BRASILIA, Brazil – Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night 51 event might be flying under your radar, but there’s going to be a real familiar – and not necessarily pleasantly so – name featured on the UFC Fight Pass stream. “These days, I’m mostly known as War Machine,” Wendell Oliveira told MMAjunkie in his native Portuguese. If fighting with the same nickname as the troublesome UFC and Bellator vet formerly known as Jon Koppenhaver wasn’t enough, the 31-year-old Brazilian also heads up a fight team by the same moniker. “I have my own team, War Machine, and I also belong to Gracie Barra Bangu,” Oliveira said. “I used to be in Crazy Fight Team, too, but I had to leave due to a lack of sparring partners. That’s why I set up my own team, where I have better training.
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It’s probably no big deal, but ‘War Machine’ competes at UFC Fight Night 51 – MMA Junkie