Atlantic City is where it happend yesterday, for the Fighters Weigh-in event.
We all got to watch another piece of history in the making also, by seeing, the first two, female strawweight fighters take to the famous UFC weigh-in stage for the very first time in HISTORY.
Claudia Gadelha and Tina Lahdemakis.
Claudia v Tina Face Off
All 22 competitors made weight, all on their first attempt, including notoriously, known, for missing weight three times in a row John Lineker,made weight on his first try!
The action took place at the same venvue, where it will host Wednesdays UFCFightNight 45 Card.
Here are the Weigh-In Results with some Pictures and then the actual video.
MAIN CARD BT SPORTS [UK] FOX SPORTS [US]
Cerrone v Miller Face Off
Donald Cerrone 155 lbs vs Jim Miller 154.5lbs
Jim Miller Weighing In
Edson Barboza 155 lbs vs. Evan Dunham 155.5 lbs
Barboza v Dunham Face Off
Evan Dunham Weighing In
Barboza Weighing In
Rick Story 170.5 lbs vs. Leonardo Mafra 165.5 lbs
Story v Mafra Face Off
Mafra Weighing In
Justin Salas 155 lbs vs. Joe Proctor 155lbs
Salas vs Proctor Face Off
John Lineker 125.5 lbs vs. Alptekin Ozkilic 125.5 lbs
Lineker vs Ozkilic Face OffLineker Making Weight
Lucas Martins 145lbs vs. Alex White 146lbs
PRELIMS ON BT SPORTS [UK] FOX SPORTS [US]
Gleison Tibau 155.5lbs vs. Pat Healy 155lbs
Jessamyn Duke 135.5 lbs vs. Leslie Smith 135 lbs
Duke vs Smith Face Off
Leslie Smith Weighing InJess Weighing In
Hugo Viana 136lbs vs. Aljamain Sterling 136 lbs
Yosdenis Cedeno 156 lbs vs. Jerrod Sanders 155 lbs
UFC FIGHT PASS ONLY
Claudia Gadelha 116lbs vs. Tina Lahdemaki 115 llbs
Claudia v Tina Face OffTina Lahdemaki Weighing InClaudia Gadelha Weighing In
Holly Holm has now officially signed with the UFC. After months of speculation, Holm has put pen to paper and signed an official contract.
President, Dana White, announced via Twitter by tweeting out the following:
Welcome to the UFC Holy Holm whilst holding up the picture below:
Welcome to the UFC Holly Holm
Holm [7-0] has a considerable amount of experience as an ex-champion boxer. She trains out of the famed Jackson’s MMA Gym and has been seen trading punches and kicks with UFC Light Heavyweight champ Jon Jones.
Holm is currently recouping from a broken arm, sustained from her last bout against Juliana Werner at Legacy FC 30, on April 4th but looks to be fighting fit around October/November time.
For now, we can all let the rumours carry on as to whom we think, Holm’s first opponent will be? For me personally it makes sense for Jessica Eye but that is just my opinion!
The Women’s Bantamweight Division is now getting more interesting with the latest two additions:
On July 11th we got to see Chi Lewis-Parry makes his second apperance for promotion ONEFC. He was tasked with his original opponent ‘Alain Ngalani‘ in a Re-Match after his first bout for the promotion on May 30th ended in a No Contest, after an accidental Low Blow.
I managed to get some time with Chi before this bout, where we discussed many things, one being, The Re-Match.
Chi Lewis-Parry v Alain Ngalani – Face Off
Here you can read Part 1 of that interview :
On July 11th we get to see the re-match of Chi and Alain Ngalani in Taipe, Taiwan.
How are you feeling knowing you have the re-match with Ngalani
‘I wasn’t sure I was going to get the re-match straight away. I thought I might have had to fight someone else before him, but I’m glad I’ve got it, it’s happening, it is still fresh. He is still in there in the air I breathe and I still haven’t got that monkey off my back so to speak. I need to put this one to bed so I can move on’.
And obviously only sharing the octagon for only 40 seconds with Ngalani in his first meeting. I asked what if anything did he learn about Ngalani
‘I noticed he was very strong, has a very orthodox clinch move’
And will he change any of his game plan going into this re-match at all
‘make sure my knee hits above the belt! He doesn’t know what I’m coming with, I’m still an unknown entity’.
