Shane “Hurricane” Burgos has been dominating competition across the East Coast since 2010. Undefeated at 7-0 with 7 consecutive finishes, it was no surprise when Burgos received that long awaited phone call to fight in the UFC. A great fight, which he won by Unanimous Decision, against veteran Tiago Trator at UFC Fight Night 102 in Albany, NY. We were able to spend a few minutes with Shane to talk about his experience, including how badly he wanted to keep his finish streak alive. “Ya, it was crazy. I was in complete kill mode. Once I landed that combination, that’s one of my favorite punches. That left upper cut or the left hook and right upper cut are my favorite shots. Once I landed I thought for sure he was going to be out…”
Almost just as impressive as his stand up in the fight, is the haircut he got between rounds 2 and 3. Every time we think we have seen it all, something like that happens. Burgos recalls the bizarre moment, “… I thought it would be pretty cool, but I didn’t think it would catch fire like that. Like, it blew up. He wasn’t even gunna cut it, my coach. He put the rubber band, he was getting ready to tie it in between the 2nd and 3rd round and then the rubber band snapped. He was like, ‘alright Shane. Say goodbye.’ I was just so focused on what my other coach was saying, I wasn’t even thinking about the hair. I was just like ya whatever, go ahead. Cut it.”
Listen to the full interview and hear Shane talk about what it was like finally being in the UFC, his plans for 2017, what it’s like knowing that he has a little girl on the way, and much more. Make sure to follow Shane on twitter @HurricaneShaneB to see what’s next for him in 2017.
Shane “Hurricane” Burgos has been dominating competition across the East Coast since 2010. Undefeated at 7-0 with 7 consecutive finishes, it was no surprise when Burgos received that long awaited phone call to fight in the UFC. A great fight, which he won by Unanimous Decision, against veteran Tiago Trator at UFC Fight Night 102 in Albany, NY. We were able to spend a few minutes with Shane to talk about his experience, including how badly he wanted to keep his finish streak alive. “Ya, it was crazy. I was in complete kill mode. Once I landed that combination, that’s one of my favorite punches. That left upper cut or the left hook and right upper cut are my favorite shots. Once I landed I thought for sure he was going to be out…”
Almost just as impressive as his stand up in the fight, is the haircut he got between rounds 2 and 3. Every time we think we have seen it all, something like that happens. Burgos recalls the bizarre moment, “… I thought it would be pretty cool, but I didn’t think it would catch fire like that. Like, it blew up. He wasn’t even gunna cut it, my coach. He put the rubber band, he was getting ready to tie it in between the 2nd and 3rd round and then the rubber band snapped. He was like, ‘alright Shane. Say goodbye.’ I was just so focused on what my other coach was saying, I wasn’t even thinking about the hair. I was just like ya whatever, go ahead. Cut it.”
Listen to the full interview and hear Shane talk about what it was like finally being in the UFC, his plans for 2017, what it’s like knowing that he has a little girl on the way, and much more. Make sure to follow Shane on twitter @HurricaneShaneB to see what’s next for him in 2017.
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has a tendency to set up his next fight while he is already in the midst of promoting another, and that was no different last month in New York City from Madison Square Garden. Although McGregor had a tough task ahead of him in the form of then-lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez,
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has a tendency to set up his next fight while he is already in the midst of promoting another, and that was no different last month in New York City from Madison Square Garden.
Although McGregor had a tough task ahead of him in the form of then-lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez, that didn’t stop ‘The Notorious One’ from setting up a possible welterweight title bout with Tyron Woodley down the road. During the early weigh-ins for the New York card McGregor and Woodley had a brief encounter that later escalated into a verbal war on both Twitter and at the late weigh-ins backstage.
McGregor would go on to defeat Alvarez via second round knockout, while Woodley and his opponent, Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson, would go to a majority draw that resulted in a title retain for ‘The Chosen One’. Both men have expressed interest in fighting one another since the conclusion of the Madison Square Garden event, but Woodley took it to a whole other level during the most recent edition of his YouTube series ‘The Champ Life’ (courtesy of MMA Fighting):
“When he got in my face and I looked at him I said, ‘what’s up?’ At that moment he realized I ain’t that dude. I’m really about that life. I’m really from that life. My family is from that life. I’m actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven’t been in the streets like that but I have family members, close loved ones, that that’s all they know. So I’ve been around that a lot and I try not to take myself back to those dark areas, I try to stay sophisticated, stay professional but a few people can take you out of that element and bring that Ferguson back out of you and he almost did it. But I had to keep my eyes on the prize, defend my strap in a Fight of the Night performance at UFC 205.
