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UFC on FOX 8′s Ed Herman on $200 paydays, sketchy hotels and now-veteran status

BAD MMA News — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:45:00 +0000

Ed Herman can share a hundred stories about his early MMA career. There was the time a delayed flight forced a mad scramble and a fight with Nick Thompson just a few hours after his plane touched down in Ohio. There were the countless roadside motels that, according to Herman, would make even the most hardscrabble traveler think, “Man, that place looks sketchy.” There was the meager $200 paycheck for his first MMA fight, though it nearly matched his weekly construction-job paycheck, so it seemed like a windfall at the time. And there’s the time his trainer’s flight got mixed up and forced him to rent a car and drive across Texas to make Herman’s fight just in time. Back then, in the early 2000s (and well before MMA’s current boom), that was the life of an up-and-coming fighter. But now, more than seven years into a UFC career that has seen plenty of highs and some hefty paychecks, Herman is thankful for his current veteran status.

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UFC on FOX 8′s Ed Herman on $200 paydays, sketchy hotels and now-veteran status – MMA Junkie

Randy Couture hopes ‘Gym Rescue’ series helps some of MMA’s ‘growing pains’

BAD MMA News — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:30:00 +0000

Randy Couture counted seven Xtreme Couture franchises in the U.S. and Canada at the height of MMA’s boom late this past decade. Then the market cooled, and gyms began to close. “The economy, especially in the gym industry, has been very difficult,” he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “The economy took care of a bunch of them. There’s two left now with Las Vegas and Toronto.” You could see irony in the UFC Hall of Famer’s new role in “Gym Rescue,” a new reality show that mirrors the popular “Bar Rescue” program, or a bit of savvy casting from the cable network, which inked Couture to a TV deal early this year. In the show, Couture travels to cities around the country to help MMA gyms in the fickle business of getting everyday people into the cage, and keeping them there.

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Randy Couture hopes ‘Gym Rescue’ series helps some of MMA’s ‘growing pains’ – MMA Junkie

UFC 163′s Phil Davis: ‘Fights just find me. That’s just the way I run it’

BAD MMA News — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:30:00 +0000

Phil Davis was waiting for someone to give him a call. His wait is over. Davis this past month in Las Vegas wasn’t really in the mood to call anyone out. The way he puts it, he never really is in the mood to call anyone out, anyway. He just waits, and boom – there’s a fight for him, just when he needs it. And that’s kind of what happened recently. When Davis (11-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) met with a handful of media members just before UFC 160 in Las Vegas, he was still waiting for a fight. And as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported on Monday , now he’ll take on Lyoto Machida (19-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) in the co-main event of UFC 163 this August in Rio de Janeiro

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UFC 163′s Phil Davis: ‘Fights just find me. That’s just the way I run it’ – MMA Junkie