ShoXC Elite Challenger Series recap: Alvarez, Daley and Hose cruise to victory on Showtime
By: James Iannotti
If you tuned in to watch the ShoXC event tonight on Showtime (as we suggested) then you made a wise decision.
The first fight of the night was Kala Kolohe Hose vs. Belleton Frederic, which as predicted didn’t last very long.
Frederic looked good in the early going, using his reach advantage by delivering some nasty leg kicks. Hose looked frustrated with the attack, but kept punching away and landed some powerful uppercuts and body shots. Eventually, Hose — who was winning most of the stand up exchanges — unleashed a jaw dropping overhand right that floored Frederic for good.
Nice fight from Hose. Could the Robbie Lawler fight happen next for him … finally?
The Bao Quach and Bobby McMaster fight was the only one to go the distance. From the very beginning Quach looked like the more confident fighter and outclassed McMaster with great Muay Thai, using numerous leg kicks, bodyshots and solid counter punching.
McMaster was able to put together a couple takedowns late in the first stanza and early in the second, but never caused any damage to Quach. He was pretty much dominated in the fight.
In the end, it was an easy unanimous decision for Quach.
In the co-feature fight of the night, Paul “Semtex” Daley reintroduced himself to the Showtime fans by stopping Sam Morgan in the first round.
Daley displayed some really impressive all around skills in the fight. He was taken down early by Morgan, but as able to work himself out of a bad position from his back. He then wrestled his way back to a standing position and was able to get off some huge knees from the clinch to Morgan’s chest and chin followed once by a standing left elbow and then again by a devastating standing right elbow that dropped Morgan for good.
Wrestling, jui-jitsu, Muay Thai, power, speed and poise were all on display in the fight for Daley. He looks to be the real deal and wasn’t shy about telling the cameras how he felt about himself afterwards.
In fact, he called out Eddie Alvarez and champ Jake Shields, saying “I’m the Fucking best and I’ll beat anybody out there.”
This guy could get the next shot at Jake Shields belt and that would be a very interesting and dangerous fight for Shields.
Finally the main event of the night : The EliteXC debut of Eddie Alvarez vs. Ross “The Boss” Ebanez.
Surprisingly, Alvarez shot in and got a takedown to start round one. He showed some nice wrestling and positioning on the ground, as well as a couple of solid knees from the clinch in the stand up. Late in the first frame a combination dropped Ebanez.
Ebanez looked to be hurt real bad when he went down, but he was able to recover and made it out of the round.
A recovered and energized Ebanez came out in round two fighting really aggressive and looked to be swinging the momentum his way until Alvarez tripped him on a takedown attempt. Both fighters landed on their knees, but Alvarez was in perfect position to drop a straight right that finally put Ebanez out.
Ebanez is a tough dude and took some punishment before finally going down. It was a very small window that opened up for Alvarez and he went right in. A very impressive debut for the “Beast from the East.”
It was a good night of fights with some highlight reel knockouts … as predicted. The fights were certainly entertaining and the Daley elbows and Hose overhand right were definitely highlight reel material.
There were two or three possible future EliteXC champs fighting tonight and they all won in impressive fashion. Keep an eye on Hose, Daley and Alvarez — these guys are on the fast track to stardom.
For complete results of the ShoXC event tonight click here.
19 Comments »
kinda sux 2 c Sammy Morgan lose
eddie alvarez is pretty damn good if you ask me.
[quote comment="281508"]kinda sux 2 c Sammy Morgan lose[/quote]
on the other hand…its wicked seeing homeboy from Nottingham take the win.
I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires
[quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He tried already and failed. Daley doesn’t want to work under an exclusivity contract, so he went with EliteXC.
“This guy could get the next shot at Jake Shields belt”
Shields doesn’t have a belt…at least for now.
[quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He isn’t ready for the UFC yet. His striking is awesome, but his wrestling and BJJ looked awful for the limited time they were on the ground before the sketchy stand up.
[quote comment="281841"]“This guy could get the next shot at Jake Shields belt”
Shields doesn’t have a belt…at least for now.
[/quote]
you’re right, he doesn’t have the belt, but he’s pretty much considered the champ, those two should fight for the belt…
[quote comment="281828"][quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He tried already and failed. Daley doesn’t want to work under an exclusivity contract, so he went with EliteXC.[/quote]
Oh really? Thanks, I didnt know that. If I were an international fighter, I wouldnt want to exclusively fight in the UFC either.
I would love to see Daley vs. Bisping at 185.
They should have tried to sign Daley to season 7 of TUF.
Speaking of TUF 7 one of team gurgel’s fighters is the 1st fighter to be announced for the cast of the show. He has a reacord of 7-1….I’ll post hin name and credentials on here later
[quote comment="281892"][quote comment="281828"][quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He tried already and failed. Daley doesn’t want to work under an exclusivity contract, so he went with EliteXC.[/quote]
Oh really? Thanks, I didnt know that. If I were an international fighter, I wouldnt want to exclusively fight in the UFC either.
I would love to see Daley vs. Bisping at 185.
They should have tried to sign Daley to season 7 of TUF.
Speaking of TUF 7 one of team gurgel’s fighters is the 1st fighter to be announced for the cast of the show. He has a reacord of 7-1….I’ll post hin name and credentials on here later[/quote]
I also heard that Brazilian ju jitsu genius “Jacre” will be on TUF 7….Anyone know how is english is?
