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• Boxing: Nathan Cleverly: ‘I'm in this Fight Thing for Challenges’

  15-10-2015 23:23 via sherdog.com
  
  There was a point in Nathan Cleverly’s career when he was a world champion.
  
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• Ronda Rousey's mother dislikes coach because 'he is extremely disrespectful to women'

  15-10-2015 23:01
  
  Ronda Rousey's mother has been extremely critical of Rousey's coach in recent days. Now, we have an explanation why.
  AnnMaria De Mars explained in an interview with Pro MMA Now's Rhadi Ferguson that it is Edmond Tarverdyan's attitude toward women that makes her the most upset. Ferguson is a former teammate of Rousey's on the United States national judo team.
  "Because he is extremely disrespectful to women," De Mars said. "If you read in Ronda's book, you know when she walked into his gym sh
  
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• Johnny Eduardo: 'Scared' Aljamain Sterling 'never fought someone at my caliber'

  15-10-2015 22:00
  
  Aljamain Sterling was seven years old when Johnny Eduardo made his Vale Tudo debut in Brazil. Nineteen years later, they will collide at UFC Fight Night 80 in Las Vegas, and the Brazilian plans to humble the bantamweight prospect on Dec. 10.
  Sterling called out Eduardo for the first time back in June, promising to retire the Nova Uniao fighter from the sport. The Brazilian veteran, who hasn’t fought since a devastating knockout victory over Eddie Wineland in 2014, isn’t bothered by h
  
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• Francisco Trevino Tested Positive For Weed at UFC 192

  15-10-2015 21:37
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnAQe1ykFsFrancisco Trevino has been suspended for 90 days after testing positive for marijuana. Trevino lost to Sage Northcutt at UFC 192 on October 3rd, and MMAFighting.com has revealed that after the event he tested positive for marijuana.
  The Texas Combative Sports Program claims that Trevino had 69 ng/ml of marijuana metabolites in his system, which is above the Texas limit of 50 ng/ml. He could also be fined up for $5,000.
  If the test had taken place in Nev
  
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• Michael Bisping Has ‘6 Loose Bodies’ Removed from Elbow During Surgery

  15-10-2015 21:14 via sherdog.com
  
  Michael Bisping recently underwent surgery for the elbow injury that forced him to withdraw from a proposed clash against Robert Whittaker at UFC 193.
  
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• Michael Bisping Undergoes Elbow Surgery

  15-10-2015 20:33
  
  UFC middleweight division veteran Michael Bisping (27-7) was forced to pull out of his fight against Robert Whittaker at UFC 193 in November due to an elbow injury. The UFC replaced Bisping with Urijah Hall at the last minute.
  On Thursday, Bisping revealed he had surgery to remove approximately 6 loose bodies from his elbow. He posted a photo on Instagram shortly after he got out of surgery.
  There's no word on exactly how long Bisping will be out of action for.https://instagram.com/p/82B4v2StQf/
  
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• Official Event Poster For UFC on FOX 17

  15-10-2015 18:29
  
  Here's the new official event poster for UFC on FOX 17, which will feature Junior dos Santos vs. Alistair Overeem, Rafael dos Anjos vs. Donald Cerrone, Michael Johnson vs. Nate Diaz, and more.Related: Updated Full Card For UFC on FOX 17UFC on FOX 17 is the final event of the year for the company, taking place at the Amway Center in Orlando on Dec. 19. The event will air on FOX, FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass.
  
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• Report: Trevino Tests Positive for Marijuana Following UFC 192 Loss to Northcutt

  15-10-2015 18:20 via sherdog.com
  
  After missing weight by four pounds, getting thrashed by Sage Northcutt in 57 seconds and then putting his hands on referee Herb Dean following the stoppage, Francisco Trevino has added another notch to the personal disaster that was UFC 192.
  
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• Francisco Trevino tests positive for marijuana after loss to Sage Northcutt at UFC 192

  15-10-2015 18:03
  
  It really wasn't a good night for Francisco Trevino.
  At UFC 192, the UFC lightweight lost to newcomer Sage Northcutt by TKO in less than one minute and then came under fire for pushing referee Herb Dean afterward. Now, Trevino has been suspended 90 days for marijuana, MMA Fighting has learned.
  According to documents obtained by MMA Fighting via a public records request to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Trevino failed a drug test for elevated THC-COOH levels at UFC 192 on Oct.
  
