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(Event Invitation) Can’t Tell Foundation Celebrity Poker Tournament

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Can't Tell Foundation Celebrity Poker Tournament posterIt is always an honor and joy to be part of events that allow me to give back to the community. In 2013 I have been blessed of becoming part of the board of director of a foundation “Can’t Tell”. This foundation offers treatment and program services at the Can’t Tell Center (www.canttellcenter.com) for adolescents and young adults affected by mental health disorders, bullying, abuse, sexual assault and other trauma, including military personnel suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The therapeutic treatment programs provide aid in
correcting the psychological, emotional, behavioral, spiritual and neuro-biological effects of complex trauma.

We are honored to be hosting the Inaugural Can’t Tell Foundation Celebrity Poker Tournament on:

Saturday, June 1, 2013

at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL. The cocktail party begins at 5:00 pm with the poker tournament following at 7:00 pm. South Florida community members are invited to sign up online or make donations at www.canttellpoker.eventbrite.com

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Can’t Tell Foundation, a tax-deductible 501(c)3 organization (Tax ID # 27-3814108). All money raised from this exciting event will go directly to providing desperately needed treatment and program services.

Celebrity participants include Miami Dolphins corner back Nolan Carrol, MMA fighters Alistair Overeem, Marcus Brimage, Jessica Aguilar, Mike Rio, Alex Caceres, Jorge Masvidal, El Octagano reporter Andrea Calle, and more. There will also be a special performance at the cocktail party by Elevate Music recording artist Justin Anthony, who recently recorded a single with Snoop Dogg. In addition to the musical performance, the cocktail party, held at the Swamp Bar in Hollywood, will include food, drinks and a silent auction. The poker tournament will feature a guaranteed prize pool of $10,000 with a minimum of 125 registrants. Re-buys and add-ons will be available. The first re-buy is free to pre-paid registrants. All re-buy and add-on money will go directly to the Can’t Tell Foundation.

For more information or to register or donate online, please visit www.canttellpoker.eventbrite.com.

Media Contact:
Dawn Berson
Development Director
Can’t Tell Foundation
dberson@canttell.org

UFC 2013 rankings

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Pound-for-Pound:
1 Anderson Silva
2 Jon Jones
3 Georges St. Pierre
4 Jose Aldo
5 Benson Henderson
6 Cain Velasquez
7 Dominick Cruz
8 Demetrious Johnson
9 Frankie Edgar
10 Dan Henderson

Flyweight
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 John Dodson
3 Ian McCall
4 John Moraga
5 Jussier da Silva
6 Louis Gaudinot
7 Chris Cariaso
8 John Lineker
9 Darren Uyenoyama
10 Ulysses Gomez

Bantamweight
Champion: Dominick Cruz
1 Renan Barao (Interim Champion)
2 Michael McDonald
3 Urijah Faber
4 Eddie Wineland
5 Brad Pickett
6 Brian Bowles
7 Raphael Assuncao
8 Scott Jorgensen
9 Mike Easton
10 Ivan Menjivar

Featherweight
Champion: Jose Aldo
1 Chad Mendes
2 Ricardo Lamas
3 Chan Sung Jung
4 Frankie Edgar
5 Dennis Siver
6 Cub Swanson
7 Dustin Poirier
8 Nik Lentz
9 Erik Koch
10 Clay Guida

Lightweight
Champion: Ben Henderson
1 Gilbert Melendez
2 Anthony Pettis
3 Gray Maynard
4 Nate Diaz
5 Jim Miller
6 Donald Cerrone
7 T.J. Grant
8 Rafael dos Anjos
9 Joe Lauzon
10 Khabib Nurmagomedov

Welterweight
Champion: Georges St. Pierre
1 Johny Hendricks
2 Carlos Condit
3 Nick Diaz
4 Rory MacDonald
5 Demian Maia
6 Jake Ellenberger
7 Martin Kampmann
8 Josh Koscheck
9 Jon Fitch
10 Tarec Saffiedine

Middleweight
Champion: Anderson Silva
1 Chris Weidman
2 Vitor Belfort
3 Michael Bisping
4 Yushin Okami
5 Mark Munoz
6 Constantinos Philippou
7 Luke Rockhold
8 Hector Lombard
9 Alan Belcher
10 Tim Boetsch

Light Heavyweight
Champion: Jon Jones
1 Dan Henderson
2 Lyoto Machida
3 Alexander Gustafsson
4 Glover Teixeira
5 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
6 Rashad Evans
7 Mauricio Rua
8 Phil Davis
9 Ryan Bader
10 Gegard Mousasi

Heavyweight
Champion: Cain Velasquez
1 Junior dos Santos
2 Fabricio Werdum
3 Daniel Cormier
4 Antonio Silva
5 Frank Mir
6 Alistair Overeem
7 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
8 Roy Nelson
9 Stefan Struve
10 Shane Carwin

(video) Countdown to UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar

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frankie edgar, jose aldo, ufcJose Aldo and Frankie Edgar are finally stepping into the Octagon for their highly anticipated superfight at UFC 156. Hear what each fighter says is the key to victory at UFC 156.

