I remember when Chuck was being interviewed and was asked besides himself who was the best 205 pound fighter in the world and he said Teixeira and there was a collective, "Who?"
Did Machida get popped? I thought he disclosed on paperwork he was taking a banned supplement that had been banned just that year. Then he was suspended.
USADA is probably a legit reason for some fighters, but Pettis had like double knee surgery (or maybe two on one and one on the other). Weakening a man's base is definitely one way to decrease his speed, power, etc.
Different fighters might mean different things by this. Someone like Johnny Hendricks might say he starts cutting from 205, but what he really means is he starts dieting and exercising from 205. Rockhold might actually be cutting 15-20 pounds of water weight because he's been in shape the...
The second kick looked legal to me. He doesn't have either knee on the ground (when Vera moves you can see he's posted on his right foot) and both of his hands are on Vera, not on the ground, so he doesn't have three points on the ground.
It's pretty simple. They're both on winning streaks and when Frank Mir was heavyweight champ and got injured, Arlovski was the interim champ until they made him the official champ. This is a heavyweight match up that has literally been over a decade in the making.
From very early on he was considered a phenom in the stand up department, his ground game was just lacking. When he was a kid he was one of Bas Rutten's main sparring partners and when Jens Pulver was considered the best lightweight in the world, Ludwig knocked him out in just over a minute -...
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