Welterweight Jake Ellenberger is known for heavy hands and good wrestling. Martin Kampmann is concerned with the former, but the latter, not so much. “If Jake tries to take me down, I think it’s going to be a real short night for him,” he told MMAjunkie.com in advance of his headlining fight with Ellenberger at [...]
“The Ultimate Fighter 12″ winner Jonathan Brookins has a couple pieces of advice for the winner of “The Ultimate Fighter: Live.” Don’t go crazy after the show, and invest your money wisely. “Spend all that money making the best you,” Brookins said in advance of his fight with Brazilian featherweight Charles Oliveira at The Ultimate [...]
When Frank Caraballo stepped up to the scale for the weigh-ins leading into his first amateur fight, meant to be at 185 pounds, he could manage just 167 pounds. That was in the days when amateur fights were less regulated, so the Cleveland native had no problem getting into the cage with a much bigger [...]
As expected Patrick Cote is returning to the UFC for a UFC 148 bout with fellow middleweight Cung Le. As MMAjunkie.com first reported Wednesday, Cote has replaced Rich Franklin, who recently was shifted to a UFC 147 headliner against Wanderlei Silva. Le vs. Cote will remain on UFC 148‘s main card, officials today announced.
LAS VEGAS – At just 20 years old, Hawaiian featherweight Max Holloway was on top of the world when he walked into the octagon for the first time. Unfortunately, he quickly found himself under Dustin Poirier. “It was kind of a wake-up call for me,” Holloway admitted to MMAjunkie.com. “I thought everything that would happen, [...]
While Peyton Manning is all the rage in Denver right now, there is life in the Colorado sports world that exists outside of No. 18′s large shadow. “Mixed martial arts is huge in Colorado,” Denver native Chris Holland told MMAjunkie.com Radio this week in preparation for his fight Saturday night against former UFC veteran Phil [...]
MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the show UFC light-heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson and UFC on FX 4′s Ricardo Lamas. We also chat with D.J. Linderman, who headlines Saturday’s Cage Warriors 47 event on MMAjunkie.com, as well as Ring of Fire 43 fighter and veteran competitor Phil Baroni. MMAjunkie.com Radio airs from noon to 2 p.m. [...]
LAS VEGAS – UFC officials have billed Friday’s five-round non-title fight between Martin Kampmann and Jake Ellenberger as a title-eliminator. Of course, with the welterweight division in a state of disarray due to champion Georges St-Pierre lengthy knee recovery, such a title shot could be nearly a year away. Ellenberger got into MMA to be [...]
Watch below as TUF Live finalist Al Iaquinta talks about his experience on the show, making it to the finals against Team Faber teammate Michael Chiesa, only having six days to prepare for the finals, being on the show without his coaches Ray Longo and Matt Serra, what he’ll do when he gets back home [...]