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After a full day of intense action the finals for all the black belt weights are set. No shortage of action at any weight class. Caio Terra moved on to finals with a masterful day, with Featherweight is set up for a classic Rafa Mendes vs Cobrinha rematch. At Lightweight Zak Maxwell seemed to be unstoppable until he ran into relatively unknown Brazilia Leandro Lo, who is a technical beast. Leandro dominated Maxwell and then Phillipe Della Monica to reach the finals against Lucas Lepri. At middleweight Kron Gracie rematched with Vitor Estima, who used footlocks to hold off the son of Rickson and reach the finals against Claduio Calasans. Yuri Silva's amazing run at his competition as a black has carried him all the way to the finals of heavyweight to face teammate Lucas Leite, and likely they will agree on a winner off the mats. The preliminary blog results are here and there was surely some excellent action there. The finals should be starting soon. Live results after the jump... Roosterweight Final: Caio Terra vs Rafael Barata Light-Featherweight Final: Bruno Malfacine vs Gulherme Mendes Featherweight Final: Rafael Mendes vs Cobrinha Lightweight Final: Lucas Lepri vs Leandro Lo Middleweight Final: Victor Estima vs Calasnas Claudio Jr. Medium-Heavyweight Final: Vitor Toledo vs Kayron Gracie Heavyweight Final: Lucas Leite vs Yuri Simoes Super-Heavyweight Final: Antonio Carlos Jr vs Bernardo Faria Ultra-Heavyweight Final: Marcus Buchecha vs Alexander Trans.

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Amanda Lucas, the daughter of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, won again in Japan this weekend. She beat up on Yumiko Hotta for two and a half rounds before submitting her with a keylock. With that win, she claimed the … Continue reading →

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A few years ago, even the most hardcore Star Wars fans would never have guessed that George Lucas' daughter would eventually move from making cameos on his father's movies, to busting heads and winning MMA championships. That's exactly what happened though, as Amanda Lucas won her fourth straight bout this past weekend, submitting MMA vet and professional wrestler, Yumiko Hotta by key lock on the third round of their DEEP 57 bout. With the victory, the daughter of the Star Wars creator took home her first Mixed Martial Arts title by claiming the DEEP Women's Open-Weight Championship. After the jump, you can check out footage of the entire fight, along with an emotional Amanda Lucas celebrating her win in Japan with Darth Vader and a group of Stormtroopers. Follow me on twitter -- @antontabuena Here's video of the fight: You can skip to the 15:10 mark to watch the finish and see her celebrate with Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers.

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A couple years ago, Ecko made Star Wars themed hoodies and cut a video that featured Marc Laimon and Robert Drysdale fighting with plastic toy light sabers. It proved that you can be one of the greatest BJJ coaches and still be an incredibly geeky Star Wars fanboy. Granted, if any of us had two operational light sabers lying around, it would be virtually impossible not to stage your very own Jedi altercation. It would also be equally impossible to not emit your own sound effects when you swing around your plastic rod of imaginary energy. Unfortunately, physicists have agreed that light saber technology would be impossible to develop. Sorry to break the news to all of you members of the Temple of the Jedi Order (yes, it's an actual religion). Over the weekend we told you Amanda Lucas would be competing at DEEP 57 for the DEEP women's open-weight championship against Yumiko Hotta. Well, she managed to finish her opponent in the third round via keylock. After the bout, the inevitable happened -- Darth Vader and his crew of Stormtroopers invaded Amanda Lucas' personal space. Props to Sports Illustrated and Sherdog for the pictures and massive congratulations to Amanda Lucas on her first championship belt.

