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Former UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk Announces Retirement

BAD MMA News — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 02:06:57 +0000

Courtesy of Damon Martin and official MMAWeekly.com content partner Bleacher Report . Sean Sherk was an old-school fighter that kept the same mentality through nearly 14 years of competing in the cage and the ring, but a mounting list of injuries hampered his ability to compete. As a result, he announced his retirement from mixed martial arts Monday

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Irishman Conor McGregor’s UFC Fight Night 26 Open Workout Video

BAD MMA News — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:30:20 +0000

Irish featherweight Conor McGregor takes in his adopted hometown of Boston with a workout at the old-school boxing staple Peter Welch’s Gym. McGregor steps back into the Octagon at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 26: Shogun vs. Sonnen at the TD Garden in Boston. He’ll square off with Max Holloway as part of the UFC’s launch event on Fox Sports 1. But first, check out Conor McGregor’s special UFC Fight Night 26 open workout in Boston. Be sure to Like MMAWeekly.com on Facebook and Follow @MMAWeeklycom on Twitter . Powered By WizardRSS.com & Hand Chain Saw – a must have Survival tool, with many uses.

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Video: 125-pounder Ricardo Sattelmayer fights 286-pounder Tobias Barbeiro

BAD MMA News — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:35:00 +0000

If you’re an old-school fight fan who fondly remembers the good ol’ freak-show days of MMA, Brazil’s got just the thing for you.

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Invicta’s metamorphosis continues, in search of a final stage

BAD MMA News — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Talking to Invicta FC President Shannon Knapp about her organization’s first televised pay-per-view event this Saturday night, you get the sense that she can’t quite believe she’s doing this with her one-year-old company. “I’m so old school and the mindset is, you never go to pay-per-view until you’ve built that brand big and you can do those big numbers,” Knapp told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “It took me a little bit to change my mind.” More specifically, Knapp said, it took “a good deal,” one that wouldn’t cost significantly more than what she already was paying to put her all-female fight cards out via internet streams. “And also, you know what? This card deserves it,” said Knapp. “It gives more options to fans to view it, and I figured it’s worth the risk. No expectations, just want to go out and put on a good product like we always do.” That is how this grand experiment started, by relying on both the strength of the fights and the chance to watch them for free on the Internet, where MMA fandom lives. First, it was a free online stream through Invicta’s website, then an online pay-per-view through Ustream, and now a move to televised pay-per-view, at least in North America (Invicta FC 6 still will be available via Ustream elsewhere in the world).

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Twitter Mailbag: Fowlkes on Weidman, Jones-Silva, Edgar, reading recommendations

BAD MMA News — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

It might have been a relatively slow news week in MMA, but with a UFC middleweight title fight looming and a mind-blowingly rad video of the behind-the-scenes madness from Nick Diaz ‘s WAR MMA making the Internet rounds, there’s still plenty to talk about in this week’s Twitter Mailbag. You can direct your own question to @BenFowlkesMMA on Twitter, or you can go old school and jot it down in a message in a bottle instead. Just saying though, I live in a land-locked state. * * * * Depends how he loses. If, say, Chris Weidman falls down on a spinning backfist attempt and gets finished seconds later, sure, maybe we’ll write that one off as a valuable learning experience. But if Anderson Silva goes into full Jedi mode and knocks him out while the two of them are standing toe-to-toe, that will probably become Exhibit Y in Silva’s ongoing argument for greatest of all time. What I’m more interested in is what the story will be if Weidman wins. Will MMA fans jump on his bandwagon and tow it all the way back to Long Island

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