Just five days before his scheduled MMA debut, former WWE Champion Dave Batista finally knows who’ll be his first MMA opponent: the veteran Vince Lucero.
The former candidates were all almost amateur fighters, with no professional bouts: Rashid Evans went to jail; Bruno McKee cited a lack of time to prepare.
Instead Vince Lucero is a legitimate experienced fighter, a 13-year-veteran with 45 bouts. Not a dummy.
The bulky fighter who cuts to make the 265-pound top limit of the heavyweight division, has fought twice this year on Rage in the Cage show. His last fight was a win on April 13 over
She is one of the most popular covers for this year’s ESPN the Body Issue.
She is the the current Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion and the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo at the Summer Olympics.
She is undefeated and won all the matches by an impressive armbar in the first round.
She is Ronda Rousey, and everyone wants her. One on the top of the list is UFC president Dana White.
They were together at the recent Sons of Anarchy premiere for FX and the photographers were all for her. He is a huge fan of Ronda and said: “I absolutely, positively would bring Ronda Rousey into the UFC.”
If so, Ronda would be the
I know, I know. You don’t believe it. But what was at first a joke, than a fantasy, an unbelievable rumor, now seems to become reality. Roy Jones Jr vs Kimbo Slice will take place as part of festivities to celebrate Jamaica’s 50th anniversary in December. The match has an appropriate name: “Beauty and the Beast”; all the details for the fight are
Less than 15 days to UFC 153 (October 13, 2012 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), but the questions at a press conference for promoting the bout are all for Silva’s future. In particular the alleged fear of the “Spider” to face Chris Weidman, who is coming off dominant back-to-back wins over top-10 opponents.
“Everything has its time. He’ll have his opportunity to fight for the belt. Maybe I fight next before he gets the shot, I lose and he fights someone else. We don’t know. I can fight Bonnar, lose and say: ‘you know what, I don’t want it anymore’. Or maybe I win and way ‘I don’t want
First: Finally David Batista’ll make his first appearance in MMA on October 6 at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, R.I., in the main event of a pay-per-view show called, “CES MMA: Real Pain.”
Second: the opponet is a mystery yet. (Read the last news on Batista Mma debut)
Batista is a former World Wrestling Entertainment headliner. He began his WWE career on 9 May 2002, after a past as bouncer and huge bodybuilder (at his best he was at 6-foot-4 and 320 pounds), having in fact never competed at any significant level in wrestling (different story for Brock Lesnar, another WWE star that came to MMA, who was an NCAA champion before pro wrestling).
His rise was fast and straight, and Batista won his first World Heavyweight Championship on 3 April at WrestleMania 21 in a spectacular match against his ex leader Triple H. The show did 1,090,000 worldwide pay-per-view buys, at the time the largest non-boxing number for any pay-per-view event in history.
After 3 years of dominance, his reign began to fall down, mainly because of several injuries. So finally he left WWE when his contract expired in May 2010.
After that he tried to enter in the MMA world. Batista had announced that he and Strikeforce were negotiating a contract. However in
When you step in the Octagon, you know that maintain a record is every time more difficult. So if you are undefeated, you are in extremely danger. Stipe Miocic knew it and he trained very hard to make a perfect record of 10-0.
Selection of the best mma videos from the world’s most important fights of the week 39: (Mon-Sun) from September 24, 2012 to September 30, 2012. Mma Fight of the Week: Andrey Koreshkov vs Jordan Smith Mma Knockout of the Week: Brad Pickett vs Yves Jabouin Mma Submission of the Week: Alexandre Bezerra vs Matt … Read more
UFC on Fuel Tv 5 – Today none of the fighters struggled to make weight on Friday including the heavyweight main event fighters Stipe Miocic (239 pounds) and Stefan Struve (251 pounds) who obviously didn’t have to suffer cutting pounds like the other competitors on the card.
Yet the loudest ovation from the Nottingham crowd was for the “homeboy” Dan Hardy, but all of the British fighters were
Tonight it’s time for Bellator 74. The weigh-in took place at Caesar’s Atlantic City, that hosts even the imminent bout.
Eighteen of the 20 fighters successfully made weight. The headliners are Lyman Good and Jim Wallhead, as well as the other six participants in the promotion’s upcoming season 7 welterweight tournament. Good weighed 170.2 pounds, Wallhead 169.8. Alexandre “Popo” Bezerra and Matt McCook did not weigh in during
ufc_on_fuel_tv_5_struve_vs_miocic This Saturday in Nottingham, England, the main event at UFC on Fuel Tv 5 will be a fight between still-developing talents. Struve and Miocic emerged with great victories in heavyweight main card at UFC 146 in May. Most importantly for the fans, both fighters provided plenty of violence and entertainment potential. We believe that Saturday night the fight will not betray the expectations. Stipe Miocic is undefeated (9-0, 3-0 UFC) and won with Shane del Rosario at UFC 146 (TKO).
But now he has to climb a “Skyscraper” named Stefan Struve, currently the tallest fighter in the UFC, standing 6 ft 11.5 in. “I trained with Tim Sylvia a little bit, he’s about 6’9″ so that helped out a lot. It’s tough to find someone like that, but we worked up a good game plan for what we’re going to do. I’m real confident,” Miocic told.
Struve, who, at 24, is six years younger than Miocic, has already acquired a wealth of UFC experience. Like his opponent, the Dutchman obtained an important victory at UFC 146, submitting the heavy-handed Lavar Johnson.
Miocic appears confident and knows this is a
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