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The concept of free will on one hand, and determinism on the other reeks of philosophical drivel to those that work a nine to five job. Who cares about that stuff except stoners, and hipsters with a twitter feed to cliff notes from Nietzsche? Tony Loiseleur's brilliant story on Amanda Lucas doesn't explore that debate, but it does reveal what to many feels like a refutation of determinism: who but an animal of pure volition would choose to become a professional fighter in the uncertain world of female MMA despite being the daughter of the man who gave birth to Star Wars? What makes Amanda Lucas' story so interesting is not just that many of us probably envy her childhood (well...before 1999 at least). But that in a world that is desperate for stars, the daughter of George Lucas competing in "our" sport has flown under the radar. It's easy to be suspicious of these endeavors. Is it a cry for help? A demand for attention? A "phase", which only the privileged can so often afford? These are not the impressions you get from reading about Lucas. She fulfills every responsibility you'd expect from a fighter despite a difficult weight cut in one sequence. And ultimately, the image of Amanda Lucas the reader gets is that of an individual who is simply doing what she loves. Hard to believe someone with a privileged background could simply love fighting? Try this experiment. Explain to me why your heart begins to race, and your palms begins to sweat as you process the visuals of Boba Fett, the Millennium Falcon, the labored but robotic breathing of Darth Vader, the arrogant charm of Han Solo, or the snowy landscape littered with All Terrain Armored Transport Walkers... Those are all things that simultaneously defy explanation, validate themselves, and reveal your quirks (and lack of a social life in many cases), but for which you probably can't explain. Chances are, you can relate to Amanda's unlikely story in some way. Simply put, our passions don't lend themselves to classification. How would she like to be thought of? She remains to the world, not "Amanda Lucas, the fighter," but still rather "Amanda Lucas, daughter of Star Wars creator George Lucas." Difficult as it may be, it is a distinction she hopes she can change before she hangs up the gloves. "I’d love for them to think, ‘Hey, she was a great fighter,’ and, hopefully, maybe that I was a good champion if that can ever happen," she says with a hopeful smile. "Definitely not just, ‘Oh, she was George Lucas’ daughter.’ I’d want people to remember that I did something on my own and that it was pretty cool." As always, stop what you're doing and read the full article here. Tony Loiseleur can be found on twitter @JustTonyL. Complain about Tony being on this list twice, below.

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Sorry Star Wars fans, Amanda Lucas didn’t become an MMA fighter to demonstrate how to use ‘The Force’ to win a fight. That would be entirely too predictable (and probably too fictional) to score her submission victories in this universe. Even the daughter of Star Wars creator George Lucas has to train Muay Thai and Brazillian jiu-jitsu to compete at DEEP in Japan. That being said, not only is George Lucas’ daughter an MMA fighter, but she’s an undefeated MMA fighter looking for a title shot in her next bout. She’s heard every possible Star Wars Joke you can possibly think up, and if you continue to ask her any more questions with regards to her father’s monumental film career, she will turn her back to you and walk away, just like she did to Ron Kruck on Inside MMA.

