Legend 8 – Jakarta – Legend Release Details Of Two More Bouts

Legend 8 – Jakarta – Legend Release Details Of Two More Bouts

Published on March 6, 2012 by The Editor in Legend

Legend Fighting Championship have just released details of two more bouts for Legend 8

@ Jakarta Convention Center, Senayan, Indonesia – March 30th

Our earlier post covered most of the fights but Legend have released two more exciting bouts with I believe a further two to follow soon.

Haotian Wu (5-1-1) (China) Vs Daniel Hooker (5-3-0) (New Zealand)

Wu is a veteren of the Art of War organisation and a successful one at that with a (4-1-1) record under that organisation and his last fight was a win at the grandly named World MMA Professional Championship. He has a very good ground game and I am sure will be hoping to snare Hooker into going to ground with him.

Hooker has come up through the New Zealand and Australian scenes and like Wu is on a two fight winning streak. Hooker likes to stand and fight and will not want to be taken to the ground by Wu who is a submission expert, I love these kind of fights as each fighter tries to get the other to play his game.

The Other fight is:

Jazor “The Razor” Ablasi (2-0-0) (Philippines) (Lakay MMA) Vs Danaa Batgerel (1-0-0) (Mongolia) (Team Tungaa)

Ablasi is a well known figure in the Philippine MMA scene and his two pro MMA fights so far were both at high level events (Martial Combat and PXC). The younger and taller Batgerel has a nice knock out win at Legend 6 to his credit and will prove to be a real test to Ablasi but let’s not forget just how successful the fighters from Team lakay are in their forays into the wider MMA world. The best fights are most often the ones you can’t see an obvious winner in and this fight fits right into that folder. Batgerel is a team-mate of present Legend Lightweight Champ Jadamba Nurantungalag.

The Decision Made It’s Self – Financial Reasoning Wins!

February 11th – The Decision Made It’s Self – Financial Reasoning Wins!

Published on January 17, 2012 by The Editor in Legend, ONEFC, Opinion

I was actually seriously considering forgoing ONE FC’s event in Jakarta to go to the Legend Fighting Championship 7 event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Macau (The City of Dreams).

Why? I hear you ask, well, I suspect there will be no story at ONE FC that is not posted a hundred times by a hundred different websites, blogs and other media and lots of those guys will unlike me be cage side and have full access pre and post event to the fighters and their teams. Sadly, something it seems I am not destined to have at the ONE FC Organisation.

So my attempts to report on the event would be from a seat rows back and with no hope of getting a decent picture or being able to really see clearly what’s occurring with room to make notes and of course no access to any of the fighters or their team members. It’s my fault I have not ‘played the game’ and have considered ONE FC to be the same as any other organisation out there and dared to post articles that are not always carrying the right amount of awe and wonderment, plus I have dared to mention that I don’t think hype is actually a substitute for the facts. my bad.

I always liked to be a bit different, when I was much younger I choose a Yamaha FS1E while almost all my friends picked Suzuki AP50′s, I’m not saying one was better than the other, I just liked the sleeker lines of the Fizzy, nowadays, I have chosen  an Acer iconia over an iPad. I’m just that way out!

Legend Fighting Championship of course will be in the shadow of the might of ONE FC and I guess it should be as ONE FC has by their own words 95% of all the fighters in Asia. So this remaining 5% had better put on a hell of a show if they don’t want to get left behind. So, I thought I might want to be different and go to Macau.

And

Then, I saw the cost of the flights to Macau, they are  more than twice as expensive as flying to Jakarta and believe me hotels  in Macau are not the same price as hotels in Jakarta, and so that idea was dead in the water, sure if it was for a full on holiday it’s worth it, but for two days? No, sorry, have I ever mentioned I don’t get paid for this and it’s all my own money I am spending? Well I don’t and it is!

So, I guess I will be in Jakarta, which let’s be honest will be no bad thing as this is hopefully going to be a fantastic event. With a full card of action promised including some great up and coming local fighters.

Oh and in other news ONE FC will be having a press conference on 31st January at the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore at 2:00pm and in our No Hype No Bullshit way that’s it, that’s the news. We won’t be at the press conference, but don’t worry plenty of people will be and they will report the F out of it, and believe me they will make it sound the most important and earth shattering news ever and they will be rewarded.

Legend FC 7 or ONE FC 2 – That Is The Question

Legend FC 7 or ONE FC 2 – That Is The Question

Published on January 12, 2012 by The Editor in Event, Legend, ONEFC, Opinion

OK so now what to do?  February 11th 2012

You see the 500Ib elephant in the Asian MMA room, ONEFC are holding an event on that date as I am sure you dear reader are aware of. Now, I am but a feeble human being, an MMA fan, but I am also a gambling man, I love me some Las Vegas and having visited Macau once before, well, I love me some Macau! And Legend FC are holding an event in Macau on the same date.

A chance to go to Macau and watch some MMA and then take in a few hours at the tables or ONEFC in Jakarta. The bottom line is this, I have to pay for the event myself, ONEFC or Legend FC?

You can be sure both will be very enjoyable events although due to their superior marketing power and spread of influence I an sure ONEFC will get most of the press attention. Why does life have to throw such difficult decisions?