BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Ring Rust https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:45:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Dominick Cruz on Renan Barao: “I Can Trick Him Out In A Lot of Different Ways” https://www.badmma.com/dominick-cruz-on-renan-barao-i-can-trick-him-out-in-a-lot-of-different-ways.html https://www.badmma.com/dominick-cruz-on-renan-barao-i-can-trick-him-out-in-a-lot-of-different-ways.html#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:05:32 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/dominick-cruz-on-renan-barao-i-can-trick-him-out-in-a-lot-of-different-ways.html UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has been in physical exile for the past two years due to consecutive knee surgeries while interim bantamweight titleholder Renan Barao has ruled his kingdom. The landscape of the division has changed during the time Cruz has been sidelined.  Barao was crowned the interim champion and has defended his title twice. Cruz is on track to return to action in early 2014 and face Barao to determine the true bantamweight champion.  And Cruz isn’t concerned with potential ring rust arising from 24 months of inactivity.

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Dominick Cruz on Renan Barao: “I Can Trick Him Out In A Lot of Different Ways” – MMA Weekly

]]> https://www.badmma.com/dominick-cruz-on-renan-barao-i-can-trick-him-out-in-a-lot-of-different-ways.html/feed 0 Bellator 96 winner War Machine eyes Askren, fights because ‘I can’t have a boss’ https://www.badmma.com/bellator-96-winner-war-machine-eyes-askren-fights-because-i-cant-have-a-boss.html https://www.badmma.com/bellator-96-winner-war-machine-eyes-askren-fights-because-i-cant-have-a-boss.html#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/bellator-96-winner-war-machine-eyes-askren-fights-because-i-cant-have-a-boss.html Fighting for the first time in 18 months felt a little strange for War Machine . The result felt pretty good, though. It took War Machine (13-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) just under four minutes to stop Blas Avena (8-7 MMA, 1-1 BFC) on Wednesday night at Bellator 96 in his first fight since November 2011. Since November 2011, War Machine re-signed with Bellator (after a stint in 2009 that never came to be when he was released before the promotion’s first event after a MySpace rant about President Obama), gone back to jail, got out of jail, got a shot in a Bellator welterweight tournament, lost that shot when he tore his ACL training, healed up and now, finally, he’s back. War Machine said getting back in the cage after a long layoff didn’t necessarily have ring rust behind it, but there was something he wasn’t expecting. “That’s the thing with ring rust: It doesn’t exist that much,” War Machine told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “You fight like 40 fights in the gym before you ever come to the real fight. But I won’t lie, I was a little more nervous than usual.

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Bellator 96 winner War Machine eyes Askren, fights because ‘I can’t have a boss’ – MMA Junkie

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