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The UFC is His Home, but Leonard Garcia Looking to a Legacy FC Takeover After Changing Camps

BAD MMA News — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:32:00 +0000

Suffering through a five-fight losing streak, former WEC/UFC featherweight Leonard Garcia recognizes what he’s been doing wrong. “I had a couple fights where I had been doing the same thing I’d done before and wasn’t moving forward with things I should have,” he said. “I was relying too much on landing the big punch.” Not only does he feel like he was doing the wrong thing in fights, but also in training, thus Garcia has been working with a new team. “I’ve had the same training partners for the last seven years and it kind of felt like going through the motions every camp,” Garcia told MMAWeekly.com. “I got complacent. “I’m going to out to Alpha Male and training with some of those guys: Duane Ludwig, Urijah Faber, Lance Palmer and all those guys. It’s really changed my game all over again.

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The UFC is His Home, but Leonard Garcia Looking to a Legacy FC Takeover After Changing Camps – MMA Weekly

White’s defense of Bonnar tells us everything we need to know about UFC HOF

BAD MMA News — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Five days before he’s due to induct a man he’s still not speaking to into the UFC Hall of Fame, UFC President Dana White did his best to explain to the media why he thinks Stephan Bonnar is deserving of the honor. “The way I’m looking at it is, I’m inducting Forrest [Griffin], and Stephan goes with him,” White said. “Those two – it wasn’t just Forrest – both of those guys took us to this next level.” In other words, it’s because of that one fight, which we all pretty much already knew. What we don’t seem to appreciate, at least in White’s eyes, is what that one fight truly meant for the UFC, which came into the very first live finale for “The Ultimate Fighter” with an uncertain future, and left with a deal that would at least ensure that it could keep the lights on for a little while longer. You know this chapter of the origin story by now. The UFC, down to the last of the small fortune that the Fertitta family was willing to pump into it, bought its way onto Spike TV with an MMA reality show that White hoped would be the steppingstone to success. A gambler at heart, the UFC president bet everything on that first season

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White’s defense of Bonnar tells us everything we need to know about UFC HOF – MMA Junkie

Ahead of RFA 8 title fight, Lance Palmer credits Team Alpha Male for success

BAD MMA News — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:40:00 +0000

A four-time All-American wrestler at Ohio State University, featherweight Lance Palmer (6-0) was a coveted prospect from the moment he entered MMA. While he considered a number of camps to call home, Palmer said his choice of Team Alpha Male has proven wise, indeed. “I talked to a few different people,” Palmer told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “I was considering AKA and a couple of other teams, also, but Team Alpha Male, we all have kind of the same personalities, and we all mesh well together. It was just easy for me to fit in there. After I came out and visited with those guys, that was my only choice.” It’s proven a wise choice so far.

Ahead of RFA 8 title fight, Lance Palmer credits Team Alpha Male for success – MMA Junkie