5:20 a.m. - 2010-05-22
Sylvia undoubtedly pondering about his postfight lobster dinner
Sylvia by now thinking about his postfight lobster dinner
Make all the jokes you want about Tim Sylvia's ample construct now. We know he's not a work out warrior, pulling trains and lifting Atlas stone. But he's nonetheless an knowledgeable mixed martial arts fighter with 31 fights underneath his belt and a previous UFC champion. Mariusz Pudzianowski, a several-time World's Strongest Person champ, is using an awful major leap of faith in Friday night's combat at Moosin in Worcester, Massachusetts.
This is obviously a payday for Sylvia, who hasn't even been tempted to speak trash about the Polish strongman.
"I'm shopping forward to having some fine lobster even though I'm up right here," explained Sylvia, a native of Eastbrook, Maine. "Can't get that type of stuff in Iowa."
While in an interview final week with MMAWeekly, host Damon Martin could scarcely get a rise out of Sylvia. "The Maine-iac" quietly predicted a primary-spherical knockout. He has tiny respect for the 2- Pudzianowki.
"I imagine it's a dumb move," Sylvia stated. "He doesn't have any fight know-how at all."
Pudzianowski picked up that subsequent acquire very last week in excess of Yasute Kawaguchi. He mostly looked awful throughout the unanimous judgement be successful in Poland. He was clumsy when standing and was out of power three mins into the combat.
The six-foot-8, 300-pound Sylvia has knockout electric power and a very composed stunning game has a appropriate to be comfortable. Of course, he was also this self-confident for his struggle with next to 48-twelve months-aged retired boxer Ray Mercer and got knocked out in eight seconds. There isn't significantly probability of becoming caught by the 6-1, 300-pound Pudzianowski but he does have to be wary of the major man's electric power in the clinch. Bettors don't seem to be too worried about who appears improved at the seaside as they've bet Sylvia from minus-180 to minus-310.
Moosin: Polish strongman yields to ex-UFC champ Sylvia; Modafferi beats LaRosa
Fewer than 7 minutes into his 3rd mixed martial arts bout, the past World's Strongest Guy couldn't acquire it any much more.
Trapped underneath previous UFC champion Tim Sylvia on the place, Mariusz Pudzianowski (a couple of-one) tapped out soon after consuming various right hands on Friday at the Moosin God of Martial Arts display in Worcester, Mass. The end came 1:43 into the minute game.
It was the minute consecutive earn for Sylvia (26-6) after a two-yr stretch that saw him lose four of five fights. "I'm back again now," Sylvia explained. "I've been again."
Moosin promoted the battle as a analyze concerning the encounter and dazzling savvy of Sylvia, twice a UFC heavyweight champion, versus the brute force of Pudzianowski, a five-time winner of the World's Strongest Gentleman competition. But it was Pudzianowski's cardio health that allow him down.
Pudzianowski from the start out searched for to clinch with his opponent and seem for takedowns, but Sylvia stuffed most of his efforts. The extended wrestling sequences drained the muscular Pudzianowski, who found himself thrown to the terrain and striving to make it Sylvia's floor-and-pound attack in the final moment of the opening rounded.
Rarely a moment into the subsequent spherical, Pudzianowski flopped to the floor following Sylvia obtained close and basically place a hand on him. Sylvia instantly put himself in facet command, spun across to the other side and started out dropping proper hands until eventually Pudzianowski submitted.
Although Sylvia outlasted his opponent on Saturday, the 34-twelve months-aged UFC veteran however seems far from the health and fitness degree of his prime as a 265-pound champion. Sylvia officially weighed in Friday at a flabby-shopping 305 pounds.
Also on the Moosin card, heavy underdog Roxanne Modafferi (15-5) avenged a 2006 loss by having a unanimous determination more than Tara LaRosa (18-two) in 130-pound catchweight fight between leading-3 female fighters.
Modafferi normally controlled LaRosa on the mat and threatened her with a risky-seeking triangle choke in the closing circular. Modafferi also showed vastly improved upon impressive, stopping LaRosa in her tracks far more than when with strikes, and dropping her the moment with a punch.
LaRosa appeared to are available near to pulling out a succeed late in the beat when she unleashed a flurry of punches that sent Modafferi reeling and tumbling to the environment. But as LaRosa jumped atop her seeking a knockout, Modafferi swiftly threw up her legs for a triangle choke that pressured LaRosa on the defensive.
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