I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.
I wouldn't say I'm the best MMA fighter but I'm working on it every day and I'm getting better and better.
You never know what will happen in the future - I would never say 'no' to getting into MMA.
You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.
MMA is not just about who punches the hardest. There are a lot of things you have to know what to do. That's what I love about it.
I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
Brock Lesnar was basically eye candy for MMA. He came in there, he was big, he was strong, he won a few matches, he captured the title, and then he was out. Not much of a career.
If you speak pro wrestling or MMA, you almost speak any language.
Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.
I love working with new guys, especially MMA guys.
I want the ankle match with Kurt Angle... or I want Brock to see who is the best from MMA and pro wrestling.
I hope to be remembered one day as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, fighter in MMA history.
It's an incredible feeling, just to know that you have MMA fans that are behind you and want to know when your next fight will be.
I've said this before, but I need to repeat it again: Nothing impresses me more than when MMA fighters handle a particularly tough defeat with grace and class.
I didn't and still don't watch sport all that often, but I did see all the Pride fights back in the day, which is when I first saw MMA and I felt that's something I really want to do.
Fighting is not what I do - it's who I am. It's what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.
In MMA, there isn't time to admire your work until it's all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I'm doing while it's happening.
I like to have Ric Flair in the ring one more time in the MMA or the UFC. I'd like to beat the hell out of him.
I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai, too.
I really don't look at it as a real sport because anybody can come into MMA and learn that. You can learn that.
Following the Road FC chief Jung Moon-hong's goal to increase the popularity of this sport, I will play my part to popularize MMA as well.
I was born in Colorado Springs and I spent a lot of time there. I moved to Denver when I first started training in MMA full time.
I wouldn't argue that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.
I wish I would have started MMA earlier, but it was out of my hands. It was in God's hands.
It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.
Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.
The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.
Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia.
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
I still like fighting, it just got to a point in MMA where it was just another day.
Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.
In MMA, you can literally cheat over and over again, and it's OK. The media will back you.
I'm not going all the way; I'm going to be the best fighter that's ever fought in MMA. That's what I truly believe.
If you look at Mayweather's fights he often likes to get into the clinch, but what is a boxer in a clinch against a wrestler, an MMA fighter?
I'm doing yoga, MMA and things like that. I'm an unorthodox player, so I have to do things that fit my kind of game.
When you fight MMA, there are so many things involved, so many techniques, that you just can't do everything or you'll over-train.
I'm no doubt the best fighter in MMA. There's no doubt about that, and I have the mental ability now to go along with the skills I have always had.
There would be no Mauro Ranallo in MMA, or maybe even period, to be truly honest with you... without Bas Rutten's friendship, mentorship, and just belief in my talents.
Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?
Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it's all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.
There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet,
I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.
K-1 is the sport where I started. This is my first love, and I find K-1 more attractive and more suitable for our Croatian fans than MMA.
To me, KSW is a huge promotion and it's on my list of one of the things I want to do as an MMA fighter. I think that goes for any European fighter.
I don't say MMA fans are racist at all. What I said is that fans are opinionated, especially because we're the only professional sport to give them that access.
Hey look, I respect Ronda. She's done so much for the sport of women's MMA. I'm never going to take anything away from her.
In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.
Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.
I feel like MMA athletes are the best athletes in the world.
Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.
I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!
I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.
The sport has definitely moved beyond that founding idea of MMA, but without a doubt we wouldn't be sitting here right now if the Gracies didn't come here and teach their style and create the UFC.
And y'all scared I can tell
That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.
I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!
Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
The difference between me and other black belts is that I truly believe that jujitsu can be used in all aspects of MMA, because it was created to do that. If you train hard, it will work.
I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.
Mark Hunt is a legend in MMA, he's a legend of K1 and it's a great honor to fight him.
I get stopped at the airports by just everyday people that are not even fans of the MMA and they say how they have seen me fight. Its very humbling and also rewarding.
You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
I'm a menace to society,
But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me.
After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing...
You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.
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