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• UFC exec: Frank Mir was not denied Adderall TUE by Nevada Athletic Commission

  11-09-2015 23:00
  
  Frank Mir was not denied a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) in Nevada, according to the UFC's vice president of athlete health and performance. He just was not able to apply for one with enough time to spare before his fight.
  Jeff Novitzky told MMA Fighting on Friday that Mir was granted a TUE for Adderall by USADA, which runs the UFC's anti-doping program. When Mir attempted to apply for the same exemption with the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC), he was told that there wasn't enough time befor
  
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• Video: Invicta FC 14 Weigh-ins

  11-09-2015 22:57 via sherdog.com
  
  Watch live as the fighters of Invicta FC 14 hit the scales in Kansas City, Mo.
  
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• Live Video Stream: Invicta FC 14 Weigh-ins (6 ET / 3 PT)

  11-09-2015 22:57 via sherdog.com
  
  Watch live as the fighters of Invicta FC 14 hit the scales in Kansas City, Mo.
  
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• Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Konstantin Erokhin Booked for ‘TUF 22’ Finale on Dec. 11

  11-09-2015 22:55 via sherdog.com
  
  A heavyweight showdown between Gabriel Gonzaga and Konstantin Erokhin is slated for “The Ultimate Fighter 22” finale on Dec. 11.
  
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• Francis Carmont Doesn’t Miss Weight Cut to 185: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Good for Body or Mind’

  11-09-2015 22:43 via sherdog.com
  
  For a time, Francis Carmont was a rising star in the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight division. However, as the competition improved, Carmont’s performance faltered.
  
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• Invicta's Jinh Yu Frey on balancing MMA, grad school and work at an outpatient cancer facility

  11-09-2015 22:00
  
  Jinh Yu Frey will have a backup plan if MMA doesn't work out. Maybe two. Or more.
  The Invicta FC women's flyweight just completed her MBA while working full time at an outpatient cancer facility. Somehow she managed to juggle MMA training into all of that.
  "It's good to not have all your eggs in the same basket," Frey told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour.The Texas native would have learned that the hard way two years ago if she didn't have things lined up. Frey was the principl
  
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• Invicta FC 14 weigh-in video

  11-09-2015 22:00
  
  At Invicta FC 14 weigh-ins, all 18 Invicta FC fighters taking part in Saturday's Invicta FC 14 fights will step on the scale Friday evening, and we'll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com.In the main event, Invicta FC bantamweight champion Tonya Evinger and Pannie Kianzad will have to make the bantamweight limit of 135 pounds.Check out the Invicta FC 14 weigh-ins below.Main card (UFC Fight Pass at 8 p.m. ET)
  Tonya Evinger vs. Pannie Kianzad
  Katja Kankaanpaa vs. DeAnna Bennett
  Roxanne Moda
  
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• Eddie Alvarez Confirms Bout with Anthony Pettis at UFC Fight Night Boston on Jan. 17

  11-09-2015 21:31 via sherdog.com
  
  Eddie Alvarez has announced that he will fight Anthony Pettis at UFC Fight Night in Boston on Jan. 17.
  
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• CFFC 51 Weigh-in Results: Louis Gaudinot, Claudio Ledesma Hit Marks for Headliner

  11-09-2015 20:48 via sherdog.com
  
  Saturday night’s Cage Fury Fighting Championship 51 card will go on as planned after all combatants on the card were able to make weight. The main event pits UFC veteran Louis Gaudinot against Claudio Ledesma in what should be an intriguing flyweight matchup.
  
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• Eddie Alvarez confirms he's fighting Anthony Pettis in January

  11-09-2015 20:30
  
  Two of the best lightweights on the planet will face off next year.
  Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis will meet former Bellator champ Eddie Alvarez at UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs. Cruz on Jan. 17 in Boston, Alvarez confirmed Friday on Twitter. The UFC has yet to announce the fight officially.it's official , at first I just wanted the guy , now I got location too , thank you @ufc @danawhite , gonna blow the roof off Beantown!!
  — Edward Alvarez (@Ealvarezfight) September 11, 2
  
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• Urijah Faber told Paige VanZant 'you're going to have a lot of haters'

  11-09-2015 20:00
  
  LOS ANGELES -- From high-profile fights to intensive media tours to an individual Reebok sponsorship, Paige VanZant has a lot on her plate for a woman barely old enough to legally drink alcohol.
  The founder of her gym, Urijah Faber of Sacramento's Team Alpha Male, says he warned the budding strawweight star early on that things were going to get a little nuts.
  "That poor girl was just thrown into that whirlwind," Faber recently told MMAFighting.com. "I think it's part of being a girl and the pre
  
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• UFC on Fox 17 Update: Sarah Kaufman to Meet Germaine de Randamie in Orlando

  11-09-2015 19:48 via sherdog.com
  
  A women’s bantamweight clash between Sarah Kaufman and Germaine de Randamie is slated for UFC on Fox 17.
  
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• Michal Materla to Defend Middleweight Title vs. Mamed Khalidov at KSW 33

  11-09-2015 19:15 via sherdog.com
  
  Michal Materla will defend his middleweight championship against Mamed Khalidov in the KSW 33 headliner on Nov. 28.
  
