(Props: ‘SmashedAceHole’ on the UG. Fight starts at the 3:03 mark.)
Before he was the UFC’s #1 welterweight contender and a Fight! magazine cover-boy, Thiago Alves was just a young scrapper whose last name was consistently butchered by announcers and commentators. Alvs’s Alvarez’s Pitbull’s eighth pro MMA match took place at a King of the Cage event in Cleveland back in February 2005, where he faced then-undefeated Jeff Cox, who entered the cage sporting maroon Aokipants and a hairstyle that might be described as a "nohawk." After missing a head kick, Alves grabbed a Thai clinch and found Cox’s snooze-button with a knee to the chin. He then fired punches into Cox’s grill until Herb Dean dove on to stop the abuse. Alves caught the attention of the UFC with the 15-second KO win, and would make his Octagon debut eight months later. All Cox got was the shame of waking up in Cleveland wearing red tights.
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commentsI heard that the UFC tried to trademark "The Octagon" but it didnt pass because you can't trademark a shape. Ben, any knowledge of this?
If this is true screw that if I were in charge of Affliction or any other MMA promo I'd jack the Octagon cage too! It's just the best cage out there. Hexagon comes in a far 2nd.
This is damn near a hate crime.
I don't know how Thiago didn't got charged by murdering people yet.
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