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With Joe & Ted & The RNC crew looking on at ringside the Meadowlands April 4, Bad Brad Blackburn came through with a bang.

Bad Brad was in trouble after losing the first two rounds to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu master Delson Heleno and he needed a knockout in the third round to win.

He got it.

RESULTS:

Jay Hieron defends welterweight belt over Mark Miller, TKO 2:10 Round 1

Wagnney Fabiano defends featherweight belt over Shad Lierley, KO :30 Round 1

Vladimir Matyushenko defends light heavyweight belt over Jamal Patterson, TKO 3:20 Round 2

Brad Blackburn defeats Delson Heleno via KO at 1:50 Round 3.

Alex Schoenauer defeats Brendan Barrett at light heavyweight via split decision

LC Davis defeats Rafael Dias at featherweight via knockout (leg kick) at 3:56 Round 3

Chris Horodecki defeats Nate Lamotte at lightweight via unanimous decision.

Jim Miller defeats Bart Palaszewski at lightweight via unanimous decision.

Emyr Bussade defeats Jesse Lennox via tapout due to submission on kneebar at 1:25 Round 2.

Carmelo Marrero vs. Mike Ciesnolevicz ruled no contest due to accidental headbbut cut on Marrero at 1:37 Round 1.

What you might not know is that The Rear Naked Choke video squad was behind the scenes with Bad Brad from the time he got off the plane! To watch the inside story behind one of the greatest in-fight comebacks in IFL history, keep track of www.joeted.com and listen to The RNC.

Prior to settling in for the fights, Joe & Ted had Ring Girls and Big(gest) Losers. Oh yeah, and fighters, too!

Ring Girl Lauren Urso, who was one of the winners of the IFL/NY Post Ring Girl contest, was the first guest and got things (and Ted) heated up in a hurry.

The massive Conan Silveira from American Top Team talked about coming from Brazil to Miami and gave some good intel on his fighters.

Jim Germanakos from The Biggest Loser stepped in. Jim is a big MMA fan and knows a thing or two about dropping weight and getting into shape. His brother, Bill, won the title after 17 weeks on the ranch. Jim stayed for six weeks and Bill for the entire 17.

Then it got to the fighters, with Deividas Taurosevicius and Mike Massenzio, both of whom will be fighting on the IFL’s May 16 card at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

Deividas’ wrist injury kept him from fighting in the Meadowlands but he has been cleared to battle for the lightweight title against Ryan “The Lion” Schultz. Deividas is from Lithuania and recounted his professional athletic start as a rugby player.

Massenzio, who will be making his IFL debut at Mohegan Sun, capped it off by talking about his amazing New Jersey high school wrestling career and his current role as a high school coach and MMA fighter. He was 142-13 in high school and is now 10-1 in MMA!

JUMP ON THE TRAIN!

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In our next show on October 22nd, we’ll look at the upcoming IFL World Grand Prix Semifinals! Here’s the fight card we’ll be discussing:

IFL World Grand Prix Semi-Finals
Saturday, Nov. 3
Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Ill.

Lightweight
Wagnney Fabiano vs. John Gunderson
Chris Horodecki vs. Bart Palaszewski

Welterweight
Delson Heleno vs. Brad Blackburn
Pat Healy vs. Jay Hieron

Middleweight
Benji Radach vs. Brent Beauparlant
Matt Horwich vs. Brian Foster

Light Heavyweight
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Alex Schoenauer

Heavyweight
Roy Nelson vs. Reese Andy
Antoine Jaoude vs. Bryan Vetell

Just about all of these guys have been on the show so you can always catch up with past shows here.

And, as always, we welcome your participation in the live show.

Joe & Ted give you the best of the International Fight League (IFL) right here!

They started September, the month in which the IFL’s team champion will be crowned, by having on “Bad” Brad Blackburn, who will be fighting on the card Sept. 20, prior to the championship match between the Quad Cities Silverbacks and New York Pitbulls. The assistant coach of the Silverbacks, Steve Rusk, also gave his assessments 17 days before the championship throwdown.

Do not forget to stay tuned and find out what our favorite ring girl, Emily Miller, has been up to!

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The focus of the show has been the IFL for more than six months. Let’s take time to see how Joe & Ted took an idea and turned it into the hottest show on the web.

From December until March, the show was in the experimental phase, being put together in a live test environment. When Emily joined the show as a guest one March evening, the show took a turn and the focus immediately shifted to the personalities and storylines of the IFL.

