Frankie Edgar: “Size isn’t an issue”
Thursday, 10 June 2010 at 14:14
Just 5’5”tall, Frankie became a giant when he snatched the lightweight belt of Hawaii’s BJ Penn at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi. The fighter, who trains with Brazil’s Ricardo Cachorrão, was featured in Brazilian MMA magazine NOCAUTE. Check out some of what he had to say in the article put together with the help of...
Anderson and Demian’s chat onstage
Monday, 19 April 2010 at 10:44
Anderson Silva and Demian Maia appeared on this Sunday’s “Domingão do Faustão” TV show, on the Brazilian Globo network. A confessed MMA fan, it was not the first time talk show host Fausto Silva receives famous fighters. Rodrigo Minotauro, Rogerio Minotouro and Vitor Belfort, for example, were all there. The first to show up on stage...
Anderson speaks
Monday, 19 April 2010 at 10:44
Anderson Silva and Demian Maia were face to face this Sunday, on Brazilian television channel Globo’s “Domingão do Faustão” Sunday show. However, the Spider also appeared in another Sunday news outlet. In a special by Ary Cunha, in “O Globo” newspaper, Silva commented on the controversy surrounding his title defense against Demian Maia. Below are...
A reflection on Anderson
Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 13:09
In Abu Dhabi, Jiu-Jitsu master and coach to Anderson Silva Sylvio Behring followed all the fallout from Silva’s fight against Demian Maia. Upon reading “Letter from Abu Dhabi IV” – part of a series of articles written by GRACIEMAG editor Luca Atalla –, Behring sent in his own comments to be posted in the bulletin,...
Anderson and Demian face to face again on TV
Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 13:09
After facing off in a controversy-riddled bout in the Octagon, Anderson Silva and Demian Maia will face each other yet again. And the mediator for the encounter will be Fausto Silva, the host of a popular Brazilian Sunday TV show. The UFC, greatest among mixed martial arts events in the world, will be the theme of...
Letter from Abu Dhabi V
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 at 12:35
I enter room 436 of Rotana Hotel at around two Saturday morning with neither a camera nor a notepad, not as a reporter, but as a friend. Renzo is stretched out on one of the beds, Cristina by his side. Also in the room are Ralph and Flávia, Sérgio Ignácio, Zé Alfredo, Cora, Ruran and...
Demian comments on Anderson’s attitude
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 at 22:05
What’s most on everyone’s tongues about UFC 112 is, without a doubt, Anderson Silva’s posture during his fight with Demian Maia. In the middleweight title bout, Anderson fooled around, hid behind the referee and taunted Maia. There are those who think nothing of such an attitude, who feel it was part of Silva’s strategy....
After UFC, MMA in Abu Dhabi to pay out one million
Monday, 12 April 2010 at 12:15
Anyone thinking Abu Dhabi stopped talking about MMA with the end of UFC 112 is mistaken. Under the official patronage of Sheikh Mohamad Bin Zayed, the Abu Dhabi Fighting Championship event promises to gather heavyweights like Sergei Kharitonov, Marcio Pé de Pano, Jeff Monson, Marcos Oliveira and other beasts to duke it out for a...
Letter from Abu Dhabi IV
Monday, 12 April 2010 at 12:15
UFC president Dana White looked to be just as disappointed with the performance of Anderson Silva in his showdown with Demian Maia at UFC 112 as the rest of the press, the crowd present in the arena, and me. But he showed why he’s the right man for the right job, at the post-event press conference....
Anderson admits: “I lacked humility”
Saturday, 10 April 2010 at 19:27
Anderson Silva has a style all his own. Honest, but controversial. During his bout at UFC 112, he attacked Demian Maia with provocations, in a fight that even became monotonous starting in the third round. The belt remains the champion’s but, at the end of the affair, the shower of boos showed the level of discontent...
