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“MANIAC”: Rest In Peace Brother Chen Sy

                                       

A good friend of mine got ill on the 4th of july weekend, and was placed on life support for more than 5 days as he was trying to fight to survive at the age of 28. Around 2:30pm on the 15th day of July 2009 the plug was pulled. Brother Chen now joins his younger brother Jherel Sy. The Sy family is not asking for help, but help is appreciated for those who are put in this situation. If can please go to the site and donate. http://chensy.webs.com/  Thank you very much,

Zach Rapadas

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ONRA:June16th,2009

Hafa Adai,

AJ Aguon fights for the 70kg title int heis weekends URCC in the Philippines. Herman Torrado fights MMA in Northern California on the 24th.
Its Guam vs. Saipan with Trench Warz 10:on the 31st in Saipan. And The marianas Open Jiujitsu and No-Gi Tournament talkes place on August 8th in Guam.

Following Brock Lessnars  peformance with his domncation over Frank Mir was an athletically and ethically embarrasing performance with his profanities against  the audience and the headline sponsor of the landmark event in UFC100.

looking into the sport we realize that, thanks to media support,  fans are paying closer attention to everything that happens in a fight from ifght preparation all the way to post fight interview. What starts as attention from the crowd evolves into influence–leaving us with the ever important question of what message are we communicating in this sport.

There are a lot of people out there lookign to reflect a positve light in amateur and professional martial arts and mixed martial arts adventures. However when the Heavyweight UFC World Champion sends profanities to the crowd and sponsors with millions watching, its hard to convince the skeptics that this is a true sport of athletics and etiquette. In this same discussion what message doesn it send, what testimony do we give when we enter MMA competition without gas, technique, or any real preparation

Much respect goes to those brave enough to step intocompetition, but give yourselves the real respect of stepping into competing at your 100%. If youve truly worked hard, sacrificed, yet still lost—still props to you for walking the path of training that earns you the audience that exhausts their resources to sit on their seats and applaud whats supposed to be your hard work.

The commitment to hard training will give respect to the opponent, yourself, and the sport and audience of combatives.

Before jumping into amateur or professional MMA, Take some jiujitsu classes, go ona diet, get into a trainingin program, educate yourselves. In what can at times be a flambuoyant environment, Make efforts to Focus on whats effective as opposed to focusing on whats sensational. Try wetting your feet in a few amateur boxing matches or try competing in some of the grappling tournaments  to sharpen yourskills for a better performance in amateur or professional MMA, the so called apex of hand to hand combatives.

Respect the fact that this sport has evolved beyond pure heart and determination,Though these are key factors for victory in the game, MMA or any form of Martial Arts competition has  grown past the naturally tough. Its a trues sport greatly about skill, strategy, and–in its demands–true preparation.

If MMA  is the apex of combat sports competition, then hopefully we can grow from the analogy that the view form the top of a mountain is highly accented by the adversity conquered to get there.

True some people are born talented, they learn real fast,and are naturally athletic. theyre strong willed, determined,and sometimes just wont quit. But rather than finding  that as excuse not to train hard, then take that talent and invest it into a program.  A frequent saying that goes around the Purebred/LloydIrvinJiujitsu Academy is that  “Hard Work will Beat Talent when Talent refuses to Work Hard.” Touche`!  To hear this statement and to connect with this philosophy among  such a pool of talent is icing on the cake.

Its a whole lot to say, in offering advice for competition, for a guy that doesnt compete. Totally understood. Totally agreed. I dont put in my time. so i dont have any business competing.  Competitive martial arts deserves more respect. But as a fan in admiration of the sport but with just as much respect for the art.  Its nice in a land of freedom to be able to voice my part.

Celebrating Liberation Day.

Thanks for Dropping by

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The Lesnar show

By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

 

LAS VEGAS – So Brock Lesnar, in the parlance of pro wrestling, had gone straight heel.

After bludgeoning Frank Mir to retain the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight championship at the hyped UFC 100, the former pro wrestling star decided to put on a real show.

Lesnar ran around the octagon flipping off the Mandalay Bay Events Center crowd with both middle fingers. He shouted at Mir as the challenger sat on a stool trying to regain his equilibrium. Mir stood up and they went sort of nose-to-broken nose before Lesnar cackled with laughter.

In the post-fight interview, Lesnar encouraged the booing fans to “keep going” before continuing to taunt Mir.

No one and nothing was spared. Lesnar even turned his attention to the UFC itself, which paid him an estimated $3 million for the fight, pointing at the giant Bud Light advertisement in the middle of the octagon.

“I’m drinking a cooler full of Coors Light, Coors Light because Bud Light won’t pay me anything.”

