Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

UFC on Versus 6 Results: Cruz vs. Johnson

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Dominick Cruz vs. Demetrious Johnson is the main event of UFC on Versus 6.

In the main event, Dominick Cruz defends his bantamweight title against Demetrious Johnson. In the co-main event, Pat Barry will take on Stefan Struve.

Check out the full results below.

Main card
Dominick Cruz def. Demetrious Johnson via decision (50-45, 49-46, 50-45) (live blog)
Stefan Struve def. Pat Barry via submission (triangle choke) - R2, 3:22 (live blog)
Anthony Johnson def. Charlie Brenneman via TKO (head kick) - R1, 2:49 (live blog)
Matt Wiman def. Mac Danzig via unanimous decision (29-28 3x) (live blog)

Preliminary card
Yves Edwards def. Rafaello Oliveira via TKO (punches) - R2, 2:44 (live blog)
Paul Sass def. Michael Johnson via submission (heel hook) - R1, 3:00 (live blog)
Mike Easton def. Byron Bloodworth via TKO (knees, punches) - R2, 4:52 (live blog)
TJ Grant def. Shane Roller via verbal submission (armbar) - R3 2:12 (live blog)
Josh Neer def. Keith Wisniewski via TKO (doctor stoppage) - R2, 5:00 (live blog)
Walel Watson def. Joseph Sandoval via TKO (punches) - R1, 1:17 (live blog)

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

ADCC 2011 Results | Fargo/Moorhead Jiu-jitsu, MMA and Submission Grappling

ADCC 2011: André Galvão wins weight and Absolute!

Posted on September 25, 2011 by admin

Carlos Eduardo Ozório
September 25, 2011

After the new ADCC champions of the weight divisions were established this Sunday, it was time for the absolute and the moment everyone had been waiting for: the superfight between Zé Mario Sperry and Renzo Gracie.

The veterans match was no walk in the park, going to two overtimes, during which Zé landed a takedown. Nearly out of the match area, Gracie confirmed the point to the judges table: 2-0. Renzo had to hurry to turn the score around but suffered another three points from a guard pass for his efforts. The score stood, and Zé Mario is the champion.

“Renzo is smaller than me, so I thought I’d pass his guard during regulation time. But I enjoyed the training; I’m going to keep up this pace in the academy,” said Zé Mario.

Renzo too promises to keep up his training, now at 44 years of age: “The mat was so slippery that it was like being in a pool. This match was a warm-up for my MMA debut, soon!”

Galvão is the grand champion of ADCC 2011. Photo: Dan Rod.

Next came the absolute final, and, in getting there, André Galvão and Pablo Popovitch had their work cut out for them. Following the opening stage, the quarterfinals were made up of Victor Estima vs. Pablo Popovitch, Gunnar Nelson vs. Xande Ribeiro, Sérgio Moraes vs. André Galvão, and Murilo Santana vs. Vinicius “Pezão” Magalhães.

Galvão was in firm contention to be champion both at weight and open weight, eliminating Sergio Moraes on points, while Pablo Popovitch outpointed Victor Estima, Xande made it past Gunnar Nelson, and Murilo Santana defeated by decision Vinny Magalhães, another who could have become two-divisional champ.

The semifinals were tough. Pablo Popovitch won a decision over Xande Ribeiro and Galvão beat Murilo on penalty points. Both finalists came from the under-88kg division – proof of how it is truly one of the most stacked divisions.

“We had seven matches but I still have fuel iin my tank!” said Galvão. Pablo approached Galvão, and the two slapped hands. The two avoided speaking to each other before the final battle, though. Earlier they had faced off at weight, and Galvão won by one takedown.

Prior to the decider, Xande Ribeiro beat Murilo Santana by 2 to 0, earning the absolute bronze medal. All that was left was the gold-medal deciding match. In it, Galvão was quick on the attack, swiftly catching Pablo Popovitch’s foot and cementing his place as the big name of ADCC 2011.

“I took a chance going for the footlock while points weren’t yet being counted, and it worked. I just stuck it in my head that I was going to win,” he said.

So now there’s a plumb matchup for him in the works for ADCC 2013: Bráulio Estima in the supermatch.

Check out further details at the GRACIEMAG at the ADCC Blog.

