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MMA CONFIDENTIAL Ashley vs Ashley @ VICTORY 111 NYC

by Bruce KiVo

The 69th Armory was a packed house at Victory 111 and “The GIRLFIGHT” was most memorable.

No, it wasn’t “ROWDY” RONDA ROUSEY vs MIESHA “CUPCAKE” TATE… but it was damn exciting.

A great armbar was executed by a female athlete wearing leapord tights who could double for MILEY CYRUS. Her name is ASHLEY “DOLLFACE” GREENWAY.

Previously undefeated and seemingly unstoppable, ASHLEY MILLER of KRAV MAGA Academy NY got caught in a beautiful armbar by “Dollface” Greenway.

After throwing a heavy barrage of strikes and pushing her opponent against the cage, Miller got caught, but hung in there for what seemed like forever before tapping. Both fighters really brought it and showed great sports”Woman”ship. We know the very talented Ashley Miller will be back!

Ashley “Dollface” Greenway is now the VICTORY COMBAT SPORTS Women’s Champion and looks ready for all comers. Check out some photos courtesy of Victory Combat Sports. Until next time.

Official MMA Confidential Report JONES GSP RONDA MEISHA DIAZ PALHARES & More

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by Bruce KiVo

Everybody’s talkin’ JON JONES vs GLOVER TEIXEIRA which has been postoned to March and GSP vs JOHNY

HENDRICKS at UFC 167. According to LYOTO MACHIDA, Glover is the man to stop the seemingly unstoppable

Jones. CARLOS CONDIT has GEORGE ST-PIERRE over HENDRICKS. MARK MUNOZ is betting on HENDRICKS.

The big thing right now seems to be MMA betting.

Both fights have the potential to go either way.

Before I forget …big props are in order for DANA WHITE on his lifetime ban of ROUSIMAR PALHARES

from the Octagon for refusing to

release a heel hook after MIKE PIERCE tapped at least 8 times at UFC Fight Night 29. As many of us know, a

heelhook is considered the most dibilitating submission in jiu jitsu and mma. Pierce was actually tapping

before he hit the mat. Palhares also disregarded the refs call to release the hold. Dana also had

Palhares’ fifty thousand dollar submission of the night bonus cancelled.

No word yet on how serious the injury will be to Pierce’s knee and ankle.

The Main Event, DAMIAM MAIA vs JAKE SHIELDS fight was a must win situation for both fighters. Former Strikeforce

Champ Jake took Maia down twice in round one. Maia got Jake’s back. Jake reversed it and wound up in

Maia’s guard. The same thing went down in round three. Jake’s superior wrestling helped him grind out the split

dec win in this five rounder. Jake now hopes to fight the winner of the CARLOS CONDIT MATT BROWN fight.

KO Of The Night went to Pusan, Korea’s DONG HYUN KIM aka “The STUN GUN”, who was the underdog in the co main

event . The Stun Gun looked pretty gassed when his power left put Brazil’s ERICK SILVA to sleep. The ever humble

Kim calld his KO of Silva luck.

A real great back and forth were 135 pounders, TJ DILLASHAW and RAPHAEL ASSUNCAO. Assunsao got the split dec

win. The fight was off the hook, but Dillashaw seemed to deserve the win.

Fight Of The Night went to the Light Heavies…. “The MEXICUTIONER”, JOEY BELTRAN vs Brazillian favorite FABIO

MALDONADO. Slow starter Fabio was puttin together good combos and doin’ a little Anderson Silva “Peekaboo”

against the cage. Fabiano got the split dec win and is now calling out CHAEL SONNEN and JAMES TE HUNA.

All the Brasilleros wanna fight CHAEL. Am looking forward to RASHAD vs SONNEN, but everyone is waiting

for “The Axe Murderer” WANDERLEI SILVA vs CHAEL. Fans love a “bad blood” fight. Let the games begin!

The MATT HAMILL THIAGO SILVA matchup @ 205 had Hamill standing too much with the deadly striking Brazillian.

Hamill landed a strong liver shot in round 2 and finished the round on Thiago’s back.

