Archive for March, 2008
JAMAL PATTERSON KICKS OFF IFL FIGHT WEEK!
Jamal Patterson joined Joe & Ted four nights before his IFL title bout at 205 pounds against Vladimir “The Janitor” Matyushenko, kicking off IFL Fight Week on The Rear Naked Choke.
Jamal knows the hooker that ended the governorship of Eliot Spitzer. Can you believe it? It’s true, and you can only get that kind of juice with The RNC Listening Experience.
He talked about how he works his day job selling medical devices, being a sociology major at Colgate, and being young and good looking - wink wink! And then the New York Times did a huge feature on Jamal!
JP Double Feature! Jamal Patterson knows the Eliot Spitzer hooker - and he also knows some ass-kicking BJJ moves! - listen to it here and catch up with Jama’s first appearance with us here on The Choke as well! (he’s the second guest after Eric Ownings:
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Joe & Ted also attacked the latest news in MMA and the IFL, reviewing the fight card for April 4 and the newly announced May 16 card at Mohegan Sun! They mentioned their press release just put out by the IFL, talking about what is in store this week, with live remote shows from the IFL hotel Wednesday and Thursday at 9:30 pm Eastern (6:30 Pacific), and the ringside live stream, commencing from the Meadowlands at 5:00 pm Friday.
Here is the press release about what’s going on this week from the IFL:
‘Rear Naked Choke’ To Produce Live Pre-Fight Internet Radio Show Before IFL Event on April 4
3/31/2008Two-Hour Ringside Broadcast Highlights Week of Izod Center Preview Shows
NEW YORK, March 31, 2008 – “The Rear Naked Choke, Featuring Joe & Ted,” an Internet radio program which focuses on the International Fight League (IFL) in delivering a unique perspective and insight into the entertaining culture of the burgeoning world of mixed martial arts (MMA), will broadcast a live two-hour program from ringside at the IFL event at the Izod Center in E. Rutherford, N.J., on April 4, beginning at 5 p.m. Listeners can tune in at www.joeted.com.
The program, which will feature a variety of IFL athletes and coaches and other MMA personalities, concludes a week of IFL-themed programs. Hosts Joe Rizzo and Ted Takvorian will also air special Rear Naked Choke episodes on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
The Rear Naked Choke broadcasts weekly on Mondays at 9:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. PT). Focusing on the IFL, Joe & Ted provide the inside scoop for the fans and the pros. The RNC offers fighters, coaches and legends of the sport a break from the rigors of training and a place to kick back for a few laughs, riff about what makes them interesting, and maybe even talk some trash. All shows stream live, feature an interactive chat room, and are available for listening or downloading any time through www.joeted.com.
Dozens of IFL coaches and athletes and other MMA personalities have appeared on past programs, including Bas Rutten, Renzo Gracie, Pat Miletich, Randy Couture and Ken Shamrock.
The RNC also features special event coverage with shows on location, including the ringside live stream leading up to the opening bell. For more info on how to listen live and participate in the chat, go to http://www.talkshoe.com/blog/index.php/help/.
About the IFL
International Fight League™ (IFL) has its headquarters in New York and offices in Las Vegas. For more information about IFL, please see: www.ifl.tv.
Spotted the other day in NYC’s Penn Station: Renzo Gracie, IFL featherweight champion Wagnney Fabiano and 170-pounder Delson Heleno rolling during a demonstration/press junket. Here is Riz with Delson:
Tune in this week to find out Bad Brad Blackburn’s reaction to this pic! Bad Brad will be arriving in New Jersey on Tuesday night, and Joe & Ted will be chronicling his moves on video. “Behind the Scenes With Joe & Ted” will premiere after the dust settles from the IFL event at the Meadowlands.
We’re also working on more things with video, so keep coming back to www.joeted.com for updates. Drop us a line at TheRNC@joeted.com if you have comments, questions or ideas, especially if you have a name for the Unnamed Segment (or is it Name That Segment?).
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MILETICH FIGHTING SYSTEMS LOVE-IN SHOW:
With Rory Markham and “Cizzle” LC Davis!
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Rory Markham and LC Davis join Joe & Ted on a special episode - the Miletich Fighting Systems Love-In Show (MFSLIS).
Pat Miletich was slated to be on but could not make it, and Rory was a little late, so the guys had to carry it for a while.
But once they got started, it was on fire! ON FIRE!
Rory was spectacular, even though he talked about how the flu wreaked havoc with his insides.
LC kept it going and also got line of the night (hear it right at the beginning of the show). LC also starred in the “Unnamed Name That Segment” with Ted!
