Curly Howard
02-20-2004, 07:29 AM
from http://www.mmaweekly.com
We should have a pretty good idea about the future of Phil Baroni today. The Conneticut Athletic Comission is expected to rule today whether Baroni will continue his suspension of one year, or if the suspension could be cut in half to six months.
Baroni came on MMAWeekly Radio yesterday and said quote "I have a good feeling about it. I think I may be able to compete as soon as June, but we will wait and see."
As far as future opponents, Baroni doesn't really care who he fights next as long he as gets to fight. The suspension has been tough on him but if he could pick an opponent, it would be Evan Tanner. A fight the fans would really like to see is Phil against Lee Murray but others feel Baroni is on a collision coarse with Jorge Rivera.
Baroni also broke down the upcoming Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz fight. Phil said the big question for Chuck was conditioning. Will Chuck be in tip top shape for Tito. Baroni said he knew Tito would be in great shape so it was up to Chuck to get there. Baroni said he has trained with both fighters and thought they were very even as far as grappling goes.
"I don't know if Tito can hold Chuck down. Chuck was able to take Randy Couture down in the second round. Tito couldn't take Randy down in five rounds."
Baroni says this fight could go either way and is looking forward to watching the fight and seeing what happens. If you missed the interview catch it on our radio archive.
MMA fighter and Bostonian Jorge Rivera joined the radio show as well and pounded home the BoSox point of view as it was Boston vs New York theme on the show. "The New York Bad Ass" himself Phil Baroni predictably took his father's side to even the odds against the Bean Town duo of Rivera and Bennett.
All the baseball discussion was worth the listen to get to the MMA talk. Rivera, coming off a loss to Lee Murray at UFC 46 said, "I got caught." Jorge wanted to take the fight to the ground and pound on Murray but made a mistake and got caught. Rivera blames himself for the loss and would like another shot at Murray to prove his worth.
We should have a pretty good idea about the future of Phil Baroni today. The Conneticut Athletic Comission is expected to rule today whether Baroni will continue his suspension of one year, or if the suspension could be cut in half to six months.
Baroni came on MMAWeekly Radio yesterday and said quote "I have a good feeling about it. I think I may be able to compete as soon as June, but we will wait and see."
As far as future opponents, Baroni doesn't really care who he fights next as long he as gets to fight. The suspension has been tough on him but if he could pick an opponent, it would be Evan Tanner. A fight the fans would really like to see is Phil against Lee Murray but others feel Baroni is on a collision coarse with Jorge Rivera.
Baroni also broke down the upcoming Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz fight. Phil said the big question for Chuck was conditioning. Will Chuck be in tip top shape for Tito. Baroni said he knew Tito would be in great shape so it was up to Chuck to get there. Baroni said he has trained with both fighters and thought they were very even as far as grappling goes.
"I don't know if Tito can hold Chuck down. Chuck was able to take Randy Couture down in the second round. Tito couldn't take Randy down in five rounds."
Baroni says this fight could go either way and is looking forward to watching the fight and seeing what happens. If you missed the interview catch it on our radio archive.
MMA fighter and Bostonian Jorge Rivera joined the radio show as well and pounded home the BoSox point of view as it was Boston vs New York theme on the show. "The New York Bad Ass" himself Phil Baroni predictably took his father's side to even the odds against the Bean Town duo of Rivera and Bennett.
All the baseball discussion was worth the listen to get to the MMA talk. Rivera, coming off a loss to Lee Murray at UFC 46 said, "I got caught." Jorge wanted to take the fight to the ground and pound on Murray but made a mistake and got caught. Rivera blames himself for the loss and would like another shot at Murray to prove his worth.