2011 June at BetLM

Bahrain Has Stabilised, Says FIA

Todt stands by deci­sion to rein­state Bahrain GP The FIA made its deci­sion to rein­state the Bahrain Grand Prix to the F1 cal­en­dar after a report revealed the country’s sit­u­a­tion has “stabilised”. The pres­i­dent of the sport’s world gov­ern­ing body Jean Todt told the BBC the FIA voted unan­i­mously after advice from vice-president Car­los Gracia. “Our spe­cial envoy had many meet­ings in Bahrain, even with the human rights peo­ple respon­si­ble,” said Todt. “He found a sta­ble sit­u­a­tion, a quiet one, and we unan­i­mously agreed.” The race,... 

Strikeforce Adds Coenen-Tate, Gracie-Lawal; Souza-Rockhold Announced Prematurely

John Mor­gan MMAjunkie.com Show­time offi­cials today announced a pair of new con­tests for July’s “Strike­force: Fedor vs. Hen­der­son” event, as women’s wel­ter­weight cham­pion Mar­loes Coenen meets top con­tender Miesha Tate, and Roger Gra­cie faces Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal in a light heavy­weight affair. Both fights take place on the evening’s main card. How­ever, MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has learned that a third bout announced today, a mid­dleweight title fight between Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza and Luke Rock­hold, was announced pre­ma­turely and... 

Martin Loses Comeback Fight After Breaking Hand

LOS ANGELES —Christy Mar­tin returned to the ring six months after shewas left for dead fol­low­ing a bru­tal attack, los­ing to Dakota Stone afterbreak­ing her right hand. Mar­tin was win­ning on all three score­cards Sat­ur­day night at Sta­ples Cen­terwhen the ring doc­tor stopped the fight at 1:09 of the sixth and final round. Jim Mar­tin, her hus­band and long­time trainer, is charged with attemptedfirst-degree mur­der and aggra­vated bat­tery for the attack on Mar­tin on Nov. 23at their home in Orlando, Fla. His trail is sched­uled for October. Mar­tin had told... 

Confusion Over FIA’s Bahrain Vote

Con­fu­sion over FIA’s Bahrain vote The FIA have denied claims that the WMSC never voted on Bahrain’s fate, insist­ing that a “show of hands” had in fact taken place. With many shocked by the deci­sion to rein­state the island kingdom’s F1 race, there had been rumours that per­haps a vote never actu­ally took place. How­ever, the FIA insist their 26-man World Motor Sport Coun­cil panel did have a way. A FIA spokesman told Tele­graph Sport that ’”a show of hands” had in fact taken place.’ How­ever, the news­pa­per adds that ‘it remains unclear whether a for­mal... 

Chavez Jr. Wins Middleweight Championship

LOS ANGELES —Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. defeated Sebas­t­ian Zbik by major­ity deci­sion on Sat­ur­day night to win the mid­dleweight title, tak­ing a major step toward estab­lish­ing his own legacy while his famous father looked on. Two judges scored the fight for Chavez, 115–113 and 116–112, while the third at it a draw. “My father came to the Wild Card and told me, ‘This is where you win the fight, not down the street at Sta­ples Cen­ter,“‘ Chavez said of the gym of his trainer, Fred­die Roach, who also works with Manny Pac­quiao. “Work hard, lis­ten to Fred­die... 

Guida Victorious, but Pettis a Winner in the Long Run

By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports LAS VEGAS — The easy answer is that Anthony Pet­tis blew it, that by tak­ing and los­ing a fight against Clay Guida rather than wait­ing for a shot at the Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship light­weight title, he made a dev­as­tat­ing error in judgment. Pet­tis won the World Extreme Cage­fight­ing light­weight title in Decem­ber, which earned him a guar­an­teed shot at the UFC belt. When UFC cham­pion Frankie Edgar drew with Gray May­nard at UFC 125, Pet­tis chose to fight rather than sit on the opportunity. After Guida repeat­edly took Pet­tis... 

F1 Plans Record 21 Races in 2012

McLaren’s Lewis Hamil­ton won the last United States Grand prix in Indianapolis For­mula 1 has unveiled a record 21-race cal­en­dar for 2012, with the United States Grand Prix return­ing to the sched­ule for the first time since 2007. Austin in Texas — which has agreed a 10-year deal — will host the race on 17 June, one week after the Cana­dian GP. The Bahrain GP returns as the season-opener, despite being resched­uled from March to Octo­ber this year due to polit­i­cal protests in the Gulf Kingdom. The much crit­i­cised Turk­ish Grand Prix is pro­vi­sion­ally included... 

All Blacks Center Williams Wins 4th Bout

AUCKLAND, New Zealand —All Blacks cen­ter Sonny Bill Williams main­tained anunbeaten start to his pro­fes­sional box­ing career when he won an unan­i­mous pointsdeci­sion over Ton­gan Ali­pate Liava’a in a six-round heavy­weight con­test onSun­day. Williams has now won all four of his pro­fes­sional bouts, though none hasbeen against a rec­og­nized oppo­nent. The 43-year-old Liava’a gave 18 years aswell as height, reach and weight to the 25-year-old Williams and never seri­ouslychal­lenged his younger rival. Con­tro­versy sur­rounded the bout when it was revealed that... 

TUF 13 Finale Prelim Results — Stephens Beats but Can’t Break Gutsy Downes

Click below for pre­lim results from the TUF 13 Finale card in Las Vegas… LAS VEGAS, June 4 — There was lit­tle drama when the scores were read after the light­weight bout between Jeremy Stephens and Danny Downes at The Palms Sat­ur­day night. But dur­ing the Ulti­mate Fighter 13 finale card, there was plenty as Downes may have lost the three round unan­i­mous deci­sion, but he gained plenty of fans for a coura­geous per­for­mance in defeat that saw him sur­vive a well-rounded attack from the Iowa native that included plenty of thud­ding punches and a tight kimura attempt. See... 

Perez Can’t ‘wait to Get into the Car’

Perez can’t ‘wait to get into the car’ Ser­gio Perez is des­per­ate to race in next week’s Cana­dian GP but admits the deci­sion rests with the FIA doctors. Perez suf­fered a con­cus­sion and a sprained thigh when he crashed in qual­i­fy­ing for the Monaco GP last Saturday. The Mex­i­can rookie spent two nights in hos­pi­tal as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure, under­go­ing sev­eral scans before being released. And although Perez insists he is fight­ing fit, the Sauber dri­ver will have to pass a med­ical test in Mon­treal before being cleared to race. “I feel...