Posts Tagged ‘Opponent’

Patrick Barry – A “Pure Striker” Makes His Octagon Debut

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - I’m not a fighter, but if I happened to be one who was going to be fighting Patrick Barry, I have to say I’d be a little bit curious as to the meaning of the following line from his UFC bio, which gave his thoughts on his UFC 92 opponent, Dan [...] Read more »

Patrick Barry  A Pure Striker Makes His Octagon Debut

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - I’m not a fighter, but if I happened to be one who was going to be fighting Patrick Barry, I have to say I’d be a little bit curious as to the meaning of the following line from his UFC bio, which gave his thoughts on his UFC 92 opponent, Dan [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida - Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck was knocked [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida - Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck was knocked [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida - Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck was knocked [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida - Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck was knocked [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida - Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck was knocked [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida - Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck was knocked [...] Read more »

Yoshiyuki Yoshida – Tokyo’s Positive Thinker Readies for ‘Kos’

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You can’t rattle Yoshiyuki Yoshida too easily. Case in point, the October 25th bout between Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves. Yoshida, scheduled to fight Koscheck in the main event of this Wednesday’s “UFC Fight for The Troops” event, was faced with the possibility of losing his opponent if Koscheck [...] Read more »

UFC Vet Jeremy Stephens Banking on Breakout Performance

Frank Curreri, UFC - Though his nickname is “Lil’ Heathen,” Jeremy Stephens is actually quite a religious fellow. Before every fight the Iowan prays that both he and his opponent will emerge from the scrap without serious injury. As a fight draws nearer, Stephens listens to an iPod in a backstage dressing room, confident the [...] Read more »

The Blueprint: Randy Couture

Michael DiSanto, UFC - Randy Couture’s resume speaks for itself. There is no need to get into why he is seen by casual fans as the overwhelming favorite to defeat an opponent with only three professional fights under his belt on Saturday night.Brock Lesnar, however, is no ordinary “novice” fighter. His deep [...] Read more »

Betting on UFC and MMA - Brock Lesnar vs. Randy ”The Natural” Couture

When UFC three-time heavyweight champion Randy ”The Natural” Couture returns to the Octagon at UFC 91 on Saturday, November 15th in Sin City, he will be facing a bigger, stronger, faster, and younger opponent in Brock Lesnar.
But Couture would have been fitting as the man to have coined the phrase "the [...] Read more »

Randy Couture’s Ten Defining Moments

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - When UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture returns to the Octagon at UFC 91 on November 15th in Las Vegas, he will be facing a bigger, stronger, faster, and younger opponent in Brock Lesnar. In other words, the odds will be against the 45-year old Couture once again. Strangely enough, [...] Read more »

For Amir Sadollah it’s one foot in front of the other until the mountaintop

Chuck Mindenhall, UFC - Amir Sadollah wasn’t all that concerned about being an underdog in just about all of his fights en-route to winning The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Griffin; turns out those cases were just too isolated. That’s because Sadollah prefers to think of himself as being an underdog to the entire [...] Read more »

UFC 90 Musings

Michael DiSanto, UFC - Anderson Silva is the best fighter in the world, pound for pound. There is no legitimate argument to the contrary. Yet, Saturday night, he found himself in against someone many believed to be an overmatched opponent, but who turned out to be an extremely game Patrick Cote.
Posted from ufc.com Read more »