“Another battle and another Lyoto. Everything is new, the focus, the strategy … it’s my big dream. I’ll concentrate and go and fight with even more desire. I´ll be even hungrier this time – to conquer a UFC belt has always been my dream. Lyoto is different to other athletes … We recruited some karatekas [...]
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WEC 47: “Bowles vs. Cruz” from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, has officially wrapped, which means that it’s time for those select fighters who went above and beyond in their respective fights to get a little extra grease for their efforts. To the tune of $10,000 each. The promotion dished out its standard post-fight monetary bonuses [...] When Matt Serra learned he was slated to fight fellow veteran Frank Trigg last month at UFC 109, he naturally began looking back on a career he’s proud to call his own. The former champ called any fights after his memorable upset of then-champ Georges St-Pierre in 2007 “gravy,” and some suggested that a loss to [...] Props: UFC.com Quoteworthy: “I won ‘Submission of the Night’ once before and my last few have all been stand up brawls. I didn’t want anybody to think I’m just a stand-up guy, just a banger, I wanted people to know I’m a complete fighter. I was envisioning a few different submissions I could go for depending on [...] LAS VEGAS – Competing in the second bout of a new seven-fight deal with the UFC, five-time champion Randy Couture picked up the biggest check at Saturday’s “UFC 109: Relentless” event for his winning effort against Mark Coleman. Couture made an event-high $250,000 in disclosed pay (with no win bonus) to lead UFC 109’s official fighter [...] Paulo Thiago keeps dogging American Kickboxing Academy fighters. He screwed up Josh Koscheck’s 2009 welterweight title hopes with an upset at UFC 95, and now he’s done it to Koscheck’s AKA teammate Mike Swick. Thiago’s standing defense looked terrible in his UFC debut against Koscheck, but he still knocked him out with a huge uppercut. His [...] … to help him with his submission defense, finally: “I’ve been talking with Coach Greg for a while about coming up. Me and Joe Stevenson have been hanging out a lot and he just kept telling me that it’s a great camp to come to. I knew it would be the best place in the world [...]
Because the WEC had already run over their broadcast window last night, they couldn’t air the undercard fight that won its fighters the $10,000 Fight of the Night bonus. Will Campuzano and Coty “Ox” Wheeler put on a three-round battle chocked-full with submission attempts, flying knees, big kicks and a limitless gas tank from [...] In his last bout, former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber broke one hand and dislocated the other. On the same night that Mike Brown — his opponent in June — had a comeback win, Faber did the same. In front of a hometown crowd in Sacramento, Faber showed his hands were just fine, winning decisively with [...] SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Will Campuzano, Coty Wheeler, and Urijah Faber each earned “Fight Night” bonuses for their performances at Sunday’s “WEC 46: Varner vs. Henderson” event. Campuzano and Wheeler each cashed in as the evening’s “Fight of the Night” for their card-opening brawl, while Faber earned the “Submission of the Night” bonus for his third-frame choke-out [...] |
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