Here’s a great two part interview done by The Telegraph on UFC welterweight number one contender Dan Hardy. The first part has to do with his childhood and how martial arts impacted him while the second has to do with him discussing the pressure of facing UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre.
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Edmonton, Alberta (Canada): The Fight Club (TFC), one of the top fight promotions in Canada, is proud to bring MMA fans “HIGH OCTANE” on Friday, March 19th, live from the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The event will feature several top MMA superstars, including TFC World Welterweight Champion Ryan “The Real Deal” Ford, former TUF finalist Tommy “Farmboy” Speer, TFC World Light Heavyweight Champion Victor Valimaki, and UFC veteran Tim “Thrashing Machine” Hague. Tickets are available through http://www.thefightclub.ca/, or (780) …
Looks like Randy Couture sporting some ink, and his first tattoo is anything but small. Check out the pic, and for those who are interested the words mean “Iron sharpens iron.” (source)
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Add another UFC fighter to the growing list of people who would like to fight former champion boxer James Toney. Chuck Liddell mentioned that he would “love that fight” with James Toney during a recent interview with MMABay. Here’s the blurb:
“I’m just hoping if they bring him in he’s gonna come in running his mouth about MMA and MMA fighter being bad and I hope they put him against somebody good so they will crush him…
I would love that fight. You would actually see me hit a double and put …
Undefeated top UFC heavyweight challenger Shane Carwin (11-0) juggles his life between being a father, working full-time as a mechanical engineer for the North Weld County Water District in Lucerne, Colo., and fighting opponents in the octagon.
Carwin spoke to MMAjunkie.com recently about juggling his life between home and the octagon, noting that “fighting is something I’ve chosen to do.”
“I take pride in when people ask me about the whole fighting thing. Are you going to take time off? Are you going to quit your job?’ I take pride in being …
Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy faces an uphill battle on March 27th as he’ll try to wrest the UFC Welterweight Championship away from the division’s dominant kingpin Georges “Rush” St. Pierre, but he may have a leg up on some of St. Pierre’s previous challengers as he has enlisted the help of the last man to beat GSP, Matt Serra, who turned the trick back at UFC 69 in April of 2007.
Here’s Hardy telling the Las Vegas Sun how he came to the United States early to adjust and train with …
There have been a lot of rumors swirling around former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin lately regarding UFC 115 and his possible involvement in the event with either Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell or Randy “The Natural” Couture facing him. Franklin spoke to the Boston Herald about the possibility of facing Couture, as well as looking to make another title run;
“It’s not signed yet, but we’ve been working Randy now for a while. We’ve talked June, then we talked August and now we’re talking June again. I think we’re having problems …
Former UFC veteran and Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Renato “Babalu” Sobral has reached a deal with the DREAM promotion on a multi-fight contract that is set to begin this May as the promotion will commence their Light Heavyweight Grand Prix. According to Sobral’s team, the deal was signed with the blessing of Strikeforce, who could not offer Sobral a fight as quickly as DREAM could.
Sobral has not competed since an August defeat by Gegard Mousasi in just over a minute stripped “Babalu” of the championship gold he had won by …
Mariusz Pudzianowski, the man who has been crowned World’s Strongest Man five times over and has recently begun his career as a mixed martial artist, will have a busy Spring as not only will he compete at his second KSW event in his native Poland on May 7th, but on April 23rd in Worcester, MA, Pudzianowski will face off against former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia.
Pudzianowski spoke recently to Fighter’s Only about the possibility that his bout with Sylvia could go the distance, as well as what he has planned …
The last bits of post-fight information are trickling in from the WEC 47 event held earlier this month in Columbus, OH as the Ohio Athetic Commission has released the attendance information from the event and the numbers look extremely good.
The OAC has announced that the promotion brought in a live gate of $401,000 for the event, which was the first WEC event to be held in Columbus and was held in conjunction with the Arnold Sports Festival, which takes place every March. The UFC had held events for the past …
The card is rapidly filling up for Strikeforce’s next Showtime event, which takes place on May 15th at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO as MMA Junkie is reporting that a Lightweight bout between undefeated top prospect Lyle “Fancypants” Beerbohm and Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro has been verbally agreed to for the event, with bout agreements expected to be signed shortly.
Beerbohm has fought three times for Strikeforce, defeating Ray Perrales by submission, Rafaello Oliveira by TKO and Duane Ludwig via submission, with his last fight coming outside of Strikeforce at …
The drug testing results from the WEC 47 event held earlier this month at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH have been released by the Ohio Athletic Commission and all six of the twenty-two fighters who competed on the card that were tested have passed their tests and come back clean.
Along with former WEC Bantamweight Champion Brian Bowles and newly-crowned titleholder Dominick Cruz, Joseph Benavidez, LC Davis, Javier Vazquez and Bart Palaszewski were all tested for drugs of abuse like cocaine, marijuana and others, as well as for performance enhancing …
Current Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Jake Shields will face his toughest test in quite some time when he makes his first title defense against former PRIDE and UFC superstar Dan Henderson as part of the CBS primetime card on April 17th in Nashville, TN, but according to Shields’ latest words to GracieMag, he may look elsewhere for new challenges should be he be able to get past Henderson;
“I’m a fighter who takes it one opponent at a time and my next fight is in Strikeforce against (Dan) Henderson. When you talk …
