This week on TWC - 3/12 to 9/12
This week on TWC Sky Channel 427.
Talk about this weeks MMA events on the tele here.
Sunday, December 3rd 2006
13:00 CAGE WARRIORS FC
Step into the Octagon and the world of MMA with Cage Warriors. Featuring Diego Gonzales vs Arni Isaksson, Jesse-Bjorn Buckler vs Ross Mason and Peter Angerer vs Jim Wallhead.
Monday, December 4th 2006
20:00 UK MMA
This week on UK MMA: FX3: Battle of Britain, featuring Emmett McNally vs. Jose Ramaldo, Ricky Moore vs. Mark Chen and Danny Rushton vs. Lee Doski.
22:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Top UK Mixed Martial Arts action. Tonight in the studio, Andy and Dave take a look at one of the quickest knockouts you are likely to see in the cage and the epic war between Manhoeff and Cyborg.
Tuesday, December 5th 2006
12:00 CAGE WARRIORS FC
Step into the Octagon and the world of MMA with Cage Warriors. Featuring Diego Gonzales vs Arni Isaksson, Jesse-Bjorn Buckler vs Ross Mason and Peter Angerer vs Jim Wallhead.
18:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Top UK Mixed Martial Arts action. Tonight in the studio, Andy and Dave take a look at one of the quickest knockouts you are likely to see in the cage and the epic war between Manhoeff and Cyborg.
22:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
04:00 UK MMA
This week on UK MMA: FX3: Battle of Britain, featuring Emmett McNally vs. Jose Ramaldo, Ricky Moore vs. Mark Chen and Danny Rushton vs. Lee Doski.
Wednesday, December 6th 2006
18:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
22:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
Thursday, December 7th 2006
18:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
19:00 KING OF THE CAGE
Featuring exclusive fast-paced, hard-hitting, action from one of the leading independent MMA promotions in the USA.
20:00 CAGE WARRIORS FC
Explosive UK MMA. Featuring Stapel vs Alexandre Izidro and post fight interviews.
21:00 GLADIATOR CHALLENGE
Based in California, Gladiator Challenge has staged 56 MMA shows since its inception, and has also developed prominent MMA fighters such as Jason Lambert, Scott Smith and Rashad Evans.
22:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
Friday, December 8th 2006
06:00 GLADIATOR CHALLENGE
Based in California, Gladiator Challenge has staged 56 MMA shows since its inception, and has also developed prominent MMA fighters such as Jason Lambert, Scott Smith and Rashad Evans.
13:00 UK MMA
This week on UK MMA: FX3: Battle of Britain, featuring Emmett McNally vs. Jose Ramaldo, Ricky Moore vs. Mark Chen and Danny Rushton vs. Lee Doski.
18:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
21:00 KING OF THE CAGE
Featuring exclusive fast-paced, hard-hitting, action from one of the leading independent MMA promotions in the USA.
22:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
Saturday, December 9th 2006
18:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
19:00 KING OF THE CAGE
Featuring exclusive fast-paced, hard-hitting, action from one of the leading independent MMA promotions in the USA.
22:00 CAGE FIGHTER
Cage Rage promoters Andy and Dave take you through some of the greatest fights held at Cage Rage Championship events.
01:00 CAGE WARRIORS FC
Explosive UK MMA. Featuring Stapel vs Alexandre Izidro and post fight interviews.
LoveUFC MMA events meetups
In December LoveUFC will be attending:
Cage Gladiators 3 Liverpool - Sunday 3rd December - Click to leave message to meetup.
Cage Rage 19 London - Saturday 9th December - Click to leave message to meetup.
Send Vinnie a private message with your mobile number. We can arrange meetups before, during or after the events. T-shirts will be printed soon for people attending the meetups.
Cage Rage 19 - All about Butterbean
As Butterbean is about to fight next month at Cage Rage 19, I thought it would be good to give a biography of his past work.
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Eric "Butterbean" Esch
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| Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Real name | Eric Esch |
| Nickname | Butterbean |
| Weight | Superheavyweight |
| Nationality | American |
| Birth date | August 3, 1966 |
| Birth place | Bay City, MI, US |
| Style | Boxing |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 86 |
| Wins | 75 |
| Wins by KO | 56 |
| Losses | 7 |
| Draws | 4 |
| No contests | 2 |
Eric "Butterbean" Esch (born August 3, 1966 in Bay City, Michigan) is a professional boxer and mixed martial artist, known for his bald head and an excessive weight. Butterbean stands 5 ft 11 in. and weighs over 370 pounds. He is the former IBA World Super heavyweight Champion. Esch's round body, bald head and vicious scowl, make him a menacing (yet highly entertaining) fight figure. His overall fight record currently stands at 82 wins with 58 knockouts, 9 losses and 5 draws.
Boxing career
Known as the "King of 4 rounders", Butterbean developed a cult following after he burst onto the Toughman Contest scene in the United States before entering the world of professional boxing in 1994. He was a five time World Toughman Heavyweight Champion with a record of 56-5 with 36 knockouts (not counted towards pro career).
While the majority of his opponents have been technically limited, club level fighters, he did move up the ranks to win the IBA World Super Heavyweight Championship in 1997. Butterbean fought "Hurricane" Peter McNeeley, famous as a former Mike Tyson opponent, in Las Vegas in 1999. He stopped McNeeley in the first round. Butterbean faced former world champion Larry Holmes in 2002. Holmes won a unanimous 10-round decision with Butterbean credited with a knockdown in the final round. Esch's most recent title shot came on October 15, 2005 where he lost a split decision against George Linberger for the NABC Super Heavyweight title.
