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...because they displayed his shockingly technical and precise kickboxing, which is his ultimate weapon against Silva. The Cain Velasquez of old who typically relied on a frenetically paced ground assault would face a much stiffer test against Silva's high-level...
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...to prove that he deserves another chance to fight for the title, and this is perfect opportunity." Mixed-martial arts fighter Cain Velasquez has spent just 64 seconds in the steel cage during the last 17 months. And he probably would like to forget that minute....
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...no action except a takedown attempt by Velasquez that was thwarted by Dos Santos. ANAHEIM - Junior Dos Santos stopped Cain Velasquez just 1:04 into their UFC heavyweight title bout Saturday night, claiming Velasquez's belt and bringing a swift end to...
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...Velasquez is returning to the scene of his greatest victory. It was at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Oct. 23, 2010, that Velasquez reached the top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight division, throttling then-champion Brock Lesnar...
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...can fight for free by.Herb dean to ref the brock lesnar vs cain velasqueznot a member yet join today - its free results - mma videos > in the ring > ufc cain velasquez vs brock lesnar i highly recommend people re-watch his fight vs nogueira.Brock ......
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...idea of a submission. Willâs Pick: Brock Lesnar is bigger (at least by twenty-five pounds), stronger and more explosive than Cain Velasquez. Those physical attributes will help the World Heavyweight Champion overcome the gap in technique and defeat his strongest...
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...moments in the career of Cain Velasquez. Every fighterâs career starts with that first fight, their professional debut. Cain Velasquez started his career on the undercard of a Strikeforce card held about 125 miles east of his hometown in Fresno, California....
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...hear Cain Velasquez talk about Brock Lesnar, maybe size does matter. But the way he looks at things, it's not something he can't overcome. Velasquez (8-0, 6-0 UFC) gets his shot at Lesnar, the UFC heavyweight champion, Saturday at UFC 121 in Anaheim, Calif....
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...in his amateur wrestling days but worked hard to become the 2000 NCAA Champion while attending the University of Minnesota. Cain Velasquez catches a flight to Miami to help promote the UFC in the Latino community. Velasquez is vying to become the first Mexican...
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Ariel Helwani
Ariel Helwani is a Video Reporter and Writer for FanHouse
On the year-end edition of The MMA Hour, we were first joined by heavyweight contender Cain Velasquez, who is set to face Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 110 in Sydney,
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...A highly anticipated heavyweight matchup between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-5-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Cain Velasquez (7-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) may take place Down Under. Despite reports circulating today that Nogueira and Velasquez will meet at UFC 109 in Las Vegas,...
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MIAMI, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Tequila CAZADORES®, the number-one premium tequila in the world(1) and Official Spirits Sponsor of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® ("UFC®"), is proud to announce the eighth recipient of the Tequila CAZADORES Authentic
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MMAmania.com is proud to announce the grand prize winner of our UFC 104 Dethrone Royalty-sponsored contest give-a-way, Alex Martin.
Alex came the closest out of the thousands upon thousands of entries that we had to sift through these last few weeks
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UFC Mania
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Star-divide.The hits just keep on comin.'
Brazilian heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira has been pulled from the main event of UFC 108 where he was to square off against the undefeated Cain Velasquez to determine the next number one
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UFC Mania
http://www.mmamania.com/2009/11/14/1157629/big-nog-out-of-ufc-108
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That’s the hand the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was dealt as it prepares for its traditional blockbuster year-end pay-per-view (PPV) event, which is slated for the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 2.
So with all its
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MMAMania.com
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Cain Velasquez says he's interested in the fight against Big Nog at UFC 108 but it's not confirmed yet. He also says he manhandled Ben Rothwell and that Fedor is the one of the greatest fighters out there.
I really like Cains attitude. I wouldn’t
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Bloody Elbow
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An intriguing heavyweight contest between former UFC interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrgio Nogueira (32-5-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and undefeated contender Cain Velasquez (7-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) is in the works for UFC 108.
