BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » ufc 128 https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:45:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Today in MMA history: Jon Jones batters ‘Shogun’ to become youngest champ in UFC history https://www.badmma.com/today-in-mma-history-jon-jones-batters-shogun-to-become-youngest-champ-in-ufc-history.html https://www.badmma.com/today-in-mma-history-jon-jones-batters-shogun-to-become-youngest-champ-in-ufc-history.html#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:12:10 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/today-in-mma-history-jon-jones-batters-shogun-to-become-youngest-champ-in-ufc-history.html If you want to tell the story of the time Jon Jones became the youngest champion in UFC history, you have to start with the dog. Its name was B.J., a seven-month-old German Shepard mix, and it was a somewhat recent acquisition for Jones when he showed up in Newark, N.J., for his crack at Mauricio Rua ’s UFC light-heavyweight title on March 19, 2011. The kinds of places Jones was going that week – fancy hotels, TV show sets, hotel ballrooms converted into UFC workout spaces – are probably not the sort of places where you’re supposed to bring your dog. Still, there he was in the lobby of Penn Station Hilton on St. Patrick’s Day, dodging fans and drunks and leading this dog around on a leash, smiling like a man who was enjoying the extra privileges that come with being a star, confident that no one would dare tell him he couldn’t bring a dog in here

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/today-in-mma-history-jon-jones-batters-shogun-to-become-youngest-champ-in-ufc-history.html/feed 0 Video: UFC Fight Night 40′s Erik Koch starches Raphael Assuncao in their UFC debuts https://www.badmma.com/video-ufc-fight-night-40s-erik-koch-starches-raphael-assuncao-in-their-ufc-debuts.html https://www.badmma.com/video-ufc-fight-night-40s-erik-koch-starches-raphael-assuncao-in-their-ufc-debuts.html#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:16:19 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/video-ufc-fight-night-40s-erik-koch-starches-raphael-assuncao-in-their-ufc-debuts.html Filed under: News , UFC , Videos Tagged: Daron Cruickshank , Erik Koch , Raphael Assuncao , UFC 128 , UFC Fight Night 40 With a two-fight winning streak in the WEC when he made his UFC debut, there were high hopes on Erik Koch . He didn’t disappoint. Koch took care of business quickly against fellow WEC veteran  Raphael Assuncao when the two ushered in their UFC careers at UFC 128 a little more than three years ago. Check out Koch’s “Knockout of the Night” win over Assuncao in Newark, N.J., in the video above. Next week, Koch (14-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) looks to make it two in a row at lightweight after moving up from featherweight when he meets Daron Cruickshank (14-4 MMA, 4-2 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 40 in Cincinnati

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