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Marcus Davis's right eye was cut at the beginning of his loss of Nate Diaz, and by the end of the fight, seemed ths liked. Bleeding and swelling has continued throughout the fight up to Diaz choked out Davis in the third round.

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A veteran of Boston's boxing circuit, UFC 118's Marcus Davis grateful for MMA

Garden means are fighting on TD circle for UFC welterweight Marcus Davis.

Davis is enabled, before recently 37 Saturday's UFC-118-card on the only competitor in the storied arena (original Boston Garden, not corporate-sponsored version seen today) is fought.

He was 21, he knocked the last boxing card held the 67-year old arena for a hotel in Joe LaRoux for the second time in what he said.

Now, in the arena as mixed martial artists coming back almost 10 years after leaving boxes, a living example for MMA's grip on martial arts. He feels blessed to have found its way to the cage.

"The way things have in place, it has fallen as therapy for me," Davis (17-6 MMA, UFC 9) recently told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

Davis, Nate Diaz (12 MMA, UFC 7-3) Saturday's UFC 118 first pay bout meets, fought on the garden two years after he, moved further from Bangor, Maine, Boston to his boxing career. Already a father he took root in a Portuguese neighborhood next to professionals Micky Ward and Dana Rosenblatt while working as a bareback in the combat zone, a red light district known for his sleazy trained heyday of the 1970s.

He was a big fish in Bangor, but a different number in the city.To compensate for it has the usual hard guy routine and fought at the drop of a hat if someone made its toughness in question. He got a reputation for flying off the handle in the gym.

"I get really together with someone", he said."I was a real douchebag." "I liked either or I hated Sie.Alles was black and Weiß.Ich had a drinking problem at the time, and I was always fighting in which and from which the Ring.Es played no role."

At the same time he fought on the garden, he fell out of love with boxes.

He said "I was been screwed on so many times"."I was a professional for seven Jahre.Ich had maybe two and a half fights, a year though I every day, twice on the day six days a week, trained because fights ever promised and fell off."

"Then, fighting and be told, you will make X amount of dollars, and then I get my money, and it is half of it."

He had the UFC followed since its early days but had always in the boxing world was wrapped.

But he left this world, broke and bitter in 2000, and he spent the next three years of his life in proceedings a boxing contract to escape a judge who compared to "Work under slavery."On the way he met mark DellaGrotte and began his MMA training after 10 rounds of hard sparring with the trainer.

By the time he sent in his audition tape for "The Ultimate Fighter 2," the second season of the UFC-landmark-reality series, bar business, that is, divorced from his second wife, he was back in and life in a barn with a crippled former Army sniper.

He made it on the show, and the rest as you say, is history.

Davis says Boston was a boxing town, but things have changed in the six years since his 10 ounce gloves hing.Es the same for Massachusetts.

"" There boxing shows hardly ever, in particular, when comparing to MMA shows,"he said."Here in Massachusetts, there are two or three MMA one month zeigt.Sie are lucky if it show a boxing every two or three months.

"With my son, I watch no longer Boxen.Ich see the MMA.Ich sit 16, (and) we see who's MMA."

Davis has revived his relationship with his second ex-wife and lives .If with three of his children in Bangor (his fourth is in school) he Diaz meets, will fight its 13 UFC and it comes in a place where good memories it plenty.

"" I remember that here and what it was like when I was training for this fight, he said."I remember the feeling I had when I garden kam.Ich remember how I erschlossen.Ich just know that I will revive the whole thing in the quantity and the excitement and do like me that night."

He knows regardless of how things from this Saturday in turn that he the right choice, get out of the ring hit.

"I would still life in a barn with a crazy sniper if I not mixed martial arts", said Davis.

For more at UFC 118, stay tuned to the UFC rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

(Pictured: Marcus Davis)

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UFC 118 Preview: Will Nate Diaz spoil Marcus Davis Return Boston?

by Roling Leland on 26 August 2010 3: 20 PM EDT in MMA Events

UFC 118 receive things started on Saturday night in the main Division as Southpaw Boxer Marcus Davis (UFC 17-6, 9-4) will hopefully begin streak as it battles new statements Nate Diaz (12-5, 7-3 UFC). Both fighters are on similar terms in recent performances Davis has produced 3-3 record in his last 6 appearances Diaz 2-3 at the time of its last five bouts. Both fighters, coming off a victory.Davis Jonathan Goulet are dropped on UFC 113 in the second round them up against while Diaz sheet outside Rory Markham in only 2: 47 first round at UFC 111. This is the official debut main Diaz's bout with Markham was fought in catchweight when Markham weighed in seven pounds over 170 pound limit.

Matched up seems fairly uninteresting cursory glance does not take a genius to realize that gameplan Davis will revolve around establishing leather to Chin and Diaz Diaz's more than likely to be compatible with stand-up games, he suffers from what appears to be inherited cloud judgment in its strategy. Fascinating appeal to this fight, but that Diaz boxing training and game for risk on legs and its immense reach compared to most fighters certainly gives him an edge.

More although consideration.While we have all used to viewing Nate brother Nick demolition opponents from peppering shots on face and body blows harmful, Nate is beginning to show, that can operate at this level, as well as enduring success comes from attitude that can left field, and which may not be the best gameplan against the Boxer like Davis. Diaz will have to deal with the fact that the country as Boston is old stomping ground, where Davis professionally Boxed in his youthful days. Sometimes you can keep the crowd Support adrenaline going to fighter and can cause Davis additional power later rounds.

So Interestingly Diaz can benefit from considering the strategy taking down Davis and threatening his feet on the ground. After all, when is the last time Davis actually fought grappler who actually tried to grapple? And may be actually argue that never recorded such challenge, primarily because Davis was placed in entertaining match solely for doing exactly that--entertainment.

When you actually put Diaz in frame however, anything is possible.Nate probably winnable for legs and on the floor in this fight, only because I believe that I say that Davis has started to decline with age.It doesn't take a punch, as well as it used to, and it is certainly more susceptible to being battered in. ..While it looks bulked up behemoth fighter, we've seen far too many times that it can be bullied around the cage and air force bombed by precision strikes.Diaz will provide these strikes precision scope and Davis will explode to catch Diaz.Unfortunately, that would open him worldwide hurt on Earth.

With all that said Diaz should receive victory on Saturday night, whether it is on Earth is the question I would have just.. I think Davis will be forced to be very aggressive in stand-up for around Diaz's coverage and when that happens--will struggle of the ground in these encrypts I believe Diaz will secure a dominant position and place a huge danger in Davis or catch him in the submission.

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