Also, hear from two big men with big punching power, Alistair Overeem and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva, both guarantee their fight won’t go the distance. Then, former UFC light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans locks horns with BJJ ace Antonio Rogerio Nogueira as both look for their next step towards a title shot, while grappling wizards Jon Fitch and Demian Maia look to continue their winning streaks.

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Alistair Overeem, Bob Sapp, Mark Hunt and Kazushi Sakuraba compete in tug of war on Japanese television.

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(article) F3 NUTRITION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF “TRAIN TO ANNIHILATE” NATIONAL TELEVISION COMMERCIALS

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F3 NUTRITION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF 
“TRAIN TO ANNIHILATE”
NATIONAL TELEVISION COMMERCIALS
 
Deerfield Beach, Fla. – Mark Post, President of F3 Nutrition, today announced that F3 Nutrition will be debuting its “Train to Annihilate” television commercials nationwide this Saturday night, November 3rd. The commercials will appear on the NBC Sports Network during the inaugural MMA World Series of Fighting event starting at 10:30pm EST live from the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Two different .30 commercials will air on NBC Sports Network featuring F3 Nutrition’s Annihilate Strength Pre Workout product. Starring in the commercials are two highly ranked UFC fighters. One will feature the recently announced F3 sponsored athlete and top UFC heavyweight contender Alistair Overeem and the second will star UFC lightweight Michael “The Menace” Johnson, the “The Ultimate Fighter Season 12” runner up who has won in on a three fight win streak in the Octagon.
On Saturday night, the World Series of Fighting will present a stacked card built with several athletes from the famed “Blackzilians” team. F3 Nutrition is sponsoring legendary kickboxer Tyrone Spong who is making his much-anticipated MMA debut as well as Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante and Miguel Torres. All three fighters will bear the F3 Nutrition logo on their fight gear in their professional bouts.
 
About F3 Nutrition
F3 Nutrition has developed an elite sports nutrition brand that focuses on the three critical elements of building a successful high-performance sports nutrition product: It must be Fit for the specific purpose; deliver through the best Form available; address the Function for the specific goal of the athlete. The F3 Nutrition product portfolio will be comprehensive to assist in athlete’s endurance, strength, wellness and recovery.
F3 Nutrition products are available for purchase on the company’s website at www.F3nutrition.com or at several on line retailers such as A1Supplements.com, IllPumpYouUp.com, SupplementCentral.com, Sherdog.com and soon BodyBuilding.com. Free product samples are available on the company’s website. For more information, please send email to info@f3nutrition.com or visit us online at F3Nutrition.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/f3nutrition and Twitter @F3nutrition.

Hannibal King and ‘The Blackzilians’: The Impossible Workout

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Former UFC light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans and the ‘Blackzilians’ training camp are joined by internet fitness legend Hannibal King for a workout session like you’ve never seen before. Hannibal puts some of the UFC’s finest through a crazy workout that pushes them past the limits and into the insane.

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UFC 153 Post-Fight Scrum Highlights

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After the UFC 153 post-fight press conference, Dana White talks about Jones vs. Silva, Jon Fitch, Erick Silva, Alistair Overeem and much more

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(Video + images) CFA Fights

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(video) Vitor Belfort: Looking for an Upset

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Vitor’s new training partners talk about why Vitor has what it takes to get the W against Jon Jones. Rashad Evans “Vitor the perfect blend of technique as well athleticism”. Alistair Overeem “If someone can beat Jon Jones is Vitor Belfort, besides me of course, but i am a heavyweight so..”. Thiago Silva “Vitor is a great athlete…. he is really fast”. JZ Cavalcante “He is explosive and can use that together with his technique”

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Vitor Belfort – We Are Lions

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Vitor Belfort prepares for UFC 152 against Jon Jones at the Jaco Hybrid Training Center in Delray Beach, FL with the Blackzilians

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Not Waiting for Title Shot: Alistair Overeem Wants to Fight the Minute He Gets His

