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On This Day in MMA: August 10 – A Star Takes His First Step Towards Greatness and “The Monster” is Born

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UFC featherweight champion José Aldo made his MMA debut seven years ago at EcoFight 1 in Amapá, Brazil.

Why it matters:

It’s not the fact that Aldo defeated Mario Bigola in just 18 seconds by soccer-kick KO at the event,  it’s that he did it at the age of 17, setting the tone for what would become a dominant career. Bigola retired following the bout and Aldo racked up an impressive 19-1 record, including an undefeated eight-fight tear through the WEC and successful defenses of his WEC and UFC belts.


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UFC featherweight champion José Aldo made his MMA debut seven years ago at EcoFight 1 in Amapá, Brazil.

Why it matters:

It’s not the fact that Aldo defeated Mario Bigola in just 18 seconds by soccer-kick KO at the event,  it’s that he did it at the age of 17, setting the tone for what would become a dominant career. Bigola retired following the bout and Aldo racked up an impressive 19-1 record, including an undefeated eight-fight tear through the WEC and successful defenses of his WEC and UFC belts.


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Aldo has been mentioned in the same breath as MMA greats like Anderson Silva, George St-Pierre and Fedor Emelianenko when discussing the best pound-for-pound fighters in the sport. Having run through the best fighters the WEC had to offer and getting close to doing the same in the UFC, a jump up to 155 may be in “Scarface’s” near future.

Kevin “The Monster Randleman was born 40 years ago in Sandusky, Ohio.

Why he matters:


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A two time Division I NCAA Champion for Ohio State, in his prime, Randleman was one of the most dangerous fighters in MMA. He holds wins over Murilo “Ninja” Rua, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Maurice Smith and Mirko “CroCop” Filipovic, but is perhaps best known for the back-and-forth wars he came up short in. His gruelling 21-minute split decision loss to Bas Rutten at UFC 20, last minute TKO loss to Randy Couture at UFC 28 and Pride 2004 Heavyweight Grand Prix quarterfinal loss to Fedor Emelianenko did little to tarnish Randleman’s impressive career as he seemed close to finishing each opponent at various times in those bouts. Unfortunately his highlight-reel suplex slam of Emelianenko that nearly knocked out the Russian ended with him tapping out to a kimura moments later.


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Weekend Results: Kevin Randleman Suffers Dislocated Elbow in Loss

Former UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman returned to action after a one-year layoff Saturday and lost to Baga Agaev via first-round armbar submission in the main event of Mayor’s Cup in Russia.

Randleman suffered a dislocated elbow in loss, acc…

Former UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman returned to action after a one-year layoff Saturday and lost to Baga Agaev via first-round armbar submission in the main event of Mayor’s Cup in Russia.

Randleman suffered a dislocated elbow in loss, according to agent Ken Pavia, who accompanied the 39-year-old Randleman to the fight overseas and posted before and after x-rays pictures on Twitter.

Randleman (17-16), last seen fighting for Strikeforce one year ago in a loss to Roger Gracie via rear-naked choke submission, has now lost four in a row.

Danny Downes, Gerald Harris, Efrain Escudero and others also stepped inside the cage over the weekend. Check out some of the notable results below.

Kevin Randleman Talks MMA Future, ‘Men in Black 3’ Role

Filed under: Fighting, FanHouse ExclusiveFormer UFC heavyweight champ Kevin Randleman admits hasty returns to the cage have been a detriment to his fighting career.

Randleman, who recently completed a small role in the upcoming Men in Black 3 film, te…

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Former UFC heavyweight champ Kevin Randleman admits hasty returns to the cage have been a detriment to his fighting career.

Randleman, who recently completed a small role in the upcoming Men in Black 3 film, tells MMAFighting.com he’s back in the gym training, but won’t be rushing into his next fight. Taking time out after the shoot to reevaluate his career, Randleman came to realize he hasn’t been allowing himself to recover from injuries.

“Any fighter will tell you that the hardest thing to do is wait to heal but I have learned my lesson — the hard way unfortunately — and I did way more harm than good for myself pushing too much too soon,” Randleman said. “I also realized that when I would get in the cage that getting hurt was something that was always in the back of my mind because I knew I wasn’t 100 percent. I just tried to talk myself into it — because I wanted to fight so bad.”

Eight MMA Fights That Were Over Before They Started

 
By Cage Potato contributor Chris Colemon(Actually, make that the "9 MMA Fights That Were Over Before They Started.")
Your average Mixed Martial Artist devotes three months of his life to preparing for a fight. That’s ninety days …

 
By Cage Potato contributor Chris Colemon


(Actually, make that the "9 MMA Fights That Were Over Before They Started.")

Your average Mixed Martial Artist devotes three months of his life to preparing for a fight. That’s ninety days of rigorous training and dieting; ninety days of mental preparation and time spent away from friends and family. That great sacrifice becomes worthwhile the moment the bell rings and he gets to show the world what ninety days of commitment can bring. There are few better ways of displaying your hard work than to shut down your opponent in theblink of an eye. After months of speculation, hype, and anticipation, you could say that such fights were over before they even began. You could say that, but you’d be wrong. That ignoble distinction belongs to a whole other category of fights. Fights that didn’t end with a winner and a loser. Fights that didn’t make the sacrifice of training worthwhile. Fights that were truly over before they began.

Check them out after the jump.


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Dan Hardy Thinks There’s Too Much Wrestling in MMA, Wants Rule Changes

Filed under: UFCI love the fact that Dan Hardy writes a column for his local media outlet, This Is Nottingham. I wish more fighters would sit down at a computer and give us a look inside their mind, though, as Hardy demonstrated with his latest effort,…

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I love the fact that Dan Hardy writes a column for his local media outlet, This Is Nottingham. I wish more fighters would sit down at a computer and give us a look inside their mind, though, as Hardy demonstrated with his latest effort, sometimes it doesn’t work the way you think it’s going to.

The title of today’s piece is “Lentz went into hiding for the big fight.” It ostensibly deals with Nik Lentz‘s grappling-centric win over Andre Winner in a slow-paced fight at UFC 118, but a more accurate description of the column might have been: “Too much wrestling in MMA, says guy whose friends keep losing to superior wrestlers.”

Hardy’s thesis, more or less, is that there are too many wrestlers in the UFC who just want to take opponents down and hold them there, and this is a problem the sport needs to address via rule changes. As Hardy writes in his attempt to preemptively counter the argument that he and many of his fellow Brits simply need to become better wrestlers: