Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski video

Here is the video of the Fedor vs Arlovski match. What a match! Arlovski showed really good striking skills here. But Fedor showed his patience and experience. I won't say anymore for the guys that haven't watched the fight yet. Enjoy!

UFC 94 - Georges St-Pierre vs BJ Penn

Another MMA match that I'll be expecting to see eagerly. It's Georges St-Pierre (GSP) vs BJ Penn on UFC 94, happening on the 01.02.2008. That's about 16 hours from now. GSP is ranked as the best pound for pound fighter in the world. BJ's is known as being a prodigy in Brazillian Jiujitsu, having attained his blackbelt in under 3 years iirc.

These two have met once already in UFC 58, where GSP won in a split points decision. GSP is known for his excellent striking and wrestling skills. BJ is obviously known for his BJJ skills. Very hard to pick this one. Both are masters of their art. GSP have shown to be a very humble and likeable guy in the past. I tend to always favour the more striking orientated fighter being from a Muay Thai background so I'll be cheering on for GSP.

Muay Thai(Htun Htaung) vs. Myanmar Lethwei(Lone Chaw)

This is a Lethwei vs Muay Thai match. Usually these matches happen at a festival near the Burma & Thai border once a year commemorating when the Thais were at various wars with Burma. Lethwei for those who doesn't know is Burmese Boxing, like Muay Thai is Thai Boxing. Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia all have their own traditional kickboxing styles. The old rules for these styles were no gloves, punching, kicking, elbows, headbutts and throws allowed. I think in the past even kicks to the groin and limited groundfighting were allowed. Burma still follow a version of these old rules but they've modernised by using the ring, weight divisions and thankfully taken out the groin shots.

I've seen various clips of Lone Chaw about on youtube. He is TOUGH! I think all the various Burmese fighters I've seen always seem to be tough beyond words, taking shots to the head that I think would have dropped fighters from other styles. I don't know much about Htun Htaung though. He is described here as a Muay Thai champion but I've never heard of him before. If someone have more details about him please let me know.

Eli Maddigan vs Jason Scherri

Two top Aus fighters in yet another match on Evo 15. I must have been asleep last year when Evo 15 was on because I don't remember it having all these great match-ups!

Eli Madigan has beaten two fighters from the Contender show, Soren and Zidov and in great convincing fashion as well. Scerri is more lower profile but has been trying to move up in the rankings. He fought and lost to JWP iirc last year.

Eli's knee was awesome. Watch for it!

Sanshou Europeans Final 80kg: Salihov vs Chiofalo

Good sanshou match. The guy in black is Muslim Salihov from Russia. He defeated three Chinese Sanda Wang fighters in China about two or three years ago iirc. I'm not sure if that means he is the champion of Sanda Wang though. If anyone knows let me know. He is very impressive in this match.

John Wayne Parr Vs Sean Wright

Again from Evolution 15 and both fighters veterans of season one of Contender Muay Thai. Sean Wright has beaten Bruce McFie on a previous Evolution show so he is not to be underestimated. I read somewhere that this show is to be a qualifier event for Contender Muay Thai season two so that probably explains why there are some many match-ups between fighters who have been on the show before. Great display of body punching from JWP. Excellent match to watch!

Dhzabar Azkerov Versus Bruce 'Preacher' MacFie

This took place in Evolution 15, a big Muay Thai promotion in Queensland, Australia. Both fighters were in season one of the Contender Muay Thai so they should be pretty well known. Dhzabar is known for having really heavy hands for someone his size. Bruce McFie is known for his boxing work and I've read that he will be fighting in boxing as well as in Muay Thai in the future.

K-1 Dynamite 2008: Mark Hunt vs Melvin Manhoef

Another K-1 vs MMA match BUT this time in MMA rules. Well Mark Hunt used to be K-1 fighter, infact he was the champion back in 2001. Then he turned to MMA and have had mixed success imo. Mark Hunt has never been knocked out and is known for his iron head. He took one of Crocop's head kick flush and stood back up!! Manhoef has primarly competed in MMA in the past but has taken the odd K-1 fights here and there. He is the training partner for Badr Hari. He's know for his ferocious strking skills but has almost zero ground skills which is abit strange considering he's known more in MMA.

My pick is one of these guys must get KOed! No way this is going to the judges. Enjoy!

Hunt vs Manhoef

K-1 Dynamite 2008:Tatsuya Kawajiri vs Kozo Takeda

Kawajiri is a top MMA middleweight fighter. He was number one in Shooto prior to moving to Pride and now K-1. Takeda used to be the Rajamaden stadium champion (one of two top stadiums in Thailand). For you guys who don't know this is like being the world champion in boxing. But this was a long time ago and he is really past his prime, having been KOed in his last number of matches against the top K-1 Max fighters such as of Zambidis & Kohi. Forgot who else KOed him. He's known for his low kicks which while is powerful and has inturn KOed alot of figters in his rise to being champion, is really all he has. He is extremely one dimensional!

Again I and I'm sure most people will think this match will be in Takeda's favour. He was afterall a Muay Thai stadium champion and Kawajiri is a MMA fighter. Again folks, if the embedded clip doesn't work please use the link below.

Kawajiri vs Takeda

K-1 Dynamite 2008:Badr Hari vs Alistair Overeem

I don't know why but the end of the year show of K-1 Dynamite this year is choc full of K-1 fighters against MMA fighters in K-1 rules. This is one of them. Badr Hari is the K-1 bad boy heavyweight finalist this year whow as disqualified for his fouls against Bonjasky. Alistair Overeem is one of the top MMA heavyweights in Japan is more known for his standup skills rather than grappling. Despite saying that though, Overeem submitted each of his four opponents in the European ADCC qualifiers to reach first place back in 2005. This surprised alot of people.

However despite him being known for his standup skills I think most people including myself do not expect him to give Badr Hari much trouble. I had trouble playing this video clip when I embedded it. Incase you guys are having the same problem, just click on the link below.

Hari vs Overeem