ShoXC results for Malaipet vs. Denny
by James Iannotti on Mar 22, 2008 9:31 AM EDT
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The 11-bout ShoXC: "Elite Challenger Series" event that aired on Showtime last night from Chumash Casino Resort at Santa Ynez, Calif., is officially in the books.
Muay Thai phenom Malaipet and MMA veteran Thomas "Wildman" Denny were featured in the main event of the evening, in addition to four other televised bouts.
Here are the detailed results of the main card action in case you missed it:
Malaipet vs. Thomas Denny (160 pounds)
Denny scored an early take down and sunk in a deep rear naked choke. Somehow Malaipet escaped but landed right in Denny's full mount. Denny pounded Malaipet for a couple minutes before Malaipet escaped again, this time landing a big knee followed by three devastating illegal elbows to the back of Denny's head.
Referee Herb Dean was forced to pause the action and Denny was obviously hurt from the elbows. The ringside doctor asked Denny if he could continue to fight aeffectively and Denny said he could not.
That was it and Thomas Denny won the fight due to disqualification.
It's a shame the fight ended like that. Denny was executing his gameplan to perfection and was dominating the first round, but the way Malaipet kept escaping had me believing the rest of that fight was going to be a war. There's no doubt in my mind we'll see these two fight each other again.
In fact, Denny is interested in mixing it up again real soon:
"I'm sorry because I came here to fight, but this is MMA and you have to follow the rules. I may have been dazed but I wasn't knocked out. One thing I could not do, however, was move my neck.... Malaipet was tough because I thought I had him with the rear naked choke. But I will definitely fight him again. I was totally dominating.''
However, if Denny wants to rematch it will have to be at 150 pounds, according to Malaipet. And if Denny could defeat him at that weight, Mailepet indicated that he would retire from Muay Thai.
Here's a snip:
"I definitely want to fight him again. If he wants to do it at 150 pounds, I'll fight him any time, any place. This wasn't my type of fight. But there was no way I was ever going to tap out."
Hopefully, we see this rematch real soon. This bout could have been a back-and-forth barn burner if it were no for the early stoppage.
Marlon Mathias vs. Conor Heun (160 pounds)
Mathias tried to overwhelm Heun early with punches and aggression, but Heun weathered the storm, scoring a late take down and surviving the first round.
The second round was pretty close with Mathias winning most of the stand up, but was again taken down and this time controlled for most of the round.
Mathias landed a lot of heavy left hands and Heun proved he could take a lot of punishment and still execute his gameplan as he won the third round and the decision in a great fight. Heun improved to 7-2.
Jaime Fletcher vs. Aaron Rosa 205 pounds
Fletcher stayed aggressive throughout the fight, shooting for take downs, using sporadic punch and kick combinations, and was always moving forward. He floored Rosa in the third with a big right hand. He wasn't able to finish the fight, but that knockdown secured the decision in a relatively uneventful three-round fight. He goes to 6-3.
Shane Del Rosario vs. Analu Brash (265 pounds)
Del Rosario scored an impressive win with a first round referee stoppage. He was able to get an early takedown with a hard leg kick and from there worked the ground and pound until Herb Dean had to step in. He moves to 4-0.
Mark Oshiro vs. Chris Cariaso (140 pounds)
Oshiro improved his record to 10-1 as he scored the knockout of the night with a sick overhand right in the first round. He was in a bad position early, as Cariaso tripped him and took full mount. Oshiro rolled over giving up his back, but was able to scramble back to his feet where he ended the fight in highlight reel fashion right away.
Now here are the quick results for the nontelevised bouts:
- Kenny "The Poet" Johnson defeated Michael Penafiel via unanimous decision
- Steve Gable defeated Eric Jones via technical knockout in round one
- Lyle Beerbohm defeated Vince Guzman via submission (rear naked choke) in round two
- Devin Howard defeated Mark Kempthorne via submission (rear naked choke) in round one
- Brandon Tarn defeated Jason Williams via submission (rear naked choke) 0-1) in round two
All in all it was another solid show put on by EliteXC and Showtime despite the controversial ending in the main event.
The next ShoXC event will be live April 5 on Showtime from the Table Mountain Casino Event Center. It will feature a main event between light heavyweights Jared Hamman (9-0) and Poai Suganuma (8-1).
That should be a great fight -- don't miss it!
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I am getting a little tired of fight ending illegal blows. This is the 2nd time this month a main event has been stopped due to an illegal elbow. How can a fighter justify elbowing someone in the back of the head? What could he have been aiming for?
