Strikeforce Challengers 16 6/24

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MAIN CARD

• Caros Fodor vs. James Terry
• Ryan Couture vs. Matt Ricehouse
• Lorenz Larkin vs. Gian Villante
• Antwain Britt vs. Danillo Villefort
• Julia Budd vs. Germaine de Randamie

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)

• Jason High vs. Quinn Mulhern
• Derek Brunson vs. Jeremy Hamilton
• Travis Bush vs. Yuri Villefort
• Keith Berry vs. Trevor Smith

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Injuries scratch Antwain Britt vs. Danillo Villefort from Strikeforce Challengers 16

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SPX...you know anything about Germaine de Randamie?

[SPX]

I've literally never heard of her.

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..nevermind. I just realized she was that Muay Thai girl who KTFO that other girl with a knee. This girl fight should be primarily a striking match.

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I've literally never heard of her.

Nice fucking edit BOL

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A 145-pound women’s matchup between talented strikers Julia “The Jewel” Budd and Germaine “The Iron Lady” de Randamie has been added to the Strikeforce Challengers 16 card on June 24th in Kent, Washington. Budd will look to avenge her May 2008 loss to de Randamie in Muay Thai. De Randamie is coming off of a first-round knockout win in her promotional debut at Strikeforce: “Diaz vs Cyborg” in January and has not lost since 2008. Budd debuted with an impressive stoppage of Shana Olsen, but she was quickly defeated by Amanda Nunes at Strikeforce Challengers 13.

Budd (1-1-0 MMA; 7-1-0 Muay Thai) made an instant impact on October 22nd when she made her Strikeforce and MMA debut and dispatched of Olsen with second-round punches. The big victory led to immediate talk of Budd challenging Strikeforce Women’s Middleweight Champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, but Budd was instead matched up against Nunes in January. Fourteen seconds into the bout, Nunes had won by knockout and Budd was no longer a frontrunner for a shot at Santos’s title.
De Randamie (2-1-0 MMA; 49-0-0 Muay Thai) is widely regarded as the best female kickboxer in the world, but she learned quickly in MMA that she would need more than just her elite striking skills. On December 19, 2008, she challenged top 135-pound contender Vanessa Porto and was submitted with an armbar in the first round. After two years away, de Randamie returned to MMA last September and won a three-round decision, then knocked out Stephanie Webber in her January Strikeforce debut.
With challengers few and far between for Santos’s Strikeforce championship, the bout between Budd and de Randamie could be a pivotal one in shaping the future of the division. De Randamie won the pair’s first meeting in Muay Thai by knockout, and an equally impressive win in June could put her in line for a shot at her first MMA title.
Strikeforce Challengers 16 takes place on June 24th at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington.

[SPX]

Nice fucking edit BOL

LOL

Yeah, I didn't look at the card. But whoever that person is, I've never heard of it.

[SPX]

Julia Budd disappointed me against Amanda Nunes. I lost 2u there.

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Julia Budd disappointed me against Amanda Nunes. I lost 2u there.

I won on that fight, I thought Nunes would win the grappling. But instead she KTFO the supposed Muay Thai goddess

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Here is their original Muay Thai fight:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1Ul...eature=related

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWr6...eature=related

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPv1z...eature=related

[SPX]

I won on that fight, I thought Nunes would win the grappling. But instead she KTFO the supposed Muay Thai goddess

Budd was the only MT fighter to dispatch Carano. So she really must be pretty good.

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Budd was the only MT fighter to dispatch Carano. So she really must be pretty good.

Germaine de Randamie has a Muay Thai record of 48-0 and KOd Budd who beat Carano. Budd ended up on top of Olsen (oo baby) in their fight a lot, but not from TDs of her own, it was more of Olsen failing TDs. I have to watch Randamie's last fight, but I remember her being taken down easily, but she was active off of her back. She is with pretty good coaches apparently as well:

"Among those on Team De Randamie now are coaches that work with the U.S. Olympic boxing team and famed jiu-jitsu instructor Cesar Gracie. As a matter of fact, Gracie has been so impressed with the Dutch fighter’s skills since working with her, he’s dubbed her “the female version of Anderson Silva.”

As far as I know, Budd has been training over by Rampage/helping him prepare diet wise for Hamill. Her primary gyms is Gibson's:

http://gibsonmma.com/pages/fighters.jsf?conversationId=187794

http://gibsonmma.com/pages/instructors.jsf?conversationId=187795

Edit:
I forgot Gibson was Rampage's coach. Here he is, you guys will probably recognize him:



I think that Gibson's MMA gym is just where Budd and Gibson coach.

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^^^Son of a bitch. Those youtube vids I posted =wrong fight. That wasn't Julia Budd. Fail. Here is the real one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BoPLR4UdQ&feature=related

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thoughts on High vs. Mulhern? It is going to be televised now, so we probably get a line. It is the best fight on the card anyway, not sure why it was on the undercard to begin with.