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Saturday, 3 September 2011
Julia Budd vs. Ronda Rousey booked for Strikeforce Challengers event in November
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Strikeforce has booked an exciting women's bout for a Challengers series card this November, as Canadian Julia Budd will take on submission specialist Ronda Rousey.
The organization announced the bout on Twitter, and MMAJunkie.com reported that the fight will be on a Challengers card at the Pearl at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, though the date for the event has not yet been determined.
Budd has fought all three of her professional fights under the Strikeforce banner. After debuting with a TKO win over Shana Olsen, Budd was then stopped in 14 seconds by Amanda Nunes, but she bounced back in her last fight with a decision win over Germaine de Randamie.
Rousey made her Strikeforce debut earlier this month, defeating Sarah D'Alelio with an armbar in the first round. However, controversy surrounded the win, as D'Alelio claimed she did not verbally tap, though referee Steve Mazzagatti stopped the bout due to that. Rousey has fought six times in the amateur and professional ranks, and all six of those fights have ended by armbar in under a minute.
Penick's Analysis: This should be a really fun women's fight for a challengers card. It will be Budd's Muay Thai against Rousey's dangerous submission game, and the stylistic matchup should provide a very good challenge for each. Regardless of which fighter's style wins out, someone's likely going to get finished in that fight, and it makes for an intriguing and exciting fight.
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The organization announced the bout on Twitter, and MMAJunkie.com reported that the fight will be on a Challengers card at the Pearl at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, though the date for the event has not yet been determined.
Budd has fought all three of her professional fights under the Strikeforce banner. After debuting with a TKO win over Shana Olsen, Budd was then stopped in 14 seconds by Amanda Nunes, but she bounced back in her last fight with a decision win over Germaine de Randamie.
Rousey made her Strikeforce debut earlier this month, defeating Sarah D'Alelio with an armbar in the first round. However, controversy surrounded the win, as D'Alelio claimed she did not verbally tap, though referee Steve Mazzagatti stopped the bout due to that. Rousey has fought six times in the amateur and professional ranks, and all six of those fights have ended by armbar in under a minute.
Penick's Analysis: This should be a really fun women's fight for a challengers card. It will be Budd's Muay Thai against Rousey's dangerous submission game, and the stylistic matchup should provide a very good challenge for each. Regardless of which fighter's style wins out, someone's likely going to get finished in that fight, and it makes for an intriguing and exciting fight.
Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/Affliction2/article_10301.shtml
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Lady Gaga Releases First 'Fashion Film' Version of 'You and I'
Video was directed by fashion photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, with four more clips to come.
By Gil Kaufman
Lady Gaga
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Most artists make one big splashy video for their latest single and then move on to the next one. As she's proven over and over again, though — most recently at the VMAs, where she stayed in her Jo Calderone character all night long — Lady Gaga is not most people.
After announcing on Twitter on Thursday that she shot five "fashion films" set to "Yoü and I" with Dutch fashion photography duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, she unleashed the first clip later that day, "Haus of Ü Featuring Nymph."
In typical Gaga fashion, it is perplexing, mesmerizing and just a bit odd, and nothing like the way-more elaborate, official music video for the rocking ballad. The barely two-minute black-and-white clip has Gaga pulling off a series of balletic twists and turns while wearing a simple slip dress and ballet slippers, her blonde hair loose and waving in the wind or up in a bun. At various points, there appear to be moths or some other kind of insect flying around in the background and lying dead on the ground.
Wearing very little makeup, Gaga stares intently at the camera while dancing in front of a stark white background. At one point she pulls up the dress while writhing on the ground, almost exposing herself. Near the end there is a fleeting moment where she gazes into the camera while holding her hair on her head in what looks like a colorized photo, with blonde applied to her locks, along with blush on her cheeks and a splash of blue on the dress.
Gaga did not announce when the other videos would be posted.
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Britney Spears 'Can't Be Knocked Down'
Celebrity fans including former 'NSYNC singer JC Chasez, tourmate DJ Pauly D and more weigh in on why Brit is still on top.
By Jocelyn Vena
Britney Spears with Lady Gaga as Jo Calderone at the 2011 VMAs
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At the 2011 Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga's alter ego Jo Calderone presented Britney Spears with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award by telling the audience that Spears "taught us all how to be fearless." And that fearlessness was honored with a dance-heavy tribute to the pop star. Brit's ever-growing legacy is the reason why she was so deserving of the special award, her celebrity fans and members of her inner circle told MTV News.
"She never lets you down," her longtime choreographer Brian Friedman told MTV News on the VMA black carpet on Sunday night. "She's definitely not dull. There's always something crazy coming around the next turn. I think it's a mix between music, which is always incredible, the dance performance you see on the stage, the iconic videos, the fashion, and then the fact that she can't be knocked down."
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Those sentiments were mirrored by her pal and former 'NSYNC member JC Chasez, who noted that even at 30, "She's actually been around long enough [to have a tribute]. She has a body of work to pull from."
Spears' former tourmate, DJ Pauly D, also gushed about the singer, who won Best Pop Video for "Till The World Ends."
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"Oh, man! She deserves it out of anybody," the "Jersey Shore" star said. "She's been killing it forever now. She's got so many albums, and every time she brings out an album, she brings it."
After Gaga presented Spears with the award on Sunday, a group of young female dancers of various ages, dressed up in Britney-themed costumes from her hit music videos, took the stage to perform some of her most memorable moves.
The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards have wrapped, but the real action is just getting started! Stick with MTV News for winners, fashion pics, video and behind-the-scenes stories about everything that went down. Visit VMA.MTV.com for the latest.
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1669948/britney-spears-video-music-awards-tribute.jhtml
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