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Impact FC 2 - The Uprising: Sydney was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

event held by Impact Fighting Championships

Impact Fighting Championships

Impact Fighting Championships is an Australian mixed martial arts promotion. The promotion held two of three planned events in July 2010 featuring veteran fighters of Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships...

on 18 July 2010 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre

Sydney Entertainment Centre

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose venue, located in Haymarket, Sydney, Australia. It opened in May 1983, to replace Sydney Stadium, which had been demolished to make way for a new railway. The centre is currently owned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, which administers...

in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

Background

Big John McCarthy was the referee for the series.

Geronimo dos Santos

Geronimo dos Santos

Geronimo "Mondragon" dos Santos is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who fights in the heavyweight division. He currently has a record of 26 wins and 13 losses with none of his fights making it to a decision, or even the third round....

vs. Josh Barnett

Josh Barnett

Joshua Lawrence Barnett is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who currently fights in the heavyweight division of Strikeforce. Barnett has been an accomplished fighter in mixed martial arts, winning the UFC Heavyweight Championship and the King of Pancrase Openweight...

and Brian Ebersole

Brian Ebersole

Brian Ebersole is an American mixed martial artist. He is currently fighting under the Ultimate Fighting Championship as of February 2011. Ebersole is a veteran of the mixed martial arts world with a total of 64 professional fights. He has been known to have an iron chin, never being knocked out...

vs. Carlos Newton

Carlos Newton

Carlos Newton is a Canadian mixed martial artist and former UFC Welterweight Champion. He is considered one of the true pioneers in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. Known as the "The Ronin", he competed worldwide in the biggest MMA organizations including UFC, Pride FC, IFL, K-1, Shooto and most...

from Impact FC 1 - The Uprising: Brisbane

Impact FC 1

Impact FC 1 - The Uprising: Brisbane was a mixed martial arts event held by Impact Fighting Championships on 10 July 2010 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Australia.-Background:...

were replayed during the broadcast of this card.

Bob Sapp

Bob Sapp

Robert Malcolm "Bob" Sapp is an American kickboxer, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, comedian and former professional American football player. Sapp currently has a combined fight record of 21–21–0, mostly fighting in Japan...

was pulled from this event due to a dispute with Impact FC.

Fight Card

Heavyweight bout: Ken Shamrock
Ken Shamrock
Kenneth Wayne Shamrock is an American mixed martial arts fighter, UFC Hall of Famer and professional wrestler...

vs. Pedro Rizzo
Pedro Rizzo
Pedro Augusto Rizzo is an Brazilian mixed martial artist and Muay Thai fighter. He has a professional MMA record of 19–9–0 as of July 17, 2010. He holds notable victories over former UFC Champions Mark Coleman, Dan Severn, Josh Barnett, Andrei Arlovski, Ricco Rodriguez and Ken Shamrock.-Mixed...

Rizzo defeated Shamrock via TKO (leg kicks) at 3:33 of the first round.

Welterweight bout: Paul Daley
Paul Daley
Paul Daley is an English professional mixed martial artist who has fought for EliteXC, Cage Rage, Strikeforce, BAMMA, Maximum Fighting Championship, Cage Warriors, Shark Fights, Impact FC, Pancrase and the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

vs. Daniel Acacio
Daniel Acacio
Daniel Acacio is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is most notable for his fights in PRIDE Fighting Championships....

Daley defeated Acacio via submission (elbow) at 1:15 of the third round.

Super Heavyweight bout: Soa Palelei
Soa Palelei
Soa Palelei is an Australian mixed martial artist. He competes in the Heavyweight and Superheavyweight divisions.Born in 1977, Newcastle, New South Wales, Soa “The Hulk” Palelei started his fighting career at an early age. Wrestling was his first choice in the earlier years and nearly saw him...

vs. Brad Morris
Brad Morris
Brad Morris is an Australian mixed martial artist.-MMA career:He has a professional MMA record of 10 wins with 6 losses. He scored a win in BodogFight over UFC veteran Kristof Midoux. He trains with other antipodean fighters such as Mark Hunt and Elvis Sinosic.-Ultimate Fighting Championship:His...

Palelei defeated Morris via submission (keylock) at 4:20 of the first round.

Middleweight bout: Paulo Filho
Paulo Filho
Paulo Fernando de Souza Leite Filho, better known as simply Paulo Filho , is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist as well as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo practitioner, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

vs. Denis Kang
Denis Kang
Denis Kang is a Canadian mixed martial artist of Korean French descent. He was the PRIDE FC welterweight grand prix finalist in which he lost to Kazuo Misaki...

Filho and Kang fought to a draw (split) at 5:00 of the third round. The judges scored the fight 29-28, 27-30 and 29-29.

Middleweight bout: Murilo Rua
Murilo Rua
Murilo Rua is a former Brazilian mixed martial artist who fought in Pride Fighting Championships. Nicknamed Ninja, he is the older brother of former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. He is known for his well-rounded fighting skills, in particular Muay Thai and Brazilian...

vs. Jeremy May

Rua defeated May via submission (guillotine choke) at 4:12 of the first round.

Middleweight bout: Murilo Bustamante
Murilo Bustamante
Murilo Bustamante |Lion's Den]], Ikuhisa Minowa, Ryuta Sakurai , Dave Menne and undefeated top ranked Middleweight Matt Lindland .-Instructor lineage:Mitsuyo "Count Koma" Maeda → Carlos Gracie, Sr...

vs. Jesse Taylor
Jesse Taylor
Jesse Marcus Taylor is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7, winning his entry, preliminary, quarterfinal and semi-final matches, and then became the only fighter to ever be removed from finals due to events that occurred...

Taylor defeated Bustamante via TKO (verbal tap) at 2:10 of the second round.

Heavyweight bout: Peter Graham
Peter Graham (kickboxer)
Peter "The Chief" Graham is an Australian kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist. His enterance music is AC/DC's Thunderstruck andhe has trademarked his special moves like his somersault kick, The Rolling Thunder.-Kickboxing:...

vs. Jim York
Jim York (fighter)
Jim York is a New Zealand mixed martial artist who has fought for the World Victory Road, Impact FC and King of the Cage promotions.York is best known for his fights with Japanese firebrand Yoshihiro Nakao and UFC vet Dave Herman...

York defeated Graham via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:44 of the first round.

Light Heavyweight bout: Glover Teixeira
Glover Teixeira
Glover Teixeira is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who currently competes in the light heavyweight division.-Mixed martial arts career:...

vs. Marko Peselj

Teixeira defeated Peselj via TKO (punches) at 3:01 of the first round.

Lightweight bout: Richard Vaculik vs. Glenn Taylor-Smith

Vaculik defeated Taylor-Smith via submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:16 of the second round.

Welterweight bout: Shane Nix vs. Manuel Rodriguez

Rodriguez defeated Nix via technical submission (north-south choke) at 4:22 of the first round.

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