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The Scorecard hits the highs and lows of the latest big event offering in MMA. Points are assigned completely at random but stay between ten and negative ten because I hate math. When UFC on FOX was over I felt like Jason Biggs in American Pie. You know the scene where he has Shannon Elizabeth all alone in his room and she’s entertaining herself before he enters the room, performs a striptease, and is ready to lose his virginity to the hottest chick at school? Yeah, we all know what happens next. After all the build up and anticipation, Biggs prematurely celebrates leaving Elizabeth very disappointed. Yup. That about sums up how I felt between the hour of 9PM and 10PM EST on Saturday. Lets got to the scorecard: *The prelims were scheduled to start at 4:45PM. They didn’t start until 4:55PM. As a stickler for time, this was unacceptable. It was even more unacceptable that Matt Lucas vs. Aaron Rosa was the fight I had to wait 10 extra minutes for. MINUS TWO *Lucas has a terrible nickname (“Luke Duke”), wore headphones during his walk out, and trains at Arizona Combat Team. He might be my new least favorite fighter. MINUS THREE *Boy were there a lot of empty seats for the first prelim fight. While I can’t blame people for not caring about Rosa vs. Lucas, the fans should have been showing up very early for such a big event. MINUS ONE *Was good to see “Big” John McCarthy in the cage for the first fight. PLUS TWO *Lucas kept spitting out his mouthpiece. As if I needed another reason to dislike this guy. MINUS TWO *If I never see another fight involving Lucas in my lifetime, it’ll be too soon. He’s officially my most disliked fighter. MINUS FIVE *And who the hell scored that fight 28-28, actually giving it to Lucas if not for the point deduction? I scored the bout 30 to -30 for Rosa and feel that any other score is unacceptable. MINUS THREE *To find at least one positive in the fight, Rosa looked decent at 205. PLUS TWO *I’m pretty indifferent towards Mike Pierce, but the fact that he comes out to “Champion” by Metta World Peace makes him pretty cool. PLUS TWO *Obligatory points for the obligatory Chuck Liddell mention during Pierce vs. Paul Bradley. PLUS THREE *Pierce vs. Bradley was what it was: Two guys known for their wrestling who spent the majority of the fight kind of striking. After the first fight, this looked like Stephan Bonnar vs. Forrest Griffin 1. PLUS TWO *Arianny is still beautiful, Chandella is still lovely, WHERE WAS BRITTNEY?!?! MINUS THREE *Holy crap, Alex Caceres came out and actually looked like a fighter and not an entertainer. PLUS FOUR *I don’t know what happened to Cole Escovedo in this fight. Maybe he took Caceres lightly or maybe Caceres really has improved by leaps and bounds, but that was not a good performance by Escovedo. MINUS TWO *I give a lot of credit to Caceres though. Easily the most impressive performance of his career and it looks like he’s found a home at 135. PLUS FOUR *No walk outs for Mackens Semerzier and Robbie Peralta, which goes to show you how long the first three fights took. MINUS ONE *Semerzier vs. Peralta was a fun, back and forth scrap while it lasted. PLUS FOUR * I give Peralta a lot of credit for coming back after a slow first round against a tough veteran like Semerzier. PLUS TWO *That said, the ending that started with an accidental headbutt was very unfortunate. MINUS ONE *You would think that Joe Rogan would know that Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto has only been a bantamweight for a year now, and climbed the ranks as a featherweight. MINUS TWO *Even though Yamamoto’s judo throw was awesome, he should have known better than to initiate a ground battle with Darren Uyenoyama. MINUS ONE *Some excellent grappling by Uyenoyama to gain dominant positions, take the back, and nearly submit “Kid” before the bell sounded in the first round. PLUS THREE *Once again, some excellent grappling by Uyenoyama in the second round after getting rocked with the left hand early in the round. Just a great job to get the takedown and take the back. PLUS FOUR *Rogan sort of apologized for saying, “crackhead control” during the Uyenoyama vs. Yamamoto fight. Welcome to network television Mr. Rogan. At least Rogan recognized that he might not be able to say those things on these events. PLUS ONE *Another disappointing performance by Yamamoto. I don’t think anyone expected him to light the UFC world on fire, but this was definitely a winnable fight for him. I hope he’s still a big deal in Japan, because that’s where he’s headed. MINUS THREE *Awesome job by Uyenoyama. Even though Yamamoto isn’t what he used to be, that’s still a big win for him and he looked dominant in victory. PLUS FOUR *Clay Harvison’s nickname is “Heavy Metal.” So of course he walks out to a song by Diddy. MINUS TWO *DaMarques Johnson celebrating before the stoppage, earning the stoppage, and then asking for the Knockout of the Night bonus was awesome. PLUS FIVE *Extra points for our first true finish of the night. PLUS THREE *Great fight between Ricardo Lamas and Cub Swanson. Action packed for the seven minutes it lasted. PLUS FIVE *Sweet finish by Lamas, submitting a very good Swanson with an arm triangle. PLUS THREE *Extra points to the last two fights for not sucking and turning this card around. PLUS FOUR *Really Joe, Lamas announces the death of his grandmother and the pregnancy of his sister-in-law and you still want to ask questions about the fight instead of giving your condolences and congratulations? Come on man. MINUS FOUR *Credit to Mike Goldberg for acknowledging what Lamas said. PLUS THREE *Props to Pablo Garza for walking out to “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + The Machine. Love that song. Plus Garza was singing it, which is always a plus to me. PLUS TWO *Dear late arriving crowd, you don’t have permission to boo 30 seconds into the fight. You didn’t sit through Rosa vs. Lucas. MINUS FOUR *Strong performance by Dustin Poirier. He bullied around Garza and locked on a sweet D’Arce Choke for the victory. PLUS FIVE *Shame on the crowd for paying more attention to Michael Bisping than the fight. I seriously hate this crowd. MINUS FOUR *Poirier is right there for a title shot. One more win over a top guy at 145 and I think he’ll earn himself a title shot. It’s been fun to watch his rise up the ranks. PLUS THREE *I’m still extremely upset that Ben Henderson vs. Clay Guida was online and not on television. FuelTV couldn’t put this fight on instead of interviews with irrelevant celebs? MINUS FOUR *Both Guida and Henderson came out singing their walk out songs. Thus, both guys are awesome. PLUS THREE *Yes, that first round was awesome. Some great exchanges and wrestling defense by both guys. PLUS FIVE *Henderson has the best submission escapability in the world. PLUS THREE *Guida vs. Henderson kicked all kinds of ass. One of the best fights all year. Great exchanges, great scrambles, great submission attempts, fast-paced. Just awesome. PLUS EIGHT *Extra points because this fight was awesome and lived up to the hype. PLUS SIX *Serious shame on FOX for not putting this fight on TV and shame on UFC for not making this fight the main event of UFC 138. It was an awesome fight that will actually get short changed because it wasn’t on TV or five rounds. MINUS FIVE *Not a fan of the football music opening the UFC event. When I hear that music, I think Cam Newton, not Cain Velasquez. MINUS THREE *I was skeptical about Brock Lesnar doing some pre-fight analysis, but after he cut off Dana White, who said, “He’s fought all the best wrestlers in the division” and corrected him, I was instantly sold on the idea. PLUS TWO *Brock did a great job hyping his rematch with Cain. Just a shame that nothing is guaranteed in MMA and Cain has to get through Junior dos Santos while Lesnar has to get through Alistair Overeem. EVEN *So after all that build….the fight went one minute. I know it’s hard to complain about a KO finish, but considering the circumstances, man, that felt disappointing. MINUS ONE *That said, it was a pretty great one minute. Cain started strong with some good leg kicks and JDS proved why his power is second to none. PLUS FOUR *Wow, Dana’s critiquing of Cain’s game plan of not going for a takedown was absolutely unnecessary and wrong. The fight went one minute. You can’t critique a one minute fight because anyone can get caught in a minute. What if Cain caught JDS? Or what if Cain tried a sloppy shot with no set up and got caught? It’s stupid. I understand that Dana was upset that the fight only went one minute, but praise JDS for his victory, don’t critique Cain. MINUS TEN *Overall, this event under-delivered. It was built around one fight and that one fight only lasted a minute. I don’t know how anyone wasn’t disappointed in the end. MINUS THREE Final Score: 32 PHOTO CREDIT – UFC