HISTORY
LC was on with Waggney Fabiano. He rocked it. Listen to it here:
LC’s first appearance is the benchmark for the live stream and chat. His peeps were out in droves and helped shatter RNC participation records. We know a lot of you are going to want to listen live and establish a new record.
Rory’s past appearances remain some of our most consistently downloaded shows. The bar is set high this time, as his pals Mike C. and Bartimus were off the charts on the previous show. Did you know Rory once hosted the show (in its previous incarnation as The RON Show)? Well, he did. Czech it out right here:
Rory once co-hosted the show - Rory Markham Hosts The Ron Show The Rear Naked Choke
As always, we kicked it off 9:30 Eastern, 8:30 Central, 7:30 Mountain, 6:30 Pacific, and 2:30 am Tuesday GMT for those of you in Europe!
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY SPECIAL:
Mike C. & Bartimus gang up on Ben Rothwell & his peanut butter!
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Mike Ciesnolevicz & Bart(imus) Palaszewski joined Joe & Ted on a very special St. Patrick’s Day special of The Rear Naked Choke!
Mike C. and Bart both are fun-loving guys who are not afraid to throw a prank or two out there. Hear them talk about some of their best exploits.
It turned into a recap of the all-time best material in which Ben Rothwell was the target. There was plenty of talk about Ben and peanut butter. It’s likePunk’d meets the Jamie Kennedy Experiment meets MMA!
Mike C. carried subjects from Playboy to reality TV to the presence of Bryan Vetell at Miletich Fighting Systems.
Bart broke the news that his opponent, Deividus Taurosevicius, is injured and will not be able to compete. At show time no opponent was named.
Bart did “Name That Segment” and attempted to name it “20 Questions” - there actually were 16 this time!
There is some strong language in this one, so be careful around the kiddies or at work!!!
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The Gunderson Gurgle
Mark Miller’s Nicknames
Plus: GeoCaching and Strat-O-Matic Baseball?
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We’re Marching through March - the best month in the history of The Rear Naked Choke.
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Last week, big-time RNC fan and IFL lightweight John Gunderson joined the guys and discussed his injury status and the impending surgery on his knee that will keep him sidelined for at least a half-year.
Guns is now forced to cater full-time to soccer moms at LA Boxing. Hear him explain why, and hear how he almost escaped Ryan Schulz’s guillotine choke using a gurgling trick he learned from Bas Rutten, along with what he thinks about the whole Couture/Fedor controversy.Besides being Ted’s new passion, do you know what Geo Caching is? Ted fills us in about this growing niche activity in the first of two middle segments.
In the second segment, we are reminded how much Ted hates Riz’s music and ponders how they ever, ever became friends. Kitch wonders the same thing all the time. Riz is nothing if not persuasive. After calling out Kitch on the air about not knowing who Peter Murphy & Bauhaus are while they were battling the Doodlebops in Vegas, Kitch actually went out onto iTunes and bought the latest Bauhaus album, entitled “Go Away White”. He reports, “I actually like it, despite myself.”
Of course, big-time fan that he is, Joe did not even know about the album. Pfft. One up for The Kitch.
Other topics include Joe’s obsession with Strat-O-Matic baseball and how he managed to win a big ass trophy that his wife HATES.
Finally, producer Debbie, fed up with Joe talking about Strat, got Mark Miller on the line. Mark talked about the solid base of fighters at Midwest Combat, his stunning knockout of Josh Neer and his total indifference to ring girls. Find out why a machine gunner works at a gym, too.
Plus - Ted introduced a new segment with Mark. We need your help naming it!!! Drop us a line at TheRNC@joeted.com or shoot us a myspace.
Also, get your ass out to the theater and see our buddy Sean Faris’ movie, Never Back Down. And then come back and listen to his last appearance on The RNC!
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ANALYSIS: Xtreme Couture’s low blow on IFL
EXCLUSIVE: Bad Brad vs. Delson Heleno
Roy “Big Country” Nelson defends belt
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Bad Brad Blackburn gave The Rear Naked Choke and exclusive announcement - what a way to follow IFL heavyweight champ Roy Nelson - and there was controversy about Xtreme Couture and the IFL uncovered on Monday’s show on www.joeted.com.
Bad Brad revealed on the air to Joe & Ted and The RNC nation that he will be fighting again in the IFL, with his next match to be against Delson Heleno of Renzo Gracie Jiu Jitsu on April 4 at the Meadowlands in NJ.
