Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

It's a busy Saturday of MMA action, featuring the Cage Force Tournament Finals, Pro Elite's Cage Rage 24, Sven Bean's ROF in Colorado and another free webcast from CRfights.com. Take a look at all of the day's action, including a couple of TUF vets fighting on some smaller, regional shows.

Saturday Fight Cards:

• Dec 01: GCM: Cage Force 5 in Tokyo, Japan (Differ Ariake)
• Dec 01: Cage Rage 24: Feel The Pain in London, England (Wembley Arena)
• Dec 01: Ring of Fire 31: Undisputed in Broomfield, Colorado (Broomfield Event Center)
• Dec 01: CR Fights 12 in San Jose, Costa Rica (Gimnasio Nacional)
• Dec 01: WFL: Calloway Cup in Revere, Massachusetts (LIDO Nightclub)
• Dec 01: Revolution Fight League in Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Gardens)
• Dec 01: Gladiators Fighting 48: Season's Beatings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Harley Davidson Showroom)
• Dec 01: CageFest 2: Black & Blue in Norfolk, Virginia (Norfolk Scope Arena)
• Dec 01: PureCombat: From The Ashes in Visalia, California (Visalia Convention Center)

 

GCM: Cage Force 5: December 1, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan (Differ Ariake)

Broadcast: Cage Force has been broadcasting their shows via tape delay on TV Tokyo although no air date has been confirmed.

Tournament Finals:

• WW: Yoshiyuki Yoshida (8-2-0) vs. Dan Hardy (16-5-0)
• LW: Koutetsu Boku (13-3-1) vs. Artur Oumakhanov (6-1-0)

Main Card:

• Yasuhiro Urushitani (14-3-4) vs. Jesse Taitano (2-1-0)
• Mizuto Hirota (6-2-0) vs. Sin Do Gi (0-0-0)
• Kenji Osawa (12-7-1) vs. Nobuhiro "Punch" Yamauchi (3-1-0)
• Takeya Mizugaki (7-2-2) vs. Seiji Ozuka (7-7-3)
• Toshikazu "ISE" Iseno (5-3-1) vs. Takahito Iida (10-8-1)
• Yukiya Naito (12-4-2) vs. Takenori Sato (2-3-3)
• Hiroshi Arakawa (1-1-0) vs. Seiya Kawahara (2-0-0)
• Junichi Ota (0-1-1) vs. Hiroshi Takita (1-0-0)
• Taiyoku Endo (1-0-0) vs. Hiroyuki Kuwabara (0-1-0)

The goal for the Worldwide Cage Network's Cage Force tournament, was to obtain UFC contracts for the winners. The winners will be very deserving of a UFC contract as the tournaments have been stellar. The tournament has been exciting and the finals should be great. The rest of the card features several Shooto stars like Mizugaki, Hirota, Urushitani and Osawa, who'll be practicing their art in Japan's only cage fighting promotion. Hopefully GCM can work with Zuffa to get the winning fighters stateside.

 

Cage Rage 24: Feel The Pain: December 1, 2007

Broadcast: Sky Sports in the U.K. and a live streaming PPV at ProElite.com for viewers outside of the U.K. at 1pm ET

• Murilo "Ninja" Rua (14-8-1) vs. Xavier Foupa-Pokam (13-7-0)
• Elvis Sinosic (8-10-2) vs. Paul Cahoon (9-10-0)
• Drew Fickett (30-5-0) vs. Mark Weir (18-14-0)
• Marios Zaromskis (6-1-0) vs. Ross Pointon (5-9-0)
• Tom Watson (4-2-0) vs. Mark Epstein (13-10-0)
• Mark Buchanan (5-4-0) vs. George Castro (0-0-0)
• Neil Grove (4-0-0) vs. Robert Berry (11-6-0)
• Ivan Serati (6-2-0) vs. Lee Hasdell (7-11-1)
• Abdul Mohamed (14-5-2) vs. Robbie Olivier (14-7-1)
• Robert Paczkow (0-0-0) vs. James McSweeney (1-0-0)
• Ronnie Mann (9-1-1) vs. Jordan Miller (2-4-0)

A less than stellar card for the English promotion. There should be some good fights but a co-main event with two under .500 fighters is not where the organization should be at this stage. Ninja vs. Professor X is a good match-up and Drew Fickett should have no problems with Mark Weir. The rest of the card kind of makes me think, "Who cares?"

 

Ring of Fire 31: Undisputed: December 1, 2007 in Broomfield, Colorado (Broomfield Event Center)

• Eliot Marshall (5-0-0) vs. Rob MacDonald (4-2-0)
• Shane Carwin (7-0-0)  vs. Sherman Pendergarst (10-7-0)
• Christian Allen (6-2-0) vs. Lah Thao (5-0-0)
• Michelle Watterson (1-1-0) vs. Lynn Alvarez (0-0-0)
• Cat Albert (0-0-0) vs. Nikki Garcia (0-0-0)
• Cody Donovan (0-1-0) vs. Ian Berg (0-0-0)
• Kate Martinez (0-0-0) vs. Sharyah Hefner (0-0-0)
• Brian Wood (0-0-0) vs. Ryan Olivera (0-0-0)
• Jay Wymer (0-0-0) vs. Hanme Clark (0-0-0)

Sven Bean's Ring Of Fire will look to crown to champions as Eliot Marshall faces off against TUF alumni Rob MacDonald for the lightheavyweight belt and Shane Carwin hopes to continue his rampage of destruction versus UFC vet Sherman Pendergarst for the ROF heavyweight championship. The card also features 3 women's bouts including "Karate Hottie" Michelle Watterson's second pro MMA bout.