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• Bektic vs. Kawajiri, Scoggins vs. Sanchez added to TUF 22 Finale

  11-09-2015 18:39
  
  Two more bouts have been added to the TUF 22 Finale on Dec. 11 at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
  Mirsad Bektic (10-0), who is 3-0 in the UFC, will try to remain unbeaten when he faces veteran Tatsuya Kawajiri (34-8-2) in a featherweight contest. Kawajiri has won two of his three UFC bouts, including a unanimous decision win over Dennis Siver at UFC Fight Night 69 this past June.
  In the flyweight division, Justin Scoggins faces Joby Sanchez. Scoggins (10-2) snapped a two-fight skid
  
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• Conor McGregor Helps Boost TUF 22 Ratings Compared To Last Season

  11-09-2015 18:35
  
  Conor McGregor has proven yet again why he is "notoriously" known for boosting ratings whenever he brings "The Conor McGregor Show" to town, and Wednesday's night premiere episode of The Ultimate Fighter 22 was no exception.The first episode of TUF 22, which aired on FOX Sports 1 on Wednesday evening from 10pm eastern time until midnight eastern time, was up 27-percent from last season's premiere episode, as the show drew 622,000 viewers for the 10-midnight airing, an additional 66,000 viewers f
  
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• UFC isn't on Invicta champion Tonya Evinger's agenda, because she refuses to 'kiss butt'

  11-09-2015 16:30
  
  Tonya Evinger wants to be herself. And she's not sure if she'd be able to do that in the UFC.
  The Invicta FC women's bantamweight champion would not mind the UFC paycheck, but she has doubts about what being in the world's biggest MMA promotion would entail.
  "I feel really good with what I'm doing and what I've achieved and where I'm at," Evinger told MMA Fighting. "That's the most important. I just don't want to have any regrets and me holding back and saying 'Yeah, I love this' and kissing but
  
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• Kimbo Slice Announced For “Bellator: Dynamite 1” Fight-Week Festivities

  11-09-2015 16:28
  
  On Thursday, Bellator announced that legendary street brawler turned mixed-martial-artist Kimbo Slice has been added to the "Fight Week Festivities" for their big Bellator: Dynamite 1 event.Headlined by Tito Ortiz vs. Liam McGeary for McGeary's Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship, Bellator: Dynamite 1 takes place on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, airing live and free on Spike TV.Bellator issued the following press release with all of the details on Be
  
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• Germaine de Randamie vs. Sarah Kaufman booked for UFC on FOX 17

  11-09-2015 16:00
  
  Germaine de Randamie will meet an opponent in the top five in her next UFC fight.
  Coming off a TKO victory over Larissa Pacheco in March, the Dutch bantamweight is set to take on Sarah Kaufman at the UFC on FOX 17 card in Orlando on Dec. 19, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Friday.
  de Randamie, a Strikeforce veteran who brings a 5-3 record to the table, is 2-1 under the UFC banner with a loss to 135-pound contender Amanda Nunes sandwiched by wins over Pacheco and Julie Kedzie.
  Ranked No. 5 in th
  
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• Mayweather vs. Berto weigh-in video

  11-09-2015 15:00
  
  At the Mayweather vs. Berto weigh-ins, Floyd Mayweather and Andre Berto will step on the scale Friday evening in Las Vegas, and we'll have the live video here at MMA Fighting.com.In the main event, Mayweather and Berto will have to make the welterweight limit of 147 pounds.The Mayweather vs. Pacquiao weigh-in takes place at 6 p.m. ET at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev., and the video is above.The Mayweather vs. Berto weigh-in results are below:Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto
  Roman Martinez vs.
  
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• Morning Report: Tim Sylvia talks leaving UFC over Brock Lesnar fight and grudge-holding 'd**k' Dana White

  11-09-2015 14:00
  
  Don't hold your breath hoping to see former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia walk to that Octagon again.
  Speaking with Chael Sonnen this week on his podcast, Sylvia explains what caused his abrupt UFC departure in 2008.
  In a "Fight of the Night" for the interim heavyweight title, Sylvia was submitted by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in February 2008 at UFC 81. By July he'd signed on to face Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction: Banned for the promotion's debut event.
  Sylvia was submitted with a re
  
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• Mirsad Bektic-Tatsuya Kawajiri, Justin Scoggins-Joby Sanchez Added to ‘TUF 22’ Finale

  11-09-2015 09:27 via sherdog.com
  
  Two contests have been added to "The Ultimate Fighter 22" finale lineup, as Mirsad Bektic will meet Tatsuya Kawajiri at featherweight, while Justin Scoggins will square off against Joby Sanchez in a flyweight tilt.
  
