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Quoteworthy:
“I love [Hamman's approach]. I love people that go for knockouts in the first round. That’s my favorite type of person to fight, somebody that is confident to come in with their hands. I don’t ever lose confidence when I’m fighting somebody. That is just me. You can beat me five times in a [...]
Elliot Worsell, UFC – The date was November 14, 2009 and the opponent was Denis Kang. For Britain’s Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping, nine minutes with Kang was enough to transfer negative thoughts to positive ones and, crucially, restore every ounce of his crumbled confidence.
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“I could go down to 135 pounds if he (Torres) wants to fight. I’m here for a long time so I’ll probably fight everybody. Miguel is in there. (Mike) Brown, I’m going to fight him again. (Jose) Aldo, I’ll take care of that. I didn’t know for sure if Miguel would come to 145 and [...]
With a win tonight at UFC 109, Nate Marquardt is going to get exactly what he wants. Another shot at the UFC middleweight title against Anderson Silva or Vitor Belfort. Marquardt missed out on his opportunity back at UFC 73. He admits he wasn’t right mentally for the fight and approached the great Silva tentatively. His confidence [...]
“Stylistically, the fight may be similar to the one I had with Chris Leben in October 2008. Leben was a tough, aggressive guy with some highlight reel knockouts on his record and he really brought the fight to me. He also throws similarly wild and looping punches to Wanderlei. I had to use my speed [...]
“My loss to Dan Henderson at UFC 100 last July set me back a little bit, but it’s never caused me to doubt my ability or re-think my goals. I’ve always known – and my team have always known – that I possess the skills to climb the UFC ladder and reach a title shot. [...]
… 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 [...]
With an undefeated record and a recent upset victory over UFC veteran Jorge Gurgel at “Strikeforce Challengers IV: Evangelista vs. Gurgel,” Strikeforce contender Billy Evangelista (10-0) is quickly climbing the ranks of the promotion’s lightweight division.
And after earning a hard-fought win over a “name” opponent, Evangelista recently told MAjunkie.com Radio that he plans on challenging [...]
Anointed by many as champion in waiting upon joining the UFC in 2007, Mauricio Rua’s road to a title fight has been much longer than even he
imagined.
Slowed by a knee injury prior to his American debut at UFC 76, Rua was schooled in the finer points of cagefighting by Forrest Griffin and assumed the role [...]
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Quoteworthy:
“Depending on the opponents, if they’re tough guys, well known, I think I will get the chance of fighting for the belt in two or three fights. I want a hard adversary to show everything what I couldn’t in the past fight, all my training. I made tremendous errors versus Nate. There was excess [...]