August MMA Calendar - Still Loaded
by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 5:47 PM EDT
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The cancellation of Affliction: Trilogy may have been a heartbreaker for many MMA fans, but that doesn't mean the month of August is a slouch in the scheme of mixed martial arts. With two UFC's, a huge Strikeforce card on Showtime, Sengoku's Ninth Battle and WEC 42, the month of August is one of the best MMA fans have ever seen.
August 2 & 7 - Sengoku's Ninth Battle
Featherweight Grand Prix Semifinal Bout: Hatsu Hioki vs. Masanoru Kanehara
Featherweight Grand Prix Semifinal Bout: Michihiro Omigawa vs. Marlon Sandro
Sengoku Featherweight GP Finale
Featherweight Grand Prix Reserve Bout: Matt Jaggers vs. Chan Sung Jung
Sengoku Lightweight Title Bout: Mizuto Hirota vs. Satoru Kitaoka
Kazuo Misaki vs. Kazuhiko Nakamura
August 8 - UFC 101: Declaration
UFC Lightweight Championship: BJ Penn vs. Kenny Florian
Anderson "The Spider" Silva vs. Forrest Griffin
Amir Saddolah vs. Johny Hendricks
Kendall Grove vs. Ricardo "Cachorrao" Almeida
Josh "The Dentist" Neer vs. Kurt "Batman" Pellegrino
August 9 - WEC 42: Torres vs. Bowles
WEC Bantamweight Championship: Miguel Angel Torres vs. Brian Bowles
Joseph Benavidez vs. Dominick Cruz
Danny Castillo vs. Ricardo Lamas
Jeff "The Big Frog" Curran vs. Takeya Mizugaki
August 15 - Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg
Gina Carano vs. Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos
Strikeforce Lightweight Championship: Josh "The Punk" Thompson vs. Gilbert "El Nino" Melendez
August 28 - M-1 Global: Breakthrough
Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal vs Don Frye
Nick "The Goat" Thompson vs Karl Amoussou
August 29 - UFC 102: Couture vs. Nogueria
Randy "The Natural Couture" vs. Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueria
Demian Maia vs. Nate "The Great" Marquardt
Keith Jardine vs. Thiago Silva
Chris Leben vs. Jake Rosholt
Krzysztof "The Polish Experiment" Soszynski vs. Brandon "The Truth" Vera
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This editor is a nightmare.. If you actually know HTML, it fucks you over for using the editor shortcuts in combination.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
I had to compose my posts in a text editor and paste them over.
It ends in an armbar or a strangle regardless.
Yeah
I should have done it in Dreamweaver and did the same thing.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
I think this is actually a pretty cool idea and I set it as my background. The only problem.. its pretty ugly and I, with no skills could have done better in a half hour. I want a re-do that looks good!
Then do it, genius
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Good times.
Some more good stuff, which we won’t get to see live….
August 8th – Pancrase Changing Tour 4
Katsuya Inoue (Lightweight King of Pancrase) vs. Maximo Blanco (challenger)
August 9th – Shooto GIG Saitama 01
“Shinpei” Tahara (#1 Flyweight) vs. Jesse “Spiderman” Taitano (#8 Bantamweight)
August 23rd – DEEP 43rd Impact
Imanari vs. Hori, Mishima vs. Otsuka, Chonan vs. Nakao, Ackah vs. Yanagisawa
Yeah
I had to stop somewhere, but I was thinking about adding those, too. Maybe I’ll expand it next time.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
Also
Shout out to weo3, who has done one of these in the past, but stopped for some reason. I have been thinking about doing it for a long time, so I decided to pick it up with August’s huge month.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
I stopped for July cause there was just DREAM and UFC 100
That would look like a waste of a calendar haha.
I was planning for August, but this already looks better than what I made, haha. :)
by Anton Tabuena on Jul 24, 2009 10:34 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Really? I hadn’t seen one for a while, but I was out of the country and very sick for about two months there. If you want to continue on your own, by all means, feel free. But if you want to divy it up, email me on my profile. It’s a very cool way to bring awareness to MMA events. Consolidating all of the shows into one easy to view calendar page seems very helpful.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
Yeah, the last one was before June started.
We could alternate or have like joint posts or whatever.. Anything’s fine with me.. :)
But can we leave the name at “Fights of Fancy: September 09” or something we can agree on so we’d be consistent. What do you think? :)
by Anton Tabuena on Jul 25, 2009 5:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh yeah, that was what you called it. We can alternate on the graphic and writing the body copy. That way we can write more about the impending fights than I did this time around. Email me at the address on my profile when you want to start working on September and we’ll discuss which events to include and key fights.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
by Blackout612 on Jul 25, 2009 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I really hope that since Affliction 3 was canceled, HDNet does the right thing and airs Sengoku IX live instead of a tape delay.
That would be epic-ly cool.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito Ortiz on Vitor Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Jul 25, 2009 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions
UFC 102 correction
Vera is fighting Krzysztof Soszynski.
by MMAInFeRioRiTy on Jul 24, 2009 6:29 PM EDT reply actions
Oh snaps!
I took a lot of that shit from pre-made lists. Gracias..
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
And the first weekend
No Affliction and no live Sengoku.
"The reason a rabbit outruns a fox is because the rabbit is running for his life and the fox is running for his dinner."
Hell yeah.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
by Derek Suboticki on Jul 24, 2009 8:35 PM EDT reply actions
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