It started with a counterpunch to the ribs, followed by a fierce left hook to the jaw. Then, in an instant, Tom Zbikowski swarmed his opponent with a flurry of punches, dropping him to the canvas, working the Madison Square Garden crowd into a fervor. Robert Bell pulled himself up. Zbikowski went right at him, and with one punch, knocked Bell down for good. Zbikowski’s pro boxing debut lasted 49 seconds, the June 2006 bout proving the college football star, now a reserve safety with the Rave
Chris Arreola fought gamely, but that was all he did this past Saturday Night in Los Angeles. Vitali Klitschko fully reasserted his dominance over the heavyweight division (alongside his brother and titleholder Vladimir) with a tenth round technical knockout of the then-undefeated Arreola. Referee Jon Schorle stopped the fight after Arreola went to his corner following round ten. By this point in the fight there was no conceivable way Arreola could win the fight other than a knockout of Klit
Surging 170-pound strikers Mike Swick and Dan Hardy are on a collision course for UFC 105 in a potential number one contender match from the Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena in Manchester, England, on Nov. 14. According to MMA Fanhouse , the proposed bout would leave Dong Hyun Kim without an opponent. “Stun Gun” was originally set to face “The Outlaw,” however it appears the UFC is shuffling the deck to draw a contender for current champion Georges St. Pierre in early 2010. Swick pushed
It is 1986, and Trevor Berbick, soon to be ex-heavyweight champion of the world is stumbling across the ring like a baby giraffe on vodka. He goes down, he gets up, then he goes down again. He manages to get to his feet but referee Mills Lane calls a halt to the bout. Lane would later say that he had never seen such controlled power from a fighter, that when he looked into Berbick’s eyes to see if he was ok, they had rolled right back into his head. His opponent, just twenty years old, had b
Tyson Griffin v. Hermes Franca This isn’t going to be all that much of a fight. Griffin has emerged as one of the top fighters in the 155 division. He’s likely right outside the top five, and this win should getting him some talk about getting a top-3 opponent. He’s 6-2 in the UFC with wins over Clay Guida, Marcus Aurelio, and Gleison Tibau. Griffin is a bit small for 155, but he possess some excellent tools with which to work. He has some really nice wrestling, and pretty solid standup as we
