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“Victor Belfort” Live on Pay-Per-View television on February 7, 1997, you could see a hulking Brazilian fighter crash through your screen and step into the UFC cage. Referred to as “Victor Belfort” multiple times on the UFC broadcast and previously known as “Vitor Gracie” because of his association with the Gracie family, the man named…
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That’s Judo! If you go back and watch Karo Parisyan’s fights, this is a word you will hear about 7 times per round. When he hit the scene in the early 2000s, Judo was not well-represented on the North American MMA scene. In terms of cage fighting, US fans dismissed this art as limited and…
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As a Martial Artist or Fighter, how do you test the effectiveness of the techniques you learn in training? Damage. At least, that’s according to one of the greatest Martial Artists to ever live, Joe Lewis. One night in January of 1970, Joe Lewis’s telephone rang. Hollywood stuntman and student of Lewis, Lee Faulkner was…