Cage Rage 22 - Drago/Smiler butterbean/tedoradze - June 14

[heckyl]

http://www.cagerage.tv/nextevents.htm

July 14th 2007

1. HW:
ButterBean vs Tengiz Tedoradze (nice HW fight)

2. LHW:
Mario Sperry vs Lee Hasdell (Why?)

3.
TBA vs TBA (my personal pick for FOTN, as both opponents are so evenly matched....)

4. HW:
Edson Drago vs Gary Turner (If the previous fight doesn't steal the show this one might, good bout -although I wish Turner was built up a bit more)

5. HW:
Herb Dean vs Dave Legeno (Herb is a HW I figured him for LHW)

6. HW:
Mark Buchannan vs James McSweeny

7. LHW:
Paul Chahoon vs Mark Epstein

8. FW:
Ronnie Mann vs Robbie Olivier

9. WW:
Marios Zaromskis vs Ross Mason

10. WW:
Ross Pointin vs Dean Bray (poor guy)

11. MW:
Joe Mac vs Bad Boy (if I was going for a stage name I'd hope I could get a bit more creative...)

12. WW:
Michael Johnson vs Damian Riccio

13. LHW:
Tom Watson vs Ed Smith

[majorcunningham]

turner/drago should be awesome.

maybe bad boy is jeremy bailey??? dont like him myself, he probably should have been banned for life from cage rage... bit of a nutter imo

[Desdichado]

TBA vs TBA (my personal pick for FOTN, as both opponents are so evenly matched....)

LOL.

Drago-Turner is going to be interesting.

Herb Dean as in the referee, I assume?

[Ibiza]

D. Riccio fights again!?
I agree, Drago-Turner is going to be the best fight in the night.

[Lord Gaul]

I am not sure what I think of Smiler as a MMA fighter, simply because I love him as a kickboxer and want him to get his shot in K-1. But he is a fighter as his occupation so any work is good work.

Is the McSweeny's fight kickboxing again?

[MZN]

Is the McSweeny's fight kickboxing again?

I'm just guessing it is because his opponent is a kickboxer too as far as I know.

I always wondered why Smiler did not choose the mma path earlier on. He has the experience in a lot of different martial arts and could be a force with the right cross training. In a fight with Drago he is in danger of succombing to the agression and have the ref stop it rather than getting ko'd. If he doesn't end up underneath a rampaging Drago I think Drago is in for a beating :). Also with the emphasis on strikers in the HW divison of CR I think Gary could really be a star there only he lacks the tattoo's, deep rough voice, disregard of defence, smacktalking pre-fight rants, swinging for the fences and so forth.... He has got a thick skull (he rather refers to it as his tough frame though :))

I wonder if Tedoradze is going to try to be sensible and get the fight to the ground and go for the gnp tko or something. I must admit Butterbean is looking better and better when it comes to MMA, virtually impossible to ko and the stereo type hw cr fighter is not in to submissions...