The adventure in the mixed martial arts (MMA) you lasted few seconds a Lady of 61 years.
Sude Hemenway, an amateur practitioner of karate, faced a young girl name Shelly Hartwell (little more than 20 years), who had no problems to get rid of the Lady in the Michigan Battle League, developed the past weekend.
31 seconds was the time Hemenway endured his young rival, who defined the combat with a "arm-lock (arm wrench). Despite the defeat, the Lady finished applauded.
"I feel very well for my first victory." "I want to congratulate Sude Hemenway, for having had the courage to go up to the cage", said at the end of the fight, Hartwell, according Sportv.globo.com.
Background
The attempt of Hemenway reminded us of another veteran. It's one man known as Tim, who made his debut in MMA at the age of 53, accepting to fight only one hour before climbing to the cage.
Geraldine Brophy Mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Brake, left, trains with Matt Glover as he prepares his next big bout in Moncton, N.B. on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012.
CORNER?BROOK — Corner Brook mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Jeff Brake is prepping for his next big bout.
But Brake said, he treats every fight like the most important one.
“The next fight is always the biggest fight of my life,” said the 27 year-old. “I expect it to be tough and nothing less.”
This weekend Brake travels to Moncton, N.B. to battle in the semi-finals of the Cage Rage series by the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation. It is the third of four events in the series, and is a full card, meaning 20 bouts.
Brake’s biggest competition will be the hometown boy, Gary Brown.
If Brake wins this weekend, he gets to move on to the finals. The thought of winning the championship title — being deemed the best MMA fighter in eastern Canada — is one of Brake’s biggest goals.
“A win could set me so far ahead, to me, to myself,” he said. “I would like to make everybody proud and continue by climbing up the ladder.”
Brake takes his fighting seriously, and has make it his full-time job, taking other work only when funds get low.
The main component he works on to keep at the top of his game is cardiovascular exercise, for an hour, three times a day.
“Cardio, cardio, cardio has been my best friend.”
As well, he hits the gym for strength training.
MMA is a mix of various sports, such as judo, wrestling, boxing and kickboxing. With a wrestling background, Brake came up on MMA about eight years ago while living in Alberta.
“It’s safer than football, hockey and boxing,” he said. “There’s very little injury.”
There are many rules to ensure safety in the eastern amateur MMA scene, he said, such as not allowing to strike someone with a knee or elbow.
The winner can take the bout in a number of ways, such as the competitor willingly tapping out physically or verbally.
Ex-Cobham starlet says Irish will pack a punch (From This Is Local London) Jump to main content News Sport Weather forecast Mobile site News feed E-Newsletters Site map Register Log in Ex-Cobham starlet says Irish will pack a punch (From This Is Local London)
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Search: NewsLondon 2012SportWhat's OnEventsLocal InfoHolidaysBuy & SellServicesCarsHomesJobsDatingYour BoroughFamilyLatest SportFootballRugbySix NationsCricketAthleticsMotorsportLocal SportsNationalLondon 2012 Olympics This Is Local London » Sport » Sport RSS Feed Ex-Cobham star backs the Irish for glory 12:40pm Friday 31st August 2012 in Sport By Matthew Tisdale Battler: Mixed martial arts fan Alex Corbisiero, left, meets UFC’s John Hathaway
England prop forward Alex Corbisiero is positive about London Irish’s chances this year and thinks that the Exiles have a big year ahead of them.
The 23-year-old, who started his career at Cobham, will be a key man for Irish, who will be looking to improve on last year’s showing, where they finished in seventh place.
Corbisiero said Irish have had a slightly different pre-season this year.
He said: “We’ve focused a lot more on the rugby. We have kept the conditioning strength high, but the rugby and the skills are the main part, making sure everyone is used to playing together so we can play the game plan that we want to play.”
On new coach Brian Smith, the former American Community School student said: “Brian’s come in and we’ve had some great signings and everything is looking really positive.
“I think he has been good getting everyone clued up, it’s a newer team and a lot of the guys need to gel. Watching the boys train, everyone is looking really sharp.”
US-born Corbisiero had a breakthrough season in 2011-12, amassing 10 international caps.
He is now an England regular in the new-look side and travelled with the national squad to the Rugby World Cup in 2011 as well as going on the tour to South Africa this summer.
Unfortunately, the young England man, who had spells with KCS Old Boys and London Welsh as a child, will not be available until October, having had surgery seven weeks ago on his right knee.
All things going well he will be in contention for the tough autumn internationals against Fiji, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Corbisiero said: “The way we’ve got to approach it is, the first game is Fiji, we will hopefully win that game, and from then Australia, and progress through it.
“Our target at the start is going to be four from four and I think we have a realistic chance of doing it if we get things right on the day.”
Corbisiero, an avid fan of mixed martial arts, has been busy getting in shape for his comeback, and has been training with UFC’s John Hathaway ahead of his return to action.
