BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Martial Art https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Floyd Mayweather Tops Jon Jones and Anderson Silva for ESPY; Would He Get Killed by a Wrestler? https://www.badmma.com/floyd-mayweather-tops-jon-jones-and-anderson-silva-for-espy-would-he-get-killed-by-a-wrestler.html https://www.badmma.com/floyd-mayweather-tops-jon-jones-and-anderson-silva-for-espy-would-he-get-killed-by-a-wrestler.html#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:07:27 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/floyd-mayweather-tops-jon-jones-and-anderson-silva-for-espy-would-he-get-killed-by-a-wrestler.html Jon Jones and Anderson Silva were nominated for ESPN’s Best Fighter ESPY, but once again, they were beaten out by boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr . The ESPYs are voted on by fans and were awarded Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Jones and Silva have each been nominated for the award three times since its inception in 2007, but no mixed martial artist has ever won it.  Mayweather has won the award five times, while Manny Pacquiao has won it on two occasions. ESPY voting takes place online and is open until the time the award is handed out, so much of the voting came after Silva got knocked out by Chris Weidman at UFC 162 on July 6. While fans may have voted Mayweather the top fighter, UFC broadcaster Joe Rogan, in the August issue of Inked magazine, pointed out that boxing is too limited when comparing fighters from that sport to mixed martial arts. “MMA for sure is more of a realistic contest, more of a realistic test as far as using the body in martial arts competition,” said Rogan. “Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/floyd-mayweather-tops-jon-jones-and-anderson-silva-for-espy-would-he-get-killed-by-a-wrestler.html/feed 0 UFC 163′s Demian Maia committed to BJJ roots – and shot at welterweight title https://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html https://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:15:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html FORTALEZA, Brazil – When Demian Maia entered the sport of MMA, he brought with him true world-class submission skills. As time went on, the world-champion grappler seemed to move away from those core skills and focus more on other aspects of the sport. That’s not going to be the case anymore. “I think when you’re training MMA, it’s a new sport,” Maia (18-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “People like myself come from one area, one martial art, and we need to improve on our other areas. So we’re training a lot in these other sports, like in my case on my boxing. Of course, you start to get sharper in that sport, but in the previous one you lose a little bit.  “The main thing is when you’re fighting, you do what you were training

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