Anything for the children at home, big guy?

“Hell, I might even get on top of my wife tonight.”

With his clown-show antics, Brock Lesnar just became the greatest villain in modern fighting. From refusing to tap gloves prefight in a sportsmanlike ritual to this over-the-top rant that came right out of the silly wrestling circus.

“Straight WWE,” said a stunned Dana White, the president of the UFC. “Brock went so far over the top tonight I can’t even describe it. I don’t think in the history of the UFC we’ve ever done anything like that.”

Postfight, White pushed his way into Lesnar’s crowded locker room and took the big guy into the bathroom for a private “discussion.” Lesnar himself described it as “a whip-the-dog session.”

“With women in here you don’t want to know what I said,” White said. It worked, Brock showed up at the press conference smiling, supposedly contrite and even drinking a Bud Light.

 

“First and foremost I want to apologize,” Lesnar said. “I acted very unprofessionally after the fight. I screwed up and I apologize. I apologize to Bud Light. I’m not biased, I drink any beer.”

It was mostly a chance for laugh lines, but it was still an apology. Lesnar said the pent-up energy of avenging a loss to Mir caused him to go crazy. “I’m a sore loser,” he said. “I don’t like to get beat. I believe I gave that fight to him. So there was a lot of emotion in this fight for me.

“Man, I was so jacked up. I’m used to selling pay-per-view tickets. I come from a business that is purely the entertainment business.”

And so that was the excuse. Lesnar didn’t flip, he just flipped the switch back into Vince McMahon’s operation where nothing is too over the top. The UFC, however, is real and it has tried to position itself not as a blood sport but one based on sportsmanship and mutual respect.

Lesnar did the UFC no favors in that regard. And neither did veteran Dan Henderson, who dropped a vicious forearm smash on an already knocked out and prone Michael Bisping on the undercard. Henderson then admitted he did it on purpose to avenge prefight trash talk. The UFC even went on to award him its $100,000 “knockout of the night” bonus. White also gave Henderson a talking to, but Henderson still said it “felt good.”

The damage done to the UFC’s mainstream momentum remains to be seen. While some will be repulsed, others will be drawn in. It’s cage fighting, after all. Things get out of hand.

That this occurred on the promotion’s biggest night, when the numerical significance of the card was expected to bring in a large first-time audience, wasn’t appreciated by the UFC. The night was electric and highly entertaining. And while it is likely to most offend people who weren’t disposed to giving mixed martial arts a chance in the first place, White was aghast at Lesnar’s act. This isn’t what he built. This isn’t what he wanted.

“What he’s doing out there tonight is not real,” White said. “You don’t have to act like something you’re not. This isn’t the WWE. I don’t ask these guys to act crazy so we get more pay per views. That’s not the business I’m in.”

In the meantime, the cementing of Lesnar’s reputation as the promotion’s most hated man is done.

“Brock hasn’t made himself very loveable,” White said. “They hate Brock.” For the UFC, a classic villain is business gold. He’s the ultimate leading man for the organization. Some loathe him. Some love him. No one can ignore him. For those seeking his comeuppance however, there isn’t a WWE storyline that can be written to stop him.

Lost in the antics was Lesnar’s performance, a brilliant effort that showed both his growth as a mixed martial artist and the immense potential. The question becomes, who the heck can tame this mountain of a man from the Minnesota woods?

Shane Carwin? Cain Velasquez? Mir in a final chapter of a trilogy of fights? No doubt they’ll get a chance, and no doubt they stand a chance.

The greatest beneficiary of each Lesnar snarl, however, lives in Stary Oskol, Russia, a man named Fedor Emelianenko who is considered the No. 1 heavyweight (if not pound-for-pound fighter) in the world. If anyone has the knockout power to stop the 6-3, 265-pound Lesnar, it’s Emelianenko.

Fedor doesn’t fight in the UFC though. He’s with its rival promotion, Affliction. He’ll fight Aug. 1 in Anaheim, Calif., in what is the last match of his contract. Affliction is hoping to re-sign him until 2012, but the UFC will come hard after him. More now then ever. And that means money, big money.

“Eventually Fedor is going to be here,” White said. “I want Fedor. We’ll end up getting that deal done and then we’ll do Brock vs. Fedor and we’ll do a huge fight.”

Time will tell, but the pressure to sign the elusive Russian has been ratcheted up. A villain was born and there isn’t an obvious superhero in sight. The UFC brought Brock Lesnar over from the WWE for just this kind of a sensation. And the big man has delivered – the good, the bad and the embarrassing.

Only Dana White has no scriptwriters that can contain him.

Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports’ national columnist and author of “Resilience: Faith”

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