The Glowing Edge

Tag: athletic

  • Chevelle Hallback vs Holly Holm in “Warrior Vengeance”


    On March 26th Chevelle “Fists of Steel” Hallback (27-5-2), one of the world’s most powerful and athletic boxers, will meet Holly Holm (26-1-3) on Holm’s own turf in Albequerque, NM on the “Warrior Vengeance” card. Holm will be defending her WIBA Light Welterweight title in this rematch, promoted by Fresquez Productions.

    “My first fight with Holly was one of my worst performances for date,” Chevelle admitted. “This time,” she noted, “ I have enough time to prepare for the altitude. I believe when I am in superb shape there is not one female fighter out there in my weight class or above my weight class that can beat me.”

    Of Holly Holm’s three rematches, she has won two and battled a third to a draw, but these stats don’t intimidate Hallback. “I enjoy the role of the underdog. It makes me work harder and the victory that much sweeter.”

    Holm is an incredibly disciplined, thinking, and tactical fighter where Hallback is about angles and pure punch power (which you can really see coming out in the training video above); Hallback has an astonishing knockout rate of more than 30%.

    I’m also embedding a video of Hallback in an MMA cage fight with Melissa Vasquez — the fight lasts less than one minute and ends by TKO in a stunning display of hit power. THIS is the kind of intensity I’m expecting to see in Holm vs Hallback, and I believe it will go on for round after round.


    I’m hopeful that Fresquez will once again offer this fight on PPV webcast; if so, it’s a fight you will not want to miss.

  • Fiiiight! Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg

    This Saturday it happens. Gina “Conviction” Carano (7-0) and Cris “Cyborg” Santos (7-1) will become the first women in MMA history to headline a major MMA fight card. I don’t know if you watch boxing or MMA, but if you watch women’s sports at all this is going to be a groundbreaking event across the board and I plan to put another notch in my lipstick case (*note to self: purchase lipstick and case) for women leading the way.

    Oh, and eat light: this is gonna be a brutal fight. Although it’s true that I say that about all MMA fights; they just seem so much less civilized than boxing. To each her own.

    If you’re interested in a full write-up of each fighter’s strengths and weaknesses, I recommend the Bleacher Report. And even though most of the news sites I’m following favor Carano, there are also plenty of people betting on Santos, too. I think it will be a good match up.

    You may also enjoy this video of Gina training with Norm “Satan” Turner. I found it incredibly inspirational. There’s something you just gotta love about working that hard, training that intensely; it radiates passion and engagement in a way that you don’t see every day. But damn, I hope my own dungeon master — woops, I meant trainer — doesn’t see it. If she does I will know YOU told her and I may have to unfriend you on Facebook. Either that, or I will get in better shape really fast.