'Rise of Kings' is 'ONE' Hell of an MMA Event!

The young, upstart ONE Fighting Championship will hold its sixth event-"Rise of Kings"-this Saturday night. ONE uses the rules of the old PRIDE Fighting Championships.

DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki (who came to the states to fight Eddie Alvarez in a rematch, that took place at BELLATOR months ago) will headline the fight card as he and Arnaud Lepont will be in a super fight. Lepont is the French MMA champion.

Also the first ever ONE lightweight and bantamweight championships as well as the bantamweight grand prix will be featured on the card.

CARD
Lightweight championship
(155 lb/70.3kg)

Zorobabel Moreira v Kotetsu Boku

 

Bantamweight championship

(136 lb/61.2kg)

Soo Chul Kim v Leandro Issa

 

Bantamweight Grand Prix

(136 lb/61.2kg)

Zhao Ya Fei v Jens Pulver

Min Jung Song v Masakatsu Ueda

Yusup Saadulaev v Kevin Belingon

 

Lightweight super fight

(155 lb/70.3 kg)

Shinya Aoki v Arnaud Lepont

 

 

LIVE streaming at onefc.com. Also on Pay Per View Saturday night at 9pm Eastern (tape delayed).

 





BELLATOR: The 'Diamond' Event!

74 events in the books. Friday will be the 75th event BELLATOR has done, and an even better way to celebrate 75 events is for another #1 contender tournament to take place. This time it's the heavyweight tournament, headlined by the final that wasn't: Eric Prindle vs Thiago Santos, which never happened because Santos failed to cut weight, thus Prindle got the #1 contender spot and loss the title fight to Cole Konrad.

 

CARD
Heavyweight tournament

quarterfinals

(200+lb/90+kg)

Brett Rogers v Alexander Volkov

Mark Holata v Vinicius Queiroz

Mike Wessel v Richard Hale

Eric Prindle v Thiago Santos

 

Winner of this tournament gets a title shot against Cole Konrad in the near future.

 

LIVE on MTV2 and epixHD Friday night. 

An Important Reminder, For Those Who Care.

Tonight is the first Presidential debate of 2012, moderated by Jim Lehrer (he's not dead yet folks). Only President Obama and Mitt Romney are invited. However, due to Gary Johnson's inclusion (he has 15% of polling space, more than the 10% allowed), several sponsors have pulled out of tonight's debate as a result.

Johnson and Jill Stein (and everyone else that is running for President) should have been invited.

On the other hand, follow Gary Johnson tonight @GovGaryJohnson on twitter as he will have expert commentary during the debates!

October is National Bullying Prevention Month

In honor of the occasion, I will post you this...

This is For You Seve!

 

Over a year after the death of former Ryder Cup captain Seve Ballesteros, Europe has done it again and will take that momentum to Gleneagles 2014!

 

US had a 10-6 lead heading into the singles pairings, but it was the next to last match in the pairings when former PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer nailed a putt that not only defeated Brandt Snedeker in the singles match, but clinched it for Europe. Vorsprung durch Kaymer.

 

Ratings were extremely higher for the final day on NBC here in the states as opposed to NFL regional action on CBS and Fox. Hence why such drama is what makes the Ryder Cup more intense than the majors here in the states!

 



 



Congrats to the Sydney (South Melbourne) Swans...

 

2012 AFL PREMIERS!

 

 

What a match! Swans were down by 19 at quarter time, but fought within the final 90+ minutes. When Nick Malceski kicked a brilliant goal from within 50m, the icing is on the cake. First premiership for the Swans since their epic win over the Eagles in 2005. Sydney's second premiership since relocation from South Melbourne after the 1980 season.

 

Mike Pyke, #38 for the Swans, was a member of the Canadian national rugby team that played in international Rugby Union competition. In a match against All Blacks, he scored a try. The only AFL player to ever say that he scored a try against the powerful All-Blacks side. Something Israel Folau or Karmichael Hunt never did in their rugby careers.

 

Pyke is the first North American-born player to win AFL premiership since US-born (to Australian parents) Don Pyke (no relation) did with the Eagles in 1992 and 1994 (under Mick Malthouse of course).

 

Ryan O'Keefe got the Norm Smith for best on ground, despite being second best on ground in the match (Shane Sewell for Hawthorn had 33 disposals).

 

 



Congrats to the Melbourne Storm...

 

2012 NRL PREMIERS!

 

 

Despite a boring second half, the Storm held on to be Canterbury to win another NRL premiership!