Abu Dhabi Pro World Trials USA East




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Sunday January 31 the Abu Dhabi Pro World Trials USA east were held in Boca Raton, FL.


Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu players from around the country showed up to try their hand at winning an all inclusive spot in the biggest Jiu-jitsu tournament in the world and a chance at $145,000.


The finals will be held in Abu Dhabi, April 15th - 17th 2010.

Valentin Auzanneau (Fist MMA) vs Dylan Profit (Atemi MMA)

135lbs Teens Division

Adam West as Batman

Abu Dhabi Pro World Trails USA East Poster

The Atemi Cast attended the 2010 Abu Dhabi World Pro Trials on January 31, 2010. This is a little clip of the weigh-Ins and our talk with Jeremy "BAMF" May. Shout out to Vexillum. Check them out at vexillumclothing.com


ABU DHABI WEIGH INS
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Carlos Cata

Does Herschel need a Walker?


signed Pro Line Football Card
featuring Herschel Walker's Tae Kwon Do Skills

Herschel Walker, legendary NFL running back, Olympian, and successful businessman stepped into the StrikeForce octagon last Saturday night January 30, 2010 at the age of 47. Boasting about an extensive background in the martial arts, including a sixth degree black belt in tae kwon do, Herschel Walker wanted us to believe that he would be a force to be reckoned with regardless of his age. Adding fuel to this fire, many cited the careers of other old-timers in the industry like Randy Couture and the Shamrock brothers. Their success strengthening the proverb that age is nothing but a number. Unfortunately, this was not the case for Walker.


Elvis Presley Karate Man

Many in the martial arts community ragged on Jose Canseco when he fought against the South Korean Choi “The Techno Giant” Hong-Man in Dream 9, but at least when all Canseco’s training went out the window, Jose reverted to his tae kwon do roots and attempted to throw some round house kicks to keep “The Techno Giant” away and if it wasn’t for the past injury to Canseco’s knee, the outcome to that fight could have very well ended in his favor as was the case for Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic. (Cro Cop beat Hong Man Choi at K-1 Dynamite “Power of Courage 2008” with kicks.) Walker on the other hand, reminded me of the bloated Elvis Presley parading around in his flamboyant gi and impressing his flunkies with some horrible front kicks and board breaking! Walker did nothing in the cage to demonstrate that he had had any prior training. In fact, there was absolutely no technique in his fighting. In my opinion, Herschel Walker’s martial arts training added up to nothing more than being like that chick you want to bed because she’s so damn hot! Basically, you laugh at all her jokes and pretend to be interested in her conversation even though you’d rather slam your head into the wall than hear the dribble coming out of her mouth. You do this just enough to make her believe you really like her and she follows you into bed… likewise, it appears that many people have blown smoke up Walker’s ass touting that his is a great competitor. Unfortunately Herschel Walker has bought his own hype! He was actually offended that the crowd booed his fight and heckled him through his interview after being proclaimed bout winner by TKO.

What does he expect though? Strikeforce pinned him up against lame duck “Dangerous” Greg Nagy. Nagy stepped into the octagon with a 1-1 record. Greg’s first fight made him look promising as he landed a wide right to Richard Principato’s face causing a severe cut over the left eye and doctor stoppage of the match. The fight itself, when closely analyzed revealed that besides having the balls to enter the cage, there isn’t much more to Nagy than that. Greg Nagy’s second fight against Francisco Navarro we found out that Nagy is the true definition of “freestyle” fighter… meaning he has no real talent in any portion of the fight, no stand up and no ground.

Walker’s clear advantage over Nagy was that Herschel is built like a brick house. Herschel Walker has maintained his body. His physique alone made him the envy of 20-something men crowd, myself included. Nagy was manhandled as if he was some petulant child that was reaching for a lollipop in Walker’s pocket. Herschel practically had him tied up in knots on the mat. Nagy’s saving grace was his extreme flexibility and therefore, almost impossible to be submitted by the debuting Walker.



If Walker is going to persist in this new venture he is going to have to work as hard on his martial arts training as he has on his body. He’s going to have to find a school that isn’t going to continue blowing smoke up his ass and telling him his farts smell like roses because he looked like shit. Herschel should listen to the fans that came out to see him and then booed. Walker needs to Stop crying about how hard it was to step into the cage and Just train harder and not fight again until he can step up to an opponent that isn’t waiting to be KO’d.