How do you go about preparing for an athlete of Ngalani’s calibre
‘you cannot find people like him every single day, he is unique, you can’t find people built like him or move like him, he’s a unique human being, that’s if you can call him human. He looks fantastic, he’s supple, he kicks hard. He is 39. He’s peaking as he gets older, you can’t really emulate him, you can drill something a 1000 times, but when you get to fight, it doesn’t happen. I know what he likes to throw, I know it’s about reading him, I know when he likes to throw it , it is about reading him before he likes to throw it, I picked it up from Alistair, I’m sure Ngalani does not hit as hard as Alistair, I take comfort in knowing I can take a kicking from Alistair’.
Both of you have not gone past the first round in any of your fights [bar your debut MMA fight with Ollie Beard], we were expecting fireworks the first time and got to example a tiny fraction of that, what ‘explosions’ are we going to see this time round
‘I’m not a jump from the gate and start sprinting guy, I’m more composed. I don’t really have a formula but quouting conor mcgregor “it’s a fight what happens happens” it’s a sport, I can work mount escapes for six months and get into the fight and get nothing, work everything, play towards making his strengths his weakness and see how it goes’.
‘You don’t get to predict how the wave is going how to crash when you’re riding it, you just have to ride it and see how it happens’
Being the humble athlete Chi is he does not make predications but he did leave me with this:
‘I will guarantee a tremendous performance from both of us, one warrior will win, one warrior will lose, both of us will leave as friends’.
Chi Lewis-Parry – Weigh-In 243 lbs
Thursday July 10th
Chi weighed in at 243 lbs and Alain Ngalani weighing-in at 231 lbs, everything was now set for Friday’s Main Card action.
Friday July 11th
As the actual event started, Lewis-Parry was getting the better of Ngalani in the stand up and striking. Ngalani went for the takedown by way of a Judo trip,then gained full mount against the side of the cage. From top position, Ngalani hit Lewis-Parry with a series of elbows but that did not seem to faze Lewis-Parry, he returned his own shots, this time, three thunderous bodyshots to Ngalani. With a little bit of a ‘stale mate’ Lewis-Parry then quickly sweeps in an reversal. In side control, Parry struck Ngalani with vicious elbows to the head and followed that up with a couple more, knocking out Ngalani at the 4 minute 11 second mark of the first round.
WINNER VIA KO CHI LEWIS-PARRY [4MIN 11SECS Round 1]
You can catch the onslaught of Lewis-Parry’s vicious elbows here, courtesy of Zombie Prophet :
Chi would like to thank the following people:Absolutely everyone on my Facebook who has taken an interest in me, everyone who has actively supporteted me, my partner and my boy, my mum, Pete Mercer, Danny Brennan, Ollie Beard and Mogul Management.
Check back for Part 2, where Chi talks about his Goals, Aspirations, who he would like as his next opponent, his invitation to train at Jackson’s MMA, his friendship with Alistair Overeem and much more.
Tonight we will get to see UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman defend his title against former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida. UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will try to retain her title against Alexis Davis in the co-main event.
Before any of this can, happen last night it was time for the all important weigh-in’s for UFC 175 in Las Vegas. Check out the results below and how to watch.
MAIN CARD BT SPORTS 2AM UK/PPV 7PM P.T/10PM E.T
MW Chris Weidman [C] 185lb
Chris Weidman [C]MW Lyoto Machida 184.5lb
Lyoto MachidaChris Weidman v Lyoto Machida
BW Ronda Rousey [C] 135lb
Ronda Rousey [C]BW Alexis Davis 135lb
Alexis DavisRonda Rousey v Alexis Davis
HW Stefan Struve 251.5lb
Stefan Struve
HW Matt Mitrione 254lb
Matt MitrioneStefan Struve v Matt Mitrione
MW Uriah Hall 185lb v Thiago Santos 185lb
BW Marcus Brimage 135.5lb
Marcus Brimage
BW Russell Doane 136lb
PRELIM CARD 1AM BT SPORTS UK AND LIVE ON FOX SPORTS 5PM PT/8PM E.T
BW Urijah Faber 136lb
Urijah Faber
BW Alex Caceres 135lb
Urijah Faber v Alex Caceres
WW Kenny Robertson 171lb v Ildemar Alcantara 170lb
The cast for this season’s ‘The Ultimate Fighter 20’ has been revealed, and eight new names were revealed.
