BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Good Job https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:58:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How a Firework Nearly Put David Rickels’ Bellator 97 Title Fight with Michael Chandler in Jeopardy https://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html https://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:30:24 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html Bellator MMA’s David “The Caveman” Rickels earned a lightweight title fight with champion Michael Chandler by winning the Bellator Season 8 Lightweight Tournament.  He defeated Lloyd Woodard, Jason Fischer and Saad Awad to get to the title fight, but an Independence Day firework accident nearly caused his championship aspirations to go up in flames. “I nearly blew up my hand on the Fourth of July.  It didn’t affect my training at all.  Everything is great, but I had a big open wound on my hand, and I had to be really careful as far as not getting infected,” Rickels told MMAWeekly.com.  “I’ve done a really good job, surprisingly.  I’ve got a resilient body and I’m feeling great going into this fight.” “I was lighting another one and the spark jumped over into the one in my hand and blew up.  It was a really weird deal.  It was a freak accident that could have cost me my damn hand let alone my title fight,” he explained. At first, Rickels didn’t know how much damage the firework caused, but his first thoughts were that it wasn’t good. “I said holy (expletive).  I was like, how am I going to explain this?  I didn’t know how bad it was because it was really dark and I couldn’t see anything.  I could feel my finger, so I was like, okay, that’s there at least,” he said.

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/how-a-firework-nearly-put-david-rickels-bellator-97-title-fight-with-michael-chandler-in-jeopardy.html/feed 0 Roy Nelson’s big bet at UFC 161 https://www.badmma.com/roy-nelsons-big-bet-at-ufc-161.html https://www.badmma.com/roy-nelsons-big-bet-at-ufc-161.html#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:30:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/roy-nelsons-big-bet-at-ufc-161.html WINNIPEG – Roy Nelson hadn’t even made it back to his corner after Round 2, and already his wife was out of her cageside seat, straining to make herself heard over the noise of the crowd. The words she chose didn’t make it all the way across the cage to press row, so I can’t tell you exactly what she said to her husband in that tender moment. Judging by body language alone, it didn’t seem like she was trying to tell him what a good job he was doing against Stipe Miocic in Saturday’s UFC 161 co-main event. Can you blame her? Nelson bet big on himself when he spurned the UFC’s offer of a contract extension and opted instead to fight the last fight of his current deal without a secure plan for his future in place. If he won, he could up his asking price and stick it to UFC President Dana White all at the same time – two of his favorite pastimes of late. It’s just that, by the time the second round had ended and a depleted Nelson had staggered back to his corner, it seemed increasingly unlikely that his gamble was going to pay off

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