MMA Discussions

Elite XC held their second show on CBS and Tim, Toby Glenn discuss it. This show is the first of the new series. Expect a new show each week. This time we just went over a good night of fights that were on network tv but expect great guests and lots of entertainment in the future. Thats what we plan to provide as we always have. We discuss Robbie Lawler and how talented of a fighter he is along with all of the rest of the CBS fights.

Picture of WEC 32 from their site
Toby Glenn, Steve Cujo, Rhonda, and Tim break down the World Extreme Cagefighting event that is this Wednesday. On that fight card Carlo Prater fights Carlos Condit in the main event. Then Rob McCullough will fight Jamie Varner for the 155 pound title. Miguel Torres will take on Chase Beebe for his 135 pound title. Also on that card we broke down fights with Yoshiro Maeda vs. Charlie Valencia, Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Leonard Garcia, Micah Miller vs. Chance Farrar, Mark Hominick vs. Josh Grispi, Cody Wheeler vs. Del Hawkins, and Damacio Page vs. Scott Jorgensen. Then Toby Glenn and Steve Cujo break down the Elite XC. The main event features Kevin Ferguson vs David Abbott. Then we break down the fights of Kyle Noke vs Scott Smith, Edson Berto vs Yves Edwards, Brett Rogers vs James Thompson, and Antonio Silva vs Ricco Rodriguez.

This picture of Jamie “The Worm” Varner came from sherdog

Today on a MMA Discussions Radio Toby Glenn is joined by Jamie “The Worm” Varner. Jamie Varner originally comes from Arizona and trains there. He is fighting in the WEC against Razor Rob McCullough. I discuss with him his fight with Hermes Franca, cutting weight, his training for this fight, and so much more. I also talked to him about something that’s really important to me which is MMA in Pennsylvania and we discuss what drives fighters to be high-level athletes in mixed martial arts from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania and why many of them move away after college. Arizona Combat Sports is the name of the gym that he trains at and he discusses his training partners and how they’ve helped him prepare for this fight. He mentioned Deer Valley High School Memorial foundation which is helping families that were affected in a busing accident. To gain the full information about the accident and how to donate go to AZ Central.

This picture Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira from Minotauro.net

Toby Glenn, Tim, and Steve Cujo discussed UFC 81 breaking point but before that we go on to talk about Cung Le versus Frank Shamrock. This fight sparked a huge debate between Tim and Toby Glenn. Toby picks to Frank Shamrock win the fight. However, Tim picksCung Le to win by knockout. Toby thinks it’s absurd that a fighter who’s never fought a true 185 pound fighter in its entire history can beat Frank Shamrock. Tim seems to believe that the Phil Baroni fight was a set up and that Frank Shamrock hasn’t won a fight since his return to mixed martial arts. That makes sense because Frank Shamrock’s first fight back was against Henzo Gracie and he lost that by disqualification. It was a heated debate and in the end neither of us could agree and we made a wager on that battle. We then go on to discuss all the flight on the UFC 81 breaking point fight card including Tim Boetsch vs. David Heath , Chris Lytle vs. Kyle Bradley, Keita Nakamura vs. Rob Emerson, Marvin Eastman vs. Terry Martin, Gleison Tibaua vs. Tyson Griffin, Ricardo Almeida vs. Alan Belcher, Jeremy Horn vs. Nathan Marquardt, Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar, Tim Sylvia vs. Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira.

This is a picture of Bill Smallwood from his Myspace

Toby Glenn and Tim start off by talking about the match between Rani Yahya vs Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto. The stoppage of that fight in Toby’s opinion was based on kicks to the back of the head which were illegal in K1 Hero’s. You can check out the video right here in the videos section. Toby and Tim talk to Bill Smallwood the icefighter who is a professional fighter with a 2 and 2 mixed martial arts record. We also spend some time discussing Brock Lesner vs Frank Mir with Bill on the show.

Photo of Eddie Alvarez from when he was in Bodog Fight

In this episode of MMA Discussions radio Toby Glenn and Steve Cujo go over UFC Fight Night 12. Toby airs his opinion that Josh Burkman did not get a fair decision. This fight card was pretty good but Toby spends some time complaining because he did not do so good on his picks. He also discusses the changes to Drew McFedries stance and more. Then Toby Glenn and Steve Cujo go over the ShoXC Elite challenger event which in Toby’s opinion was the best ShoXC event ever. It had a good main event with Philadelphia, PA native Eddie Alvarez taking on a tough Hawaiian in Ross da boos Ebanez. The show even started off with a bang when Kala Kolohe Hose took on Frederic Belleton. Check out my full recap on the show.

Brock Lesner has been promoted as the main event even though there is a title fight between Tim Silvia and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira this picture is from MMA Weekly

Toby Glenn and Steve Cujo give there picks for UFC 81.We made picks on all of the fights on the fight card starting with a good fight that must have been added late to this fight card Tim Boetsch vs David Heath. Then we move on to discuss Chris Lytle’s fight. Afterwerds we give our opnions on Jeremy Horn’s carrer. We move on discussing each of the fights. Check out or in depth breakdown of UFC 81.