Video: UFC hopeful Thomas Almeida’s thrilling comeback win

BAD MMA News — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:30:00 +0000

This past month we spotlighted 21-year-old Thomas Almeida’s quest for a UFC contract . If he keeps doing what he did this past weekend, UFC executives are bound to notice. The Brazilian bantamweight ran his record to 12-0 with a gutsy and trilling comeback win over Valdines Silva (8-4 at the time). The July 13 bout took place at MMA Super Heroes 1 in Sao Paulo. You can watch the full fight above. Despite his young age, Almeida has been training muay Thai for eight years and competing for five

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USA TODAY: For UFC 162′s Roger Gracie, confidence comes with famous last name

BAD MMA News — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:00:00 +0000

(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) You can count on a few things happening when you grow up in the Gracie family. There’s a good chance you’ll learn the art of jiu-jitsu from some of the world’s best practitioners. And you’ll probably get pretty good at it. You’d better, because almost everywhere you go, from childhood on, there’s bound to be someone who thinks it would be cool to beat up a member of Brazil’s first family of fighting, just like there’s bound to be people who expect you to be some sort of superman on the mat. “That talk starts when you’re very young, and it never stops,” Roger Gracie (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com)

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Video: UFC hopeful Thomas Almeida’s thrilling comeback win

USA TODAY: For UFC 162′s Roger Gracie, confidence comes with famous last name