Issue 062
May 2010
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News: Dana talking to BJ Penn about welterweight fights in 2010
UFC president Dana White has talked to lightweight champion BJ Penn about moving up to the welterweight division this year. “Dana has expressed that he would want to see this year, maybe, me in the welterweight division. We will see. I have got a tough fight with Frankie Edgar coming up, [and] there is always good lightweight talent. I guess I would just have to say I don’t have my mind set on anything yet – I don’t want to jump the gun and give away all Dana’s plans!” Penn said.
INTERVIEWS: Mariusz Pudzianowski on facing Tim Sylvia, Nastula AND MMA
The World’s Strongest Man is scheduled to fight twice in May, against Pawel Nustula and Tim Sylvia.
“Mariusz, your next MMA bout will take place in Katowice, Poland. Tell us please, how are your preparations going? Who do you train with?”
Three, four times a week I have 90-minute boxing classes with Krzysztof Kosedowski. I train Greco-Roman wrestling with Polish national team under Ksawery Biedermann and I also perfect my grappling skills in another gym. I mix everything together and I feel I’m good at it.
INTERVIEWS: Rampage on video games and photoshoots
Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson recently did a photoshoot with Fighters Only. While he was with us we talked about a few things including video games and why he doesn’t like having his picture taken.
People are always like, “Why aren’t you smiling in this picture?” and I’m like, “I never did!” I never smile in my pictures. All the pictures I have had taken, you will probably find like one or two where I am smiling. You gotta tell a joke or do something to make me smile, that’s the only way. Pride used to love taking pictures, and you always had to be doing something. They’d be like “Bite the chain, bite the chain!” and I’d be like “Bite these nuts!’”
FeatureS: Playing to your strengths
Following a grueling and extremely violent eight-man tournament in 1993, where many teeth were lost and even more bones were broken, to the surprise of many the last fighter standing was not a ripped, adrenalin-charged, muscle-bound warrior with maniacal eyes, but a small, quiet and unassuming gentleman named Royce Gracie. The UFC had arrived and people’s perceptions of fighting were indelibly altered. Some 17 years on and MMA has evolved at a bewildering rate, but the figure of a classy, humble fighter standing at the top of the food chain has remained a stable.
