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Thiago Alves joined Rear Naked Choke Radio for the first time.  Joe Rizzo was live cageside from LA Boxing in Paramus, NJ. First he talked to Thiago, then he made the big announcement. You’ll have to listen to find out what it was.

Alves is 16-6, but had won seven straight fights before falling to Georges St-Pierre for the welterweight title at UFC 100 in July.  Alves takes on Jon Fitch at UFC 111 in Newark on March 27, looking to avenge his loss to him from 2006.  The fight originally was scheduled for UFC 107.

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Joe Rizzo caught up with rising young star Andy Main at AMA Fight Club in Whippany, NJ prior to his fight at Ring of Combat on Feb. 19 in Atlantic City.

Joe Rizzo caught up with rising young star Andy Main at AMA Fight Club in Whippany, NJ prior to his fight at Ring of Combat on Feb. 19 in Atlantic City.

Dominick Cruz, Paul Bradley and Danny Martinez joined Newark Examiner MMA writer Joe Rizzo and guest co-host Hector Castro on Rear Naked Choke Radio from LA Boxing in Paramus, NJ.

UFC 111 fighter Jake Ellenberger and outspoken top-ranked Tara LaRosa joined Examiner.com MMA writer Joe Rizzo on Rear Naked Choke Radio.

Due to heavy snow in the Northeast, the show did not originate from the usual location at LA Boxing in Paramus, NJ, but an audio stream is available for listeners. You can always catch the show here, if the live version does not match your time schedule.

Name a fighter that has pulled off a twister submission in an MMA event.  Shayna Baszler has done it.   TWICE.

The Queen of Spades is back on Rear Naked Choke Radio with Examiner.com MMA writer Joe Rizzo and guest co-host Darren Goodall of Team Renzo Gracie to talk about her second twister, accomplished over the weekend at the FCF 135-pound tournament quarterfinals.  While most MMA fans had their eyes on S

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Our own Joe Rizzo recapped the fights from UFC 106 for the Examiner:

• Forrest Griffin avenges loss to Tito Ortiz
• Josh Koscheck forces Anthony Johnson to tap
  
• Paulo Thiago grinds down Jacob Volkmann
  
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira pummels Luiz Cane
  
• Amir Sadollah dominates Phil Baroni
  
• Brian Foster pounds Brock Larson
  
• Ben Saunders KOs Marcus Davis
  
• Georege Sotiropoulos submits Jason Dent
  
• Kendall Grove triangles Jake Rosholt

Also on the card, Caol Uno fought to a majority draw with Fabricio Camoes.

Joe went 5-0 in his main-card Fearless Predictions, pushing his combined main-card record for Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers, UFC 105 and UFC 106 to an astounding 14-1.

Joe Rizzo, host of Rear Naked Choke Radio on JoeTed.com and the Newark MMA Examiner, recapped all the action from UFC 105 in Manchester, England.  Here is a taste:

At UFC 105 in Manchester, England on Saturday, Randy Couture, Dan Hardy, Michael Bisping and Ross Peason all came up big winners.

Couture won a narrow decision in the main event against Brandon Vera, putting him into the mix for a title shot at light-heavyweight.  Hardy is in line to fight Georges St-Pierre after beating Swick in a welterweight contender match.

Here are the play-by-play recaps to the seven fights shown on Spike TV:

• Couture defeats Vera
  
• Hardy beats Swick
  
• Gustafsson TKOs Hamman
  
• Bisping stops Kang
  
• Winner finishes Delgado
  
• Brown gets late finish of Wilks
  
• TUF 9 champ Pearson cuts Riley

Dan Miller stunned the establishment Friday night at Mohegan Sun with his belt-winning kneebar of IFL middleweight champion Ryan McGivern.

On May 19, Dan and his brother, Jim, welcomed Joe, Ted and The Rear Naked Choke crew to AMA Fight Club in Whippany, NJ for an in-person show! To hear Dan’s initial appearance on the show, Dec. 3, 2007, click the second player below.

 

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The 185-pound IFL championship belt Dan secured was sitting right there on the table the whole show, which featured a recap of the Mohegan Sun card from May 16, the history of the Miller brothers, the MMA scene, family squabbles, the IFL, contracts, and much more.

Don’t worry, we also made Dan talk AGAIN about “The Guillotine From Hell” from his first IFL fight!

It got ugly when Jim revealed the dirty tricks of wrestling and Ted busted out the Oil Can Boyd reference.

If you missed it live, you can download this or any show to your iTunes by clicking the iTunes widget on www.joeted.com, and there also is an RSS feed available among the ways to keep on top of The Choke.

We also are feverishly working to get the VIDEO archive of live shows available through our partners at IFL.TV – feel free to check out the video player and do not wait for word from us. IT’S OK!

THOUGHTS FROM MOHEGAN

We once again were treated in a top-notch manner by the IFL and its staff, especially Jerry Milani, Greg DeSanctis and Katie Eskin. Katie has been instrumental in getting the video livestream running on IFL.TV. As we work out the kinks, the product will continue to improve (and believe us, we’re working tirelessly on it).

As usual, Debbie Rizzo killed as producer. James “The Kitch” Kitcher did well remote producing and keeping up joeted.com from The Land of Urijah Faber. Marty Lang gave us a taste of his professional film making by manning the video.

The guest list from the three on-site Mohegan Sun event-related shows:

Bad Brad Blackburn (co-hosted in Ted’s spot 5/14), Joey Guel, Carlos Hernandez, Zac George, Ryan “The Lion” Schultz, Roy “Big Country” Nelson, John Franchi, Nick Calandrino, Mike Massenzio, Kurt Otto, Tim Hughes, Jay Larkin, Chael Sonnen and, last but not least, Mike Ciesnolevicz.

After the fights finished, the crew hung out at the casino. Ted and Marty chilled with Big Country, and Joe and Debbie caught up with them after a nice chat-up with the Team Quest guys, including Ryan The Lion, Chael, Aaron Stark and Matt Lindland, who eagerly exposed his right nipple.

Bad Brad, renowned MMA photographer Tracy Lee, and Kurt Otto caught up with the crew when Royce Gracie showed up!

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