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The Week in Quotes: October 18th - 24th
PLEASE! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A HAPPY OCCASION. LET'S NOT BICKER AND ARGUE ABOUT WHO KILLED WHO. "Anybody can be beat, but that's what motivates me to keep going out there, training hard, staying fo...
Old School UFC Legend Oleg Taktarov Talks About Steroids
And pulls no punches, from ValeTudo.ru (translation via the UG): It was hard to grapple with Ken Shamrock because he used steroids. It was especially noticeable when he couldn't make it through 12 mi...
The USA TODAY/Bloody Elbow Top 50 MMA Fights in History: 1993-1996
Beau Dure at USA Today has posted the first two installments of our top 50 fights in MMA history series. Again here's the criteria: Some of the 50 fights we'll list aren't necessarily the best MMA bo...
UFC 6: The Legend of Tank Abbott Is Born
Dave Meltzer continues his UFC retrospective as we approach UFC 100, this time focusing in on UFC 6. Meltzer explains the significance: The show took place July 14, 1995, in Casper, Wyo., and featu...
Quote of the Day: Oleg Taktarov Talks Fedor Emelianenko's Trainer Vladimir Voronov
"Vladimir is naturally a gifted fighter, more gifted even than Fedor originally. He was born with better qualities, body and everything else. Just mentally he falls short." Oleg Taktarov talkin...
MMA History XIX: The Humbled PRIDE of Nobuhiko Takada
We're blowing out some writer's block here and pressing forward with the MMA History series. I haven't done an installment since January, so new readers can be forgiven for not knowing the darn thing ...
Oleg Taktarov Better Than Chuck Liddell?
As I slog away compiling the November meta-rankings, I came across something I just had to share from FIGHT! Magazine's light heavyweight rankings. I'm not trying to mock them, its very hard to put...
MMA History XII: End of the UFC Glory Days
I've tried to avoid talking about the business or legal history of the sport since that's been dwelt on ad nauseum by plenty of other writers. But now we reach a point in MMA history where it just can...
MMA History VII: A New Phase in the UFC
So for this installment I've decided to cover the UFC in 1995 and in the next installment I'll cover what happened in MMA outside the UFC in 1995 (except for Rickson Gracie's return visit to Japan whi...
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