Female Fighter Gina Carano Back Training With Xtreme Couture

Female fighter Gina Carano was back training on Wednesday at the Xtreme Couture gym. Carano spent some time training with Gil Martinez.
Carano’s last fight was back in August of 2009 against Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos for the vacant Strikeforce womens 145 lb title. Santos would earn a first round TKO victory in the dieing […]

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Female fighter Gina Carano was back training on Wednesday at the Xtreme Couture gym. Carano spent some time training with Gil Martinez.

Carano’s last fight was back in August of 2009 against Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos for the vacant Strikeforce womens 145 lb title. Santos would earn a first round TKO victory in the dieing seconds of the round.

Check out more photo’s of Carano’s workout at XtremeCouture.com.

Ruh-Roh: Belfort Reportedly Ditches Tompkins for Xtreme Couture

(“I’m telling you man, we’ll get our own place. I’m thinking bunk beds, bean bag chairs, black light posters and all the soda we can drink. Whaddaya say?” PicProps: Flickr)
Well, we can’t see how this could possibly…


(“I’m telling you man, we’ll get our own place. I’m thinking bunk beds, bean bag chairs, black light posters and all the soda we can drink. Whaddaya say?” PicProps: Flickr)

Well, we can’t see how this could possibly be good news approximately 15 days out from the biggest fight of his life, but Vitor Belfort has 86’ed trainer Shawn Tompkins in favor of a return to Xtreme Couture, according to a conversation between the coach himself and Mauro Ranallo this week. If we’ve got the timeline straight, Belfort was at Xtreme Couture to begin with, but went with Tompkins when he splintered off to start his own team. Now, as he so often does, Belfort is reversing his position.

Tompkins sounds a little peeved about the split and we gotta believe the differences were pretty irreconcilable to prompt “The Phenom” (who, let’s face it, has always seemed a little flighty) to decamp so close to his scheduled middleweight title fight against Anderson Silva on Feb. 5. After the jump, a short-ish transcript of Ranallo’s and Tompkins’ talk, courtesy Fight Opinion

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XTREME COUTURE FIGHTERS SPEAK OUT ON PEDs (VIDEO)

Xtreme Coutures Fighters weigh in on PED use and Zero Tolerance
In this MMA Fix video, we ask the fighters and trainers at Xtreme Couture about fighters who use PEDs possibly damaging the reputation of this fresh sport.
MMA Fix also asks if Zero Tolerance should be implemented by the fight promoters. UFC Welterweight Martin Kampmann […]

Xtreme Coutures Fighters weigh in on PED use and Zero Tolerance


In this MMA Fix video, we ask the fighters and trainers at Xtreme Couture about fighters who use PEDs possibly damaging the reputation of this fresh sport.

MMA Fix also asks if Zero Tolerance should be implemented by the fight promoters. UFC Welterweight Martin Kampmann is fine with the debatably harsh recommendation.

Randy Couture Helps Brock Lesnar Prepare For Shane Carwin

UFC legend Randy Couture visits the Death Clutch camp, the home of UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar, to help the fighter prepare for his July 3rd title defense at UFC 116 against Shane Carwin.
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UFC legend Randy Couture visits the Death Clutch camp, the home of UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar, to help the fighter prepare for his July 3rd title defense at UFC 116 against Shane Carwin.

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