Murilo “Ninja” Rua (20-10-1) is currently without a promotional home as the fighter bounces between different events around the world.
The former PRIDE star and EliteXC middleweight champ has won his last four fights, earning a submission win over Jeremy May at the Impact FC 2 – The Uprising: Sydney event in July. […]
Murilo “Ninja” Rua (20-10-1) is currently without a promotional home as the fighter bounces between different events around the world.
The former PRIDE star and EliteXC middleweight champ has won his last four fights, earning a submission win over Jeremy May at the Impact FC 2 – The Uprising: Sydney event in July. He’s fought such big names as Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Dan Henderson, Robbie Lawler, and Kevin Randleman in the past.
Recently his brother, UFC light-heavyweight champ Mauricio “Shogun” Rua put out a request to UFC president Dana White to bring “Ninja” to the UFC via Twitter.
@danawhite , pleaase give a chance for NINJA fight in UFC , he always give very good fights for the fans @ShogunRua know this too !!RUAS !!!
Murilo himself is looking for some big things to happen in 2011 concerning his career. His manager, Eduardo Alonso spoke to Tatame.com recently about his fighters future.
“There’re a lot of things happening related to Murilo. I’m trying to define his future in 2011. We’ve straightened a good way to go with good wins and now we wanted him to have the greatest challenge of his career, to find within himself the motivation to face those challenges. It came up a possibility for him to fight in Europe, Israel and Hawaii, but everything is just a speculation yet”.
“There’s still the possibility of him coming back to Dream. They even said something about him fighting (Kazushi) Sakuraba, but they’re old friends, so it didn’t happen. We want Murilo on the United Stated in 2011, on a bigger event… We’re prioritizing it.”
UFC lightweight Cole Miller (16-4) is coming off of a submission win over Dan Lauzon at UFC 108, a victory which earned him a “Submission of the Night” bonus. The American Top Team fighter has stopped fourteen of his past sixteen opponents, including four submission wins in the UFC.
His upcoming opponent, Ross Pearson (11-3), […]
UFC lightweight Cole Miller (16-4) is coming off of a submission win over Dan Lauzon at UFC 108, a victory which earned him a “Submission of the Night” bonus. The American Top Team fighter has stopped fourteen of his past sixteen opponents, including four submission wins in the UFC.
His upcoming opponent, Ross Pearson (11-3), who is 3-0 in the UFC, has two unanimous decision wins in the promotion, which doesn’t sit well with Miller.
Miller and Pearson will meet this Wednesday at the UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs. Palhares event in Austin, Texas in the opening bout of the Spike TV broadcasted event.
In a recent interview, Miller stated that he feels his opponent Pearson has no “commitment to ending a fight.”
“I think it’s this new method of sportfighting that all these guys are doing,” said the Georgia native. “I’m not doubting that he (Pearson) has striking talent; he has definitely improved since the show (The Ultimate Fighter) and his first fight in the UFC with Andre Winner, which I think plays into my game better. I do better with more technical guys. But the thing is, he’s getting all decisions, and his one stoppage was over Aaron Riley and it was a cut stoppage. He wants to score, then clinch, and score and clinch. I’m sure this guy’s got knockout power – he’s built like a tank – but it just doesn’t seem like he’s really down to put forth that type of commitment to ending a fight. I think this is bad for the sport, it’s bad for the UFC, and I think that this is why you’re gonna start seeing more guys that are athletic, who look like action figures, and that have wrestling backgrounds coming in because they don’t have to beat you. They just gotta score their points, score their takedowns, or score their strikes and stop your takedowns, and ride out that decision. Just wait for that minute and a half left and do what you gotta do to win that round and score with those judges. That’s how I see his striking being. It’s very good, but I just don’t see him putting any passion or emotion into the fight. It might be a sport to some people, but it’s not a sport to me.”
“The thing is, with my go for broke style, I’ll end up being the one who gets knocked out or TKO’ed because I know that these guys aren’t gonna try to fight me,” he continues. “It’s kinda foolish and I admit that, but I kinda go after these guys too hard. I know they’re not going to fight me to finish me. It’s called mixed martial arts, but none of these guys are using martial arts. Martial arts were made to put your opponent away, not to make him last for 15 minutes. The first part of martial arts is for you to defend yourself. The second is for you to eliminate your opponent. These guys aren’t eliminating anybody, and I just don’t get it. So I have to make up for that. I gotta come at these guys and take all these risks, which leaves me open to be countered…”
“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” he smiles. “I want there to be an end game. I don’t want there to be a question and things left unanswered. What if I took that chance? What if I took that leap? What if I had still kept fighting? Anytime things start to look bad, I come back and do something good. And sometimes when you fall back down, you’ve got to pick yourself back up.”
Undefeated lightweight Charles Oliveira (13-0) made his UFC debut in August, submitting Darren Elkins at the UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko event.
The 20 year old Brazilian wasn’t even thinking about a submission bonus when he tapped out Elkins with an armbar, but welcomed the bonus money that came with the “Submission of the Night.”
Now […]
Undefeated lightweight Charles Oliveira (13-0) made his UFC debut in August, submitting Darren Elkins at the UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko event.
The 20 year old Brazilian wasn’t even thinking about a submission bonus when he tapped out Elkins with an armbar, but welcomed the bonus money that came with the “Submission of the Night.”
Now Oliveira will step back into the octagon, in just over a months time since his Elkins fight, to face Efrain Escudero on this Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night: Marquardt vs. Palhares event. Some may think that preparing for a fight with only a months time is too much, but for Olilveira, he enjoys the pressure a fight like this brings.
