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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

Fight Path: Training with future UFC fighters got Josh Shockley hooked on MMA

BAD MMA News — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:15:00 +0000

Josh Shockley was a baseball fan, but when family member and fighter Mark Burch gave him tickets to one of his fights, Shockley went to watch. His life hasn’t been the same since.

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Fight Path: WSOF 5′s Ozzy Dugulubgov says DNA geared toward battle

BAD MMA News — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:15:00 +0000

In discussing his heritage as a Circassian, WSOF 5 fighter Ozzy Dugulubgov grew up a fighter. ”Our bedtime stories,” he said, “were of warriors.”

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WSOF 5′s Elvis Mutapcic wants continued big challenges on path to a title

BAD MMA News — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:45:00 +0000

Elvis Mutapcic already has one middleweight title on his mantle Now he wants another. He sets his sights on a belto for World Series of Fighting this week in the middleweight tournament.

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Fight Path: UFC’s Josh Barnett helped boost Victor Henry’s confidence

BAD MMA News — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 02:45:00 +0000

When Victor Henry’s fighting team broke apart several years ago, he got an unexpected phone call. On the other end was Josh Barnett, the longtime heavyweight who had met Henry while hosting a seminar at his previous gym.

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Fight Path: WSOF 5′s Rick Glenn committed to MMA as 17-year-old Staples employee

BAD MMA News — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 02:15:00 +0000

Rick Glenn was a teenager taking a phone call on a break from his shift at Staples when he became an MMA fighter.

Fight Path: Former sprinter Walter Gahadza wasting no time in undefeated career

BAD MMA News — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:50:00 +0000

Growing up, Walter Gahadza practiced getting his athletic body off to fast starts. Just not in the same way he once would. Raised in Zimbabwe and then in England, Gahadza was a skilled sprinter, especially competing in the 100 meters.

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RFA 9′s Jordan Rinaldi: RFA the ‘perfect avenue’ back to the UFC

BAD MMA News — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:15:00 +0000

Like a majority of MMA fighters, Jordan Rinaldi has the goal of one day stepping foot in the octagon under the UFC banner. And while countless athletes around the world are vying for one of the UFC’s limited roster spots, Rinaldi knows that fighting for RFA has him one step ahead of everyone else. Rinaldi (6-1) nearly had his path to the UFC set in 2012 when he selected for “The Ultimate Fighter 15,” where his was an elimination-round win away from earning a spot on the cast. Unfortunately, Joe Proctor quickly submitted him and, and Rinaldi never had the chance to truly showcase his talents.

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RFA 9′s Jordan Rinaldi: RFA the ‘perfect avenue’ back to the UFC – MMA Weekly

Video: Cage Warriors 57′s Jack Mason plans path between banking meetings

BAD MMA News — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 02:35:00 +0000

It’s not the first time Cage Warriors’ Jack Mason has gone on a win streak, and so the recent success he’s found in the welterweight division isn’t cause to start making big proclamations about his future. “I’m not looking past this fight,” Mason told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “I’m getting the job done, because if I don’t, nothing else is going to happen. So I’ve got to get it done, and then I’ll look to the future. “Of course, I really want to challenge for the Cage Warriors title, and some day, I want to get to the UFC.” But that’s the goal of pretty much everyone in Cage Warriors, if you ask them. The promotion increasingly is taking the role of a springboard to the Las Vegas-based fight organization, as the signing of featherweight champ Conor McGregor attests. A four-fight win streak such as the one Mason currently owns is just the kind of leverage needed to get into the octagon.

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Fight Path: Motivated by tough childhood, Jay Wood sets sights on UFC vet

BAD MMA News — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:00:00 +0000

When Jay Wood was almost to his teen years, he moved with his family from Salem, Mass., to a town in Nebraska with a population of about 2,000. This might seem like it was a big change, and it was. But it was just one in a number of family moves during his youth that caused significant discomfort, some away from foreclosed or even nearly condemned homes. But there was one part of the middle-America move that benefitted Wood: He ended up being closer to a future career inspiration – because they met when he became a wrestler at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. “One of our assistant coaches was Jason Brilz ,” Wood told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com), talking about the future UFC fighter

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