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Whitey HudsonBellator Signs Middleweight Matt Major

  • Posted by Whitey Hudson on February 9th, 2010
Matt Major, the colorful and sometimes-controversial mixed martial artist known for his appearance on the TapouT reality show and his upset victory over UFC veteran Shonie Carter, has signed on to compete in Bellator Fighting Championships’ upcoming Season 2 middleweight tournament.

The 26-year-old Major—who moonlights as a fashion designer—boasts a professional record of 6-1, but says that his “actual record is closer to 20-1 when you include all the fights I’ve taken in clubs and in bars and in people’s basements.” He drew big buzz throughout the MMA world with his 2008 win over Carter in a fight that Sherdog.com described by noting that Major “outclassed a man with 14 times as many professional fights” under his belt.

“Matt has a unique and bigger-than-life persona, but below the personality is a 185 pounder who can really fight,” said Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney. “If Matt focuses on our upcoming tournament, he’s a very dangerous draw for anyone at 185.”

Major says winning the Season 2 tournament and the chance for a title fight against Lombard is his singular goal now that he has signed with Bellator.

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The real question is: ‘Is Hector Lombard ready for Matt Major?

I’ll tell you right now, if Hector Lombard knows I’m in the tournament, I know he’s worried about it. I want to be a world champion more than anything and I don’t care who I have to fight or what I have to do to get there.

- Matt Major

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Before that, though, Major will have to get through three fights in Bellator’s eight-man Season 2 middleweight tournament. Other tournament competitors announced thus far include Eric Schambari and Bryan “The Beast” Baker. Bellator will also conduct tournaments at 145, 155, and 170 lbs. The winners in each division will be declared No. 1 contenders to the current roster of champions. All 24 fights in Seasons 2 and 3 will be televised on FOX Sports Net, NBC and Telemundo.

Major says he has been “fascinated” by the fight game and martial arts “pretty much since the day I was born.”

“All I ever wanted to do was be the next Jean Claude Van Damme, the next Steven Segal, the next Bruce Lee,” he said. “And now I’m better than all of them. I knew since I was a little kid that I was going to be a great fighter.”

Major was born in Miami, but moved to New Jersey at the age of 8 to live with an aunt after both his mother and father passed away. In high school, he passed up the chance to compete on the school wrestling team, instead opting to take classes in fashion design and merchandising at the local community college. Later, he was accepted at the Art Institute of New York. He studied there and at several other art schools before switching his attention to MMA full-time in his early 20s.

“I’ve trained in every kind of combat you can imagine: I’ve done English boxing, American boxing, Aikido, judo, sword, wrestling, Jiu-Jitsu, you name it,” he said. “If the fight ends up on the ground, someone’s gonna get tapped. If it stays standing up, someone’s gonna get hit in the mouth. It doesn’t matter to me.”

Major spent the better part of 2009 training at the famed American Kickboxing Academy is San Jose, Calif. He describes his contract with Bellator as “the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“Bellator, I think, is the new face of MMA,” he said. “It’s just a very sophisticated organization and I’m proud to be a part of it.”

For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Bellator.

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Nat Detroit MaceIt Is Just Not Possible to See This Photo Too Often

  • Posted by Nat Detroit Mace on February 9th, 2010

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There are some truly iconic photos which define the spirit of combat sports.

A bloody Joe Stevenson’s agony on the mat.

Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring.

Sugar Ray Robinson clipping Jake LaMotta.

Rocky Marciano clubbing Jersey Joe Walcott.

Ali standing over Liston taunting the former champ.

Mike Tyson gnawing on Evander Holyfield’s ear.

Toby Imada choking out Jorge Masvidal.

But this one is near the top of  my Hall of Photo Fame:

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Nat Detroit MaceSo, Eddie Bravo Killed the Gi And Now He’s Working on No Bong Tournaments

  • Posted by Nat Detroit Mace on February 9th, 2010

I was checking out cagepotato.com and came across a fairly standard, and typically hilarious, roast of Phil Baroni’s offstage performance at UFC 109.

