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UFC Fight Night 28′s Sean Spencer is ‘Black Magic’ no more

BAD MMA News — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 03:15:00 +0000

For UFC Fight Night 28 competitor Sean Spencer, “Black Magic” is no longer a secret weapon.

UFC Fight Night 28′s Sean Spencer is ‘Black Magic’ no more – MMA Junkie

UFC 163 weigh-in photos: An MMAjunkie.com image gallery

BAD MMA News — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 01:30:00 +0000

RIO DE JANEIRO – MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) was on scene for today’s official fighter weigh-ins for UFC 163, where all but one competitor successfully made weight for Saturday’s card. In the main event, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo defends his belt for the fifth time in the UFC and seventh time overall when he meets “The Korean Zombie,” Chan Sung Jung. Jung was tapped for the fight when Aldo’s original opponent, Anthony Pettis, was injured in training and no longer could make the fight – he was dropping from lightweight to featherweight for the first time. Aldo, fighting in his home country of Brazil for the second time as champion, weighed in at the title-fight maximum of 145 pounds.

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MMAjunkie.com Radio (noon ET): Jorge Masvidal and Keith Berry

BAD MMA News — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:05:00 +0000

MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the studio UFC on FOX 8 winner Jorge Masvidal . We also chat with Bellator 97 competitor Keith Berry . MMAjunkie.com Radio airs today from noon to 2 p.m. ET (9 to 11 a.m PT) live from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Listen to and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio , or watch it live on select television markets as part of Fight Now TV. MMAjunkie.com Radio listener guide : HOW TO LISTEN: Go to www.mmajunkie.com/radio and choose a streaming option (such as Windows Media Player or Quicktime) to listen to the show live. A countdown clock appears when the show is offline. HOW TO WATCH (ON WEB): Check out a live webcam of the studio while there

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USA TODAY: Support shown for MMA bout between disabled fighters

BAD MMA News — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 03:00:00 +0000

(This story will appear in Thursday’s edition of USA TODAY.) An amateur mixed martial arts fight set for Aug. 3 in Florida promises a first for its combatants – and perhaps the sport at large. Garrett Holeve and David Steffan , who suffer from Down syndrome and mild cerebral palsy respectively, are stepping into the cage for a full-speed fight at a King of the Casino event at the Seminole Immokalee Casino in Immokalee, Fla. Steffan, a former Special Olympian and current Paralympic Games competitor, is aware some will question whether their respective disabilities should rule out a fight, and he’s ready to prove doubters wrong. “I think it’s a great opportunity for both of us to show the world that we belong in there just like everyone else,” he told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

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Former Invicta Champ Jessica Penne Not Worried About Title Shots, Just Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc

BAD MMA News — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:30:47 +0000

function not found Looking back on her Invicta FC atomweight title loss to Michelle Waterson in April, Jessica Penne feels it was a mistake to even accept the fight given her circumstances heading into the bout. “In all honesty, I should have not taken the last fight,” she said. “I was not able to train the way I normally train for a fight. I wasn’t as sharp as I needed to be going into that fight and it showed. “I’m a competitor and I don’t believe in backing out of fights, however, I will in the future if I’m unable to train for a fight. I let my competitiveness and my pride get in the way and I didn’t want to back out of the fight… and I needed the money. All those things add up. I would have done things differently if I were given another chance.” Even with the loss, Penne (10-2) chooses to look at the positives of the situation.

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Video: These are the fighters and brave souls predicting an Anderson Silva loss

BAD MMA News — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 02:30:00 +0000

The last time Anderson Silva (33-4 MMA, 16-0 UFC) was soundly defeated in an MMA fight, gas was a $1.85 a gallon, and the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. The UFC 162 headliner and longtime middleweight champion has decimated nearly every competitor since a loss to Ryo Chonan at PRIDE Shockwave 2004, and other than a DQ loss to Yushin Okami in 2006, he’s been unbeatable. Yet, despite the champ’s 16-fight UFC winning streak and his 10 consecutive title defenses, a growing number of fighters believe Chris Weidman (9-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) will pull off the upset in the pay-per-view headliner of Saturday’s UFC 162 event. Check out the above video as notables such as Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Luke Rockhold, Gray Maynard and John Moraga suggest an upset is imminent. For the latest on UFC 162 , stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site. Edit this article

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Ronda Rousey Says Coaching TUF 18 Has Been Emotionally Taxing

BAD MMA News — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 20:00:28 +0000

UFC women’s middleweight champion Ronda Rousey says coaching season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter has been emotionally taxing and tiring, but the experience exceeded her expectations. Rousey (7-0) was named the first female coach of the popular reality show and was originally supposed to coach opposite Cat Zingano . Zingano earned the opportunity to coach The Ultimate Fighter and solidified her place as No. 1 contender to Rousey’s crown by defeating Miesha Tate in April. A knee injury, however, forced Zingano off the show and out of the anticipated title fight with Rousey. She was replaced by Rousey’s longtime rival, Tate. During the UFC 161: Henderson vs. Evans media day on June 14, UFC president Dana White said the filming of this season of the reality is going “bad.” “Miesha and Ronda hate each other,” said White. “It’s like literally crazy drama every day.” For Rousey, coaching has been more work than she anticipated. “It’s a lot more work than I thought it would be, and it’s a lot more emotionally taxing than I thought it would be. You care a lot about these kids. I just felt like any kind of heartbreak or triumph, whatever they’re going through, I share in it. It’s exhausting going through that over and over and over with every competitor,” she said during a Facebook chat sponsored by Metro PCS on Wednesday

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Best job perk for UFC 161′s Kenny Robertson? ‘Getting paid to beat up somebody’

BAD MMA News — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:30:00 +0000

Kenny Robertson isn’t crazy about doing the media rounds or the sponsor gigs or the usual pre-fight hoopla. But come fight week, there’s one aspect of his job he absolutely adores. For the UFC 161 competitor, getting to tangle with another fighter is as good as it gets. “I love it,” he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “It’s a blast, man

Best job perk for UFC 161′s Kenny Robertson? ‘Getting paid to beat up somebody’ – MMA Junkie

WSOF 3 weigh-in results: Josh Burkman and Jon Fitch cleared for rematch

BAD MMA News — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:30:00 +0000

Almost all fighters are on weight for Friday’s WSOF 3 event, including headliners Josh Burkman and Jon Fitch . The weigh-in festivities took place today at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The same venue hosts Friday’s event, which includes a main card on NBC Sports Network and prelims on MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). (International viewers can watch the entire card on MMAjunkie.com.) Fitch (171 pounds) and Burkman (170), who fought in 2006 under the UFC banner with Fitch earning a submission victory, made weight without issue. The only fighter who missed on his first attempt was preliminary-card competitor Jeff Smith , who came in four-tenths of a pound over the featherweight limit

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Randy Couture: Getting banned from son’s UFC corner was ‘over the line’

BAD MMA News — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:15:00 +0000

Randy Couture knew his decision to join forces with the UFC’s largest competitor wouldn’t be welcome news to UFC President Dana White. A certain amount of backlash was, he figured, to be expected. What the former UFC champ didn’t expect, he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) was that it would get him barred from working his son’s corner at future UFC events. “In my opinion, that’s over the line,” said Couture, whose left his role as a UFC commentator in order to sign with former UFC broadcast partner Spike TV.

Randy Couture: Getting banned from son’s UFC corner was ‘over the line’ – MMA Junkie