PRIDE FC veteran, Ryo Chonan (14-7), and budding welterweight star, Thiago Alves (12-3), could meet in a 170-pound clash at the Prudential Arena on November 17 in Newark, N.J., as part of the nine-fight card, according to FightNetwork.com.
Alves is fresh of a submission win (verbal) less than one week ago at UFC Fight Night 11, strafing Kuniyoshi Hironaka with devastating kicks and punches until the tough Japanese fighter had enough midway through round two.
It was the first appearance for “The Pitbull” since serving an eight-month suspension for testing positive for banned substances (diuretics) after his UFC 66 fight with Tony DeSouza in December 2006. The American Top Team-trained fighter has five wins in seven tries inside the Octagon.
Chonan has been slated to make his UFC debut in November for a few weeks now; however, his opponent has remained unknown (perhaps up until now). This will be the first fight for Chonan at 170-pounds in a very accomplished career competing at middleweight (185 pounds).
Here a snip from the article:
“A star in Japan’s DEEP promotion, Chonan graduated to PRIDE’s roster in 2004 with mixed results. The 28-year-old’s highlight moment in the now defunct promotion came against current UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva, when a standing Chonan dramatically scissor-dropped to a heelhook to submit the Brazilian at PRIDE Shockwave 2004 on New Year’s Eve.”
According to the article, Chonan now trains with former PRIDE FC middleweight and current welterweight champion, Dan Henderson, at the Team Quest gym in California.
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THis would be a very nice preliminary bout.
Thiago keeps getting better and better every time I see him
I agree, Mike. But don’t you think there need to be some bigger fights than the Tit-Rashad? I mean there have been some really great cards, but this is pretty weak, especially after removing BJ from the card
NOW I’M DEFINATELY GOING TO UFC 78, LOL, NOT!
They should at least put someone like Arlovski or Fabricio on there. Where did they go, Dana? People still want to see them
Chuck Lidell get $500,000
[quote post=”3432″]NOW I’M DEFINATELY GOING TO UFC 78, LOL, NOT! [/quote]
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
[quote comment=”158818″]I agree, Mike. But don’t you think there need to be some bigger fights than the Tit-Rashad? I mean there have been some really great cards, but this is pretty weak, especially after removing BJ from the card[/quote]
Bisping V Alexander
Does anyone have a link for the Chonan-Silva fight? A guy I work with has never seen it.
Bisping is out with a bruised ego…err, toe. Plus he is tied up until the rematch.
[quote post=”3432″]Does anyone have a link for the Chonan-Silva fight? A guy I work with has never seen it.[/quote]
http://www.searchforvideo.com/search.php?k=chonan anderson silva
If they Houston Alexander on this card against a top 10 opponent that would help this ppv out big time.
[quote comment=”158852″]Bisping is out with a bruised ego…err, toe. Plus he is tied up until the rematch.[/quote]
LOL - However, we have at least six months to play with. Feed him to the wolves.
Nice to some Japanese fighters coming to North America.
Off the subject :
How much was paid to the fighters:
The total payroll for the event was $954,000 (though 68 percent of it went to Liddell and Rua).
The full amounts included:
Keith Jardine ($14,000) def. Chuck Liddell ($500,000)
Forrest Griffin ($44,000) def. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua ($150,000)
Jon Fitch ($44,000) def. Diego Sanchez ($22,000)
Lyoto Machida ($50,000) def. Kazuhiro Nakamura ($20,000)
Tyson Griffin ($24,000) def. Thiago Tavares ($9,000)
Rich Clementi ($24,000) def. Anthony Johnson ($5,000)
Jeremy Stephens ($6,000) def. Diego Saraiva ($3,000)
Christian Wellisch ($14,000) def. Scott Junk ($4,000)
Matt Wiman ($16,000) def. Michihiro Omigawa ($5,000)
That’s kind of funny that the 2 largest payments went to guys who lost. Do you know who got Fight of the Night, or Sub of the night…I imagine they both went to Forrest and Rua??
