BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Former Team https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Guillard dedicates UFC on FOX 8 to recently passed grandmother, ailing sister https://www.badmma.com/guillard-dedicates-ufc-on-fox-8-to-recently-passed-grandmother-ailing-sister.html https://www.badmma.com/guillard-dedicates-ufc-on-fox-8-to-recently-passed-grandmother-ailing-sister.html#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2013 02:15:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/guillard-dedicates-ufc-on-fox-8-to-recently-passed-grandmother-ailing-sister.html UFC lightweight Melvin Guillard (30-12-2 MMA, 11-7 UFC) has a lot on his mind leading into his next fight, and it’s not about his departure earlier this year from the Blackzilians MMA team in Florida. Guillard’s grandmother passed away on Monday, and he said his sister is scheduled to have brain surgery four days after this weekend’s UFC on FOX 8 event, where he faces Mac Danzig (30-12-2 MMA, 11-8 UFC) on the event’s FX-televised preliminary-card at KeyArena in Seattle. Win or lose at the event, Guillard will fly to Florida to reunite with his wife, whom he hasn’t seen since April, and then go to New Orleans to see his sister through her procedure. Guillard said he remains focused despite recent challenges and said he’s dedicating his fight to his family. “Those things only make me stronger,” he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). It’s been a tough year for “The Young Assassin,” who left the Blackzilians after back-to-back losses in the octagon. He was then blocked from returning to his former team at Jackson-Winkeljohn’s MMA and went to court on a pair of assault charges from 2010. In April, Guillard moved into the basement of a fighter house at the Grudge Training Center in Wheat Ridge, Colo., to get his career back on track

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/guillard-dedicates-ufc-on-fox-8-to-recently-passed-grandmother-ailing-sister.html/feed 0 Greg Jackson applauds Chael Sonnen’s ‘tactical brilliance’ if Jones claim true https://www.badmma.com/greg-jackson-applauds-chael-sonnens-tactical-brilliance-if-jones-claim-true.html https://www.badmma.com/greg-jackson-applauds-chael-sonnens-tactical-brilliance-if-jones-claim-true.html#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/greg-jackson-applauds-chael-sonnens-tactical-brilliance-if-jones-claim-true.html So Chael Sonnen fooled the world into thinking he didn’t know whether Dan Henderson was injured leading up to UFC 151, or he fooled the world into thinking he did. Either way, Greg Jackson can’t hate. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’d like to think it is,” the trainer today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) in response to Sonnen’s recent claim he had advance notice of his former Team Quest teammate’s knee injury and “set up” Jackson’s pupil, light-heavyweight champ Jon Jones . “I think Chael is very smart, and that would be another testament to that fact,” Jackson said. “I love the guy, and if he did indeed control the situation like that, it shows real tactical brilliance. “He could also just be messing around, which is funny as hell. Who knows? Either way, I wish him the best.” Given Sonnen’s penchant for outrageous claims, it would be ill-advised to take at face value his recent statement, which he gave during a Sunday edition of “UFC Tonight: Fight Edition.” Henderson couldn’t be reached for comment

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