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UFC 165 results and photos: Brendan Schaub chokes out Matt Mitrione in first

BAD MMA News — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 07:25:00 +0000

TORONTO – After a lot of prefight talk, Brendan Schaub let his arms do some jaw-jacking. Schaub choked Matt Mitrione unconscious with a first-round D’Arce choke a little more than four minutes into their fight.

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UFC 165 results and photos: Brendan Schaub chokes out Matt Mitrione in first – MMA Junkie

Banker Turned Fighter, Princeton Grad Jake Butler Focused on Training and Winning, Not Titles

BAD MMA News — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:00:50 +0000

Jake Butler has made headlines all over the world due to his status as a Princeton University graduate who decided to turn his back on a career on Wall Street in order to follow his martial arts dreams, but after two outings in the ONE FC cage, the novelty is starting to wear off and reality is setting in. The New Jersey native could be a serious light heavyweight contender. If there is one skill set that is almost guaranteed to bring success in MMA, it is wrestling. Butler, who competed at an NCAA Division One level and captained the wrestling team at Princeton, brings much more to ONE FC than just an inspiring life story. He has the ability to take opponents down and keep them there. His two fights to date have lasted a total of four minutes and 58 seconds. He is two for two with takedown attempts in his MMA career. No fighter put on their back by Butler has ever been able to escape or work their way back to the feet again either

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Banker Turned Fighter, Princeton Grad Jake Butler Focused on Training and Winning, Not Titles – MMA Weekly

UFC 163 Results: Phil Davis Steals a Decision From Lyoto Machida on the Brazilian’s Home Turf

BAD MMA News — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:01:18 +0000

Normally when a fighter competes in his hometown, there is a term commonly referred to in the fight game as “the hometown advantage.” Well, someone forgot to tell UFC light heavyweight and Belem, Brazil, native Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida about this saying before his UFC 163 bout with Phil Davis on Saturday night. And if they did tell him, rest assured, Machida would tell you that old fighting adage is for the birds. In front of his hometown faithful, inside a packed HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Machida dominated the former two-time National Champion from Penn State from pillar to post for the majority of the fight, only to suffer a perplexing unanimous decision loss as the scorecards were read. Round one was all Machida as he peppered Davis with counter jabs and body kicks from the outset. Davis circled to the left, showing some improved striking, but nothing to write home about. Midway through the first frame, Machida scored a slick straight left that drilled Davis on the chin and had him retreating. Machida followed up with a thudding flying knee to the body, as Davis recouped to the center of the Octagon. It took the former All-American almost four minutes into the round to attempt his first takedown, but when he did it was successful. As the first round came to a close, Davis was in Machida’s half-guard scoring powerful ground and pound. Round two was more of the same from Machida, as Davis opened with flashy front kicks and uncharacteristic combination punching. It looked good, but the attempts were more or less futile. Davis shot on Machida and the Brazilian sprawled with precision. The Dragon spent the majority of the round peppering his opponent with well-timed counter punching and textbook defense – something that has become a trademark of the former UFC light heavyweight champion

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UFC 163 Results: Phil Davis Steals a Decision From Lyoto Machida on the Brazilian’s Home Turf – MMA Weekly

Bellator 96 winner War Machine eyes Askren, fights because ‘I can’t have a boss’

BAD MMA News — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0000

Fighting for the first time in 18 months felt a little strange for War Machine . The result felt pretty good, though. It took War Machine (13-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) just under four minutes to stop Blas Avena (8-7 MMA, 1-1 BFC) on Wednesday night at Bellator 96 in his first fight since November 2011. Since November 2011, War Machine re-signed with Bellator (after a stint in 2009 that never came to be when he was released before the promotion’s first event after a MySpace rant about President Obama), gone back to jail, got out of jail, got a shot in a Bellator welterweight tournament, lost that shot when he tore his ACL training, healed up and now, finally, he’s back. War Machine said getting back in the cage after a long layoff didn’t necessarily have ring rust behind it, but there was something he wasn’t expecting. “That’s the thing with ring rust: It doesn’t exist that much,” War Machine told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “You fight like 40 fights in the gym before you ever come to the real fight. But I won’t lie, I was a little more nervous than usual.

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Bellator 96 winner War Machine eyes Askren, fights because ‘I can’t have a boss’ – MMA Junkie