Former UFC lightweight Mark Hominick (16-8) will make his second appearance under the Affliction banner when he takes on Deividas Taurosevicius (10-3) on the preliminary card of Affliction: “Trilogy,” which is scheduled for the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2009 according to MMA Training.
The contest will be Hominick’s first in over a year. After a submission victory over Savant Young at Affliction: “Banned” in July 2008, “The Machine” was penciled in to face L.C. Davis at “Day of Reckoning” in January 2009 until a bout with pneumonia forced him to withdraw from the promotion’s sophomore effort.
He’ll be opposed by Lithuania’s Deividas Taurosevicius on August 1. The IFL veteran was enjoying a six-fight winning streak until he was upended by Ryan “The Lion” Shultz back in May 2008. Taurosevicius holds notable submission wins over Dan Lauzon and Bart Palaszewski.
Affliction 3: “Trilogy” will feature a main event between WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko and top-ranked division player, Josh Barnett. Former Dream middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi is also expected to make his fighting debut on American shores against Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist Renato “Babalu” Sobral.
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This is a solid match up that should showcase some sick submission skills. Very solid undercard fight
Agreed. I like both these guys but haven’t got to see as much of them as I would have liked. Both well-rounded and fast paced fighters. Should be a good one
Same here,big fan of Hominick but I haven’t see much of Taurosevicius fights.Mark doesn’t just have good sub skills but he’s great at kick boxing also!
Yes, Hominick has amazing kickboxing and has shown alot of improvment in his ground game since being sub’d by Yahya. I do think i will take Taurosezicius in this one though.
Deividas has a lot of steam before that loss to ryan. I am with belfort, i think his ground will be too much for hominick.
Deividas to win!
Deividas to win
Hominick’s striking has always been extremely impressive. I would love to see him improve his wrestling and compete in the WEC’s stacked Featherweight division again.
Yeah so would i. im not saying he isnt fighting good competition now, but he would fight alot more often in the wec and would fight just as good if not better comp their.