in the division but to move up or retire.  His legacy is secured even years before he fought Rich Franklin or Dan Henderson.  Silva will be facing his best competitor yet for the second time around that will seal all the doubts lingered coming from his performance on their first bout.  Many believed he was an underrated Jui Jitsu black belter, but that did not yank him back for not using that skill saving the supposedly upset of the year seconds before it ended.  His age is catching up but apparently does not reflect with the way he fights as the onslaught and reflexes were even rising if not the same; his fight against Belfort and Okami proves it all.  

Fans are clamouring with this fight but it seems Dana White does not even mull about this, perhaps too risky for both fighters specifically for Jon Jones.  But does money matters most? Competition matters most?  Then this fight must happen.  Boxing is being criticized by experts and the UFC itself for not bringing quality and frequently cherrypicking fights, therefore, if this much I consider inevitable bout that should be happen imminently before it gets too late, then all of the accusations is considered illusion. What is the difference?

RIP Boxing

By Paul Sims 

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Manny Pacquiao many considers the greatest boxer in the modern day era, draped with eight world titles, and being coined as the Peoples champ lately savoured his first defeat since 2005 via split decision against the undefeated Timothy Bradley.  The fight was something agitating and stimulating where both fighters pitting toe to toe with speed pace; flurry of punches were being thrown albeit there were several times both fighters had been indeed sluggish.

Bradley was being dominated eight rounds or more that he apparently hanging on his dear life on the latter rounds. Hence, the fight turned out to be a one sided in favour of Pacquiao.  However, it was not the way the judges witnessed as two of them scored 115-113 in favour of Bradley. That started the crowd in attendance or watching pay per views at home the outraged.  Experts, scribes, or casual fans thought it was absurd and crooked that could lead the sport all the way on the verge of its death where in fact made the hashtag RIP Boxing as the number one trending for some social networking sites.

The question remains is who should be blamed?

Many deemed Bob Arum was the major piece behind this conspiracy, on the reason that of all people that could benefit with this festival will be no better than him.  The rematch could generate way more figures probably doubles the original one because it created vast controversy and for so very long time Pacquiao will be introduced by Buffer as the challenger. Secondly, both are in house fighters all under Top Rank promotion; in other words all decision has to be made by Bob Arum, all money will be generated by Bob arum, and both fighters’ revenues will pouched inside Top Rank aka Bob Arum.  Third, he had already found or shall I say effortless spawned a new prizefighter named Timothy Bradley.  Lastly, everyone is all aware the beef between Arum and Mayweather, their good term status ended when Mayweather left the promotion and since it has gone through rants, sourgraping, not to mention taunting fighters to leave Top Rank in order to get a fight with him. This Bradley scenario could prevent the much anticipated superfight.

I personally or the 99.9% whom follows the sport believed it was the judges liability that created so many controversies and obvious manipulation in terms of judging.  Few may have known all judges were being selected by no other than the Nevada State Athletic Commission or NSAC.  These judges may have gone way far digging themselves deep down in replace for Business now boils down to an overwhelming protest.  But who are we to judge a person that judges a fighter for a living?

In recent months we have witnessed various obvious erroneous judging which many believed an intentional one. A good example is the 2011 event Erislandy Lara against a light middleweight superstar Paul Williams.  Lara was dominating the fight and clearly heading his way of winning the fight for the WBC title but the judges ruled on the other way around. Next victim was Richard Abril against a rising superstar Brandon Rios.  Many believed that fight was only slated for a tune-up superfight against Juan Marquez which could generate pretty well revenue.  Although a win against Acosta could elevate his portfolio, Abril stature and boxing skills isn’t the same leverage as Rios.  Everyone thought his style was a tailor made for Rios relentless moving forward Margarito style, no brainer that makes it a tune up fight.  However, the fight turned out on the contrary, Abril toyed Rios from the beginning until end not just by exposing Rios weaknesses but showing off his boxing skills as well.  Sadly, the two judge’s decision was in favour of Rios.

These decisions can’t be hardly understand by a seven year old kid as the whole fight didn’t even require a full time judge to know exactly who the victorious one was. By just looking at live or rerun, it could be considered as conspiracy. The remaining question again is why?

Legislators must act fast, review the NSAC system what are the process of selecting judges and reviewing their credibility as well.  The sport seemingly requires a young, focused, and most of all ethical authority to preserve the morality of the business.