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• Cody Garbrandt: I think TJ Dillashaw was 'playing the victim'

  15-10-2015 18:00
  
  You couldn't blame UFC bantamweight Cody Garbrandt if he had reacted negatively to the news of TJ Dillashaw leaving Team Alpha Male.
  Dillashaw represented the lone member of the Sacramento-based squad to hoist gold inside the UFC Octagon, and now he's gone. Complicating matters further, Dillashaw's split is seeming less and less pleasant as the days progress. The champ won't be popping in and out of Team Alpha Male to help his old teammates prepare. In fact, he's not allowed to enter the gy
  
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• Ronda Rousey’s Mom Would Hit Coach With Car If It Was Legal

  15-10-2015 17:32
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESbkF_0A0gA couple days ago, we reported on some comments that Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, the mother of UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey, had made in an interview with LatiNation (clip embedded above). In the clip, she went off on Edmond Tarverdyan, her daughter's head coach, calling him a "terrible coach." While criticism of Tarverdyan on both a technical and interpersonal level is not new, De Mars focused on him refusing to train her daughter, an Olymp
  
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• New Co-Main Event Announced For UFC Fight Night 76

  15-10-2015 17:06
  
  UFC.com announced Reza Madadi vs. Norman Parke as the new co-main event for Fight Night 76. Joseph Duffy vs. Dustin Poirier will face off in the main event.
  The prelims begins at 12:45 p.m. and the main card will begins 4 p.m. ET.MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 4 p.m. ET)Joseph Duffy vs. Dustin PoirierReza Madadi vs. Norman ParkeNicolas Dalby vs. Darren TillPaddy Holohan vs. Louis SmolkaRelated: Joseph Duffy on Conor McGregor: I Would Beat Him AgainPRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 12:45 p.m.)Mickael
  
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• Jose Aldo won’t talk about Conor McGregor after UFC 194

  15-10-2015 15:00
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO -- Jose Aldo has answered questions about Conor McGregor ever since "The Notorious" entered the UFC, but he expects to change this routine after UFC 194.
  Scheduled to face the interim featherweight champion on Dec. 12 in Las Vegas after pulling out of a clash with McGregor in July due to a rib injury, "Scarface" feels better as he returned to training at Nova Uniao.
  "My preparation is great," Aldo told the media during a visit to his social project to celebrate Children’s Da
  
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• Morning Report: Anthony Johnson calls out Ryan Bader, slams him over his resume

  15-10-2015 14:00
  
  A lot can change in a week.
  After light heavyweight contender Ryan Bader scored a unanimous decision over Rashad Evans Oct. 3 at UFC 192, Anthony Johnson's manager Glenn Robinson said "Rumble" wanted the next crack.
  Johnson surprisingly took a little umbrage with the report, but a week removed he's apparently reevaluated the prospect of knocking Bader out of his 5-0 win streak.
  Taking to Facebook Wednesday, Johnson laid into Bader over his resume and challenged him not to "run and hide
  
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• TUF LATAM 2 - Episode 8 Recap

  15-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  Vernon Ramos walked into the Octagon during the latest episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America as the last man standing from Team Escudero in the welterweight division. His mission was clear: win, or watch Team Gastelum send four fighters into the next round. Ramos already had the odds stacked against him as the last fight of the entire quarterfinal round, but he was definitely competing for something bigger than just a win in the UFC or a place in the next round of the tournament.&n
  
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• PVZ: From the Undercard to the Main Event

  15-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  A year ago, there was a bit of a buzz about the arrival of Oregon native Paige VanZant to the UFC. Today, she’s in the first week of training camp to prepare for her first headlining gig against Joanne Calderwood at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on December 10.In between, there have been media tours, photo shoots, national television exposure, a Reebok deal and, most importantly, three consecutive wins in a talent rich division. It’s been the Year of PVZ, but not neces
  
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• Unable to Find Replacement Foe, UFC Pulls Ben Rothwell from Fight Night Dublin Card

  15-10-2015 06:30 via sherdog.com
  
  UFC Fight Night Dublin will have a new co-main event after the Las Vegas-based promotion was unable to find a suitable replacement opponent for heavyweight Ben Rothwell.
  
