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I went out to corner my team mate Ulysses Gomez in San Antonio Texas for his MMA fight in Bellator Mixed Martial Arts Championships. ‘

For those of you who don’t know, Ulysses is the younger brother of U.S. World Cup soccer star Herculez Gomez.

Here’s the full video and play by play of his fight at Bellator on Thursday.

Check it out:

Travis Reddinger vs. Ulysses Gomez

Round 1

Gomez lands a sharp leg kick to start the action. Redding responds with leg kicks of his own. Gomez responds back with his own leg kick.  Another sharp leg kick by Gomez as both fighters are cautious. Gomez snaps a leg kick and Reddinger rushes forward with strikes. Gomez lowers his level and scores a double leg takedown. Gomez is in full guard and is unable to score with punches. Reddinger works his way back to his feet and rushes Gomez to the cage fence. Gomez clamps in a standing guillotine and brings Reddinger down to the mat with it.  Reddinger fights it off and breaks the choke. Gomez works his way back to his feet off the cage wall. The fighters are now trading punches in the clinch. Gomez lowers his level and scores another double leg takedown as the round comes to an end.

Round 2

Reddinger rushes forward again with strikes and Gomez lands another double leg takedown to counter the attack. Gomez postures up and begins landing kicks to Reddinger’s thigh. Gomez continues to land blazing kicks to the grounded Reddinger. Gomez finally slows the assault and Reddinger rises to his feet. Reddinger grabs a clinch, but Gomez reverses Reddinger into the cage. Reddinger reverses it back as the fighters trade knees. Gomez lands an outside trip and scores another takedown. Gomez postures up and pulls away, letting Reddinger get back up. Big overhand right by Gomez, but Reddinger shakes it off. Gomez is keeping his distance as Reddinger walks him down. The fighters are in the clinch and Gomez lowers his level to score another double leg takedown as the round comes to an end.

Round 3

Reddinger shows some urgency and misses with a few punches.  Reddinger continues to push forward but is struggling to find the mark. Gomez grabs a clinch as they tussle along the cage. Back to center, Gomez lands a right answered by a Reddinger knee. Gomez rushes forward and scores another takedown. Gomez is unable to make a pass from full guard and stands up, shifting back to his leg kick assault to the grounded Reddinger. Gomez lets Reddinger up, Reddinger rushes forward and Gomez takes him right back down to the canvas.  Gomez continues to struggle inside Reddinger’s guard and lets him back up. Reddinger lands a knee and Gomez lowers his level to score another takedown. Reddinger has an arm bar, but it isn’t tight.  Reddinger transitions to a triangle, but can’t seem to close it out.  Reddinger transitions back to an arm bar, but again Gomez is able to work his way out of the submission attempt and stands up as the bell calls an end to the fight.

Official Result

Ulysses Gomez def. Travis Reddinger via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)

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Hey I’m getting ready to go corner my boy Ulysses “Useless” Gomez in Bellator .

Here’s and article from MMAJunkie that got picked up by Yahoo sports..

Check it out:

Ulysses Gomez

The Gomez family has its share of international athletic experience, but it was new to second-oldest child Ulysses Gomez in 2007, when the son of a furniture store owner and used-car salesman purchased his ticket to Turkey.

A former soccer player like his star brother, Gomez had built himself into a well-rounded fighter after he began training in 2001. He was successful in grappling tournaments before he tried Pankration, a fighting form with ancient roots that combined boxing and wrestling.

So there he was, in the 2007 FILA World Wrestling Championships, representing Team USA in Pankration.

“Somebody asked me how I thought I would do,” Gomez told MMAjunkie.com

Gomez found out soon enough. With a strong performance, he won a gold medal, and he was then ready for his mixed-martial-arts career.

After winning Tachi Palace Fights’ flyweight (125-pound) belt, the 27-year-old Gomez makes his debut next week in the Bellator Fighting Championships bantamweight tournament, the next step in a career that has seen him go 6-1 using skills developed during his years of grappling, boxing and Pankration.

