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Former WEC announcer Joe Martinez will soon make his octagon debut.
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UFC bantamweight Elizabeth Phillips may not be a grisled old veteran of MMA but she believes that she's got an old-school attitude that not many of her contemporaries posess. Being a great fighter is about more than simply being a great athlete, she knows.
“There are athletes out there that come into MMA but I truly don’t believe that everybody is a fighter,” she told UFC.com recently.
“[Being a fighter] comes with instinct and heart and your attitude. Even when you’re losing and you’re tired and you’re hurt, it’s how you handle it. You can’t teach that, and I don’t think everybody has it. Some people have it and some people don’t.”
Phillips certainly knows all about gutting through fatigue and hurt. In fact, she made her UFC debut last June only two weeks after her previous fight. Phillips lost a controversial decision to Valerie Letourneau that night at UFC 174, but returns this Saturday in Macau at UFC Fight Night against Milana Dudieva.
After five amateur contests and six pro fights, Phillips is positive that she belongs in the UFC, at this point. She's also grateful that she found MMA at a point in her life when she needed direction and discipline.
Growing up in the Colville Reservation of Omak, Washington, Phillips ran in some tough circles and was on her way to getting into trouble as a youth before finding MMA. “If you went to a party on the rez or something like that, you knew that you were going to get into a fight,” she remembered.
“Someone was going to talk [expletive] and someone was going to get their head knocked off their shoulders. It was crazy. I was getting in fights all the time when I was younger. I used to be this small, quiet person, and then all of a sudden everything changed and I was rowdy because that was just how it was. If you had a problem with somebody, you threw fists at each other and you handled it that way. That was definitely the lifestyle of Omak and where I grew up."
At 24, Phillips began training at Spokane's Sik Jitsu gym. She took her lumps there before learning enough to become a fighter herself.
Her training and new professional career helped Phillips turn her life around. “I was getting in trouble at one point and things weren’t working out and there’s a lot of regrets I have because of certain choices that I made," she said.
"So it did get to the point where I was like ‘I need to stay busy with myself and start doing something positive that I like to do,’ and I’m just thankful that I had people that pointed me in that direction of mixed martial arts.”
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Eddie Alvarez has long believed he's the best fighter in the world. Now, the former Bellator lightweight champion is going to get the opportunity to prove it.
A whirlwind day ended for Alvarez Tuesday with a series of interviews, after he agreed to a new UFC contract and will face Donald Cerrone in the first bout of his new deal at UFC 178 at the MGM Grand Garden on Sept. 27.
Alvarez had been in a protracted legal dispute with Bellator and had sued to get out of his deal. But Alvarez settled and came back to fight one fight final, a rematch for the lightweight title against Michael Chandler last year. Alvarez won that bout to win the title in a sensational battle after he'd lost to Chandler in an epic match in 2011.
He was at odds with Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney, but when Rebney was let go in June and replaced by Scott Coker, things kicked into motion. Coker on Tuesday morning announced Bellator had released Alvarez from his deal, making him a free agent.
A few hours later, he'd agreed to a new deal with the UFC and what should be the hotly anticipated fight with Cerrone.
"This is going to be an extremely fan friendly fight," he said of his bout with Cerrone. "How can it not be? You have two guys with the some of the highest finish ratios in all of the sport. You know people are going to love this fight. How can they not? These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want. I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I've done that in my career, I've stepped up and risen to the challenge."
Alvarez, 30, is 25-3. He's long sought the kind of stage the UFC will provide.
Alvarez is rated fourth at lightweight by Sherdog and fifth by MMA Junkie. He wasn't eligible for the UFC rankings because the UFC's rankings, voted on by media members, are only open to UFC contracted fighters.
The fight with Cerrone will give him the opportunity to prove his contention that he's the best in the world.
"I want to prove the naysayers wrong," Alvarez said. "They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see and they're what motivates me. I have a tremendous support from a lot of the Underground fans. They believe in me, they want to see me do well and they're behind me. But there are a lot of people out there who don't believe it, and so I want to separate perception and reality. I want to be able to do that.
"What they perceive is not real. I'm the No. 1 fighter in the world and they're going to see that very soon."
Below is the full first fight between Alvarez and Chandler from 2011 that many thought was that year's Fight of the Year.
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Former WEC announcer Joe Martinez will soon make his octagon debut.
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Ferguson, MO has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, of late but it's also where UFC welterweight Tyron Woodley calls home. The fighter recently went back home to the St. Louis area to talk with kids who are where he was, years ago.
In the above video, Woodley visits student-athletes working out at the Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation center in East St. Louis and tries to inspire them to aspire to greatness outside of what they may see every day in their neighborhoods. "They're in a pretty tough environment," Woodley said of the young wrestlers.
"This is actually what I enjoy doing. People think that fighting is your life but really, talking to kids, mentoring, giving back, that's my passion. That's going to be my last job. And I use the positive publicity we get from Mixed Martial Arts to inspire, to encourage, to motivate these kids."
Check out the whole video above and let us know who you looked up to for inspiration as a child in the comments section.
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Last March, UFC newcomer Conor McGregor said some pretty stupid-sounding things about the champion of his division, Jose Aldo. "I think he's basic," the Irishman said of the long-time featherweight title-holder.
There's nothing that jumps off the page when I look at him."
Well, Aldo has taken his time in responding to McGregor's insults and was measured in his response, during a recent interview. "I see his words as a normal thing. He's like a new [Chael] Sonnen," Aldo said of McGregor.
Sonnen, though a much-improved fighter over the years, and a world-class athlete, became most famous for his trash talk. Aldo seems to think that McGregor is still mostly talk, at this point, as well.
"He's building his name. He has just a few fights in the UFC and he's trying to jump the line," Aldo said.
"He for sure has already done this, because he talks so much. He speaks very well, I think he'll reach his goals very fast. About the belt, someday we'll meet and then we'll see who is who."
McGregor is 3-0 in his young UFC career. Do you think he'll ever get to Aldo's level?
Let us know in the comments section!
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