“Now that we got that done – that’s off the table – if Conor want it he can get it. He knows how to get in touch with Dana [White, UFC President], he knows how to get the contract set, and he really don’t want to fight. I’m not saying he should want to fight because I’m not a little dude. I ain’t Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class.”
Woodley would proceed to warn ‘Mystic Mac’ of the repercussions of moving up dramatically in weight, which included facing men with ‘real power’, as well as threatening to rip the Irish champ’s head off and spew his blood across the Octagon’s canvas:
“If him and his coach John Kavanagh and everybody think that Conor can do well against me and they gas this dude up – you know, he’s a dope fighter but there’s levels to this. When you start going up, it’s like me going up to 205 and challenging guys at that weight. When you come up to this weight brother, it’s real power, it’s real people that will put real hands on you, that’ll put you down to the canvas and you will not get up unless I let you up.
“So if you want to get in there with a lion and get your head bit off and have me spewing your blood all over the octagon while you’ve got that goofy tiger tattoo on your chest, looking like a clown with a clown on your chest, we can do it. We can do it in Ireland, Dublin, we can do it in the back of White Castle, I don’t care. But just know, I ain’t that guy. I don’t like to try and act overly hood or overly ghetto, a million hood stripes, but where I’m from you don’t call me a bitch, number one. Number two, you don’t fake like you’re about that life. If you want to scrap, if you want to make this money, let’s do it. If you don’t, shut your mouth. Just do your thing.”
‘The Chosen One’ remains adamant that he isn’t trying to build his name off of McGregor, but instead has a few other names in mind that he’d like to throw down with in order to help solidify himself as one of the greatest combatants at 170 pounds.
But that doesn’t mean he won’t capitalize on the opportunity if it just so happens to present itself:
“I want you guys to realize this about me, I’m not one of those guys that’s trying to position myself off Conor. I actually got no beef with Conor. He doing his thing, he’s getting what he want to get out of the game and I’m getting what I wanna get out of the game. But it’s a few people that you can step to with that BS and it can slide, I just so happen to not be one of those guys.
“I ain’t trying to build myself off Conor. I’ve got legendary ideas about my career. I want to be a great. There’s about four or five more people I’ve got to beat to solidify that position and that’s my focus and that’s my goal. If he wants to be a stumbling block that gets me to there faster, so be it.”
McGregor is no stranger to competing in the UFC’s welterweight division, as his mini-rivalry with Nate Diaz took place at 170 pounds over a span of six months. The lightweight champ has noticeably bulked up quite a bit since his days at 145 pounds, but is the increased muscle mass enough to allow him to hold his own against the elite of the welterweight division?
You can check out Woodley’s ‘The Champ Life’ episode in which he talks about McGregor here:
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has a tendency to set up his next fight while he is already in the midst of promoting another, and that was no different last month in New York City from Madison Square Garden. Although McGregor had a tough task ahead of him in the form of then-lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez,
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has a tendency to set up his next fight while he is already in the midst of promoting another, and that was no different last month in New York City from Madison Square Garden.
Although McGregor had a tough task ahead of him in the form of then-lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez, that didn’t stop ‘The Notorious One’ from setting up a possible welterweight title bout with Tyron Woodley down the road. During the early weigh-ins for the New York card McGregor and Woodley had a brief encounter that later escalated into a verbal war on both Twitter and at the late weigh-ins backstage.
McGregor would go on to defeat Alvarez via second round knockout, while Woodley and his opponent, Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson, would go to a majority draw that resulted in a title retain for ‘The Chosen One’. Both men have expressed interest in fighting one another since the conclusion of the Madison Square Garden event, but Woodley took it to a whole other level during the most recent edition of his YouTube series ‘The Champ Life’ (courtesy of MMA Fighting):
“When he got in my face and I looked at him I said, ‘what’s up?’ At that moment he realized I ain’t that dude. I’m really about that life. I’m really from that life. My family is from that life. I’m actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven’t been in the streets like that but I have family members, close loved ones, that that’s all they know. So I’ve been around that a lot and I try not to take myself back to those dark areas, I try to stay sophisticated, stay professional but a few people can take you out of that element and bring that Ferguson back out of you and he almost did it. But I had to keep my eyes on the prize, defend my strap in a Fight of the Night performance at UFC 205.
“Now that we got that done – that’s off the table – if Conor want it he can get it. He knows how to get in touch with Dana [White, UFC President], he knows how to get the contract set, and he really don’t want to fight. I’m not saying he should want to fight because I’m not a little dude. I ain’t Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class.”
