BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » New Sport https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 WSOF 4′s Tyrone Spong finds transition between MMA, kickboxing ‘nothing special’ https://www.badmma.com/wsof-4s-tyrone-spong-finds-transition-between-mma-kickboxing-nothing-special.html https://www.badmma.com/wsof-4s-tyrone-spong-finds-transition-between-mma-kickboxing-nothing-special.html#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2013 05:00:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/wsof-4s-tyrone-spong-finds-transition-between-mma-kickboxing-nothing-special.html Just because they’re both combat sports doesn’t mean it should be easy for a kickboxer to give MMA a shot — and have relative ease picking the new sport up. But that’s pretty much how it worked for Tyrone Spong (1-0), who next month fights for just the second time in his pro MMA career – and carries the card for World Series of Fighting 4 as the main event against Angel DeAnda (11-2). Spong’s MMA debut in November at WSOF 1 was so impressive when he knocked out Travis Bartlett in the first round that he went straight to the top of the heap for the Las Vegas-based promotion. “I feel very special that they put me as the main event, and I think it’s also due to the fans,” Spong told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “That card (in November), I wasn’t going to be on the main card – I was going to be on the undercard. But by the demand of the fans, I ended up on the main card. Now I’m in the main event

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/wsof-4s-tyrone-spong-finds-transition-between-mma-kickboxing-nothing-special.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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