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The one prelim fight I hope is shown on the UFC PPV next weekend is the one between Igor Pokrajac and kiwi Jamie Te Huna. Finally a fighter I can follow with patriotic pride as you British guys do with Bisping 
Hopefully he repays that pride with some good performances.
Jamie Te Huna is NZ born and has lived in Aussie for the last 11 years. He is currently the no. 1 ranked LHW in Australasia and has an 11-4 record, with his last 5 being wins. He suffered in his early career with frequent shoulder dislocations, he estimates more than 100 over his first 5 years.
One of the links below is to highlights of a fight a few years ago where his shoulder was dislocated against Takahiro Oba. The doctor couldn't pop it back in and threatened to end the fight so he got his corner man (who looks a little bit like Mark Hunt) to do it and he ground out a decision win. The fight after that he had to submit to the same injury against Hector Lombard, who is seen as a bit of an up and comer by some at the Armbar. That was his last loss (2007).
He took a year off to sort his shoulder out properly and has won his last 5 fights. He fought 4 times last year, winning all by stoppage, 3 in the first round. When he heard rumours of the UFC coming to Sydney, he quit his job as a bricklayer to go into full time training to put himself in a position to sign with them and was rewarded with a 4 fight deal. He had actually signed with Pride in 2007 but never fought due to his shoulder and then the UFC buy out.
He has trained with Wanderlei and Thiago Silva and Mike Whitehead and cornered Mark Hunt in his Pride fights with Fedor and Nishijima.
I hope he does well, especially if it raises the profile of MMA in NZ. NZ MMA still has that element of being an "underground" sport and it doesn't have a high profile here, something I really hope this Aussie event will improve.
He looks like a well rounded fighter. Of the 4 losses he has had, 3 have been by submission, although 1 of those was because of injury, so he may have a weakness on the ground.
I was pretty pissed I missed tickets for this event (they sold out before I knew they were on sale
) because it may have been the only chance I would have had of seeing absolute legends (Big Nog, Wandi, Cro Cop) of MMA competing in the flesh. The one consolation would be for the UFC to show this fight on tv and for Jamie to kick some arse.
So while most of you guys, and that includes me, are hoping the "pride of Britain" gets KTFO, I'll be hoping the Maori boy does NZ proud. I am sure you will all get behind him too because if he wins, anyone picking him in the predictions league will be getting 10 bonus points
Highlights of shoulder dislocation (and relocation) vs Takahiro Oba
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gnj2_james-te-huna-shoulder-dislocation_sport
His last fight against Anthony Perosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UljmgnEJcTM
Hopefully he repays that pride with some good performances.Jamie Te Huna is NZ born and has lived in Aussie for the last 11 years. He is currently the no. 1 ranked LHW in Australasia and has an 11-4 record, with his last 5 being wins. He suffered in his early career with frequent shoulder dislocations, he estimates more than 100 over his first 5 years.
One of the links below is to highlights of a fight a few years ago where his shoulder was dislocated against Takahiro Oba. The doctor couldn't pop it back in and threatened to end the fight so he got his corner man (who looks a little bit like Mark Hunt) to do it and he ground out a decision win. The fight after that he had to submit to the same injury against Hector Lombard, who is seen as a bit of an up and comer by some at the Armbar. That was his last loss (2007).
He took a year off to sort his shoulder out properly and has won his last 5 fights. He fought 4 times last year, winning all by stoppage, 3 in the first round. When he heard rumours of the UFC coming to Sydney, he quit his job as a bricklayer to go into full time training to put himself in a position to sign with them and was rewarded with a 4 fight deal. He had actually signed with Pride in 2007 but never fought due to his shoulder and then the UFC buy out.
He has trained with Wanderlei and Thiago Silva and Mike Whitehead and cornered Mark Hunt in his Pride fights with Fedor and Nishijima.
I hope he does well, especially if it raises the profile of MMA in NZ. NZ MMA still has that element of being an "underground" sport and it doesn't have a high profile here, something I really hope this Aussie event will improve.
He looks like a well rounded fighter. Of the 4 losses he has had, 3 have been by submission, although 1 of those was because of injury, so he may have a weakness on the ground.
I was pretty pissed I missed tickets for this event (they sold out before I knew they were on sale
) because it may have been the only chance I would have had of seeing absolute legends (Big Nog, Wandi, Cro Cop) of MMA competing in the flesh. The one consolation would be for the UFC to show this fight on tv and for Jamie to kick some arse. So while most of you guys, and that includes me, are hoping the "pride of Britain" gets KTFO, I'll be hoping the Maori boy does NZ proud. I am sure you will all get behind him too because if he wins, anyone picking him in the predictions league will be getting 10 bonus points
Highlights of shoulder dislocation (and relocation) vs Takahiro Oba
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gnj2_james-te-huna-shoulder-dislocation_sport
His last fight against Anthony Perosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UljmgnEJcTM
