Issue 064
July 2010
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NEWS: THIAGO ALVES, BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMILY
Would it surprise you to learn that Thiago Alves narrowly escaped being forced into a career as a baker? The American Top Team welterweight gave an interview in which he revealed that his mother and family were skeptical (even horrified) when he first made moves towards being a professional fighter. “At first they thought I was crazy because I’m like the black sheep of the family. I’m a momma’s boy. She thought me fighting was just a phase and that it would pass.”
INTERVIEW: LEONARD GARCIA WEC 48 FIGHT OF THE NIGHT WINNER
FO: It can’t be nice to hit someone with your best shot and have them keep plodding forwards.
LG: It was crazy. I hit him so hard I hurt my hand and he didn’t go anywhere and I was like, ‘Oh man!’ I did that several times in the fight and I was like, ‘Please let this next one knock him down, please let this next one hurt him!’ It was crazy, a fight like that. It almost felt like it wasn’t real. I was like, ‘Man I know I am hitting this guy with good shots, but he just isn’t going down!’ I almost started to think against myself but then I was like, ‘No, he is getting tired, he is getting a little bit slower.’ So I thought I would find an answer but in the end I just could not finish him.
FEATURE: THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF PAUL DALEY
When UFC 113 drew to a close another night of quality, action-packed mixed martial arts entertainment was firmly in the bag. Sadly so too was the fledgling UFC career of Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley following a cheap shot thrown after the fight had ended.
FEATURE: DAN SEVERN, THE ORIGINAL WRESTLER IN THE UFC
Although mixed martial arts has been very dynamic in its 18 or so years, the dominance of the wrestler has been omnipresent ever since Dan Severn first stepped into the Octagon in 1994. ‘The Beast’, as he came to be known, paved the way for the likes of Don Frye, Mark Coleman and Matt Hughes.
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