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Will Brooks Looks to the Past to Keep From Looking Ahead as He Dials In for Bellator Tourney

BAD MMA News — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:00:42 +0000

It’s hard to believe, but sometimes success can be a bad thing. Following a career-making victory over Satoru Kitaoka at Dream 18 on New Year’s Eve of last year, lightweight “Ill” Will Brooks learned there are pitfalls of success when he lost his first ever fight just two months later to Saad Awad at Bellator 91.

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Will Brooks Looks to the Past to Keep From Looking Ahead as He Dials In for Bellator Tourney – MMA Weekly

Bellator 101′s Saad Awad not looking ahead during second tournament run

BAD MMA News — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:20:00 +0000

When approaching his second Bellator lightweight tournament, Saad Awad is determined not to make the same mistakes as his first tournament run.

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Bellator 101′s Saad Awad not looking ahead during second tournament run – MMA Junkie

As Bellator looks at 100, Bjorn Rebney looks ahead to MMA’s two-horse race

BAD MMA News — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:15:00 +0000

When the sun rises in Phoenix on Saturday morning, Bellator MMA will officially be 100 events old. It’s as good a time for reflection as any, even if the milestone might have snuck up on Bjorn Rebney, who started this thing a little more than four years ago and has been there for every new step of its growth.

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As Bellator looks at 100, Bjorn Rebney looks ahead to MMA’s two-horse race – MMA Junkie

UFC 165′s Mike Ricci takes straight-ahead, no-frills approach to fight week

BAD MMA News — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:45:00 +0000

“It is what it is.” That pretty much sums up Mike Ricci’s mentality when it comes to his job. The UFC lightweight, a self-professed loner, at least in fight week, is just straight ahead when it comes to his fight career.

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UFC 165′s Mike Ricci takes straight-ahead, no-frills approach to fight week – MMA Junkie

Family motivation helping Desmond Green ahead of Bellator 99 tournament slot

BAD MMA News — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:00:00 +0000

Desmond Green has two things in his corner for his Bellator MMA debut on Friday night: confidence and motivation.

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Family motivation helping Desmond Green ahead of Bellator 99 tournament slot – MMA Junkie

‘Bellator 98: Shlemenko vs. Cooper’ video preview

BAD MMA News — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:00:00 +0000

Ahead of tonight’s Bellator 98 event and headliner between middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko and challenger Brett Cooper, check out a video preview of the fight.

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‘Bellator 98: Shlemenko vs. Cooper’ video preview – MMA Junkie

Ali Bagautinov admits jitters slowed UFC Fight Night 28 knockout win

BAD MMA News — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:10:00 +0000

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – Russian flyweight Ali Bagautinov received a healthy does of hype ahead of his UFC debut, and the 28-year-old delivered with a knockout win. But he admits he started a little slowly when octagon jitters got the best of him early.

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Ali Bagautinov admits jitters slowed UFC Fight Night 28 knockout win – MMA Junkie

Why having Anthony Pettis as UFC lightweight champion ‘doesn’t suck’

BAD MMA News — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 02:30:00 +0000

Hands up if you picked Anthony Pettis to win the UFC lightweight title via first-round submission at UFC 164. And please, if you wouldn’t mind, go ahead and keep those hands up. It will give the rest of us a good chance to see who the liars are.

UFC Fight Night 28 features five hours of live fights on FOX Sports 1 on Sept. 4

BAD MMA News — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:30:00 +0000

UFC and FOX officials have made a late change to broadcast plans for next week’s “UFC Fight Night 28: Teixeira vs. Bader” event, and FOX Sports 1 will now feature five hours of live fights ahead of the debut of “The Ultimate Fighter 18.”

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UFC Fight Night 28 features five hours of live fights on FOX Sports 1 on Sept. 4 – MMA Junkie

Video: Dana White’s video blog, behind the scenes at UFC Fight Night 26

BAD MMA News — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:00:00 +0000

Ahead of Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night 27 event, UFC President Dana White has released his first fight-week video blog. Today, we go behind the scenes of UFC Fight Night 26.