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Standout Amateur Wrestlers We Wish Would Make the MMA Leap

With each of the UFC’s nine weight classes stockpiled with former collegiate wrestlers, the company’s brass should consider the NCAA Division I wrestling championships a de facto feeder system. Since the UFC’s inception in 1993, amateur wrestlers have taken alternative avenues for success following their collegiate or Olympic careers by fearlessly jumping in the Octagon, […]

With each of the UFC’s nine weight classes stockpiled with former collegiate wrestlers, the company’s brass should consider the NCAA Division I wrestling championships a de facto feeder system. Since the UFC’s inception in 1993, amateur wrestlers have taken alternative avenues for success following their collegiate or Olympic careers by fearlessly jumping in the Octagon, […]

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UFC 129 Results: Expect a Quantum Leap in Jake Shields’ Standup Striking

Looking in the mirror in his locker room right after his futile and adrenaline-challenged (spectator-wise, that is) attempt to wrest the UFC Middleweight Title from champion Georges “Rush” St-Pierre, Jake Shields must have thought, “D…

Looking in the mirror in his locker room right after his futile and adrenaline-challenged (spectator-wise, that is) attempt to wrest the UFC Middleweight Title from champion Georges “Rush” St-Pierre, Jake Shields must have thought, “Do I look like the beaten fighter?”   It would’ve been no surprise, really. Everybody who saw the still champion’s face […]

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UFC 129 Results: Expect a Quantum Leap in Jake Shields’ Standup Striking