The Rear Naked Choke, Featuring Joe & Ted

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.

Chris Horodecki, one of the most dominant fighters in MMA the past two years, was at his best outside the ring when he joined Joe & Ted on The RON Show at the Meadowlands moments before the IFL Semifinals.

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Hanging around long enough to earn co-host status, The Polish Hammer gave Joe & Ted nuggets you will not hear anywhere else.  Horodecki covered everything, from MMA to the movies, and was able to defend against the guys, who were armed with “dirt” about the 19-year-old superstar given by his coach and mentor, the LA Anacondas’ Shawn Tompkins.

Leading off the show guest list, Tokyo Sabres heavyweight Wayne Cole stepped in for a few minutes, giving a preview of his fight with Bryan Vetell of the NY Pitbulls (it did not turn out well for Wayne).

Then Chicago Red Bears coach Igor Zinoviev stepped to the mic.  Igor is still training two to three times per day and looks like he could (and should) fight any day.  He hinted at a return to the ring.

It came time for a change of pace, and that’s when Emily Miller, our resident MMA expert, took some time to sit with Joe & Ted before starting her evening’s duties as a sexy IFL ring girl.  Keep track of Emily all the time on The RON Show!

Chris jumped in and carried things for quite a while, then the guys from MMA Madness took over and closed it out.  Hear senior writer Jeff Hamlin, czar Vince Waddell and editor-in-chief Pramit Mohapatra talk about the genesis of the site that is taking the world of mixed martial arts by storm!

The guys mixed and mingled all week with the movers-and-shakers of the IFL, and it all culminated on the air!  With Joe & Ted, you never know who is going to show up!

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