Ricardo Mayorga way overweight for MMA debut, fight will go on

[blackrican23]

   

 

 

Ricardo Mayorga, the 39-year-old former welterweight and junior middleweight boxing titlist, will make his MMA debut tonight in Managua, Nicaragua, facing Canadian Wesley Tiffer.

I've seen two listed contract weights, one at 155 and also 160, but either way, he didn't make that weight, coming in at 175.9 pounds. Tiffer weighed 153. The fight, because nobody really cares much anyway, will go on as scheduled.

Here's footage from the weigh-in, including some trash talk and a SHOVE!!!

 

 

http://www.badlefthook.com/2013/5/3/4297634/video-ricardo-mayorga-way-overweight-for-mma-debut-fight-will-go-on

[blackrican23]

Mayorga is a homo

[GRIM]

Dam fat boy in da house, and that was the gh3yest shove I have ever seen. But seriously only in mma will the fight go on with such a weight difference

[blackrican23]

Ricardo Mayorga made his MMA Debut a successful one in his home country of Nicaragua.  His opponent Tiffer tried to keep the fight on the ground but the former boxing champion was able to hold his own and survive round one.  After more ground fighting in the second, Mayorga (controversially) knee'd Tiffer in the back - breaking Tiffer's submission attempt.  Then Mayorga threw bombs until the round ended.  Tiffer, who screamed after the knee, could not continue to the third - resulting in a TKO victory for Mayorga.

 

Sounds like combat sports got set back a few years after the donnybrook , hopefully video soon

[GRIM]

FORMER BOXING WORLD CHAMPION RICARDO MAYORGA WINS MMA DEBUT IN BIZARRE SPECTACLE

 

 

 

Former boxing world champion Ricardo Mayorga's strangely-long-awaited MMA debut could hardly be described as “fireworks,” which is ironic given that notorious pugilist's bizarre victory in the main event of Omega MMA's “Battle of the Americas” was met with a literal (and elaborate) fireworks display.

 

Friday night at the Pharaoh's Casino in his hometown of Managua, Nicaragua, Mayorga managed to overcome his complete lack of grappling ability against unheralded opponent Wesley Tiffer, ultimately stopping the Canadian transplant with what appeared to be an illegal knee to the spine at the end of the second round.

 

The fight was originally conceived as a lightweight contest, then a 160-pound catch-weight before Thursday's weigh-in, at which Mayorga clocked in at 175.9 pounds. Tiffer, who claimed a 5-1 record entering the bout and hadn't competed since 2009, tipped the beam at 153 pounds. The 39-year-old Mayorga, who held world titles at 147 and 154 in the squared circle, looked every bit as physically terrible as the number on the scale suggested.

 

Mayorga was originally expected to debut inside the cage back in May 2010 in the headliner of the ill-fated Shine Fights “World Collide” against UFC veteran Din Thomas. “El Matador's” MMA debut never materialized as the North Carolina Boxing Authority canceled the show amidst shambolic circumstances, effectively killing Shine Fights as a promotion.

 

Mayorga was taken down by Tiffer after his opening salvo of punches and spent the vast majority of the bout's 10 minutes clinging to Tiffer, who held full mount and did little with it. On the sporadic occasions of Mayorga's escape, he was taken back down immediately after attempting to punch, right back into full mount.

 

The awkward-yet-tepid bout finally saw drama in the late second round when Mayorga bucked to escape from mount and rolled into a triangle armbar from Tiffer. Mayorga toughed his way through the hold and freed himself from Tiffer's subsequent armbar attempt with what appeared to be an illegal knee to the spine just before the round ended. Referee Milton Rosales Toshi did not call a foul, but after consulting with the cageside physician, Tiffer was deemed unfit to continue, giving Mayorga his first MMA win by stoppage at the end of the second round.

 

Post-fight, Mayorga jumped on the cage, played to the crowd and fist-bumped his robust posse as a full-blown fireworks display burst into the Nicaraguan night sky.

[blackrican23]

NICE find sweep

[blackrican23]

this is actually not a bad fight imagined much worse

[blackrican23]

lol nice knee to the kidney !!!!!!

[blackrican23]

yeah gotta say that despite the wierd/illegal finish it looked like a real fight, mayorga was losing but he was hanging in there & fighting from the bottom position. he even defended a takedown late in the fight.

 

 

 

this guy tiffer isn't 5-1 though, found his record on sherdog: http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Wesley-Tiffer-46232

this guy got no submissions cause I seen an arm triangle 30 seconds in. Maryorga did some good things from the bottom, funny shit that guy

[Mofo2]

This Wasnt a pretty performance by any stretch of the imagination but I guess mayorga will improve....a knee to the spine is still illegal though???

[Mofo2]

i guess not in nicaragua!

hehe

[blackrican23]

Ricardo Mayorga â€@THEREALMAYORGA next tweet should read " will sell my ass for money"

[GRIM]

just read that this win is now a no contest after the illegal hit that ended the fight.

 

Yep and here are the details!

 

 

Ricardo Mayorga's MMA debut overturned to No Contest

 

Ricardo Mayorga's controversial win during his MMA debut has been overturned, and he has also been "suspended".

 

Former boxing champion, Ricardo Mayorga carried over his controversial ways when he made his MMA debut earlier this month. Not only did he miss weight by 20 lbs, Mayorga also ended the fight by landing an illegal knee to his opponent's spine as he was trying to get out of a submission attempt. If that wasn't bizarre enough, the referee then awarded him with a TKO victory even if the fight was ended after an illegal blow.

 

That was all amended today though, as it was announced by the Nicaraguan MMA commission that the victory has been overturned, and is now considered as a No Contest.

 

Not that it would really mean anything, but the 39-year-old fighter has also been "suspended" for competing in MMA for 3 months.

[Mofo2]

No surprise, I guess these two might just fight again!