The eight new additions to the cast include Heather Jo Clark (6-4), Aisling Daly (14-5), Lisa Ellis (15-8), Angela Hill (1-0), Justine Kish (4-0), Angela Magana (11-6), Randa Markos (4-1) and Jessica Penne (11-2 MMA).
They will join the eight fighters previously announced Joanne Calderwood (8-0), Alex Chambers (4-1), Carla Esparza (9-2), Felice Herrig (9-5), Bec Rawlings (5-3), Emily Peters Kagan (3-1), Rose Namajunas (2-1) and Tecia Torres (4-0).
UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis and top contender Gilbert Melendez will be coaches. Filming for this season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter 20’ has just started and will air in Setember on TV.
The UFC has signed unbeaten Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Lauren Murphy to a UFC contract, not only that Murphy will not have to wait long for her UFC debut as she will be facing former UFC title contender Sara McMann on August 16th for UFC Fight Night in Bangor, Maine.
Sara is the number 7 ranked Bantamweight in the world, with her only loss coming from current UFC champion Ronda Rousey. Lauren Murphy is ranked number 8 and is 8-0 in her MMA career so far. Lauren has not fought since December of 2013, after winning the Invicta FC Bantamweight title by defeating Miriam Nakamoto in the fourth round via TKO (Nakamoto was unable to continue due to a knee injury sustained in the third round, but did come out for the fourth round before her knee giving out completely).
There will undoubtabley be questions as to where this leaves Invicta FC with another one of their athletes leaving the promotion and who now will get the chance to compete for the now vacant Bantamweight Title.
Tickets for UFC Fight Night, which is headlined by the light heavyweight bout between Ryan Bader and Ovince Saint Preux, and which also features Tim Boetsch vs. Brad Tavares, are on sale now.
On Saturday June 28th, Ultimate Impact held there 12th event at GL1 Leisuire Centre in Gloucester, to an aswesome, hyped up, vocal crowd.
With three title fights on the card this was one not to be missed, and boy, it lived right up to its name, in fact, the current two MMA title holders lost their belts, two NEW TITLE holders were crowned and of course we had the ladies first ever K1 Flyweight Title fight.
K1 Champion Belt
This night did not disappoint, from the amateurs at the start of the card, right through to the Pros on the card, infact with every event it is getting harder to top the last one! I cannot wait for #UIC13 on November 15th at GL1 Leisure Centre.
Here are the Official Results:
Amateurs – Undercard
Lawrence Coates Def Jack Price UD K1
Greg Artis Def Thomas Karminski via Guillotineround 1 MMA
Raymond Nelmes Def Dan Reeves via UD K1
Sophie Tidey Def Camille Schmiez via TKOround 1 K1
Nathan Powell Def Mason Carter via UD MMA
MAIN CARD
Bryn Cooper Def Matt Harthill via TKOround 3 K1
Jack Shore Def Piotor Egert via Americana round 1 MMA
Craig White Def Jon Williamson via Submissionround 1 MMA
Aaron Khalid Def Mark Finney via UD MMA
Toby Hartman Def Chris Astley via Split DecisionMMA
LW TITLE FIGHT MMA
Terry Doyle Def Wayne Drake via UD
#New #LW #Champion
FEMALE FLYWEIGHT K1 TITLE
Laura Handy Def Cheryl Flynn via UD
#New #FW #K1 #Champion
Laura Handy
Laura had this to say after her hard earned win:
Awesome feeling when all the hard work pays off!!
Thanks to my coach Ryan Norwood for all the time and effort and to my good looking corner men! Well done to all the other Fury Fighters, win or loose your all awesome.