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Ed Mulholland for ESPN.comSuit yourself: The odds are stacked against Frankie Edgar in his featherweight debut -- just how he likes it.It took 10 less pounds and a thousand lobbyists for Frankie Edgar to arrive at a familiar spot -- a championship fight that nobody expects him to win. He’ll fight Jose Aldo at UFC 153 in a bout with a hat trick of fun curiosities: There’s featherweight, there’s Aldo, and there’s the cauldron of Brazil.
The term we’ve been waiting to use in a situation like this is “superfight.” “Super” in front of anything gets people superstoked. And you think the Rocky theme has been done to death with Edgar? Not even close. He’ll be tossed into Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 13 to try to wrest the belt from the most dynamic dervish of a striker ever to crowd-surf his countymen.
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Cue Survivor’s “Burning Heart.” It’s on.
Edgar, the perennial underdog, a blurry Jersey shore wrestler with cardio for days and blood that flows red every fight ... against Aldo, the unchallenged, unparalleled genius of preternatural striking who draws blood just by staring at you.
Wasn’t it Chad Mendes who tempted these odds not all that long ago? He still has no idea what hit him.
Mendes isn’t “The Answer.”
But, with Erik Koch having to drop out of the spot with an injury, Edgar brings high-watt spotlights to the feathers. There’s so much going on, but let’s start with the fact that it’s going down the way it’s going down.
Edgar -- ever willing to fight, ever reluctant to do it at reduced weights -- has never used ordinary launching pads. He defeated Matt Veach to arrive at B.J. Penn for a chance at the lightweight title, in a bout that looked like a plank to ruin (it was, but not for Edgar). By no stretch of the imagination did Veach scream No. 1 contender bout, which is a point that’s been hashed over many times.
Then again, neither does back-to-back losses. This time Edgar dropped a decision to Ben Henderson in fight that many thought he won, after dropping a fight against Henderson that he was at least convinced he won.
Edgar didn’t win, not officially, but he ends up winning by not losing definitively. Some might say by losing imaginarily, but that’s spilled milk.
Is it hyperbole to say that Aldo/Edgar is the biggest fight between small men ever? In MMA, it looks like it to me. There’s nothing conventional in play here to bring these parties together. There’s just opportunity, timing, and ultra-violet marketing. The UFC loves the fight. So do we. It’s win-win. And it feels good to contemplate it in the aftermath of UFC 151, which is now dead and buried in the remote desert.
But there’s also a vibe of fleeting novelties here. [+] Enlarge Susumu Nagao for ESPN.comIt's hard to imagine Frankie Edgar, left, sticking around featherweight if he loses to Jose Aldo. Edgar, the undersized lightweight who confounded opponents with speed, now faces Aldo, who attacks like a staple gun. Edgar’s quicks are no longer unparalleled, not at 145 pounds -- and especially not against Aldo. That’s a leg-kicking frenzy dead ahead for Edgar. That’s long-limbed precision with deceiving force. Aldo can fly. And we all know that Edgar takes punishment better than about anybody else; he has a chin, and he can’t help himself from testing it. He’ll need it plus nine lives if he stands within Aldo’s range.
Aldo’s range is the exact dimensions of the Octagon. Edgar will be asked to do what only he can do and that’s to win somehow. Exactly how is the reason we tune in. His “how” has a way of fogging our lenses.
But you know what lends this thing a “superfight-ish” feel? There’s a pending sense of finality that will come with Edgar’s debut. Isn’t there a very real possibility that this might serve as Edgar’s only cameo at featherweight? Let’s face it: If Edgar loses -- as so many have predestined him to do, just check Twitter -- he’ll find himself not in one but two purgatories for belt contention.
If that’s the case, he isn’t hanging around a weight class he was nearly coerced into trying. His druthers will be 155 pounds, where he feels right at home. This could be one and done. That is, if Edgar loses. As we’ve seen, Edgar loses once in a while but never emphatically.
So, should he fight Aldo for five rounds in a back-and-forth affair that comes down to a pendulum round, where people will be divided on the outcome no matter what the judges' scorecards read? Hey, maybe Edgar brings his heart and the bottleneck down to featherweight. It’s what he do.
In any case, here we are again. Edgar fighting for a belt, in a fight that most think he’ll lose, this time in a country that is all but counting on it.
If the pride of Toms River, N.J., wanted to roll out a clich?, it might be one we’ve grown to count on. That is, “I got him right where I want him.”
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Geraldine Brophy Mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Brake, left, trains with Matt Glover as he prepares his next big bout in Moncton, N.B. on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012.
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Ed Mulholland for ESPN.comSuit yourself: The odds are stacked against Frankie Edgar in his featherweight debut -- just how he likes it.It took 10 less pounds and a thousand lobbyists for Frankie Edgar to arrive at a familiar spot -- a championship fight that nobody expects him to win. He’ll fight Jose Aldo at UFC 153 in a bout with a hat trick of fun curiosities: There’s featherweight, there’s Aldo, and there’s the cauldron of Brazil. 
Susumu Nagao for ESPN.comIt's hard to imagine Frankie Edgar, left, sticking around featherweight if he loses to Jose Aldo.