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THEPHUKETNEWS.COM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014 @thephuketnews 31 SPORT Live Sports TV Schedule *Times may be subject to change CHANNEL START END SPORT EVENT TEAMS / INFO Friday, November 28 Ten 13:00 20:30 Cricket Test Match 3 - Sharjah New Zealand v. Pakistan - Day 3 Saturday, November 29 814 20:45 22:30 Rugby Union French Top 14 Toulon v. Clermont 834, 669 21:25 23:30 Rugby Union Autumn Interna- tionals England v. Australia 831 19:45 21:45 Soccer EPL West Bromwich v. Arsenal 22:00 00:00 Soccer EPL Liverpool v. Stoke 00:30 02:30 Soccer EPL Sunderland v. Chelsea 833 19:10 21:10 Soccer Championship Charlton Athletic v. Ipswich Town 22:00 00:00 Soccer EPL West Ham v. Newcastle 832 22:00 00:00 Soccer EPL Man United v. Hull Ten Action 11:15 18:00 Cricket ODI2 - Colombo Sri Lanka v. England Ten 13:00 20:30 Cricket Test Match 3 - Sharjah New Zealand v. Pakistan - Day 4 Sunday, November 30 669 15:45 17:35 Rugby Union Autumn Interna- tionals Wales v. South Africa (D) 834 17:40 19:30 Rugby Union Autumn Interna- tionals Wales v. South Africa (R) 669 19:55 22:00 Rugby Union Aviva Premiership London Irish v. Gloucester 22:10 00:00 Rugby Union Aviva Premiership Newcastle v. Sale 832 20:25 22:30 Soccer EPL Southampton v. Man City 831 22:30 00:30 Soccer EPL Tottenham v. Everton Ten 13:00 20:30 Cricket Test Match 3 - Sharjah New Zealand v. Pakistan - Day 5 Run #1502: Saturday, Nov 29 at 3:30pm Hares: Nothing, Hawaiian Ho, Too Old To F*** Location: Chalong - Chaofa Soi 47 Directions: From Chalong circle head north on Chaofa West 700 m and turn LEFT HHH into Chaofa Soi 47. Follow up about 600 m to laager. Heading south from Central on Chaofa West continue 430 m beyond the turn to Big Buddha and turn RIGHT HHH into Chaofa Soi 47, continue about 600 m to laager. Bus pick-up: (early schedule) Kamala: 2:00pm, Patong: 2:30pm More info: phuket-hhh.com HASH HOUSE HARRIERS FOOTBALL Champions League shuffle as teams qualify for knockout rounds Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bay- ern Munich and Barcelona have all qualified for the UEFA Champions League last 16. Chelsea put on a football clinic against Schalke 04 to secure their spot in the knockout stages, with a 5-0 thumping of the German club. Similarly, Barcelona earned a spot after Lionel Messi’s hat-trick powered the Catalonians to a 4-0 win over APOEL Nicosia. Other teams that secured a spot in the last 16 of the prestigious competition are Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund, and PSG. BASEBALL Star pitching finally trio join Hall Of Fame ballots The Baseball Hall of Fame announced 17 new names for its 2015 ballot on Monday, including Cy Young Award- winning pitchers Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz. Also among the newcom- ers to the lineup that a media panel will consider for entry into the sporting honor shrine next year are sluggers Gary Sheffield and Carlos Del- gado, and shortstop Nomar Garciaparra. Candidates require 75 percent of the vote to be in- ducted into the Hall of Fame, with results to be announced on January 6. Those elected, in addition to any candidates added from a Golden Era Committee re- considering long-ago talent, will be enshrined next July 26 at the Hall of Fame in Coo- perstown, New York. AFP RUGBY UNION Discarded Ellis, Cowan loom on All Blacks radar The drums are beating for two discarded All Blacks to be recalled as the world’s number one side remains bugged by a dearth of talent in the critical scrum-half position. While New Zealand signed off another stellar season by reaping all the top world rugby awards, they head into next year’s World Cup countdown without an obvious back up for Aaron Smith in the nine jersey. TJ Perenara, Tawera Kerr- Barlow and Augustine Pulu have all been tried and found wanting since New Zealand beat France to win the 2011 World Cup which has put the focus now on Andy Ellis and Jimmy Cowan. AFP MMA JP Mestanza [email protected] A mong the announce- ments made during the weigh-in event for Full Metal Dojo 3: No Sleep Til’ Bangkok last Friday night (November 21), promo- tion CEO Jon Nutt told the Bangkok crowd that he will step