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We would like to send out a very special apology to Master Renato Tavares of ATT Vero Beach and all People involved with NAFA The North American Fight Association and Abu Dhabi World Trials North America East. We will see everyone Saturday at the Abu Dhabi Weigh ins and Sunday at the event. thanks for your support ---The Atemi Cast

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If you missed the 2nd hour of the live Atemi Cast Show Thursday Jan 21 you missed this:



We Talk BLOOD: The LAST VAMPIRE. Read Rick’s Review Here

We go over Brock Lesnar’s ESPN interview.



Grand Master Leo from North Carolina calls in. He calls to push his March 27 Arnis seminar at Atemi Ryu Jujitsu in Miami Florida.

Grand Master Leo brings up the KARATE KID movie.



Here is the news cast featuring Grand Master Leo: Gym offers free self-defense class after string of rapes

Kids 90lbs

1st place- Sebastian Fernandez (Fist MMA)

2nd Place- Aidan Atkins (Tao Martial Arts)

Womens Open Championship

1st Place- Allyson Schumacher (Fist Factory)

2nd Place- Sara Weissman (Tao Martial Arts)

135lbs Teens Division


Valentin Auzanneau (Fist MMA) vs Dylan Profit (Atemi Ryu)

1st Place- Valentin Auzanneau (Fist MMA)

2nd Place- Dylan Profit (Atemi Ryu)

135lbs Men Division

1st Place- Ben Chantelle (RCFMMA)

2nd Place- Bradley Jenkins (RCFMMA)

3rd Place- Steve Goyette (Fighters Inc)

150lbs Men Division

1st Place- Andres Ferero (Fist MMA)

2nd Place- Jay Pineiro ( Extreme MMA)

165lbs Men Division


Ronnie Vargas (RCF MMA) vs Vlad Gold (Fist MMA)

1st Place- Adam Hilarie (RCFMMA)

2nd Place- Vlad Gold (Fist MMA)

3rd Place- Ronnie Vargas (RCF MMA)

4th Place- Ramone Natal ( Tao Martial Arts)

180lbs Men Division


Jonathan Campos (Atemi Ryu) vs Ralph Delatore (Training  4 Life)

1st Place - Jonathan Campos (Atemi Ryu)

2nd Place- Ralph Delatore (Training 4 Life)

3rd Place- Robert Novak (Fighters Inc)

190lbs Mens Division


IKF semi contact 195lbs fighters

1st Place- Rushaun Cooper (RCFMMA)

2nd Place- Alexander Agudelo (American TKA)

3rd Place- Brandon Robbins (RCF MMA)

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January 16 Acom-sports.net and Tao' Martial Arts held an IKF semi contact tournament. TAC was there. We will have more photos soon. So stay tuned!


Adam Hilarie (RCF MMA)


Ronnie Vargas (RCF MMA) vs Vlad Gold (FIST MMA)


Ronnie Vargas (RCF MMA) vs Ramone Natal (Tao' Martial Arts)


Andres Farero (Fist MMA) vs Jay Pineiro (Extreme MMA)


Andres Farero (Fist MMA) vs Jay Pineiro (Extreme MMA)


Ronnie Vargas (RCF MMA)


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Retro Lucky Strikes Ad starts the show.



Pat Robertson Thinks The Haitians are in league with the devil.

The Models song “The Freeze” Plays us in. Yes there has been 30 degree weather in South Florida.


Acom-Sports Grappling tournament

We complain about the high level Amateur fighters that go to tournaments and punk the lower skilled combatants.


Urijah Faber vs. Raphael Assuncao

WEC 46 is covered.



UFC Fight Night is discussed.



We discuss the upcoming UFC 109. Why are we watching Couture vs. Colman?

We go back to WEC 46 and the payouts and medical suspensions.



We go over the sale of 10% of the UFC Company to Flash an Abu Dhabi Company.



We discuss the latest Steven Seagal Lawman.

Rick turned off his chat. Everyone gets pissed.

We wrap up the show with Big City Orchestra with “Post No Bills”

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We have been asked to table the Abu Dhabi Pro World Trials. This should be fun. See you there!

