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UFC’s Randy Brown Discusses Being Relaxed While Watching Limbs Snap: “I’m gonna break your arm.”

Ahead of his fight at UFC 310, top-ranked welterweight ‘Rude Boy’ Randy Brown sits down with Dr. Robert Marx to discuss arm breaks and armbars in MMA, and the importance of staying relaxed.

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UFC's Randy Brown Discusses Being Relaxed While Watching Limbs Snap

Ahead of his fight at UFC 310, top-ranked welterweight ‘Rude Boy’ Randy Brown sits down with Dr. Robert Marx to discuss arm breaks and armbars in MMA, and the importance of staying relaxed.

Randy Brown

The Jamaican-American Randy Brown started his professional MMA career in 2014 with Ring of Combat. Brown gained wider recognition after being featured on Dana White’s Lookin’ for a Fight, which led to his signing with the UFC. Since joining the UFC, Brown has compiled a record of 19 wins and 5 losses and is known for his high level of skill. Currently, he is on a three-fight win streak and will next face Bryan Battle at UFC 310 on December 7.

‘Rude Boy‘ sat down with sports physician Dr. Robert Marx to take a closer look at armbars. While watching Kevin Holland, Brown notices a key; his opponent is not relaxed while trying to escape. Brown said:

“I remember this—he put it in his armpit and told him, “I’m gonna break it.” Seriously. Told him, “I’m gonna break your arm.” If we’re talking from a technical standpoint, he rushed that escape … It was too soon. He needed to just relax. But he’s moving a hundred miles per hour.”

According to Randy Brown, when trying to escape from an armbar, it is key to be relaxed. Discussing himself and Kevin Holland, he explained:

“I think you can learn it, but I do think it’s more of a personality trait, right? ‘Cause when you’re fighting, that’s when your true self comes out the most. For Kevin, it’s very nonchalant—”I don’t really care about all this, I’m just chilling, having fun, a good time.” When you’re like that, you don’t attach to things, so you have a level of clarity. You can see all your options.“

Former Opponent On Overlooking Belal Muhammad: ‘How Is This Dude Even Here?’

Belal Muhammad has been counted out for a lot of his UFC career and that has given him a lot of motivation during his rise to the top of the welterweight division. Even now that he is the champion, “Remember The Name” wants to keep proving people wrong by beating the guys that everyone says […]

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Belal Muhammad has been counted out for a lot of his UFC career and that has given him a lot of motivation during his rise to the top of the welterweight division.

Even now that he is the champion, “Remember The Name” wants to keep proving people wrong by beating the guys that everyone says he has no chance against.

Whether it’s some of the things he says online or his fighting style that is incredibly effective but not the most glamorous to watch, Muhammad is one of the more underappreciated high-level fighters that we have seen inside the Octagon.

A former opponent of his spoke about this and how overlooking the current champ is something that cost him when they fought several years ago.

Randy Brown Explains Why He Underestimated Belal Muhammad When They Fought And How It Affected Him

In an interview with Inside Fighting, Randy Brown said that he was happy to see Muhammad become the champion at UFC 304 in Manchester.

On the subject of Muhammad being an often overlooked fighter before his clash with Leon Edwards, “RudeBoy” said that this is a hole that he also fell into when facing off with him back at UFC 208.

“I feel like a lot of people underestimate him and it’s easy to underestimate him going into a fight and I saw that with Leon. I did it myself when we fought, you know what I mean, and I was just like, ‘I’m gonna run through this dude.’ But then you realize how sticky he is when you’re in there. Belal is actually pretty damn good and I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves, unfairly.”

Brown said that he underestimated Muhammad because of what he had seen with his own eyes in a training room, rather than any reputation that may have had.

As we saw at UFC 304, the champion’s striking has come a long way during his time on the UFC roster but back at the start of his journey, this is what gave Brown a false sense of security.

“We were both fighting someone from the same camp and I remember we were warming up in the room and I’m watching him shadow box and hit mitts and s*** and he looked f****** horrible. He looked terrible and I looked over to my coach and I said like, ‘How is this dude even here? Like what is he, this dude looks like s***.” So in my mind, I’m like, ‘Yo if I ever get a fight with this dude, I’ll take it in a heart beat. He’s 170, I’d whoop his f****** a**.’”

Having been given that impression of Muhammad, Brown was happy to accept a late-notice fight with him further down the line at UFC 208 back in 2017.

After coming into the fight with the expectation that he would be far too good for his opponent, “Remember The Name” would secure his second UFC win via unanimous decision.

“Completely underestimated him. I already did a camp, I kind of just bull******* whatever and went in to fight him and I brought that energy into the fight.”

