Out of Obscurity: Looking Ahead (March 8 – March 11) The MMA Corner Staff March 8, 2012 Events Every Thursday, The MMA Corner takes a look at the upcoming weekend’s schedule of small regional and international shows with a focus on UFC and Pride veterans as well as consensus-ranked fighters. Here’s what’s going down between March 8 and March 11: [tabgroup][tab title=”Spotlight Event”] Tachi Palace Fights 12: Second Coming (Lemoore, Calif.; March 9) In a fight that made Sherdog’s 10 March Tussles Worth Watching, Dream and WEC veteran Micah Miller (17-4) locks horns with Bellator vet Georgi Karakhanyan (17-3-1)…Strikeforce and WEC veteran Casey Olson (13-3) squares off with Cody Gibson (5-2)…TUF 5 alum and UFC veteran Rob Emerson (11-10) battles Affliction and IFL vet Savant Young (10-8)…UFC and WEC veteran Francisco Rivera (6-2) meets Affliction veteran Antonio Duarte (15-3)…2011 NCAA Division I wrestling champion Bubba Jenkins (1-0) clashes with Chris Gomez (2-3)…ShoXC veteran Dave Huckaba (16-4) tangles with Bellator vet Liron Wilson (9-5)…The event airs live on the Sherdog website. [/tab][/tabgroup] March 8 Other Events White Collar MMA Championships Asia (Hong Kong) Airing live via ppv at GoFightLive March 9 Revolution Fighting Champion 1 (Beirut, Lebanon) Strikeforce veteran Maiju Kujala (6-3) takes on Juliana Carneiro Lima (3-0). Wild Bill’s Fight Night 44 (Duluth, Ga.) UFC and Bellator veteran Diego Saraiva (21-16-1) is scheduled to fight Keith Richardson (5-2). Other Events Disorderly Conduct: St. Patty’s Showdown 2 (Omaha, Neb.) Island Fights XIV (Pensacola Beach, Fla.) Rings: Reincarnation (Tokyo) SteelFist Fight Night 6 (Salt Lake City) March 10 Colosseum Combat XX (Kokomo, Ind.) Former WEC bantamweight champion and Bellator veteran Chase Beebe (19-8-1) battles David Love (15-14-1). King of the Cage: Breakthrough (Tulsa, Okla.) UFC veteran David Heath (16-7) goes up against Sidiah Parker (7-3)…Tyler East (10-3) is slated to face fellow Bellator veteran Tracy Willis (7-4). Pink Fight 2 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) No. 8-ranked 135-pound female fighter Vanessa Porto (13-4) locks horns with Jennifer Maia (5-1-1). Shooto: 3rd Round (Tokyo) No. 9-ranked flyweight Kiyotaka Shimizu (10-6-3) collides with Haruo Ochi (8-2-1) in a fight that made Sherdog’s 10 March Tussles Worth Watching…No. 6-ranked flyweight Shinichi “B.J.” Kojima (12-4-5) fights Nam Jin Jo (6-3). Other Events Asylum Fight League 37 (Atlantic City, N.J.) Battle in the South III (Wilmington, N.C.) Floripa Fight 8 (Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil) Full Contact Fighting Federation: Rumble at the Roseland 62 (Portland, Ore.) Airing live via ppv at GoFightLive Gladiator Challenge: Justified (Elko, Nev.) Hardrock MMA 45 (Louisville, Ky.) Lights Out Combat: Warfare (Winchester, Va.) Nashville Extreme Fight Night I (Nashville, Tenn.) Premiere Combat Group: Cowboys Extreme Cagefighting (San Antonio) Purgatory Fight Series 06 (Toledo, Ohio) Shooto Brazil 28 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Airing live via ppv at GoFightLive SHP 14 (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) The Beatdown 9: Army vs. Marines 3 (Denver) Valley Fight League 36 (Connelsville, Pa.) March 11 Pancrase: Progress Tour 3 (Tokyo) Sengoku veteran and bantamweight King of Pancrase Shintaro Ishiwatari (11-4-4) puts his title on the line against Tashiro Nishiuchi (17-7-13)…Jon Shores (9-0) seeks to protect his unblemished record when he fights Masakazu Takafuji (7-5)…Sengoku veteran Seiya Kawahara (10-3) meets Yuta Nakamura (5-3-1)…Motonobu Tezuka (17-4-4) scraps with Sengoku veteran Tatsuya So (11-5-3)…In her farewell retirement bout, No. 10-ranked 115-pound female fighter Tomomi Sunuba (17-13-1) clashes with Saori Ishioka (11-7)…Sengoku veteran and welterweight King of Pancrase Takenori Sato (13-8-6) defends his crown against Kiichi Kunimoto (11-4-2). Super Fight League 1 (Mumbai, India) Bob Sapp (11-10) battles fellow Dream and Pride veteran James Thompson (16-14)…UFC veteran Xavier Foupa-Pokam (21-17) takes on IFL veteran Joey Guel (14-7). Other Events Okinawa Waku-Waku Fighting 3 (Chatan, Okinawa, Japan) Photo: Georgi Karakhanyan (Dave Mandel/Sherdog)