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For Brendan Schaub, Nothing Motivates Like Sheer Terror

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse ExclusiveWHEAT RIDGE, Colo. – Enough about the ear. It’s big, red, and it stings something fierce anytime someone touches it. When your job consists of hitting and being hit all day, that happens fairly often, so it’s not as …

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WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. – Enough about the ear. It’s big, red, and it stings something fierce anytime someone touches it. When your job consists of hitting and being hit all day, that happens fairly often, so it’s not as if Brendan Schaub is any danger of forgetting about the mass of tissue hanging off the left side of his head.

Still, the remarks keep coming, mostly from Grudge’s head trainer, Trevor Wittman.

“Can you even hear through that thing?” he asks. Yes, Schaub can hear, perhaps a little too well when it comes to the non-stop cracks about his ear.

“Does it hurt?” Wittman wants to know. It hurts like hell, Schaub tells him, and talking about it doesn’t seem to be helping all that much.

Nate Marquardt Not Focused on Criticism Heading Into UFC 128

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, NewsNate Marquardt will not be using Dana White’s criticism as motivation to prepare for his upcoming fight against Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 128.

If you recall, following Marquardt’s loss to Yushin Okami at UFC 12…

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Nate Marquardt will not be using Dana White’s criticism as motivation to prepare for his upcoming fight against Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 128.

If you recall, following Marquardt’s loss to Yushin Okami at UFC 122, the UFC president called Marquardt “a choker.”

“I don’t really pay attention to that kind of stuff,” Marquardt said on the most recent episode of The MMA Hour. “It’s just not true of me. You have to deal with that talk crap all the time and just basically brush it off. I gotta stick to what I gotta do.”

UFC 128 Fight Card: Shogun Rua vs. Rashad Evans

Filed under: UFCThe UFC 128 fight card will feature a light heavyweight title bout between champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and challenger Rashad Evans as well as the UFC debuts of former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber taking on former bantamwei…

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The UFC 128 fight card will feature a light heavyweight title bout between champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and challenger Rashad Evans as well as the UFC debuts of former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber taking on former bantamweight titleholder Eddie Wineland.

UFC 128 takes place from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

The fight card is below.

Nate Marquardt to Face Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 128

Nate Marquardt and Yoshihiro Akiyama are set to battle in a middleweight bout scheduled for UFC 128, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to MMA Fighting.

Marquardt steps in to replace Chael Sonnen after Sonnen was indefinitely suspended …

Nate Marquardt and Yoshihiro Akiyama are set to battle in a middleweight bout scheduled for UFC 128, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to MMA Fighting.

Marquardt steps in to replace Chael Sonnen after Sonnen was indefinitely suspended by the UFC earlier this week.

UFC Booking Alert: Nate Marquardt vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama, Stefan Struve vs. Travis Browne

(Not pictured: Stefan Struve’s cover for ‘Tall-Ass Honkey Weekly’.)
No, Yoshhiro Akiyama will not be taking on a convicted white-collar criminal in his next appearance. ESPN reports that Akiyama will instead face off against Nate Marquardt&…

(Not pictured: Stefan Struve’s cover for ‘Tall-Ass Honkey Weekly’.)

No, Yoshhiro Akiyama will not be taking on a convicted white-collar criminal in his next appearance. ESPN reports that Akiyama will instead face off against Nate Marquardt at UFC 128: Shogun vs. Evans, March 19th in Newark. The Japanese middleweight star is coming off two consecutive losses against Chris Leben (humiliating!) and Michael Bisping (slightly less humiliating, but still!), and likely needs a victory to keep his contract. Marquardt is coming off his own underwhelming loss against Yushin Okami at UFC 122, but will certainly be the favorite in this matchup.

Speaking of notable bookings, heavyweight contender Stefan Struve — who has slugged his way to back-to-back wins over Christian Morecraft and Sean McCorkle — has drawn another rising prospect for his next outing. According to MMAJunkie, Struve will return at UFC 130 (May 28th, Las Vegas) against undefeated Travis Browne, who just suffered through a foul-filled draw against Cheick Kongo at UFC 120. The only other match reported for UFC 130 at this point is Thiago Alves vs. Rick Story.

Evans-Rua and Wineland-Faber Announced as Co-Main Events of UFC 128 March 19 in New Jersey

(A year is a long time to wait to get beaten up.)
The UFC announced that the long-rumored light heavyweight title bout between champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and former champ Rashad Evans as well as a bantamweight contender bout between former W…

(A year is a long time to wait to get beaten up.)

The UFC announced that the long-rumored light heavyweight title bout between champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and former champ Rashad Evans as well as a bantamweight contender bout between former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber and former bantamweight champion Eddie Wineland will act as co-main events for UFC 128 Saturday March 19 in Newark, New Jersey.

According to the UFC.com, the event, which will take place at the Prudential Center, will also feature a featherwight match-up between Joseph Benevidez and Ian Loveland as well as a pair of lightweight showdowns pitting Kurt Pellegrino against Gleison Tibau and Edson Barbosa against Anthony Njokuani.

Although they have yet to be officially announced, the event, which was originally being planned for Abu Dhabi, will purportedly also include a welterweight scrap between Mike Pyle and Ricardo Almeida as well as a heavyweight tilt between Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovi? and Brendan Schaub.