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The Caribbean is getting a MMA fight scene, and its called CUFF – Caribbean Ultimate Fist Fighting.
| No | Style | Win | Def | Loss | Reason |
| 1 | Mma 135 lbs | Cesar Cortes, Universal Martial Arts, Vancouver BC | Def. | Matt Spiff-e Shannon fight team 604, Burnaby BC | By referee stoppage at 2:50, ground and pound. Total domination by Cortes. |
| 2 | Kickboxing, super welterweight, 150lbs | Siavosh Fard, SKA Burnaby BC | Def. | Karen Vrar, Bisla Martial Arts Surrey BC | Went to the judges. Fard had dynamite spinning back kicks and spinning hook kicks, but we also saw a late kick after the round 2 bell. A close fight, and one judge gave it to Vrar while the other two gave it to Fard for the majority decision. |
| 3 | Boxing, Junior Light weight, 130 lbs | Asif Anwary, Fight Team 604, New Westminster BC | Def. | Leo Samarelli Wolf’s Den, North Vancouver BC | Win by majority judges decision. |
| 4 | Muay Thai, junior welterweight 145lbs | Jay Hosseini Universal Martial Arts Maple Ridge BC | Def. | Jordan Gieble Canada’s Best Karate Victoria | Hosseini came out hard and fast and aggressive from the start. He put in a leg kick so hard Gieble was given a standing count. Gieble had to favor the leg for the rest of the match until the referee called stoppage, and TKO win for Hosseini. |
| 5 | Muay Thai, Welterweight 147 lbs | Lute Ganief WKX Surrey BC | Def. | Terrance Viloria Mendoza Fight Team Surrey BC | Unanimous judges decision, to Lute Ganeif. Viloria faded a bit in round 3 after being well matched and aggressive throughout the fight. |
| 6 | Kickboxing super middleweight 165 lbs | Kevin Lam Posener’s Muay Thai Vancouver BC | Def. | Dev Havoc Rakkar independent, Vancouver BC | 1:53 ref stoppage, Rakkar did not respond well, did not keep his gloves up, and was schooled quickly out of the fight. |
| 7 | MMA bantamweight 118lbs | Jamie Gonzales Charlies Combat Club, Everett WA | Def. | Nicola Hicks Team Denarius New Westminster, BC | Nicola got Gonzales on the ground quickly and owned mount until referee stoppage at 45 seconds. |
| 8 | MMA welterweight 170 lbs | Adriano Digiacinto Wolfe’s Den North Vancouver BC | Def. | Justyn Rackstraw fight team 604 Maple Ridge BC | Rackstraw, who apparently was seen in Coquitlam on Wednesday eating a kfc double down and smoking a cigarette was stopped from continuing by the referee at about 2:00 of round 1. |
| 9 | MMA, Pacific Northwest Welterweight Title | Leo Xavier Universal Martial Arts Vancouver BC | Def. | Marquez Bryant Crisis MMA Olympia Wa | Initial parrys led to Leo Xavier getting the upper position and eventually was able to work it into a full mount – but not without a fight from Bryant. Leo transitioned into an armbar from mount and as Bryant was making every effort to escape, he turned it into a triangle. Nice show of skills for a 1:51 round 1 win by triangle choke. |
| 10 | Muay Thai Middleweight 160 lbs | Andrew Lewis Nak Muay Duncan Island BC | Def. | Bruce Khademi WKC Surrey BC | Lewis showed awesome persistence with high kicks in a very evenly contested matchup. He would get the majority decision from the judges. |
| 11 | MMA middleweight 185 lbs | Kyle Warman Gracie Barra Arts Kelowna BC | Def. | Tyrone Anderson Tactics MMA Vancouver BC | Both warriors in this matchup battled massively in the first round to no real outcome. They both deeply depleted their gas tanks and had to demonstrate deep resolve to fight the next 2 rounds of 3 minutes each The judges would give it unanimously, 29 – 28 to Kyle Warman, despite that Warman spending so much time in round 3 under mount. |
| 12 | MMA Light heavyweight 190 lbs | Kiarash Moghaddam Versus Training Center Vancouver BC | Def. | David Correa Crisis MMA Olympia Wa | Kiarash Moghaddam managed Correa well enough on the ground to take the side arm choke position and finish the fight at 1:30 of round 1. |
| 13 | Muay Thai, Pacific Northwest Welterweight Title | Josh Jauncey WKX Surrey BC | Def. | Jason Hinds Pound 4 Pound Markham Ontario | An exciting well matched fight that showed lots of sweeps, the fighters ramped up their efforts with each round. Jauncey pulled out ahead in round 5. He even showed some flashy ducking and weaving and a round kick resulting from being swept. Judges would give the fight unanimously to Jauncey. |
Some fight action from from the budding MMA fight scene in the Caribbean.
