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Pride GP Finals, Ninja to the UFC?, Belfort and Assuerio team up, Rizzo looking to rebound, Barreto sidelined, Storm results, Meca 12 and more! The Brazilian Beat: MMA history continues to be written, and the last phase of the Pride Middleweight GP certainly wrote one of its most exciting chapters as Mauricio Shogun and Rogerio Minotoro battled it out in what will surely be talked for years to come as a great bout. With this kind of enthusiasm, that only a great fight like that can bring, we decided that it was more than time to bring another Brazilian Beat and we await for the Pride GP finals in the best way we can, delivering news and reports to you all! With that in mind, and not forgetting other major happenings such as the UFC, Meca, Storm and others, we better jump straight to the news as this edition of the Beat is full of news and info! So, enjoy your reading as Full Contact Fighter sends the news all the way from Brazil, as the Beat keeps going in July!
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Platinum Limousine and Platinum Public presents Extreme Wars X-1: Hawaii’s Top Team vs. Next Generation’s Top Team Held July 2, 2005 Neal Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii By Chris Onzuka Hawaii once again proves to be a hotbed for MMA in the country with yet another new MMA event called Extreme Wars X-1. The promoters wanted to make a statement with their first event by bringing in some UFC and Pride veterans coupled with some of Hawaii’s best up and comers. The theme of the show was Hawaii’s Top Team vs. Next Generation’s Top Team. Basically a "team" of Hawaii fighters from different gyms were brought together to fight Chris Brennan and the fighters from his gym. In the end, Next Generation team captain and head instructor, Chris Brennan’s victory over Mark Moreno was the deciding fight and earned Next Generation’s Top Team a 3-2 match victory over Hawaii’s Top Team.
Hawaii’s state government has taken its first steps to regulate MMA by recently enacting a law stating some vague regulations concerning rules, medical checks and the physical status of MMA fighters. One of the newly enacted regulations directly affected this event when Duke Saragoza and Kaipo Gonzalez’s match had to be changed from a MMA bout to a Pro-X division bout to be legal. Gonzalez is 17 years old and the law states that only adults (18 years or older) are allowed to engage in a MMA matches. There were also three Super Fights that featured 3 UFC veterans. The first match featured the newly crowned 2005 Abu Dhabi Submission Wrestling World Champion, Jeff Monson, who used his ever growing grappling skills to easily take out Rich Wilson. Wilson could have been a very difficult opponent due to being a national Greco-roman wrestling champion. The second Super Fight was a rematch of two of the busiest men in MMA, Dan Severn and Shannon Ritch. Severn got Ritch in the pummel position and did a swing around suplex, letting him go and Ritch flew across the ring. Ritch got up in bad WWE style and "shook it off" Severn also did a lumberingly slow shot that he fell flat on his face only for Ritch to miss his queue and notice seconds afterwards that Severn was giving him an opportunity to jump on him. The coup de gras was in the second round where a head kick by Ritch hit Severn in the arm and Severn went down like it hit squarely in the face (the embarrassing replay on the monitors and jumbotron clearly showed it). Ritch jumped on Severn, Severn pulled him off his back and slipped in an easy arm triangle which Ritch tapped quickly to.
The final match pitted Ricco Rodriguez, who is trying to work his way back up to his former greatness, taking on KOTC’s Native American Heavyweight Champion, Reuben "Warpath" Villarreal. With a quick win, Ricco proved that he is on a different level. After a sweet half guard sweep, Ricco took a text book armbar from the mount. There were some bumps in this inaugural event, but who doesn’t experience those. The main issue that upset the crowd and fighters the most was the referee. From not stopping the fighters after the bell sounded to stopping a fight prematurely and then allowing it to continue, the referee brought forth a lot of jeers from the crowd. The referee was purportedly from the IFC. Other than that issue, which can be easily remedied, Extreme Wars X-1 brought in some fresh new blood, but unfortunately made its debut in probably the busiest month for MMA in Hawaii ever. In the month of July, there are six events on three different islands, hopefully this will not impact a second event.
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