posted on: October 19, 2020
It was a bond none of them knew they shared. “I know Kron is getting boxing training, but I’m not going to do that. Swanson then faced Gracie at the U.S. Open next. The fact that I get to represent Team WEC is awesome.”. Cub Swanson (R) is unsure if he'll continue to fight, after recent losses and injuries. I'm like, 'OK, I'll take this youngster, who hasn't been in the five-round wars yet,’” Swanson said. In 2010, UFC President Dana White announced that the WEC would merge with the UFC and officially unify the two brands. Swanson won nine fights before entering the WEC in 2007. Elated by the win, Swanson called Diaz with the big news.
“I’ve had to reinvent my career multiple times and this one was the hardest,” Swanson explained. Cub Swanson is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu but stopped training in the martial arts discipline 15 years ago because of Kron Gracie. "Anyone who's helped him along the way, he definitely appreciates it. In honor of Khamzat Chimaev's 10 day turnaround for his fight against Gerald Meerschaert at UFC Vegas, we look back at the Top 5 fastest turnarounds in UFC history.
He’s still chasing that summit and says he’s experienced enough that it’s only a matter of time before he knocks someone out again. Faber became a UFC Hall of Famer, Jose Aldo sat on top of the MMA world for years, “Showtime” Pettis graced a Wheaties box, and many, many more. On July 25, 2004, Swanson made his first professional fight. “He didn’t believe me,” Swanson recalls with a smile. Swanson figured, based purely on his athleticism, that he’d be able to beat anyone at the jiu-jitsu school in a fight. Cub Swanson official Sherdog mixed martial arts stats, photos, videos, breaking news, and … Some say that Swanson may be done, which is why UFC is giving Gracie such an experienced opponent at this early stage of his career. He remains unbeaten. Fightful is providing live coverage of the event, which airs live on Fox Sports 1. “Kron, this is only his second fight in the UFC, and you give him Cub Swanson? "My last couple fights, I feel they're showing that they see me more as a gatekeeper, having all these young up-and-comers fight me. Now that the questions were gone and even more eyes were on Swanson and the WEC crew, the lights were shining brighter for everybody. So, he began making the rounds to some of the jiu-jitsu gyms in Orange County where he now lives with his wife and three children. Age: 36: Height: 5'7" Weight: 145: “I stepped into his world 15 years ago. MMA was not sanctioned in California in 2004, so Swanson competed at Total Combat in Mexico. Swanson next faced Frankie Edgar on November 22 at UFC Fight Night 57. But in my professional life, I’m hungry. I’m fighting the top people but that’s not an excuse for me. All rights reserved. “I know the rules aren’t going to be in his favor this time. There were also points Swanson says he won that he did not receive credit for because the referee told Swanson on more than one occasion that he was off the mats. Find him on Twitter: @Andrew_L_John. “I should have known right away that I wasn’t going to get a fair match,” Swanson said. Swanson said he doesn’t want to fight forever, but he says he still has some fights left in him and that he hasn’t peaked yet. I’m hungry for a win.”. I’ve lost like 60 pounds since I first started. Fans tuning in are advised not to blink because Swanson plans to come in hot right out of the gate. “He’s like jiu-jitsu royalty,” Swanson said. Swanson would still go partying with his pals, but he’d take a Gatorade and drink that instead of alcohol. 1 contender fight as they faced off in the main event in … Cub Swanson to test free agent market. Swanson said no. Swanson says he was vocal at the time that he didn’t get a fair match. 1 contender at bantamweight but is yet to get his crack at the championship.. A friend suggested that to get a workout and learn something new, Swanson and a group of friends should check out a school that taught jiu-jitsu, a grappling martial art with an emphasis on ground fighting. Swanson stopped partying and began training with jiu-jitsu trainer Ramon Diaz. “Cub’s one of the most talented guys I’ve ever seen, out of anyone I’ve seen in that training room,” UFC analyst and former MMA fighter Brendan Schaub said. Featherweight competitor Cub Swanson is headlining UFC Fight Night Fresno this December against Brian Ortega. I thought the UFC threw Halloway under the bus when he was ambushed in the post fight interview asking would he fill in and fight Swanson two weeks later or whatever.
