Source: http://www.mmatko.com/cris-cyborg-on-her-next-fight-and-her-struggles-making-135/
Saturday, 27 December 2014
Cris Cyborg on Her Next Fight and Her Struggles Making 135
Cris Cyborg talks with Pat Miletich about when she’ll be ready to fight next following an ankle injury, and if there is still a possibility of fighting Rousey at 135.
UFC 182: Hector Lombard Doesn?t Sound so Happy as Burkman Fight Nears
Hector Lombard scored a one sided win over Jake Shields in May, and is the UFC’s sixth ranked, welterweight, but clearly the punishing fighter isn’t too happy with how things are going. If you recall, Lombard was hoping to fight on the UFC’s recent, Australian card, and that didn’t happen. He also called for a […]
Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/113692/ufc-182-hector-lombard-doesnt-sound-happy-2014-comes-close/
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UFC's Marcus Brimage to unleash 'Southern fried whooping'
UFC bantamweight Marcus Brimage (6-3) headed into his fight with Russell Doane (14-4) this past July at UFC 175 over a year having passed since his previous bout. Following a tough loss to Conor McGregor at featherweight in 2013, Brimage was hit by a number of serious injuries that required a great deal of rest and rehabilitation.
As such, everyone around Brimage warned him that there would be a perhaps painful adjustment period in his first fight back, due to what is known as "ring rust."
"Everyone told me that I'd have rust, and I was like, 'whatever,'" Brimage tells Cagewriter.
"Truth be told, everything felt good until I got into the cage. In the cage, that's when the ring rust happened. This cant take anything away from Russell because he came to fight, and he sure did fight. I just felt off until the third round. It was like an out of body experience. I was not in the moment. In the third round, that's when I woke up and did what I normally do."
It was too little, too late for "The Bama Beast," and he lost a close split decision. Brimage says that he was shocked to hear from his teammates, friends and even anonymous fans in Las Vegas later that night that they thought he deserved to win the decision against Doane.�
"Everyone seemed to be impressed but I told them, 'get the [expletive] out of here. I lost,'" Brimage remembers.
Once the fighter watched the bout himself, however, he began to realize that he didn't fight nearly as poorly as he thought he had. In fact, he began to agree with those who said he deserved to get the nod from the judges.
"When I actually looked at the fight, I thought I got robbed," he says.
"I don't know what the judges were looking at. They made Stevie wonder what was going on. After I started to think about it more, I got super cronk and angry. Like, 'man, I felt off like a mother [expletive], and that's how I looked when I felt off? Oh my God, I am going to do some damage once I get back.'"
Brimage has turned that frustration into motivation and confidence as he heads into a Nov. 8 showdown against Jumabieke Tuerxun (14-2) in Sydney, Australia. Brimage was compelled to train at home in Alabama during this camp instead of South Florida at his usual American Top Team because of family issues.
One might assume that, without his usual top-notch ATT destination training camp, and coming off of two-straight losses would make Brimage feel a great deal of pressure. In actuality, he says he feels less pressure than he did against Doane in his come back fight this past summer.
"To be honest with you, I feel less pressure," he insists.
"The reason is because, I'm 'on.' I got that first one out of the way. I could not walk down the street in Vegas after that fight without fans telling me, 'Brim, that was [expletive]. You won. The judges [expletive] you.' I mean, it's like, 'Marcus Brimage lost to Russell Doane, said no man ever.' [laughs] That's just real talk.
"I had some family issues, so I had to come home for training camp. I'm back in Alabama, and I'm back to my roots. I cannot wait to give this guy a Southern fried ass whooping."�
Check back here at Cagewriter for more with Marcus as we check in with him later in his training camp.
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MMA Live Extra ? Rampage Back In The UFC
ESPN MMA writer Brett Okamoto discusses Quinton “Rampage” Jackson re-signing with the UFC and Bellator MMA’s response.
Source: http://www.mmatko.com/mma-live-extra-rampage-back-in-the-ufc/
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Chael Sonnen: 'I'm not sorry for drug use'
Retired UFC fighter Chael Sonnen is finally being honest about intentionally violating drug rules, but he isn't about to apologize for any of it. Speaking on his new podcast, You're Welcome, Sonnen says he'll just have to live with intentionally trying to game the system.
"I'm not going to apologize because I'm not sorry. I'm a consenting adult. I knew exactly what I was doing. This was a premeditated decision," Sonnen said.
Sonnen went on to explain the rationale and criteria he used when deciding what drugs to take. What substances were and were not allowed by governing athletic commissions was not one of the criteria he was concerned with.
"For me, the litmus test was flawed, but here was my litmus test: Can't be a steroid, and it's got to be legal," Sonnen explained.
"I can't take anything, I don't wan't to be in possession of anything that isn't legal. What I'm talking about there, I'm not talking about the commissions and their rules, I'm talking about the law. I'm talking about, am I holding something in my possession and then a police officer sees me, am I allowed to have that. If the answer's yes, then I'm in. That was my test. If I could get this legal, if there's a legal medication, I'm taking it, I'm not cross-referencing it with the commission. I'm not taking the rules or someone else's over that of a doctor. That's what I'd tell myself to sleep well at night."
There is no way of knowing for certain if Sonnen is telling the truth here, or once more lying. As a convicted felon, he has shown to have trouble keeping on the right side of the law, and before he got caught using himself, he criticized other athletes for using drugs he himself used or would go on to use.
All that is to say - we may be finally getting the full truth from Sonnen, or just another partial version of it. In any case, the three-time UFC title challenger isn't shrinking away from his actions or the limelight.
Sonnen will admit to cheating, but he won't say he's sorry for having tried.�"If you're going to try to get away with something, if you're beat, you're beat," Sonnen concluded.
"There's nothing more to it, there's nothing more to the story. I took something, I was caught, I got tarnished and that's it."
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UFC?s Dominick Cruz Talks Comeback, Plans to be ?Stronger Than Ever?
Although Dominick Cruz’s 2014 campaign is ending on very unfortunate note, the former bantamweight champ has no doubts about his abilities to return to the�UFC, and compete with the world’s best fighters. As you’ve almost certainly heard by now, just a few days ago, Cruz announced that he’s�been sidelined with another ACL injury. The knee […]
The post UFC’s Dominick Cruz Talks Comeback, Plans to be “Stronger Than Ever” appeared first on Five Ounces of Pain.
Source: http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2014/12/24/ufcs-dominick-cruz-talks-comeback-plans-stronger-ever/
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