Author: UFC Press Releases

Frank Curreri, WEC – From its birth, the WEC was supposed to be a “dabbling” investment for a successful realtor named Reed Harris and his business partner, former Division I wrestler Scott Adams. The co-founders, who happened to be close friends with a then 8-1 fighter named Chuck Liddell, weren’t expecting to make much money in their guilty pleasure/side business, because back in 2001 hardly anyone was making a decent profit in the mixed martial arts business. It was very much a ‘let’s-hold-a-few-shows, say-we-did-it’ kind of thing.

Martins Denis, UFC – Every time Brasilia native Paulo Thiago steps in the Octagon, the comparisons between the two lives that he lives are brought to the conversation. And though there are too many differences to name between his life as a mixed martial artist and his other job as a special ops police officer, there are enough similarities to always bring those comparisons back into the mix.

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Gone Fishin’. It could have been the sign hung on the door at the Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas a couple weeks back, when Martin Kampmann, Tyson Griffin, and Mike Pyle all took a half-day out of training for their UFC 115 bouts this weekend to fish and recharge their batteries before the fight week madness sets in.

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – A training camp with renowned Milwaukee trainer Duke Roufus that will test your limits and get you ready for the biggest fight of your career = Eight weeks.
A flight from the States to Sydney, Australia to fight that fight against Mirko Cro Cop = 15 hours.

A.J. Benza, UFC – It is 1993. The big dream machine, that is Hollywood, has moved its huge production to a tiny, one-story town outside Albuquerque, New Mexico to shoot a gory scene for an upcoming Oliver Stone film. The producers set the action inside a pharmacy where the two villains are in desperate search for some anti-venom to a deadly snake bite. Outside the drug store, yellow tape surrounds the area to keep the looky-loos at bay.