into the cage to headline the FMD 4 in 2015. Nutt will be squaring-off against Phuket Top Team’s Musa Conteh in a light heavy- weight bout (93.5 kg) on the fight card, penciled-in for early February. “On a fun note, you guys will love this,” Nutt said, as he called up Conteh in front of the dozens of MMA fans and media personnell who came out to watch the weigh- ins at The Clubhouse Sports Bar in Bangkok. “As a promoter, I’m not afraid to be a litmus test in Jon Nutt (right), CEO of the Full Metal Dojo MMA promotion, will fight against Phuket’s Musa Conteh (left) in early February 2015. Photo: JP Mestanza Fight boss to headline own MMA event in 2015 my own organisation. If you can’t beat me, you might want to look at fighting somewhere else. And that’s no knock on Musa. I got respect for that dude as an athlete and as a fighter,” Nutt said on stage at the weigh-ins for the promotion’s third event. The first two shows were held in Phuket. The American is no stranger to fighting: he has had several Muay Thai bouts in Phuket and was Patong Boxing Stadium champion in his weight class. Back in January 2012, Nutt stepped into the cage against Marcelo Tenorio at a Dare Fight Sports event. Nutt, who was commentating at the time event, walked from the announcer’s table, changed into some MMA shorts, put on his gloves, and went at it until he lost in the second round via TKO. Meanwhile, Conteh is a relative newcomer to MMA with only one fight under his belt and one year of formal training in Southern Thailand. The 28-year-old left Georgia State University in the United States over a year ago and flew to the Kingdom after training for a few months at American Top Team in his native Atlanta. Still, he has nearly a dozen of Muay Thai fights in the Phuket circuit and is no stranger to striking. “[Nutt] was looking to match me with up with some- one for a while,” Conteh said shortly after the announce- ment. “I guess nobody wanted to fight me. [Nutt] was like, ‘hey, I’m you’re size, we both fought before.’ So we’re mak- ing it happen.” “[Nutt’s] a beast too, don’t let him fool you,” Conteh added. “I feel like [Musa’s] a good up-and-coming talent and that there are not enough light heavyweights and heavy- weights in Southeast Asia... this is going to be a striker versus striker match,” Nutt said.
Transcript of February 2015. Photo: JP Mestanza Fight boss to headline ... · 28.11.2015 · world rugby awards,...
THEPHUKETNEWS.COM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014
@thephuketnews
31SPORT
Live Sports TV Schedule*Times may be subject to change
CHANNEL START END SPORT EVENT TEAMS / INFO
Friday, November 28
Ten 13:00 20:30 Cricket Test Match 3 - Sharjah
New Zealand v. Pakistan - Day 3
Saturday, November 29
814 20:45 22:30 Rugby Union French Top 14 Toulon v. Clermont
834, 669 21:25 23:30 Rugby Union Autumn Interna-tionals England v. Australia
831 19:45 21:45 Soccer EPL West Bromwich v. Arsenal
22:00 00:00 Soccer EPL Liverpool v. Stoke
00:30 02:30 Soccer EPL Sunderland v. Chelsea
833 19:10 21:10 Soccer Championship Charlton Athletic v. Ipswich Town
22:00 00:00 Soccer EPL West Ham v. Newcastle
832 22:00 00:00 Soccer EPL Man United v. Hull
Ten Action 11:15 18:00 Cricket ODI2 - Colombo Sri Lanka v. England
Ten 13:00 20:30 Cricket Test Match 3 - Sharjah
New Zealand v. Pakistan - Day 4
Sunday, November 30
669 15:45 17:35 Rugby Union Autumn Interna-tionals Wales v. South Africa (D)
834 17:40 19:30 Rugby Union Autumn Interna-tionals Wales v. South Africa (R)
669 19:55 22:00 Rugby Union Aviva Premiership London Irish v. Gloucester
22:10 00:00 Rugby Union Aviva Premiership Newcastle v. Sale
832 20:25 22:30 Soccer EPL Southampton v. Man City
831 22:30 00:30 Soccer EPL Tottenham v. Everton
Ten 13:00 20:30 Cricket Test Match 3 - Sharjah
New Zealand v. Pakistan - Day 5
Run #1502: Saturday, Nov 29 at 3:30pmHares: Nothing, Hawaiian Ho, Too Old To F***Location: Chalong - Chaofa Soi 47Directions: From Chalong circle head north on Chaofa West 700 m and turn LEFT HHH into Chaofa Soi 47. Follow up about 600 m to laager.Heading south from Central on Chaofa West continue 430 m beyond the turn to Big Buddha and turn RIGHT HHH into Chaofa Soi 47, continue about 600 m to laager.
