Road To The Finals Part 4: Daniel Straus vs. Patricio Freire
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MMA H.E.A.T. brings you the first installment of "Janitor Tips," with UFC Light Heavyweight Vladimir Matyushenko. Based on Twitter suggestions of #janitortips, the former IFL champ gives his own brand of comedic advice. They may be deadpan responses...but what do you expect from a Belarusian bad-ass? Listen, learn, and always RESPECT THE JANITOR! Also brought to you by Jakt Apparel, Micro Tech and Hayabusa.
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Anyone worried about Nick Diaz's future with Zuffa and an eventual move over to the UFC, should check out Dana White's reaction during the recent Strikeforce event. Watching Diaz pummel Paul Daley, White loses his mind cageside (NSFW).
White's first UFC 129 vlog also gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work Chuck Liddell is now doing with the promotion.
You can watch UFC 129 on PPV (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) right here on Yahoo! Sports.
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One of the biggest mixed martial arts cards in history takes place on Saturday night, with the UFC smashing its attendance record by selling 55,000 tickets to fans who will get to see the UFC's most popular fighter, Georges St-Pierre, defend his welterweight belt against challenger Jake Shields. What: UFC 129: St-Pierre vs. Shields When: Saturday, the Facebook stream starts at 6PM ET, the Spike TV fights start at 8 and the pay-per-view fights start at 9. Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto Predictions on the five pay-per-view fights below.
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The first five episodes of Season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter featured fights that were generally not very compelling. Episode 6 changed things. With two exciting fights that both ended in the first round, Episode 6 provided the best fights of the season so far. In this week's interview with Ultimate Fighter cast member Ramsey Nijem, we got his thoughts on being in the gym to see the two fights live. We also got Nijem's opinion of his coach, Junior dos Santos, kicking Lew Polley off the team, and on the UFC 129 main event, which saw Nijem's training partner Jake Shields lose to Georges St. Pierre. The full interview is below.
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Mystery surrounds elite fighters and their ability to cut weight. How is it possible for Georges St. Pierre to drop 25 pounds by Friday afternoon before his fight with Jake Shields but gain most of it back and be full-strength by fight time on Saturday night?
It's no guessing game. Smart fighters treat nutrition as a science, carefully regulating their diet before fights. GSP's main trainer Firas Zahabi talked about what the UFC welterweight champ does to ensure a healthy weight cut.
Now he's on a protein and vegetable diet. Right now his exercise is significantly cut, but he's going to shed water. It's only temporary weight loss. It's not real weight loss. You're not dropping fat. (The final weight-cut) lasts about six days . . . By Friday he'll have six or seven pounds left and we'll put him in the sauna. I don't recommend this to anybody, even professional athletes. This is somebody who's very seasoned.
After GSP steps on the scale on Friday afternoon and weighs in at 170 lbs., his team will give him a carbohydrate-laden recovery drink. Then, he will eat normally and drink water to rehydrate. He'll weigh around 192 lbs. by the time he steps in the Octagon with Shields on Saturday night for UFC 129.
Some fighters start their eating plan months in advance. Mike Dolce, a nutritionist and former contestant on "The Ultimate Fighter," works with fighters to ensure a complete eating plan that helps fighters cut weight without the sauna. Like Zahabi, Dolce does not recommend sauna use.
"The guys who use the sauna to cut ten or twelve pounds, you're forcing your body to expel so much water so quickly that it's not discerning what water is safe to cut from the system and what water isn't. It's just taking it from wherever, and it becomes dangerous. That's where you see guys who don't recover from their weight cut. They look sluggish in their fight, and they defeat the whole purpose of all the training and the conditioning from their fight camp."
A recent study on wrestlers found that severe weight cuts could hurt their mental abilities in a match. Without using proper methods, fighters can find themselves in bad shape for their bouts.
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*** Watch Complete 1/2hr HD Episodes on http://www.MMAheat.com ***MMA H.E.A.T.'s Karyn Bryant spends a few minutes with Jake Shields at Xtreme Couture in Toronto, and gets his thoughts on the upcoming title fight against Welterweight Champ Georges St. Pierre. Jake talks about his preparation and training regimen, why he's wanted to fight Georges for so long, and he let's us know his reaction to Georges' statement that he is the toughest challenger the champ has ever faced. Jake also discusses the "Skrap Pack," his team that includes Strikeforce champs Gilbert Melendez and Nick Diaz, as well as UFC fighters Nate Diaz and Daniel Roberts. And he also let's us know how he feels about the media attention he's been receiving in the days leading up to the fight.Be sure to visit http://www.MMAheat.com for more interviews and archived episodes of our 1/2 hour TV show.
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