Eddie Bravo is a longtime advocate of marijuana use, mentor to UFC color commentator Joe Rogan and credits marijuana to his ability to grasp and develop his style of jiu-jitsu in his book Mastering the Rubber Guard. He runs his school for 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu in California at Legends MMA.

Some people only know Bravo for his “Quatoof” video, a particularly bad and maybe even disgusting attempt at humor.

But the part I really thought was funny was this interview with Eddie Bravo:

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If you’d like to check out the toasty philosophical underpinnings of the Eddie Bravo method, see it  here:

Jack Herer

Good luck, Jack, hope you’re back in the game soon…

And for a little more insight, check this out:

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Nat Detroit MaceUFC 110 News and Interviews

  • Posted by Nat Detroit Mace on February 9th, 2010

The Latest UFC 110 News and Interviews

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February 21, 2010
Acer Arena
Sydney, Australia

Official Fight Card

Main Card

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  • Middleweight: Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping
  • Lightweight: Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos
  • Light Heavyweight: Keith Jardine vs. Ryan Bader
  • Heavyweight: Mirko Filipovi? vs. Ben Rothwell

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  • Light Heavyweight: Elvis Sinosic vs. Chris Haseman
  • Light Heavyweight: Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
  • Welterweight: Chris Lytle vs. Brian Foster
  • Middleweight: C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic
  • Light Heavyweight: James Te-Huna vs. Igor Pokrajac
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    Nat Detroit MaceRandy Couture Photo Gallery

    • Posted by Nat Detroit Mace on February 8th, 2010

    Randy “The Natural” Couture just keeps going, and going and going…

    He handily defeated Mark Coleman at UFC 109 over the weekend and it looks like there’s no end in sight for the timeless skills and heart of Couture.

    Couture is one of only two UFC fighters to have held a championship title in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight) and is the only five-time champion in UFC history. Couture has competed in 15 title fights and is a member of the UFC Hall of Fame and is also the only athlete in UFC history to win a championship after becoming a Hall of Fame member.

    In 2005 Couture moved to Las Vegas where he opened his own chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture, with locations in Vancouver, Washington, Wellington, Florida, Lombard, Illinois, Independence, Missouri and Toronto, Ontario. He currently trains at his Las Vegas-based gym.

    Couture also partnered with Bas Rutten in the opening of Legends Gym, located in Hollywood, California.

    Randy Couture’s Mixed Martial Arts Record:

    Professional record breakdown
    26 matches 17 wins 9 losses
    By knockout 7 5
    By submission 3 4
    By decision 7 0

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    Whitey HudsonChael Sonnen Is One Talkin’ Dude

    • Posted by Whitey Hudson on February 8th, 2010

    Chael Sonnen shocked the world in his win over heavily favored Nate Marquardt on Saturday at UFC 109, proceeded to spend the days before the fight trash-talking Anderson Silva, and in this video, puts down some heady science talking about Dana White and the politics of the UFC.

    You may not like Sonnen, but man, he’s a hell of a fighter and he damn sure is a good interview…

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    Whitey HudsonWilson Reis Re-ups With Bellator for Season Two

    • Posted by Whitey Hudson on February 8th, 2010

    Wilson Reis will return for Bellator’s Season 2 featherweight tournament for another crack at the title.

    Bellator Fighting Championships announced today that 9-1 featherweight standout Wilson Reis will return for Bellator’s Season 2 featherweight tournament looking to avenge his Season 1 loss to Bellator Champion Joe Soto.

    The 25-year-old Reis is a back belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and, in 2008, took home the first-ever EliteXC bantamweight championship belt with his win over “The Silent Assassin,” Abel Cullum. Despite entering Bellator Season 1 as the No 1 tournament favorite and the No. 7 ranked featherweight in the world, Reis fell in the semi-final round to the upstart Soto. It was considered by many as the upset of the tournament and was the first and only loss of Reis’ career.