ADCC 2011 champions:

Men

66kg: Rafael Mendes
77kg: Marcelinho Garcia
88kg: André Galvão
99kg: Dean Lister
+99kg: Vinny Pezão
Absoluto: André Galvão

Women

-60kg: Kyra Gracie
+60kg: Gabi Garcia

Supermatch

Bráulio Estima defeated Ronaldo Jacaré

Supermatch

Zá Mário defeated Renzo Gracie

Sunday, August 28, 2011

UFC 134 Results | Fargo BJJ & MMA Academy

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UFC 134 results

Main Card (PPV)
-Anderson Silva def. Yushin Okami via TKO (strikes) - Round 2, 2:04
-Mauricio "Shogun" Rua def. Forrest Griffin via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 1:53
-Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira def. Brendan Schaub via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 3:09
-Edson Barboza def. Ross Pearson via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
-Stanislav Nedkov def. Luiz Cane via TKO (punches) - Round1, 4:13

Preliminary Bouts (Spike TV)
-Thiago Tavares def. Spencer Fisher via TKO (punches) - Round 2, 2:51
-Rousimar Palheres def. Dan Miller via unanimous decision (29-27, 30-27, 30-25)

Preliminary Bouts (Facebook)
-Paulo Thiago def. David Mitchell via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
-Raphael Assuncao def. Johnny Eduardo via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
-Erick Silva def. Luis Ramos via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 0:40
-Yuri Alcantara def. Felipe Arantes via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
-Yves Jabouin def. Ian Loveland via split decision (27-30, 29-28, 29-28)

Friday, August 26, 2011

UFC on FOX: Dustin Poirer vs Pablo Garza first fight announced for Nov. 12 event | www.FargoBJJ.com

UFC on FOX: Dustin Poirer vs Pablo Garza first fight announced for Nov. 12 event

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With the UFC today announcing a deal with FOX to run its first show on network television on Nov. 12, 2011 at an event to-be-named in Anaheim, California, it's time to start filling up the card.

And the very first bout announced for the historic event is a featherweight scrap pitting Dustin Poirier againstPablo Garza, as announced by the promotion on its official website.

Poirier has been a beast ever since a unanimous decision loss to Danny Castillo in his WEC debut back in Aug. 2010.

He's gone on a 3-0 tear, including halting the Josh Grispi hype train with a star-making performance at UFC 125in what was his Octagon -- and featherweight -- debut.

While he was relegated to the preliminary card for his next bout, he made the most of it, defeating late replacement Jason Young with ease. Time to see if "The Diamond" can cut it in the rough.

Pablo Garza makes his way to the "Golden State" on the strength of two of the most impressive finishes in the past calendar year.

In Dec. 2010 he made his featherweight debut on the same night he made his first appearance inside the eight-sided playground and absolutely wrecked Fredson Paixao with a flying knee that easily earned him "Knockout of the Night."

As if that wasn't impressive enough, he followed it up by pulling off an utterly amazing flying triangle submission victory over Yves Jabouin at UFC 129, one of the biggest events in the history of the company, earning himself "Submission of the Night" in the process.

In short, the dude has got skills.

That's why it should be an explosive night of action once these two meet in the center of the cage. I wonder if that's how they found themselves matched up together on this card?

The UFC will make its debut on network TV on Nov. 12, 2011. Poirier vs. Garza is the first bout announced for the event, but a slew of fight bookings is expected to come in the very near future.

Stay tuned to MMAmania.com for all the latest updates.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Bullying in Schools Pervasive, Disruptive and Serious

UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion

January 1, 2004

More than one in five 12-year-olds are repeatedly either bullies, victims or both, and bullies are often popular and viewed by classmates as the "coolest" in their classes, according to new research from the most comprehensive study on young adolescent bullying in an ethnically diverse, large urban setting.

The study was conducted based on a longitudinal research on bullying conducted at UCLA in collaboration with the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion.

Bullies, seven percent of the students, are psychologically strong.

"Bullies are popular and respected: they are considered the 'cool' kids," said Jaana Juvonen, UCLA professor of psychology, adjunct behavioral scientist at RAND, and lead author of "Bullying Among Young Adolescents: The Strong, the Weak and the Troubled," published in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics. "They don't show signs of depression or social anxiety and they don't feel lonely.

"We hope that these findings help us dispel the myth that bullies suffer from low self-esteem," Juvonen said. "Our data indicate that bullies do not need ego boosters. Unfortunately, this myth is still guiding many programs conducted in schools. Instead, we should be concerned about the popularity of bullies and how to change the peer culture that encourages bullying."

Depression, social anxiety and loneliness are common among victims of bullies, who are nine percent of the students in the study.