Brad was his usual self, making easy conversation and keeping Joe & Ted in stitches with his endearing sarcasm. Because his announcement was breaking news, the guys did not reveal Blackburn was even coming on the show until they brought him on the air.
By the time the show was finishing, he was running out the door to practice his jiu jitsu!
Maybe he should train with “Big Country”, whose game has no weakness right now.
Coming off his dominating knockout of Fabiano Scherner in the IFL’s 2008 opener Feb. 29, Roy was in top form in his showdown with Joe & Ted.
Roy gave a quick recap of his fight, then offered fans of The RNC a free T-shirt at his web site, www.bigcountry.tv.
But it is Roy’s insights into the business and political sides of MMA that set him apart. The discussion turned to the issue in the IFL in which Xtreme Couture abruptly switched its camp name to Team Tompkins due to the ongoing legal battle between Randy Couture and Zuffa, which operates the UFC.
Just two days before the IFL card was to take place, the Xtreme Couture camp entity asked the IFL to let it out of the naming commitment, which the promotion did, scrambling immediately in an obvious show of good faith. Within minutes of the request, the name Xtreme Couture was wiped clean of the www.IFL.tv site and all references were adjusted to read “Team Tompkins”.
Because Shawn Tompkins has fronted the core group of fighters associated with Xtreme Couture (the Anacondas), it was a logical and simple solution to make the name adjustment to Team Tompkins.
That should have been the end of the story.
What was not an issue at the time was that the fighters on the card representing Xtreme Couture/Team Tompkins were, with the exception of 145-pounder Dennis Davis, not regular training members in the Las Vegas-based establishment.
However, when Santino DeFranco and Lew Polley, members of American Top Team, were submission losers in the Feb. 29 card, it seemed to suddenly become a point of contention that the pair were not affiliated with Xtreme Couture, which contends it was forced by the IFL to have DeFranco and Polley fight under its banner.
Here is the camp’s statement, taken from the Xtreme Couture blog. Note the date of March 1, the day after the IFL card was contested:
Statement on Team Name Change from Xtreme Couture to Team Tompkins
March 1, 2008 ·
Yesterday our lawyers appeared in Judge Togliatti’s Las Vegas courtroom to address the previously continued preliminary injunction hearing. After many hours of argument, the judge agreed to fashion a remedy (without any admission or waiver or affect on any date and event other than the February 29th IFL event) based upon what Randy Couture had already advised the court he was doing and /or more than willing to do (and had already taken steps to do): (i) That he had not planned to attend the February 29th IFL event in Las Vegas; (ii) that, given the foregoing, he was not cornering at the IFL event on the 29th; and (iii) that the team name “Xtreme Couture” would not be used in the February 29th event (for the reasons discussed below). We don’t believe that anyone with full-knowledge of the facts could consider this a victory. In fact, it is a non-event.
However, the background story is a little more interesting. Simply put, the IFL was attempting to use the ”Xtreme Couture” name without properly representing the gym by using its own fighters.
On January 8 we submitted a list of seven (7) fighters to the IFL that would be available to fight in the IFL event from the Xtreme Couture gym. The fighters were: Dennis Davis 145lbs (16-8), Jay White Heavyweight (2-5), Phil Friedman Heavyweight (1-0), Eric Uresk 155lbs (2-3), Josh Haynes 185lbs (8-8), Johnny Hendricks 170lbs (3-0), and Karina Taylor 135lbs (0-1).
The IFL informed us that Dennis Davis would be booked to fight a prelim bout against Ian Loveland and that none of our other fighters would be utilized. According to the IFL none of our fighters were a proper matchup for Mario Sperry’s team of Brazilian fighters. The IFL intended to field a team of Benji Radach (who due to injury was replaced by Josh Haynes), Santino DeFranco and Lew Polley. Radach had been a member of Shawn Tompkins’ Anacondas team, while DeFranco and Polley are from American Top Team.
Lew Polley and Santino DeFranco are tremendous athletes and excellent fighters. However, they are members of American Top Team not Xtreme Couture. American Top Team is a great squad and by all means seem to be deserving of having their own team in the IFL. We have 35 athletes that train in our Las Vegas gym and proudly wear the Xtreme Couture patch on their shorts during fights. Yet the IFL decided to field a team called “Xtreme Couture” without putting any Xtreme Couture athletes on the team. The Patriots didn’t show up in the Super Bowl with a bunch of players from the Packers. Why would the Xtreme Couture name be put on the line and not be represented by Xtreme Couture fighters.
It is because of this that the team name was changed to ”Team Tompkins”.
