Alex Caceres: Religion Is For Separating People & For Immature People

UFC featherweight Alex Caceres has given his thoughts on religion, branding it a divisive power and one only followed by “immature” people. As with any industry, workplace, and sport, mixed martial arts boasts a wide range of faiths and fig…

UFC featherweight Alex Caceres has given his thoughts on religion, branding it a divisive power and one only followed by “immature” people. As with any industry, workplace, and sport, mixed martial arts boasts a wide range of faiths and fighters who follow them. That’s often on display at events, be it in the form of…

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Alex Caceres Explains Why He Doesn’t Celebrate After His Fights

UFC featherweight Alex Caceres picked up a massive win over Julian Erosa on Saturday, but you wouldn’t know it by his demeanor. Caceres landed a nasty head kick in the first round against Erosa that ended the fight in minutes. He got back in the …

UFC featherweight Alex Caceres picked up a massive win over Julian Erosa on Saturday, but you wouldn’t know it by his demeanor. Caceres landed a nasty head kick in the first round against Erosa that ended the fight in minutes. He got back in the win column after a loss back in March against Sodiq…

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MMA News’ Top 10 Finishes Of The Week (12/11–12/17)

Welcome to this week’s edition of MMA News’ Top 10 Finishes of the week! Every week there’s highlight-reel finishes all across the MMA world, and we’ve found some of the absolute best ones to showcase. A relatively quiet week of MMA action was highligh…

Welcome to this week’s edition of MMA News’ Top 10 Finishes of the week! Every week there’s highlight-reel finishes all across the MMA world, and we’ve found some of the absolute best ones to showcase. A relatively quiet week of MMA action was highlighted by the UFC’s final event of the year, and a pair…

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UFC Vegas 66 Performance Bonus Winners

The UFC closed out 2022 with a surprisingly stacked Fight Night event that ended up delivering a solid night of action for fans. There were a number of fighters that likely deserved Performance of the Night bonuses, but only two results from the main c…

The UFC closed out 2022 with a surprisingly stacked Fight Night event that ended up delivering a solid night of action for fans. There were a number of fighters that likely deserved Performance of the Night bonuses, but only two results from the main card earned those honors while Fight of the Night went to…

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MMA Twitter Reacts To Alex Caceres Head Kicking Julian Erosa

Alex Caceres and Julian Erosa looked to be settling in for a back-and-forth striking battle before Caceres ended things with a sensational first-round finish. Fans had already been treated to a high-paced lightweight scrap in the card’s previous …

Alex Caceres and Julian Erosa looked to be settling in for a back-and-forth striking battle before Caceres ended things with a sensational first-round finish. Fans had already been treated to a high-paced lightweight scrap in the card’s previous bout between Drew Dober and Bobby Green, so Caceres and Erosa were given a particularly tough act…

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Alex Caceres Admits He May Not Become Champion With His Mindset

Alex Caceres is comfortable handling his career the way he wants, even if that means going against what might be expected from a UFC veteran. The 33-year-old featherweight recently appeared on Brendan Fitzgerald’s podcast Fitz Nation and spoke about his unique mindset. When the UFC commentator asked Caceres if he struggles to balance the expectations…

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Alex Caceres is comfortable handling his career the way he wants, even if that means going against what might be expected from a UFC veteran.

The 33-year-old featherweight recently appeared on Brendan Fitzgerald’s podcast Fitz Nation and spoke about his unique mindset. When the UFC commentator asked Caceres if he struggles to balance the expectations of peers and fans with how he chooses to do things, “Bruce Leeroy” was open and honest.

“Of course. I feel like with the way I live my life, the way that I talk, the way that I choose to be, it makes a lot of people feel uncomfortable. Like ‘Oh man, how can you be a fighter if you don’t watch fights?’ Like, I just don’t watch fights, I don’t wanna watch fights. And I don’t watch tape on people.

“And so I don’t study fights, I don’t make game plans and stuff like that. Honestly, I live my life day to day, and when they call me for the fight I train really hard like I do every day. I still train, then I just cut a little weight before the fight and then I fight. And that’s what I do, honestly. That makes a lot of people feel uncomfortable.”

Caceres won a unanimous decision over Chase Hooper during a recent five-fight win streak. (Zuffa LLC)

While Caceres admitted that earlier in his career he was more conscious of what other people wanted, he has no such issues now. He’s been in the UFC for more than 10 years, and Caceres doesn’t see any reason to change the way he’s doing things.

“And you know, [fans] go ‘Oh, but you’ll never be champ.’ Maybe I won’t, maybe I will. Who knows? But I broke into the Top 15 that way. Maybe I might go further, maybe I won’t. But it’s the way that I fucking wanna do it. I don’t have to have an excuse for you…So, like finally trying to come to terms with that, that was a very difficult thing for me to do in my life and career. Just not giving a fuck about what people think.”

“Bruce Leeroy” entered the UFC in 2011 after appearing on Season 12 of The Ultimate Fighter. While his early career in the promotion was a bit up-and-down, Caceres hit his best stretch from 2019-2021 when he put together five-straight victories.

The 33-year-old’s winning streak was snapped when he lost a unanimous decision to Sodiq Yussef earlier this year.

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