Otherwise scrap the entire NSAC to find a new one to build the sport not just by having the new judges but to build a new Drug Testing Rules.  

I don’t believe the Sport is dying because there are so many enticing fights looming out in future apart from Mayweather and Pacquiao.  What probably kills the sport is the morality and fairness inside that could prevent our future superstars of entering the sport thinking of something else. This is a very dangerous sport.

Time to drop the Curtain Fedor

By Paul Sims

http://www.octaringsports.blogspot.com

Ten years back right after his first defeat, Fedor Emelianenko, many considered the Greatest MMA fighter of all Time, drastically conquered and besieged the sport with his compelling feature every facet of his game. Minus the lateral movement, the last Emperor possessed how it takes to be a legend.

Ten years back, the last emperor was unstoppable of relinquishing all top contenders in the Heavyweight division Pride circa days; that there were no men I could ever mull over standing toe to toe against him other than Nogueira, that you may find absurd as he (Nogueira) was even being defeated in a dominating fashion. Same year of their second fight, Fedor was on the verge of losing a probable KO against the immense Randleman through a dangerous head first superflex or superslam, yet later on manage to escape with a kimura submission.

2005 while everyone admiring the gifted skills of the Legend Cro cop, Fedor was overpowering him as if you witness a kid that was being thrown by his huge Brother every corner of the room. The fatal Mirko head kick was entirely useless in the event.

You might have been wondering the size disparity or something. Well how about a 7 foot monster Hong Man Choi that only required a round of his Fedor experience before fallen into an armbar trap. How about the guy who owned a Boxing pure skill Arlovski, which despite the quickness advantage on the tip of their exchanges, got knocked on the canvass out cold. Or the gigantic primed Rogers whom managed to dominate Fedor on the ground that his face was inundated with blood, still conceded because of the feared Fedor’s haymaker.

Those when I thought of him being indestructible, a machine, or even the God of MMA until...

2010 when Fabricio Werdum, a BJJ specialist that was just defeated by two top notches Heavyweight mammoths Dos Santos and Overeem easily; broken and tear hearts all Fedor fan apart. It was a well intended plan tactic that lured the last emperor to fall into the hands of the mischievous Jiu Jitsu expert that eventually easily tangled him tight into the triangle choke. Post fight he was quoted of saying “The one who doesn't fall never stands up”.

That defeat was not that convincing one for me and I even consider it as a fluke just like his first L or yet with no different with Brock’s first one with Mir.

Strikeforce had bigger plans for him, instead of pitting him against Werdum for the rematch, they slated a fight against a once thought stationary tall guy Bigfoot Silva. When the fight commenced, both had their moments as they stood each other exchanging blows. However, when the bigger guy took advantage with his size being able to drop Fedor on the ground and controlled the ground game by executing the side control smoothly before sitting on a full mount control, everyone started to realize how ruthless we were when we underestimated the power of a 7 footer draped with his black JJ belt.

Fedor wasn’t being KOed albeit being badly beaten and if it wasn’t for the doctor stoppage, truly he could still be able to bounce back.

Apparently, as the turnout for those consecutive fights, the management thought of him fighting in the lower class. Hence, it was decided to give another legendary but risky fighter named Dan Henderson. Same built size, striking power, and ground game with only one exception. Fedor used to fight Heavyweight fighters with the likes of the towering Silva, Choi, Nogueria and a potential bout with Overeem, while Hendo fights a fighter with a capacity limited into Light Heavyweight. Accordingly, it made Hendo into a huge underdog. But that was only the perception of the fans that frequently drop disbelief into the revelation of the game.

For the third time around, Fedor Emelianenko had gone crushed and this time it was in a KO surprised. It wasn’t me if the turnout could be accepted abruptly without scrutinizing the details first. Initially, the stoppage seemed to be overly premature and watching both replays after the fight made me much firm in my supposition.

Herb Dean, the most active MMA referee now days deserves all the respect more than any middleman inside the octagon made me think twice of believing that call was an untimely one. Thus, for the tenth rerun made my opinion on the contrary. It was a clear shot that made Fedor lost his consciousness for a bit which made Herb stopping the fight, but Fedor started to turn a sudden twist when the fight was called a halt. That made it so confusing, but then it was so clear that the retrained occurred when he was lost with the haymaker.