He should have kept the fight on the ground as Silva was destroying Hamill’s lead leg with kicks. By round 3

Hamill was gassed and limping. Unan dec went to Thiago.

After Fight Night 29 it was “ULTIMATE FIGHTER Time” …

Team RONDA’s JESSAMYN DUKE vs Team TATE’s RAQUEL PENNINGTON.

Wow, as SHAYNA BASZLER said, “What a fight”. Round 1: Jessamyn @ 5’11 had a standind guillotine on 5’7 Raquel.

Raquel escaped and Jess continued to use her long reach.

Round 2 saw Raquel starting to connect with power and the fight was so close that it went into “Sodden Victory” (a

3rd round).

Raquel edged out the victory, but it was an amazing show of heart by both athletes. These girls threw down.

After the fight Meisha put out her hand to shake with Ronda and ronda gave Meisha the finger. Will this feud ever

end?? In a previous episode, it looked as if Ronda’s main coach Edmond and Team Tate’ coach and UFC vet

DENNIS HALLMAN were going to come to blows. They were seperated and Ronda firmly requested that Dennis drop

it. The season is one of the coolest ever. The girl fighters just rock the show and they never leave it up to the

judges.

Unbeaten Lightweight sensation, “NOTORIOUS” NICK NEWELL (10-0), aka The One Armed Fighter competes

in WORLD SERIES OF FIGHTING Dec 7th in Vancouver, Canada vs Sabah “The PERSIAN WARRIOR” FADAL (7-2).

Born without a left hand, The former XFC Lightweight Champ Notorious Nick stopped 9 0f his 10 opponents by

either ko or submission. WSOF Pres and K-1 legend, RAY SEFO calls Newell the true strength of the human spirit.

MARIO SPERRY believes JACARE SOUZA poses a bigger threat to MW Champ CHRIS WEIDMAN than Anderson Silva.

Makes sense! Weidman’s strength is his wrestling and takedowns and as we saw vs “The SPIDER”, he’s got ko

power. He trains BJJ under RENZO Blackbelt MATT SERRA and his striking with RAY LONGO .

Jacare’s strength is his jiu jitsu which many say is the best in mma….and don’t forget he ko’d Yushin Okami

in round 1 at UFC Fight Night 28 in the first round. Jacare is dangerous standing or on the ground.

Is UFC WelterWeight Champ GEORGE ST PIERRE talking retirement? Not quite, but according to FARAS ZAHABI, GSP

will contemplate his future after defending his title against JONNY HENDRICKS. The 170lb division is so

stacked right now. BELLATOR’s BJORN REBNEY claims he is willing to give up dibs on his matching rights contract with

Bellator Champ BEN ASKREN if the UFC will give Ben an immediat title shot agains GSP. Sounds interesting!

There are so many in line for a title shot, but I like the idea. We’ve seen such incredible athletes come

to the UFC via WEC and Strikeforce.

VICTORY111 ASHLEY VS ASHLEY

NY is really amping up it’s MMA scene. The recent Victory Combat Sports amateur fights in NYC featured 3 title fights, one of which was a girlfight.

ASHLEY MILLER of KRAV Maga NYC took on an opponent, who at first glance appeared to be MILEY

CYRUS. No, it wasn’t Miley. Turned out to be ASHLEY “DOLLFACE” GREENWAY of Bodyquest in North Carolina who

could pass for Miley’s twin ….hair, outfit, bodytype, face etc. Dollface Greenway even fought in sexy leopard

tights. Thanks to the RONDA MEISHA fight, Women’s MMA is taking off bigger then ever and this fight did not

disappoint. Miller came out in her fierce attack mode and this fight was on.

It looked a little like Miller was starting to get the best of Greenway, until “Dollface” locked on a

tight armbar and got the submission win. What a fight! Have no idea how Ashley Miller hung in there so long

without tapping. Congrats to Ashley Greenway, now Women’s VICTORY COMBAT SPORTS Champion.

Chris Borders of Team RENZO won by dec in a great fight vs Dennis Siudut.

Other notable fights were Israel Muchuca of RENZO GRACIE Academy”s great round 1 ko of Luis Irizzary.