Esch's professional boxing record is 75 wins with 56 knockouts, 7 losses and 4 draws. He has a boxing match scheduled against Joe Siciliano on March 9, 2007 at the Palladium.
WWF appearences
Butterbean has appeared twice in WWF events competing in boxing matches. In 1997, at an In Your House pay-per-view event, he defeated Marc Mero (who is a former boxer) via disqualification in a worked match. Two years later, Butterbean defeated Bart Gunn in a legitimate shootfight at Wrestlemania XV, defeating the Brawl For All champion with extreme ease, knocking him out in 30 seconds.
Mixed Martial Arts career
Butterbean's previous fighting experiences led him to venture into mixed martial arts. At K-1 Premium 2003 on December 31, 2003, Butterbean lost his first MMA bout to 155 lbs Japanese fighter Genki Sudo via tap out to a heel hook. Esch regrouped, going 6-0-1 in appearances in King of the Cage, Fightfest, and Rumble on the Rock including a TKO stoppage of Cabbage Correira. Esch returned to Japan with the PRIDE Fighting Championships on August 26, 2006 to compete at Bushido 12 against Ikuhisa Minowa (a much smaller fighter) to whom he lost via armbar at 4:25 of round one. Less than two months later, Butterbean won the scheduled fight against Irish-American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Sean O'Haire at Pride FC's first North American show on October 21, 2006 via knockout at 30 seconds in the first round.
Butterbean's MMA record is 7 wins with 2 knockouts, 2 losses and 1 draw. Esch is currently training with American Top Team to improve his ground game and is scheduled to meet former K-1 champion Mark Hunt (whom he was scheduled to fight before an injury required O'Haire to step in as a replacement) in a future PrideFC event.
Media career
Butterbean appeared in the film Jackass: The Movie, where he fought Johnny Knoxville in a department store, where Knoxville was floored by Esch and received several stitches in his head after the encounter. However, it is obvious in the movie that Butterbean gives Knoxville several rabbit punches as Knoxville was going down. On the DVD commentary Knoxville stated that Esch is actually quite friendly outside of the ring, despite his fearsome ringside demeanor.
Butterbean also appeared in the film Chairman of the Board as the Museum Security Guard with the "chia hair", a fact that is pointed out on the DVD commentary by the movie's star Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson.
Butterbean was featured as the cover character as well as the final boss character in the EA Sports title "Toughman Contest" released in July 1995 for the Sega Genesis and Sega 32X.
Ian Freeman torn on what show to goto on December 9th
This was taken from the forums of CageWarriors:
I have had to make a decision as to which show I am going to work on this coming December 9th.
Cage Rage or Cage Warriors.
Cage Rage are obviously the bigger show and to be honest I get paid more for working at their events.
But, I have chosen to work with Cage Warriors in Nottingham due to Dougie asking me to work on his shows before Cage Rage did and I promised then that I would not leave him out to dry if the ever such thing happened like date clashes.
I would like to say that Dave O'Donnel was very understanding and did agree that Dougie hired me first.
What I do find interesting though, is the word has got around that I won't be at CR on the 9th and I have had e-mails from many people who normally attend CR asking where to buy tickets for CW. I have forward them the CW website and Ian Deans e-mail or number.
Coincidence or are they Machine fans… I hope it's the latter.
No matter which show you go to, I am sure it will be great night by all…. only you'll miss me if you go to CR……
Im really gutted that events double book. Companies such as Cage Rage and Cage Warriors should help each other in the sport not clash. At least Ian is a man of his word.
Classic Video Michael Bisping vs Mark Epstein Cage Rage 7
Amended Fight Card for Cage Rage Championships 19
Amended card:
Rob Broughton vs. Eric "Butterbean" Esch
Zelg Galesic vs. Mark Weir
Vitor Ribeiro vs. Daisuke Nakamura
Elvis Sinosic vs. Mark Epstein
Tengiz Tedoradze vs. Wesley "Cabbage" Correira
Arni Isaksson vs. Jean Silva
Alex Reid vs. Xavier Foupa Pokam
Jess Liaudin vs. Ross Mason
Dave Legeno vs. Alan Murdoch
Paul Daley vs. Luiz Azeredo
Matt Ewin vs. Alex Cook
Lee Doski vs Suley Mahmood
Cage Rage 19 update Buzz out, Tengez in
Unfortunatly Buzz Berry has injured his back and now wont be fighting in Cage Rage 19.
His replacement to fight Cabbage is now Tengez.
Cage Rage Championships 18 - Ian Freeman Vs Mark Epstein video
Round 1
Rounds 2 and 3
Discuss about Ian Freeman here
Cage Rage 19 Fight Card Nearly Complete
Rob Broughton vs. Eric "Butterbean" Esch
Cage Rage Middleweight Title Fight
Zelg Galesic vs. Mark Weir
Cage Rage Lightweight World Title Fight
Vitor Ribeiro vs. Daisuke Nakamura
Elvis Sinosic vs. Mark Epstein
Robert Berry vs. Wesley "Cabbage" Correira
Arni Isaksson vs. Jean Silva
Kristof Midoux vs. Tengiz Tedoradze
Alex Reid vs. Xavier Foupa Pokam
Jess Liaudin vs. Ross Mason
Dave Legeno vs. Alan Murdoch
Paul Daley vs. TBA
Discuss about Cage Rage 19 here
Anderson Silvas Standing Elbow KO Video
Anderson is hot topic at the moment, to discuss about him go here.
