Late Night Fights: Scott Smith v. James Irvin
by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 22, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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Apologies for the feature's absence the past few evenings. I'm not going to run it over weekends just due to schedule conflicts with any live events.
Anyway, tonight we go back to February 12, 2004 when a 5-0 Scott Smith stepped into the cage to face James Irvin who had gotten his career off the ground with three straight wins. The fight took place at a Gladiator Challenge event and was contested at heavyweight. Irvin is now a light heavyweight and Smith is a middleweight and the size difference is quite clear in the cage.
Fun fact for the event: Dan Quinn (of insane internet ramblings about Stevia) picked up his third career win at the event with a submission victory over Adrian Perez. Adrian Perez is, of course, the guy with King of the Cage tattooed on his face who last fought in 2007 after his record had tumbled to 2-11 (he was finished 11 times). The win brought Quinn's career record up to 3-3-1.
Anyway, on to the fight:
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Crazy to think Smith fought HW.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Dec 22, 2009 12:18 AM EST reply actions
Adrian Perez is, of course, the guy with King of the Cage tattooed on his face
I would like to see a picture of this. (Yes, I tried Google image searching “Adrian Perez,” “Adrian Perez King of the Cage,” etc.)
Type in king of the cage face tattoo.
Its a bald dude with flames on his head and face.
"Well... You're damned if you do, and You're damned if you don't."- Bart Simpson
by poundnground on Dec 22, 2009 12:49 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
This is the best one I found.
http://facetattoo.me/mma-tattoo/mma-fighters-face-tattoos/
by scrambledeggs on Dec 22, 2009 12:56 AM EST up reply actions
Irvin is a middleweight now, too
"I’m sorry. I didn’t drink last night, so I’m not funny today."
-Sakuraba
Well, he's said he is
But hasn’t actually fought at middleweight because of his constant state of injury.
I finish beers at 1:55.
Doesn't matter
He’s already been scheduled for fights at 185, meaning he’s a middleweight.
"I’m sorry. I didn’t drink last night, so I’m not funny today."
-Sakuraba
by Blackout612 on Dec 22, 2009 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
On a related note. I don’t know about back then but, I believe they train together with Genyao Fairtex.
I am blinded by a sea of green.
Yeah dude, this was before they joined up.
by N. Rodriguez on Dec 22, 2009 2:18 AM EST up reply actions
wanted to say this is a very welcome addition to bloody elbow. I will definitely watching these regularly.
Scott Smith is one of my favorite fighters. He seems like a hard nosed bad ass, but soft spoken and with a gentlemanly-ness to his self.
How about..
we never use the word ‘gentlemanly-ness’ again.
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![Dana White says he won't allow James Irvin to cut to 185 lbs again:
"No more 185(-pound fights) for him," White told MMAjunkie.com. "He didn't look good. I think he's got a lot of scar tissue in his face under his eyes. That was sticking out more than his eyeballs were. He didn't look good [at weigh-ins]."
"I'm a huge James Irvin fan," he said after the fight. "I'm a fan of the guy; I really am. He's had some of the best knockouts in the UFC, and he always comes to fight. Tonight, it looked like the cut killed him. He couldn't get off. He couldn't throw any punches tonight. He was basically getting lit up by Sakara, and that's not James Irvin. That's not who he is as a fighter. The 185 cut is too hard for him."
HT: MMA Junkie, Photo HT: MMA Weekly
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![James Irvin talks about his battle with methadone and oxymorphone:
"The Anderson Silva fight, I have 25 stitches across my cheek from when he blasted me," the mixed martial arts fighter told The Canadian Press. "Every day when I look in the mirror, I have a clear reminder of what those drugs did to me and what lies ahead of me if I was ever to start using that garbage ever again."
"It wasn't until a time that I just stopped taking them that I realized I needed them just to keep on functioning," he said. "At that time I had become an addict and I was hooked on them.
"I needed to get caught," he said. "I needed to get in trouble for it and wake me up and get off of those things."
"I'm trying to get [reach out] to fighters, but it's kind of a taboo thing," said Irvin. "I don't think fighters want to talk about it. Fighters definitely don't want to admit that they have a problem with it when it's obvious they do because more and more fighters are getting caught with the stuff and getting caught with it in them."
Full interview at tsn.ca
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