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• Kevin Bizier-Fredrick Lawson Headline PBC on NBCSN Card on Nov. 7

  15-10-2015 05:55 via sherdog.com
  
  Premier Boxing Champions will swing down Miami, Fla. on Saturday, Nov. 7 for another edition of PBC on the NBC Sports Network. The event will be headlined by a 12-round IBF welterweight title eliminator between Kevin Bizier and Fredrick Lawson and will be held at the Miccosukee Resort and Gaming.
  
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• PBC on ESPN: Martinez Rocks Alexander in Major Upset

  15-10-2015 05:42 via sherdog.com
  
  It was one of those designed things that wasn’t supposed to happen. Not like this. Not on national TV to a 50-to-1 underdog who hadn’t won a fight in two years.
  
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• Tyrone Spong, Lance Palmer to Co-Headline WSOF 26 in Las Vegas

  15-10-2015 03:37 via sherdog.com
  
  World Series of Fighting announced Wednesday that WSOF 26 will be held on Dec. 18 inside The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
  
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• PBC Returns to Fox Sports 1 on Nov. 10 with Gonzalez-Guerfi

  15-10-2015 03:10 via sherdog.com
  
  After what will have been a reprieve of almost a month, Premier Boxing Champions will stage another event on Fox Sports 1 with its new “Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays” program, anchored by a bantamweight tilt between Alejandro “Cobrita” Gonzalez Jr. and Karim Guerfi.
  
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• Ronda Rousey's mom on coach: 'I would run over him with my car if there wasn't a law against it'

  15-10-2015 02:55
  
  Saying Ronda Rousey's mother pulls no punches would be like saying Rousey is a pretty good MMA fighter. It's a gross understatement.
  After a video was released Tuesday of AnnMaria De Mars absolutely hammering Rousey's coach Edmond Tarverdyan, another one dropped Wednesday. And it's even worse.
  "I would run over him with my car if there wasn't a law against it," De Mars said.
  In the first video, De Mars alluded to the fact that Tarverdyan ignored Rousey when she first came in the gym be
  
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• Myles Jury Angry Over UFC’s Main Card Snub

  15-10-2015 02:39
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywPhjUaYcgYMyles Jury was a rising, undefeated UFC lightweight contender when he suffered a lackadaisical one-sided decision loss to Donald Cerrone in January. Since then, he's decided to drop down to featherweight and change camps from Alliance MMA in San Diego, California (the gym that houses Dominick Cruz and Phil Davis) to Power MMA in Arizona (best known as the home of Ryan Bader). He'll be making his featherweight debut against top 10 ranked Charles Oliveira
  
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• Sage Northcutt Speaks On Joining Tristar Gym After His UFC Debut

  15-10-2015 01:24
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9fZxcysNrASage Northcutt has been getting a lot of attention and praise after defeating Francisco Trevino at UFC 192 to start his UFC career. To prepare for his follow-up fight, he's heading to Tristar Gym in Canada.
  Other fighters who train with Tristar include Georges St-Pierre and Jon Jones.In an interview with MMA Fighting, Northcutt spoke about training at the gym and living up to the hype in his second UFC bout.“Really, I’m just going up there t
  
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• Nick Diaz's lawyer: 100K signatures on petition further highlights 'injustice' of NAC hearing

  15-10-2015 00:00
  
  No one knows how the White House will respond or if it even will. But Nick Diaz's lawyer doesn't think any one of the 100,000 signatures on an online petition was for naught.
  "Amazing," Lucas Middlebrook said. "The White House response is anybody's guess. The 100,000 does, however, prove that our defense prevailed in the court of public opinion, further highlighting the injustice of the entire proceeding."
  The Nevada Athletic Commission suspended Diaz for five years and fined him $165,000 at a d
  
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