WW TITLE FIGHT MMA
Adam Bousiff Def Phil Wells via RNCround 2
#New #WW #Champion
If you need convincing that little bit more, here is a statement written by Ultimate Impact owner Dan Richards:
Tonight at GL1 lesiure centre we return with one of finest fightcard ever put togther by match maker Paul Sutherland. The card feature some of the very best up and coming K1 and MMA fighters from around the Midlands and South West region. Ultimate Impact 12 kicks off at a slightly earlier time of 4.30pm featuring 4 amatuer MMA and K1 amateur bouts, and the main card starting at 5.30pm
One of our good media partners Split Decision was kind enough to give some of the fighters on the card some media exposure and here is what they had to say;
Phil Wells: “I predict it will be a good fight”
This weekend see’s Ultimate Impact return with their 12th installment, with three main event title fights, and set to defend his Welterweight Championship is Phil Wells.
Sophie Tidey: “I never underestimate any fighter”
Taking to the cage at Ultimate Impact 12 this weekend is Sophie Tidey who takes on Camille Sch in an amateur K1 bout and could easily take away fight of the night honors.
Aaron Khalid ahead of UIC 12: “Its an honour to be fighting on it”
UIC 12 takes place this weekend with a bumper line up of fights, live from the G1 leisure centre in Gloucester. Competing on the card is Aaron Khalid who looks to showcase his ever developing skill set and ahead of his match up, I caught up with him to get his thoughts on his fight …
Jack Price: “I will be looking to control the fight”
Jack Price is no stranger to the Ultimate Impact show, after competing on the promotion in the past, and this weekend he returns to the show fight in a K1 bout.
Terry Doyle: “I’ve trained my ass off for this fight and I’m coming to win”
This coming weekend see’s Ultimate Impact host their 12th show, with a packed line up of fights, and one of the championship fights on the evening features Terry Doyle as he aims to take home the lightweight championship.
Ultimate Impact 11 was a great event and those that were there will certainly 2nd that… for those that were here is a preview of what went down, and why UIC12 will be yet another great event:
Ultimate Impact 11 was a great event and those that were there will certainly 2nd that… for those that were here is a preview of what went down, and why UIC12 will be yet another great event:
Here is a breakdown of the fightcard for tonights event:
Current UIC welterweight champion Phil Wells fighting out of Swindon Vale Tudo will make his first defence after an impressive and dominate performance at UIC10 when he beat Rob Leybourne with an impressive TKO finish. Looking to take the belt from Phil is highly touted Adam Bousiff fighting out of Force MMA under veteran head coach Daz Jones. Adam scored one of the quickest finishes in Ultimate Impact history when he TKO’d Chris Astley following a pin point accurate hook and followed up with some heavy hammer fists before Leon Roberts stepped in!
In our first female championship fight, Laura Handy and Cheryl Fylnn will take to the cage to become the first ever UIC K1 champion! Laura has been on a tear recently winning her last 3 fights, all of which have been at Ultimate Impact Events and she has shown a determination that is rarely seen. Her style means that she never takes a backward step and just keeps coming round after round until her hand is raised at the end. However she will be taking on Cheryl Flynn who arguably has more technical striking and also keeps coming forward. Cheryl is known for her agressiveness and high volume style so this match up is set for fireworks, which ever lady takes it will have certainly earnt it.
Veteran UIC lightweight champion Wayne Drake seems to improve each and every time he steps inside the Ultimate Impact cage and is the perfect example of someone who does his talk inside the cage. Always very well prepared Wayne will most certainly have the grappling advantage over the heavy hitting challenger Terry Doyle. Terry has knockout power in both hands and Ultimate Impact fans will know all about it! This is a true grappler vs striker match and I personally can not wait to see who comes out the champion.
The rest of the card is as follows:
Chris Astley v Toby Hartman
Craig White v Jon Williamson
Mark Finney v Aaron Khalid
Jack Shore v Piotr Egert
Matt ‘George’ Hartill v Bryn Cooper
Cadre Abdulafur v Duane Barnes
Undercard:
Mason Carter v Nathan Powell
Camille Sch v Sophie Tidey
Lawrence Coates v Jack Price
Thomas Karpinski v Greg artis
Raymond Nelmes v Dan Reeves
Doors open at 4pm and the first fight is at 4.30pm, with the main card starting at 5.30pm.
Tickets are available, just use the link below to purchase your ticket, or tickets are available from the GL1 reception all day and throughout the evening.
