{"id":599,"date":"2007-07-18T20:24:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/07\/18\/the-q-c-silverbacks-have-hands-full-with-anacondas-in-ifl-semifinals\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:43:21","slug":"the-q-c-silverbacks-have-hands-full-with-anacondas-in-ifl-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/the-q-c-silverbacks-have-hands-full-with-anacondas-in-ifl-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Q-C Silverbacks Have Hands Full With Anacondas in IFL Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad City Silverbacks will have to face the number one ranked team in the IFL, The Los Angeles Anacondas in the IFL Semifinals on August 2nd at the Continental Arena in East Rutheford, N.J.\u00a0 The Anacondas have an undefeated record this year of 3-0 as a team and 11-4 in individual matches.\u00a0 The Silverbacks are 2-1 as a team and 9-6 in individual matches this year.\u00a0 The Anacondas are looking to vindicate a loss to the Silverbacks in 2006 and with the way they are fighting this year and with standout members like the undefeated Chris \u201cThe Polish Hammer\u201d Horodecki and the aggressive Jay Hieron they have a good chance this year.\u00a0 The semifinals will also feature coach Ken Yasuda\u2019s Tokyo Sabers taking on the Renzo Gracie\u2019s New York Pitbulls.\u00a0 Both teams also have undefeated team records of 3-0.<br \/>\nThe Silverbacks-Anacondas match will feature at 155 lbs. <!--more--> the Quad City favorite Bart Palaszewski taking on Chris \u201cThe Polish Hammer\u201d Horodecki, who has been dominating his opponents this season.\u00a0 At the middleweight class of 170 lbs. Rory Markham will take on the Anaconda\u2019s Jay Hieron.\u00a0 At the welterweight class, 185 lbs., the former member of the Wolfpack Gerald Harris steps in for Ryan McGivern and will take on the Anaconda\u2019s Benji Radach.\u00a0 \u201cMr. Harris\u201d \u2013 as he is called because he is also a high school history teacher \u2013 is known for slamming his opponents, and should provide for an exiting match.\u00a0 The former Ultimate Fighter TV show star Alex Schoenauer, who is originally from Argentina, will take on the Silverback\u2019s Mike Ciesnelovicz in the light heavyweight division. In the heavyweight class Big Ben Rothwell will looking for a repeat of his 2006 encounter with the Anaconda\u2019s Krzysztof Soszynski that resulted in a TKO win for the Silverback\u2019s big man.<br \/>\nThe Silverbacks are the defending 2006 IFL World Champions and as the competition in the league gets tougher they are looking to maintain their reputation as the best teams in the IFL.<\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-2257887044\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad City Silverbacks will have to face the number one ranked team in the IFL, The Los Angeles Anacondas in the IFL Semifinals on August 2nd at the Continental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}