BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Nick Thompson https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bellator Champ Ben Askren Plans to Take Out Frustrating Schedule on Andrey Koreshkov https://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html https://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:49:06 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html There is only one 170-pound mixed martial artist outside of the UFC that is turning heads. His name is Ben Askren , undefeated Bellator welterweight champion. And he is preparing to put his belt on the line for the fourth time when he steps in the cage with Andrey Koreshkov on Wednesday. Askren is currently undefeated at 11-0, and in many pundits’ eyes, he is the next prospect to step out from the shadow of divisional kingpin and UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. With wins over MMA veterans like Jay Hieron, Nick Thompson, Douglas Lima and Lyman Good (Hieron, Good and Thompson being former champions of other mid-major promotions), Askren has proven that – despite only being in the sport for four years – this 29-year-old isn’t intimidated by any perceived lack of experience. Oddly, being a two-time Division-I NCAA National Champion at Missouri and former Olympian in the sport of wrestling, Askren is rarely mentioned in the same vein as some of his more well known contemporaries in MMA. It’s something the former “Mizzou Tiger” doesn’t mind at all. “Most people are just ignorant about the sport,” Askren told MMAweekly.com .  “I’ve trained with the best

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Bellator Champ Ben Askren Plans to Take Out Frustrating Schedule on Andrey Koreshkov – MMA Weekly

]]> https://www.badmma.com/bellator-champ-ben-askren-plans-to-take-out-frustrating-schedule-on-andrey-koreshkov.html/feed 0 UFC on FOX 8′s Ed Herman on $200 paydays, sketchy hotels and now-veteran status https://www.badmma.com/ufc-on-fox-8s-ed-herman-on-200-paydays-sketchy-hotels-and-now-veteran-status.html https://www.badmma.com/ufc-on-fox-8s-ed-herman-on-200-paydays-sketchy-hotels-and-now-veteran-status.html#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:45:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/ufc-on-fox-8s-ed-herman-on-200-paydays-sketchy-hotels-and-now-veteran-status.html Ed Herman can share a hundred stories about his early MMA career. There was the time a delayed flight forced a mad scramble and a fight with Nick Thompson just a few hours after his plane touched down in Ohio. There were the countless roadside motels that, according to Herman, would make even the most hardscrabble traveler think, “Man, that place looks sketchy.” There was the meager $200 paycheck for his first MMA fight, though it nearly matched his weekly construction-job paycheck, so it seemed like a windfall at the time. And there’s the time his trainer’s flight got mixed up and forced him to rent a car and drive across Texas to make Herman’s fight just in time. Back then, in the early 2000s (and well before MMA’s current boom), that was the life of an up-and-coming fighter. But now, more than seven years into a UFC career that has seen plenty of highs and some hefty paychecks, Herman is thankful for his current veteran status.

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