“I was very glad with my first (UFC) victory,” Oliveira says. “I didn’t even think about the possibility of the submission bonus, and when they alerted me about it, this was a big surprise. The emotion was huge, mainly because this was result of a lot of training. We knew we could finish the fight, but never thought about it coming that quick.”
“People asked me about overtraining from the Elkins preparation to this one, and I replied with, ‘I had a reasonable time between fights,’” said the young lightweight. “The important thing was that God gave me the opportunity to fight again, and I have this gratitude to Him. I was already training moderately when the call was made; I’ve only added more continuity and focus.”
“I always love to fight under pressure, but I don’t carry it inside the Octagon. For me, every fight is like the first one,” he says. “The hype people are talking about means that I need to train much more. Cardoso and Patino keep me peaceful and away from all of this.”
(photo via Esther Lin @ AllElbows.com)
You know if you stick mixed martial arts legend Don Frye behind the microphone your going to get some classic one liners, and Saturday night, Frye didn’t disappoint.
Frye joined another mma legend, Bas Ruten, and HDNet television personality, Ron Kruck, for the live color commentary for Shark Fights […]
(photo via Esther Lin @ AllElbows.com)
You know if you stick mixed martial arts legend Don Frye behind the microphone your going to get some classic one liners, and Saturday night, Frye didn’t disappoint.
Frye joined another mma legend, Bas Ruten, and HDNet television personality, Ron Kruck, for the live color commentary for Shark Fights 13 event from Amarillo, Texas.
MMAFighting.com put together a great list of Frye’s comments.
We thought you’d enjoy reading some of those great one-liners.
On the preliminary card fights: “That was like prison sex: hard, sweaty, violent and there was a lot of noise.”
On cauliflower ear: “This guy’s tough. His ears are like potatoes. Looks like he got stuck in the birth canal, had to beat him out with a stick.”
On his background as a wrestler: “Look at me: I’m a wrestler. My balls are so big, I wear the excess on my hat.”
During a discussion with Rutten over their records: “I started counting fights when I’d come home drunk and knock my old lady around,” to which Kruck, ever the straight-man, quickly covered for him by saying, “I bet she’s got a few wins over you, too.”
On Keith Jardine’s stance: “He’s so awkward. He’s like a rabid octopus. He looks like he’s about to fall over at any time.” Fortunately, Kruck didn’t point out to him that an octopus, as a cold-blooded animal, cannot get rabies.
On the staredown between Rees and Bradley: “Like a couple of tribal Vikings out there. Blond hair, blue eyes …”
When Kruck mistakenly called Frye “Bas”: “No, I’m Don. Bas is the ugly guy with no hair.”
Paul “Semtex” Daley (24-9-2) had to hear it from a fan that he’d be released from the UFC according to the fighter who spoke to MMAWeekly.com Radio in a recent interview.
Daley was cut after his UFC 113 bout for punching opponent Josh Koscheck well after the sound of the third round bell.
“Semtex” realizes his mistake […]
Paul “Semtex” Daley (24-9-2) had to hear it from a fan that he’d be released from the UFC according to the fighter who spoke to MMAWeekly.com Radio in a recent interview.
Daley was cut after his UFC 113 bout for punching opponent Josh Koscheck well after the sound of the third round bell.
“Semtex” realizes his mistake and that life will go on, but is a little bitter that UFC president Dana White never even bothered to speak to him personally about the incident.
“Dana White’s character, I would have expected nothing less than getting kicked out of the UFC. He could have done it a little more gracefully and told me personally.
“To this day I’ve still never heard nothing from Dana,” Daley commented. “With all the talk Dana gives and the attitude of being a big man that he is, he could have at least came to my face and said ‘Paul, I don’t respect what you did, I think you’re an (expletive) or a jerk or whatever, you’re not going to fight here again.’
“But still to this day, I’ve had no phone call, no e-mail, no nothing, so that just goes to show the treatment I received having fought (Martin) Kampmann at late notice, and fought co-main event on my second fight in the UFC, and done a bunch of media work for them in the U.K. There’s some things I don’t agree with, but I’m happy to move on.”
Daley is set to face Jorge Masvidal this Saturday night on the Shark Fights 13 main card. The British striker is coming off a win over Daniel Acacio in Australia at the Impact FC The Uprsing: Sydney event earlier this summer.
On Friday night, Maximum Fighting Championships lightweight champ, Antonio McKee (25-3) remained undefeated in seven years going 11-0-1 in that time span.
It only took minutes for McKee to end the fight and keep his title against Brazilian Luciano Azevedo at last nights MFC 26: Retribution event. While in Azevedo’s guard, McKee opened […]
On Friday night, Maximum Fighting Championships lightweight champ, Antonio McKee (25-3) remained undefeated in seven years going 11-0-1 in that time span.
It only took minutes for McKee to end the fight and keep his title against Brazilian Luciano Azevedo at last nights MFC 26: Retribution event. While in Azevedo’s guard, McKee opened up with a couple of vicious elbows that opened up a nasty gash on Azevedo’s forehead.
Azevedo quickly turned calling out for a stoppage, giving McKee a TKO (doctor stoppage) victory at 3:11 of the first.
McKee told the fans that he’s looking for some stiffer competition in someone like BJ Penn or Sean Sherk in the future.
“Like I told Mark Pavelich, if I don’t get this sucker out of here in the first or second round, I’m retiring. So guess it’s not true, you can teach an old dog new tricks,” McKee said after the fight. Never at a loss for words, the 40-year-old fighter didn’t stop there.
“I don’t fear anybody. I’m waiting for the UFC to release B.J. (Penn) or Sean Sherk so I can tear their ass up too.”
Murilo “Ninja” Rua (20-10-1) is currently without a promotional home as the fighter bounces between different events around the world. 