Fighters need to be punished for these type of actions. What could he have been aiming for instead of the bavk of the head? Nothing!
by john on Mar 22, 2008 9:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Denny should’ve took the five minutes…After the fight he spoke better than any mma fighter I’ve seen..And when he said he’s ready to go still was BS…Sure those elbows landed and were illegal as all hell but Denny milked it. He couldn’t believe the guy got out of that choke. The best part of the night was when heun won the decision got booed then stated if you don’t like the action go watch wwe.
by Ric on Mar 22, 2008 11:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
by tmurda on Mar 22, 2008 12:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was excited to see the fight especially when he escaped the choke weathered the storm from the mount and escaped. Denny milked it well the doctor gave him ample time and he just kept whining, everybody knew he could have kept going acting dizzy well it looked like shitty acting to me. But oh well the rest of the card was pretty decent though
by LostEwokRebellion on Mar 22, 2008 1:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Please you take three hard shots from an elbow to the back of the neck and keep fighting. He has already said he would do a rematch. Malaipet on the other hand said he would only at 150lbs. Makes you wonder who knew they were going to lose?
by CoCo on Mar 22, 2008 1:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Solid card overall. I was disappointed that Denny couldn’t continue, but I don’t blame him one bit. I don’t know many people who wouldn’t have been affected by 3 hard elbows (from a Muay Thai world champ) to the back of the head.
by Jay on Mar 22, 2008 3:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Denny should’ve took the five minutes…After the fight he spoke better than any mma fighter I’ve seen..And when he said he’s ready to go still was BS…Sure those elbows landed and were illegal as all hell but Denny milked it. He couldn’t believe the guy got out of that choke. The best part of the night was when heun won the decision got booed then stated if you don’t like the action go watch wwe.
Are you kidding? Denny was clearly in pain, he was not milking it at all. He was grimacing the whole time and it was apparent that he was hurt, grabbing the back of his head and clearly feeling woozy. There was an illegal knee that I noticed before the three elbows. That’s what caught my attention the most actually.
If you’re going to complain about someone’s performance, complain about Malaipet’s; he came in, started getting his ass kicked, then put down all the illegal blows he could muster to try and get back in the fight. Your post is bullshit- you apparently have no ability to tell if someone is hurt and I’m sure you’d be in much worse shape than Denny was in if you had taken the shots. Much worse. Denny should not have continued and that post is serious bullshit. You lose a bet?
by skatanicus on Mar 22, 2008 4:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It’s almost impossible to watch some of these B level shows. Was anyone else creeped out watching these announcers?
The whole production was just horrible.
by Wesley on Mar 22, 2008 10:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i was there last night good card. but the main event denny had big ass bump on head and also illegally kneed in face too. illegal is illegal and malaepet was disqualified rightfully so
by maniac mike on Mar 23, 2008 12:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It’s almost impossible to watch some of these B level shows. Was anyone else creeped out watching these announcers?
The whole production was just horrible.
Are you kidding? Denny was clearly in pain, he was not milking it at all. He was grimacing the whole time and it was apparent that he was hurt, grabbing the back of his head and clearly feeling woozy. There was an illegal knee that I noticed before the three elbows. That’s what caught my attention the most actually.
If you’re going to complain about someone’s performance, complain about Malaipet’s; he came in, started getting his ass kicked, then put down all the illegal blows he could muster to try and get back in the fight. Your post is bullshit- you apparently have no ability to tell if someone is hurt and I’m sure you’d be in much worse shape than Denny was in if you had taken the shots. Much worse. Denny should not have continued and that post is serious bullshit. You lose a bet?
The announcers were hilarious with carving up his face and changing his facial features but about denny i did lose a bet it’s just the way he talked that bugged me…it sounded like he said let’s fight to the doc but then no i can’t continue…i’m sure the bows hurt like a champ and malapeit was definitely desperate…he was flat out outsized he needs to fight 145-150 and learn the rules
by Ric on Mar 23, 2008 3:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It’s almost impossible to watch some of these B level shows. Was anyone else creeped out watching these announcers?
The whole production was just horrible.
Mauro Ranallo is one of the few MMA play by play commentators who actually has MMA knowledge (more than I can say about Mike Goldberg), and Stephen Quadros is widely considered to be one of the foremost experts of MMA (both were also commentators for PRIDE). I strongly disagree with the implication that these guys are b-level commentators.
As I posted earlier, I thought this was a solid card, and I had no problems with the Showtime production. Just because it’s different from the UFC doesn’t mean it’s worse.
I also don’t understand when people call these cards unwatchable — I thought we were all supposed to be MMA fans here. If you can’t watch shows that aren’t run by Zuffa, then you’re not a MMA fan, you’re a UFC fan.
by Jay on Mar 23, 2008 9:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Mauro Ranallo is one of the few MMA play by play commentators who actually has MMA knowledge (more than I can say about Mike Goldberg), and Stephen Quadros is widely considered to be one of the foremost experts of MMA (both were also commentators for PRIDE). I strongly disagree with the implication that these guys are b-level commentators.
As I posted earlier, I thought this was a solid card, and I had no problems with the Showtime production. Just because it’s different from the UFC doesn’t mean it’s worse.
I also don’t understand when people call these cards unwatchable — I thought we were all supposed to be MMA fans here. If you can’t watch shows that aren’t run by Zuffa, then you’re not a MMA fan, you’re a UFC fan.
agreed, MMA is MMA. UFC or not! Have you ever watched the old UFCs? THAT production could be considered horrible, when people didn’t even know what Jiu-jitsu was.. The sport has evolved.
by Sephora MMA fans on Mar 24, 2008 11:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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