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BAD BRAD - WITH A BANG!
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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!
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Blackburn, Miletich, Matyushenko & Lierley at the IFL hotel!
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Brad Blackburn, Pat Miletich (yes a mini Miltetich Love In finally got to happen!), Vladmir Matyushenko & Shad Lierley join Joe & Ted at the IFL hotel two days before the Meadowlands event. It was a veritable roundtable of experts, but the chattered covered everything from weight cutting, to UFC vs. IFL and somehow, just somehow got to Bad Brad Blackburn telling a story about how he ripped apart a very sensitive, vital part of his body.
Without a doubt, that aforementioned story is THE MOST HILARIOUS MOMENT IN RNC HISTORY that had Joe and Ted and everyone just gasping for air in fits of hysteria! Find out what the body part was and how it got torn along with all the rest of the fantastic MMA entertainment. Go ahead. Do it. You know you want to know. We even bet you think you know. But you don’t. Not until you…
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SHAD LIERLEY TALKS TOES, BELTS
MATT HORWICH HAS CAULIFLOWER EAR
MARIO SPERRY IS “THE ZEN MACHINE”
Shad Lierley’s toe is fine. Fine enough to allow him to fight for the IFL featherweight belt.
Matt Horwich has the IFL’s middleweight belt and cauliflower ear.
Mario Sperry is the “Zen Machine”.
The three were guests of Joe & Ted on the Rear Naked Choke over the past couple of weeks. Shad and Matt were on the week after Mario.
Shad will battle Wagnney Fabiano on April 4 in the Meadowlands for the featherweight title. Matt puts his middleweight title in the line Feb. 29 at the Orelans in Las Vegas against Tim Kennedy. That same night, Mario’s camp will make its IFL debut against Xtreme Couture, mentored by Shawn Tompkins.
Shad is coming off a now-famous broken toe - the toe broke through the skin. He talked about the injury and how his buddy (and ours), Bad Brad Blackburn, was nowehre to be found when the blood was spewing all over the place. OK, so we might be embellishing a bit, but we did push Shad to bring Bad Brad back east to corner him for the title fight.
Shad also talked about the famed fight of the year of 2007 with Chris Horodecki and said he still would love a rematch, even at 155 pounds, so our thoughts that Shad’s move to featherweight would shelve such a potential rematch might be premature, and hope springs eternal!
Just before we left Shad, he threw the phone over to Reese Andy. Reese’s gym houses just about all of the former Seattle TigerSharks. Get an update on what Reese is doing to get Shad ready!
Matt then came on and Ted hit him right away (not literally). He wanted to know what Matt thought of himself against Anderson Silva. Matt broke it down in his own way after he adjusted the phone (and sent Joe into hysterical laughter) so he could hear the guys. He said in his first appearance on The RNC that his goal was to eventually be at the level to fight Silva. Politics and contracts between promotions will prevent that, though.
The spiritual Horwich, who was reached at Matt Lindland’s Team Quest, recently was a star at the Portland TrailBlazers game, along with teammate Ryan “The Lion” Schultz. While he did not get into too much detail about that, Matt did talk about his hair styles, gave his thoughts on some secrets as to why he has never been knocked out despite taking some massive blows, and his social networking. We asked him to add us on mySpace and make us a top friend, and he did it! THANKS MATT!!!
note: The same offer remains open to all. We’re at www.myspace.com/rncjoeted and we love being in your top friends! It helps the show grow!
Mario sized up his camp entry. The Zen Machine talked about how he got to the IFL. He gave his thoughts about the system, and the MMA world in general.
Mario has been traveling constantly in the months since arriving in the USA from Brazil. It was exceptionally nice of him to take the time to join Joe & Ted. Mario was so concerned that the battery on his cell phone was going to run out during the interview that he made them call him back on a different line! That’s class, ladies and gentlemen!
SWITCHING GEARS
If you have not seen the show “Fight Science” on the National Geographic channel, then stop what you’re doing and make a point to set the DVR for it RIGHT NOW.
Bas Rutten, Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz and Dean Lister are run through a series of experimental scientific tests, and the results stunned the compilers of empirical data.