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by Damon Martin

Former Strikeforce and K-1 Grand Prix champion Alistair Overeem is anxious to get back in the UFC Octagon again, the sooner the better.
Overeem is still serving out his nine-month de facto suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission stemming from a test given in April. That test indicated the Dutch fighter had an elevated ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone.
Now residing full time in Florida as part of the Blackzilian camp, Overeem has dedicated himself to training and preparing for his return to the cage once he can apply for a fight license.
It appeared briefly that Overeem might get to face UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos upon his return, but ultimately promotion officials opted to give the next shot to former titleholder Cain Velasquez at UFC 155 in December.
The news may have been somewhat discouraging for Overeem because he has been gunning for dos Santos since entering the UFC, but the bigger picture right now is just getting back to fighting, no matter who the opponent might be.
“First of all, he would have loved to have had the opportunity to fight for the title, but Alistair is a fighter, and as a fighter he will fight whoever they put in front of him,” Overeem’s manager Glenn Robinson of Authentic Sports Management told MMAWeekly Radio recently.
“Reality is, he’s training extraordinarily hard, and whoever gets in front of him is going to meet a completely different Alistair. This guy is just dedicated to rebuilding and rededicating himself.”
Despite being on hiatus until at least December, Overeem isn’t taking to time to enjoy a long vacation or even spend the extra months at home in Holland. No, he’s treating this extended period of time between fights as a long and hard training camp, aimed at making Overeem the best he’s ever been.
“He’s in great shape. He’s in better shape now than when he joined us. He’s strong; his cardio is crazy. He’s training with pro football players, a whole team of pro football players. We ran out of people large enough to fend him off, so we put him with a whole pro football team to do cardio,” Robinson revealed.

“All that’s going to happen is whoever does face him is in a lot of trouble.”
Overeem’s longterm goals are still to take the UFC heavyweight title and add it to his mantle of championships, but he knows he’s not going to face Junior dos Santos upon his return.
The Dutch wrecking machine has already been out too long and when the gates are opened for his return, Overeem wants to face the best heavyweight available, as soon as possible.
“He wants to come back as soon as he can. We have to wait until the Nevada State Athletic Commission can give him the license, and he’s doing everything he can to live by the letter of the law so that there’s no issue with getting that license when the time comes,” Robinson stated.
“He’s going to be ready to fight the second that there’s a fight. He’s not going to need a camp, because he’s never left camp. The day that he’s allowed to be licensed, if they want him to fight the next day, he’ll be ready.”

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GLORY: Tyrone Spong Signs a Multi-Fight Deal, Debut in December

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BySteven Muehlhausen(Featured Columnist)
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From GloryWorldSeries.com
Kickboxing organization GLORY announced today in a press release that they have signed heavyweight kickboxing legend Tyrone Spong to a two-year, multi-fight deal, with his debut set for the GLORY World Series event in Toyko in December with a date to be announced soon.
The 6’2′, 228-pound 26-year-old and former It’s Showtime World Champion has scored KOs in over 60 percent of his victories, including his latest conquest, a third-round stoppage of all-time great Peter Aerts in Brussels, Belgium on June 30, 2012.
Spong made an immediate impact in the kickboxing world in 2003, his first professional year, reeling off 12 consecutive wins in a span of as many months. He notched his first major victory on Oct. 1, 2006 when he scored a thunderous first-round KO against world champion Kaoklai Kaennorsing of Bangkok, Thailand in Almere, Netherlands.
A marquee moment in his career was as a 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix finalist from the old K-1 organization.
“I am very happy to join GLORY and take part in their heavyweight division. It was clear to me that GLORY World Series represents the toughest challenge in kickboxing,” said Spong in the GLORY press release.
Spong recently relocated to South Florida, where he trains alongside UFC superstars Alistair Overeem and Rashad Evans. In addition to being mentored by kickboxing legend Ernesto Hoost, Spong has also trained under professional boxing guru, Floyd Mayweather, Sr.
“The best stand-up fighters in the world are taking part in this league,” Spong continued. “And I want to prove that I am the best. I will be the king of the GLORY ring.”
Spong is renowned for his incredible athleticism and technical fluidity, attributes that allow him to move with a level of speed that is comparable to a lightweight.
“We are delighted to welcome Tyrone Spong to the GLORY heavyweight division,” said GLORY Ambassador Cor Hemmers. “He is a very exciting fighter and has a very impressive highlight reel. Fans can expect some superb performances and lots of knockouts.”
“Our roster of heavyweight superstars is beyond anything kickboxing has ever seen and, with the acquisition of Tyrone, it just became that much more outstanding,“ commented Marcus Luer, Managing Director of GLORY Sports International.
Among the heavyweight superstars whom Spong will join in Tokyo are Peter Aerts, Remy Bonjasky, Semmy Schilt and Jerome Le Banner—all GLORY fighters who, together, boast a collection of over 10 heavyweight World Grand Prix titles from the old K-1 organization—and rising stars such as Errol Zimmerman, Gokhan Saki, Anderson ‘Braddock’ Silva and Filip Verlinden.

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1-On-1 With Junior Dos Santos

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Undefeated heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos sat down with Jon Anik for a 1-on-1 face-to-face discussion about JDS’s upcoming fight against Cain Velasquez. UFC Ultimate Insider has all the info you need on the heavyweight champ!

 

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