Sylvia already pondering about his postfight lobster dinner

Make all the jokes you want about Tim Sylvia's ample assemble now. We know he's not a workout warrior, pulling trains and lifting Atlas stone. But he's nonetheless an encountered mixed martial arts fighter with 31 fights beneath his belt and a past UFC champion. Mariusz Pudzianowski, a 5-time World's Strongest Man champ, is taking an awful significant leap of faith in Friday night's battle at Moosin in Worcester, Massachusetts.

This is clearly a payday for Sylvia, who hasn't even been tempted to speak trash about the Polish strongman.

"I'm looking forward to receiving some very good lobster even though I'm up the following," claimed Sylvia, a native of Eastbrook, Maine. "Can't get that type of stuff in Iowa."

Through an interview previous week with MMAWeekly, host Damon Martin could scarcely get a rise out of Sylvia. "The Maine-iac" quietly predicted a earliest-game knockout. He has small respect for the two- Pudzianowki.

"I think it's a dumb move," Sylvia stated. "He doesn't have any beat practical knowledge at all."

Pudzianowski picked up that minute acquire final week above Yasute Kawaguchi. He mainly looked awful in the course of the unanimous decision be successful in Poland. He was clumsy when standing and was out of energy 3 mins into the struggle with.

The 6-foot-8, 300-pound Sylvia has knockout electrical power and a fairly composed impressive game has a appropriate to be assured. Of course, he was also this positive for his struggle towards 48-12 months-outdated retired boxer Ray Mercer and got knocked out in eight seconds. There isn't a lot threat of staying caught by the 6-1, 300-pound Pudzianowski but he does have to be wary of the large man's electric power in the clinch. Bettors don't appear as well involved about who appears superior at the seaside as they've bet Sylvia from minus-180 to minus-310.
Moosin: Polish strongman yields to ex-UFC champ Sylvia; Modafferi beats LaRosa
Much less than 7 minutes into his third mixed martial arts bout, the previous World's Strongest Gentleman couldn't carry it any extra.
Trapped under past UFC champion Tim Sylvia on the floor, Mariusz Pudzianowski (a couple of-1) tapped out right after consuming many perfect hands on Friday at the Moosin God of Martial Arts display in Worcester, Mass. The end came one:43 into the subsequent rounded.
It was the subsequent consecutive succeed for Sylvia (26-6) immediately after a two-yr stretch that saw him get rid of four of 5 fights. "I'm back again now," Sylvia claimed. "I've been back."
Moosin promoted the battle as a check between the encounter and impressive savvy of Sylvia, twice a UFC heavyweight champion, versus the brute force of Pudzianowski, a 5-time winner of the World's Strongest Gentleman competitors. But it was Pudzianowski's cardio health that let him down.
Dealing with in his native Poland a number of weeks ago, Pudzianowski came out to tire out as he struggled to a judgement earn. It occurred once more tonight.
Pudzianowski from the start off searched for to clinch with his opponent and search for takedowns, but Sylvia stuffed most of his attempts. The extended wrestling sequences drained the muscular Pudzianowski, who discovered himself thrown to the place and attempting to make it Sylvia's environment-and-pound attack in the closing moment of the opening game.
Rarely a moment into the subsequent game, Pudzianowski flopped to the soil immediately after Sylvia obtained near and merely set a hand on him. Sylvia rapidly place himself in aspect control, spun across to the other facet and started out dropping perfect hands until finally Pudzianowski submitted.
Whilst Sylvia outlasted his opponent on Saturday, the 34-yr-past UFC veteran still appears far from the conditioning degree of his prime as a 265-pound champion. Sylvia officially weighed in Friday at a flabby-looking 305 pounds.
Also on the Moosin card, heavy underdog Roxanne Modafferi (15-five) avenged a 2006 reduction by acquiring a unanimous judgement in excess of Tara LaRosa (18-a couple of) in 130-pound catchweight struggle with in between prime-3 female fighters.
Modafferi often managed LaRosa on the mat and threatened her with a unsafe-shopping triangle choke in the last game. Modafferi also showed vastly enhanced impressive, stopping LaRosa in her tracks more than the moment with strikes, and dropping her as soon as with a punch.
LaRosa appeared to are available close to pulling out a earn late in the struggle with when she unleashed a flurry of punches that sent Modafferi reeling and tumbling to the place. But as LaRosa jumped atop her looking for a knockout, Modafferi easily threw up her legs for a triangle choke that compelled LaRosa on the defensive.
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