MMA Coverage » combat sports http://mmacoverage.com Complete Mixed Martial Arts News Coverage Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:00:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Yuji Sakuragi KOs Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura at Passion Tour 8 http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/yuji-sakuragi-kos-light-heavyweight-king-of-pancrase-ryo-kawamur/ http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/yuji-sakuragi-kos-light-heavyweight-king-of-pancrase-ryo-kawamur/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:05:26 +0000 Daniel Herbertson http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/yuji-sakuragi-kos-light-heavyweight-king-of-pancrase-ryo-kawamur/ Filed under: ,

TOKYO - Breaking a four-fight losing streak in Pancrase, Yuji Sakuragi stunned light heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura with a first-round knockout at Pancrase Passion Tour 8 in Differ Ariake on Sunday.

Also, bantamweight King of Pancrase Manabu Inoue retained his title with a point deduction in a scrappy decision win over second-ranked Tashiro Akai and former flyweight King of Pancrase Mitushisa Sunabe powerbombed Shinpei Tahara for a KO and chance to regain the Pancrase flyweight title.]]> http://mmacoverage.com/yuji-sakuragi-kos-light-heavyweight-king-of-pancrase-ryo-kawamura-at-passion-tour-8.html/feed/ 0 Aoki vs Aurelio, Hansen vs Tokoro Announced for DREAM.16 http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/shinya-aoki-vs-marcus-aurelio-joachim-hansen-vs-hideo-tokoro-an/ http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/shinya-aoki-vs-marcus-aurelio-joachim-hansen-vs-hideo-tokoro-an/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:05:24 +0000 Daniel Herbertson http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/shinya-aoki-vs-marcus-aurelio-joachim-hansen-vs-hideo-tokoro-an/ Filed under: , ,

Three weeks out and finally DREAM.16 is starting to shape up.

FEG announced Sunday that DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki will take on Marcus Aurelio in a non title affair, Kazuyuki Miyata will face former Shooto champ "Lion" Takeshi Inoue and Joachim Hansen will look for his first win at featherweight against Hideo Tokoro.

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Jason "Mayhem" Miller was also confirmed and officially announced via DREAM's official YouTube channel.
]]> http://mmacoverage.com/aoki-vs-aurelio-hansen-vs-tokoro-announced-for-dream-16.html/feed/ 0 Nate Marquardt Not Concerned With Rousimar Palhares’ Reputation http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/nate-marquardt-rousimar-palhares-fight-delay-was-a-blessing/ http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/nate-marquardt-rousimar-palhares-fight-delay-was-a-blessing/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:05:23 +0000 Ariel Helwani http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/05/nate-marquardt-rousimar-palhares-fight-delay-was-a-blessing/ Filed under: , ,

Nate Marquardt was one win away from realizing his goal of fighting Anderson Silva for the middleweight title again. All he had to do was beat Chael Sonnen at UFC 109.

Of course, things didn't go as planned for Marquardt, who lost to Sonnen via unanimous decision.

That loss hasn't necessarily knocked Marquardt all the way down the 185-pound ladder (Sonnen's performance at UFC 117 might have softened the blow in the eyes of MMA pundits), but in order to remain in the mix, he must get by Rousimar Palhares at UFC Fight Night 22 on Sept. 15.

And believe it or not, Marquardt is walking into this fight with the memory of his loss to Sonnen firmly cemented in his mind.

"I guess I'm still not over the heartbreak or whatever," Marquardt said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "It still bothers me, but I'm definitely looking forward to my next fight and I feel I've learned my lessons from that fight. I expect to go into this fight and execute my game plan, and I think that's one of the biggest mistakes that I made against Chael."]]> http://mmacoverage.com/nate-marquardt-not-concerned-with-rousimar-palhares-reputation.html/feed/ 0 Frankie Edgar Learned a Valuable Lesson From Chael Sonnen http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/04/frankie-edgar-learned-a-valuable-lesson-from-chael-sonnen/ http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/04/frankie-edgar-learned-a-valuable-lesson-from-chael-sonnen/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:02:44 +0000 Ariel Helwani http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/04/frankie-edgar-learned-a-valuable-lesson-from-chael-sonnen/ Filed under: , ,

Chael Sonnen almost shocked the MMA world at UFC 117 when he came minutes away from snatching the middleweight title belt from Anderson Silva. Of course, his near-perfect performance ended in heartbreak when he was submitted in the late stages of the fifth round.

We'll know later next year if Sonnen learned anything from that night in Oakland, Calif., but one thing's for certain: thousands of miles away in New Jersey, Frankie Edgar, the UFC lightweight champion who was gearing up to defend his title against BJ Penn just three weeks later, learned a valuable lesson while watching Sonnen's loss to Silva.

"I learned some stuff from Chael that night," Edgar said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "He was just constant pressure and didn't give Anderson a chance to breathe except for that one second that he got caught in the triangle. So I kind of tried to learn from that; to put the pressure on but don't be reckless while you are doing so."

Unlike Sonnen, Edgar fought the perfect fight at UFC 118. He dominated Penn for five full rounds and proved that his UFC 112 win over "The Prodigy" was no fluke after all.]]> http://mmacoverage.com/frankie-edgar-learned-a-valuable-lesson-from-chael-sonnen.html/feed/ 0 MMA Top 10 Pound-for-Pound: Penn Falls Out http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/04/mma-top-10-pound-for-pound-penn-falls-out/ http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/04/mma-top-10-pound-for-pound-penn-falls-out/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:02:44 +0000 Michael David Smith http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/09/04/mma-top-10-pound-for-pound-penn-falls-out/ Filed under: , , ,

With his second straight unanimous decision loss to Frankie Edgar, B.J. Penn is no longer one of the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

He's long been considered one of the truly elite fighters in mixed martial arts, but the soon-to-be 32-year-old Penn has looked in his two fights this year like he has slowed down. Penn is the greatest lightweight ever to fight in MMA, but even the greatest decline eventually.

So Penn isn't in my pound-for-pound Top 10 anymore. To find out who is, read on.]]> http://mmacoverage.com/mma-top-10-pound-for-pound-penn-falls-out.html/feed/ 0