Fight of the night- Griffen-tavares
Sub Griffan Rua
No knockouts of course ( except for Ariana Celest )
I don’t know how to properly spell each Griffen’s name
thanks for the info
Would love to see this fight. I wonder if it has a chance to get televised. These are 2 studs
This would be an incredible fight. Thigao is a fantastic fighter, and I honestly think he would win this. Pride fighters have a hard time trying to adapt to the UFC.
Alves wins via ground and pound.
i’d be taking alves in this fight…i know chonon is a badass, but i am more and more impressed with alves after everyone of his fights…i think this will be a good one and i’m glad chonon is coming over, he hits hard and fights hard, should be interesting…
[quote comment=”159074″]i’d be taking alves in this fight…i know chonon is a badass, but i am more and more impressed with alves after everyone of his fights…i think this will be a good one and i’m glad chonon is coming over, he hits hard and fights hard, should be interesting…[/quote]
But can he fight and adapt to the rules of the UFC. That is the question, Rua could not do it (but steriods was a possibility too.) Mirko Cro Cop could not do it, Nakamura could not do it, Heath Herring, really could not do it, Big Nog looked awful his first time around, Rampage looked a little sloppy first time around..
I dunno. Thats why i am taking Alves.
[quote comment=”159087″][quote comment=”159074″]i’d be taking alves in this fight…i know chonon is a badass, but i am more and more impressed with alves after everyone of his fights…i think this will be a good one and i’m glad chonon is coming over, he hits hard and fights hard, should be interesting…[/quote]
But can he fight and adapt to the rules of the UFC. That is the question, Rua could not do it (but steriods was a possibility too.) Mirko Cro Cop could not do it, Nakamura could not do it, Heath Herring, really could not do it, Big Nog looked awful his first time around, Rampage looked a little sloppy first time around..
I dunno. Thats why i am taking Alves.[/quote]
i agree with you man, for one reason or another these guys are just having a hard time when they first get in the ufc, maybe its just that they feel pressured into putting on a good performance and winning over the american fans that they lose focus a little bit and don’t fight smart, its like they’re fighting for the highlight KO or the highlight submission instead of just fighting to win…
i thought griffin rua should have been fight of the night, thiago tavares vs lil griffin wasnt as good.
Who has Ryo Chonan beat in pride??? …any big names or what…
[quote post=”3432″]i agree with you man, for one reason or another these guys are just having a hard time when they first get in the ufc, maybe its just that they feel pressured into putting on a good performance and winning over the american fans that they lose focus a little bit and don’t fight smart, its like they’re fighting for the highlight KO or the highlight submission instead of just fighting to win… [/quote]
I didn’t appear to me that Shogun was fighting for the highlight KO or highlight submission. He looked very lazy in the octagon. He might have been aggressive for a total of 30 seconds in thier fight. That was not the Shogun that I know of and have seen fight many times.
[quote comment=”159481″][quote post=”3432″]i agree with you man, for one reason or another these guys are just having a hard time when they first get in the ufc, maybe its just that they feel pressured into putting on a good performance and winning over the american fans that they lose focus a little bit and don’t fight smart, its like they’re fighting for the highlight KO or the highlight submission instead of just fighting to win… [/quote]
I didn’t appear to me that Shogun was fighting for the highlight KO or highlight submission. He looked very lazy in the octagon. He might have been aggressive for a total of 30 seconds in thier fight. That was not the Shogun that I know of and have seen fight many times.[/quote]
i don’t know dude, i saw him throwing huge over hand rights a couple times and missing and looking for big shots out of the clinch and i think thats exactly what happened, i think he came out and blew his load looking for a big KO and got tired out and forrest capitalized, i didn’t think either guy looked lazy in the first round, maybe in the second and third, but early i thought they both fought pretty hard…
[quote comment=”158848″]Does anyone have a link for the Chonan-Silva fight? A guy I work with has never seen it.[/quote]
http://www.mmatko.com/anderson-silva-vs-ryo-chonan-video-the-flying-scissor-heel-hook/