{"id":301,"date":"2007-02-07T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/02\/07\/ifl-world-team-champs-qc-silverbacks-defeated-in-houston-season-opener\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:49:43","slug":"ifl-world-team-champs-qc-silverbacks-defeated-in-houston-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/ifl-world-team-champs-qc-silverbacks-defeated-in-houston-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"IFL World Team Champs QC Silverbacks Defeated in Houston Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HOUSTON, February 2, 2007- The Tokyo-based Sabres, led by Ken Yasuda and Los Angeles-based Anacondas, coached by Bas Rutten, won their respective season-opening International Fight League matchups on Feb. 2, 2007 in front of 4,531 at Reliant Arena in Houston.\u00a0 Matt Lindland, coach of the Portland-based Wolfpack submitted Carlos Newton, Toronto-based Dragons\u2019 coach in the \u201cSuperfight\u201d which followed the team matchups.<\/p>\n

The Sabres won, 3-2, over the Scorpions, coached by Don Frye and based in Tucson, while the Anacondas upended the defending IFL World Team Champion Silverbacks, led by Pat Miletich, by the same 3-2 count.
\nLindland earned the victory with a second-round submission, taking out Newton with a series of punches to the face, backing Newton into the corner before dropping to the ground for the guillotine choke to finish the match.
\nThe Houston card marked the first event in the Southwest for the IFL, the world\u2019s first team-based professional mixed martial arts league, and is part of the full 11-event IFL 2007 schedule, the most comprehensive advance schedule in the history of fight sports.
\nIn the highly-anticipated battle between the Anacondas (1-0) and Silverbacks (0-1), heavyweight Ben Rothwell (Kenosha, Wis.) struck first blood for the defending champs, registering a second-round TKO over a game Matt Thompson (Austin, Texas), who served as a replacement for the Anacondas\u2019 regular at the spot, Krzysztof Soszynski.\u00a0 In the welterweight bout, Jay Hieron (Las Vegas, Nev.) battled past another alternate, Victor Moreno (Des Moines, Iowa) to even the match with a first-round submission by rear naked choke.\u00a0 Moreno fought in place of Rory Markham, who was out with an eye injury.\u00a0 Anacondas middleweight Benji Radach (Longview, Wash.) took a slugfest from Ryan McGivern (Bettendorf, Iowa), landing a series of punches to finish off the TKO at 2:22 of the second round.\u00a0 The much-hyped lightweight battle between Chris Horodecki (London, Ontario) of the Anacondas and Bart Palaszewski (Wonderlake, Ill.) of the Silverbacks was everything fans expected, with Horodecki taking a split
\ndecision to secure the team victory for Rutten\u2019s squad.\u00a0 Light heavyweight Mike Ciesnolevicz (Williamstown, Pa.) took a split decision from Alex Schoenauer (Las Vegas, Nev.), completing the scoring.
\nThe IFL next moves to the Gwinnett Center in suburban Atlanta, where the Dragons (Toronto), coached by Newton, take on the Wolfpack (Portland), coached by Lindland, and the Red Bears (Chicago), led by Igor Zinoviev, battle the Pitbulls (New York), led by Renzo Gracie.\u00a0 Popular MMA veterans and local fighter Robbie Lawler and Eduardo Pamplona will match up in the \u201cSuperfight\u201d following the team competition.<\/p>

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