[quote comment="281864"][quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He isn’t ready for the UFC yet. His striking is awesome, but his wrestling and BJJ looked awful for the limited time they were on the ground before the sketchy stand up.[/quote]
Thats exactly Why I suggested him being a cast member on TUF ..too bad it wont happen
U guys want some real news? Well braise yourselves….The UFC is in contractual talks with Takanori Gomi, Hayaot “Mach” Sakurai and Norufumi “Kd” Yamamoto. Every one please keep there fingers crossed
I love watching Eddie Alverez fight. Although to me he actually looks kinda small to fight at 170. I always thought he should pull a Danzig and drop down to 155.
I really wish the ufc would consider giving fighters non-exclusivity contracts. I mean, I can see why they wouldn’t want to do that but at the same time it really shows that all Dana cares about is promoting the ufc and non mma in general or even ufc fighters.
[quote comment="281943"]I love watching Eddie Alverez fight. Although to me he actually looks kinda small to fight at 170. I always thought he should pull a Danzig and drop down to 155.
I really wish the ufc would consider giving fighters non-exclusivity contracts. I mean, I can see why they wouldn’t want to do that but at the same time it really shows that all Dana cares about is promoting the ufc and non mma in general or even ufc fighters.[/quote]
They should give fighter non-exclusive contacts but put a clause in it that says that if you ever become champion, your contract will change to an exclusive one until you loose your title.
That would be fair to the fighters and Dana
Was it just me or did Eddie Alvarez seem a bit gay after the fight. I think he kissed everyone in the ring… Wierded me out a little.
[quote comment="281943"]I love watching Eddie Alverez fight. Although to me he actually looks kinda small to fight at 170. I always thought he should pull a Danzig and drop down to 155.
I really wish the ufc would consider giving fighters non-exclusivity contracts. I mean, I can see why they wouldn’t want to do that but at the same time it really shows that all Dana cares about is promoting the ufc and non mma in general or even ufc fighters.[/quote]
I think some of the main concerns are health, time between fights, and business sense in general.
First of why should he care about all of MMA in general. I mean I realize that the better it does the more money he will make but think about it this way; The UFC put MMA on the map. Yeah there was other organizations but even the second most popluar was Pride and 80% hell maybe 90% of mma fans in the states/ north america, had no idea who half of the pride guys where that came over or even knew anything about it. just the hardcore fans. Why does he want to strengthen other organizations. UFC made MMA what it is today and got it to the point it is at now. That is just business-eliminate the competitor. He would be silly not try and be the number one promotion. In every facet of business marketing you strive for your company to be number one. Microsoft does not help apple in the computer industry, why would Dana White help Gary Shaw?
Secondly if they fought in other promotions we would hardly ever see our favorites. Obviously the faves are the ones that are going to get the mos pull towards other organizations. Hypothetically speaking you take someone like GSP who is ultra popular. He fights SErra loses belt in Febuary. after the fight, he gets a medical suspension of 30 days for a cut. Fight set for for Elite XC GSP vs Robbie Lawler. He takes 3 months in the Gym for this fight-four months have gone by, GSP wins fight but sustains broken nose. 60 day medical suspension Next fight rematch Serra he is three months in the gym you are now at 9months the year is done and you have only gotten to use your prize fighter 2 times in one year instead of 3. That lost fight of a GSP caliber fighter is huge revenue that the UFC has lost by leting him show case his goods for some second rate promotion. That again falls under common business sense.
Number 3-Prize fighter Matt hughes has three fights left on his contract. He decides to fight one in the UFC then to fight another fight in Cage Rage. He is going to fight Paul Daley. They sep in the ring. Hughes is getting blasted by thai kicks, here comes a head kick, blocks with the arm, damn and the arm is broken Now no hughes is out for 6months….That is more common business practices. more
I’m tired of waiting for the Hose/Lawler fight to happen. If there is no ICON Sport show by April, that will make one year since their last show(when Trigg got KTFO by Lawler). My tickets to Lawler/Hose are still good…but I’m not sure if it will ever happen.
[quote comment="281864"][quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He isn’t ready for the UFC yet. His striking is awesome, but his wrestling and BJJ looked awful for the limited time they were on the ground before the sketchy stand up.[/quote]
The UFC were trying to sign him a few years back – he turned it down straight away – he said “The UFC only cares about THE UFC not its fighters – every promotion is UFC80 ! UFC 81 – never promoting its fighters – just the brand” (something on them lines) He saw it way before Randy ever did – he wont be coming to the UFC – whats the point?… its not like they have the worlds best fighter now is it’
[quote comment="282849"][quote comment="281864"][quote comment="281821"]I have been waiting for Paul Daley to sign with the UFC for a long time.
He reminds me of a young Anderson Sila…
Dana white should make it a point of signing this guy as soon as his contract expires[/quote]
He isn’t ready for the UFC yet. His striking is awesome, but his wrestling and BJJ looked awful for the limited time they were on the ground before the sketchy stand up.[/quote]
The UFC were trying to sign him a few years back – he turned it down straight away – he said “The UFC only cares about THE UFC not its fighters – every promotion is UFC80 ! UFC 81 – never promoting its fighters – just the brand” (something on them lines)
He saw it way before Randy ever did – he wont be coming to the UFC – whats the point?… its not like they have the worlds best fighter now is it’[/quote]
Daley seems like a smart kid. I always loved watching him in Cage Rage. I havent caught him on EliteXC yet, but I watch his fights whenever I can and I try to follow his career. His striking reminds me of a young Anderson Silva.
I think he might be the best British prospect out there. At 185lbs I think he would whoop on Bisping!