Acom IKF Semi Contact Tournament

We are going to be at the ACOM-Sports IKF SEMI CONTACT KICKBOXING TOURNAMENT in HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA

Carlos Cata


UFC 107 poster

UFC Again

WTF! You might not believe me, but this past weekend there was another Ultimate Fighting Championship extravaganza on the tube. So just in case you’ve lost count, let me break it down for you. At the beginning of this year, in January, we were blessed with UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson, two former champions battling it out once more to gain some relevance in the sport ,and ended with this weekend’s UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez, in which “The Prodigy” won by TKO over the young gun. Therefore, if we subtract 93 from 107 it tallies to 14 championships in one year, 11 of which were Pay-Per-View Live events. This of course does not include the fights from its former competitor the World Extreme Cagefighting (which by the way, now they own) or the Ultimate Fighter or UFC’s Friday Night Fights on Spike TV. Oh no, I don’t even want to digress into those statistics, but it does add fuel to my fire. So again I exclaim WTF! I realize that Mr. Dana White wants to make Mixed Martial Arts the Boxing of our generation, but at what cost?

I give him credit for turning this back alley slug fests into a mainstream media frenzy and furthermore, assimilating it into our culture. Literally, there isn’t a neighborhood in the United States, and I dare say in the world, that hasn’t been affected by the UFC and by consequence have an MMA school nearby. This has only been made possible by Mr. White’s persistence of making MMA more of a sport than a blood bath. By regulating it and making the sport comply with the boxing commission’s rules he’s been able to take this tough man competition to a whole new level. Therefore, the chip on my shoulder does not breed out of jealousy for Mr. White, but for the price we’re paying for his brilliance and insistence.


Dana White

Thanks to Mr. White we now have this Mixed Martial Arts phenomenon. Just like the late seventies and eighties where Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and many more like them inspired young Americans to learn a Martial Arts discipline, the UFC has once again prompted the youth of America to learn a new art now coined MMA. Unfortunately, this art is far from a set discipline like Aikido, Jujitsu, Kung Fu, or Taekwondo, but it’s made up more like a cheap compilation of techniques packaged into… well… an art! This has caused an evaporation of the Martial Arts like never before. More and more we are finding that many schools of traditional martial arts have had to adapt their curriculums in order to continue attracting new students through their doors. Sadder still, is that this compilation of techniques that encompasses MMA isn’t even like the Greatest Hits of a Classic Rock album, but more like a Now That’s What I Call Music disc. No offense to those who buy those discs, but it’s a compilation of songs that the mainstream media has placed their rubber stamp on and approved as worthy of being called music. Mind numbing music with an endless hook and a catchy beat… Really!!! Is this what we want to be left with for Martial Arts? Is this the destiny of the art… to become a sport?

I guess one of the only reasons that I am offended by this is because I am a current practitioner of the Martial Arts; but I have to assume that Mr. Joe Public is starting to get annoyed by the constant bombardment of the MMA culture and by the UFC asking them to shell out what seems like $50 a month for the main events. $600 a year, that sounds pretty steep to me when the lineup of fighters revolves around a couple of headliners that seem to be fading into obscurity like Tito Ortiz and Randy Couture. You’d think that now that the UFC has achieved such notoriety, they would consider spacing out the main events and making them truly worthwhile for the viewers. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Absence make the heart grow fonder”. Nothing can be truer than this, so why not try it!



Who can afford this anyways? Has Mr. White bothered to look at the state of affairs around the world? $600 a year, plus all the other crap they sponsor and promote… no real fighter can afford this. This is totally marketed for what Shihan Tony Duarte calls the “Faggot Fan Boys.” You know, the douchbags wearing the Affliction shirts with their dyed tips and gelled hair with manicured nails walking around like Joe Cool. This is who is buying into the hype, this is who can afford it. Because God knows that the guy in the gym, the dojo, working out, and training to step into a ring, generally, doesn’t have the economics to spend what little cash they do have on such luxuries. The truth is that real fighters generally live paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford to train.

Therefore, just in case I haven’t made myself clear, I’m tired of the UFC. I have sitting in my TiVo UFC 105 and 106. And to be honest, I don’t even care to watch’em. I know I will, eventually, but for the time being my excitement for this sport is fading and I just thought you should know… that you are not alone.

Harold Howard



UFC Veteran assaults two people and leads police in a car chase the ends with a crash into the Niagara Fallsview Casino. Harold Howard now faces the charges: dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, 2 counts of attempted murder, 2 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and attempted breaking and entering.