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From TMZ.com:
As TMZ first reported, the just-defeated UFC champ was busted yesterday afternoon for alleged felony hit and run. Now we have the details — and they’re insane! Rampage was on the 55 Freeway in the O.C., hit two cars and got off the freeway. The chase was on.
Rampage then began driving on the center divider. But it gets worse. According to the police report, Jackson then drove on the sidewalk, “causing pedestrians to flee for their lives.” He started driving the wrong way on a crowded street, colliding with yet another car in an intersection. As he continued on, running several red lights, his tire disintegrated and he began driving on the rim.
Rampage eventually got to the exclusive Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, where he again drove on the sidewalk, “causing pedestrians to flee in terror.”
Eventually, his car came to a stop and he was taken into custody at gunpoint. Cops took him to the Orange County Jail, but they determined he was “medically unfit” to be booked. Cops won’t say if he was high.
Rampage is currently in an O.C. hospital.
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Who created and co-produced the original Ultimate Fighting Championship with Rorion Gracie?
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Which UFC veteran served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the early 1960
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Randy Couture’s memoirs (”Becoming The Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage “) will be released on July 22 through Simon & Schuster. Randy will be at these locations to sign the book:
Monday, July 21st – NYC / Virgin Megastore Times Square (6:00 PM)
Tuesday, July 22nd – NYC / Borders Wall Street (12:30 PM) AND Bookends in Ridgewood, NJ (6:00 PM)
Thursday, July 24th – San Diego / Camp Pendleton (6:00 PM)
Monday, July 28th – LA / Virgin Megastore Hollywood & Highland (7:00 PM)
Tuesday, July 29th – Torrance, CA / Borders (7:00 PM)
Wednesday, July 30th – Long Beach CA / B&N (7:00 PM)
Thursday, July 31st – Las Vegas / B&N (7:00 PM)
Monday, August 4th – Chicago / Borders in Schaumberg (7:30 PM)
Tuesday, August 5th – Cincinnati / Joseph-Beth Booksellers (7:00 PM)
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“I flew to Denver, Colorado last week to train with Trevor Wittman. I’m here training with one of the best boxing coaches there is. I came here a week before Nate (Marquardt) fought in London to help him before his fight, and at the same time I got to know Trevor, who did some mitt work with me and helped me out. I fell in love with his training methods and his work as a striking coach and I knew that I had found my boxing coach. So I’m out here now and learning from him. I’ll be here until the 13th of July, and then we’ll all head down to New Mexico to work with Greg Jackson and Georges St-Pierre, and Nate will be coming down as well.
Before going to Denver, I trained with (Muay Thai coach) Phil Nurse for a week and a half in New York and I learned a lot of stuff from him. Right after that I went to Montreal and trained with Georges for about a week and trained with Dennis Kang for a day. I’ve also been training with Jonathan Chaimberg, who is Georges’ strength and conditioning coach, and when I was in LA recently, I trained with Justin Hagen, who was my strength and conditioning coach for the last year.”
Source: UFC.com
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“He’s cool. I’m kinda disappointed he’s in the big league so far but I’d like to see him in the second round. He didn’t pay his dues and earn his way into the UFC — he got in because his name is Brock Lesnar. I can’t hate on the guy, I don’t hate him, I’m happy for him. He’s doing his thing and making money. He’s in the UFC but I don’ t like the situation, how he got in.”
Source: Baltimore Sun
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I never fight with my anger, I fight with my heart. I don’t carry anger during the fight, I fight with my heart. The way I fight it’s purely mechanic, if you do something I’m going to react. I try not to let my emotion go, sometimes it can be good because I use it to finish strong and stay pumped up at the end and give me the adrenaline rush. But let’s say at the beginning of the fight, I try to make the fight mechanical, because I don’t want to let my emotion go and make some mistake and get caught on something. That’s my mentality of fighting, that’s the way I approach a fight. Some guys do it differently and I respect that, but in my case that’s the way it works the best.
-UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre______________________________
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“I’m not gonna go more cautious because it’s Chris Leben. I’ll do what I normally do, look to stand on the feet and set the pace. It’s the same in every fight, you assess the situation, play it by ear, punches get thrown – and hopefully we’ll get the stand-up brawl we all want.”
Source: Setanta
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Bret Hart on if he was 20 years old again whether he’d be a pro wrestler or an Ultimate fighting championship competitor:
“I’d never do UFC. I wasn’t good enough and I was smarter than that. I have a lot of respect for UFC guys, but I still think they’re not getting the money they deserve, especially when I see them taking all those head shots. You can see the brain cells just vanishing when they get hit five, six times. It’s the kind of brain damage you carry around forever. You can’t put a price tag on your brain and I know that better than anyone else [since a concussion ended his career]. I have a lot of respect for it, but it’s not something I would have done, since I put too much value on my brain cells. I don’t mind pretending to bash somebody’s brain cells out.”
Source: Canada.com
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