Laura Handy is a 28-year-old married mother of one who lives in Stourbridge with her Husband and daughter Ayva [2]. On Saturday 28th June she will be fighting for Ultimate Impact [UIC 12] K1 Flyweight Title against Cheryl Flynn at GL1 Leisure centre in Gloucester.
Born in Wordsley and raised in Blackheath, Laura and her older sister who both used to swim for Oldbury Swimming Club, would train for four/five times a week then come the weekend it would be Gala time, ‘I think that is where my competitive nature comes from, not necessarily with my sister, but as we were always used to competitions with other clubs’.
Competiveness, I would say runs in the family with Laura, who, also has a younger brother [Dan] who is a black belt in Judo and has represented Team GBR in Judo in his teens, ‘Dan has not competed in the last few years due to university commitments but has travelled to Germany and Belgium amongst other countries whilst representing Team GBR’.
Laura currently trains out of Fury MMA in Stourbridge under head coach Ryan Norwood, who is a veteran in the sport, having had 10 professional fights going back to as early as 2002.
Laura being the very supportive wife that she is [Luke and Laura have been together for 11 years married for four of those years] used to go and watch husband Luke play football, ‘When we first moved into our house Luke would go and play a lot of football and I would always go and watch; stand on the side-lines in the rain, snow, sometimes the sun [laughs] and all I would hear about would be football’.
Deciding she was getting real bored of football pretty quickly, Laura needed to do something for herself, in steps, Ryan Norwood, who was advertising his new gym Fury MMA, it happened to be just around the corner from where Laura lived, she thought she would give that ago ‘I was the only girl there and got on really well with Ryan and the other lads that attended, I then got addicted to it really and trained for fun for a year before having time off to have my daughter Ayva. When I returned the same year [Oct 2012] Ryan asked if I wanted to fight, I was like ‘of course’ [laughs]’.
Having had no inter-club fights under her belt, Laura got straight into ‘fight’ training mode, for which Laura has already been making huge sacrifices for the sport she has now fallen in love with. Working full time [Thursday – Mondays] in Sales for a Building Contractor selling New Build Houses; her Husband Luke owns a Cleaning business in both the domestic and commercial field, whilst also spending as much quality time with two-year old Ayva as possible.
Laura fits her training in around the time Ayva has gone to bed and before she gets up in the morning so she is not missing out on spending time with her. That in itself is dedication. But, Laura took it one step further and added in weight training to her usual regime ‘I started going because my debut fight with Asha Patel was at 62kg. I was struggling to stay at 62kg, with all the extra training the weight was just dropping off so I thought of just going to lift some weights and I got in touch with a friend of mine Em, who used to train some body builders and she started training with me’.
Laura had her first K1 fight for Ultimate Impact Fight Night 1 on 10th August 2013 against Asha Patel and won via Unanimous Decision.
Next up was Ultimate Impact 10 and Laura’s opponent was Sammy Donnelly, fighting at 58kg in a K1 fight, so again Laura incorporated her new found ‘dedication’ of weight training into her routine. ‘The shape of my body has changed so much from just weight training, I like the look, the way my muscles fill out, and it is a little bit addictive [laughs], as soon as you start to see your body change you get addicted to that. At 58kg people said I looked scrawny and that was another reason, I wanted to build some muscle. I did not want to look scrawny or skinny at flyweight I just wanted to look toned and lean more than anything else. I am competitive not just against other people but with myself. Every time I go I like to do that very bit more, try a different thing just to push myself that little bit more, it’s all part of the training for me though, I wouldn’t go into a fight not knowing I haven’t put 100% in and I think that adds to my strength, agility and cardio. I find it does help with the weight cut as well. The more lean muscle you have the easier you have to drop your weight, well that is what I find anyway’.
Laura won her second K1 fight against Sammy Donnelly on 16th November 2013 at UIC 10 via Unanimous Decision. After that fight, it was announced that Laura would be fighting Anya Baker for the K1 Flyweight Title Eliminator on February 22nd 2014 on Ultimate Impact 11.
Laura fought Anya Baker on February 22nd 2014 at UIC 11 and won via Unanimous Decision, she would now be fighting Cheryl Flynn on June 28th at UIC 12 for the first ever female Flyweight K1 Title.
