MMA Gospel

We at MMA Gospel are working hard to improve all aspects of our brand. We were finally able to add some very nice studio equipment to improve the sound quality of the show.

Coming soon we will be re-launching www.mmagospel.com as a new site that is not associated with Blogger. This new site will be jam packed with new stuff. From opinion articles and news stories to videos and much much more.

Stay tuned as we prepare to turn the world off MMA upside down brining you the Gospel in all things mixed martial arts!

I would like to thank Mike and the guys from MMA Mafia for seeing my piece on Chris and putting this together. Please follow the link and join in on this!!


Chris Bennett Fund Raiser

We were joined by Joe from KOBC clothing. KOBC not only came on and talked about the company but also gave the listeners a coupon code for 20% off their purchase for the entire month of January. Next Krzysztof Soszynski joined us and discussed his stint as a pro wrestler and wrestling King Kong Bundy, his fight with Brandon Vera and much more.

Josh Gross from SI.com came on and gave us his current top 5 pound for pound best fighters as well as talking about Strikeforce, the best fighter you may not know and helped co-host Gary Friedman pull out his ball gag.

Antwain Britt of Strikeforce called in and blew the place up. He is hilarious and gave us some great info on The Green Gi company. Look for more of Britt on MMA Gospel Radio in the future, possibly as doing a special segment for us from time to time.

We gave you a code for www.performancemma.com which gets you 15% off your entire purchase through Tuesday Jan. 26. Don't miss out on these savings as well as savings from a partner of the show, Fight Caps.

I had Chris on the show last night and I wanted to take the time to apologize to Brandon of MMA Training Shop. There was some miss-communication last night and I stated on air that Brandon had stopped giving Chris the money he deserved and that is not true. I have since talked to Brandon and he is a very good guy that is working hard for many of these up and coming fighters. Brandon, I am sorry.

Now that we have gotten that out of the way let's get back to Chris. Chris is trying to get to the Pan Jiu Jitsu Championships in April and we need sponsors for him. I am putting up some videos of his fights below as well as a link to his MySpace. Look for Chris very soon on Twitter!!

You can help Chris out by passing this on to potentipol sponsors or by going to www.bennettmma.com and purchasing one of his shirts. Thanks to Brandon at MMA Training Shop, 100% of the proceeds from this shirt will go towards getting Chris to the Pans!


Here is the link to his Myspace:

As I sat and watched Strikeforce: Evolution this morning (I DVRed the event to watch WEC live) thoughts of Cung Le as an elite mixed martial artist crept into my head. The mma world was ablaze with discussions on how Cung Le was on the same level as Fighters.com and UFC middleweight champion "Spider" Anderson Silva (21-4) in the striking department. I have never been one to view Cung as an elite mma fighter and after last night the world could see why he is no where near the level of Silva or Fighters.com top ranked "Last Emperor" Fedor Emelianenko (30-1).

"Hands of Steel" Scott Smith (16-6) took down Cung Le in the final round, winning by knock out. Is this the reason Cung is not an elite level mixed martial artist? No it is not. Today we see many of the top fighters lose fights they are supposed to win. Make no bones about it, Cung was supposed to win this fight. The sport uses four ounce gloves and with the striking prowess of many of the fighters, all it takes is one clear shot to end a night.

What I have seen in the past from Cung was his amazing ability to kick from angles that we usually do not see in the sport. His kicks do not make him an elite striker though. A top level striker may be a guy who uses very little kicks but seldom do you see a guy who uses few punches considered one of the best strikers. Cung's lack of clean punches has always stood out to me. Last night was just another example of that. He seemed to be looking to hurt Scott with kicks. This is was a good strategy as he was winning the fight but a true elite striker would be able to mix punches with those kicks. He is obviously more comfortable kicking than punching and this is a glaring weakness in his game. Anderson Silva uses kicks similar to Cung Le yet he uses them to set up strong punches. This is what an elite striker does to get victories.



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