The only down side was that if you knew nothing about MMA organizations, you would think the UFC was the only one in existence. This was an observation made by Ted and confirmed by Joe.
We have seen in the past that the UFC is not above leveraging their footage and general access to mainstream and other media under the conditions that the written or televised piece keep exclusive mention to their promotion. No one from The RNC has checked into confirming that was the case for this episode of “Fight Science” because we really do not care that much, other than to just levy our positive and negative criticism of the show.
Speaking of Bas Rutten, a hearty RNC congratulations goes out to “El Guapo” for being named the VP for fighter relations at the IFL (from “Fight Science” you can see he’s still in fighting shape!). Fear not, he’ll still be bringing his top-notch analysis to the IFL’s telecasts. Now Bas gets to use those endless connections to help bring talent into the IFL and help create sensible and exciting fighter and camp matchups.
Additionally, Kurt Otto will be able to focus more on the ring-related aspects. As the new head of the business side, Jay Larkin, said last week, the team concept changing to the camp vs. camp setup means we’re not so much talking about a league except in official name. Without a league, there is no sense of having a commissioner. The good thing is, you’ll still be able to hear Kurt, Bas and everyone involved in the IFL inside and and outside of the ring right here on The Rear Naked Choke!
More big news this week was the announcement that the April 4 card will include a total of three title matches:
Featherweight (145 pounds): Wagnney Fabiano defends vs. Shad Lierley
Welterweight (170 pounds): Jay Hieron defends vs. Mark Miller
Light Heavyweight (205 pounds): Vladimir “The Janitor” Matyushenko defends vs. Jamal Patterson
We already have had on Jay (”Nice playa, nice!”), and we’ll eventually have on everyone on that list. We’ll also keep focusing on the Feb. 29 card and will continue to have guests from that lineup!
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IFL World Grand Prix Semi Finals Card
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 Chicago, Ill.
Lightweight
Wagnney Fabiano vs. John Gunderson
Chris Horodecki vs. Bart Palaszewski
Welterweight
Delson Heleno vs. Brad Blackburn
Patrick 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.
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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.
NY Pitbulls: Owings on religion, Patterson does “Rocky” on TRS
Erik Owings went off about religion, nutrition and Brazilian chics, while Jamal Patterson reminisced about growing up in North Jersey and laid out what it takes to have a full-time job and still kick some IFL ass in the latest edition of The RON Show, Featuring Joe & Ted: Mundane Family Entertainment. The teammates on the NY Pitbulls of the International Fight league (IFL) joined the guys Monday night for a 66-minute spectacular that can be heard right here. Owings shocked Joe & Ted, admitting his mySpace is not very serious, but went on to give multi-layered opinions on religion and nutrition. The 155-pounder from Kentucky speaks fluent Portuguese, which comes in handy with the girls on his annual trips to Brazil. Oh yeah, and we should mention he is fighting Savant Young on August 2 in the Meadowlands, where the IFL semifinals will be taking place. The Pitbulls take on the Tokyo Sabres, and the Los Angeles Anacondas meet the Quad Cities Silverbacks. This was the fourth and final feature show for the IFL semifinalists, and Patterson closed it out like Mariano Rivera in a playoff game. Jamal will face Vladimir “The Janitor” Matyushenko of the Sabres, who joined us July 16, in his semifinal match in the 205-pound class. Should The Janitor invoke Ivan Drago before the fight and tell Jamal “I must break you” as he said to Joe & Ted, then Jamal will be ready with his Rocky-esque response. Tune in.
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Vladimir Matyushenko & coach Ken Yasuda on the IFL Semifinalist Sabres
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In this latest installment of the R.O.N Show, Vladimir Matyushenko & coach Ken Yasuda of the IFL Semifinalist Sabres join Joe & Ted.
Highlights:
Vlad does his best Ivan Drago immitation and talks about leaving Belarus for NYC with $100. Ken gives his predictions and lineup for the Sabres’ match with the NY Pitbulls and jokes with the guys about beating Vlad the Janitor at golf and spicy sake. Also, learn what “Three Timing is”.
Show Details:
Recorded: 07/16/07 09:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1:13:54
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