No Holds Barred: Ricardo Liborio and Gary Abbott on Grappling, Wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with two of the most important figures in the world of grappling, Ricardo Liborio and Gary Abbott.
Ricardo Liborio is a legend in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. A black belt under the late, great Carlson Gracie, in 1996 Ricardo was one of the first winners of the Mundial, the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world championships, where he also was voted the most technical fighter. Besides being a Brazilian national champion in both jiu-jitsu and judo, he placed second in 2000 at the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championship (http://www.adcombat.net/adnet/Wrestling/) and third in 1999. He co-founded the Brazilian Top Team, and then became the founder and head instructor of the American Top Team (http://www.americantopteam.com/) in Coconut Creek, Florida, where he still is located. He was voted coach of the year by the North American Grappling Association (NAGA) (http://nagafighter.com/) in 2005, and is a member of the NAGA Grappling Hall of Fame. He is regarded as one of the top coaches of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, mixed martial arts, and grappling in the world. He will also be one of the many international guests at the May 23 Art of War Fighting Championship (http://mmachina.com) mixed martial arts card in Beijing, China.
After wrestling at Boston University, Gary Abbott has served for two decades at USA Wrestling (http://themat.com/), the national governing body for wrestling in the U.S. and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee. He is the Director of Communications for USA Wrestling, and is one of the key people who is tirelessly working to popularize the sport of wrestling and striving to make sure it is more widely covered in the media.
Now these two noted people from these two different styles of grappling will be working together. Ricardo Liborio has been named the National Coach for USA Grappling, which is the grappling program of USA Wrestling. This is an important step forward in the cooperation between different styles of grappling, and represents an acknowledgement of the essential unity between all styles of grappling, as well as all styles of the combat sports.
It was thus a quite lively and informative discussion that we had for No Holds Barred. We spoke about the journey Ricardo had made from the worlds of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Vale Tudo in Brazil, to mixed martial arts, and now to USA Grappling. We discussed all these styles and rules. We stressed the connection of all these styles of grappling, and all the combat sports. We analyzed the prospects for grappling becoming an Olympic sport. And we discussed with Gary the 2009 U.S. World Team Trials, which take place May 30-31 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to determine the U.S. world teams for men's and women's freestyle wrestling and for Greco-Roman wrestling.
In addition, the 2009 Grappling World Championships will take place in the U.S., at the Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, Dec. 12-13. We discussed the importance of this international event being held in U.S.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
HARRAH'S UNDERCARD ANNOUNCED
On May 15th Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing brings boxing back to Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, NJ with a compelling six bout card. In the main event bout of the evening, the WBA #5, WBC #10, IBF #13 rated heavyweight in the world Kevin "Kingpin" Johnson (21-0-1, 8KO) is set to square off against 2004 Olympic Team Captain Devin Vargas (17-0, 7KO) in a ten round heavyweight contest. The winner stakes their claim as the top American heavyweight and takes one step closer to challenging for a world title.
The co-feature bout of the evening sees the Star Boxing debut of Jorge "The Truth' Teron (22-1-1, 15KO) as he looks to avenge the only loss of his career as a pro when he takes on the always dangerous Aldo Valtierra (25-10, 13KO). Teron vs. Valtierra is scheduled for ten rounds in the lightweight division. Both the co-feature and main event of the evening will be broadcast live on ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights".
EXCITING UNDERCARD FEATURING TWO FORMER WORLD CHAMPIONS
Former WBA heavyweight champion of the world, Bruce "The Atlantic City Express" Seldon (39-7, 35KO) looks to impress in front of his hometown fans when he takes on Gabe "Big G" Brown (18-9-4, 12KO) in an eight round heavyweight showdown. Seldon is 4-1 in his last five fights, with all four of his wins coming by way of knockout. Seldon last saw action in Atlantic City on November 7th when he steam rolled through Brad Gregory, who was 11-1, 9KO at the time, stopping him in the second round of their scheduled eight rounder.
Also on the card is Wildwood, New Jersey's light heavyweight hopeful, Chuck "The Professor" Mussachio (12-0-2, 5KO). Mussachio looks to stay unbeaten when he takes a step up in competition against former WBA light middleweight champion of the world, Carl Daniels (50-16-1, 32KO). The bout is scheduled for six rounds in the light heavyweight division.
Another New Jersey hopeful, John Lenox (1-0, 1KO) of Lincoln Park, NJ will look to improve to 2-0 when he takes on Blackville, South Carolina's Robert Brown (0-1) in a four round heavyweight bout.
Rounding out the card will be another heavyweight showdown between New York City's Kimani Cunningham (0-1) and Newark, New Jersey's Tyyab Beale (1-0).
HARRAH'S
The card is promoted by Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing, in association with Harrah's Resort. Tickets are priced at $90 and $60 and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 1(800) 745-3000 or going online to ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available by calling Star Boxing at (718) 823- 2000 or by going online to www.starboxing.com. See you at the Fights.
Thanks for your time.
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The co-feature bout of the evening sees the Star Boxing debut of Jorge "The Truth' Teron (22-1-1, 15KO) as he looks to avenge the only loss of his career as a pro when he takes on the always dangerous Aldo Valtierra (25-10, 13KO). Teron vs. Valtierra is scheduled for ten rounds in the lightweight division. Both the co-feature and main event of the evening will be broadcast live on ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights".
EXCITING UNDERCARD FEATURING TWO FORMER WORLD CHAMPIONS
Former WBA heavyweight champion of the world, Bruce "The Atlantic City Express" Seldon (39-7, 35KO) looks to impress in front of his hometown fans when he takes on Gabe "Big G" Brown (18-9-4, 12KO) in an eight round heavyweight showdown. Seldon is 4-1 in his last five fights, with all four of his wins coming by way of knockout. Seldon last saw action in Atlantic City on November 7th when he steam rolled through Brad Gregory, who was 11-1, 9KO at the time, stopping him in the second round of their scheduled eight rounder.
Also on the card is Wildwood, New Jersey's light heavyweight hopeful, Chuck "The Professor" Mussachio (12-0-2, 5KO). Mussachio looks to stay unbeaten when he takes a step up in competition against former WBA light middleweight champion of the world, Carl Daniels (50-16-1, 32KO). The bout is scheduled for six rounds in the light heavyweight division.
Another New Jersey hopeful, John Lenox (1-0, 1KO) of Lincoln Park, NJ will look to improve to 2-0 when he takes on Blackville, South Carolina's Robert Brown (0-1) in a four round heavyweight bout.
Rounding out the card will be another heavyweight showdown between New York City's Kimani Cunningham (0-1) and Newark, New Jersey's Tyyab Beale (1-0).
HARRAH'S
The card is promoted by Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing, in association with Harrah's Resort. Tickets are priced at $90 and $60 and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 1(800) 745-3000 or going online to ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available by calling Star Boxing at (718) 823- 2000 or by going online to www.starboxing.com. See you at the Fights.
Thanks for your time.
Starlite Boxing's Sweetscience The Video Channel Online http://www.youtube.com/ELEmpress1
EL Boxing Empress Keisha Morrisey's Myspace http://www.myspace.com/Keishadivine
Honorable Keisha Morrisey http://www.keishamorrisey.com
©®™2007, 2008 All rights reserved
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