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Caros Fodor May Not Be a Superhero, but He’s Got the Chops to Make a Run at the One FC Title

BAD MMA News — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:31:16 +0000

Caros Fodor might credit MMA for rescuing him from the self-destructive path he had embarked upon after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, but he will be the first to admit that he initially got into the sport for all the wrong reasons. Fodor is now a Strikeforce and UFC veteran who recently secured a contract with ONE FC , but competing in the cage was the furthest thing from his mind when he first walked through the doors of Matt Hume’s AMC Pankration. “When I returned from Iraq in 2003, I was drinking a lot and getting into a lot of fights. Me and some friends decided we should train to help finish these fights faster, so that’s how I found AMC,” he said.

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‘Babalu’ Sobral: ‘I gave my blood in those octagons, those rings’

BAD MMA News — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:30:00 +0000

He told himself that no matter how things turned out, this would be his last trip through the ringer. It seemed fitting to end on a tournament, the same way he’d started some 13 years earlier, with a three-fights-in-one-night kind of deal back home in Rio de Janeiro. Back before anyone knew who Renato Sobral was. So at 37 years old, “Babalu” enlisted for one more tour of duty in Bellator’s light heavyweight “Summer Series” tournament and promised himself that win or lose he’d call it quits when his run ended. When he sat down at the post-fight press conference, “I knew something was going to come out of my mouth,” Sobral (37-11) told MMAjunkie.com (mmajunkie.com)