Author: By Elias Cepeda

With the loss still eating at him, Mendes says he wants a rematch with the Irishman sooner rather than later. The Team Alpha Male fighter simply believes that things would be very different between he and McGregor if he had a training camp to prepare, as McGregor did at UFC 189.
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An old wrestling coach of Corey Anderson’s had a hard and fast rule about getting upset over losses. Anderson and his teammates were allowed to be sad when they lost — just not for very long, before getting back to work.”It’s that wrestling mentality,” the UFC light heavyweight said.”You wrestled every weekend, so very few go undefeated. That coach always told us that we had five minutes to sulk over a loss, and that was it. For five minutes, we could cry, cuss, whatever we needed to. But, he told us that he didn’t want to hear anything else about the loss once we came back.”Anderson had to … Read the Full Article Here

UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson recently got a talking to from Dave Sholler, the UFC’s vice president of pubic relations about interviews he had been given. However, during the conversation, Johnson wasn’t told to reign it in at all, but rather Sholler told him to let loose, more.”I’ve been knowing Dave Sholler since my WEC years and I’ve come a long way in my career. Now he’s just trying to help me blossom into a beautiful flower, I guess you could say.”
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Still, here’s our best shot. From Conor McGregor’s reckless abandon, to Chad Mendes’ saving of the event, to the often misunderstood Irish fans who are still singing and swilling in the casino below us at this very moment, read on and see our choices.
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Fans watching episodes of UFC Primetime: St-Pierre vs. Hendricks in advance of UFC 167 may have been shocked at welterweight contender Johny Hendricks’ tales of his father driving he and his brother hard, pressuring them to wrestle and waking them up with buckets of ice water.  Hendricks’ Team Takedown teammate Jared Rosholt was not offended in the least. In fact, the heavyweight identified with the Hendricks clan, as Rosholt and his older brother Jake grew up wrestling and it wasn’t exactly their choice. “Oh, we didn’t have a say in whether or not we were going to wrestle,” Ros … Read the Full Article Here

Walt Harris knew what he was going to do with his life. He had known for almost his entire life.  Young Walt grew up as a basketball prodigy in Birmingham, Alabama within a family full of high level ball players. Walt would one day play in the NBA, he just knew it. More than that, he worked for it. Like all hard-working young athletes, Harris spent hours before and after school and during summers developing his skill sets.  Walt went through high school, made it onto the NCAA Division I Jacksonville State basketball squad, and then came the camps for NBA scouts to check out Harr … Read the Full Article Here