"Young teens who are victims of bullying are often emotionally distressed and socially marginalized," said Juvonen, who also works as a consultant to Los Angeles elementary schools on developing anti-bullying programs. "Many of the victims are disengaged in school.

"Victims are reluctant to talk about their plight," she said. They suffer is silence and often blame themselves. This is one of our challenges for intervention: We need to provide students with educational settings in which they feel comfortable talking about their plight. But we also need to give kids tools to effectively deal with bullying. One method of doing so involves engaging students to talk about strategies that might help them stop bullying and tactics that make them feel better after being bullied. Teachers can facilitate the generalization of these skills if they help students mediate incidents between students."

One of the schools that Juvonen has worked with, UCLA's Corinne Seeds University Elementary School, regards bullying incidents as "teachable moments" that allow students to develop not only behavioral skills, but also cognitive coping strategies that alleviate the pain associated with being bullied.

Students who witness bullying often encourage bullies by watching someone getting pushed around or called names or helping a classmate spread rumors about another student, Juvonen said. Bystanders rarely intervene with bullying. Juvonen regards this as one of the biggest challenges for effective anti-bullying intervention.

"Bully-victims," the six percent of students who both bully and get bullied, are the most disturbed group of all, Juvonen and her colleagues found. They are by far the most unpopular students, least engaged in school, most disruptive in class and they also reported somewhat elevated levels of depression and loneliness, Juvonen said. Teachers ranked these "bully-victims" as having by far the most conduct problems.

The study shows that the bully-victim group has the worst of both worlds of bullies and victims, and a unique risk profile. "Their high levels of disruptive behavior, disengagement from school and social problems with their peers suggest they are a particularly high-risk group," Juvonen said.

The study shows that compared with other students, all three groups show less interest in school and have difficulties getting along with classmates.

Sandra Graham, UCLA professor of education, and Juvonen are in the fourth year of a long-term study of more than 1,900 sixth graders, and their teachers, in 11 Los Angeles-area public middle schools with predominantly minority and low-income students. Each student provides confidential reports on which classmates bully others and which are victims of bullying. They also report about their own feelings of depression, anxiety and loneliness. In addition, teachers rate students' behavior. The research is funded federally by the National Science Foundation and privately by the William T. Grant Foundation.

Boys are twice as likely to be bullies as girls, almost twice as likely to be victims of bullies, and more than three times as likely to be in both categories, report Juvonen, Graham and Mark Schuster, associate professor of pediatrics in UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and a senior natural scientist and director of the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion.

"Both boys and girls can be mean and use a variety of tactics to intimidate or humiliate one another," Juvonen said.

In the study, bullying is defined as "starting fights and pushing other kids around," "putting down and making fun of others," and "spreading nasty rumors about others."

Bullying is a significant problem in schools and is associated with a range of problems, including poor mental health and violent behavior, Juvonen said. Other studies have shown that bullies are significantly more likely to engage in antisocial behavior later in life, particularly assaults and rapes, Juvonen said.

Additional research from Graham and Juvonen's project, not yet published, shows that victims of bullying experience headaches, stomach aches and colds more often than students not involved in bullying, Juvonen said.

Juvonen advises parents to talk with their children about bullying before it ever happens.

"If you've never discussed this issue with your child, it might be difficult for your child to tell you about it," she said. "The older children get, the harder it is for them to bring it up. Start by talking with your child about other kids in the school. 'Do other kids in your school get picked on? Tell me what happens. How do you think these kids feel? What do you think should happen? Does anybody tell the teacher? Has it ever happened to you? What did you do then? Would you do the same thing if it happened again?

"Find out from your child as much as you can and how your child is dealing with it. Role-playing different strategies, especially with young children, is very helpful. 'What would you do or say? How would you say it?' If your child is being bullied or is concerned about getting bullied, contact the school and talk with the teacher. You don't want to contact the parents of the bully."

As the study continues, Graham and her collaborators hope to learn whether the students who were bullies and victims in sixth grade remain so in high school, whether changes can be predicted and why changes occur. "The transitions that come with moving into high school and moving into full adolescence make it particularly important to track these children's development across time," said National Science Foundation Program Officer Peg Barratt. "Part of what makes this work unique is the broader focus not only on bullies and victims, but on the impact of witnessing bullying."

Juvonen speaks to teachers, administrators and parents at Los Angeles elementary schools, including UCLA's Corinne Seeds University Elementary School, where she worked on developing the school's anti-bullying program.

http://www.rand.org/health/adolescent/bullying.html

GMA medalists in Las Vegas

Ivan Trindade
@ivangmreporter
August 16, 2011