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rayang
Founded www.rantsports.com MMA section in October 2010 Writer from October 2010-March 2012
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Nostalgia: Bas Rutten teaches you self-defence
Recently, Bas Rutten very publicly called out HRT users for playing dirty. Of course, Bas is one of the street fighting legends in the MMA world, and his instructional videos on how to defend yourself are legendary. Here’s a highlight of one of his best sellers:
TweetTito Ortiz vs Rashad Evans is the best possible option
It’s official that Tito Ortiz will be fighting Rashad Evans at UFC 133, and this has provoked a wide range of reactions. Oritz is 1-4-1 in his last 6 fights, and it was widely expected that he was going to get canned after presumably losing to Ryan Bader. Now he finds himself fighting the man [...]
TweetThe 10 best submissions of all time
Royce Gracie and his family may have faded from the public view, Kazushi Sakuraba may be far too old to be actively competing, and Shinya Aoki may have proven to be horribly 1-dimensional. However, there’s still nothing like a great submission to end a fight. We’ve come a long way from the beginning, where people [...]
TweetBas Rutten calls out hormone replacement therapy users
The Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt situations have shifted the focus on performance enhancing drugs from steroids to hormone replacement, and last week on Inside MMA, Strikeforce’s Ovince St. Preux, along with UFC vets Frank Trigg and Dennis Hallman joined Bas Rutten and Kenny Rice to discuss the topic. The discussion got heated pretty quickly, [...]
TweetUFC vs WEC: Bonuses and head-to-head tally
Urijah Faber and Dominick Cruz made history this month when they became the 1st bantamweights to headline a UFC event. As predicted by many, the inclusion of the lighter weight fighters from the WEC (and elsewhere) has been producing entertaining fights. After Dana White announced in October 2010 that the WEC would be integrated into [...]
TweetNostalgia: UFC 3 shocker and more pre-Zuffa hijinx
Before Dana White ruined the UFC (kidding), we were captivated by the battles put on by the Semaphore Entertainment Group that partnered with Art Davie and Rorion Graice to determine which martial art was the most effective. This led to some results that in hindsight are hilarious. Royce Gracie was tasked with representing his family [...]
TweetNate Marquardt situation just keeps getting worse
Nate Marquardt was abruptly fired from the UFC on June 25 (barely before weigh-ins for an event he was to headline), and more information has been trickling out since then. Unfortunately, virtually all the news is putting Marquardt in a bad light. While many questioned Dana White firing Marquardt so quickly, opinion seems to have [...]
TweetChael Sonnen respects Anderson Silva
Chael Sonnen was responsible for one of the most famous trash talking campaigns in MMA history leading up to his fight against Anderson Silva. As he floated in limbo due to drug offences and criminal fraud proceedings relating to his real estate business that led to a conviction, he kept on talking to keep himself [...]
TweetThe 10 best knockouts of all time
With Wanderlei Silva’s MMA future in doubt after getting knocked out by Chris Leben (among others), we may have lost one of the most exciting standup fighters in MMA history. Wanderlei holds the record for most wins AND most knockouts in Pride history (22 and 15, respectively). On the subject of knockouts, there are the [...]
TweetWorld MMA Rankings: July 2011
The past few weeks saw Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber become the 1st bantamweigths to headline a major UFC event, the potential end of Nate Marquardt’s career, and much more. 2 of MMA’s old guard in Tito Ortiz and Wanderlei Silva had fights that had their careers on the line. Charlie Brenneman and Ryan Bader [...]
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