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Aaron Rosa's cut back down to 205 lbs. was successful as he dominated Arizona Combat Sports' team member Matt Lucas to a majority decision (28-28, 30-26, 30-26). Rosa was able to get the better of Lucas on the feet in the first round of action, utilizing the clinch to do enough damage to sway the round in his favor. Lucas was able to use his wrestling skills to briefly take down Rosa early, but it didn't last as Rosa was able to escape to his feet and batter Lucas from range. The second frame was similar to the first, although Lucas was able to land a couple of combinations early. Once again, Rosa beat up Lucas in the clinch, wearing out his opponent and scoring points with the judges. With seconds left, Lucas was able to secure a takedown. Unfortunately, he was deducted a point for dropping his mouthpiece for the third time moments beforehand. Lucas, visibly beaten and tired, walked into Rosa's knees and elbows in the third. Lucas once again dropped his mouthpiece, the fourth time in the fight, with only a minute left in the round. Rosa continued to work over Lucas to the final bell, easily taking home the victory. Rosa made his Octagon debut back in June at UFC 131, losing by technical knockout to veteran heavyweight Joey Beltran in the third round of action. He had previously amassed a 15-4 record outside of the promotion with notable wins over former UFC fighter Abe Wagner and Strikeforce veterans Devin Cole and Anthony Ruiz.  Newcomer Matt Lucas entered tonight's contest with a 14-2 record spanning a five-year mixed martial arts career. Most of his recent bouts took place under the Arizona-based Rage in the Cage banner, amassing a 5-1 record in his last 6 appearances.  SBN coverage of UFC on Fox 1: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos

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Filed under: News, JapanThere's a temptation to say that Amanda Lucas wants to fight so much, she'd take a bout on Tatooine. Though Lucas certainly must be growing tired of the constant "Star Wars" references, she at least suffers them with a smile. The adopted daughter of George Lucas, creator of the biggest movie franchise in history, knows the mentions of her ultra-famous father and his uber-famous space saga are inevitable. But what Amanda Lucas wants more than anything is to reach a point in her mixed martial arts career when "Star Wars" and her father are but mere footnotes, not the lead. "it doesn't bother me - I'm proud of my family," Lucas said last week on "The MMA Hour" with host Ariel Helwani. "I hope to do my best on my own and prove I'm not just George's daughter. I work just as hard as my training partners and I don't want any special treatment. (But "Star Wars" is) going to get mentioned - it's nothing I can hide." Lucas, 30, even had parts in the latter three films in the "Star Wars" saga, Episodes I, II and III, which helped fulfill a childhood fantasy of performing, even though she said acting is not where her talents lie. "I'm not an actress," Lucas said. "It was fun, and it was something I can say that I did. I always wanted to be a performer. I liked the idea of acting, but it wasn't really my thing. I wanted to be Madonna or Janet Jackson, but I can't sing very well." Instead, Lucas (2-1) now focuses her performance ambitions on fighting. After losing her MMA debut in May 2008, Lucas has won two straight, including a first-round submission win at Deep 55 in Japan two months ago. She'll next fight at Deep 56 on Oct. 29, her second fight in two months, but just her fourth in three and a half years. Lucas, who trains at Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez's new gym, said though the women's MMA market is much tougher to crack than the men's, she wants to find a way to keep getting fights. "My feeling is, I want to get in as much as I can and do this now," Lucas said. "I'm 30 years old, so now is the time. I can't be waiting every two years to fight." Lucas will fight in Japan for the second time after her Deep debut in August. And this time, she's hopeful that she can avoid a certain highly iconic entrance theme. Lucas said she would never walk out to the theme from "Star Wars," but at Deep 55, it was played anyway. For a while, Lucas will have to get used to the "Star Wars" comments. But she believes as long as she keeps training, fighting and building a name for herself. And famous father or not, her motivation is pretty simple. "I just want to fight." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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