The IFL may have been misguided in putting fighters under another camp’s banner, but this did not seem to be an issue until all of a sudden DeFranco and Polley were victims of first-round submissions.
The IFL has been doing the same thing since its inception and no one made an issue of it.
For instance, Jake Ellenberger, who had an impressive win over Pat Healy on the Feb. 29 card, is a member of Matt Lindland’s Team Quest. But Ellenberger fought in the IFL Team Finals in September for Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks when Rory Markham was injured.
Miletich had another Team Quest fighter, Gerald Harris (a member of the cast of The Ultimate Fighter 7, incidentally), join his Silverbacks for the team semifinals against Tompkins’ Anacondas, and he was knocked out by Radach.
Radach originally was supposed to fight under the Xtreme Couture banner for the card in question Feb. 29, but because he broke bones in his neck during training was replaced by Josh Haynes. Although Radach has trained in Florida with American Top Team for years, no one seemed to have a problem with the star being associated with the Anacondas, Xtreme Couture or Team Tompkins.
While valid, the timing of the Xtreme Couture statement seems curious at best, sour grapes at worst. There had been plenty of time for them to step in and either ask for the name association to be removed or demand the IFL utilize true members of the camp for all events in which it was participating.
It was a subpar move by an otherwise top-flight outfit with some of the most respected people in the business.
On The Rear Naked Choke, both Nelson and Blackburn assessed the situation and added special insight. Give it a listen and comment through the site or via email at TheRNC@joeted.com.
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IFL VEGAS LIVE!
Sean Faris, Ken Shamrock, Elisabeth Nuesser, Gary Grate
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Sean Faris from the movie “Never Back Down” did not back down when Riz & The Kitch welcomed him to The Rear Naked Choke, live ringside from the IFL season-opening event at The Orleans in Las Vegas!
Sean talked about the movie and his MMA training with Joe (a.k.a. “Riz”) and James “the Kitch” Kitcher, subbing for Ted, who could not make the trip.
The Vegas shows the first couple of nights were sidetracked by the Doodlebops, but the guys were able to land Geno the Driver for analysis on MMA and things like The Notebook!
During the ringside live stream, the stars had aligned.
The leadoff guest was Elisabeth Nuesser, who owns the smokin-hot Fightchix clothing line! Listeners of The RNC need only email info@fightchix.com to get 15% off their order - Elisabeth said it herself right on the show!
Then Ken Shamrock jumped into the seat and dished about his place in MMA history, the treatment of the UFC to him and others scorned, and his ongoing feud/storyline with his brother, Frank Shamrock. Ken was not fighting on this evening, but he did call out The Kitch in one of The RNC’s all-time classic moments. Hear a tidbit of it in the show-opening teaser!
Gary Grate, who acts as Ken’s assistant coach in the IFL, took the chair and gave the guys a verbal lesson in Brazilian jiu jitsu. Gary is a Charles Gracie disciple and has a jitz school in Reno. He helps the guys in Ken’s Lion’s Den stay sharp on the ground and has forgotten more about MMA than most people will ever know. He’s also a good friend of BJ Penn, but we’re not name-dropping…
Then Faris, the star of the MMA movie Never Back Down, grabbed the headset. Sean was able to relax with the guys while explaining the movie’s plot and how he suffered through some pretty serious training injuries, like a broken back and busted thumb! He also dished about his teen idol status, how he got interested in MMA, and his overall experience with the sport, the movie and his future with both. Riz also asked him about a Never Back Down sequel - listen for the answer!
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A discount on the hottest line of MMA clothing
Ken Shamrock calling out The Kitch
Gary Grate confusing Riz about who he is
Sean Faris getting the distinction of becoming the first movie star on the show
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Here are the results from the IFL Las Vegas card:
Ian Loveland wins by submission (guillotine choke) against Dennis Davis
Rafael Dias wins by submission (rear naked choke) against Santino Defranco
Josh Haynes wins by unanimous decision against Leopoldo Serao
Alexandre Ferreira wins by submission (flying guillotine) against Lew Polley
Jake Ellenberger wins by unanimous decision against Pat Healy
*Ryan Schultz wins by unanimous decision against John Gunderson (defendends IFL lightweight title - 155 pounds)
*Roy Nelson wins by TKO (strikes) against Fabiano Scherner (defends IFL heavyweight title - 265 pounds)
*Ryan McGivern wins by unanimous decision over Matt Horwich (gains IFL middleweight title - 185 pounds)note: * indicates title fight (defending champion in bold, new champion in italics)
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