Brazilian cable channel SporTV's
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Former UFC interim heavyweight champion and mixed martial arts legend, Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira, is in talks to take on undefeated rising star Cain Velasquez at UFC 108, which is slated for the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada,
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MMAMania.com
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...it will help draw in Mexico, but on PPV it will be worth about as much as any random heavyweight going for the title. Cain Velasquez is young. He’s not like Shane Carwin, who’s already up there in age. His eventual fight with Brock Lesnar for the title,...
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...it will help draw in Mexico, but on PPV it will be worth about as much as any random heavyweight going for the title. Cain Velasquez is young. He's not like Shane Carwin, who's already up there in age. His eventual fight with Brock Lesnar for the title,...
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Right? Both these guys could step up right now. JDS took no damage in his fight with Mirko, and Cain barely broke a sweat against Rothwell. I say have one of them step up...
or...
Have the BJ PENN vs DS fight moved up a month, and move back the
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I dont see him beating lesnar, as his striking is powerfull but lacking technique and I dont see him putting brock on his back or being able to stop brock from putting him on his back.
ok so, I WAS all up on the Carwin bandwagon since his KO at UFC 84,
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MMAMania.com
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Cain Velasquez' camp American Kickboxing Academy had been very reluctant to rush him into title contention, but the win over Ben Rothwell has them thinking their fighter is ready to challenge for the title. This opens up the question, what do they
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Cain Velasquez kept his perfect record intact at UFC 104 with a dominating TKO victory over an always-tough Ben Rothwell, and now the American Kickboxing Academy product seems poised to face the winner of the Nov. 21 Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin title
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Sherdog.com
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- Cain Velasquez has a lot of things going for him but big power in his hands are not among them. In the process of controlling Ben Rothwell for the entire fight and landing roughly four thousand punches to Ben's head Cain never seemed to be close to
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Cain Velasquez has proved himself once again by dominating Ben Rothwell in the UFC heavyweight division of UFC 104. The first 30 seconds of the first round was not a good start for Rothwell, as he was on his back but he did manage to get back on his
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In Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES, October 24 – He’s only had seven pro bouts, but with rapid fight-to-fight progress and a one-sided second round thumping of highly regarded Ben Rothwell Saturday night at STAPLES Center, it’s clear that Cain Velasquez isn’t just the future
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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 23: UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida weighs in at UFC 104 Weigh-In at Staples Center on October 23, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Lyoto Machida
LOS
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I think Velasquez should get a title shot, if he wins. Ben I feel probably needs one more big win. Maybe Big Ben vs Junior for a shot if Rothwell wins tonight.
...assuming Junior beats up on Gonzaga
I think a guy who's 6-0 who gets a shot at the
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...of the first things you notice when UFC heavyweight Cain Velasquez enters the octagon is the tattoo spread above his chest. The ink reads ``Brown Pride'' and it's body art that Velasquez wears proudly. The 27-year-old native of Salinas, Calif., does battle...
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Yes, there is another fight in UFC 104, it’s not the one everyone is talking about, but it also matches to be as big, if not bigger than the main event itself. Cain Velasquez who has had an impressive early start to his career takes on hard hitting
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UFC 104: “Machida vs. Shogun” is set to go down this Saturday, October 24, 2009 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., live on pay-per-view starting at 10 p.m. ET.
To get us pumped for the event, MMAmania.com Editor and Senior Writer, Jesse
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"He’s a normal person, just like me. Whatever he’s willing to do to me, you know, I’m willing to do the same to him. [I plan on] controlling him on the feet, making openings, taking him down. Just beating him up real bad, and picking my shots and
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Will Cain Velasquez have a star-making performance at UFC 104 or will Ben Rothwell capitalize on the weaknesses exposed by Cheick Kongo? Dave Meltzer asks the question:
Trainer Javier Mendez had noted in the past that Velasquez had been willing to
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Bloody Elbow
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After two weeks of catching miniscule regional and international promotional action with the peak coming on Saturday by way of Alistair "Mega-reem Overlord" Overeem's Hulk Smash of Tony Sylvester, I think it's safe to say that we're all ready for a
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We’re back again, giving away more free gear as yet another major mixed martial arts event approaches.
