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USA TODAY: In a nation of legends, UFC 163′s Jose Aldo is the people’s champion

BAD MMA News — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:20:00 +0000

(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) RIO DE JANEIRO – It takes a small army of security personnel to usher Jose Aldo into the van that awaits the UFC’s featherweight titleholder. Along the way, he answers as many reporters’ questions as possible, smiles for camera click after camera click and signs a few dozen autographs. Thursday’s swirl of activity follows a three-hour engagement in which Aldo participated in a news conference, put on a public workout session that featured a soundtrack by a live rock band and then waded through a sea of fans and reporters to answer even more questions as microphones, cameras and recorders were shoved in his face. It was time for Aldo to retreat to his hotel, but his removal from the scene was anything but easy. “You get more experienced with fighting, and you get more experienced with everything else that goes with it, too,” Aldo told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) through a translator. “I’m OK with it. Just go in there and do my job. I feel like that makes me more comfortable with everything.” In his native Brazil, Aldo is a superstar, plain and simple

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Openly gay Jessica Andrade plans business as usual vs. Carmouche at UFC on FOX 8

BAD MMA News — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:45:00 +0000

SEATTLE – Jessica Andrade will be part of yet another first for the UFC when she makes her debut for the promotion on Saturday. For the first time in the promotion’s history, two openly gay fighters will meet in the octagon when Andrade (9-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) takes on Liz Carmouche (8-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) on the main card of UFC on FOX 8. But as far as Andrade is concerned, it’s pretty much business as usual in Seattle. “Everything I do ends up reflecting on the (gay) community, but it’s not something I’ll hide,” the Brazilian told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) through a translator. “It is what it is. There’s nothing wrong with it, and I’ll keep on doing (what I’m doing).” Carmouche made her UFC debut in February against Ronda Rousey in a women’t bantamweight title fight – and she gave Rousey the biggest scare of her career before succumbing, like everyone else, to a first-round armbar

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Injured ‘TUF: Brazil 2′ finalist Santiago Ponzinibbio wants Leo Santos rematch

BAD MMA News — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0000

FORTALEZA, BRAZIL – With a scar still fresh from recent surgery on his radius bone, Santiago Ponzinibbio watched Saturday’s UFC on FUEL TV 10 event with bittersweet feelings. On one hand, he was humbled that so many fans have told him he was the best fighter on “The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 2,” which wrapped up its welterweight tournament at Saturday’s event at Paulo Sarasate Arena in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. It was bitter, though, because the fighter Ponzinibbio (18-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) beat in the semifinal round of the tourney – Leonardo Santos (12-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) – instead took his spot in the final and defeated William Macario (6-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) to win the show. “It’s kind of a bad feeling, a little bit,” he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) through a translator just prior to the fight’s start. “I really wish I would have been fighting here on this incredible fight card doing a co-main event of the evening

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