{"id":207,"date":"2008-11-15T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T05:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2008\/11\/15\/bsn-signs-mma-antonio-rodrigo-minotauro-nogueira\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T05:44:01","slug":"bsn-signs-mma-antonio-rodrigo-minotauro-nogueira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2008\/11\/bsn-signs-mma-antonio-rodrigo-minotauro-nogueira\/","title":{"rendered":"BSN signs MMA Antonio Rodrigo &#8220;Minotauro&#8221; Nogueira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana\">Team BSN has further expanded its already talent-laden roster with the addition of yet another sporting legend \u2013 this time from the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), one Antonio Rodrigo &#8220;Minotauro&#8221; Nogueira. Much the same way 8-time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman is a legend in bodybuilding circles, Nogueira is legend in the MMA brotherhood. Not only is he the current UFC\u00ae Interim Heavyweight Champion and the star of the hit reality series The Ultimate Fighter\u2122: Season 8, Nogueira also holds the distinction of being the first Heavyweight Champion of the former Japanese fighting organization PRIDE\u00ae, and is the only man in the history of MMA to hold both UFC\u00ae and PRIDE\u00ae Heavyweight Championship titles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\" face=\"verdana\">Standing a towering 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing in the neighborhood of 240 pounds, the Brazilian born superstar is a black belt in Judo as well as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and also possesses some serious striking and submission ability. Nogueira is poised and ready to showcase these world-class skills at UFC\u00ae 92: THE ULTIMATE 2008 (December 27th, 2008), where he will face-off against former UFC\u00ae heavyweight champ Frank Mir. Currently, both men are opposing coaches on The Ultimate Fighter\u2122: Season 8, which airs every Wednesday at 10 pm EST on SPIKE TV. It&#8217;s widely thought in MMA circles that the winner of the Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar fight taking place at UFC\u00ae 91: COUTURE VS. LESNAR on November 15th will face off against the winner of the Nogueira vs. Mir fight sometime in 2009 to unify the UFC\u00ae Heavyweight Championship title.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team BSN has further expanded its already talent-laden roster with the addition of yet another sporting legend \u2013 this time from the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), one Antonio Rodrigo &#8220;Minotauro&#8221; Nogueira. Much the same way 8-time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman is a legend in bodybuilding circles, Nogueira is legend in the MMA brotherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}