MMA FIGHTS

Posts Tagged ‘much’

LAS VEGAS – Not sure if nicknames are an important part of Brazilian fighting culture?

Ask UFC 143′s Rafael “Sapo” Natal.

“My nickname comes from doing capoeira,” Natal told MMAjunkie.com in his native Portuguese. “When I showed up, I
didn’t have a nickname, so they gave me one. There was a book about
animals. They opened the book to a page with a frog. So that was it.”

View full post on MMAjunkie.com Articles

UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre admits UFC 143 is going to be weird. After all, he’ll be rooting for enemy Nick Diaz.

“I want this fight with Diaz so badly – as badly as I wanted the title shot when I got down on my knees,” St-Pierre today told the UFC.

That was seven years ago at UFC 56, when his career looked a whole lot different than it does today. Of all the punches he’s slipped on his current path, this one has hit hardest.

View full post on MMAjunkie.com Articles

Captioning Mike Easton’s life right now would probably say “Portrait of a Fighter as a Young Man.”

The 27-year-old Northeasterner isn’t concerned about much other than his development of his craft as a mixed martial artist.

And emerging from a slugfest with Jared Papazian at
UFC on FX 1, Easton isn’t taking much of a break
before he resumes his work.

View full post on MMAjunkie.com Articles

Once he came out form behind the curtain and walked onto the stage at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, the magnitude of the situation hit Hatsu Hioki like a ton of bricks.

The highly touted UFC newcomer brings with him a championship pedigree, a wealth of experience, and the collective interest of a nation.

But the spectacle of his first UFC weigh-in ceremony left the Japanese fighter in a state of nervous awe.

View full post on MMAjunkie.com Articles

Kimbo Slice opens up about his street fighting roots, and how he never really read anything the media said about him, good or bad.  Read More >>

View full post on MMAWeekly.com

Following his loss to Mirko Cro Cop, Pat Barry had people tell him flat out that he didn’t want to win the fight. That made Barry angry, and you wouldn’t like Pat Barry when he’s angry. Read More >>

View full post on MMAWeekly.com

Alistair Overeem still remembers his 2006 loss to Fabricio Werdum, but he says when they meet again in Strikeforce, everyone can expect a much different outcome.
 Read More >>

View full post on MMAWeekly.com

They know you’ve seen the video. And they certainly remember it, as well.

But little information can be gleaned from a 2003 grappling match between Roy Nelson and Frank Mir that would lead to any logical predictions for their UFC 130 co-headliner on Saturday.

Besides, “We’re doing MMA now, and I’m a bigger and a fatter guy now,” Nelson recently told MMAjunkie.com ahead of Saturday’s pay-per-view event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

View full post on MMAjunkie.com Articles

Nevada State Athletic Commission officials who oversaw Saturday’s Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort headliner at UFC 126 did not see any behavior that suggested foul play.

Silva set some forums abuzz when he wiped his forehead with his hand just prior to the fight and then briefly wiped his chest.

It was easy fodder for conspiracy theorists who thought the champion might be trying to give himself an unfair edge by using Vaseline from his face to make his body slicker. But the NSAC head said that’s not the case.

View full post on MMAjunkie.com Articles

Despite the change in opponents from Kenny Florian to Melvin Guillard at UFC Fight for the Troops 2, Evan Dunham isn’t making many changes in his fight preparation. Read More >>

View full post on MMAWeekly.com