This time there were no excuses and no alibis but acceptance. Fedor’s days are over and he was being drop by a guy that will turn 41 few months more. I accept the defeat more than acknowledging his fighting skill declination, although his action speaks clearer than my words.

Nonetheless, there will be no one that could ever persuade me of replacing him as the greatest badass fighter that ever strike, submit and choke inside the MMA den.

The Year of the Upsets

By Paul Sims

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Tired of superfights fallout last year? Mayweather-Pacquiao, Klitschkos-Haye or Lopez-Gamboa? How about waking you up from dreaming into the reality of the year 2011 dubbed as mind-bending amount of upsets. Partly a continuation from the last quarter of 2010 when we witnessed Hopkins troubled the younger Pascal, or maybe earlier that Litzau upsetting the once most feared fighter named Caballero.

Truly, last year could have generated several upsets. However, surprising results like those mentioned above plus fights such as Perez-Agbeko or Keb-Baas - Nino Romero, could not get even close in terms of the leverage of the Boxers who got results overturned by unknown if not washed out fighters.

Take an example from a potential skilled fighter James Kirkland who was just coming from a superb first round (KO) performance against Gibbs. It was his first fight in two years layoff due to legal troubles, thus, I considered that fight an exceptional one. Not until when he stepped inside the ring a month after and being floored three times by a weak puncher Japanese guy Nobuhiro Ishida with a record of 7 only KO’s in 29 fights.

Next in line was a once thought crappy one Madaina-Morales bout. Albeit the underdog lost the decision, the fight was still highly regarded as one of defining bouts of Morales, not just because of the scorecards but mainly how he dominated the a hardpuncher like Madaina. In everyones heart and even in my scorecard, it was Morales who rightly remained victorious.

Another upset has been witnessed a week after and this time the sheer impact was much ardent. A frustrating lost against a fighter whom name was even being lined to Manny Pacquiao’s intended opponent. Andre Berto, a pure-boxer that possess imposing skills with perfect record shattered his dreams by a fighter named Victor Ortiz that had once lost from Madaina in which believed way below his (Berto) calibre. Although the fight ended as Berto’s showing his heart, still the conclusion was in favour of Ortiz relentless attack.

Lastly, who would ever thought that a Boxer reigned in a division for vast years, all of a sudden being outpointed by boxer that was only supposed to be a tune up fight for a proposed mega fight? Juan Manuel Lopez, a Puerto Rican boxer with a then perfect record 30 wins with 27 Kos reigned and crushed all contenders in Superbantam and Featherweight divisions. A Boxer that was known that could only beaten by a one skilled and powerful fighter named Gamboa. A mega fight that has been desired since years before until gone devastated by a fight that was mentioned a “preparation bout”. Orlando Salido, an average fighter and extremely underdog before the fight pulled a controversial stoppage against Lopez. An upset that would break every boxing fans heart as the Lopez-Gamboa mega clash out has been expected afterwards. Nevertheless, it was an immense reprisal to the Top Rank Promotion for delaying the fight which could had happened year back.

The influence and impacts of these upsets could generate various results. We might have lost a star or in return had gained another one. One thing is for sure, a boxing glove shape like a rounded circle that could means every fight could favour any fighter.

Nonito the Great

By Paul Sims

http://www.octaringsports.blogspot.com

MANILA, Philippines- crowd have been clamoring of Nonito Donaire to patched up things with his Family and when they get to know that everything have been perfectly ended like a true story telling tale made it a sigh of relief when the meeting between two parties happened last 03 Mar 2011.
But the drama did not end in a smooth sailing way as apparently Nonito, Rachel and her Family started an ugly fight for blaming the media and called out specific scribes names. It turned out worst when the media throwed back a stone, back and forth or so.

That recent drama has been a part of his story, however, as a Boxing fan, I could care less about those stuff because personal matter has to be resolve at your own crib and retribution will be enforced accordingly. As far as the sport is concern, Nonito has gone all the way to the stardom that experts consider him one of the most gifted and enticing fighter in this generation. Technically superior boxer with great footwork, speed and underrated power.

His latest two bouts has been regarded as total domination in which he outpointed the former WBA Bantamweight Champion Sidorenko in a very brutal way all through the fourth round and was being regarded as the number one in Bantamweight division rankings. Months later, Top Rank announced the long awaited clash between Donaire and the legendary Fernando Montiel. It was the fight Nonito had been longing for as it was even postponed due to Montiel's injury occured before Sidorenko's bout.