There is no other place this side of “Battleground” that can boast this guest list (in order of appearance):

Emily “Ring Girl” Miller
Ken Yasuda (Tokyo Sabres coach)
Ben Fowlkes  IFL.tv Senior Editor)
Gideon Ray (Toronto Dragons)
Ring Girl Lori
IFL Commissioner Kurt Otto
Brian O’Shea  MMAMadness.com marketing)
Rory Markham (Quad Cities Silverbacks)
Mike Ciesnolevicz (Quad Cities Silverbacks)
Jay Hieron (LA Anacondas)
Vladimir Matyushenko (Tokyo Sabres)
Erik Owings (NY Pitbulls)
Jamal Patterson (NY Pitbulls)
Alex Schoenauer (LA Anacondas)
Shawn Tompkins (LA Anacondas coach)
Wayne Cole (Tokyo Sabres)
Igor Zinoviev (Chicago Red Bears coach)
Chris Horodecki (LA Anacondas)
Jeff Hamlin  MMAMadness.com writer)
Vince Waddell  MMAMAdness.com czar)
Pramit Mohapatra  MMAMadness.com managing editor)
Benji Radach (LA Anacondas)
Drew Archer (IFL operations manager)
Brad Blackburn (Seatle TigerSharks)
Steve Rusk (Quad Cities Silverbacks assistant coach)
Andre Gusmao (NY Pitbulls)
Bart Palaszewski (Quad Cities Silverbacks)
Maurice Smith (Seattle Tiger Sharks coach)
Bryan Vetell (NY Pitbulls)
Matt Lindland (Portland Wolfpack)
John Gunderson (Nevada Lions)
Brent Beauparlant (Toronto Dragons)

Joe & Ted also have done live shows from Chicago and the Meadowlands before IFL events, and will be doing shows from the sites of the Team Finals the week of Sept. 20, from the Grand Prix Semifinals the week of Nov. 3, and from the Grand Prix finals the week of Dec. 29.

Benji Radach of the LA Anacondas, the top-seeded 185-pounder in the IFL, finally made it to the mic with Joe & Ted just days after he stopped Gerald Harris of the Quad Cities Silverbacks in the team semifinals!

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Although Benji’s triumph was the Anacondas’ lone victory that evening, he was able to look forward to the Nov. 3 IFL Grand Prix semifinals in Chicago with a positive attitude. 

With plenty of time to max and relax, Benji talked to Joe & Ted about getting bitten by a spider and nearly having a hole through his leg as a result.  He also recounted – in deep detail – that fateful night in Vancouver when he single-handedly foiled an armed robbery. 

Benji is a fun person, so it figures that when Joe & Ted got a hold of him that (as usual) hilarity would ensue.  But because of the nature of the subject matter, his visit turned out to be one of a more serious nature.   

Benji’s show was Joe & Ted’s third in a week before their summer break, and it completed a run that gave listeners the most access on the net to the Anacondas.  Alex Schoenauer, coach Shawn Tompkins, Chris Horodecki and Benji all were on in that short span!

The show finished very strong, as IFL Operations Manager Drew Archer talked about how an event works and where the league stands in the world of MMA. 

Emily came on and helped the guys close out things.  The shy (?) ring girl from Iowa, when she was in for the IFL team semifinals, took New York by storm so much so that she blacked out next to some (lucky) guy on a plane!

You can only get this stuff here at JoeTed.com!

Just days before their IFL Semifinal match, coach Shawn Tompkins and light-heavyweight Alex Schoenauer of the LA Anacondas joined Joe & Ted in person, laughing it up for an hour. LISTEN HERE!

Joe & Ted went to the IFL’s hotel HQ in Teaneck, NJ, set up shop and jawed with Tompkins and Schoenauer while luminaries from the league popped in and out to check it out. Even the commish, Kurt Otto, pulled up a chair and took it all in.

The guys got things jump-started by getting Emily on the line, making Shawn blush like a shy teenager. When things settled down, the discussion covered everything from the Tompkins House to Canada to hockey to Chris Horodecki (a guest Thursday, Aug. 2 on Joe & Ted’s live stream from the Meadowlands prior to the semifinals).

Alex got behind the mic, and Joe eventually busted him for lying. But that was long after Ted’s interrogation about cooking, captaining a ship and puking. Did Joe & Ted get Alex to sing? Check out the show and find out!

Download Tompkins, Schoenauer of Anacondas laugh it up with Joe & Ted