The Ice Viking hits the Big Time!

john kavanagh

Arni 'The Ice Viking' Isaksson v Jean 'The White Bear' Silva

The Ice Viking faces his biggest test to date taking on Pride Vetern and Chute Boxe fighter BJJ Black Belt Jean Silva

This fight will take place December 9th on the UKs biggest show Cage Rage in London. A win against someone who took Gomi the distance in Pride will open a lot of doors for Arni

War Viking!!

That's just plain deadly altogether.

Go Arni !!!

LukeyJudo22

Impressive. Impressive indeed. Kudos to arni and his camp. Muchos respect.

damo

Fair play...a good showing in cage rage will have pride knocking on your door too...

arybvtcw0eolkf

LukeyJudo22 wrote:

Impressive. Impressive indeed. Kudos to arni and his camp. Muchos respect.

I'll echo that one mate.

Nothingcompares

Wow. Go on the arni.

FiannaGym.com

YES! Go Arni & SBG!

Peace

columok

That is epic. Should be a war! GO ARNI!!!

Roper

FANTASTIC!

Now all we need is Cage Rage back on the TV to watch it!

mark.leonard

Fantastic news for Irish MMA and the Viking himself. Best of luck Arni.

RealJohn

Best of luck to Arni, well deserved shot.


He kimura'd me once. Does that make me famous?

Dragan

Just thought i would throw in my congrats to Arni and i hope he gets a solid victory!!

John, well done as well, it must be a very special feeling to be coaching someone to a point like this!

debra.donovan

Excellent work Arni and John. Good luck now

dogpit

Best of luck arni and john,no reason why you's can't pull of the victory,Ollie Ellis was very unfortunate to only get a draw against Jean Silva and i feel arni is a much more rounded fighter than ollie.

dlofnep

congrats

Miles Long

*Rory smiles and gives Arni and John two thumbs up*

kerinsp

fair play fellas. I wish you good luck!

ninjawitatitude

Way To Go Arni!! Give Em Hell!!

droc

best of luck Arni

scoob

Awesome. Any word on the event he was in in Edinburgh (if I remember correctly?), or has it even been on yet?

crokester

John, a bit of a suggestion for ya! I for one would consider makin the trip to see Arni fight, even on my pitiful student budget! Id imagine that plenty of other people would be lookin to do the same. Maybe you could organise some sort of bus/train/ferry over with accomodation and tickets included for one payment. Would be a boost to Arni to have a contingent shouting him on!

Roper

LOL@ The John Kavanagh Travel Agency!!!:D

dlofnep

Not giving away a gameplan.. But what will it take for Arni to win this? Jean's ground game is really solid and his striking is decent, as is his wrestling.

I think a good wrestling coach for Arni will make it a long night for Jean.. Otherwise, it would be over early.

celt2005

Crokester,


Why don,t you check out flights,accom., tickets et al, and come up with a price that lets you go for free ......., talk to SBG , assume they would have no problems.

judomick

dlofnep wrote:

Jean's ground game is really solid and his striking is decent, as is his wrestling.

As is Arni's;) with the exception that arni's striking is excellent

dlofnep

I saw Arni roll up in galway. He looked good. But Jean is surely alot better on the ground. I'm sure JK is doing what needs to be done to ensure Arni is very capable if it does go there. Hopefully Arni can keep it standing and bang it out. I wish him all the luck in the world. This is a big step for him and the SBG team.

galfano78

Where can I get odds on the fight?

SSIA money on Arni!

john kavanagh

crokester wrote:

Maybe you could organise some sort of bus/train/ferry over with accomodation and tickets included for one payment.

lol i've enough on my plate! why don't you do this? cagerage.tv for tickets

dlofnep wrote:

I'm sure JK is doing what needs to be done to ensure Arni is very capable if it does go there.

yes he is

crokester

HaHa! Would John but ive got final year upto my ears at the mo! Well its an idea if anybody has time on their hands!

inmate2

C yeah over there Arni i,ll be shouting for you.:D

droc

Silva's ground game is overrated. He's good but he's far from a top BJJ Black belt. His striking is hard to deal with because it's unorthodox. If Arni doesn't throw himself into a submission (Like Samy Schiavo did in their second fight) he should be able to GnP Silva if it hits the ground.

Silva likes to try to trade standing, he did it at the start of the second fight with Samy but once Samy hit him he clinched for his life, maybe Arni can take advantage of that.

DROC

john kavanagh

contracts signed so game on!

this flight is available from Ryanair.com for less than €50 right now!

Going Out
Sat, 09 Dec 06 Flight 114
11:40 Depart Dublin (DUB)
12:55 Arrive London Gatwick (LGW)

Coming Back
Sun, 10 Dec 06 Flight 113
10:00 Depart London Gatwick (LGW)
11:15 Arrive Dublin (DUB)

tickets

seating arrangement most people going for block 9 or 11 if you want to sit with the other 'Vikings'

maccavelli

go arni

john kavanagh

bad news. arni will not be able to fight in Dec.

during the week he was wrestling and his partner fell on his leg which was straight and badly hyper-extended it. treated it with ice, compression and anti-inflammatories. took him to see a sports therapist after the swelling went down. his diagnosis was that although it wasn't one of his cruciate ligaments it looks like he may have torn his collateral ligament. this type of injury will have him off the mats for about 6-weeks followed by 6-weeks rehab. he's going to be out of competition until Feb next year.

brought him to a sports doctor for confirmation of this and got an x-ray to confirm there was no bone damage. he's heading back to Iceland to get an MRI to access the extent of the ligament damage.

he's young and very determined so is staying positive and is going to use this 'down time' to develop 'sick upper body strength'

dlofnep

ah, bad news. unlucky. will he still get a shot at CR?

gymrabbit

that's awful. best of luck to him with recovery.

weemate

I was speaking to him last sunday he was gutted that he couldnt fight.Hopefully he will come back stronger.

john kavanagh

dlofnep wrote:

ah, bad news. unlucky. will he still get a shot at CR?

if only he knew somebody that was running a CR show next May...:D

TwoKingMick

Please tell me Arni isn't suffering from Dave Roche syndrome. Thats really bad news.

May i recommend the following in June.

Dragan

That’s a shame as I hate to see any taken out of something they have worked hard for with an injury!

I'm sure he will do whatever work he can until it heels, then take the right time to get back on form and come back stronger.

john kavanagh

TwoKingMick wrote:

Please tell me Arni isn't suffering from Dave Roche syndrome. Thats really bad news.

lol, sometimes i think i might be cursed!

Colm_OReilly

Send Arni my regards. It's good to see that he's realising that benching solves everything.

Millionaire

Thats must be terrible frustrating for a young fighter coming up the ranks. good luck on recovery, and time is on his side...(wish it was on mine! LOL!!!)

john kavanagh

Colm_OReilly wrote:

Send Arni my regards. It's good to see that he's realising that benching solves everything.

its all about the rope!

droc

That's a shame, would have been a good fight.

Best of luck in his recovery