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Props: MMAFighting.com Quoteworthy: “It’s just business. Anyone who’s ever spoken to Randy, as far as competition, that’s how he feels, too. For Randy, it’s about the fight, not the drama, he’s real cool about it. We talked about it. I let his camp know first. I started working with Mark for the Stephan Bonnar fight [at UFC 100]. [...] “He wasn’t injured. He’s an emotional guy and he just didn’t feel like sticking around. He’s done that before. After the Jardine fight, they kind of surrounded him a little bit, but he said a couple of things into the mic and left the cage pretty quickly. Just the emotions of…here is a guy who [...] Despite five wins in his past six fights and a total of five Fight of the Night awards during his eight-fight UFC career, Tyson Griffin (13-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) has been demoted to the un-aired preliminary card of UFC 103. The Xtreme Couture fighter, who’s slated to fight former top UFC lightweight contender Hermes Franca (19-7 [...] Fresh off his submission victory over Melvin Manhoef at DREAM 10, former WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho (17-1) will lock horns with IFL veteran Alex Schoenauer (14-9) this Fall at “Bitetti Combat” from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 12, according to Super Lutas. Filho — the last man to hold the World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) [...] As the UFC expands, several major camps have distinguished themselves from the rest, building strong stables of fighters focused on proving themselves as top contenders in their respective divisions. Camps like Xtreme Couture, Greg Jackson’s MMA, American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) and American Top Team, among others, have developed into MMA powerhouses. In the process, they’ve also [...] UFC lightweights Hermes Franca (19-7) and Tyson Griffin (13-2) are in talks to compete in a 155-pound match up at UFC 103 in Dallas, Texas, on September 26, according toMMAWeekly. Franca has been on a roller coaster ride during the past 18 months. The former number one contender returned from a 12-month steroids suspension in 2008, [...] |
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