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NewsCountdown to UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann
Former Olympic wrestler Sara McMann. McMann has the credentials, but will she be the one to stop UFC champion Ronda Rousey’s armbar?
NewsWill UFC 170 put MMA on the path to main stream?
Yahoo’s Kevin Iole argues that UFC 170, featuring three former Olympians might be a good push in the direction of main stream status for mixed martial arts.
NewsMcMann: Not tapping is foolishness, instead I won’t get there
“There’s toughness and then there’s foolishness,” said Sara McMann. “The object is not to get there, that’s how you win. I don’t want to just not lose.”
NewsCormier’s light-heavyweight debut almost spoiled by Popeye’s Chicken
Daniel Cormier: “The only thing that can make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeyes. So I freaked out the next day. It was bad, it was horrible.”
NewsThe ways Ronda Rousey aspires to be like Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“He is someone I aspire to be very much like in a business sense,” said Ronda Rousey ahead of her fight Sat with Sara McCann. “And I try to take every lesson that I can.”
NewsMacDonald looking to have title in 2014
Rory MacDonald: “Now, it has me looking in the direction of the title…I’m really looking and motivated to have that belt around my waist this year.”
NewsMcMann on Rousey: Don’t hate
“I think people are getting way, way, way too worked up about Ronda Rousey’s personality,” said Sara McMann. “It’s so blown out of proportion.”
