Saturday, July 4 12:32 pm PT: Unbeaten lightweight prospect Dave Jansen submitted Amirkhan Mazikhov with a first-round guillotine choke, as Team USA West cruised to a 5-0 victory against Team Russia Imperial at M-1 Challenge 17 on Saturday at Olympic Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
Jansen (12-0) needed only 22 ticks to lock in his fight-ending guillotine choke against Mazikhov. The Sportfight veteran and Team Quest product has finished three of his last five opponents. Jansen has won all three of his bouts on the M-1 Challenge circuit.
Saturday, July 4 10:41 am PT: UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre knows both B.J. Penn and Kenny Florian well. Having bested Penn twice, few know Penn’s game inside-and-out like GSP.
After training with “Ken-Flo” in Montreal, St. Pierre declared that he’s predicting a Florian win against the Hawaiian at UFC 101 in Philadelphia.
“I’ve trained with [Florian] two times and he looked really sharp. I put my money on him against B.J. Penn,” St. Pierre told MMAWeekly.
The “Ultimate Fighter” season nine welterweight winner James Wilks spoke with Sherdog.com’s Mike Sloan in Las Vegas after his submission of Damarques Johnson.
Wilks was asked to predict UFC 100’s Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping fight, and the British technician obliged.
