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Joe Warren on Nick Kirk: “He’s Just a Body That’s in Front Me to Put a Hole Through”

BAD MMA News — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:00:24 +0000

Heading into his scheduled fight earlier this month against Nick Kirk in the semifinals of the Bellator bantamweight tournament on Sept. 7, Joe Warren’s path took an unexpected turn. Literally on his way to catch his airplane to fly to the event in Connecticut, Warren was told the fight was in jeopardy due to an issue with his pre-fight medical exam

Joe Warren on Nick Kirk: “He’s Just a Body That’s in Front Me to Put a Hole Through” – MMA Weekly

Caio Magalhaes vs. Nick Ring added to UFC Fight Night 33 in Brisbane

BAD MMA News — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:30:00 +0000

A middleweight bout between Caio Magalhaes and Nick Ring is the latest addition to December’s UFC Fight Night 33 event.

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Joe Warren meets Nick Kirk in Bellator 101 headliner, Kongo-Godbeer moved

BAD MMA News — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:00 +0000

Joe Warren was cleared to fight earlier this week, and Bellator will waste no time getting the former champion back to work. Warren will meet Nick Kirk in a bantamweight tournament semifinal fight to headline next week’s Bellator 101.

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WSOF 4′s Nick Newell: ‘I’ve learned growing up to have thick skin’

BAD MMA News — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:40:00 +0000

Nick Newell knew that a move to a bigger stage would bring new questions and doubts about his career in MMA. But from the outset, he wasn’t paying attention to any of that.

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Keon Caldwell Sees WSOF 4 Opponent Nick Newell As Any Opponent, Expects Fireworks

BAD MMA News — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:30:14 +0000

Having been two years since he last fought in a full-on MMA event, former Ultimate Fighter 13 cast member Keon “Black Assassin” Caldwell is eager to eager to return to action at the World Series of Fighting 4 and showoff the complete overhaul he’s given his game. “My trainer and I looked at everything and decided to start over from scratch,” said Caldwell. “We redid everything, so I’ll be a whole different fighter coming out on Aug. 10. “All aspects of my game have changed since the last time people saw me leaving TUF 13.

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Nick Newell Puts Controversy Behind Him, Moves on to Business of Proving He’s a Top Lightweight

BAD MMA News — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:30:33 +0000

While the first half of 2013 was at times chaotic for lightweight up-and-comer “Notorious” Nick Newell , he’s looking to finish the year strong. Following an acrimonious split with the XFC , where he was their reigning 155-pound champion, Newell signed with the World Series of Fighting, and after an eight-month layoff, he’s ready to return to the fight game. “Staying in the gym is the best way for me to deal with anything that comes my way,” said Newell. “I made a move that was best for my career and I’m happy I made it. “I don’t really let outside factors affect how I fight

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Nick Newell Puts Controversy Behind Him, Moves on to Business of Proving He’s a Top Lightweight – MMA Weekly

Keon Caldwell camp worried WSOF favoring Nick Newell for spot in tournament

BAD MMA News — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:50:00 +0000

A press release issued this past week by World Series of Fighting announced an upcoming lightweight tournament to crown its first champion at 155 pounds. Among the fighters targeted for the competition was Justin Gaethje , Dan Lauzon , the winner of a fight at WSOF 4 between Gesias Cavalcante and Tyson Griffin and one-handed fighter Nick Newell (9-0). Newell’s opponent at WSOF 4, Keon Caldwell (9-1), was not mentioned, and that has his camp feeling two things – worried the promotion is displaying favoritism, and motivated to spoil its plans. “Throughout the whole process, it seems like the attention has been on Nick a little more than Keon,” Caldwell’s trainer, Richard Cox, told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “(WSOF is) a great company – I just think they’re on the Nick Newell hype train

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Road to World Series of Fighting 4: Nick Newell (Full Video)

BAD MMA News — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 02:48:11 +0000

Nick Newell is an undefeated mixed martial artist, who is making his promotional debut at World Series of Fighting 4 on Aug. 10 in Ontario, Calif. He’ll be squaring off with Keon Caldwell. Newell also happens to be a congenital amputee, his left arm ending just after the elbow. Check out the NBC Sports feature Road to World Series of Fighting 4 , featuring an in-depth look at Nick Newell and how he became one of the hottest lightweight prospects in the MMA world.

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ABC to recommend new MMA language for downed fighters

BAD MMA News — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:05:00 +0000

The concept of what constitutes a downed fighter could change following this week’s meeting of the Association of Boxing Commissions, which oversees MMA’s regulatory bodies. Commission representatives Nick Lembo (New Jersey), Bernie Profato (Ohio) and Keith Kizer (Nevada), who represent some of MMA’s busiest and most prominent regulatory bodies, will present their plan at Wednesday’s ABC meeting in San Antonio. Lembo will argue their case, in which the regulators want referees to instruct fighters that placing a finger tip on the canvas won’t necessarily make them a downed fighter. In recent years, many standing fighters have taken advantage of the current language used in the Unified Rules of MMA. That helps them avoid knees or kicks to the head, or possibly put their opponent in danger of a warning or point deduction.

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Video: WSOF 4′s Keon Caldwell says Nick Newell bout not a lose-lose situation

BAD MMA News — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:30:00 +0000

Keon Caldwell believes there’s a common misconception about fighter Nick Newell : fighting him is a lose-lose situation. The argument, it goes, is that defeating a one-handed MMA fighter like Newell doesn’t earn you much credibility, and losing to him can be an incredibly embarrassing setback. But Caldwell (9-1), who meets Newell in a main-card lightweight bout next month at World Series of Fighting 4, doesn’t see it that way at all. Newell (9-0), a former XFC fighter, is 9-0 with eight first-round stoppages, including six via submission. He’s no longer the “the fighter with one hand” so much as he is a legit prospect with proven stopping ability. “He’s a man just like we are, but he’s taken it to the another level with how he is,” Caldwell told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).

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