Tag: Wasn’t

Ken Shamrock Swears Kimbo Fight Wasn’t Fixed, Calls Out Joe Rogan

Weeks before Ken Shamrock was left plastered on the canvas like roadkill, the word in the MMA community was that the 51-year-old UFC Hall of Famer had no business being in the cage with Kimbo Slice, a 41-year-old street fighter turned MMA fighter. It was the senior-citizen brawl that no one really wanted to see. […]

Weeks before Ken Shamrock was left plastered on the canvas like roadkill, the word in the MMA community was that the 51-year-old UFC Hall of Famer had no business being in the cage with Kimbo Slice, a 41-year-old street fighter turned MMA fighter. It was the senior-citizen brawl that no one really wanted to see. […]

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Jordan Mein Says He Wasn’t Distracted, but Father’s Arrest Was on All Our Minds

Maybe it was just the rest of us who were distracted. Clearly, Jordan Mein was in an unenviable spot Saturday night, fighting Mike Pyle at UFC Fight Night 49 just a day after his father was arrested on sexual battery charges, accused of assaulting a housekeeper at the event’s host hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to […]

Maybe it was just the rest of us who were distracted. Clearly, Jordan Mein was in an unenviable spot Saturday night, fighting Mike Pyle at UFC Fight Night 49 just a day after his father was arrested on sexual battery charges, accused of assaulting a housekeeper at the event’s host hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to […]

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Duane Ludwig on Team Alpha Male Split: ‘Wasn’t F*****g Supposed to Be Like This’

Urijah Faber jumped the gun on the future Team Alpha Male head coaching vacancy, according to current head coach Duane Ludwig. “It wasn’t f*****g supposed to be like this, man,” Ludwig told MMA Junkie. “I’m not going to bounce on anybody’s fight camp. Then [Faber] f*****g went and told the team and did a press […]

Urijah Faber jumped the gun on the future Team Alpha Male head coaching vacancy, according to current head coach Duane Ludwig. “It wasn’t f*****g supposed to be like this, man,” Ludwig told MMA Junkie. “I’m not going to bounce on anybody’s fight camp. Then [Faber] f*****g went and told the team and did a press […]

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Fertitta: We Couldn’t Take the Chance Belfort Wasn’t Getting Licensed to Fight

UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta says that the company removed UFC middleweight contender Vitor Belfort from a title bout with Chris Weidman on May 24.  According to an interview with Yahoo! Sports, Fertitta elaborated on the subject, stating the UFC could not take the risk of promoting the fight if “The Phenom” may not get licensed.  […]

UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta says that the company removed UFC middleweight contender Vitor Belfort from a title bout with Chris Weidman on May 24.  According to an interview with Yahoo! Sports, Fertitta elaborated on the subject, stating the UFC could not take the risk of promoting the fight if “The Phenom” may not get licensed.  […]

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Sam Sicilia Responds to Dana White’s Comments on Pena: ‘She Wasn’t Assaulted’

Sam Sicilia has praised his boss—UFC President Dana White—in the past, but now the UFC featherweight is strongly disputing a claim made by the man in charge.  Sicilia, a member of Sik-Jitsu Fighting Systems in Spokane, Wash., trains with recent The Ultimate Fighter winner Julianna Pena, and he understands the bantamweight standout’s skill set and training regimen. He […]

Sam Sicilia has praised his boss—UFC President Dana White—in the past, but now the UFC featherweight is strongly disputing a claim made by the man in charge.  Sicilia, a member of Sik-Jitsu Fighting Systems in Spokane, Wash., trains with recent The Ultimate Fighter winner Julianna Pena, and he understands the bantamweight standout’s skill set and training regimen. He […]

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It Wasn’t All Bad: Zombie/Poirier and the 15 Best Fights of 2012

I’m going to level with you: 2012 hasn’t been a banner year so far for MMA. Extended injury layoffs for top stars, legal troubles for some of the sport’s most famous faces, big-time retirements, multiple failed drug tests, disapp…

I’m going to level with you: 2012 hasn’t been a banner year so far for MMA. Extended injury layoffs for top stars, legal troubles for some of the sport’s most famous faces, big-time retirements, multiple failed drug tests, disappointing TV ratings and anticlimactic main events have all combined to blunt the edge of the year’s narrative. […]