 

CR Fights 12: December 1, 2007 in San Jose, Costa Rica (Gimnasio Nacional)

broadcast: Live and free streaming webcast at CRfights.com at 6pm ET

Kickboxing:

• Enrique Manuel Valverde Chacón vs. Luis Brenes
• Mora Vega Luis vs. Roger Valverde
• Allen Torres Nuñez vs. Jorge Guillen
• Julio Brenes vs. Alejandro Fernández Cordero
• Allan Mattamoros vs. Rubén Jiménez Alvarado
• Luis Chacon Ghisellini vs. Roney Molina
• Max Perlas vs. Guerrero Ulate Ricardo
• Roberto Martinez vs. Madrigal Valverde Andrés
• Qumarz Mostakdemin vs. Javier Ruin Carballo
• Castro Montoya Andrés vs. Michael Zamora
• Jensi Brando vs. Marcela Soto Prats
• Chacón Cordero Jéssica vs. Gabriela Mainieri Breedy

MMA

• Juan Harris vs. Travis Miller
• Javier Munoz vs. Mario Carranza
• Franklin Morales vs. Cesar Cruz
• Evans Vasquez vs. Alex Da La Torre
• Rodrigo Cardenas vs. Gustavo Hernandez (Super-Middleweight National Kickboxing Title)
• Jeffery Lopez vs. Taylor Luz Diaz
• Kenneth Rodriguez vs. Sha Bobonis
• Ludwing Salizar vs. Asia Balliet
• Randall Jimenez vs. Triso Valls David Avellan
• Enrico Cocco vs. Alejandro Villalobos
• Allen Vindas vs. Ammer Mazid

 

WFL: Calloway Cup: December 1, 2007 in Revere, Massachusetts (LIDO Nightclub)

• Woody Weatherby (3-0-0) vs. Ricardo Funch (1-0-0)
• David Woodby (1-2-0) vs. Rodger Bracket (3-0-0)
• Cesario De Souza (4-3-0) vs. Wayne Harnois (2-3-0)
• Glenn Allaine (1-0-0) vs. Charlie Murphy (1-3-0)
• Mike Oakes (0-0-0) vs. Brandon Douglas (1-0-0)
• Geovanni Sontay (0-2-0) vs. Chris Simmons (2-0-0)
• James Lockhart (0-3-0) vs. TBA
• Corey Wakefield (0-0-0) vs. Nelson Gaipo (0-0-0)
• Michael Tierney (0-2-0) vs. Lindomar Da Silva (2-1-0)
• Lee Metcalf (1-0-0) vs. TBA
• Henrique Bicalho (5-2-0) vs. Leonardo Rodrigues (0-1-0)
• Chris Germano (0-0-0) vs. Jeremy Ross (0-0-0) 
• Matt Johnson (2-3-0) vs. Jason Girouard (0-1-0)
• Ruben Gonzalez (0-0-0) vs. Brandan Noble (0-0-0)
• Tony Woodman (0-1-0) vs. Ryan Hockney (0-0-0)
• Roberto Concepcion (0-1-0) vs. John Manley (0-0-0)

 

 

Revolution Fight League: December 1, 2007 in Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Gardens) 

• SpiritWolf Waachiim (3-1-1) vs. Bailey Shamar (5-0-0)
• John Troyer (8-0-0) vs. Chris "Conflict" Crawford (0-1-0)
• Dan Christison (9-6-0) vs. David Hess (0-0-0)
• Ryan Jones (0-0-0) vs. Brandon Walker (0-0-0)
• CT Turner (0-0-0) vs. Greg Taylor (2-1-0)
• Jon Abner (2-1-0) vs. Mike Jacobs (0-0-0)
• Brandon Bell (0-0-0) vs. Angus Hublar (0-0-0)
• Lane Splawn (0-0-0) vs. Timmy Cook (1-0-0)
• Joe Heink  (5-0-0) vs. Shawn Bayer (0-0-0)
• Rob Smith (1-0-0) vs. Nick Moppin (0-0-0)

TUF's heavyweight Dan "The Sandman" Christison is fighting here.

 

 

CageFest 2: Black & Blue: December 1, 2007 in Norfolk, Virginia (Norfolk Scope Arena)

• Mike Sharpe (5-0-0) vs. Steve Dart (2-1-0)
• Mackens Semerzier (1-0-0) vs. Jason Hilliker (5-2-0)
• Ryan McQueen vs. Zack Allen
• Mike Keller vs. Frank Martinez
• Matthew Aten vs. Buddy Barre

 

PureCombat: From The Ashes: December 1, 2007 in Visalia, California (Visalia Convention Center)

• Jason Von Flue (12-8-1) vs. Brett Cooper (5-4-0)
• Anthony Ruiz (18-10-0) vs. Rafael Del Real (4-8-0)
• John Reedy (2-3-0) vs. Dominque Robinson (2-1-0)
• Joel Crawford (0-4-0) vs. Eli Moreno (2-3-0)

TUF alumni Jason Von Flue takes on Team Quest's Brett Cooper in the main event. Anthony Ruiz hopes to bring his momentum from his KO victory over Strikeforce LHW champion Bobby Southworth into a fight against brawler turned submission wrestler, Del Real. John Reedy takes on ‘Fallen Angel’ Dominique Robinson.