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Hard-to-finish ‘Arm Collector’ Giva Santana is Bellator 98′s elder statesman

BAD MMA News — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 16:45:00 +0000

When you’re a decade older than every other tournament competitor, it’s easy to be overlooked.

Hard-to-finish ‘Arm Collector’ Giva Santana is Bellator 98′s elder statesman – MMA Junkie

Two UFC 164 heavyweights, two histories and two opinions on TRT

BAD MMA News — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:00:00 +0000

More than a decade after their careers took divergent paths over peformance enhancers, UFC 164 opponents Frank Mir and Josh Barnett share different opinions on a controversial treatment used by a growing number of MMA fighters.

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Josh Barnett Ready to Make the First Defense of the UFC Title He Won a Decade Ago

BAD MMA News — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:33:25 +0000

Josh Barnett will be returning to the UFC after an 11-year absence to take on fellow former heavyweight champion Frank Mir in Milwaukee on Saturday night. With nine wins in his last ten fights, Barnett is clearly still a force to be reckoned with in the heavyweight division.

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RFA Signs Multi-Year Deal with Adidas Combat Sports Licensor Double-D

BAD MMA News — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:24:51 +0000

Ed Soares, president of Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA), on Monday announced an exclusive multi-year deal with Double-D, the adidas Combat Sports licensors for over a decade.

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UFC 164 Free Fight Video: Benson Henderson vs. Frankie Edgar at UFC 144

BAD MMA News — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 05:00:28 +0000

Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar took on powerhouse Benson Henderson over five unbelievable rounds at UFC 144, the promotion’s first journey back to Japan in over a decade. Benson Henderson next puts his UFC lightweight championship on the line against Anthony Pettis at UFC 164 on Aug. 31 in Milwaukee. Fight video courtesy of UFC.com . Be sure to Like MMAWeekly.com on Facebook and Follow @MMAWeeklycom on Twitter .

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Rampage Jackson Says There’s Always Been a Secret Rivalry with Tito Ortiz

BAD MMA News — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 02:43:13 +0000

Former UFC light heavyweight champions Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Tito Ortiz have been friends for over a decade. They’ve been training partners, and at one time, they said they would never fight each other. Times have changed. Their friendship is intact, but the two no longer train together and are going to fight. Ortiz and Jackson will headline Bellator MMA ’s first ever pay-per-view on Nov. 2, and Jackson says there’s always been a bit of a secret rivalry between the two. When Jackson was making his way up the ranks in Japan with the Pride organization, Ortiz was the reigning UFC 205-pound champion. The two began training together at Ortiz’ gym in California under the direction of Colin Oyama. “I trained with Tito for years and I can tell secretly there’s been a little competition between me and Tito. I remember when I first started training with him and Ricco Rodriguez, they used to kick my ass all the time and stuff like that.

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USA TODAY: Jose Aldo next great Brazilian hope for UFC

BAD MMA News — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0000

(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) The best news for UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo might be that Anderson Silva can’t keep fighting forever. Brazil’s most famous fighter eventually has to retire, and when he does it could be Aldo (23-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC) who fills his shoes. Regardless of whether Silva (33-5 MMA, 16-1 UFC) regains his UFC middleweight title when he has a rematch with new champ Chris Weidman at the end of the year, Brazil’s king of MMA superstardom is closing in on 40. Aldo is 26, and in excellent position to assume the throne once Silva’s fighting days are done. That’s the hope, anyway, both for Aldo and for the UFC. After another successful title defense at UFC 163 in Rio de Janeiro, however, it’s tough to tell whether Aldo can inspire the same fierce passion in one of the UFC’s key markets. In 2011, when Silva led the charge for the UFC’s first Brazilian event in more than a decade, tickets sold out in less than two hours. The return to the same venue two years later revealed clumps of empty seats on the pay-per-view broadcast, with UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik telling USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com this latest event was probably within 1,200-1,300 seats of a sellout

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UFC Welterweight Rory MacDonald Knew Instantly That He Wanted to be a Fighter (Video)

BAD MMA News — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 05:30:32 +0000

UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald knew he wanted to be a mixed martial artist the first time he saw footage of an early UFC event. He quickly began training at the age of 14 and a decade later is on the cusp of a UFC title shot. “I just fell in love. I started training. It was amazing,” MacDonald told UFC.com . “I was addicted. I was completely consumed in it. It was all I did like 24 hours a day was watch videos, train and try to learn as much as I could. “I pretty much knew instantly that this was going to be what I did with my life,” he added.

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UFC Welterweight Rory MacDonald Knew Instantly That He Wanted to be a Fighter (Video) – MMA Weekly

Ken Shamrock mends fences with adoptive brother Frank Shamrock for MMA project

BAD MMA News — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:00:00 +0000

UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Ken Shamrock said he’s ended his longtime feud with adoptive brother Frank Shamrock to work on a hush-hush MMA project he believes will “challenge a lot of the top promotions.” “I think this is something that the MMA fans have been waiting for and that they deserve,” Shamrock recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “They shouldn’t have to choose. They should love both and be able to share in both.” Shamrock (28-15-2) said the two discussed their contentious past and mended fences while filming the project earlier this month. “We sat down, and we had some discussions, from childhood to the fight, to the argument, to the separation, to the not going to my dad’s funeral (and) the reasons why,” he said. “We hashed it out right there on video, and there’s a lot of stuff in that that’s emotional.” The adoptive brothers fought their last respective bouts in 2010, but they’ve remained at each other’s throats for more than a decade.

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Ken Shamrock mends fences with adoptive brother Frank Shamrock for MMA project – MMA Junkie

UFC’s Josh Thomson: Give me Anthony Pettis, then a title shot

BAD MMA News — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:15:00 +0000

LAS VEGAS – Josh Thomson ‘s message to UFC officials is clear: Give me a fight with Anthony Pettis , and then give me the UFC lightweight title shot I’ve been awaiting for the past decade. Thomson, in Las Vegas for UFC 162, spoke to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) on Wednesday about his recovery from minor knee and elbow surgeries, and his current plan for a September or October return to the cage. “I’m just begging and pleading to Joe Silva and Dana White to give me the Pettis fight,” he said. Thomson (20-5 MMA, 3-1 UFC), a longtime Strikeforce fighter, returned to the UFC in April and upset Nate Diaz via TKO at UFC on FOX 7. It marked the first’s knockout loss of Diaz’s career. Pettis (16-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC), meanwhile, recently was forced out of a featherweight title fight champion Jose Aldo at UFC 163. Now, Pettis has said he wants to return to lightweight and possibly fight the winner of UFC 164′s headliner between champion Benson Henderson and T.J. Grant