Few elite mixed martial artists have managed to parlay their brand as successfully as former longtime UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre.
The Montreal native evolved to the sport’s biggest draw and brought mainstream sponsorships from top mainstream sports-related products like Gatorade and Under Armour along the way.
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SAN DIEGO – If everyone can comprehend a retired fighter’s inner battles, it is Randy Couture.
After all, Couture establish the template for the best-case scenario when a mixed martial artist returns to competition after believing he was through. He supplied among the sport’s seminal minutes in 2007, when, in the age of 43, he came from retirement and trounced Tim Sylvia to win the UFC heavyweight title.
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Conor McGregor observed Jose Aldo overcome Chad Mendes in a dramatic spell on Oct. 25, but former UFC champ Lyoto Machida does not believe McGregor has what it takes to dethrone the reigning champ.
“If you are likely to compare him to Jose Aldo, Aldo is technically better,” Machida told MMAFighitng.com. “(McGregor) is a tough fighter, he is coming out powerful, but you can not say he defeats Aldo. Aldo is overly dominant.”
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At some stage, Barb Honchak is likely to need to make a choice about which particular UFC division may be better for he future: Bantamweight or strawweight.
Until then, she is untouchable at 125 pounds. Honchak made her second successful defense of her Invicta flyweight title on Saturday night, scoring a unanimous decision victory within the match-but-coordinated Takayo Hashi. The judges’ scores were 49-46 as well as a set of 50-45s as Honchak kept her title in the main event of Invicta FC 9 in the River Center in Davenport, Iowa.
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The Invicta FC 9 post-fight press conference is the final piece of business to take good care of of after the activity is around in the cage, and we’ve got the live video below at MMAFighting.com. Invicta FC president Shannon Knapp, combined with very best fighters at Invicta FC 9, will answer questions in the media. The Invicta FC 9 post-fight press conference happens about half an hour following the primary event endings, meaning it begins around 2 a.m. ET. The video is preceding.
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Invicta is likely to make its Houston debut on Dec. 5. But it’ll accomplish that without Cris “Cyborg” Justino.
Justino, the former Strikeforce featherweight champ, was slated to come back to activity at Invicta 10, but had to pull out due to some rupture of the anterior talofibular ligament in her left ankle.
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Vitor Belfort’s next fight is in California, however it does not mean Nevada has backed off its guarantee to drug test him.
Belfort, as a condition for licensure in Nevada during a July 23 Nevada Athletic Commission meeting, was told he had be randomly tested by the state on a regular basis.
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