Woodley would proceed to warn ‘Mystic Mac’ of the repercussions of moving up dramatically in weight, which included facing men with ‘real power’, as well as threatening to rip the Irish champ’s head off and spew his blood across the Octagon’s canvas:
“If him and his coach John Kavanagh and everybody think that Conor can do well against me and they gas this dude up – you know, he’s a dope fighter but there’s levels to this. When you start going up, it’s like me going up to 205 and challenging guys at that weight. When you come up to this weight brother, it’s real power, it’s real people that will put real hands on you, that’ll put you down to the canvas and you will not get up unless I let you up.
“So if you want to get in there with a lion and get your head bit off and have me spewing your blood all over the octagon while you’ve got that goofy tiger tattoo on your chest, looking like a clown with a clown on your chest, we can do it. We can do it in Ireland, Dublin, we can do it in the back of White Castle, I don’t care. But just know, I ain’t that guy. I don’t like to try and act overly hood or overly ghetto, a million hood stripes, but where I’m from you don’t call me a bitch, number one. Number two, you don’t fake like you’re about that life. If you want to scrap, if you want to make this money, let’s do it. If you don’t, shut your mouth. Just do your thing.”
‘The Chosen One’ remains adamant that he isn’t trying to build his name off of McGregor, but instead has a few other names in mind that he’d like to throw down with in order to help solidify himself as one of the greatest combatants at 170 pounds.
But that doesn’t mean he won’t capitalize on the opportunity if it just so happens to present itself:
“I want you guys to realize this about me, I’m not one of those guys that’s trying to position myself off Conor. I actually got no beef with Conor. He doing his thing, he’s getting what he want to get out of the game and I’m getting what I wanna get out of the game. But it’s a few people that you can step to with that BS and it can slide, I just so happen to not be one of those guys.
“I ain’t trying to build myself off Conor. I’ve got legendary ideas about my career. I want to be a great. There’s about four or five more people I’ve got to beat to solidify that position and that’s my focus and that’s my goal. If he wants to be a stumbling block that gets me to there faster, so be it.”
McGregor is no stranger to competing in the UFC’s welterweight division, as his mini-rivalry with Nate Diaz took place at 170 pounds over a span of six months. The lightweight champ has noticeably bulked up quite a bit since his days at 145 pounds, but is the increased muscle mass enough to allow him to hold his own against the elite of the welterweight division?
You can check out Woodley’s ‘The Champ Life’ episode in which he talks about McGregor here:
Hunt expects all parties to agree to a doping clause in the fight terms, prior to signing any contract.
The New Zealand knock out artist has agreed to meet Overeem in March, but the fight will only happen if the UFC agree to adding such a clause. Hunt confirmed his demands via markhunt.tv:
“My clause will protect me in this instance and take the financial gain of the opponent of caught cheating, ”
“That deterrent will protect me and other fighters. I’m pushing for this clause, I want to fight and I am ready. If the fight doesn’t go ahead it’s not my doing. I will not fight without this clause. I’ve already fought three dopers in a row and I’m not going to fight again without security. All I want is a fair go and an even playing field.”
“I will not fight without this clause. I’ve already fought 3 dopers in a row and I’m not going to fight again without security. All I want is a fair go, and an even playing field.” he said.
According to other reports, Overeem has not yet agreed to any contractual stipulation regarding doping. At the time of writing, any agreement of this sort is between Hunt and the UFC.
“The Super Samoan” and “Reem” have fought once before, and Hunt is adamant that he would like the opportunity to avenge his submission defeat against the Dutchman:
“Overeem was one of my losses over a 7 fight losing streak when I was fighting battles outside the ring as well as inside. “I couldn’t have beaten a wooden chair at that time in my life. I’ve never lost a rematch and I’m not about to”.
Following the debacle after the UFC 200 bout with Brock Lesnar, it is understandable that the Sydney, Australia resident has reservations regarding his opponents. Should the UFC adhere to his demands, we could see a rematch between two veterans that has been over eight years in the making.
You can watch Hunt v Overeem’s first bout in K-1, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbW7C0DAvJ4
Hunt expects all parties to agree to a doping clause in the fight terms, prior to signing any contract.
The New Zealand knock out artist has agreed to meet Overeem in March, but the fight will only happen if the UFC agree to adding such a clause. Hunt confirmed his demands via markhunt.tv:
“My clause will protect me in this instance and take the financial gain of the opponent of caught cheating, ”
“That deterrent will protect me and other fighters. I’m pushing for this clause, I want to fight and I am ready. If the fight doesn’t go ahead it’s not my doing. I will not fight without this clause. I’ve already fought three dopers in a row and I’m not going to fight again without security. All I want is a fair go and an even playing field.”