Read also: ‘I’m Team Belal Muhammad’ – Gilbert Burns Extends Support For UFC Welterweight Champ Against Shavkat Rakhmonov

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Randy Brown KOs Muslim Salikhov in opening round with vicious right hand – UFC Vegas 85 Highlights

Randy BrownRandy Brown blasted his way to back-to-back wins at UFC Vegas 85 with a brutal first-round knockout of Muslim…

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Randy Brown blasted his way to back-to-back wins at UFC Vegas 85 with a brutal first-round knockout of Muslim Salikhov.

Following a lackluster, yet winning performance against Wellington Truman in his last outing, ‘Rudeboy’ delivered another finish for the highlight-reel against his Russian opposition. Things were fairly calm in the early going with Salikhov needing a few moments to recover following an accidental eye poke.

As the bout was restarted, it didn’t take long for Brown to find his opening, landing two left hands followed by a looping right hand that sent Salikhov crashing to the canvas. ‘Rudeboy’ dropped another bomb before the referee could step in and call for the stoppage which came just beyond the halfway point of round one.

Official Result: Randy Brown def. Muslim Salikhov via TKO (strikes) at 3:17 of Round 1.

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UFC standout predicts Nate Diaz will be ‘destroyed’ by Jake Paul in pro boxing debut

Nate DiazUFC welterweight standout Randy Brown believes Nate Diaz will get “destroyed” inside the squared circle with social media sensation Jake Paul. After 15 years of competing inside the Octagon, Nate Diaz will make his highly anticipated pro boxing debut as the Stockton Samurai is set to square off with Jake Paul inside the American Airlines […]

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UFC welterweight standout Randy Brown believes Nate Diaz will get “destroyed” inside the squared circle with social media sensation Jake Paul.

After 15 years of competing inside the Octagon, Nate Diaz will make his highly anticipated pro boxing debut as the Stockton Samurai is set to square off with Jake Paul inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas on August 5. Despite having one of the more celebrated stand-up games in mixed martial arts, Diaz is listed as a +245 underdog a month before the bout is scheduled to go down. According to Randy Brown, those odds sound about right based on Diaz’s skill set versus that of his opponent.

“I think Nate Diaz doesn’t have great boxing, I think he has great elements of boxing, I think there’s things that he incorporates well from boxing in his game and he has great drop punches because he carries his hands very high so there’s no tell and then he just drops them on you,” Brown told InsideFighting.

Jake Paul is currently 6-1 in his career as a professional boxer. Most of those victories have come against non-boxers, including former NBA star Nate Robinson and ex-MMA world champions Ben Askren, Tyron Woodley, and Anderson Silva. His lone loss came against the one legitimate boxer he has faced in his career, Tommy Fury.

Randy Brown Doesn’t Like Nate Diaz’s Chances Against Jake Paul

With an undeniably solid record against former UFC stars, many fight fans, including Randy Brown, aren’t giving Nate Diaz much of a chance when he straps on the 10-ounce gloves for a scrap with ‘The Problem Child.’

“I think he [Diaz] gets destroyed in a boxing match. Jake Paul is a boxer by this point, we have to give credit where credit is due and he’s a boxer,” Brown said. “He might not be an extremely high-level boxer but at this point, he’s boxing primarily you know that’s where he spends most of his time whereas a lot of MMA fighters we have to split our time between so many different things. It’s been a few years now, realistically I look at him now as a really good amateur” (h/t MMA News).

Making his promotional debut on season five of The Ultimate Fighter, Nate Diaz went 16-11 during his 15-year run with the UFC. Diaz has gone toe-to-toe with some of the biggest lightweights in the history of the sport, including Anthony Pettis, ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, Gray Maynard, Jim Miller, Takanori Gomi, Benson Henderson, Rafael dos Anjo, and Rory MacDonald. His biggest career win came at UFC 196 when he submitted Conor McGregor via a rear-naked choke.

UFC standout predicts Nate Diaz will be ‘destroyed’ by Jake Paul in pro boxing debut

Nate DiazUFC welterweight standout Randy Brown believes Nate Diaz will get “destroyed” inside the squared circle with social media sensation Jake Paul. After 15 years of competing inside the Octagon, Nate Diaz will make his highly anticipated pro boxing debut as the Stockton Samurai is set to square off with Jake Paul inside the American Airlines […]

Nate Diaz

UFC welterweight standout Randy Brown believes Nate Diaz will get “destroyed” inside the squared circle with social media sensation Jake Paul.

