(EXCLUSIVE) Jared Hamman: ?Dollaway is not a lay-and-pray type wrestler. He?s a fighter. And I like guys like that.?
Phil Cardella Roan Jucao Carneiro Shane The Engineer Carwin Jason Hollywood Chambers
Phil Cardella Roan Jucao Carneiro Shane The Engineer Carwin Jason Hollywood Chambers
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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/08/12/wand-fight-teams-jorge-lopez-to-make-ufc-debut-against-justin-e/
Dos Caras Jr  Phil Cardella Roan Jucao Carneiro Shane The Engineer CarwinÂ
MILWAUKEE - Donald Cerrone may not have been more riled up any time in his career than he was before his rematch with Jamie Varner last September. "Cowboy" seethed through his post-workout interviews at WEC 51. He got right in Varner's face at the weigh-ins. And he then tore right through his old nemesis in the fight. Cerrone said then that fighting angry was something he had no problem doing. Against Charles Oliveira on Sunday at UFC on Versus 5, he doesn't have nearly the same level of animosity. But that doesn't mean he won't try to seek it out to give him an advantage when the Octagon door closes. "I can't wait to get in the ring and see his cocky (butt) standing across from me," Cerrone said Friday after a workout at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. "I saw him looking at me the the other day smirking, and that, to me, is cocky. I'll smirk in the ring, you smirk back. I fight better angry." Cerrone (15-3, 1 NC, 2-0 UFC) has put together a respectable four-fight winning streak, all in dominant fashion. He closed out his WEC career with a win over Varner and a submission of Chris Horodecki at the promotion's swan song show in December. He opened his UFC career, post-merger, with a submission of Paul Kelly in February and a kickboxing clinic decision over Vagner Rocha in June - that Cerrone said he wasn't fond of his performance in that fight. A self-described "slow starter," Cerrone said he looks back on the rage he experienced before his rematch with Varner last year and is trying to channel it for Oliveira (14-1, 1 NC, 2-1 UFC, 1 NC). "I try to get my mind in the same mindset as I had for Varner because when I fought Varner ... there was nothing he could have done, in my mind, to beat me. I was invincible," Cerrone said. "Getting myself back in that mindset where no one can touch me, that's what I'm looking to get back to. What did I do, mentally, to get in that mindset? ... This guy has nothing for me. What am I gonna do? That's the mindset I'm in for this fight. There's blood in my eyes, and I'm ready." With fellow lightweights Jim Miller and Ben Henderson fighting one spot up the card, and Miller's seven-fight winning streak putting him in line for a possible title shot, Cerrone said getting a title shot isn't something that is realistically on his mind. (Though he did joke that a Miller loss to Henderson would mess up the UFC's possible plan, and he'd gladly take a crack at the title in that instance.) Instead, Cerrone, who had five Fight of the Night bonuses in his 10 career WEC fights, and already has one in his two bouts in the UFC, is happen to put on crowd-pleasing performances every time he steps in the cage. "Just go in there and fight, man," Cerrone said. "Go in there and fight your (butt) off, like you've got nothing to lose. That's what people want to see. They want to see you sit in that pocket and throw down and just take punches and give 'em right back. That's fun. That's when it's a good time. Sh-ttin' and gettin' and goin' hard. I hope this weekend, we can do that." Cerrone and Oliveira fight on the main card of UFC on Versus 5 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. The main card airs live on the Versus cable channel at 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.
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MILWAUKEE - Like his U.K. brethren The Who, Dan Hardy says he won't get fooled again. Hardy's three-fight losing skid going into his main event against Chris Lytle at UFC on Versus 5 is why he's in desperate need of a win. But the former welterweight title challenger knows two things for sure going into Sunday. He won't get "punked" again - not the way Anthony Johnson did him in March. And regardless of his 0-4 record in the United States, he doesn't take location into account too much for his fights - he knows a good fight will win him fans no matter where it's at. "I don't think the location makes a difference," Hardy told MMA Fighting on Friday after a workout at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. "I'm constantly winning in the gym when I'm over here, and I met my girlfriend over here - and that's pretty successful so far. So I'm not going to hold it against the country. I think you pick up fans regardless of where you are. It's the style of the fight that's going to win the fans, regardless of where you are." Hardy said his four losses on U.S. soil are more a matter of fluke and odd circumstance than anything gone awry on his part. Against Pat Healy, who would go on to fight in the UFC, WEC, IFL, and was a winner on Friday's Strikeforce Challengers card to improve to 3-1 in that promotion, Hardy was in just his fourth pro fight. "I took it on a day's notice - stepped in for a guy at the American Top Team," Hardy said. "I was out there training for a month, and I had (won) two fights. I came in undersized, got caught in a guillotine and ran out of gas. I put that one to bed - it was about experience." Hardy then went back to his native England for his next 11 fights - and went 9-1 with a no contest sprinkled in. He returned to the States for a fight against Forrest Petz. "I've never seen a video of it, but I beat the (crap) out of that guy," Hardy said. "I went to the afterparty, and he went to the hospital with a broken nose and stitches. I was fighting in his home town on a show his manager had promoted, and the next thing, he's got a contract with the UFC. So I kinda feel like I got stitched up a little there." Hardy's two UFC losses came after he went 4-0 in the promotion. He got a shot at Georges St-Pierre's welterweight title in Newark last year, and suffered the same fate as many others since and before him - a dominant unanimous decision GSP victory. And against Johnson in March, he was simply outwrestled for three rounds - he was "punked," as he says. "I think every one of the fights has its own circumstance and I don't tend to dwell on the location of it," Hardy said. Against Lytle on