Articles Posted by huggy bear
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Eating Disorders
From body dis-morphia to binging and purging, almost every fighter I know has some type of eating disorder, including me, or at least some signs of one. I started noticing this year’s back after Romie and I fought. I weighed in at 127 for that fight, I’m 5’10”, so you can imagine (and see from [...]
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Is MMA Counterproductive to Muay Thai?
How many times have you been watching an MMA fight and heard the announcer talk about a fighters ‘beautiful Muay Thai’. How many times have you heard Joe Rogan say ‘Beautiful leg kick’ even though the fighter he is referring to kicked his opponent square in the shin. Or ‘That guy has really good teeps [...]
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In the Ring with Kevin Ross- Studying Fights
On more than one occasion I’ve had people say to me, “Man you should take your fights off the internet cause your opponents are going to be able to watch them and figure you out.” Now I can understand where they are coming from and their reasoning behind it but to me I could care [...]
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In the Ring with Kevin Ross – Game Plan
“Hey Kevin- Did you have a specific strategy lined up for Malaipetch? -Nopstar “Everyone has a game plan until they get hit” A lot of people like to quote Mike Tyson on this one but it was actually the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, who originally uttered those words. They were as true then as they [...]
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East coast v. West coast rivalry
This article is in response to some of the comments and questions from the ‘In the Ring-with Kevin Ross’ post. There’s always talk on the forums online as well as around the country about the whole east coast west coast thing, so here’s my two cents, or however many cents this is. In any kind [...]
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Sparring In America
Recently I was sent a quote by Saenchai, “When it comes to technique, work on it over and over again until you have mastered it. The most important thing for me is technical sparring, I always tried to do as much as possible throughout my career and think it should be the most important part [...]
