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MMA Origins: Carlson Gracie Changes Jiu-Jitsu and Vale Tudo
Entering into the mid-1900s, the Brazilian fighting spectacle known as Vale Tudo was gaining popularity and the first family of Vale Tudo was the Gracie family. Lead by the famous brothers Carlos and Helio Gracie, who won the family fame by taking matches with Judokas and catch wrestlers. While...
MMA Legend: Murilo Bustamante
Sherdog has a nice piece up checking in with former UFC middleweight champ Murilo Bustamante who'll be fighting for the first time in several years at tonight's Impact FC: The Uprising Sydney. They cover his epic 1996 match with superheavyweight wrestler Tom Erikson: Bustamante entered an...
UFC 100 Quote of the Day: Stephan Bonnar Expected a "Huge Sausage Fest" at UFC
What surprised me the most was the amount of pretty girls there dressed to kill. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought for sure a UFC would have been a huge sausage fest, but it wasn’t! What were these girls doing watching this crap, and they seemed to be really into it. Every time...
MMA History XI: Carlson Gracie's Mighty Camp
Though I've talked in my last two installments about how strikers and wrestlers were making a big impact, they were still challengers to the pre-eminent styles: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Japanese Shoot Wrestling. At the time skilled grapplers with real fight experience were few and far between. Even...
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