{"id":7889,"date":"2010-07-21T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2010-07-21T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:49:30","slug":"inside-the-fight-game-latest-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7889","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fight Game: Latest in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"King Mo" Lawal makes his first light heavyweight title defense at Strikeforce Aug 21 Houston show <\/p><\/div>\n

By George Hernandez\u00a0<\/p>\n

Covering the best in area MMA and the big boys of MMA like UFC, Strikeforce and Bellator: Here’s some of the latest news in MMA such as UFC’s new welterweight contender, Bellator’s heavyweight tournament and Strikeforce’s upcoming title matches.<\/p>\n

UFC:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– UFC signs former EliteXC welterweight champ and Strikeforce middleweight champ Jake Shields, (25-4-1). He should move back down to welterweight and face hard hitting Martin Kampmann, (17-3), in his octagon debut.<\/p>\n

– Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, (30-8), has verbally agreed to face another former UFC light heavyweight champ, Lyoto Machida (16-1), at UFC 120.<\/p>\n

– Welterweight contenders Diego Sanchez, (21-4), and Paulo Thiago, (13-2), have agreed to face each other at UFC 121.<\/p>\n

Strikeforce:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– “King Mo” Lawal, (7-0), makes his first light heavyweight title defense against Rafael “Feijao”, (9-2), at Strikeforce’s Aug 21 Houston show.<\/p>\n

– Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, (12-2), and Time Kennedy (12-2)\u00a0will meet in Houston to fight for the vacant middleweight title.<\/p>\n

– Former WWE superstar now MMA prospect Bobby Lashley, (5-0), will be back in action against Chad Griggs, (8-1).<\/p>\n

Bellator:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Seven of the eight heavyweights have been named for Bellator’s heavyweight championship tournament: Cole Konrad, (4-0), Eddie Sanchez, (12-3), Damian Grabowski, (12-0), Neil Grove, (8-2-1), Rogent Lloret, (9-1-1), Mike Hayes, (12-3-1), and Scorr Barrett, (10-1).<\/p>\n

Area Fighters:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Chris Fajardo, the #1 ranked area fighter, beat Robert Gooch on July 10 by first round submission.<\/p>\n

– Team Florez and #5 area fighter Beto Rodriguez lost a controversial decision in a Muay Thai bout.<\/p>\n

– Blood Bank MMA’s Anthony Olivas, the #7 area fighter, will be in action July 30 at the El Monte Expo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By George Hernandez\u00a0 Covering the best in area MMA and the big boys of MMA like UFC, Strikeforce and Bellator: Here’s some of the latest news in MMA such as UFC’s new welterweight contender, Bellator’s heavyweight tournament and Strikeforce’s upcoming title matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729,779,3455,3315,3347,3453,3454,3314,3456,3457,1788,1071,3462,1322,1251,3448,3459,3458,3450,3449,3451,3461,1793,3460,1791,3318,3452,2236],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-king-mo-lawal","tag-anthony-olivas","tag-bellator","tag-beto-rodriguez","tag-blood-bank","tag-bobby-lashley","tag-chad-griggs","tag-chris-fajardo","tag-cole-konrad","tag-damian-grabowski","tag-diego-sanchez","tag-eddie-sanchez","tag-el-monte-expo","tag-jake-shields","tag-lyoto-machida","tag-martin-kampmann","tag-mike-hayes","tag-neil-grove","tag-paulo-thiago","tag-quintin-rampage-jackson","tag-rafael-feijao","tag-robert-gooch","tag-ronaldo-jacare-souza","tag-scorr-barrett","tag-strikeforce","tag-team-florez","tag-time-kennedy","tag-ufc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}