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Fighters are a different breed and Aussies are even further away from the norm. UFC heavyweight Tai Tuivasa proved that yet again at UFC 225 in Chicago after his unanimous victory over Andrei Arlovski …
Fighters are a different breed and Aussies are even further away from the norm. UFC heavyweight Tai Tuivasa proved that yet again at UFC 225 in Chicago after his unanimous victory over Andrei Arlovski …
We all tend to take for granted that the UFC makes MMA a bit more serious than it is at its core. With the stars and titles and big pay-per-views, you’d almost forget what the game is in actuality.
It’s a carnival sport, a more real cousin of professio…
We all tend to take for granted that the UFC makes MMA a bit more serious than it is at its core. With the stars and titles and big pay-per-views, you’d almost forget what the game is in actuality.
It’s a carnival sport, a more real cousin of professional wrestling where scripted outcomes are missing but loudmouths who are willing to live their gimmick have increasingly gotten ahead. To that end, Vince McMahon and his band of merry entertainers could surely relate to it.
If you don’t agree, consider Exhibit A: a classic Ric Flair faceplant following a low blow in a recent Indonesian MMA bout, held by One Pride MMA.
Following a relatively low-impact lead leg kick that struck the groin area, the fighter throwing the kick stops. He knows he’s in the wrong, and though he’s willing to continue the fight, he halts and considers the situation.
If there’s more fight to be had, he’ll have it, but in the name of sportsmanship, he leaves the next move to his counterpart in the red corner.
That move?
Comically grab his cup, adjust it a few times, take a single step and faceplant hard on the mat. Flair himself—the subject of the most recent 30 for 30 and suddenly resurgent popular culture icon as a result—couldn’t have done it better.
The referee steps in, presumably to give our Flair Lite the five minutes he needs to recover, and the clip is over. We don’t know what happened in the immediate aftermath, but what we have is easily one of the more memorable reactions to a low blow in recent MMA history.
Thank the heavens for this wonderful, bizarre sport.
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It was a pretty unique weekend for Al Iaquinta of the UFC.
After a protracted negotiation with the promotion over pay he deemed unsatisfactory, one that ended up with him banned from receiving fight night bonuses and sitting on the sidelines for two ye…
It was a pretty unique weekend for Al Iaquinta of the UFC.
After a protracted negotiation with the promotion over pay he deemed unsatisfactory, one that ended up with him banned from receiving fight night bonuses and sitting on the sidelines for two years in protest, “Raging” Al came back to the cage with a vengeance.
He obliterated grizzled veteran Diego Sanchez with a stylish series of right hands to secure the seventh knockout win of his career, but the fun was really only starting at that point.
In his MMA absence, Iaquinta has taken up real estate sales in his native New York. Still unhappy with his pay from the UFC, the pride of Long Island took the opportunity of his post-fight interview to draw attention to the business that’s providing some real cake for him: selling homes.
The move probably didn’t sit that well with UFC executives, who insist athletes are appropriately remunerated for parting with brain cells in the octagon every weekend and would surely cringe at an athlete pimping his real estate brand on live television during one of their events.
But it gets better. Or worse, depending on your perspective.
Soured that he was still banned from winning a bonus and probably sour with the UFC in general, Iaquinta elected to avoid any semblance of a high road once he left the arena. The lightweight took to Twitter to give the UFC some sass from his hotel as well, firing off some expletives before suggesting he may wreck his hotel room just for something to do (warning: tweets contain NSFW language):
The whole saga was highly entertaining and part of a general theme that seems to be emerging with Iaquinta, who has become one of the more entertaining guys on the roster due to his fighting style and his outspokenness outside the cage.
Here’s hoping the whole thing gets resolved in the near future so the sport can enjoy one of the world’s best 155ers more regularly, both inside the cage and out.
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They do things a little different in Russia. They breed their mixed martial artists a little different there too.
If you don’t believe that to be true, consider Exhibit “A”: a 9-year-old Khabib Nurmagomedov grappling a bear, seemingly…
They do things a little different in Russia. They breed their mixed martial artists a little different there too.
If you don’t believe that to be true, consider Exhibit “A”: a 9-year-old Khabib Nurmagomedov grappling a bear, seemingly for no reason other than that there was a bear in front of him and he was, even then, a skilled grappler.
According to the time stamp on the video, the main event of Nurmagomedov vs. Bear went down only three days after the elite UFC lightweight contender turned nine. The video is something of a highlight reel, with Nurmagomedov slickly hitting single legs, high crotch rolls and surprisingly deep double legs over the course of its six-minute runtime.
Again, to be clear, this is a nine-year-old boy wrestling a live bear.
In discussing his son’s aptitude for easily handling one of nature’s greatest predators in a boyhood grappling match, Nurmagomedov’s father, Abdulmanap, told ToFight.Ru (h/t Bloody Elbow) the matchup was “a test of character more than exercise.”
That’s certainly one way of describing it.
For its part, the bear could not be reached for comment.
Nurmagomedov has parlayed his youthful pursuits into a 24-0 professional MMA record and 8-0 UFC run, becoming one of the most feared mat tacticians in the sport. He smashed Michael Johnson at UFC 205 to secure his place as a top title contender and will now take on Tony Ferguson for the UFC interim lightweight title in the co-main event of UFC 209, going down this Saturday in Las Vegas.
Check out the video below.
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Nate Diaz is closer to stepping back inside the Octagon, and part of getting the deal done appears to be slapping Dana White.
Warning: Video contains NSFW lyrics.
Diaz posted the video to Instagram on Saturday evening. White took the “Stockton S…
Nate Diaz is closer to stepping back inside the Octagon, and part of getting the deal done appears to be slapping Dana White.
Warning: Video contains NSFW lyrics.
Diaz posted the video to Instagram on Saturday evening. White took the “Stockton Slap” from Diaz with 2Pac’s “Hit ‘Em Up” as the soundtrack for the slo-mo replay. Diaz posted the video using the caption “Getting deals done today” and the hashtag “#immagetmymoney”.
On Thursday, White said on The Herd with Colin Cowherd he met with Diaz in Stockton but left the meeting upset at Diaz’s management. The hatchet now seems to be buried.
It would appear the deal Diaz is alluding to would be the rematch with Conor McGregor. Diaz submitted the featherweight champion at UFC 196, and the rematch has been linked to UFC 202 later this year. Now it seems like that announcement is going to come in the near future.
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Holly Holm is known for her knockout of Ronda Rousey at UFC 193, but the women’s bantamweight champion has gotten the chance to show her sparkling personality in the months following the title win.
And the love she has shown has been reciprocated by fa…
Holly Holm is known for her knockout of Ronda Rousey at UFC 193, but the women’s bantamweight champion has gotten the chance to show her sparkling personality in the months following the title win.
And the love she has shown has been reciprocated by fans.
At UFC 194 in December, she was selected by the UFC for its Q&A session before the weigh-ins. During the event, the Irish-heavy crowd serenaded her with Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You.” But at the UFC 196 open workouts, it was Holm who brought the music to the fans.
She invited a young fan to the stage and proceeded to teach her some classic dance moves.
These humanizing moments should make everyone feel good, especially the young girl who Holm brought to the stage. They also go a long way to help create a new generation of fans as they watch Holm reach stardom while wearing gold.
In the midst of a war of words between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, here is Holm offering some levity and good feelings. She will hope to keep the positivity going on Saturday when she defends her title against No. 2-ranked contender Miesha Tate in the UFC 196 co-main event.
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