Yesterday I posted the first part of our interview with Ryan Thomas that was on MMA Gospel Radio. Today we finish up the interview with the second half. In this part of the interview he talks about his fight with Ben Askren in Bellator, the ref stoppage, Ben himself and his fight which as of this article took place last night. To listen to the unedited interview and to hear the other four guests we had on the show you can go to www.blogtalkradio.com/mmagospel and download it there, get it for free on iTunes or listen directly from this site at www.fighters.com/mmagospel. ...

Fighters.com eighth-ranked light heavyweight "Iceman" Chuck Liddell (21-7) has started training jiu jitsu with Eddie Bravo of 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu. After winning the title in 2005 and defending it four times, Liddell has dropped four of his past five bouts, including back-to-back losses to fourth-ranked "Sugar" Rashad Evans (13-1-1) in 2008 and third-ranked “Shogun” Mauricio Rua (18-4) in 2009. I believe that this will help to elevate Chuck's game and will help to right the losing skid he is been on as of late. ...

The building worked great as a mechanic's shop five years ago.  Now the oil-stained concrete has been painted and is layered with squares of wrestling mats entwined and locked like Legos. Eddie Bravo is centered on the mats, his own legs, hands, arms, and even toes also entwined. Locked in Eddie's limbs is a slight man, a fight promoter who runs this building, this mixed martial arts studio, this place where a full-size cage sits in the corner.  The man in Bravo's self-named "Stoner Control" has sacrificed and advertised to amateur and pro fighters and wanabees because, he, like many in the world of MMA, believes in Bravo. In a flash—smooth, but not fast—Bravo takes the man's back and locks in a body triangle.  Bravo is animated as he talks about going for a choke or striking or..."Well, I don't know, there's a lot of other stuff I've been thinking about trying too." That's Bravo.  A supposed 'know-it-all' with as many questions as answers. The world around Bravo—jiu-jitsu, the musical scale, women, cannibas—is packed full of "what if" and Bravo seems born to shake the gates till answers run free. It wasn't always so.  His biological father was replaced with a step, who, according to Bravo, abused him emotionally and beat him physically, lending the Mexican-American youngster a self-image cloaked in fear. ...