Following the athletic example set by older brother Herculez, who played for the United States in the World Cup this summer and has become a professional soccer star in Mexico, Gomez has blazed his own path in MMA, which he hopes can continue with his Bellator opportunity.

“People say, ‘This is the biggest fight of your career,’ but I hope not,” Gomez said. “I see it as the first step of many, hopefully taking me on to even more things after I’m done fighting. But for now, I want to keep improving and winning.”

A gifted family

Gomez was born in California to a family with a Mexican heritage. His parents owned a furniture store in Los Angeles before moving the family to Las Vegas when he was about 11 and finding work in dealing used cars.

His two brothers and two sisters all came in quick succession, and Gomez jokes about his family options based on his ethnicity.

“Being Hispanic, there are three things people do: fighting, soccer and construction,” Gomez joked. “Well, I don’t like soccer, and I don’t like yard work.”

But another family member took to soccer. Herculez Gomez, 13 months older than Ulysses, became a star in the sport and eventually became a scoring champion in the top Mexican league. Even six months before the World Cup began, he was barely on the U.S. team’s radar, but he performed well leading up to the picking of the teams.

An exhibition game near the final roster cuts fell on Ulysses Gomez’ birthday, which was a good sign. Herculez always scored on his birthday, he said.

The tradition continued, and Herculez Gomez’ goal helped him make the American roster for the world’s biggest sporting event.

“There’s something I noticed about him playing,” Ulysses Gomez said. “I watched him play for his (Major League Soccer) team once in Denver, and before the game you could see his mood change. It was real subtle, but he got real serious, and I could see it. I never felt like that when I played soccer.

“But that’s how I feel when I fight, like I’m a little nervous. But about an hour before, I get real serious and very focused. That’s how I know it’s for me.”

Years of training

By 2001, Gomez was ready. Aug. 1, in fact.

“A day that forever changed my life,” he said.

He had been renting UFC tapes and enjoying MMA. He had always told friends he felt he could be successful there, as well. So one day, he simply picked up the phone, called a gym and found a home.

Within months, Gomez started his career in grappling tournaments that continued for years with great success – to the point that tournaments would specifically request him. At his height, he was appearing nearly two dozen times per year.

Then he tried boxing, and then Pankration, with wins in both. Following the World Wrestling Championships in 2007, he returned home a champion having represented the country. Palace Fighting Championships, the successful California-based promotion that’s groomed dozens of notables, called and said the promotion wanted him for an event.

Looking for a new challenge, he accepted. He made his professional MMA debut in March 2008 and won his first two fights before taking on Rambaa Somdet in November 2008.

“Everything that can go wrong went wrong,” Gomez said. “I was heavy at the weigh-in, and I had to cut 12 pounds that day. I was in the hospital, and they put IVs in, and they said, ‘You shouldn’t fight.’ I said, ‘Man, I’m fighting.’

“I remember him dropping me in the first round, and we made it all the way to a decision, and he won; he really did. We were talking afterward, and I said, ‘I can’t believe he dropped me.’ My guys said, ‘Which time? He dropped you four times.’ I only remembered once.

“That showed me I could compete when I’m not even 100 percent.”

Gomez (6-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) then won four consecutive fights to earn his upcoming Bellator opportunity, where he meets Travis Reddinger (14-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) in an opening-round fight of the eight-man tourney. But he’s hoping his career can continue with the experience he gained in multiple fighting techniques in multiple countries over the years.

He doesn’t want to live up to his nickname, “Useless,” which he was called by other children in school who couldn’t pronounce his name. Gomez facetiously adopted the nickname for his fighting career.

“You have to have some fun with things, not be too serious all the time,” he said. “That’s how you stay loose.”

For additional coverage of Bellator 27, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com. (www.mmajunkie.com). “I said I would either lose my first match or smash everybody. I was either out of my league, or they wouldn’t be on my level.”

I’m a HUGE Mike Tyson fan. And in this video you see UFC President Dana White sit down and talk with Mike Tyson about the UFC, Mixed Martial Arts, Randy Couture vs James Toney and what it takes to become the greatest boxer of all time.

Plus a lot more!

Awesome video. Watch right now! Enjoy!