Ethan Gomes of Asylum Fight Team won via real tight armbar vs Jonathon Cage and Marcus Surin with an

amazing guillotine sub over Jose Ordiex. Marcus Surin, who is a teammate of Former UFC Champ FRANKIE

EDGAR is someone to watch out for.

It’s been confirmed by DANA White that the JON JONES GLOVER TEIXEIRA fight will go down in March instead of Superbowl weekend.

Most def looking forward to the trilogy of BJ PENN FRANKIE EDGAR!

RUMOR has it …..

that ANDERSON SILVA wants CHAEL SONNEN one more time.

that RENZO GRACIE will fight in the octagon again.

that BELLATOR is passing on Palhares.

that NICK DIAZ may move up to 185lbs and accept a challenge from MICHAEL “The Count” BISBING.

Until next time!

Until Next time!

Ultimate Fighter News, Ronda, Meisha and Women’s MMA

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by Bruce KiVo

Ultimate Fighter season 18…with women training alongside male fighters for the first time and “Rowdy” Ronda

Rousey’s nemesis Meisha “Cupcake” Tate replacing an injured Kat Zingano as coach, this season looks to be off the hook.

16 men and 16 women battled in 2 round elimination bouts to gain entry into the house. Narrowed down to 8 men

and 8 women, everyone is vying for that six figure UFC contract plus bonuses for best KO, best submission and

best fight.

Veteran Tara LaRosa, once considered the best female fighter in the world lost by unan decision and never made

it into the house.

Meisha gets first pick based on Dana’s coin toss and Ronda gets first fight. Meisha chooses one time training

partner Julianna Pena.

Ronda’s first pick is veteran superstar, Shayna “Ace Of Spades” Baszler.

Ronda gets first fight and picks Shayna vs Juliana. From jumpstreet, Shayna and most of the house thought

Julianna had little chance, if any of beating Shayna.

Next the fighters moved into “The House”. Some fighters got on their swimsuits and jumped into the outdoor jacuzzi.

The following day Tim Gorman discusses his views on women fighters and says morally, he could never go 100

percent vs a female fighter. “They would get hurt”. Sara Moras and Shayna Baszler don’t appreciate the

disparaging talk and in a fun way Sarah vows to tap out Gorman in practice.

Veteran Shayna tells how her first fights were for a few hundred bucks, were held in warehouses and the sacrifices

over the past decade have paid off. Women’s MMA is now in the UFC.

Julianna seems a bit concerned about her opponent’s experience advantage, but vows to kick her ass.

At the weigh-in, Shayna slaps an Ace of Spades card on Julianna’s chest followed by an intimidating staredown and

believes she got into Julianna’s head.

Back at the house, extremely charismatic Shayna Baszler was professing that Julianna Pena doesnt even belong in

the same ring with her, was most likely scared and should be taking her seminars and learning.

Round one, Pena comes out swinging and aggressively charging forward pits Baszler against the fence.

Baszler gets the takedown and soon winds up in guard. Pena goes for an armbar, stands up and “Ace Of Spades”

Baszler puts her back down getting side control. What a fight!! Baszler tries for a guillotine, Pena rolls with it,

winds up in Baszler’s half guard dropping hard elbows and punches. Julianna Pena seems unstoppable. Veteran

Shayna Baszler gets a single leg takedown and r1 is over.

Round 2 starts with Julianna scoring a big right and then a powerful left hook. Julianna pena is on a mission.

A stunned Shayna secures a clinch and pushes Julianna against the cage. Pena reverse Shayna and begins landing

vicious knees in the clinch. Julianna takes Shayna down, gets her back and locks in one tight rear naked choke.

At 1:52 of round 2 Shayna taps. What a fight. I’m sure Shayna Baszler will be back. She is truly one of the greats

in the women’s division.

As for Julianna Pena…this girl has heart and super skills to back it up. She may just be the next Ultimate Fighter.

Lookin’ forward to next week’s episode for sure!!

UFC 159 JONES SONNEN Womens MMA GSP Rumors MMA Confidential

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by Bruce KiVo

UFC 159 is set to rock the house @ Newark’s Prudential Center tonite.

