PHOENIX — Ben Saunders talks about his training camp before UFC on FOX 13, being disappointed with the outcome after Joe Riggs injured himself, not knowing that Riggs was hurt on the takedown, receiving support and motivation from the internet community, and more.
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PHOENIX — David Michaud talks about the elbow from Garett Whiteley that opened up a big cut in their fight at UFC on FOX 13, using a Taylor Swift song for his walkout, training at The Lab, his Native American roots, and more.
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PHOENIX — Bryan Barberena talks about overcoming a strong first round from Joe Ellenberger, feeling his UFC on FOX 13 opponent begin to fade in the second round, training at The Lab, his Colombian heritage, and more.
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LAS VEGAS — Heather Jo Clark discusses the play between her and The best Fighter 20 Ending adversary Bec Rawlings, fighting and training despite a torn ACL and needing to be an inspiration to young women.
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LAS VEGAS — UFC heavyweight Shane Del Rosario expired nearly exactly one year ago on Dec. 9, 2013. His existence remains felt perpetually at his precious fitness center, Team Oyama in Irvine, Calif.
The plan’s patriarch, Colin Oyama, only talked with Del Rosario’s dad this week. And Carla Esparza said she thought of her former teammate frequently while she was in The Ultimate Fighter house on summer time, heading into her just-finished training camp.
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LAS VEGAS — Randa Markos has viewed war. She is seen homicide. She’s become the victim of maltreatment.
Markos has experienced the worst of life and made it out the other end undamaged. She might have just began training in MMA when she was 23 years old, but she is been a combatant as far back as she could recall.
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LAS VEGAS — MMA Fighting’s Cynthia Vance caught up with Randa Markos through the TUF 20 media day Wednesday. Markos talks about her road to the UFC, why she believes she is a competition, how she balances her full time occupation and training, and much more.
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PHOENIX, Ariz. — Former UFC heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos discusses his hand, his layoff, his training at Nova Uniao, his complete game, where he sees himself in the heavyweight section, and even more during his UFC on FOX 13 media scrum Monday.
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LAS VEGAS — TUF 19 victor Corey Anderson discusses his triumph over Justin Jones at UFC 181, this being his ‘last battle in the loft’, coaching with Frankie Edgar and Ricardo Almeida, his 18-week camp of groundwork, describes his ‘Beastin’ 25/8′ nickname and much more.
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Anthony Pettis sat on a bed around this time a year ago and let his mind wander.
After knee operation, the UFC lightweight winner was looking to discover what he was doing wrong, why he kept getting injured. Perhaps it was something occurring in training, Pettis thought. Perhaps he should leave his longtime residence of Roufusport and find a fitness center elsewhere.
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Travis Browne surprised lots of folks when he said in a interview which he was merely merely “learning to fight” with new trainer Edmond Tarverdyan.
After all, this is a man who spent the past couple of years training at Jackson-Winkeljohn MMA in Albuquerque, N.M., regarded among the top teams on the planet. Tarverdyan tried to describe to Ariel Helwani what Brown meant when he talked to FOX Sports two months past. The trainer told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s The MMA Hour that he “saw lots of errors” in the heavyweight’s match when he arrived at Glendale Fighting Club.
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LAS VEGAS — Brendan Schaub talks about his UFC 181 fight against Travis Browne, his frustration over not fighting a lot in 2013, why he believes Browne made a blunder by preparing with Glendale Fighting Club, and much more.
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MMA Fighting’s E. Casey Leydon lately caught up with Roxanne Modafferi, who’ll be returning to the Invicta FC cage Friday night. Take a look at her training above.
Modafferi was additionally a recent guest in The MMA Hour on Monday. Take a look below.
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The UFC’s large card in Boston took a little bit of a hit Wednesday.
Jorge Masvidal needed to pull from his scheduled lightweight fight with Norman Parke at UFC Fight Night 59: McGregor vs. Siver on Jan. 18 due to a back injury, the UFC declared. In Masvidal’s area will step his American Top Team training partner Gleison Tibau.
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There are just two changes occurring concurrently now in the sport of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
First, its popularity has exploded and continues to grow. There haven’t been more competitions at more age ranges as well as in more geographic places than there are now. YouTube is filled with grappling tutorials, opposition footage as well as documentaries regarding the sport. There are clothing lines and a complete market of small businesses making training equipment or another supplementary content. Jiujitsu is just as much a self defense artwork because it’s a lifestyle.
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MEXICO CITY — Luke Rockhold talks about his win over Michael Bisping, his thoughts on Jacare vs. Romero, what could be next for him, training with Daniel Cormier, and more.
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Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was hospitalized on Nov. 3 with lower back pain after a jiu-jitsu session at X-Gym in Rio de Janeiro, and he thought for a moment his career would be over.
“The Spider,” who is training to get back in action on Jan. 31 against Nick Diaz after shattering his left leg in a rematch with Chris Weidman in 2013, was afraid he wouldn’t be able to walk again.
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SAN DIEGO – In the end, after all the bluster, Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar looked like a pair of fighters a couple years removed from their first retirement.
The difference between the two UFC Hall of Famers is that despite whatever limitations Ortiz had in the cage, he appeared to have taken his training seriously, and gave all of what he had left at Bellator 131 on Saturday night. Bonnar looked like he never should have entertained the thought of coming out of retirement.
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On the third episode of UFC 180 Embedded, Fabricio Werdum rallies the fans at Wednesday’s open workouts, the Mexican faithful swoon over Ricardo Lamas, Mark Hunt craves some tacos, Jake Ellenberger and Dennis Bermudez slip in some fight week training, plus more. Check out the video above.
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MEXICO CITY — Leslie Smith talks about her UFC 180 fight against Jessica Eye, her unusually long training camp, why she moved to San Francisco for this camp, how she prefers the fight play out, and more.
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