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For the Brock fans

mythbuster — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:29:37 -0000

For the Brock fans

A nice slide show from his college wrestling days. I don't make judgements, but he seems a bit smaller than he is now. No idea why.

link to story

Playboy model and former girlfriend of Hugh Heffner, Holly Madison, to be guest ring girl at UFC...

mythbuster — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:25:13 -0000

Playboy model and former girlfriend of Hugh Heffner, Holly Madison, to be guest ring girl at UFC 100.

Knock-Out Fail (or success?)

mythbuster — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:15:26 -0000

Knock-Out Fail (or success?)

Shogun vs Coleman

mythbuster — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:08:45 -0000

Shogun vs Coleman

"Steroids in the sport, we go one step beyond in the Wolfslair. Pre-fight, our guys, we in-house...

mythbuster — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:20:51 -0000

"Steroids in the sport, we go one step beyond in the Wolfslair. Pre-fight, our guys, we in-house test. Not for the fact that we think they're using or whatever, just for our own reputation with the UFC. We never want to get tarred with that brush. So we do a lot of in-house testing on ourselves. Out there people do it. You do it you're going to get caught. The Nevada State Commission is very good at this now."

(side-quote) "Chris Leben, whether he was on steroids or whether he wasn't on steroids, he got his ass kicked."

- Anthony McGann, Academy boss of Wolfslair MMA.

Fanhouse.com

Renato Sobral Talks Sokodjou

mythbuster — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:38:27 -0000

Over on MMAJunkie, Renato "Babalu" Sobral has some words about his upcoming bout with Rameau Thierry Sokodjou at Affliction: Day of Reckoning, on January 24th.

How has he prepared:

"I have to prepare a little bit for Sokoudjou's strikes, and I have to respect his judo skills of course," Sobral said in a recent media call. "I respect all his skills, but I know what I have to do to win this fight. And I don't have anything special prepared for Sokoudjou."

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"If you don't train hard -- if you don't train properly for the fight, you'll probably be more nervous than you should," Sobral said. "I just have to push the pace of the fight."

How much difference with experience make:

"The truth is that it doesn't matter," Sobral said. "If you have 100 fights in the bag or one fight, minutes before the fight everybody pretty much does the same. That's where you have to control more emotions over there, like minutes before the fight. But this really doesn't matter very much because some kids just coming up right now, they already know how to control (their pre-fight) emotions."

How's it gonna end, Babalu?

"I know how it's going to end," Sobral said. "It's going to end with me finishing the fight. I'm probably going to submit him."

photo via www.mmapassport.com

Josh Neer Admits to Mistakenly Being in a Drunken Police Chase

mythbuster — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:13:01 -0000

In an interview with WhoTV.com, Josh Neer admits to "mistake".

(Link to Video - I don't know how to embed it here)

Some tidbits:

I want to apologize to my friends, my family and uh... my fans, I made some bad choices I basically just wanna move on and put this behind me.

Neer once said about amateur fighters, "Those guys give the sport a bad name and they make professional fighters like us look bad because we're professional athletes." (side note: Whaaa?). When the reporter called him on this and asked if he felt like a hypocrite he said:

No, I think uhh... everybody makes bad choices and I think all you can (do) is learn from your mistakes and move on.

When asked if he feared this would end his UFC days:

I don't know yet, it's all up to the UFC at this point, there's nothing I can really do so uhh.. I just got to sit back and uhh... hopefully they let me fight and I move on from this and uhh... no more troubles.

What does he say to people who think he shouldn't get another chance:

Uhh just, uhh I mean... it's their choice if they wanna give up on me that's their choice, I mean I can't do anything about that. All I can (do) is move on and try to be a better person and try to learn from this.

He will go before a Polk County judge on Friday, facing charges of Operating While Intoxicated and Eluding Police (which is a federal crme).

Note to Neer:

Deciding to paint your kitchen black is a mistake. Closing your eyes and shooting a gun into a crowded apartment building hoping you don't hit anyone (which is what drunk driving is, folks), is not a mistake. Also, this isn't the first time you did it, so you don't get the "learn from the mistakes and move on" pass.

It is obvious someone sent you out to do the I'm So Repentant thing. Save it for the judge, because most of us thinking people hope you not only get tossed from the UFC, but get the full punishment that the law can give

photo via img.perezhilton.com

Tito Ortiz - Again

mythbuster — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:53:48 -0000

Tito Ortiz spoke with MMAJunkie.com about his surgery and his take on the recent fight with Lyoto Machida.

How he feels after the surgery:

"I'm excited to be 100 percent again," Ortiz said. "I'm about 40 percent right now, but I'm not as brittle as a glass house anymore. I'm starting to be able to move around a little more and not taking painkillers anymore is the biggest thing.

"I think I'm blessed, and I can't wait to be 100 percent back into physical shape where I'm able to compete and I'm able to train to where I once was before five years ago. It's been a while, since I lost to (Randy) Couture (in September 2003), that I was 100 percent. And a lot of fans don't really know that, but it was so serious that I had to get surgery."

How he feels about the loss to Lyoto Machida:

"I watched the Machida fight for the first time last night," Ortiz said. "Since competing in it, I haven't even watched the fight. I hate losses. It's like a loved one dying to me. That's how passionate I am about this sport.

"But I watched it, and [my performance] wasn't as bad as I thought it was. [Machida] ran the whole time, and it's kind of funny the whole time to watch (UFC announcers) Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan hype up how elusive he was -- which I thought was really strange. You can be praised upon being elusive and not fighting?

"And he was putting pressure? I understand how he was putting pressure if he was the one that was going forward the whole time. But it's showing how they can put the icing on the cake of someone who I think is afraid to fight."

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"Machida won the fight fair and square," Ortiz said. "It was just really frustrating to watch a guy run away from me the whole time."

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"Machida didn't bring it that night, but he did get a win," Ortiz said. "And I think it all played out to Zuffa's way of what they wanted to do with me. But I guess if you're going to lose a fight, lose it like that and not get knocked out.

And, of course:

"Everything happens for a reason in this world. I'm willing to continue my career."

I think it's time he moved to pro-Wrestling. It is my humble opinion that at this point in his career, he is better at being a heel than a fighter. But if he is right after his injury being that bad, and him at 100% now - who knows?

photo via via sharkspage.com

"He's flat-footed, has no technique, but he can punch. That always helps. He's accurate. He'll...

mythbuster — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:41:54 -0000

"He's flat-footed, has no technique, but he can punch. That always helps. He's accurate. He'll follow you right to the floor, so he's aggressive. But that aggressiveness can be used to our advantage, I think."

- Freddie Roach, on Fedor Emelianenko

SI.com

Josh Neer Arrested After Crash, Drunken Police Chase

mythbuster — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:29:47 -0000

KCCI.com has of the story.

Police weren't even an hour into the New Year before they began a high-speed chase through the metro Thursday morning.

The case was captured on DOT traffic cams at 12:40 a.m. It started in downtown when Joshua Neer, 25, of Urbandale, struck a police car.

A chase ensued that wound through the city before Neer jumped on I-35/80 at the 86th Street on-ramp.

Cameras showed several officers in pursuit as he headed east on the Interstate.

Officers deployed stop sticks to flatten the cars's tires. Neer finally gave up near the east mix master, police said.

Neer faces a second offense DUI charge and is also charged with eluding police.

According to MMAJunkie.com, Neer was later released on $7000 bail.