Elvis Sinosic talks the Australian MMA scene and his time in the UFC

I recently conducted an email based interview with Elvis Sinosic. I asked him a lot of questions and he gave some very good answers. Enjoy.

Sam Cupitt: Elvis, thanks for the interview.Elvis Sinosic: My pleasure.Sam Cupitt: How are you since your last fight?

Elvis Sinosic: Other than extremely disappointed, I am otherwise fine.

Sam Cupitt: Your last fight was, as most will know, in Cage Rage on Dec 1st in England. As you said, a disappointing result, do you want to tell us a bit about the fight?

Elvis Sinosic:Well not really much to say. I went in feeling very good, well prepared and ready for a tough fight. I was moving forward feeling confident with my stand-up when Paul threw a lovely overhand right that landed on the button and dropped me. I hit the ground, he jumped on me and threw a punch, as I was turning towards him to recover guard, the referee came in from the blind side and stopped the fight. It was very disappointing, because even though I was in trouble, I still felt I was not out of the fight. Such is the fight game.

Sam Cupitt: Was your contract with Cage Rage only the one fight?

Elvis: Yes, that is correct.

Sam: There has been a lot of focus recently on expanding MMA into the UK, the main source being the UFC. How were the English fans? Are they receptive to MMA that isn’t the UFC?

Elvis: The UK fans are great. All the ones I met were very positive and supportive. They love their MMA as much as any other nation. It’s great to see the sport expanding across the globe.

Sam: Your last fight before Cage Rage was also in England. That of course being UFC 70, where you almost pulled out the victory early in the 2nd round against the hometown favourite, Michael Bisping. Did the UFC give you any feedback after the fight?

Cage Rage 24 Results

Cage Rage 24 occurred the other day and I would have posted results sooner, but I forgot I had a website to do so. The event was apparently a good one, with some very exciting fights. Unfortunately the night marked another dissapointing loss to Australia’s own Elvis Sinosic. One day I may try and get an interview with the guy.

But anyway the event also marked the return of Murilo Rua after his demolishment at the hands of Robbie Lawler at EliteXC: Uprising. The always entertaining Ross Pointon from TUF 3 fame also made his return, and was apparently looking pretty decent and much improved until his face decided to do a good impression of Marvin Eastman when he fought Vitor Belfort.

The full results are listed below:

Murilo “Ninja” Rua def. Xavier Pokam via submission (rear naked choke), R2
Paul Cahoon def. Elvis Sinosic via knockout, R1
Drew Fickett def. Mark Weir via submission (rear naked choke), R1
Marios Zaromskis def. Ross Pointon via TKO (cut stoppage), R2
Mark Epstein def. Tom Watson via split decision
Mark Buchannan def. George Castro via TKO (strikes), R2
Neil Grove def. Robert Berry via TKO (corner stoppage), R1
Ivan Serati def. Lee Hasdell via submission (rear naked choke), R2
Abdul Mohammed def. Robbie Olivier via majority decision
Robert Paczkow def. James McSweeney via submission (choke), R1
Ronnie Mann def. Jordan Miller via submission (triangle choke), R1

Kudos to Adam Morgan for writing this out on 5oz of Pain, because I really could not have been arsed.