Learning from her past fights, Laura now knows how she is going to train for this title fight, ‘My problem with the way I dealt with Anya’s fight, was that I kept watching her fights over and over, therefore it did not help me with my nerves. This time my coaches will be the ones watching the tapes over and over and I will just go in their direction’.
Speaking of this Title fight I asked if Laura knew anything about Cheryl Flynn, ‘I know that she has had a couple of MMA fights lately and like I just said I’ve seen a couple of videos, I also watched the fight she had with Katie Sendall which was a while ago now and I respect anybody that is going to get in the cage and is going to fight anybody. Cheryl is a respected fighter, a good fighter; she knows what she is doing; to go up in a title fight against someone like Cheryl Flynn who has had as many fights as Cheryl Flynn has, is good for me and is good for my career in K1. I am excited to fight someone like Cheryl Flynn.’
Knowing that Laura will be filled with emotion for her Title fight on June 28th 2014 she stated, ‘When it was announced that it was going to be a title eliminator against Anya at UIC 11, I was so nervous I couldn’t get it out my head. I just needed to get through this fight first then concentrate on what happens next, but I suffer a lot with nerves; I will be a bag of nerves on the day. I think if you did not get nervous, it does not mean enough to you’. Also adding ‘before the last fight against Anya, Chris Hipkiss, Ryan Norwood and Adam Cartwright had a little chat with me about my nerves just to get me through the first 15 seconds and then said you will be fine; all through the day they had to keep saying little things to me. I was close to tears all day but I got there in the end’.
‘As a girl, I do wear my heart on my sleeve and I do tell people how I feel. The fight was quite near the end of the night as well; it is the whole build-up of it that makes me nervous; if I could just get in there be the first one on, get in and out and get it done I would probably feel a lot better about it but it is all part of it. Once I am in there, and the ref says off you go, I love every single second of it. It is just getting past those nerves to begin with. I do not want to make a fool of myself or let anyone down. Every fight I’ve gone into I know I have trained my hardest, and I have put in every hour I possibly can’.
Laura also gives a lot of credit to Ultimate Impact, ‘It means a lot that Paul Sutherland and Dan Richards have thought enough of the girls fights to think they need recognition for what we have achieved so far. I think all the girls’ fights on all of the UIC shows everyone has enjoyed them. Every single fight has been worth watching and matched fairly, it means a lot that Paul and Dan have put that together and said you guys are good enough to have a title shot at UIC’.
Laura would like to thank the following people:
Ryan Norwood, Chris Hipkiss, Wayne Drake, Karl Evans, Matt Harthill, Lee Sherwood, Adam Cartwright everyone at Fury MMA, my husband who has been to all my fights and does not moan that I am off out training all the time and my New Sponsor Armour Wash.
On June 28th the GL1 Leisure Centre in Gloucester will play host to Ultimate Impact 12 for an awesome night of MMA and K1 including three title fights [two MMA] and the first ever female Flyweight K1 Title fight.
Phil Wells [C] v Adam Boussif WW Title
Laura Handy v Cheryl Flynn Vacant Flyweight k1 Title
Wayne Drake [C] v Terry Doyle LW Title
Chris Astley v Toby Hartman
Craig White v Jon Williamson
Mark Finney v Aaron Khalid
Carl Swaby v Aaerion Orme
Jack Shore v Piotr Egert
Matt ‘George’ Hartill v Bryn Cooper
Undercard
Mason Carter v Nathan Powell
Greg Artis v Thomas Karpinski
Camille Sch v Sophie Tidey
Laurence Coates v Jack Price
Raymond Nelmes v Dan Reeves
Here is a little taster for what you can expect at UIC12 this weekend:
![HOLLY HOLM SIGNS WITH THE UFC [FINALLY]](https://fiveroundswithemma.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/holm-signing-ufc.jpg?w=1080)
![‘CHOPPER’ CHI LEWIS-PARRY TALKS ALAIN NGALANI [PART 1]](https://fiveroundswithemma.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chi-alain-face-off.jpg?w=800)
![Chris Weidman [C]](https://fiveroundswithemma.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/weidman.jpg)
![Ronda Rousey [C]](https://fiveroundswithemma.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ronda-rousey.jpg)
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