Chase Beebe Not Underestimating Mike Easton at UWC: Redemption
by Kid Nate on Sep 30, 2009 3:23 PM EDT
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Steve Cofield talks to the former WEC champ:
"I’m not looking past this opponent by any means," said Beebe, whose slide has come against Miguel Torres, Joe Warren and Will Ribiero. "I gotta lot of respect for him. I’m prepared for a war. Both of us are in a position of trying to move up off of each other."
Cofield also has more on the controversial cancellation of the first scheduled Beebe vs Easton bout:
Beebe (12-4) is clearly the favorite but he’ll be testing what he says was a gimpy knee back in February. Beebe had to pull out of his initial fight with Easton on Feb. 21. There was controversy surrounding that first fight. It appeared that Beebe was looking past Easton, to another fight scheduled for DREAM in Japan, less than three weeks later. Beebe never made it to Fairfax. A UWC press release said he no-showed:
Justin Robbins stepped up on short notice and was choked out by Easton. Beebe said it was simply a case of miscommunication. Because of the knee injury, he didn’t think the weight cut to 135 pounds was possible. Beebe said that he asked to fight at 145 and the Easton camp refused to budge, wanting a title fight at the original weight. As far as him missing the weigh-in, Beebe said it was all miscommunication on the part of his manager Monte Cox and UWC officials.Beebe allegedly sustained a knee injury that hampered his training and ability to reduce his weight to the contractually-set limit of 135 pounds. However, the former WEC champion failed to provide medical records regarding his injury and did not appear at today’s official weigh-in, resulting in the UWC finding a last-minute replacement.
I have to say as a huge Mike Easton fan that I am very worried about Chase Beebe. If Beebe arrives in shape, his wrestling and ground and pound could be a world of trouble for Easton. Easton's got a big power edge on the feet and might be the better jiu jitsu player, but Beebe should have a bid advantage in the takedown phase of the game.
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I have a preview for the entire card in the works, but I am having major computer issues at work so its on hold. Its mainly to get myself hyped since I am going to the event, but others may enjoy it.
Pretty cool that the UWC is now working with EA Sports MMA, though it sucks that this card is not available on HDNet, and only on PPV. Not much coverage.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/9/30/1062530/ea-sports-partners-with-uwc-check
Not only is it not avalible on HDNet, HDNet won’t even cover it on Inside MMA. HDNet got kind of bossy when it came to production. Since when has a reporter had say in the production?
When HDNet covers you, they want to run the show. UWC didn’t want to give that to them. I think it also includes rights to the library. Not sure about that, but whatever the case, I’m not sure what the deal is with them. As I’ve indicated previously, they’ve also never had anyone from this site on Inside MMA despite parading what can only be considered a fleet of completely marginal and anonymous members of the “media”. We’re not rockstars, but our accomplishments are well-known, meaningful are far reaching. If HDNet wants to ignore us or UWC we can’t stop them, but I sure as hell won’t take them seriously.
It too bad because I generally like Inside MMA. In fact, I was standing in the back for the weigh-ins of the UWC show in feb and overheard a dude talking about how he was flying out to do Inside MMA the next week. And this guy was an author, not sure who it was off the top of my head. You would think that writer, radio host, color guy would be a better fit. But you keep busy, so its ok.
Indeed.
...Behold, a pale horse. The man that sat upon it was Wieters, and hell followed with him.
"BJ on the BE" - Kierkegaard
It will happen soon enough. No reason not to.
by MMASuPreMaCy on Sep 30, 2009 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions
HDNet Fights always references BloodyElbow, though. You guys are on their main page.
by MMASuPreMaCy on Sep 30, 2009 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Beebe's BJJ defense is pretty amazing too
He survived Rani Yahya and then almost choked HIM out, that was a cool fight.
The Torres 50-subs-in-less-than-30-seconds combo doesn’t count; that shit was straight out of a mortal kombat movie or something. I half expected Miguel to pull his own face off and breathe fire of Chase afterwards.
It’s true that Chase Beebe survived a precarious situation dealing with ADCC champion Rani Yahya’s jiu jitsu, but after the first round, Yahya was done. I mean, like Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings done. And that’s the downfall when you’re a superb jiu jitsu guy with little else to offer, especially against a really talented wrestler.
I don’t know if Mike Easton will win, although I am confident that he can. What I do know is: Easton’s cardio will not affect the outcome of the fight in the same way that it affected the outcome of Beebe v. Yahya.
...Behold, a pale horse. The man that sat upon it was Wieters, and hell followed with him.
"BJ on the BE" - Kierkegaard
Missing Easton v. Beebe, Again
It’s been well documented why everyone, not just me (I did attend UWC…whichever one had Easton v. Robbins), missed out on Easton v. Beebe the first time around.
Now, however, I have a better reason to be missing the fight. Disappointing though it is to be missing one of my two favorite fighters (see: my profile picture) compete in the biggest matchup of his career, I have a good excuse. The man who got me interested in MMA in the first place by sitting me down to watch UFC 3 when I was…I guess 12 or 13, my Godfather (who is a martial artist himself), is moving out with Urijah Faber and the rest of the population of Sacramento. So, while you’re all cheering on my boy at the Patriot Center as he finally opens the necessary eyes in Zuffa, I’ll be at a going away party, saying goodbye to the guy responsible for me having any interest in this match, or any other for that matter.
...Behold, a pale horse. The man that sat upon it was Wieters, and hell followed with him.
"BJ on the BE" - Kierkegaard
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