Xtreme Couture Jiu-jitsu coach Neil Melanson came to Revolution Chilliwack over the weekend to teach a seminar on grappling for MMA. I am still going over my photos from the two day seminar – we drilled tons of techniques. One clever little trick is this choke. Call it “Front fist choke while cradling the head from the mount position”. Or, as Neil Melanson put it, “You are jamming a hard bone up into the throat”. Its a shocking little choke for sure and it is all the more nasty by the fact that, my lord, it takes almost no pressure at all to impose enough pain for a submission from your opponent.
4th round Kimura means you went long and held it through and found a way. Well done Tija Stanley!!!!
Dave Deibert of Postmedia news has reported that Senator Bob Runciman has introduced a bill appending section 83 of the criminal code which only permits boxing as the only legal form of prize fighting. The amendment will add ‘fighting with hands and feet’. The existence of athletic commissions manages the matter of the difference in law, but the move will help bring order and credibility to the fastest growing sport in the world.
On a recent trip to Kamloops, and needing a place to roll, I came upon MMA fighter Matt Baker’s new gym, Mata-Leao MMA. For a measure of how much mixed martial arts is making inroads to our way of life, the new martial arts gyms are a far better example of how relevant it has become, rather than UFC on Fox. How nice it is to see the new generation of MMA fighters like Matt Baker already giving back to the sport they love by opening gyms, bringing the fundamental components of mixed martial arts to a new generation of young athletes who want to learn it and train it. I took mat away from his busy schedule to tell me a bit more about his fight background and his new gym.
Matt Baker is a Canadian MMA fighter with a 10-0 amateur and a 7-3 pro record, currently fighting for Battlefield Fight League. Matt is the only Canadian on Team Nogueira, out of Rio De Janeiro Brazil. His own martial arts education has given him the opportunity to roll and train with some heavy hitters like Minotaur Noguiera, Minotauro, Anderson Silva, Tony Mariano, the #1 ranked fighter in the world outside of UFC, Bigfoot Silva, ex Strikeforce champ, Rafael Cavalcante… Matt says the gym is amazing for fighting at 185, lots of light heavyweights and 185s. No doubt!
Matt explained that the name for the gym, Mata-Leao MMA, is from the Portuguese for ‘lion kills’, which is another name for the rear naked choke. The expression also comes from the legend of Hercules. In one of Hercules’ 10 quests, he defeated the Nemean Lion with its impenetrable skin by applying a rear naked choke.
Mata-Leao naturally has a kickboxing program, and a gi and no gi program. The Brazilian Jiu-jitsu gi program is run by Andre Taniguiti. Originally from Brazil, Taniguiti trained at Axis Jiu-jitsu in Japan. Matt says Andrey is a very good brown belt. Matt runs the mma and no gi side of things, as well as personal training sessions.
I asked Matt what was his personal approach to training and the kind of gym he was hoping to run. He said, “I like working with kids, I just get lost training in classes with kids, I have a gym in my home town because it takes me away from training at my fight camps, I relax, I do it for the fun, I don’t do it for the money… The gym is open since January 2012. It’s the first year in business and I already have over 30 students. I am taking down about 8 of my students to Tiger Balm 2012 this weekend. For 90% of them it’s their first tournament. Hopefully from there the gym is going to grow, the school is going to grow, and there will be more tournaments to come. If I can’t one day be a champion myself, I would like to coach a champion. That would be my ultimate goal. Hopefully one day, I’ll make it to the Kamloops Sports Hall of fame like Tom Laroche, my first sifu.
Have you ever tried your hand in the cage? Your name might be in here!
MixedMartialArts.com now runs the official MMA registry for ABC, making it the only official registry for the sport. Fighters and promoters should send in their results, and include this site for event announcements.
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