Green Bay’s Jesse Veium comes up short against Travis Wiuff

Last night Green Bay’s Jesse Veium fought for the Light Heavyweight Championship against Rochester, Minnesota resident Travis Wiuff in the International Fighting Organization or IFO. The fight, which was featured as the main event took place at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Veium took the fight on very short notice and was a late replacement for Cyrille Diabate who pulled out of the fight due to an ankle injury.

Veium was not able to deal with the size, strength, and experience disadvantage he was giving up to the seasoned Travis Wiuff. Wiuff won the bout at 3:25 in round one via TKO.

Here is the fight breakdown according to Sherdog.com’s Mike Sloan:

”He scooped up and slammed Veium down hard to the canvas mere seconds into
the contest. From there Wiuff systematically worked for proper position and
leverage. Veium tried to posture up along the fence and sweep his more muscular
opponent to no avail.

Wiuff's immense strength kept Veium pinned along the fence, and once Wiuff
saw some daylight, he exploded with an onslaught of elbows and punches. After
several of the strikes were blocked, a few found their home on Veium's face,
which opened up the floodgates for utter bombardment.

The brutal assault continued until referee Mario Yamasaki had no choice but
to rescue the ravaged Veium.”

With the win, Wiuff retains his IFO Light Heavyweight Championship and ups his record to (49-11). Wiuff won the IFO title in September by defeating Sean Salmon.

Jesse Veium (13-3) is slated to fight next on the Madtown Throwdown card on January 11, 2008. No opponent or fight card has been listed on the promotions website, but we will keep you up to date when and if the information becomes available.

Green Bay’s Jesse Veium to fight Travis Wiuff at IFO on HDNet Fights for Light Heavyweight Title

This Friday, Jesse “Candy Hands” Veium will fight Travis “Diesel” Wiuff in the IFO or International Fight Organization. Vieum, who fights out of the Haus of Combat in Green Bay, Wisconsin recently took the fight on short notice and is a replacement for Pride veteran Cyrille Diabate.

Jesse Vieum sports a (13-2) MMA record and is riding an 11-fight win streak. He primarily fights for Madtown Throwdown but recently competed in a submission grappling bout against Milwaukee’s Eric Schafer at Gladiators 48: Seasons Beatings on December 1, 2007. While Veium lost the bout due to a kimura; he had the UFC vet in trouble with a very tight guillotine early in the match. This will be the highest profile opponent Veium has ever faced in his fight career. A win over a big name opponent in Wiuff would instantly earn him attention on a national level and turn some heads.

Travis Wiuff sports a (48-11) MMA record and won the IFO Light Heavyweight Championship by defeating Sean Salmon via a guillotine choke in the first round on September 1, 2007. Sean Salmon, like Jesse Vieum, also took the fight on short notice. Wiuff has almost sixty fights and has fought in a wide array of organizations such as the UFC, Pride, IFL, and the XFO. Travis Wiuff is riding a 4-fight win streak and most recently defeated Travis Fulton, one month ago. In addition, he holds wins over fighters such as Keith Jardine, Antoine Jaoude, and Matt Horwich.

If you are not familiar with the IFO it is because it is a fairly new organization and is run by former boxing referee Richard Steele through his new company called Steele Cage Promotions. Notable fighters including Wes Sims, Marvin Eastman, Rich Clementi, Josh Haynes, Rob Kimmons, and Tristan Yunker have fought in the organization since it’s first show in July of this year. This event, “Fireworks in the Cage IV” will be shown on HDNet Fights live that evening.

HDNet fights is run by Mark Cuban and recently began showing higher profile fights. Most recently they aired an Icon event that featured fighters such as Jason “Mayhem” Miller and Frank Trigg. HDNet Fights will also be showing the entire “Yarennoka” card live on December 31 from Tokyo for free. That card will feature the long awaited return of Fedor Emelianenko.

Wisconsin Combat Sports would like to wish Jesse Veium best of luck this Friday and we will keep you posted with the results when the become available. The entire card is as follows:

IFO: Fireworks in the Cage IV

Riviera Hotel & Casino

Las Vegas, NV

12/28/2007

205lb – IFO Light Heavyweight Title Fight

Travis Wiuff vs. Jesse Veium

135lb – IFO Bantamweight Title Bout

Del Hawkins vs. Brandon Foxworth

155lb – Lightweight Bout

Joe Cronin vs. Jeff Cox

145lb – Featherweight Bout

Dennis Davis vs. Reynaldo Duarte

205lb – Light Heavyweight Bout

Ryan Bader vs. Ryan Peterson

170lb – Welterweight Bout

Waachim Spiritwolf vs. Chris Reedy

265lb & under – Heavyweight Bout

Buddy Roberts vs. Dennis Bacon

115lb Womens Bout

Elena Reid vs. Tammie Schneider

This article was originally posted on http://www.wicombatsports.com/ on 12-26-2007.