Branded Baron UFC 116 contest winners

UFC 116 was amazing. I'm disappointed in the end, but not worried. Shane Carwin will be back and will win the title. Honestly, if it was anyone else being pounded they would have ca;;ed the fight. Congrats to Louie from the Bronx and Adam from Phoenix for their predictions on getting the fights correct and who would win the headliner. No one won a third tee, because no on guessed submission to determine the victory.

Stay No Less Than Stunningly Fresh,
Joe

Predict Winners of UFC 116 for chance of a free shirt!

We're back at it again for another contest. Who do you predict is going to be the winners on the UFC 116 event this Saturday, July 3rd, 2010? This time there will be 3 ways to win a shirt. You can win a shirt by predicting who wins for the majority of the main card fights, who wins the heavyweight title match, and how the heavyweight title fight is ended(example: Carwin 1st round technical Knockout, Lesnar 3rd round knockout, etc.)

Shane Carwin VS Brock Lesnar Heavyweight Title Fight (PICK THE WINNER)
Yoshihiro Akiyama VS Chris Leben (PICK THE WINNER
Chris Lytle VS. Matt Brown (PICK THE WINNER)
Stephan Bonnar VS. Krzysztof Soszynski (PICK THE WINNER)
Kurt Pellegrino VS. George Sotiropoulos(PICK THE WINNER)


Let us know who you think the winners of these matches will be. Send your picks (votes) via email at info@brandedbaron.com with subject "Branded Baron Contest". Please also e-mail the size shirt that you wear. We want to hear what the Branded Baron community thinks. You have until the first fight of the night. Even if you do not know anything about MMA, you can guess.

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-Anthony
Vice-President of Branded Baron

MMAValor.com's Josh rocking Branded Baron while meeting UFC's Shane Carwin

UFC 116 with the heavyweight title fight between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin is happening this Saturday and I know Josh of MMAValor.com is all over it on his site. Josh recently went to the last UFC Expo in Las Vegas and met with the soon to be heavyweight champ Shane Carwin. I'm amazed at how giant his hands are, because Josh and Carwin are almost the same height, but DAMN! Well he does have the largest hands in the UFC. It was cool to see that Josh was rocking the Branded Baron Lion t-shirt(Purchase here) when he met with him. There was no way Shane Carwin couldn't have seen the shirt, so he was exposed to Branded Baron, maybe in the future he'll have his own Branded Baron tee. So Shane, if you're reading this WIN on Saturday and let's work on making you your own Branded Baron signature tee.

On a side note: Have you realized Brock Lesnar fans talk so much smack? Come on leave the professional wrestling already.
Definitely check out http://www.mmavalor.com to get some more MMA in your life. Josh even has 2 interviews with the former Green ranger from Power Rangers. He has other interviews with Jon Fitch, but that one caught me off guard. lol It's definitely a site worth checking out. Keep rocking Branded Baron.

Stay No Less Than Stunningly Fresh,
Joe

UFC 111 Branded Baron Recap

So last night, I went to UFC 111 in Newark to see a great card of Mixed Martial Arts fights. If you didn't know, I'm a fan of martial arts and I've trained in a couple disciplines and I still currently train in Gracie jiu jitsu. Being a fan it made sense for me to create a MMA influenced design. There will be more limited edition Branded Baron mma influence designs. The "To Live Is To Die" shirt sold out and after speaking with Anthony, we decided we will not reprint it. Those who own it, owns a very exclusive shirt. I rocked it last night, but my girl rocked the Lion design on a white t-shirt(a href="http://www.brandedbaron.com/product/l-k-gradient-white-female">Click here to purchase, which I feel can be worn at pretty much at any event.

Back to last night. It was an amazing experience and I was like a little kid attending his first professional sports game and being since I've never attended a UFC event it sort of was. The last time the UFC was in New Jersey was in 2008 I believe, so I wasn't the only one who jumped on the opportunity to attend this sold out event. The New Jersey fighters were 3/4 last night. I didn't know Greg Soto was from Jersey, but Jersey's own Jim Miller, Ricardo Almeida, and Kurt Pellegrino won. I predicted the correct outcomes except for the Shane Carwin and Frank Mir fight. I really thought Frank Mir would've won and I'm still disappointed he lost. Shane Carwin is a good fighter and I hope he beats Brock Lesnar, I guess I'm more of a Frank Mir fan or i really wanted to see Mir vs. Lesnar 3. Oh Pelahares won his prelim fight, but when a person taps you let go and do not have to have the referee pry your arms from the hold. What was weird was I saw Wilmer Valderrama from "That 70's Show" & "Yo Mama" fame. I didn't know he was a fan of mma. While everyone was rocking other brands, I made sure I let the people I walked by and all the people sitting behind me know I was wearing Branded Baron. I have a blurry picture with Frankie Edgar with my shirt and a picture of myself after the event, where it was a bad picture, because the shirt looks bad and I know first hand it's not. The print is fine, but the picture doesn't do it justice. My girlfriend captured some video, but I would upload it to youtube, but I don't need Dana White or the UFC suing me. Other fighters that were there, Chuck Liddell, Brock Lesnar, Jon Jones, Matt Hamill, Renzo Gracie, and Frankie Edgar(both who cornered Ricardo Almeida, but also stayed to watch the fights). Georges St. Pierre dominated and I knew he wanted to finish with a submission, so it was no surprise when he was disappointed in his performance. Overall it was fun and I'm glad I went.

Stay No Less Than Stunningly Fresh,
Joe
http://www.brandedbaron.com

Here are a couple of the many pictures that were taken and believe me I have a lot more.