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Michael Chandler has been Bellator lightweight champion and he hopes to have that title around his waist once again on Friday night in Hawaii but that’s no longer his greatest concern. Regarded as one of the top 155-pound fighters on the planet, …
Michael Chandler has been Bellator lightweight champion and he hopes to have that title around his waist once again on Friday night in Hawaii but that’s no longer his greatest concern. Regarded as one of the top 155-pound fighters on the planet, Chandler has been to the top of the mountain on a couple of […]
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Valentina Shevchenko was ready to fight for the UFC flyweight title back in September but unfortunately she didn’t have an opponent. Former champion Nicco Montano was forced off the card after falling ill due to a severe weight cut and she was la…
Valentina Shevchenko was ready to fight for the UFC flyweight title back in September but unfortunately she didn’t have an opponent. Former champion Nicco Montano was forced off the card after falling ill due to a severe weight cut and she was later stripped of the belt. Following a roller coaster ride through opponents and […]
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Kamaru Usman is a student of the game. The top five ranked welterweight works tirelessly inside the gym to cover every facet of every fight he’s about to face while also working with his coaches to dissect his opponents’ strengths and weakn…
Kamaru Usman is a student of the game. The top five ranked welterweight works tirelessly inside the gym to cover every facet of every fight he’s about to face while also working with his coaches to dissect his opponents’ strengths and weaknesses. For his last fight on short notice against Demian Maia, Usman had to […]
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Ryan Bader is happy to not cut weight for the first time in his athletic career to compete in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix but that doesn’t mean he’s suddenly going to look like a different fighter. In fact, Bader says the difference…
Ryan Bader is happy to not cut weight for the first time in his athletic career to compete in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix but that doesn’t mean he’s suddenly going to look like a different fighter. In fact, Bader says the differences in his size right now and what he weighed while competing at […]
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The professional MMA landscape in Ontario is pretty barren due to a lack of shows, so what do talented fighters do in order to progress their careers? In the case of my Toronto BJJ teammates who fight MMA, just like previous generations of Ontario-based fighters, they end up having to travel in order to get fights.
One such individual is Gabe “Samurai” Sagman (1-1) who is heading 2700 kilometers (that’s 1468 miles for you yanks) to Calgary, Alberta to face Keegan Oliver (3-4) this Friday at King of the Cage: Wrecking Ball. Gabe last fought in November 2014, so he’s primed and ready to get his momentum back.
“For the past month and a half, I’ve been training really hard,” says Gabe.
Check out Brian’s full interview after the jump.
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(via King of the Cage)
The professional MMA landscape in Ontario is pretty barren due to a lack of shows, so what do talented fighters do in order to progress their careers? In the case of my Toronto BJJ teammates who fight MMA, just like previous generations of Ontario-based fighters, they end up having to travel in order to get fights.
One such individual is Gabe “Samurai” Sagman (1-1) who is heading 2700 kilometers (that’s 1468 miles for you yanks) to Calgary, Alberta to face Keegan Oliver (3-4) this Friday at King of the Cage: Wrecking Ball. Gabe last fought in November 2014, so he’s primed and ready to get his momentum back.
“For the past month and a half, I’ve been training really hard,” says Gabe.
Check out Brian’s full interview after the jump.
I have had a unique perspective, because I trained alongside Gabe at Toronto BJJ under MMA coach, former UFC veteran Claude Patrick.
One thing that makes Gabe special is that he’s a consummate professional at his trade, a man who coaches and teammates know they can expect to see show up time and time again. There’s no excuses, or story or evasion of the job at hand—just a record of nearly-perfect attendance.
Skilled in all areas of MMA, Gabe has a plan to dispatch Keegan Oliver.
“I want to get in there—ideally, use my movement, out-strike the guy. If there’s an opening for me to take him down, I’ll take it. Obviously my strength is on the ground,” says the Ribeiro BJJ brown belt.
