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The UFC is home to many of the top mixed martial artists in the world. The promotion is constantly looking to bring in new talent to its organization, and one of the fighters the UFC should be looking to sign is none other than Nick Newell. The man the…
The UFC is home to many of the top mixed martial artists in the world. The promotion is constantly looking to bring in new talent to its organization, and one of the fighters the UFC should be looking to sign is none other than Nick Newell. The man they call “Notorious” on Friday night submitted […]
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(This entire fight card was just upstaged by Megan Olivi‘s outfit. My goodness.)
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…but you know how we feel about that. (twitter)
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10 Hours of Princess Leia Walking Around NYC (PopHangover)
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Hotties in the Wild (DoubleViking)
(This entire fight card was just upstaged by Megan Olivi‘s outfit. My goodness.)
UFC’s Nate Diaz: I’m ‘underappreciated, underpaid, under-all-kinds-of-sh-t’ (MMAJunkie)
XFC Planning Legal Action Against WSOF Over Kalindra Faria (FightNetwork)
Rory MacDonald Changes Nickname Before Expected UFC Title Shot… (MMAFighting)
…but you know how we feel about that. (twitter)
Melvin Guillard and Ali Abdel-Aziz Argue About WSOF’s Importance on WSOF Conference Call (BloodyElbow)
Put Down Your Tickets and Tokens, It’s Time to Watch Melvin Manhoef Work Out at a Dave and Busters (MiddleEasy)
17 Channing Tatum Reaction GIFs for All Occasions (ScreenJunkies)
The Warcraft Movie Actually Looks Pretty Good (Gamefront)
Your Daily Dose of Kim Kardashian Ass-Photoshops (Radass)
Weird Thanksgiving-Flavored Foods That Actually Exist (EveryJoe)
Gallery: Supermodels Without Makeup (WorldWideInterweb)
The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin on Why It’s OK To Be A Fanboy (AskMen)
10 Hours of Princess Leia Walking Around NYC (PopHangover)
Movie Bob Review: ‘Dumb and Dumber Too’ Is Just Dumber (TheEscapist)
Hotties in the Wild (DoubleViking)
While putting together our gallery on XFC X-Girl Alessandra Batista a couple weeks ago, we discovered another Hot Potato-worthy Brazilian beauty named Rayssa Fernandes, who also holds round cards for XFC. Based in Sao Paulo, Rayssa is a law student and animal lover, and is dating MMA fighter Bruno Scornavacca, a 2-0 welterweight from the Chute Boxe camp.
Check out 25 of our favorite Rayssa Fernandes photos in the gallery after the jump — along with a rather amazing video of Rayssa and her co-workers in action — and follow her life on Instagram and Facebook.
While putting together our gallery on XFC X-Girl Alessandra Batista a couple weeks ago, we discovered another Hot Potato-worthy Brazilian beauty named Rayssa Fernandes, who also holds round cards for XFC. Based in Sao Paulo, Rayssa is a law student and animal lover, and is dating MMA fighter Bruno Scornavacca, a 2-0 welterweight from the Chute Boxe camp.
Check out 25 of our favorite Rayssa Fernandes photos in the gallery above — along with a rather amazing video of Rayssa and her co-workers in action, which we’ve placed below — and follow her life on Instagram and Facebook.
Alessandra Batista is a Brazilian model and dancer who performs ring girl duties as an XFC X-Girl. Alessandra is best known in her home country for being a professional hot chick on the TV show Legendarios. Follow her life on Instagram and Twitter, and check out 16 of our favorite Alessandra Batista photos in the gallery after the jump. (And as long as you’re not at work or a public library, feel free to sneak a peek at page 2 for some NSFW bonus pics…)
Alessandra Batista is a Brazilian model and dancer who performs ring girl duties as an XFC X-Girl. Alessandra is best known in her home country for being a professional hot chick on the TV show Legendarios. Follow her life on Instagram and Twitter, and check out 16 of our favorite Alessandra Batista photos in the gallery above. (And as long as you’re not at work or a public library, feel free to sneak a peek at page 2 for some NSFW bonus pics…)
(Photo via World Series of Fighting)
By Elias Cepeda
Like many kids, young Nick Newell dabbled in a number of sports as a child. First, there was soccer, then karate and baseball.
Nothing really stuck with him, however, until he joined his high school’s wrestling team as a freshman. The fact that he was missing the lower portion of his left arm didn’t seem to matter to Newell.
His family had always encouraged Nick to take part in whatever interested him, like all the other kids, and now his interest was in combat sports. “I really loved one on one aspect,” he tells CagePotato in the days leading up to his fight against Keon Caldwell on tonight’s World Series of Fighting 4 event in California.
“I don’t like depending on anyone else to get the job done. At the end of the day, you have no excuses no one to blame.”
That Newell lost his first fifteen wrestling matches didn’t put a damper on his enthusiasm for wrestling, and it also didn’t bring scorn of teammates mad that he was losing so much. “I was the team’s only 103 pounder so if I went out there and got a forfeit win it was better than nothing,” he tells with a laugh.
“I got my balls busted because I was a freshman but that was about it. The wrestling team is a family. And the coach had a lot of faith in me expected a lot out of me, even when I sucked. He always believed in me. Everyone saw how hard I worked as well. You’re together six days a week and you develop a bond.”
During college Newell decided that he wanted to fight MMA because, well, he saw MMA fights and knew that he could be good enough to do it. “I knew that I wanted to fight when I went to see fights for the first time,” he says.
“There were some fights around where I was training wrestling in college and some friends asked if I wanted to go see some fights. I said, ‘yeah, I’ll go.’ When we were watching I thought to myself, ‘I could beat these guys.’ So, instead of just talking about it, I went out and started training and did it.”