Jon Jones, Chael Sonnen, Michael “The Count” Bisping, Alan Belcher, Roy “Big Country” Nelson, Cheick Kongo and even

Dana White were talkin’ the talk at the press conference and weighins. Dana hinted GSP v Jonny Hendricks is next.

The war of words between the UFC Champ “Bones” Jones and Chael Sonnen has been somewhat subdued since the two

coached against each other on the Ultimate Fighter reality show. After getting to know Chael on the show, Jones made

it clear he doesn’t take his trash talking seriously……but he’s still lookin’ forward to giving him a beatdown. Chael claims

that Jonny “Bones” may be the best Lightheavyweight Champ ever, but he’s still convinced he can win. When

interviewing Chael. I asked him if this fight makes sense as he has unfinished biz with Anderson Silva.

His reply was “this fight makes bigtime sense as the revenue being generated will break UFC records”. He did agree that

if he didn’t make that dumb spinning backfist mistake, he may’ve won.

Nobody thinks Sonnen has a chance of beating Jon. Chael may have better wrestling then Jones, but that’s it. Jon Jones

may very well be the best pound for pound. We have only seen him in trouble 2x and it was brief….once with Vitor’s

armbar and a some difficulty with Machida’s strikes.

The weigh-in staredown between Jones Sonnen was respectful. The Bisping Belcher staredown was heated with Belcher

pushing The Count and Dana seperating them and kinda cracking up. Talking to both athletes at Thursday’s media event

it was obvious there is a lot of bad blood going into this fight. Belcher put up videos of Bisping getting KO’D by Dan

Henderson and is constantly mocking him. On the pre-fight conf call, Belcher was asked what a win over Bisping would

do for him, Bisping interjected ” A win over me for Alan Belcher will be by far the biggest win of his pathetic career.

This will be a great fight. Bisping has never been submitted, has super cardio, doesnt get hit much and has developed

real good wrestling. Belcher was on a nice winstreak, before losing to Yushin Okami’ @ UFC 155. Alan had no answer for

Okami’s wrestling and lost by Unanimous Decision. His TKO, round 1 of Rousimar Palhares was world class. He stops

most opponents either by submission or TKO in the first round. Bisping’s wrestling and technical striking will be a big

factor in this fight. The fight can go either way. For KO power, Belcher has the edge. Technical boxing and wrestling, its

Bisping. Submissions it’s Belcher. The Count told me unequivocally that Belcher did not get into his head.

With regards to training, Belcher is trained by K-1 legend Dick Roufus and has Bellator Champ Ben Askren on his team.

TUF Fighter winner, Bisping trains with Jason Parillo and Brady Fink.

Every fight on the Main Card is off the hook and the Prelims are looking real good too.

*MAIN CARD:

*Lightweight: Jim Miller v Pat Healy Money’s on Miller.

*LightHeavyweight: Phil Davis v Vinicius Magalhaes While Vinnie may be the best submission artist in the UFC, “MR

Wonderful” has fought the best and has much more experience in the Octagon.

*Heavyweights: Roy Nelson v Cheick Kongo: Both are heavy hitters. “Big Country” may just eat punches and go for the

KO or a new gameplan may be to take Kongo down. Roy is a Renzo Blackbelt. When I asked Roy why he doesn’t take

opponents down, he said he just loves knocking people out.

*Middleweights: Michael Bisping v Alan Belcher Don’t blink. Both guys need the win.

*LightHeavyweight: Champion Jon Jones v Chael Sonnen Will Chael deal with Jon’s 11 inch reach advantage, get some

takedowns and avoid Jon’s vicious elbows? Hes got a hard task @ hand as no fighter has posed a threat to the Champ.

**Prelims: So many great matchups!

**Women’s Bantamweight: 6-0, Silver Medalist Sara McMann v 10-4, Sheila Graff. Graff has a ton of experience and is a

powerstriker who never gives her opponent a chance to breathe. Each of her 10 wins came in round one.

This will be undefeated McMann’s toughest fight. Her striking and submission game had better be on point. If she fights

the way she did v Shana Bazler, Graff will win. Slight edge to Sara.

