MMA News – February 23, 2011

• Miesha Tate is injured and will be replaced by Liz Carmouche at Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson.  This is awful, awful news.  I really hope Miesha can make it back soon and get her title shot.  She’s definitely one of my favorite fighters and I was really looking forward to her title match.
• Brandon Vera might be back in the UFC after losing to an allegedly roided up Thiago Silva.  I’m glad that Brandon Vera will get another chance to get cut by the UFC, but the question is who will he be defeated by next?
• Eliot Marshall will replace Karlos Vemola at UFC 128 and will fight Luiz Cane.  With a win, Marshall can get back to action in the UFC light heavyweight division.  A loss and he’ll likely go the route of Tim Hague.
• Artiom Damkovsky, Magomed Sultanakhmedov, Vinny Magalhaes, and Tyson Jeffries will fight at the first M-1 show in America.  The best news is that Mauro Ranallo and Pat Miletich will do the broadcasting, meaning I don’t have to hear that mental midget Gus Johnson yell at me for two hours.

Today in Japanese MMA – February 23, 2011

The Jewels Twelfth Ring event will feature some of the best female fighters in the world including a great 125 lbs. fight between Lisa Ward and Ayaka Hamasaki.  The Jewels website features an article about this upcoming event, which will be on March 11.

[jiyuerusu] 2011 first feature entertainment ‘woman comprehensive case competition [jiyuerusu] 12th RING’ March 11th (the gold) we inform about the additional announcement opposition card of the Shinjuku FACE conference.

The opponent of the first JEWELS light/write class queen Hamazaki red adding player who has announced the participation with main decided in the top-rank foreign player and the [risa] word player!

The [risa] player was held in 2006 September ‘with SMACKGIRL’ first visit to Japan, from the MIKU player one to do to win with the arm lock, when the Japanese debut game of impact is decorated, after that the opposition opportunity of the Japanese player it is many physique, 瀧 has supplied victory even from this Misaki player and the Yoshida Masako player and the blessing player under the 藪.

In addition, it participates long with one line of the world with the title acquisition result such as FFF flyweight champion and class victory under 2007.2008 [warudoguratsupuringugemuzu] woman 48kg.

It advances to semifinal even in the woman 115 pound class tournament which last year is held with Bellator, with that semifinal past one time has been defeated although (2007 August BodogFight) the Fujii 惠 player re-game it does in approximately 3 year inclination and the one being defeated is 喫, the fact that even presently it is the one of the worldwide top players with woman lightweight class is proven.

This time that it is expected whether with opposition with the Hamazaki player who is the favorite disciple of the Fujii player, from it does not mean that shout has entered more!

For the Hamazaki player, you become the harsh opponent, worldwide top-level in the first game after the title acquiring, but if victory it does in this tournament, it is an important battle which inevitably carries out the association of worldwide top class!

In addition, for overseas studying abroad, now the conference is done Sugiyama who becomes for a while to leave from the ring lastly and the opponent of the player popularity is high with the tournament carrying which is strong, it decided in the super Benkei player whether the [zu]. By all means, please bake the brave figure of the Sugiyama player who becomes one pause to the eye of everyone.

The [esui] player who from that Sugiyama player has supplied the TKO victory in the previous December conference continual participation. It crashes with the Daniel waist player and special rule of England which becomes first visit to Japan!　A battle of the force by the large-sized player is expected!