BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Demian https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Photos: Teixeira, Maia and Oliveira at Coco Park tree-planting ceremony https://www.badmma.com/photos-teixeira-maia-and-oliveira-at-coco-park-tree-planting-ceremony.html https://www.badmma.com/photos-teixeira-maia-and-oliveira-at-coco-park-tree-planting-ceremony.html#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:45:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/photos-teixeira-maia-and-oliveira-at-coco-park-tree-planting-ceremony.html UFC contenders Glover Teixeira and Demian Maia , as well as Brazilian octagon girl Camila Oliveira, today took part in a ceremonial tree planting as part of a carbon offset initiative known as Ceara Carbono Zero at at Coco Park in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Launched in 2011 by the Ceara state government, the Ceara Carbono Zero strategy offers guidelines for carbon emissions designed to support the regions renewable energy investments, such as solar and wind power, to protect the biodiversity of the Caatinga (a semi-arid scrub forest situated in northeast Brazil) and to offer a set of overall efforts to mitigate and compensate emissions. With the UFC’s participation in the program, Saturday’s “UFC on FUEL TV 10: Nogueira vs. Werdum 2″ event will be completely carbon neutral, according to UFC officials. “As a global leader in sports, the UFC is thrilled that its event can serve as a platform for bringing awareness and further helping the state government’s environmentally conscious initiative,” UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta stated.

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/photos-teixeira-maia-and-oliveira-at-coco-park-tree-planting-ceremony.html/feed 0 UFC 163′s Demian Maia committed to BJJ roots – and shot at welterweight title https://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html https://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:15:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html FORTALEZA, Brazil – When Demian Maia entered the sport of MMA, he brought with him true world-class submission skills. As time went on, the world-champion grappler seemed to move away from those core skills and focus more on other aspects of the sport. That’s not going to be the case anymore. “I think when you’re training MMA, it’s a new sport,” Maia (18-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “People like myself come from one area, one martial art, and we need to improve on our other areas. So we’re training a lot in these other sports, like in my case on my boxing. Of course, you start to get sharper in that sport, but in the previous one you lose a little bit.  “The main thing is when you’re fighting, you do what you were training

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