Looking forward to Jersey’s Nick Catone v James Head and Leonard Garcia v Cody McKenzie. Cody is part of Women’s

World Champion RONDA Rousey’s team. Bellmore, New York’s Gian Villante {Chris WEIDMAN’s Trng partner] v Ovince

Preux looks to be a good matchup too.

15-1, Rustam Khabilov from Dagistan fights 9-0 Yancy Medeiros from Hawaii. This fight will rock. “Tiger” Khabilov is 5″8

with a 73′ reach and is with Greg Jackson. Yancy has 5 first round finishes. Six were by KO and 1 sub.

Bringing the UFC to Jersey is always great. We got to interview Womens WORLD CHAMP “Rowdy” RONDA ROUSEY and

TUFF Finalist Uriah HALL @ the UFC GYM Wed. It was a whose who of MMA. Cody McKenzie and other UFC Fighters

were all over the place. Sophocles even stopped by.

Former UCL champ, Kenny Rivera did a demo and I did a staredown with Phoenix Carnivale.

Now off to The Prudential Center for UFC 159….LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!

records and that’s what this sport is about”.

Kings Of New York Amateur MMA Rocks The Hammerstein Ballroom MMA Confidential

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by Bruce KiVo

It was standing room only as history was made Sat, March 23rd @ NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom.

Featuring 13 amateur bouts including an action packed female fight and superhot ring girls, fans

came out in droves to support New York’s first ” sanctioned” Mixed Martial Arts event in 11 years.

KO’s, TKO’s, Submissions….

Here’s how it went down:

Awesome opening match was 140 lb Diego Lopez submitting Jimes Casserly via real tight triangle choke round 1.

145 lb Felix Perez gets TKO, ground and pound win over Kimson round 2.

155lb devastating striker Jose Mariscal TKO’s Ethan Gomez end of round 1

135lb Abner Hernandez totally beats down Vernon Lodman round 1. Lodman takes tremendous beating. Hernandez looks gassed end of round 1. Round 2, Hernandez repeats the beatdown from the mount. Lodmannever tried for a sweep, has no clue what to do on the ground and and just gets pounded. Ref stops fight and warns Abner to stop holding the cage. Abner is just too gassed to go on and verbally submits. Lodman was dominated totally but gets the w round 2.

155lb Next up was Team Renzo fighter Ronmy Davila of The Bronx. In spite of a kidney problem gets split dec win over a very game Fabian Llerena.

135lb Carlos Hernandez submits Jeff Balladares round 3 via vicious rear naked choke. Carlos trains under the legendary Bob Shermer out of Chicago. Just love a good submission win.

145lb Jose Torres gets a UD dec win over Jarelle Marcalle.

110lb Women’s MMA…Krav Maga Acadamy’s Victoria Markarova gets UD victory over Phil Dunlap’s Jodi Lynn Reicher Both girls came to bang. At one point Jodi had a nice guillotine clamped on the Krav Maga fighter, but Victoria maintained her composure and was able to slip out. Victoria continued to dominate Jodi with takeddowns and strikes from the ground and standing. Jodi showed a lot of heart and and fought hard till the end, but Victoria’s arsenal was too much and earned her the Unan dec victory. As in all the previous bouts, these athletes bonded and showed true sportsmanship, or should I say sports”woman”ship after the match.

175lb Angelo Rivera wins via tko ref stoppage round 2 over Chris Miller. Miller showed good wrestling and came out very strong round 1, but gassed. Rivera stayed composed and the rest is history.

170lb Main Event Time Mathew Perez came out with very aggressive attack, but the very composed Simmon Sara locked on a real nice armbar round 1. Perez slammed him and Sara improved the armbar even more and got the tap. Loved this fight.

Quite a few celebs were in the house including legendary MMA fighter, Shonie Carter, MMA ‘s Seth Petruzelli who KO’d Kimbo Slice, ‘ONE Tough Cop” Bo Dietl, Matan Gavish, Sambo Steve and Champion Boxer Mike Corleone to name a few.

Thank you Frank Babcock, Anthony Medina, Bob Shermer, Renzo Gracie, Dan “The Beast” Severn, Pat Militich, Matt Hughes and everyone else @ Fighters Source who made the event possible.

Until next time!