Weekend Shogun Heartbreak: Video Highlight Edition

Being a Shogun fan is like....well, domestic violence jokes or other not PC references aside..it is rough. Debuts in UFC and loses by RNC to Forrest Griffin.
Brutally stopped by Jon Jones.
Loses some insanely close fights to Hendo.
Now these last two.

Monday Morning Cubicle Productivity Killer: UFC 180 Countdown Videos

The card is honestly pretty "meh" other than the Interim title bout.
I hate to be that guy now that I'm not working my weekend job downtown and actually can see the UFC PPV's and UFC's on Fox again.
Granted it had Cain vs Fabricio before, but I mean, the card was always weak from its inception.

I'll be reffing and competing in Greensboro NC for their points tournament this Saturday. It's honestly hard to say if I'll make a point to stay awake for the main card. I literally do not recognize the names of anyone outside of 3 fights on the main card. 


"Mark Hunt vs. Fabricio Werdum

for interim heavyweight title

Jake Ellenberger vs. Kelvin Gastelum

Dennis Bermudez vs. Ricardo Lamas

Chris Heatherly vs. Augusto Montano

Edgar Garcia vs. Hector Urbina

Alejandro Perez vs. Jose Quinonez
"TUF: Latin America" bantamweight final

Leonardo Morales vs. Yair Rodriguez
"TUF: Latin America" featherweight final

Jessica Eye vs. Leslie Smith

Henry Briones vs. Guido Cannetti

Marco Beltran vs. Marlon Vera

Gabriel Benitez vs. Humberto Brown

Masio Fullen vs. Alexander Torre"

Fredy Serrano vs. Bentley Syler 

 

The WSOF card the same night is on Cable and by comparison has about the same number of guys I recognize:

 "NBC Sports Network

Dave Branch vs. Yushin Okami
for middleweight title

Justin Gaethje vs. Melvin Guillard
for lightweight title

Jessica Aguilar vs. Kalindra Faria
for women's strawweight title

Jorge Patino vs. Eric Reynolds"

Interview with Marcelo Garcia's Brown Belt Squad of Dream Chaser/Killers

Some super neat/slick stuff from the next crop of Marcelo Garcia's group:

Flashback Kron 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon BJJ Matches (Where Are They Now?) & Upcoming Tournaments

Tomorrow night I'm doing a 10 min Gi Purple Belt match submission or points to win at an MMA event here locally in Durham, NC.

















Next weekend I'm competing and reffing with the fine folks of US Grappling in Greensboro on November 15th.







Above is Kron vs Beneil Dariush at black belt, in the Abu Dhabi Pro Trials.
Interesting to note Beneil is now in the UFC and Kron makes his MMA debut later this year in Japan.


 
Above we see Kron beating Otavio Sousa at brown belt, fast forward and Otavio is two-time world champion (though recently thwarted by Leandro Lo who continues to move up weight classes, and Kron has beaten Otavio in a moral victory in a submission only 20 minute match at the Metamoris and in the ADCC by guillotine. 

The last US Grappling event of the year is December 13th in Richmond, Virginia and it's Submission Only.

A Day in the Life: Woolf Barnato

A buddy of mine who trains at Ralph Gracie told me about Woolf last year the last time we ran into one another.
Then, lo and behold, I see Woolf in the finals of the Pans or the Worlds (I can't remember off the top of my head) at brown belt.
Crazy stuff.

BJJ Kumite - Where Are They Now? Victor Silverio

Notwithstanding poor association to the Jiu-Jitsu "team" that shall remain nameless on this blog, Victor Silverio is featured on the most recent BJJ Hacks TV Piece. Below, I've also included a snazzy match of his from the Rio Open.

I was recently up at US Grappling Delaware/Diamond State Games and saw members of the above team competing. They won matches and divisions.But, y'know, if at the end of the day I was aware my coach had been present for a gangrape and his rationale for his innocence was that he wasn't erect....all the winning in the world would taste like battery acid.

Updated My Page of Recent BJJ/Submission Grappling Matches

You can CLICK HERE to find the blog page with my recent and not so recent matches embedded

Or CLICK HERE for my List of Youtube Uploads/Matches