Mike Tyson

I can’t WAIT to see James Toney vs Randy Couture!! UFC 118 is coming to a movie theater near you!

Check out this article and video I found on UFC.com

UFC® 118 TITLE FIGHT ACTION BURSTS BACK ONTO BIG SCREENS NATIONWIDE AS FRANKIE EDGAR AND BJ PENN THROW DOWN THE GAUNTLET IN THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED REMATCH THIS AUGUST

Centennial, Colo. – August 9, 2010 – Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) and NCM Fathom have once again joined forces to give fans the front-row treatment with the high-definition broadcast of UFC 118: Edgar vs. Penn 2 in 369 select movie theaters nationwide on Saturday, August 28 at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.  Broadcast live from the TD Garden in Boston, the much anticipated rematch between Frankie Edgar and BJ Penn will be the first-ever UFC event in Massachusetts.

UFC fans can catch all the action in their local theaters by purchasing tickets at www.FathomEvents.com and at presenting theater box offices. Visit the NCM Fathom website for a complete list of theater locations and prices (theaters and participants are subject to change). Fans who purchase four tickets to the in-theater event can receive a free TapouT t-shirt. Redemption details are available at www.ufc.com/4pack.

Theatergoers across the country will be part of history as mixed martial arts (MMA) comes to Massachusetts for the first time following a two-year effort by legislators to bring the sport to the Bay State. Signed into law in December 2009 by Gov. Deval Patrick, the regulation of MMA enables the UFC to bring a full schedule of exciting events to Massachusetts including UFC 118: Edgar vs. Penn 2.

“UFC 118, with the rematch between Frankie Edgar and BJ Penn, and UFC legend Randy Couture and three-time boxing champion James Toney, is going to look and sound amazing on the big screen in theaters,” said Dana White, UFC President.

The title fight is a rematch between Edgar and Penn, who last met in the Octagon at UFC 112 on April 10. That back-and-forth fight kept fans glued to their seats and ended with a razor-thin win by Edgar; Penn’s first loss in the 155-pound division since 2002. Despite controversy among fans and critics over the close scoring, Edgar walked away with the title as judges called the match 50-45, 48-47 and 49-46 in his favor. Given the near-even matchup and tremendous competitiveness of these two fighters, the rematch bout is shaping up to be one of the biggest fights of the year.

Also on this card, UFC Hall of Famer, Randy Couture goes toe-to-toe with boxing legend James Toney. The 41-year-old Toney makes his UFC debut against Couture who has been a mainstay of MMA for over a decade and has been a three-time former heavyweight champion and a two-time light-heavyweight champion, as well as a former US Olympic wrestling team alternate in his pre-MMA days. Toney got his start in boxing in 1988 and fought professionally until 2009, winning his way through Middleweight, Super Middleweight, Cruiserweight, and Heavyweight championship titles.

In addition to these two highly-anticipated fights, UFC 118 : Edgar vs. Penn 2 will also feature the battle between Kenny Florian and Gray Maynard. Boston hometown favorite Florian will pit his impressive 13-4 professional record against Maynard’s flawless 9-0 with the next top lightweight contender spot on the line.

“Fathom and UFC present another grouping of bone-crunching matches for the delight of hungry MMA fans this month with UFC 118 : Edgar vs. Penn 2,” said Dan Diamond, vice president of NCM Fathom. “If you can’t be ringside in Boston, be front-row center in your local movie theater for the ultimate UFC experience.”

UFC 118 : Edgar vs. Penn 2 will be shown in select movie theaters including AMC Entertainment Inc., Celebration! Cinema, Cinemark USA Inc., Clearview Cinemas, Cobb Theatres, Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, National Amusements, Rave Motion Pictures and Regal Entertainment Group movie theaters, as well as The Arlington Theatre (Santa Barbara, CA), Carolina Theatre (Asheville, NC), Palace Cinema 9 (South Burlington, VT) and Penn Cinema (Lititz, PA), through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network – North America’s largest cinema broadcast network.

UFC 117: Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen – Saturday, August 7th, live on Pay-Per-View from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA.

Chael Sonnen has been talking A LOT of smack about Anderson Silva.Check out this free UFC 117 trailer to see them talking smack about each other.

