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Pairings set for Cage Warriors 59′s four-man bantamweight championship tourney

BAD MMA News — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:40:00 +0000

The tournament pairings are set for September’s Cage Warriors 59 event, where a four-man tournament will earn the winner the organization’s vacant bantamweight tournament. The pairings include England’s James Pennington (7-1) vs. Wales’ Martin McDonough (11-4) and Sweden’s David Haggstrom (7-1-1) vs. Wales’ Brett Johns (7-0). The event takes place at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. The main card, including the tourney finale, streams on MMAjunkie.com . The prelims, including the opening-round matchups, stream on Facebook

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How a Firework Nearly Put David Rickels’ Bellator 97 Title Fight with Michael Chandler in Jeopardy

BAD MMA News — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:30:24 +0000

Bellator MMA’s David “The Caveman” Rickels earned a lightweight title fight with champion Michael Chandler by winning the Bellator Season 8 Lightweight Tournament. He defeated Lloyd Woodard, Jason Fischer and Saad Awad to get to the title fight, but an Independence Day firework accident nearly caused his championship aspirations to go up in flames. “I nearly blew up my hand on the Fourth of July. It didn’t affect my training at all. Everything is great, but I had a big open wound on my hand, and I had to be really careful as far as not getting infected,” Rickels told MMAWeekly.com. “I’ve done a really good job, surprisingly. I’ve got a resilient body and I’m feeling great going into this fight.” “I was lighting another one and the spark jumped over into the one in my hand and blew up. It was a really weird deal. It was a freak accident that could have cost me my damn hand let alone my title fight,” he explained. At first, Rickels didn’t know how much damage the firework caused, but his first thoughts were that it wasn’t good. “I said holy (expletive). I was like, how am I going to explain this? I didn’t know how bad it was because it was really dark and I couldn’t see anything. I could feel my finger, so I was like, okay, that’s there at least,” he said.

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Fifty-pound cut underway, Bellator’s David Rickels on slimming down, growing up

BAD MMA News — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:00:00 +0000

David Rickels thinks he probably was at a buffet eating lo mein and crab rangoon when he got the call to fight lightweight champ Michael Chandler at Bellator 97. He knows he was 205 pounds. Rickels isn’t big on living in the past or the future, but the present of that moment sticks in his memory. “Initial shock factor was about a nine,” he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). A winner in Bellator’s Season 8 lightweight tournament, Rickels (14-1 MMA, 8-1 BFC) stepped in for an injured Dave Jansen to meet Chandler (11-0 MMA, 8-0 BFC) on July 31 at Santa Ana Star Center in New Mexico. The title fight headlines the event’s main card on Spike following prelims on Spike.com

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Inspired by Liddell, UFC 162′s David Mitchell vowed Vegas return as UFC fighter

BAD MMA News — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:10:00 +0000

Eight years ago, David Mitchell watched Chuck Liddell win the UFC light heavyweight title by knocking out Randy Couture at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena. Right there, he resolved not to return to the city until he was fighting in the octagon. “Seven-and-a-half years later, that dream comes true,” Mitchell told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “Regardless of what happens, I feel like I’ve already made it.” On Saturday, Mitchell will fight for the first time in Sin City in what is his fourth UFC appearance. It also could be the last time he steps into a cage at all. On his road to the octagon, he’s suffered nerve damage in his spine that once left the left side of his body with a fraction of its usual strength. So Mitchell (12-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC), whose nickname is “Daudi,” feels he’s got little to lose when he walks into the MGM Grand Garden Arena to fight Mike Pierce (16-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC) at UFC 162 in the event’s Facebook-streamed curtain-jerker. “This might be my last fight,” he said.

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