Sunday, Hardy doesn't believe a second punking is in the offing. The loss to Johnson left him aggravated because he was under the impression Johnson wanted to stand and trade for a three-round slugfest. Instead, Hardy spent the majority of the fight on his back thanks to Johnson's takedowns, and a fight everyone thought would be an old-fashioned slobberknocker turned into a reason for the crowd to let Johnson know what it thought of him. But Hardy blames himself, in part, for not being better prepared for Johnson's takedowns. And he also blames a little of the ol' what-goes-around-comes-around. "I was annoyed, but I was annoyed with myself," Hardy said. "A few years ago when I was fighting on the Cage Warriors show, I did the same thing to somebody else. I guess it's karma. If he had been saying it to the media, but not saying anything to me, I wouldn't have bought into it. But it was the private messages between us, like, 'Yeah, we're going to steal the show. It's going to be a great fight.' But it was a smart game plan, and he outsmarted me, unfortunately. I only have myself to blame for that." Lytle has said he's not out to "pull an Anthony Johnson" against Hardy, which ought to give the Brit some measure of relief. But with the three straight setbacks - GSP and Johnson, and a knockout loss to Carlos Condit in between - staring him in the face, a fourth could be deadly, and he knows it. Not many fighters stay in the big show with four straight losses. "It's concerning because I love my job and I love being a part of the UFC," Hardy said. "But there's not much I can do with it. I'm three losses down. I can't take those back. I can only learn from them. I'm at the mindset where as long as I leave the Octagon on Sunday night knowing I gave it everything I've got, what more can I do? But for right now, I'm confident Sunday's going to be a good day. I know that Chris is a very beatable guy for me." Hardy and Lytle fight in the main event of UFC on Versus 5 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. The main card airs live on Versus at 9 p.m. Eastern and also features a co-main event lightweight fight between Jim Miller and former WEC champ Ben Henderson.
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Nam Phan admits he's a bit of a nerd, but he wasn't about to follow the traditional path that many Asians follow when they come to the U.S. Phan hated school, but wasn't a bad kid. That's when he turned to martial arts.
"You have to understand that where I grew up, living like a tough guy was attractive at the time," Phan told Bernard Fernandez of the Philadelphia Daily News. "Girls like bad boys, right? But I guess that's why I never got girls because I was the nerdy one. My brothers were much older than me and while they were going clubbing, I was always home alone. They never knew that while they were out, they stressed my parents out. I said right then, 'I am not going to do that, I am just going to do martial arts.' "
Phan's parents arrived in the U.S. in 1975 settling in Orange County. The 28-year-old says that California county is a little rougher than what you've see on television.
"I want to specify the northern part of Orange County, not the cushy one you see with all the surfers and girls in bikinis on MTV," Phan said. "They got [to America] and thought they were going to be safe and then my dad gets shot standing outside of a jewelry store and both of my brothers, Tan [34] and Khanh [32] have been victims of drive-by shootings . . . I've always thought that if there were more role models, there would be less crime."
By turning to athletics, Phan bucked what he says has become the traditional Asian path in the U.S.
"Look, man, it's a fact that people look at Asians in this country and they know we can excel as a lawyer or a doctor - but physically we aren't that gifted," Phan said in a phone interview Monday. "There are very few top Asian athletes, singers and actors, but mainly because there is so much pressure from family to be engineers and doctors."
Phan has a chance to jump to the next level at featherweight when he faces former 145-pound champ Mike Brown this weekend at UFC 133. Phan is the first Vietnamese-American to fight under the UFC banner.
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Junie Browning, the former Ultimate Fighter bad boy who was cut by the UFC after an arrest in 2009, has his biggest fight since then on Saturday night, on the MMA Fight Pit: Genesis pay-per-view. But if Friday's weigh-in is any indication, Browning still doesn't have his head screwed on right. Browning weighed in at 162.25 pounds for the lightweight fight, or 7.25 pounds over the limit. A fighter coming in overweight by any amount is unprofessional, but coming in overweight by that much is absolutely inexcusable. Browning's opponent, Jacob Clark, also came in overweight, at 158 pounds. MMA Fight Pit says both fighters will be fined per pound over 155, although there was no word on how much the fine would be. All the other fighters on the card made weight, some taking advantage of the two-pound buffer that MMA Fight Pit and the New Mexico Athletic Commission allowed. The full weigh-in results are below. 205 lbs. - Houston Alexander (205 ½) vs. Razak Al-Hassan (204)
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Junie Browning, the former Ultimate Fighter bad boy who was cut by the UFC after an arrest in 2009, has his biggest fight since then on Saturday night, on the MMA Fight Pit: Genesis pay-per-view. But if Friday's weigh-in is any indication, Browning still doesn't have his head screwed on right. Browning weighed in at 162.25 pounds for the lightweight fight, or 7.25 pounds over the limit. A fighter coming in overweight by any amount is unprofessional, but coming in overweight by that much is absolutely inexcusable. Browning's opponent, Jacob Clark, also came in overweight, at 158 pounds. MMA Fight Pit says both fighters will be fined per pound over 155, although there was no word on how much the fine would be. All the other fighters on the card made weight, some taking advantage of the two-pound buffer that MMA Fight Pit and the New Mexico Athletic Commission allowed. The full weigh-in results are below. 205 lbs. - Houston Alexander (205 ½) vs. Razak Al-Hassan (204)
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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/08/12/junie-browning-way-overweight-for-mma-fight-pit-genesis-bout/
Yoshihiro Akiyama Gilbert Aldana José Aldo John AlessioÂ