Babalu, Ricco Headline Jan. 12 WCO Card
Valor Fighting and Primal MMA will be co-promoting the fledgling World Cagefighting Organization’s January 12 card at the San Diego Sports Arena, and have put together a pretty good-looking line-up.
Fighting in the main event will be light heavyweights Renato “Babalu” Sobral and Vernon “Tiger” White. Since his ugly UFC 74 submission win over David Heath, Sobral has picked up a submission victory over Rodney Faverus at the inaugural Platinum Fighting Promotions event last month in the Philippines. White, on the other hand, is coming off of consecutive TKO losses to Mike Whitehead and Marcelo Tigre.
Also on the main card, former UFC heavyweight champ Ricco Rodriguez will take on Mike Kyle, who will make his return after being suspended for illegally kneeing (and then continuing an assault on) Brian Olsen at WEC 20. Ricco, who also won in December at the PFP’s Philippines event, might have his hands full with the powerful, knockout-loving Kyle.
Mark Kerr looks to pick up his second win in as many fights under the WCO banner, this time against against Rick Roufus, a legendary kickboxer who will be making his MMA debut. If you haven’t seen Roufus fight Michael McDonald (both of their fights were cool), you’re missing out.
Tickets are still available for those in – or traveling to – the San Diego and run from $23.50 to $153.50. According to MMAJunkie, WCO executives have stated that a portion of the event’s ticket sales will benefit those families devastated by the recent wildfires in the area.
Here’s the January 12th WCO “The Return” card in its entirety:
- Renato “Babalu” Sobral vs. Vernon White
- Ricco Rodriguez vs. Mike Kyle
- Mark Kerr vs. Rick Roufus
- Jimmy Ambriz vs. Wesley “Cabbage” Correira
- Joe Riggs vs. Gustavo Machado
- David Loiseau vs. Leopoldo Serao
- Tiki Ghosn vs. J.J. Ambrose
- Virgil Zwicker vs. David Mejia
- Fabio Costa vs. Carlos Fuentes
- Georgi Karakahyan vs. Armando Sanchez
- Tony Sylvester vs. Cain Velasquez
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Sobral will have a very busy 08. Anyone know if this will be aired online or anything?
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Evan, a live internet feed will be available on Jan. 12.
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Sad that Mike Kyle is still getting work. I can’t support any organization that gives him $$. I also find it a little disappointing that this website is giving coverage to an organization that is using him but that is just my humble opinion.
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Wow, I live in SD and hadn’t heard *anything* about this event. Thanks for the post and maybe I’ll be able to check it out live. With guys like Kerr, Kyle, etc., in there it has a little bit of a freak show quality to it, but it looks like it could still produce some good fights.
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Rln, I’m a long-time Babalu fan, and Kyle being reinstated by CSAC is somethat that intrigues me. In no way am I endorsing him; I’m just anxious to see what he does against Ricco.
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I am trying to get my press pass to this. I live 30 minutes from the arena. I cant seem to get a return call though.
Someone give Sam a nudge and have him pull some strings for me…
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good card.
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“Evan, a live internet feed will be available on Jan. 12.”
Where?
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yeah does anyone know where? Pro Elite or yahoo I am assuming.
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http://ringsidejunkie.com/ these mofos are showing it for $
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