It goes without saying that Gary LaPlante wishes he was the guy strapped to Shogun’s back, holding on to Mauricio’s strong, warm, frame as they tumble to earth at cheek-flapping speed. Then the only natural thing to happen next would be Shogun punching Lil Nog as he landed 2005 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix style, then
I still have no idea how Brandon Vera managed to fight at heavyweight. This whole cutting weight and bulking up stuff just seems like magic to me. A few hundred years ago guys like Mike Dolce would have been burned at the stake for the way they manipulate body weight. I understand water loading, but
Man, Thiago Silva has no luck at all. First he gets busted for using non-human urine in his pee-pee test after making Brandon Vera’s nose look like this because he took a banned substance to numb his back pain and now the same problem has arisen again. No, not the urine, Thiago Silva’s back is playing
Last night Gary LaPlante was trying to explain to me how he uses ‘Chute Boxe’ as an all purpose word for everything he finds dear in his life. Satisfactory examples include the NY Giants going ‘Chute Boxe’ on the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Or Gary reaching a ‘Chute Boxe’ level of excitement
So remember that one time when everyone did backflips from the kitchen table when the news dropped that Rampage Jackson vs. Shogun Rua was slated, but then everyone started scratching their heads in confusion when we published our Sunday Morning Rumor Mill entry on the status of the potential Shogun vs. Rampage fight? Well it
Jason’s note: This is how the behind-the-scenes of MiddleEasy works; we get an email about a subject then someone steps up and takes it. Pretty simple. Bauzen stepped up to the plate with a strange and exciting challenge to our readers while informing them about Rampage/Shogun II (as you will see below), but not before
Ariel Helwani confirmed that the UFC plans to return to Asia sometime in November of this year, but he failed to confirm exactly where in Asia they’ll go. It’s cool… We still appreciate that he got half the pertinent information about something we all care so deeply about, which is better than getting no details
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
There are times in every person’s life that are bound to affect them for the rest of their lives, to carry on through the years and become stories that are passed down to children of the next generation. These moments encapsulate the very essence of humanity, the little things in life that many often take
In order to properly align my fingers to type this article, I had to let all the adrenaline gathered from watching Dan Henderson vs. Shogun Rua evacuate my body. I was literally shaking while watching this fight. No one in press row could keep still. Every person inside the HP Pavilion in San Jose was on
[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on FighterXFashion.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] With Mauricio “Shogun” Rua stepping into the main event this weekend opposite Dan Henderson, it’s time to take a closer look at the complete signature series Shogun Rua T-shirt collection by Bad Boy. Serving as Shogun’s main fight wear sponsor
This morning, perched atop my pad in Hollywood, I sat near my windowsill and was affixed on two dogs attempting to have sex outside. From what I could see, it appeared that a havanese repeatedly attempted to mount a mastiff, which was easily quadruple his size. That dog, man, no force on this planet could
Well, NickTheFace does it again. Another classic has been rendered and uploaded to the web to make us all satisfied in ways our chosen sexual partners will never understand…unless they are huge MMA fans. I mean, it’s Hendo and Shogun. Those two names have wins over almost every single fighter worthy of a mention in
It’s great to see Shogun Rua still use Fedor as a tool to gauge a fighter’s greatness. I’m sure Bloodstain Lane can appreciate one of his heroes using another one of his heroes as a measuring stick. Granted, if you subscribe to the theory that Fedor has ‘soul stealing’ abilities and that he literally siphons
Before he was the UFC/Pride GP champion and the focus of your girlfriend’s affection, Shogun Rua was a sixteen-year-old kid fighting inside people’s living rooms. You know, like every other teenager at the time. Don’t act like you’ve never put on a pair of boxing gloves and fought inside a house while a group of
Dan Henderson vs Shogun is just another in a long line of head to head matchups I’m on the edge of my seat to witness this 4th quarter. It joins the NBA players vs owners, World of Warcraft vs Star Wars: The Old Republic and COD vs Battlefield 3 at the top of my list