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Kurt Pellegrino would tell you about fighting with a head injury – if he could remember

BAD MMA News — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 21:09:27 +0000

Kurt Pellegrino The first six seconds. That’s what Kurt Pellegrino remembers from the first round of his January 2008 fight against Alberto Crane. Crane’s shin, by way of a head kick, removed the rest of the round from Pellegrino’s memory at UFC Fight Night 12 in Las Vegas. The way Pellegrino sees it now, of course it was a kick to the face that put him on the mat. “During my pre-fight interview, I actually said kind of like what Ronda Rousey said (before her loss to Holly Holm),” Pellegrino told MMAjunkie at a recent concussion symposium. “I said, ‘The only way I can lose is if he kicks me in the face.’ “At that moment, I didn’t know I was kicked in the face

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With student’s victory, emotional UFC vet Kurt Pellegrino can finally say farewell

BAD MMA News — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:24:38 +0000

CHICAGO – For a few years now Kurt Pellegrino has been trying to convince himself that his fighting days are truly done, but for some reason he just couldn’t get the retirement to take. Maybe that’s because he needed a little help, even if he didn’t realize it until he got it in the form of a successful UFC debut by his student, welterweight George Sullivan (15-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC), who defeated Mike Rhodes (6-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) via unanimous decision on the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC on FOX 10 event at Chicago’s United Center. Simply making the trip with Sullivan was somewhat therapeutic for Pellegrino, he said, though he wasn’t quite prepared for the emotions it would evoke. “Just coming here, it was very weird,” Pellegrino told MMAjunkie.

With student’s victory, emotional UFC vet Kurt Pellegrino can finally say farewell – MMA Junkie