    “Wilson’s a very talented fighter at 145 and was just one judge’s decision away from advancing to the featherweight championship fight last season,” said Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney. “The Soto-Reis fight was one of the best fights in a season of great fights and the chance to potentially see a rematch between these two would be awesome. But first. Wilson has to get through a gauntlet of great fighters at 145. Plain and simple with Wilson’s addition, our featherweight tournament is stacked.”

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    More than anything, I want to get my rematch against Joe Soto.

    I’m a lot more mature now as a fighter and an athlete … a lot more prepared than I was before.

    - Wilson Reis

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    Reis is the sixth confirmed competitor in Bellator’s upcoming eight-man Season 2 featherweight tournament, joining Joe Warren, Patricio Pitbull, Georgi Karakhanyan, William Romero and Bao Quach. Combined, the six fighters boast a remarkable career record of 57-12-2.

    Bellator will also conduct tournaments at 155, 170 and 185 lbs. during Season 2, which begins April 8th on FOX Sports Net, NBC and Telemundo. The winners in each division will be declared No. 1 contenders to the current roster of champions.

    Reis was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, known worldwide as a breeding ground for young Jiu-Jitsu fighters.

    He trained under the famed Jiu-Jitsu coach Roberto Godoi and first made a name for himself while still a teenager, winning the 2004 Jiu-Jitsu World Championships. Later that same year, he came to the United States to continue his Jiu-Jitsu training at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu United gym in Jenkintown, Penn., working construction during the day to make ends meet.

    About two years later, he began to take up an interest in MMA and started expanding his training to include boxing, grappling and Muay Thai, moving to the Daddis Fight Camps in Philadelphia. He took his first professional MMA fight in July 2007.

    “After that first fight, I knew MMA was going to be my sport,” Reis said. “I knew I could be very successful.”

    Since then, he has amassed an impressive 9-1 overall record with his lone defeat coming at the hands of the aforementioned Soto.

    For more information, visit Bellator.com, follow Bellator on Twitter @BellatorMMA or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Bellator.

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    Nat Detroit MaceHave to Cut Weight? Mike ‘Quick’ Swick Gives You His Tips

    • Posted by Nat Detroit Mace on February 8th, 2010

    Swick got handled by Paulo Thiago at UFC 109, but he’s a pro’s pro and he’ll be back.

    Footage of weighins, autograph signing and a THQ press party for the new UFC 2010 video game.

    Here, he gives you some tips about how to cut weight before a fight:

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    W.C. PikeyDan Miller IFL Killer Guillotine Choke

    • Posted by W.C. Pikey on February 8th, 2010

    During Saturday night’s Dan Miller-Demian Maia fight at UFC 109, Joe Rogan mentioned a Dan Miller ‘killer guillotine’ from an International Fight League bout.

    Rogan said you can watch the Dan Miller Guillotine video online, and by god you can, right here.

    The choke happened during a 2007 MMA fight between Dan Miller and Dave Phillips. Miller put Phillips in a tight guillotine choke. Phillips failed to tap out in time and went limp.

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    Whitey HudsonUFC 109 Bonuses and Fight Night Awards

    • Posted by Whitey Hudson on February 8th, 2010

    Chael Sonnen, Nate Marquardt, Paulo Thiago, and Matt Serra each picked up additional $60,000 fight night bonuses for their wins on Saturday at UFC 109: Relentless.

    Sonnen and Marquardt went at it with the next middleweight title shot on the line and their bout was a war. For their wall-to-wall efforts the co-headliners took home “Fight of the Night” honors.

    Thiago grabbed the Submission of the Night cash with his second-round D’arce choke that ultimately put Swick to sleep when he refused to tap.

    Matt Serra was an easy choice for Knockout of the Night cash for his thumping overhand right that dispatched veteran Frank Trigg.

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