Hockey Goon to fight MMA

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As reported here

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Fighting/MixedMartialArts/2007/03/09/3721184-cp.html

CP) - He is one of the most feared fighters in the North American Hockey League, a Quebec circuit whose reputation is based on dropping gloves and banging heads.

Now Steve Bosse wants to see how he stacks up in the mixed martial arts ring. The 25-year-old from St.-Jean-sur-Richeleau, Que., is set to take on heavyweight David Fraser on June 1 at Montreal’s Bell Centre as part of TKO 29: Repercussion.

A winger with the Summum-Chiefs de St-Jean, Bosse had no goals, no assists and 180 penalty minutes in 23 games as of Thursday. In the three previous seasons with the Verdun Dragons, he racked up 674 penalty minutes while recording two goals and four assists.

The North American Hockey League, not to be confused with a U.S. junior league of the same name, has eight teams. Its official website lists Bosse as No. 275 in scoring, ahead of two other players who have a combined 396 penalty minutes.

TKO boss Stephane Patry, who introduced the likes of Georges St. Pierre and Patrick Cote to the UFC, says Bosse is the real deal.

“He’s going to be something else,” Patry said.

If you want a taste of Bosse, check him out on YouTube. He has knockout power with both hands, arms like pistons and a granite chin.

“I’m a hard puncher and I’m strong,” said Bosse, whose English is patchy. “I can take a punch.”

This season, Bosse has had a running feud with fellow enforcer Jon Mirasty (two goals, six assists and 271 penalty minutes in 38 games) of the Mission de Sorel-Tracy.

The two teams meet next on March 16 and the game is already sold out.

Bosse (pronounced Boss-AY) says he has not suffered any major losses this season, although acknowledges he has lost his balance “one of two times.” Mirasty buckled his knees but Bosse kept punching. One observer judges Bosse as winning two of their three fights this season.

Bosse reckons he has had 30 to 35 fights this season. There would have been more but he broke his left hand on Quebec enforcer Jacques Dube’s head in November.

The six-foot 235-pounder has a background in boxing and usually has a few amateur bouts each summer. Now he is trying to add wrestling and jiu-jitsu to his repertoire.

“It’s a little hard but I like the training,” said Bosse, who works out three hours a day.

His hockey team has no objections about this foray into MMA fighting, as long as he does it in the off-season.

If MMA works for him, he says he will put aside his hockey career

here’s his highlight video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkolQ9Acrpg

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Awesome lets hope he chows down on serious humble pie.
Maybe this could be a business venture for MMA. “Desmug your Thug!”

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I hope he kicks ass!!!

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Oh great! Another one of those intelligent people… Why the fuck did he put his skates on, two goals versus 674 penalty minutes on ice… Take him to the cages and keep him there.:5bullwhip And fuck hockey too, btw.:fish:

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You’re just bitter that all the good hockey players went to the Check Republic

PS the straight blast is very important in a hockey fight as well as the pigeon toed stance.

_ing _un is good for hockey :slight_smile:

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Hockey was invented by a nun.

Yeah, and hockey is not a good martial art, because you’re not allowed to kick to the head and stick hockey sticks up the butt of the opponent.

On the street, you’d shave faces with your skates…

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ORLY

Large image so I put it in a spoiler tags

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^^^Can’t open spoiler… ;-(

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Your from Slovakia? No wonder you are bitter about the greatest sport in the world…
No medals for you huh?:dontknow:
This Bosse guy is goon. Never make it in the bigs.
Tough guy though.

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/que warren zevon

“He just wanted one damn …tko”

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Why would he openly declare he was willing to pack in Hockey for MMA? He’s untested in MMA plus this means the Coach will be reluctant to give him a place in the team because hes not a team player.

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He’s a hockey goon in a small Quebec league, he’s not exactly on the fast track to anywhere in hockey, except for leagues like this that encourage hockey fights.

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what a shitty video, he fights like a chump

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I noticed the refs just kind of looked on at all of the fights. Wish my brother’s roller hockey league was like that.

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Listen sheep humper!

Do you even know what ice is?

Try doing some sparring while wearing stilits on an inch of motor oil

For god sakes put a shirt on or something

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Hockey fighting rarely looks very great technically. It’s pretty hard to punch properly with skates on, so it’s mostly just ‘arm punching’ and wild haymakers while trying to pull the other guy’s jersey over his head.

_ing _un is good for hockey :slight_smile:

Weirdly enough, there’s a former NHL hockey goon from Vancouver named Sasha Lakovic who trained at a Wing Chun place here that also does kickboxing/san-da. Here’s photos of him fighting his first pro-fight against a Muay Thai fighter (Lakovic is the guy with the shaved head):

http://www.sashalakovic.com/images/gallery/fight/fightpics.htm

His coach is Fred Kwok, who is nominally a WC guy, but in practice seems to focus more on kickboxing (so this is in no way an endorsement of ‘teh _un’ on my part).

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Many hockey goons actually get boxing training and/or some other striking “art” training. Marty McSorely even tried to get a bout against Butterbean about 10 years or so ago. Unfortunately boxing foot positioning doesn’t translate well to fighting with skates on.

I played in a league with a guy that had been taking Muay Thai for about a year who thought he was William B. Ass himself always talking smack about how he could kick anyone’s ass in the league. Most of us just laughed at him and a few of us even tried to explain the folly of his ways. He stayed an arrogant prick until he tangled with a Quebecer that beat him down. Glad it happened, guy would cross check people from behind as they were going into the boards.

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He’ll have good balance and endurance, but he trains in jersey striking only. MMA fights are no-jersey striking, it’ll be tough for him to make the transition.

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Why were the two words ‘hockey’ and ‘career’ mentioned at all in the article!?

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Canadian Hockey FTW eh!