UFC 117 SILVA VS SONNEN

Official fight card
Main card

My picks in RED

* Middleweight Championship bout: Anderson Silva  vs. Chael Sonnen (Anderson by KO Chael is the better wrestler but Silva is the better fighter)
* Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves (Alves by KO.. Jon could win but I see him getting caught.)
* Lightweight bout: Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos (Guida by Dec I think he gets take downs and avoids submissions)
* Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida (Hughes by GnP stoppage)
* Heavyweight bout: Roy Nelson vs. Junior dos Santos (Man I used to train with Big Country back in the day and we run into each other at the gym from time to time.. Big Country by me hoping my friend wins!)

Preliminary card

* Welterweight bout: Dustin Hazelett vs. Rick Story (Dustin by Sub)
* Light Heavyweight bout: Phil Davis vs. Rodney Wallace (Phil by Team Lloyd Irvin Gameplans)
* Light Heavyweight bout: Tim Boetsch vs. Todd Brown (Tim because I don’t know who Todd is yet…)
* Welterweight bout: Johny Hendricks vs. Charlie Brenneman (Johny’s my team mate at Striking Unlimited and he says he’s got his MEAN-NESS back .. Charlie’s in trouble .. Johny by TKO or Sub)
* Heavyweight bout: Stefan Struve vs. Christian Morecraft (Struve by TKO strikes)
* Welterweight bout: Ben Saunders vs. Dennis Hallman (Ben by KO from knees)

UFC on Versus is coming up this fast! Jon Bones Jones vs Valdimir Matyushenko. After watching Jon Jones destroy Matt Hammil (Even though Bones got DQ’ed) and after the way he beat Brandon Vera who is a friend of mine and one of my favorite fighters.. I don’t see how Valdimir will have much for him , unless Bones Jones is taking him lightly. Bones by stoppage. RD 1

What up!

In between my MMA fights I like to travel and I just got back from L.A.

While I was out there I met up with my lifelong friend JayKapp who is a music producer out there.

Anyway.. I get to his house and it turns out Platinum Rapper Richboy lives on his couch.. Richboy’s made a long of songs including Throw Some D’s On It.. and has an album coming out soon. He also has a mansion he can stay at but would rather stay at Jay’s house because there’s a studio in the living room and it’s in Brentwood which is closer to everything.

Anyway Rich is a super cool dude and in between talking about how to go from being broke to getting famous and everything else we made a video together for my roommate who couldn’t be there. It’s kind of hard to understand him when he talks so I started calling him the black Boomhower (King of the hill reference).

Next time I go to L.A. we’ll do a video about his thoughts on MMA.. He’s got some pretty funny stories. Stay tuned.

But yeah .. Rich is an awesome rapper and a really down to earth guy so be sure to click here to listen to Richboy’s hit songs if you want

Hey check out this news article about me and my uncle

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20100708/SPORTS/7080302/David-Bollea-emerging-from-huge-shadow-that-is-his-uncle-Hulk-Hogan

Hulk Hogan's Nephew David Bollea Undefeated In MMA

Ok so I’ve been experimenting with my diet a lot and I’m discovering some really cool tricks..

King David Hogan has a serious situation

I found the coolest diet in Tim Ferris’ 4 hour body book. Along with a ton of other cool stuff like how to add 34 lbs of muscle and how to give women 15 minute orgasms..

Anyway.. This is the EXACT diet I’m on now except I don’t drink alcohol so there’s no red wine for me and I’ve been watching a lot of Entourage re-runs lately instead of Discovery Channel.

I’m 165lbs right now with 6 pack abs and the scale says I have 7.7% bodyfat and still losing.

This diet is really easy to maintain because I like Mexican food and that’s pretty much all I eat on this. A form protein (lean chicken, lean steak, or egg whites) with black beans and salsa for every meal. About once or twice a day I eat guacamole with it and I’m still getting leaner.

Anyway check out the entire diet I found in Tim’s book The 4 Hour Body!

Enjoy:

P.S. He also shows how he gained 34 lbs of muscle in 28 days without steroids, how to triple testosterone and how to produce 15 min female orgasms. All here.