I predicted the fight to be the easiest one for Donaire since Montiel's style really suites for him, in other words "style makes fight". And so it happened, for the first time of his career, Montiel has been floored in the second round that turned him out like a noob fighter and much worst when it turned out that the outcome caused him a hairline jaw fracture and severe rib injury. Was it because of the new nutritionist namely Victor Conte or simply the vast betterment?

Having said that, at this stage in my opinion he already cleanse the Bantamweight division (118) and there will be noone that could give him a roughneck one as challengers such as Mares, Moreno and Agbeko sloppy fighters with middling power rate, for Donaire to figure out how to beat them at first quarter rounds. Besides these fighters are below Montiel's caliber. Thus, I recommend him moving to 122 weight limit to fight Vasquez and move all the way to 126 beating future hall of famers, new comers and contenders and that he could build his own legacy beside the greats. As the matter of fact, I could consider him better than Manny Pacquiao in terms the quality of opponents.

I am more impressed to a fighter cleaning up divisions and facing quality opponents before moving into different divisions rather than a fighter who picks opponents at his own preferred catchweight to acquire titles that eventually inks his name in the history book.

A wish for 2011

By Paul Sims

http://www.octaringsports.blogspot.com

Early 2010, Boxing was never been expected to turned out classy as the last quarter of the year outcome. Pace has been set up and momentum kept rolling in preparation for upcoming year 2011. We have witnessed Pacquiao outpointing Margarito through round 12, Donaire literally toying Sidorenko, Martinez knocking Williams out cold in the canvas, and of course how could anyone forget Grandpa B-hop relentlessly bullying the prime Pascal till round 12 though resulted draw still earned respect that almost served him the crown for being the oldest champ in Boxing history.

Great fights will be inevitable to come forward on 2011; however, I could not resist producing my own wish list.

1. Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Who would have not desired about this fight? Quality fights like Ali-Frazier, Leonard-Hagler, Tyson-Lewis name it. The Greatest fight could have ever be between one of the best offensive fighter trying to crack up the skill of the best defensive fighter I've ever seen in my entire boxing life. Not to mention potentially being the most lucrative fight ever that could even reach the stature of bringing back boxing visibility to non-boxing fans again. Word is Self-explanatory.

2. Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao vs Sergio Martinez: Call me a Pactard or Homofloyd or whatever but I would still love to see these great fighters if their supposedly negotiation failed to give their best performance against a guy once thought a mediocre fighter now eventually to become the toughest SOB  in the Boxing industry.

3. Klitschko vs Haye: This is the heavyweight version of Floyd-Pacquiao drama apart from there are two Klitschkos that are willing to fight. There has been noone that can put any of those two brothers into a competitive fight; unfortunately the one seems to deserve it continuously quacking while ducking.

4. Nonito Donaire vs Abner Mares: Of course Nonito is being setup to a great monumental fight against Montiel on February and the contract has been signed before now. I pick Nonito not just because he is a Filipino, but technically speaking I could see him stealing away the show by unanimous decision. Mares on the other hand can handle Agbeko effortlessly. Hence, I expect them to fight mid of the year.

5. Juanma Lopez vs Yuriorkis Gamboa: equally talented, best of the best current featherweight fighters. Upside Gamboa is a speedy monster that resembles with the prime Cotto or even Tyson. Lopez on the other hand could provide the power and heart that any probable great fighter possesses. Downside, both of them had their trips on the canvas although rebounded afterwards to knock their opponents out. Lastly, they have both perfect records, nuff said.

6. Amir Khan vs Timothy Bradley: Khan will not go anywhere without facing this type of fighter. Bradley who will likely to win against Alexander this upcoming month will give Khan the toughest fight of his dear life. Khan has been water tested when he fought Maidana that gave me the impression of signing him into sprint competition; hence, I would everyday tweet him to stop dreaming fighting the likes of Mayweather, Pacquiao or Berto. Somehow, being too slick and fast, if he could bring back his speedy dodging against Maidana, he may pull a unanimous win decision.