“I will not fight without this clause. I’ve already fought 3 dopers in a row and I’m not going to fight again without security. All I want is a fair go, and an even playing field.” he said.
According to other reports, Overeem has not yet agreed to any contractual stipulation regarding doping. At the time of writing, any agreement of this sort is between Hunt and the UFC.
Mark Hunt confirms verbal agreement to fight Alistair Overeem, but still wants that clause re: to doping penalty. https://t.co/QFcmSXk12Q
“The Super Samoan” and “Reem” have fought once before, and Hunt is adamant that he would like the opportunity to avenge his submission defeat against the Dutchman:
“Overeem was one of my losses over a 7 fight losing streak when I was fighting battles outside the ring as well as inside. “I couldn’t have beaten a wooden chair at that time in my life. I’ve never lost a rematch and I’m not about to”.
Following the debacle after the UFC 200 bout with Brock Lesnar, it is understandable that the Sydney, Australia resident has reservations regarding his opponents. Should the UFC adhere to his demands, we could see a rematch between two veterans that has been over eight years in the making.
You can watch Hunt v Overeem’s first bout in K-1, here:
While the sport of mixed martial arts would simply be nothing without the fights themselves, much of the love for the sport comes from the entertainment factor, which includes the hype, the build-up and the trash talk surrounding fights. Obviously not all fighters are trash talkers and not all fights include bad blood and back-and-forth
While the sport of mixed martial arts would simply be nothing without the fights themselves, much of the love for the sport comes from the entertainment factor, which includes the hype, the build-up and the trash talk surrounding fights. Obviously not all fighters are trash talkers and not all fights include bad blood and back-and-forth banter, but those that do are often quite memorable.
With that being said, let’s take a look at the UFC’s seven best trash talk battles:
7) Rashad Evans vs. Rampage Jackson
The UFC’s light heavyweight division appears to be rather scarce as of late, but it was once the sport’s premier weight class, and at one point, former champions “Suga” Rashad Evans and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson were at the forefront of the 205 pounders.
When the two met at May 2010’s UFC 114, neither held the UFC light heavyweight title, but they remained in the headlining spot as the trash talk between the two leading up to the bout was memorable to say the least.
Coaching opposite each other on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season 10 prior to the bout, the two had ample time to get under each other’s skin and they did just that. Both “Suga” and “Rampage” have always been outspoken individuals and they didn’t hold back, which resulted in one of the best trash talk battles we’ve ever seen.
Michelle Waterson won the biggest fight of her career last saturday. After defeating the much hyped Paige Vanzant in a shocking first round submission, the “karate hottie” was on top of the world. She had a big win, a big bonus, and her family there to boot. But as in true MMA fashion, the question on everyone’s lips was who she would fight next? Well there was one name we just found undeniable, and that name was Rose Namajunas.
What’s great about this fight is that these ladies are both vastly improved strikers with a wicked ground game. Although Rose Namajunas was momentarily derailed by Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC 202 she’s very much still in the hunt; and with Waterson’s high profile victory against Paige last weekend you’ve got to think she’s now in the straw weight conversation. Rose delivered a polite but no nonsense call out to the former atom weight after the fight.
First off I want to congratulate @karatehottiemma on a SPECTACULAR performance! You showed tremendous growth and hunger as a fighter/mother/wife/cool person since knowing you so hats off to you! Secondly I want to acknowledge the messages I’ve been getting from my fans that this is the next matchup y’all want to see! Me too! Make it happen @danawhite@ufc
She’s right Dana, we all want to see it, make it happen! Coming from a 105lb weight class, Waterson is the smaller fighter, and although her jiu jitsu seems to be firing on all cylinders, Rose is a beast to get to the ground. Even if you get her there, she’s not exactly a Sage Northcutt, with 5 wins by submission (3 RNC, flying armbar, Kimura) the fights not exactly over. And with a nickname like “Thug Rose” Namajunas, what’s not to love?
By hook or by crook, this fight needs to happen, and hopefully fairly soon. Let us know what you think of this potential matchup, are you guys interested or is it a pass?
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Woodley would proceed to warn ‘Mystic Mac’ of the repercussions of moving up dramatically in weight, which included facing men with ‘real power’, as well as threatening to rip the Irish champ’s head off and spew his blood across the Octagon’s canvas:
McGregor is no stranger to competing in the UFC’s welterweight division, as his mini-rivalry with Nate Diaz took place at 170 pounds over a span of six months. The lightweight champ has noticeably bulked up quite a bit since his days at 145 pounds, but is the increased muscle mass enough to allow him to hold his own against the elite of the welterweight division?