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It is possible to lose 20 lbs. of bodyfat in 30 days by optimizing any of three factors: exercise, diet, or drug/supplement regimen. I’ve seen the elite implementation of all three in working with professional athletes. In this post, we’ll explore a variation of the “slow carb” diet as used by Dean Karnazes, an ultramarathoner famed for completing 50 marathons on 50 consecutive days in 50 different states. The most impressive part of this, for me, is that he did so, not with the typical anemic marathoner build, but with a well-muscled mesomorph body.

In the last six weeks, I have cut from about 180 lbs. to 165 lbs., while adding about 10 lbs. of muscle, which means I’ve lost about 25 lbs. of fat. This is the only diet besides the rather extreme Cyclical Ketogenic Diet that has produced veins across my abdomen, which is the last place I lose fat (damn you, Scandinavian genetics). Here are the four simple rules I followed…

Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates

Avoid any carbohydrate that is — or can be — white. The following foods are thus prohibited, except for within 1.5 hours of finishing a resistance-training workout of at least 20 minutes in length: bread, rice, cereal, potatoes, pasta, and fried food with breading. If you avoid eating anything white, you’ll be safe.

Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again

The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat loss, eat the same few meals over and over again. Mix and match, constructing each meal with one from each of the three following groups:

Proteins:
Egg whites with one whole egg for flavor
Chicken breast or thigh
Grass-fed organic beef
Pork

Legumes:
Lentils
Black beans
Pinto beans

Vegetables:
Spinach
Asparagus
Peas
Mixed vegetables

Eat as much as you like of the above food items. Just remember: keep it simple. Pick three or four meals and repeat them. Almost all restaurants can give you a salad or vegetables in place of french fries or potatoes. Surprisingly, I have found Mexican food, swapping out rice for vegetables, to be one of the cuisines most conducive to the “slow carb” diet.

Most people who go on “low” carbohydrate diets complain of low energy and quit, not because such diets can’t work, but because they consume insufficient calories. A 1/2 cup of rice is 300 calories, whereas a 1/2 cup of spinach is 15 calories! Vegetables are not calorically dense, so it is critical that you add legumes for caloric load.

Some athletes eat 6-8x per day to break up caloric load and avoid fat gain. I think this is ridiculously inconvenient. I eat 4x per day:

10am – breakfast
1pm – lunch
5pm – smaller second lunch
7:30-9pm – sports training
10pm – dinner
12am – glass of wine and Discovery Channel before bed

Here are some of my meals that recur again and again:

Scrambled organic egg whites with one whole egg, black beans, and mixed vegetables

Grass-fed organic beef, pinto beans, mixed vegetables, and extra guacamole (Mexican restaurant)

Grass-fed organic beef (from Trader Joe’s), lentils, and mixed vegetables

Post-workout pizza with extra chicken, cilantro, pineapple, garlic, sundried tomotoes, bell peppers, and red onions

Rule #3: Don’t drink calories

Drink massive quantities of water and as much unsweetened iced tea, tea, diet sodas, coffee (without white cream), or other no-calorie/low-calorie beverages as you like. Do not drink milk, normal soft drinks, or fruit juice. I’m a wine fanatic and have at least one glass of wine each evening, which I believe actually aids sports recovery and fat-loss. Recent research into resveratrol supports this.

Rule #4: Take one day off per week

I recommend Saturdays as your “Dieters Gone Wild” day. I am allowed to eat whatever I want on Saturdays, and I go out of my way to eat ice cream, Snickers, Take 5, and all of my other vices in excess. I make myself a little sick and don’t want to look at any of it for the rest of the week. Paradoxically, dramatically spiking caloric intake in this way once per week increases fat loss by ensuring that your metabolic rate (thyroid function, etc.) doesn’t downregulate from extended caloric restriction. That’s right: eating pure crap can help you lose fat. Welcome to Utopia.

If you want more like and to learn how to gain 34 lbs of muscle in 28 days.. give 15 minute female orgasms and a lot mote then check out the book I got this all from by clicking the pic of the book below