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• Welcome To The UFC: Danny Roberts

  11-09-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  It’s said that in life, things happen in threes. Good things, bad things, anything. Liverpool, England’s Danny Roberts may not have been a believer in such matters before, but he’s coming around to it, especially since this week brought two good things already.One, his son was born on Monday.Two, he signed a contract to compete in the UFC’s welterweight division.So what’s number three? Roberts ponders the question.“My son was born, I’m a UFC fighter, the
  
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• Tweets of the Week - 9/11

  11-09-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Tweet de Dana BlancoMexico pueden ver la conferencia de prensa de #UFCMonterrey en vivo hoy con 12pm MEX http://t.co/qCniHTDBJ7 pic.twitter.com/helD2LemVe— Dana White (@danawhite) September 10, 2015She's So Cooler than YouWhy is she like this & who did she learn it from? My was getting loose yesterday! pic.twitter.com/shPXKFtczi— Matt Mitrione (@mattmitrione) September 10, 2015Rare & Awesome Like a Meteor: Dominick Cruz Fight! RT @danawhite: Dominick Cruz vs TJ Dillashaw
  
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• Tonya Evinger: Y'all Must've Forgot

  11-09-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  On July 9 of this year, “Triple Threat” Tonya Evinger won two titles. Officially, the Missouri native was crowned the Invicta FC bantamweight champion by scoring a fourth-round TKO over Irene Aldana. Unofficially, the nine-year MMA pro earned the “Y’all Must’ve Forgot” award with flying colors as the tough-as-nails veteran pummeled her younger and heavily-hyped adversary for nearly 20 straight minutes. //
  “I’ve been in this game for 11 years a
  
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• Invicta FC 14 preview

  11-09-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  They’re baaack! Invicta Fighting Championships returns to Kansas City this Saturday for the all-female organization’s 14th event and its seventh live on UFC FIGHT PASS, and Invicta FC: Evinger vs. Kianzad has another stacked card, with action ranging from 105 to 155 pounds. In that main event, undefeated Pannie Kianzad will aim to defeat Invicta FC champ Tonya Evinger, who has demolished all who have faced her thus far in the company, in a five-round bout now ruled a non-title a
  
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• Conor McGregor paces first TUF episode to 27 percent ratings increase from last season

  11-09-2015 04:30
  
  Conor McGregor continued to show his drawing power as the first episode of the new season of The Ultimate Fighter was up 27 percent from the previous season's debut.The two-hour special, of fights to get into the house and onto the European team coached by McGregor and the American team coached by Urijah Faber, did 622,000 viewers from 10 p.m. to midnight, and another 66,000 viewers from 1 to 3 a.m.That's up from the 490,000 viewers for the first episode of season 21, which was the Blackzillians
  
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• Nick Diaz's attorney could make motion for Nevada deputy attorney general to remove himself from case

  11-09-2015 03:30
  
  Proceedings could get messy at Nick Diaz's disciplinary hearing with the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) on Monday.
  Diaz's attorney Lucas Middlebrook told MMA Fighting that he could make a motion for Nevada deputy attorney general Christopher Eccles to be removed from the case, because he might be considered both a witness and counsel.
  According to documents obtained by MMA Fighting (h/t MMAjunkie), Eccles claims that Diaz's manager Lloyd Pierson asked him about Diaz potentially filing an
  
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• Pedro Rizzo gets new opponent for upcoming fight in Brazil

  11-09-2015 02:00
  
  Pedro Rizzo returns to MMA 28 months after his last fight, and he has a new opponent for the Face to Face 12 main event in Vitoria, Brazil.
  With 312-fight veteran Travis Fulton sidelined due to illness, FTF officially announced that Rizzo will now take on Hawaiian heavyweight Andrew Smith at Vitoria’s Alvares Cabral gymnasium on Sept. 12.
  "I’m sure this card will be one of the best Brazilian MMA events this year," FTF president Alex Gaze stated in a release. "I was upset when Travis
  
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• Dana White: Miesha Tate Still “A Couple” Fights Away From Ronda Rousey Rematch

  11-09-2015 01:54
  
  Although Miesha Tate was publicly announced as the next opponent to Ronda Rousey's UFC Bantamweight Championship following Rousey's devastating 34-second knockout of Bethe Correia in Brazil only to find out that she was passed over for the next title shot, as UFC gave the fight to Holly Holm instead, it turns out "Cupcake" Tate is further away from another title shot than anyone thought.UFC President Dana White announced on this week's edition of UFC Tonight on FOX Sports 1 that Tate has to "kno
  
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• After Nearly Two Years Away, Giorgio Petrosyan to Make Glory Return on Nov. 6

  11-09-2015 01:21 via sherdog.com
  
  The last time the world saw Armenian kickboxing technician Giorgio Petrosyan in a Glory ring, he was knocked out by a wicked Andy Ristie uppercut. The shocking loss ended the brilliant striker’s 42-fight winning streak. Meanwhile, Ristie would go on to win the Glory lightweight title.
  
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• Boxing: Undefeated KO Artist Julius Jackson to Face Jose Uzcategui on Oct. 6

  11-09-2015 00:47 via sherdog.com
  
  Premier Boxing Champions and Fox Sports 1 announced Thursday afternoon that the main event of their Oct. 6 “Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays” card will be Julius Jackson taking on Jose Uzcategui. The fight will anchor the event, which will take place inside the Dancehall in San Antonio, Texas and will be televised live starting at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m.
  
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