After 15 years of competing inside the Octagon, Nate Diaz will make his highly anticipated pro boxing debut as the Stockton Samurai is set to square off with Jake Paul inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas on August 5. Despite having one of the more celebrated stand-up games in mixed martial arts, Diaz is listed as a +245 underdog a month before the bout is scheduled to go down. According to Randy Brown, those odds sound about right based on Diaz’s skill set versus that of his opponent.

“I think Nate Diaz doesn’t have great boxing, I think he has great elements of boxing, I think there’s things that he incorporates well from boxing in his game and he has great drop punches because he carries his hands very high so there’s no tell and then he just drops them on you,” Brown told InsideFighting.

Jake Paul is currently 6-1 in his career as a professional boxer. Most of those victories have come against non-boxers, including former NBA star Nate Robinson and ex-MMA world champions Ben Askren, Tyron Woodley, and Anderson Silva. His lone loss came against the one legitimate boxer he has faced in his career, Tommy Fury.

Randy Brown Doesn’t Like Nate Diaz’s Chances Against Jake Paul

With an undeniably solid record against former UFC stars, many fight fans, including Randy Brown, aren’t giving Nate Diaz much of a chance when he straps on the 10-ounce gloves for a scrap with ‘The Problem Child.’

“I think he [Diaz] gets destroyed in a boxing match. Jake Paul is a boxer by this point, we have to give credit where credit is due and he’s a boxer,” Brown said. “He might not be an extremely high-level boxer but at this point, he’s boxing primarily you know that’s where he spends most of his time whereas a lot of MMA fighters we have to split our time between so many different things. It’s been a few years now, realistically I look at him now as a really good amateur” (h/t MMA News).

Making his promotional debut on season five of The Ultimate Fighter, Nate Diaz went 16-11 during his 15-year run with the UFC. Diaz has gone toe-to-toe with some of the biggest lightweights in the history of the sport, including Anthony Pettis, ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, Gray Maynard, Jim Miller, Takanori Gomi, Benson Henderson, Rafael dos Anjo, and Rory MacDonald. His biggest career win came at UFC 196 when he submitted Conor McGregor via a rear-naked choke.

Leon Edwards touted to defeat Colby Covington in inevitable UFC title clash: ‘His defense is much improved’

Leon EdwardsWelterweight prospect Randy Brown is backing Leon Edwards to come out on top in his highly anticipated title clash with division gatekeeper Colby Covington. Like it or not, UFC President Dana White has dubbed Colby Covington as the next man in line for a 170-pound title opportunity. Despite making the announcement moments after Leon Edwards’ […]

Leon Edwards

Welterweight prospect Randy Brown is backing Leon Edwards to come out on top in his highly anticipated title clash with division gatekeeper Colby Covington.

Like it or not, UFC President Dana White has dubbed Colby Covington as the next man in line for a 170-pound title opportunity. Despite making the announcement moments after Leon Edwards’ successful UFC 286 title defense against former champion Kamaru Usman, the promotion has not been able to lock down a date or location for the contest.

Edwards has previously suggested a showdown at Etihad Arena when the UFC returns to Abu Dhabi in October, but Covington is seemingly sticking to his guns about the fight taking place on American soil. No matter where it goes down, Edwards vs. Covington is expected to be a highly entertaining edge-of-your-seat scrap, even if the fight itself makes little sense to the masses.

Randy Brown Backs Leon Edwards in Showdown with ‘Motherf*cker’ Colby Covington

As for who comes out on top when they do eventually step inside the Octagon, many have suggested that Colby Covington’s ability to smother an opponent for 25 minutes will be too much for Leon Edwards to overcome. However, Randy Brown disagrees with that sentiment, believing that the vast improvement in takedown defense displayed by Leon Edwards in his trilogy bout with Kamaru Usman shows that ‘Rocky’ is more than capable of handling anything ‘Chaos’ can throw at him.

“He (Covington) presents some stuff that could give him (Edwards) trouble, but I do think he gets it done,” Brown told InsideFighting. “The way his wrestling looked last time against Usman… Leon’s grappling is much improved. He’s always been a great grappler, but his defense is much improved since the first time he fought Usman.

“We’ll see how it goes. I think that he can get it done. I would love to see him get it done. I think that he can. I’m rocking with him all the way through,” Brown continued. “But Colby’s a motherf*cker” (h/t MMA News).

Colby Covington is 2-2 in his last four outings with both losses coming against then-champion Kamaru Usman. His lone wins during that run, which stretches back to 2019, came against Tyron Woodley and Jorge Masvidal. Two fighters who are no longer part of the UFC roster and exited the promotion on matching four-fight losing streaks.

Meanwhile, Leon Edwards has won his last 11-straight, including back-to-back wins against Kamaru Usman to both capture and defend the welterweight world title.