7. Miguel Cotto vs Andre Berto: if Arum could have just think what's best for Boxing Fans, this will be a great matchup. Both hard hitting with extraordinary skills, I pick Berto slightly over Cotto though for being the aggressive one and that usually brings Cotto in trouble. PRESSURE

Heavyweight Matches

By Paul Sims
www.octaringsports.blogspot.com

Bored now days? To each is his own that what they say, and in my humbly ARROGANT opinion promoters offered nothing but mediocre fights since Cain beat the hell out of the bearded monster.

However, heavyweight division is getting exciting as ever as Strikeforce been planning to come up with a brilliant idea where all superstars fighting in a Tournament type of game. Yes, you read it right, Strikeforce not UFC and for the first time around an MMA promotion will dominate a division outside a company commissioned by Dana White.

We don’t just expect top heavyweights set against each other, but we are even about to witness the unexpected return of two of the Greatest Heavyweights EVER namely Fedor and Overeem.

Legendary Fedor that came from an instant upset against Werdum which happens to be on the other bracket as well will probably get a chance to have their second encounter around. On the other hand, it was Overeem that shocked the world crowned as the K-1 Ground Prix 2010 Champion and had beaten Duffee in Dynamite Promotion weeks later.

Apart from that, this will be the last fight for Fedor inside his Strikeforce contract and if Coker fails to entice him re-signing the extension, we may probably see Fedor next inside Dana’s crib. How good is that? I mean, we are not just going to see the long awaited Overeem-Fedor match finally happen; yes we are not just about to see the possibility of Fedor’s vengeance against Werdum being witnessed by all fightfreaks that definitely awards him a chance to prove the world being a legitimate King of MMA; but we are going to expect even more the possibility of him fighting Cain, Carwin, Dos Santos or even Brock inside the Cage in the mere future.

For now, let us first enjoy the luxury fights they could offer us.

Pacman GBOAT

By Paul Sims
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After facing the Tijuana Tornado last Nov 13, 2010 that turned out to be a one sided beating in favor of Pacquiao; an idea of dubbing him as the Boxing best ever loomed out again. A widely debate spurred all over the media especially with the so called Boxing experts as I myself turned to wonder how do we compare a boxer that by now reached 8 world titles in different divisions but merely fought 57 fights, into a boxer who fought more or less 200 fights reigning 2 or more divisions.

Those persons I picked as my top 2 closest with Pacquiao’s legacy would be Sugar Ray Robinson and Henry Armstrong. It would bring much wider picture by breaking down their resume.

Robinson has a record of 175-19-6-2 with 109 KOs and almost fought a no contest bouts. Out of his first 123 fights he only had one loss. Most of the respected personalities, scribes, and even boxers consider him as the best Boxer of all time, and to name a few, it would be Bert Sugar, Mohammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Kevin Iole, and ESPN. He dominated both welterweight and Middleweight division (first ever 5 time champion). Additionally, the Ring Magazine ranked him as the best Pound for Pound fighter of all time; in fact the term “Pound for pound” was coined after him, he was also regarded as the Greatest Puncher in boxing history. He was indeed a very charismatic person to the point that many regard him as the first African-American to get mixed up outside the sports such as involvement with Celebrities, business and many more. His name Sugar was attributed by the greats Sugar Leonard, Sugar Shane Mosley, and even the UFC fighter Sugar Rashad Evans. However, he was stopped for the light heavyweight title on 1952.

Armstrong aka Hammerin Hank, is a hard puncher boxer who won titles for three or more divisions. I remember Larry Merchant tagged Pacquiao as the modern Henry Armstrong of our generation. With 149 wins, he managed to get a KO record of 101 which means a hugely great KO percentage. He even KOed 21 opponents in 22 bouts, 6 or more knockouts in a row in different circumstances, so on and so forth. Many believed his accomplishments ranked him either top 1 or 2 greatest boxer of all time, though was not as firmed and leverage as Robinson.