As MMA fighters have morphed into athletes, the conditioning routine Gabe follows outside of his Muay Thai, wrestling or jiu-jitsu training is also worth noting. Working out with his brother, Reuben, Gabe does an impressive array of exercises designed to give him a mix of strength and explosiveness.
What I learned from Gabe is that a person has to do the maximum preparation. It’s impossible to predict the future, but the harder you work, the luckier you get. He’s got the tools to win and that’s backed by his heart.
Says Gabe, “I’m putting on a great show, I’m coming to fight.”
Brian J. D’Souza is the author of the critically acclaimed book Pound for Pound: The Modern Gladiators of Mixed Martial Arts. You can check out an excerpt right here.
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(Now that your faith has been proven, young padawan, your final test will require you to reach deep into your subconscious and unlock the last 4 digits and security code of your credit card… via Getty)
Loyalty: Ain’t it a bitch? In some circles, it’s the measure of a man’s (or woman’s) character. In others, the lack of it can be spotted like a snake in the grass. Those who roll together, well, roll together, I guess you could say.
Take Ronda Rousey and her coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, for instance. Without ever having met the guy, the general consensus on him seems to be that he’s not all that great a person. Ronda’s mother hates him, for starters (like, “wouldn’t piss on him were he on fire” hates), and his sketchy credit history/current legal troubles doesn’t exactly paint him as a what you’d call an honest person. As a coach, there’s also the glaring fact that, until she was knocked out by Holly Holm at UFC 193, Ronda Rousey was the *only* UFC fighter to achieve success under his tutelage.
But despite all of this, despite the fact that she won’t even be able to eat an apple for another six months, Rousey let us all know in a recent interview that no, there is no way in Hell she is leaving Tarverdyan’s side at Glendale Fight Club.
Holm must be ecstatic.
Hear what Rousey said after the jump.
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(Now that your faith has been proven, young padawan, your final test will require you to reach deep into your subconscious and unlock the last 4 digits and security code of your credit card… via Getty)
Loyalty: Ain’t it a bitch? In some circles, it’s the measure of a man’s (or woman’s) character. In others, the lack of it can be spotted like a snake in the grass. Those who roll together, well, roll together, I guess you could say.
Take Ronda Rousey and her coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, for instance. Without ever having met the guy, the general consensus on him seems to be that he’s not all that great a person. Ronda’s mother hates him, for starters (like, “wouldn’t piss on him were he on fire” hates), and his sketchy credit history/current legal troubles doesn’t exactly paint him as a what you’d call an honest person. As a coach, there’s also the glaring fact that, until she was knocked out by Holly Holm at UFC 193, Ronda Rousey was the *only* UFC fighter to achieve success under his tutelage.
But despite all of this, despite the fact that she won’t even be able to eat an apple for another six months, Rousey let us all know in a recent interview that no, there is no way in Hell she is leaving Tarverdyan’s side at Glendale Fight Club.
“Of course I’m staying [with coach Tarverdyan],” Rousey told ESPN. “That’s my mom’s opinion, not mine.”
Holm must be ecstatic.
But really, it’s too soon for any of us to say that Rousey’s decision is definitively wrong, easy as it may seem. Maybe Tarverdyan has the kind of coaching style that works perfect for Rousey and simply not for anyone else. Maybe his insistence that Ronda was “doing beautifully” in between the first and second rounds of her UFC 193 title fight after we all saw her get absolutely tooled by Holm for five minutes was some kind of psychological trick designed to get her mind back on track. Maybe the banks all botched some paperwork and have him confused with Edward Targowski, the Scottish prosecutor turned Queen’s Council in 1989*, which seems like an easy enough mistake to make.
In any case, Ronda Rousey doesn’t owe us an explanation for her ceaseless loyalty, because it’s not like she looks for that in others, if the rumors have any truth to them. So we say bravo, Ronda! You may or may not get your teeth permanently shattered in the rematch, but at least no one will be able to call you a snake in the grass through a thick Irish accent. And really, that’s what matters most at the end of the day.
*That joke took a lot of effort and research, dammit, so you better appreciate it.
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