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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
Originally posted by IWS Zak
This fight probably wont even last a round and just think of all the money they'll have wasted promoting it2015 MMA BETTING CHAMP
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
Originally posted by IWS Zak
This shit still makes me laugh.
I can just hear them" Ray ,Tim go throw some tee shirts on and meet us in the garage we're going to shoot a commercial to bring in the pay per view buyers "
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
Looks like its back to an MMA fight now.
Tim Sylvia and Ray Mercer will now meet in a heavyweight mixed martial arts bout at Adrenaline III this Saturday at the BJCC Arena in Birmingham, Ala.
The matchup of former UFC champion and former boxing champion will headline 14 additional MMA bouts in the cage. The event will no longer be regulated.
Originally scheduled as a six-round boxing bout, Adrenaline owner and promoter Monte Cox said he made the decision to re-categorize the match on Thursday.
“I got a call from the Pennsylvania commissioner saying that the boxing match is illegal because we weren’t getting regulated by a U.S. commission,” said Cox on Thursday.
With no regulatory body present in Alabama, the Canadian-based River Cree Combative Sports Commission had agreed to step in and oversee the event.
Cox said he believed he had completed all the necessary requirements asked of him, which included procuring a letter from Alabama’s governor welcoming the Canadian commission into the jurisdiction.
However, Association of Boxing Commissions President Tim Lueckenhoff told Sherdog.com that neither he nor the ABC organization had been approached directly to regulate the bout. Further, Lueckenhoff said he’d thought Sylvia-Mercer would be an MMA contest and not a boxing bout. Lueckenhoff said federal law currently has no jurisdiction over MMA bouts, but laws are in place over boxing under the Professional Boxing Safety Act.
In a press release issued by the ABC on Thursday, the organization denounced the “unwarranted and illegal” boxing match. The release also noted that the River Cree commission, as well as referee John McCarthy, had withdrawn their involvement from the bout and event.
“Canadian boxing commissions are not authorized to supervise boxing matches in the U.S.; and, patently, it is wholly inappropriate for one representative from a Canadian boxing commission, together with an MMA referee, to supervise a boxing match,” said Bruce C. Spizler, chairman of the ABC legal committee in the release.
“I told the promoter I would do it if it was a sanctioned event,” McCarthy told Sherdog.com Thursday. “As soon as it became apparent that that would not happen, I pulled out.”
In March, it had been reported that the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board (NJSACB) said it would not regulate the bout, prompting Cox to move the bout to another venue.
“Everyone thinks I came to Alabama because it’s unsanctioned here,” said Cox, “but why would I go to so much trouble to try and get this event regulated if that were the case?”
Cox also said the Mashantucket Pequot Athletic Commission, which oversees events at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, had agreed to regulate the event in March, but a financial agreement could not be reached with the casino.
The event was moved to Alabama for sponsorship opportunities, Cox said. Cox said he would not be able to procure new regulation for the event in time.
Sylvia (24-5) has not competed since he succumbed to a rear-naked choke from former Pride Fighting Championships titleholder Fedor Emelianenko in just 36 seconds at Affliction “Banned” 11 months ago. The 33-year-old has dropped back-to-back bouts for the first time in his career but holds victories against former UFC heavyweight champions Andrei Arlovski (twice) and Ricco Rodriguez, among others. His only professional defeats have come to Emelianenko, Arlovski, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Randy Couture and Frank Mir, all of whom are ranked in the top 10.
The 48-year-old Mercer (0-0), a former heavyweight boxing champion, has made only one appearance in mixed martial arts, as he submitted to Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson in an exhibition match regulated by the NJSACB back in 2007. Mercer compiled a 36-7-1 mark in professional boxing and won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Comment
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
This becomes a bigger joke everytime I hear something about it
Ray is almost 50 and couldnt even beat Kimbo in MMA now he thinks he can beat Silvia? He will lose in the first round2015 MMA BETTING CHAMP
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
LOL, Mercer put his ass to sleep.
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
Originally posted by IWS Zak
and the freak show has even a bigger twist .
Slivia is a joke .How do you go from UFC champ to getting KO'd by 47 year old Mercer in 9 seconds ?
All that was was a lucky punch .Had that fight went to the ground or lasted more than a minute Mercer would have lost.
Mercer got lucky plain and simple .It should get the old man a few more decent paychecks from this2015 MMA BETTING CHAMP
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
I'd say Mercer could take out Fedor in under 20 secondsOriginally posted by IWS Zak2015 MMA BETTING CHAMP
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Re: Tim Silvia vs Ray Mercer in a boxing match.
[quote=IWS Zak]Originally posted by Luke
Im thinking the same think.
Fedor is ducking Mercer!
Mercer should be on TUF.[/quote:1f3vt27c]
I wouldnt be surprised to see Mercer calling out Fedor just for the paycheck. You know he needs the money o he wouldnt still be fighting at freak shows at the age of 472015 MMA BETTING CHAMP
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