Manny Pacquiao- BWAA fighter of the decade, the first boxer in the history to hold eight world divisions title crushing legends such as Barrera, Morales, Dela Hoya, and Miguel Cotto. Critics recently stated that most of his opponents have been cherry picked by Bob Arum that brought him into easy fights without even looking further back. His first limelight was against the former Jr. Featherweight champ Ledwaba as the only replacement of his original opponent. Afterwards he moved up to Featherweight division fighting the highly favored Barrera and won via TKO. After beating David Diaz in Lightweight division, everyone thought the apparently fight against Delahoya was absurd, many considered as a joke but eventually appeared on the other way around. The next fight was Hatton, and people started to name it as Pacquiao’s first acid test against a natural 140 welterweight with perfect record in that division. After stunning Hatton out cold in the very first round, he challenged a once one of the most avoided body puncher Miguel Cotto which was natural at 147. Never would I ever thought Cotto was being cherry picked by Pacquiao since I have never thought of anyone else that would deserved a fight against him at 147 aside from Mayweather. Cotto was not a bum fighter, Pacquiao was just too much for him and moving all the way to Middleweight say against Williams will be too much too quick for him. Hence, as the time goes on I absolutely believed that we will reach the moment of seeing him fighting Martinez if not against Mayweather.

The main difference between fighters now and then is the fight intervals. Robinson and Armstrong fought way frequently in compare to Pacquiao with sometimes only one week interval and rounds actually lasted till 15 rounds.

These endless debates will remain forever. Pacquiao as the Best of this Era, legacy yes so far, but as a fighter he must fight Mayweather or Martinez first in order to get my big nod.

Iron Fist

By Paul Sims
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MMA dubbed the Couture-Toney fight as MMA vs Boxing match. Boxing fans will surely find this prejudiced. It was the same thing I felt that I thought Dana or whoever labeled it fouled offensive to the one who governs Boxing.

A totally unfair and biased BS thing that an aged fighter who will make his debut in the MMA world, fight a freestyle MMA fight type, set him up pit toe to toe against a veteran grappler/fence clincher, and still labeled him as a Boxer against an MMA fighter.

This will be more likely a one sided fight in favor of Couture. And that would be the only thoughts of Dana White and the whole gang for now, expecting to see how people eventually realize that a Boxer won’t get any chance beating up an MMA fighter inside Octagon or anywhere else in a street fight. But the thing is, how if the 10oz less gloves strike onto the face of an MMA fighter?

Yes, Toney was never been an offensive fighter, in resemblance with Floyd Mayweather or Pernell Whitaker. But ALL Boxers has been trained hard to defend and definitely PUNCH no more any less. Vitality has never been a huge factor inside the Gym in amateur Boxing, on the reason that they have been donned by a protective headgear with sometimes body armor, and in order to crack the armor up is to improve the punching power and speed up to the limit.

Take a look of an MMA Veteran Tim Silva, who just caught by a straight punch by a Boxer named Ray Mercer. It was the only punch threw in the fight that made the MMA veteran turned out like Ricky Hatton stunned cold in the canvas before the game was declared over.

This never ending Boxing-MMA competition question will never be answered on 28 or 29 here in UAE. But absolutely, it will be an acid test of a Boxer’s iron fist without the 10oz gloves.

Who are you picking? I turn my LIGHTS OUT!

A Lucky Choke

By Paul Sims
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Now days, fights has been extremely disappointing after a good performance turned out to be a defeat because of a well intended tactic Triangle Choke submission. A submission mostly utilized by a Jui Jitsu or a Judo fighter, uses their two legs wrapping around opponents and strangles neck by a form of triangle like shape while yanking the other hand until finally suffocates the opponent in the latter end.

The latest was the 4-1 favorite Anderson Silva who underwent a bad beating from the very first round till amid of fifth against Chael Sonnen, but in time managed to run away the title using a choke submission.

A bad beating consistently suffered bashing without any counter that seems referee Rosenthal was on the verge of stopping the fight and he can see nothing but a vague direction to come back with a good counter; until in some way, Silva found a remedy which is the throttle choke.

However, a rematch would be there absolutely, and for him to remove any skepticism, he must by all means dictate the bout and find a way to decisively obtain judges favor or finish the bout by way of Knockout.

Sonnen suffered the same fate as Carwin and Fedor being victimized from their last bout, but then again, it was more upsetting since the pounding was consistent and the scorecards favored him from first through the end of fourth round, in compared to the first and second round submission against Fedor and Carwin.

Several fighters consider it as the Last resort especially those who specializes stand up fights. A fighter like Brock Lesnar or Roy Nelson would be the least person I would expect to use this strategy since both of their broad body and legs are not suited to be being flexible and stretchy. Nonetheless, it brought Brock to a victory even if he suffered a brutal beating against Carwin.

What are the things that these Triangle Choke victims have in common?

Power, aggressiveness, Stand up/ground fight skills, and to top them all - No Submission Defense.