MMAmania.com is proud to announce a UFC 104 contest give-a-way that will run from Sunday, Oct. 18, to Saturday, Oct. 24.
We will once again award
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"Big" Ben Rothwell has paid his dues to get to where he is, and he plans on being around for a long time.
Rothwell is jumping right into the mix in the UFC's ultra-competitive heavyweight division when he makes his UFC debut against Cain Velasquez at
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The Orange County Register
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He’s going to get ripped mercilessly for this, but I get the feeling from his answer that he’d say the same of anyone. He’s just a proud, confident guy.
would he get ripped mercilessly for his comments?
He didn’t say anything outrageous he said he’d
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Bloody Elbow
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“Definitely me. I’m a proud Mexican fighter. Anybody who steps in that ring with me, it’s like fuck them, I’m gonna beat them. The guy’s gonna have to kill me. I think he’s an awesome fighter, he’s the best. It’s not like the movies or TV with the
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“I’m ecstatic to be here finally … I didn’t want to be one of those guys who was just happy to get into the UFC. You know, you see a lot of these guys that come and go, and that just isn’t me. My objective all along has been to come into the UFC as a
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MMAMania.com
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doesn’t matter, that was Kongo’s fight to win. If he didn’t go for the takedown after throwing those bombs and connecting (quite easily) he would have ended it. Simple as this – Kongo can have some devastating knee’s – a couple of those instead of
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Before Sunday's WEC featherweight title fight between champion Mike Brown and Urijah Faber, the prevalent question on the mind of many of the sport's fans was: Is Mike Brown for real?
The answer is yes.
Brown, a native of Maine who now resides and
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I recently visited the American Kickboxing Academy which is one of the best MMA gyms in the United States. The gym is run by former World Champion Kick boxer Javier Mendez. Mendez has a plethora of talent he works with including; Josh Koscheck, Josh
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awesome. this is shaping up to be a really good card. cant wait
Its a great card regardless if carwin is on it or not, but I really wanted to see Carwin on this card...rothwell just doesn't excite me as much as carwin.
you know who they're giving
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After news broke about Shane Carwin being taken off the UFC 104 card to fight Brock Lesnar at UFC 106, many were left wondering whom Cain Velasquez would fight. The answer is Ben Rothwell.
Rothwell was booked to fight Chase Gormley at the same card,
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Bleacher Report
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Someone didn’t get the memo =(
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
From this angle it looks like his shirt says “Deepthroat”.
Romans, be it your duty to rule the nations with imperial sway … to impose the rule of peace, to
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Bloody Elbow
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/8/20/996133/cain-velasquez-talks-to-fanhouses
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Daniel Cormier’s career as an amateur wrestler has taken him to many places in this world, all while gaining a reputation as one of the world’s finest along the way. Now the two-time Olympian’s background in wrestling brings him to the world of mixed
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/235396-daniel-cormier-discusses-move-to-mma
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Unless cain has improved his striking significantly, I have to pick Carwin in this fight.
This has to be the real number 1 contender fight. No more title shots for Randy or Nog. At least until they beat someone other than eachother.
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MMAMania.com
http://mmamania.com/2009/07/16/ufc-quick-quote-shane-carwin-ready-for-cain-velasquez-at-ufc-104/
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“I cannot say I was surprised by anything that night other then Brock’s reaction to beating a very tough Frank Mir. Frank is a legend and a great guy who got out powered not out classed. The sponsor issue, you need to talk to your manager not the fans
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Promoted from the FanPosts by Kid Nate.
I cannot say I was surprised by anything that night other then Brock's reaction to beating a very tough Frank Mir. Frank is a legend and a great guy who got out powered not out classed. The sponsor issue, you
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