Author: By Mike Straka

Travis “Hapa” Browne faces Matt Mitrione at UFC Fight Night on Sunday in Boston’s TD Garden, and although Conor McGregor isn’t the headliner in the mostly Irish-American northeast city this time around, the local fans should be getting ready for a main card heavyweight bout that will most certainly deliver fireworks.“Matt is tough guy,” Browne said. “He’s light on his feet and he fights relaxed. He goes for it and he’s a big dude at 6-4 and 260 pounds. He’s somebody you have to be ready for and capitalize when the opportunity presents … Read the Full Article Here

There’s a spring in Dustin Poirier’s step as he bounces around the American Top Team training facility in Coconut Creek, Florida. It’s not so much because he will finally be facing Irishman Joe Duffy at UFC 195 on Jan. 2 (the two were originally scheduled to face each other in October in Ireland before Duffy had to withdraw), but mostly because he feels good these days.You see, it’s much easier to make 155 pounds than it is to make featherweight at 145 pounds.“I’m feeling great,” he said. “Everything is right on track.”If it sounds like the … Read the Full Article Here

In the 2008 Brad Pitt film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the protagonist was born an old man and got younger and younger with each birthday. To hear American Top Team coach Kami Barzini tell it, the film might as well be about the UFC welterweight champion “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler. “He gets younger and younger with every fight,” Barzini said. “In all my years coaching I’ve never seen anything like it. The man has been fighting for 14 years and he trains like a newbie. His work ethic is unreal. He’s an anomaly.”

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Michael “Maverick” Chiesa believes it’s time for some UFC veterans to pass the torch to the younger crop of fighters who have begun to lay their claim to the promotion’s spoils, and he’s setting out to prove his point when he takes on lightweight veteran Jim Miller on December 10 in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant in Las Vegas.In Miller, Chiesa faces someone whom he has watched perform long before he entered professional MMA, and he’s eager to dispatch one of the original fighters who paved the way for his own career path.&ldquo … Read the Full Article Here

When Brooklyn, New York’s Phillipe Nover enters the Octagon to face young and hungry Russian Zubaira Tukhugov on December 10 at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas – he will be looking to not only make it five wins in a row, but to also announce that the man who was once dubbed “The next Anderson Silva” is back on track in what has been a topsy-turvy career.“If anyone can analyze my career, I’ve had consecutive losses, I’ve been in the limelight where Dana White was saying phenomenal things about me, I was on the bottom where no one would even … Read the Full Article Here

When Brooklyn, New York’s Phillipe Nover enters the Octagon to face young and hungry Russian Zubaira Tukhugov on December 10 at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas – he will be looking to not only make it five wins in a row, but to also announce that the man who was once dubbed “The next Anderson Silva” is back on track in what has been a topsy-turvy career.“If anyone can analyze my career, I’ve had consecutive losses, I’ve been in the limelight where Dana White was saying phenomenal things about me, I was on the bottom where no one would even … Read the Full Article Here