Indeed he has. The lightweight has put together a perfect 9-0 record as a professional over the past four years and became the XFC champion.
Tonight, he makes the step up to The World Series of Fighting.
(Photo via World Series of Fighting)
By Elias Cepeda
Like many kids, young Nick Newell dabbled in a number of sports as a child. First, there was soccer, then karate and baseball.
Nothing really stuck with him, however, until he joined his high school’s wrestling team as a freshman. The fact that he was missing the lower portion of his left arm didn’t seem to matter to Newell.
His family had always encouraged Nick to take part in whatever interested him, like all the other kids, and now his interest was in combat sports. “I really loved one on one aspect,” he tells CagePotato in the days leading up to his fight against Keon Caldwell on tonight’s World Series of Fighting 4 event in California.
“I don’t like depending on anyone else to get the job done. At the end of the day, you have no excuses no one to blame.”
That Newell lost his first fifteen wrestling matches didn’t put a damper on his enthusiasm for wrestling, and it also didn’t bring scorn of teammates mad that he was losing so much. “I was the team’s only 103 pounder so if I went out there and got a forfeit win it was better than nothing,” he tells with a laugh.
“I got my balls busted because I was a freshman but that was about it. The wrestling team is a family. And the coach had a lot of faith in me expected a lot out of me, even when I sucked. He always believed in me. Everyone saw how hard I worked as well. You’re together six days a week and you develop a bond.”
During college Newell decided that he wanted to fight MMA because, well, he saw MMA fights and knew that he could be good enough to do it. “I knew that I wanted to fight when I went to see fights for the first time,” he says.
“There were some fights around where I was training wrestling in college and some friends asked if I wanted to go see some fights. I said, ‘yeah, I’ll go.’ When we were watching I thought to myself, ‘I could beat these guys.’ So, instead of just talking about it, I went out and started training and did it.”
Indeed he has. The lightweight has put together a perfect 9-0 record as a professional over the past four years and became the XFC champion.
Tonight, he makes the step up to The World Series of Fighting. In his opponent Caldwell, Newell will be facing a man previously selected for The Ultimate Fighter. If Newell wins, the plan is for him to take part in the WSOF lightweight tournament to crown a champion.
That tournament could also include Dan Lauzon, JZ Calvacante and Tyson Griffin. Lauzon and Griffin are UFC veterans and Calvacante was a top-ranked international champion for years.
Newell has said he wanted better competition and he’s certainly getting it at WSOF. “I take it one fight at a time,” he says.
“My goal is always to fight better and better competition. If keep winning I’m gonna force people to recognize me. Everyone in the WSOF is a fantastic fighter. I’m happy with any fight I get. I’m ready to raise my stock. If I win this fight and I win the tournament, I’ll definitely be up there.”
(From left to right: Newell, and a Google Image Search result for “Black Assassin.” See, now *that* would be a competitive fight. / Nick photo courtesy of WSOF via MMAWeekly)
Looks like the World Series of Fighting (WSOF) is serious about grooming and spotlighting recent signee Nick Newell. The lightweight prospect has been matched up with former Ultimate Fighter Season 13 competitor Keon “The Black Assassin” Caldwell at WSOF 4: Spong vs. DeAnda, August 10th at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.
If you remember Keon Caldwell at all, it’s probably not in a good way. He’s the guy who voluntarily left TUF 13 shortly after arriving, a decision we thought was career suicide at the time. Caldwell has only competed once since then, scoring a TKO win over Jonathan Baldree, in July 2011. Caldwell has a 9-1 record overall, but most of his wins have come over fighters with losing records, and again, he hasn’t fought in nearly two years. Yikes. Our condolences go out to Caldwell’s family.
The undefeated Newell has yet to fight in 2013 but is coming off two straight first round finish wins, which brought his pro record to 9-0. The former XFC lightweight champion signed with the World Series of Fighting in hopes that he would get tougher fights against top lightweight free-agents, and eventually get signed by the UFC. This booking doesn’t exactly accomplish that.
(From left to right: Newell, and a Google Image Search result for “Black Assassin.” See, now *that* would be a competitive fight. / Nick photo courtesy of WSOF via MMAWeekly)
Looks like the World Series of Fighting (WSOF) is serious about grooming and spotlighting recent signee Nick Newell. The lightweight prospect has been matched up with former Ultimate Fighter Season 13 competitor Keon “The Black Assassin” Caldwell at WSOF 4: Spong vs. DeAnda, August 10th at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.
If you remember Keon Caldwell at all, it’s probably not in a good way. He’s the guy who voluntarily left TUF 13 shortly after arriving, a decision we thought was career suicide at the time. Caldwell has only competed once since then, scoring a TKO win over Jonathan Baldree, in July 2011. Caldwell has a 9-1 record overall, but most of his wins have come over fighters with losing records, and again, he hasn’t fought in nearly two years. Yikes. Our condolences go out to Caldwell’s family.
The undefeated Newell has yet to fight in 2013 but is coming off two straight first round finish wins, which brought his pro record to 9-0. The former XFC lightweight champion signed with the World Series of Fighting in hopes that he would get tougher fights against top lightweight free-agents, and eventually get signed by the UFC. This booking doesn’t exactly accomplish that.
WSOF has to be expecting that they’ll be able to showcase Newell kicking somebody’s ass in his debut fight for them, by pairing him against Caldwell. Newell’s overcoming of his disability — he was born with only one fully-developed arm — as well as his dynamic fighting style and penchant for winning violently make him a potential star for the burgeoning organization.
WSOF 4 will also feature President Ray Sefo’s stunt-fight against Dave Huckaba, Tyson Griffin vs. Gesias Cavalcante, and Gerald Harris vs. Jorge Santiago.
What do you say, Nation? Will Newell continue to shine at WSOF and will he eventually get a shot at the UFC?