One thing that irritated Swanson was that the referee gave Gracie a one-minute break during the match and helped him up after a point and even tied his belt after his became loose — courtesies not extended to Swanson. “From then on, I said that I’ve never seen something so real and I’ve got to do this.”. Aljamain Sterling has cemented himself as the No. He lost a split decision to Shane Burgos last May in Ottawa and believes that he lost the bout because whenever he'd miss on his first punch, he'd stop instead of throwing more. Though he never fought for a title, WEC was Swanson’s first stable home. He was wrong. This included a rematch with Gugerty in 2006. “I respect him; the dude is talented. Joined: Jun 16, 2019 Messages: 5,295 Likes Received: 0 Location: UK. Both men were eyeing the chance to position themselves for a No. He’s improved his conditioning during this most recent camp, he says, and the chip that was once on his shoulder has returned because of the opponent. It is the final fight on Swanson’s current UFC deal and the fighter is planning on testing the free agent market after the bout. To kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, the Fighter Timeline series features Cain Velasquez and five of the biggest fights of his UFC career. “I got tooled by whites and blue belts,” Swanson recalls. Swanson has fought four of the top names in the featherweight division and admits that motivation had recently waned because of all that he’s accomplished in the Octagon combined with the birth of his three children over the last two years. Yet after winning six straight against opponents like Charles Oliveira, Dustin Poirier and Jeremy Stephens, Swanson suffered a setback on the biggest stage followed by another. Back before he was putting on Fight of the Year at UFC 206 against Doo Ho Choi, Swanson was 5-3 in the WEC with three Fight of the Night performances. When UFC floated to Swanson the idea of Gracie as a potential opponent, he had just two words for UFC president Dana White: For this fight, Swanson knew that he’d have to brush up on his jiu-jitsu. Blair Cobbs learned to box. Follow the rise of Jan Blachowicz as he made his way through the ranks to a light heavyweight title shot against Dominick Reyes at UFC 253. It turned my entire life around.”. More:Here are our pound-for-pound boxing rankings. “I had to show him the belt.”. Without ever really going to the ground, Swanson won the unanimous decision in his first Fight of the Night outing in two years. More:As a kid, his family hid from the FBI in Mexico; how'd he stay sane? That’s them banking on Cub being over the hill.”. “It really pissed me off because I didn’t understand the politics of it.”. The UFC veteran (25-11 MMA, 10-7 UFC) will fight Gracie again on Oct. 12 in Tampa, Fla., but this time it’ll be in the Octagon as the co-main event of Fight Night 161 on ESPN+. They didn’t want to be shunned in the jiu-jitsu community for helping Swanson. I’ve got three kids, a beautiful wife, a nice home. I wouldn’t do that.”. How important is Cub Swanson's next fight? Now, after all these years, Swanson will finally get a rematch. I've got no problem knocking them off.
“That’s basically what caused me to stop training in the gi and start focusing on MMA. He began bringing friends with him to train, including Josh “Hurricane” Dubinsky, who now runs Hurricane Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Cathedral City and is training Swanson for his fight against Gracie. The men who made up the WEC were torn from a unique cloth that only they understood. Both men were eyeing the chance to position themselves for a No. Cub Swanson is a featherweight currently under contract with the WEC. Years later, he still believes that Gracie was given preferential treatment from referees because of his last name. “The matchup, the training is reminding me that this is something I’ve wanted for 15 years, and I’m excited to get back,” Swanson said. "But he still has his reasons for fighting and he's still going to do all he can to make sure his hand is raised in the end.".
The Cathedral City native and UFC featherweight beat out more than 50 others in his jiu-jitsu division to win the Pan-American games as a blue belt in 2003, when he was 20 years old. As Amanda Nunes readies to defend her bantamweight title at UFC 245, she does so as the unquestioned greatest female. “The thing people don’t understand is that I’ve got to a point where I’m making good money and it’s enough to live on, but it’s not retirement money. Why would we expect anything less than a man who won over half of his fights in WEC by way of submission? To say I'm getting paid the same to fight Aldo or Frankie, as Brian Ortega? Despite the loss, Swanson continued to compete in professional MMA fights. Only they felt the irritating question coming their way, “Why aren’t you in the UFC?”. Cub Swanson has found the time machine to take him back to “the good old days” when he was stealing the show night in and night out at WEC. Swanson vigorously disputes that. Brian Ortega’s rise to the top of the UFC featherweight division featured a host of impressive moments, but arguably few were slicker and more impressive than his finish of longtime contender Cub Swanson at UFC Fight Night 123 back in December 2017..
Copyright 2020 Shazzu, Inc. All Rights Reserved. As a kid, his family hid from the FBI in Mexico; how'd he stay sane? “It’s a power move. “It’s very humbling, but you just get addicted to it. His opponent, Shannon Gugerty, submitted Swanson via Rear-Naked Choke. It is the final fight on Swanson’s current UFC deal and the fighter is planning on testing the free agent market after the bout. Gracie opting to stand with Swanson gave the veteran the opportunity to hand him his first MMA loss and put himself back in the winner’s bracket, but what it didn’t do was allow him to show off the ground game that he had been touching up. Swanson spent a whole camp adding to the semi-hidden ground game he already possessed in preparation to derail Gracie and he did just that. Swanson remembers that his friends ended up drinking that night and decided not to go, but he gave it a shot. “He’s coming into my world,” Swanson said. In order for the judges to tell the fighters apart, it’s traditional at martial arts competitions that one of the two squaring off wear a green or yellow belt over top of their own belt. “It just took me back again to that little bit of anger of it not being right, in my opinion,” Swanson said.
“For this last fight I trained a lot of jiu-jitsu for a lot of positions I thought I’d be put in and then it didn’t really happen, so I had the itch to use it and this came up, so I thought, ‘I should do this,’” Swanson said. A career reinvention on the north end of 30 years old is sure to be met with mental setbacks but how did Cub Swanson respond?
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