August MMA Calendar - Still Loaded

by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 5:47 PM EDT Comment 21 comments

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."

by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 5:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I had to compose my posts in a text editor and paste them over.

It ends in an armbar or a strangle regardless.

by capital L on Jul 24, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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."

by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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!

by stearnum on Jul 24, 2009 6:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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

Go Jaggers. He grew up where I did.

To bad he got Sandro in R1 of that tournament.

by donkeypunch on Jul 24, 2009 6:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 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

by Chris Nelson on Jul 24, 2009 6:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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."

by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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."

by Blackout612 on Jul 24, 2009 6:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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. :)

weoweoweo .deviantart .com

by Anton Tabuena on Jul 24, 2009 10:34 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

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."

by Blackout612 on Jul 25, 2009 3:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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? :)

weoweoweo .deviantart .com

by Anton Tabuena on Jul 25, 2009 5:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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 0 recs

I really hope that since Affliction 3 was canceled, HDNet does the right thing and airs Sengoku IX live instead of a tape delay.

by George Lucas on Jul 24, 2009 6:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That would be amazing. I can’t go five days avoiding the internet.

"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 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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 0 recs