Quick Hits: Liddell Training With ATT, Daley TKO’s Alessio, and More
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Dec 7, 2008 at 9:17 am ET20 Comments
Paul Daley
News and Notes:
- James Thompson is slated to return to action for the first time since losing on primetime to Kimbo Slice at Sengoku 7 on January 4th in Japan.
- Chuck Liddell has begun training at American Top Team.
- Martin Kampmann will likely fight a local newcomer at UFC 93 on January 24th in Dublin, Ireland.
- The California State Athletic Commission has finalized the changes to it’s MMA drug testing program, which include increased testing for steroids and drugs of abuse, and will resume testing fighters beginning on December 11th.
- The Nevada State Athletic Commission issued medical suspensions to six WEC 37 fighters. Receiving medical suspensions were Manny Tapia, Akitoshi Tamura, Wagnney Fabiano, Joseph Benavidez, Johny Hendricks, and Cub Swanson.
- Alexandre Franca Nogueira, who lost his WEC debut to Jose Aldo in June and subsequently failed a post-fight steroid test, has been released by the promotion and will likely sign with Sengoku.
- Veteran Dennis Hallman could return to the UFC in 2009.
- Affliction partner Golden Boy Promotions announced on Saturday that a scheduled boxing match between Shane Mosley and Antonio Margarito will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, mere miles away from Affliction’s scheduled event, “Day of Reckoning”, at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
Results:
- Remy Bonjasky won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 on Saturday in Japan, defeating Badr Hari via disqualification in the finals after Hari stomped on Bonjasky after illegally taking him to the ground.
- Welterweight Paul “Semtex” Daley TKO’d John Alessio in the main event of Maximum Fighting Championship 19 on Friday. Daley revealed in the post-fight interview that he expects to return to action in January in either Sengoku or Affliction.
Links:
- FightChat.com counts down the top 10 leglocks in MMA.
- MMA Fanhouse has an interview with former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Videos:
Affliction “Day of Reckoning” Promo:
Loading ...
is chuck moving to ATT or is he still with pit…if anything could help him it would probably be a little change of scenery
the pit*
He’s still training at the pit but is also training with ATT as well
Wise move he needs new tricks in his arenal
Chuck should retire now just as De La Hoya will. They just don’t have anymore.
Its a shame to see De La Hoya go out like that. I think he should have retired after the Forbes fight, that was a p!ss poor performance. Manny P was a beast however. Hatton vs Manny P. will be a sick fight. I hope they get it here in Wembley. Whoa<<< too carried away with the Boxing stuff there.
I think Chuck is doing the right thing by training elsewhere. At the stage of his career he is at, what harm can it do to try new ideas? I just hope he doesnt try to change his fighting style completly as that can seriously ruin fighters.
Is ATT down in Florida?
Glad Chuck is getting some training somewhere else as well. He definitely showed that he needed to make some changes in his fight prep. I think this will work out well for him.
Yeah, ATT’s main academy is in Florida.
It’s funny but the first thing i think of when mentioning Top Team is the latest drama with Dana, i dont think that will affect Chuck but i do think a change of scenery will benefit anyone in a rut. Does this mean he will be spending less training time with his long time trainer(whats his name) or is this in addition to his regular camp.
ok cool, thanks Kris.
Yeah I’m excited to see something new from Chuck. I’m starting to wonder how successful the “stand in front and throw” routine is. I’m skeptical to see a huge change though. Isn’t there an applicable Tyson quote for Chuck… something to the affect of: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
Hey mikew, not to put u on blast or anything but u have your camps and mixed up or just simply wrong…. American Kickboxing Acadamey (AKA) is ran by “Crazy” Bob Cook is the camp that Dana has issues with, house John Fitch, Mike Swick, Kos ect, is located in San Jose California
American Top Team (ATT) is located in Florida trains such fighters as Yves Edwards, Thiago Silva ect which Dana doesn’t have a “problem” with…
I think he still trains with what’s his name (John Hackleman) for what’s his name is his coach and manager, he may have brought trainers out to Cali or he flys back there to train, “The Pit” is still his camp he just is going to check out new ideas….
I’d like to see chuck represent the UFC at one of these k-1 shows . Him vs badr hari would be a good matchup.
*Academy*
yea cause if badr hari knocks him down then he can try and ground n pound him and footstomp him, and then he can trash talk like he’s not the dumbass
My guess would be that Chuck is flying guys out to him, rather than him flying to Florida. But that’s only a guess.
It’s about time Liddell trained elsewhere. Look at GSP, he trains just about everywhere he can. he is not tied to just one camp, even though Greg Jackson does his corner for fights. Hackelman can be in his corner but getting training from outside sources is good also.
Liddell is indeed training in florida. His main camp is still with hackleman, He said he’s fixing holes by training with ATT. And no, hes not changing his style.
That is a good idea: training elsewhere to fix holes in your game or improve aspects of your game.
Here is a bad idea: Jens Pulver trying to change his stripes and become a different type of fighter. Especially when you are facing the caliber of opponent that he is. He should take that changing his game plan to some dog and pony shows and see if he can actually accomplish this task, other than that he has got to go with what he knows to avoid getting KTFOed by Faber.
Fedor is going to maul Arlovski, take him down and take his arm.