Bus pick-up: (early schedule) Kamala: 2:00pm, Patong: 2:30pmMore info: phuket-hhh.com
HASH HOUSE HARRIERS
IN BRIEF
FOOTBALL Champions League shuffle as teams qualify for knockout roundsChelsea, Real Madrid, Bay-ern Munich and Barcelona have all qualified for the UEFA Champions League last 16.
Chelsea put on a football clinic against Schalke 04 to secure their spot in the knockout stages, with a 5-0 thumping of the German club.
Similarly, Barcelona earned a spot after Lionel Messi’s hat-trick powered the Catalonians to a 4-0 win over APOEL Nicosia.
Other teams that secured a spot in the last 16 of the prestigious competition are Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund, and PSG.
BASEBALLStar pitching finally trio join Hall Of Fame ballotsThe Baseball Hall of Fame announced 17 new names for its 2015 ballot on Monday, including Cy Young Award-
winning pitchers Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz.
Also among the newcom-ers to the lineup that a media panel will consider for entry into the sporting honor shrine next year are sluggers Gary Sheffield and Carlos Del-gado, and shortstop Nomar Garciaparra.
Candidates require 75 percent of the vote to be in-ducted into the Hall of Fame, with results to be announced on January 6.
Those elected, in addition to any candidates added from a Golden Era Committee re-considering long-ago talent, will be enshrined next July 26 at the Hall of Fame in Coo-perstown, New York. AFP
RUGBY UNIONDiscarded Ellis, Cowan loom on All Blacks radarThe drums are beating for two discarded All Blacks to be recalled as the world’s number one side remains bugged by a dearth of talent in the critical scrum-half position.
While New Zealand signed off another stellar season by reaping all the top world rugby awards, they head into next year’s World Cup countdown without an obvious back up for Aaron Smith in the nine jersey.
TJ Perenara, Tawera Kerr-Barlow and Augustine Pulu have all been tried and found wanting since New Zealand beat France to win the 2011 World Cup which has put the focus now on Andy Ellis and Jimmy Cowan. AFP
MMA
Among the announce-ments made during the weigh-in event
for Full Metal Dojo 3: No Sleep Til’ Bangkok last Friday night (November 21), promo-tion CEO Jon Nutt told the Bangkok crowd that he will step into the cage to headline the FMD 4 in 2015.
Nutt will be squaring-off against Phuket Top Team’s Musa Conteh in a light heavy-weight bout (93.5 kg) on the fight card, penciled-in for early February.
“On a fun note, you guys will love this,” Nutt said, as he called up Conteh in front of the dozens of MMA fans and media personnell who came out to watch the weigh-ins at The Clubhouse Sports Bar in Bangkok.
“As a promoter, I’m not afraid to be a litmus test in
Jon Nutt (right), CEO of the Full Metal Dojo MMA promotion, will fight against Phuket’s Musa Conteh (left) in early February 2015. Photo: JP Mestanza
Fight boss to headline own MMA event in 2015
my own organisation. If you can’t beat me, you might want to look at fighting somewhere else. And that’s no knock on Musa. I got respect for that dude as an athlete and as a fighter,” Nutt said on stage at the weigh-ins for the promotion’s third event. The first two shows were held in Phuket.
The Amer ican is no stranger to fighting: he has had several Muay Thai bouts in Phuket and was Patong Boxing Stadium champion in his weight class.
Back in January 2012, Nutt stepped into the cage against Marcelo Tenorio at a Dare Fight Sports event. Nutt, who was commentating at the time event, walked from the announcer’s table, changed into some MMA shorts, put on his gloves, and went at it until he lost in the second round via TKO.
Meanwhile, Conteh is a relative newcomer to MMA with only one fight under his
belt and one year of formal training in Southern Thailand. The 28-year-old left Georgia State University in the United States over a year ago and flew to the Kingdom after training for a few months at American Top Team in his native Atlanta.
Still, he has nearly a dozen of Muay Thai fights in the Phuket circuit and is no stranger to striking.
“[Nutt] was looking to match me with up with some-one for a while,” Conteh said
shortly after the announce-ment. “I guess nobody wanted to fight me. [Nutt] was like, ‘hey, I’m you’re size, we both fought before.’ So we’re mak-ing it happen.”
“[Nutt’s] a beast too, don’t let him fool you,” Conteh added.
“I feel like [Musa’s] a good up-and-coming talent and that there are not enough light heavyweights and heavy-weights in Southeast Asia... this is going to be a striker versus striker match,” Nutt said.
