Ovince Saint Preux is in an awkward situation. Coming off a tough five round decision loss to Ryan Bader, OSP was originally slated to face Rafael Cavalcante in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night 56 in Uberlândia, Brazil. Cavalcante was injured, awwww, but he was replaced by Francimar Barroso versus OSP (hurray). 10 days
So… Shogun is fighting next weekend, eh? It’s weird, there was a place in time where I’d be counting down the days for the next Shogun fight, now a week out from his next fight, I just found out he’s fighting. I didn’t even know who he was fighting, where he was fighting and where
In 2000, Harlem rapper Black Robb released the song “Whoa!” On November 8th in Uberlândia, Brazil Mauricio Rua will fight Jimi Manuwa and Black Robb’s initial happy exclamation of the English language will finally come to fruition. The violence of Rua meeting the face punching prowess of Manuwa is the essence of “Whoa!” With both
Showtime Pettis is the Pixies of MMA. He laid the groundwork, and everyone else followed. Using the cage is the new loud quiet loud that the world adopted as the way to do things after Frank Black and Kim Deal dominated the alternative division of music with an iron fist. How can you deny the
Don’t let the size smedium Vale Tudo shorts fool you. Mauricio Shogun Rua wears the gi pants in his extended family. Because even though his wife and mother hold actual organized meetings to convince him to retire, he won’t. “I do this for 13 years,” he said on the Brazilian television show Agora é Tarde
Ask anyone that’s partied with Nick Diaz in the past two years, a drunk Nick Diaz is the friendliest Nick Diaz you could ever imagine. It’s like the dude turns into this jovial cloud of well wishes and well-constructed thoughts, and he loves telling the world what’s on his mind. When I interviewed Nick for
Imagine this: you and your friends decide to go out for a nice meal. You are having a great night; enjoying your food and the conversation. At the end of the night, after your friends have gone home, and you are about to turn in, you get robbed at gun point. It would suck, wouldn’t
Man, talk about Ultimate Weight-Cutting Championships, Hendo weighed 250 pounds for his fight against Shogun and the FOX Sports 1 broadcast even listed his rehydrated weight for some reason. This is crazy for multiple reasons, one being that Hendo fought Fedor at about 207 pounds, so why go up to damn near the heavyweight limit
Gary LaPlante had a rough evening tonight. Shogun Rua put it to Dan Henderson for two rounds, and it was glorious. I was on Skype with Gary while the fight went down and the excitement in his voice as Shogun landed brutal uppercuts and huge right hands had me feeling like I was almost as
Ouch. Well it looks like Shogun Rua’s modeling career will have to be put on hold while he gets his nose surgically repaired by specialists that are way overpaid. I actually dated a chick that had rhinoplasty to fix her busted nose, and she always tried to get me to feel some weird bone in
I rarely leave my apartment in Hollywood in fear that something out there will alter my life in a negative way. Tonight, I stayed up in fear that I would sleepwalk and accidentally venture out of my front door. It’s too dangerous out there in the wilderness of the real world. There are these things
Let me get this out of the way right now, I am an unapologetic Shogun fanatic. It’s cliche to claim to be one of the biggest fans of anything, being a fan creates hyperbole, so I’m not going to do that, I’m simply going to tell a few disjointed stories to prove my point. The
Perhaps your reaction was similar to Wanderlei Silva’s when Chael Sonnen slapped a nasty guillotine on Shogun Rua to earn a first-round victory over a guy many thought he would lose to. Two Pride FC veterans were finished in the first round at UFC on FOX Sports 1, and I’m sure if you look deeper
I could work on this article for the next 500 years and I will not be able to find any combination of words that will do justice to the sheer performance Chael Sonnen just placed at UFC on FOX Sports 1. Sure he imposed his will on Shogun Rua just like he said he was
Some people call it reciting a poem, others call it freestyling. It really depends on where you grew up and if your parents could put you in a fresh pair LA Gear or British Knights on the first day of school. Am I suggesting economical circumstances in a person’s youth determine if that same person
We’re not sure if anyone gave Shogun Rua the memo that the moment the bell goes off this weekend at UFC on FOX Sports 1, Chael Sonnen will attempt to put him on his back and keep him there until he gives up or the ref jumps in. Whether he can actually achieve this is