Nick Diaz has been very verbal lately about feeling unappreciated. He feels that he is underpaid by Strikeforce, overworked and he is about fed up with it. He plans to make a venture into the prize ring before he returns to the cage. After …
Nick Diaz has been very verbal lately about feeling unappreciated. He feels that he is underpaid by Strikeforce, overworked and he is about fed up with it. He plans to make a venture into the prize ring before he returns to the cage. After his recent win over Paul Daley, in which he defended his […]
Just when we thought things couldn’t get any crazier for Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, Nick Diaz, they just did. In an interview with Inside MMA, Diaz spoke out following his win over Paul Daley, about the lack of competition he sees left in…
Just when we thought things couldn’t get any crazier for Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, Nick Diaz, they just did. In an interview with Inside MMA, Diaz spoke out following his win over Paul Daley, about the lack of competition he sees left in Strikeforce and the possibility of him leaving the sport to pursue a career […]
Wednesday brought some crazy news to the mixed martial arts world, but Thursday may have been even crazier! On Wednesday, you had members of Fedor Emelianenko’s camp bring up hypnosis as a reason for his loss to Antonio Silva on February 12th. We…
Wednesday brought some crazy news to the mixed martial arts world, but Thursday may have been even crazier! On Wednesday, you had members of Fedor Emelianenko’s camp bring up hypnosis as a reason for his loss to Antonio Silva on February 12th. Well, Thursday saw Silva’s manager answer those accusations, while Fedor’s camp implied that […]
Bob Arum, who promotes boxing under the Top Rank name, spoke to USA Today’s Sergio Non in regard to the future of mixed martial arts recently. As expected Arum, who has denigrated that sport in the past, painted a future with limited growth poten…
Bob Arum, who promotes boxing under the Top Rank name, spoke to USA Today’s Sergio Non in regard to the future of mixed martial arts recently. As expected Arum, who has denigrated that sport in the past, painted a future with limited growth potential. Arum’s logic is that MMA appeals to only one demographic: “It’s […]
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At this point, emotional post-fight breakdowns are the norm for Phil Baroni. (Remember this old classic?) Since each loss seems like it could represent the end of the road for the veteran slugger, we understand …
At this point, emotional post-fight breakdowns are the norm for Phil Baroni. (Remember this old classic?) Since each loss seems like it could represent the end of the road for the veteran slugger, we understand why he takes them so hard. But as the above clip demonstrates, Baroni has always had a difficult time coping with losses, even the ones that came before he really had a professional career.
Prior to making his MMA debut in 2000, Phil Baroni was a standout on the Toughman amateur boxing circuit. Though he won most of his fights, he lost a decision to a dude named Sam Rodriguez (date of fight unknown), and reacted by storming out of the ring and beating up every inanimate object in sight, including a defenseless fire hose door. His longtime training partner Mark Coleman would later pay tribute to the incident in the acclaimed short film "FUUUUUUUUCK!"
And now that we have this bit of footage, we’re only missing one thing: A clip of Baroni throwing a tantrum after a loss at one of his old bodybuilding competitions. Make it happen, Internet.
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Man, why are we totally not surprised that Frankie Edgar’s boxing coach owns a pizzeria? When you’re talking about a bunch of guys from New Jersey it …
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Man, why are we totally not surprised that Frankie Edgar’s boxing coach owns a pizzeria? When you’re talking about a bunch of guys from New Jersey it might sound culturally insensitive to make that assumption but at least according to MMA Weekly, it’s also true. The man responsible for Edgar reaching zenith of his stand-up game in recent fights is one Mark Henry – no, not that Mark Henry – a former member of the US Boxing team who has also owned and operated a place called Pino’s Pizza in the Jerz for nearly two decades. Frankly, it sounds like a bad place to try to rob unless you’re bringing a gang of homies and a whole lot of firepower.
Henry has been working with Edgar for some time, but says they only really got serious about pugilism after he watched Edgar suffer his lone career loss to Gray Maynard in April, 2008. Coincidentally, this interview comes to us just as Edgar is preparing to defend his 155-pound title in a rematch against Maynard at UFC 125 on Jan. 1. See, that’s just good storytelling from the Gray Lady of MMA Journalism. But we digress …
