John Lineker: A Serious Contender Again

Mixed martial arts, like so many sports, is a game of inches, or, in the case of John Lineker, a game of pounds. For much of 2013, the first thing that came to mind with Lineker wasn’t the knockout power in his “Hands of Stone,” but h…

Mixed martial arts, like so many sports, is a game of inches, or, in the case of John Lineker, a game of pounds. For much of 2013, the first thing that came to mind with Lineker wasn’t the knockout power in his “Hands of Stone,” but his pitched battles with the scale on weigh-in day. Yet beginning with his February bout against Ali Bagautinov, Lineker has made weight in two straight bouts, and he expects to hit the 126-pound mark once again today for his Saturday bout against Ian McCall. The Brazilian bomber couldn’t be happier.“Thanks to Dr. Marcos Aranha, my t … Read the Full Article Here