BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Swing https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Shinya Aoki Showdown Brewing, but Bibiano Fernandes Expects One FC Unifcation Bout First https://www.badmma.com/shinya-aoki-showdown-brewing-but-bibiano-fernandes-expects-one-fc-unifcation-bout-first.html https://www.badmma.com/shinya-aoki-showdown-brewing-but-bibiano-fernandes-expects-one-fc-unifcation-bout-first.html#comments Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:30:05 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/shinya-aoki-showdown-brewing-but-bibiano-fernandes-expects-one-fc-unifcation-bout-first.html Bibiano Fernandes is the ONE FC interim 135-pound champion and there has been talk of him moving up to featherweight for a super fight with Shinya Aoki , but next on the agenda for the Brazilian appears to be a unification bout in October or November. “I will be fighting in fall. I’m not sure who I am fighting next, but considering I am the interim champion, I’m assuming that a fight with Soo Chul Kim would be my next step,” said Fernandes. I’ve watched his fights. He’s a tough guy, but I need to feel him in the ring to decide how good he is.” One swing of Chris Weidman’s left hand put proposed UFC superfights on hold, but ONE FC has a potentially huge match-up of its own with its two best pound-for-pound fighters, both capable of competing at featherweight. Aoki (33-6-1) is on track to make his 145-pound debut later this year, while Fernandes (14-3) has already proved he can compete in the division by beating four separate opponents to win the Dream Featherweight Grand Prix in 2009. A featherweight match-up between these two would truly be a battle for pound-for-pound supremacy in Asia and Fernandes is not ruling it out

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/shinya-aoki-showdown-brewing-but-bibiano-fernandes-expects-one-fc-unifcation-bout-first.html/feed 0 Tim Kennedy’s ideal UFC 162 scenario? Gracie shooting for a single leg on ref https://www.badmma.com/tim-kennedys-ideal-ufc-162-scenario-gracie-shooting-for-a-single-leg-on-ref.html https://www.badmma.com/tim-kennedys-ideal-ufc-162-scenario-gracie-shooting-for-a-single-leg-on-ref.html#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:15:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/tim-kennedys-ideal-ufc-162-scenario-gracie-shooting-for-a-single-leg-on-ref.html On Saturday at UFC 162, Tim Kennedy makes his UFC debut after 12 years as a professional MMA fighter, including three in the now-defunct Strikeforce organization, where he once vied for the promotion’s middleweight belt. It’s long overdue, and yet Kennedy looks at the booking as bittersweet. And no, it’s got nothing to do with his fight purse . Although he’s fighting Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace Roger Gracie (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) on the pay-per-view card’s swing bout, the always-outspoken Kennedy (15-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) said he’d much rather be paired against a UFC veteran. Fighting in Strikeforce, he constantly was being compared to the middleweights in the industry-leader and asked about whether he measured up to the UFC roster. Ever since the California-based promotion was shuttered, he’s been a cheerleader for Strikeforce fighters as they transition into the octagon. “Now, I’ll just be cheering for myself,” the Special Forces veteran told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “I’ll be like, ‘Great overhand right, Tim!’ ‘Good takedown!’ ‘Oh-oh, watch out for his guard.

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