BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Different Light https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Video: Mark Munoz seeing things in different light for UFC 162 vs. Tim Boetsch https://www.badmma.com/video-mark-munoz-seeing-things-in-different-light-for-ufc-162-vs-tim-boetsch.html https://www.badmma.com/video-mark-munoz-seeing-things-in-different-light-for-ufc-162-vs-tim-boetsch.html#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/video-mark-munoz-seeing-things-in-different-light-for-ufc-162-vs-tim-boetsch.html Mark Munoz sees his life through “different lenses” moving into his next fight, which follows a months-long battle with depression.  The 35-year-old UFC middleweight not only has a better sense of his psyche, but what others in his profession go through in the peaks and valleys that accompany an MMA career.  “Before, when I saw people going through depression, I thought, ‘Man, they just need to suck it up,’” he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “Now, I’m a guy that has compassion [for] people, because it’s real, and you don’t know what kind of circumstances that are going on in their life.” Munoz (12-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC), who’s scheduled to meet Tim Boetsch (16-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) at UFC 162, spiraled downward after a loss to Chris Weidman at UFC on FUEL TV 4. Injuries then put him on the shelf for nearly a year and cost him a No. 1 contender bout. Unable to train, he ballooned to 260 pounds .  “I was like ‘Fat Bastard’ in ‘Austin Powers,’” he joked.  UFC 162 takes place July 6 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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