Ricardo Mayorga going into MMA?
by Scott Christ on Sep 5, 2009 12:17 AM EDT
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UPDATE: Another e-mail from Chris said the following:
They confirmed it later in the broadcast - Mayorga vs. "a big surprise opponent" at the next Shine Fights event.
So, uh, who knows? Weird, weird, weird. Chris figures Mayorga is hard up for cash, and given his legal troubles in the last year, yeah, probably.
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Chris Nelson of Bloody Elbow e-mailed me tonight while watching Shine Fights II, and had this weird bit of information:
Watching the Shine Fights online PPV right now, and Ricardo Mayorga is in the (very sparse) crowd. Dorian Price (one of the promoters; also a cast member on TUF a few years back) is doing commentary, and said we can expect to see Mayorga in his MMA debut at Shine's next show.
The only news we've heard of Mayorga in months came the other day when he decided to sue Don King. It would seem unlikely he'll be doing any fighting at all, but who knows? Maybe his ambitious lawyer found some type of loophole that would allow him to take paydays in MMA without King's involvement.
The last year or so of Mayorga's career has been really bizarre, so even if we can be certain that it's 99.9999% that Mayorga won't be fighting MMA any time soon, or ever, it's not surprising that it's being talked about.
Other fun tidbits from Chris' Shine Fights commentary:
Announcers are chatting but I don’t think they know their mics are on…
“Me and this girl got this deal, if we aren’t married by the time we’re 40, we’re gonna marry each other…”
Dorian Price just walked up and said something about he’d rather be anywhere else right now. The announcers said “we’re gonna make the best of it.”
The ring announcer, trying to get the crowd hyped up, yells “y’all ready to have some fun tonight?!” and the play-by-play guy mutters into his mic “not really.”
Oh dear.
I love shows like this.
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Boxing vs. MMA
Mayorga vs Big Surprise Opponent
who will defend their sport and prove which is the superior combat sport?!?!?
The Dude Abides
by battle axe of doom on Sep 5, 2009 12:39 AM EDT reply actions
Look I hate to put it this way…. but when I was a teenager, the big joke about the “super middleweight” division was that it was a retirement home for old middleweights. Is this what MMA is going to become? Social security for aging boxers?
I don’t think it’s good for either sport, or any guy in either sport.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
He has pretty heavy hands and they use tiny gloves over there in MMA.
Chuck Liddell dominated MMA for so long with his striking and Wanderlei Silva was undefeated for 5 years(though he was more Muay Thai than just boxing but most of his fights were on the feet and most of his strikes were with his hands).
This could be a good move for him considering he is struggling to compete at the higher echelons of boxing and could make it in MMA due to his punching power alone.
I’m a Liddell and Wanderlei fan but either of those guys would get destroyed by any sub-par boxer.
If Mayorga doesn’t belong with the elite boxers he can carve out a niche in MMA.
The biggest problem Ricardo Mayorga has is he’s an idiot. He’ll probably try to hold up Shine Fights for more money.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Sep 5, 2009 5:18 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
the difference between chuck/wanderlei and Mayorga, is a ground game..
If people didn’t want to stand with chuck or wanderlei, taking them down would also be a hard thing to do.. Chuck is a great wrestler, and Wanderlei is a jiujitsu black belt.
Against Mayorga, a 35 year old boxer with no MMA training, one would just take him down then submit or pound him out because he wouldn’t know how to defend any of those…
Now unless they will feed him guys who are willing (or stupid enough) to box with a former boxing world champion, then yeah, maybe he can do it.. also, if he doesnt train properly, a decent muay thai guy could also pick him apart with kicks too..
that being said, if he does go to MMA, i’d be real interested in seeing how he fights.
by Anton Tabuena on Sep 6, 2009 2:48 AM EDT up reply actions
A big surprise?
He could be facing Geisas Cavalcante.
Hope his ground is good.
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
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