BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » True World https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 UFC 163′s Demian Maia committed to BJJ roots – and shot at welterweight title https://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html https://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:15:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/ufc-163s-demian-maia-committed-to-bjj-roots-and-shot-at-welterweight-title.html FORTALEZA, Brazil – When Demian Maia entered the sport of MMA, he brought with him true world-class submission skills. As time went on, the world-champion grappler seemed to move away from those core skills and focus more on other aspects of the sport. That’s not going to be the case anymore. “I think when you’re training MMA, it’s a new sport,” Maia (18-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “People like myself come from one area, one martial art, and we need to improve on our other areas. So we’re training a lot in these other sports, like in my case on my boxing. Of course, you start to get sharper in that sport, but in the previous one you lose a little bit.  “The main thing is when you’re fighting, you do what you were training

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UFC 163′s Demian Maia committed to BJJ roots – and shot at welterweight title – MMA Junkie

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