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• WSOF 24 Weigh-in Results: Jon Fitch, Yushin Okami OK’d for Main-Event Duty

  16-10-2015 23:54 via sherdog.com
  
  Neither Jon Fitch nor Yushin Okami has experienced the kind of success they expected inside the World Series of Fighting cage. Now, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship title challengers must contend with one another.
  
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• Ronda Rousey’s Mom Details Issues With Coach In Unedited Interview

  16-10-2015 22:45
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhelhurItP4We've seen the original, somewhat out of context clip that LatiNation shot weeks ago of Ronda Rousey's mom, AnnMaria De Mars, ripping her daughter's head coach, Edmond Tarverdyan. Then there was another clip that was only up for a few minutes where she said she'd run him over with her car if it was legal. A few days later, she gave a new interview where she elaborated on her issues with Tarverdyan.Today? We finally get the original full interview w
  
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• After contract dispute with Titan, Vinny Magalhaes looking for new start with WSOF

  16-10-2015 22:00
  
  Most days over the last year, Vinny Magalhaes would get up, leave his Las Vegas home and arrive at Syndicate MMA to train. Once inside and fully changed, Magalhaes would pause for a second.
  "What's my goal here right now?" Magalhaes said he would think.
  Magalhaes has not fought in the last 13 months. He signed to compete in April for World Series of Fighting, but his former promotion Titan FC put the kibosh on that, claiming he was still under contract. For most of 2015, Magalhaes has been healt
  
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• UFC To Begin Airing On Fox Sports Africa

  16-10-2015 21:48
  
  Fox Sports Africa has announced they've signed a deal to air UFC until 2018. They announced on Friday that their coverage will begin on October 24th, with UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Duffy.Fox Sports Africa will air all of the main cards of televised UFC events, UFC Insider, and UFC Countdown.
  Fox Sports Africa is operated by the Fox International Channels subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.
  
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• ‘The Ultimate Fighter 19’ Winner Eddie Gordon Announces UFC Release

  16-10-2015 21:42 via sherdog.com
  
  Eddie Gordon has been released from the UFC following a three-fight losing streak.
  
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• Former 'The Ultimate Fighter' winner Eddie Gordon to be released from UFC

  16-10-2015 21:30
  
  Eddie Gordon announced his impending release from the UFC on Friday afternoon via social media.Just got news from the @ufc I will be released just want to thank my friends family fans @danawhite and everyone... http://t.co/agrotQ2Z2C
  — Truck Gordon (@TruckMMA_UFC) October 16, 2015The Team Serra-Longo product won Season 19 of the UFC's reality show The Ultimate Fighter at middleweight but never found his groove inside the Octagon following the show's conclusion.
  After knocking out Dhie
  
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• Wanderlei Silva Wants To Work For Nevada Athletic Commission

  16-10-2015 21:20
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFtJ2bKlZwWanderlei Silva has become synonymous with his YouTube videos in the last year r so. Usually, there's mood lighting and loud music and often he's yelling at you. His newest video is out, and it's more subdued than most have been. You can watch it above, but if you just want the key quotes, read on.Silva actually wants to work for the commission:This commission should have a professional athlete working there. I am available to work together with th
  
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• Update: ‘Mayhem’ Miller Arrested for Assault with a Deadly Weapon on Police Officer

  16-10-2015 21:05 via sherdog.com
  
  UFC veteran Jason Miller has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon at his California home, according to a release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
  
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• Dan Henderson: “Who Knows What Vitor Was Taking”

  16-10-2015 20:45
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdYdAeMRBbIIn 2011, after his knockout loss to Anderson Silva, Vitor Belfort went on testosterone replacement therapy, but circumstances dictated that nobody knew about it. In September 2012, rumors started to circulate about it (we only learned recently how it got out) on top of general suspicions about how different his physique looked. He eventually confirmed it in 2013, the same year he scored three consecutive terrifying head kick knockouts, the last of which
  
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• Jon Fitch: 'I'll trade some brain cells for some money'

  16-10-2015 20:00
  
  All fighters make trade-offs between success and what it takes to achieve that success. Few are willing to talk about it so starkly. Jon Fitch, for example, is okay with the idea of trading brain cells for money.
  "If we’re getting paid correctly, it shouldn’t matter," said Fitch on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. "We know the risk; we know what’s going to happen."
  Fitch, 37, believes fighters should be allowed to fight and make money until they're slurred in s
  
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• Shawn Jordan Wants To Fight Fedor Emelianenko In December

  16-10-2015 19:57
  
  Fedor Emelianenko next's fight is scheduled for December 31st, 2015, and with no opponent announced yet, UFC heavyweight Shawn Jordan is throwing his hat in the ring. Jordan's contract with the UFC recently expired.“I want to fight Fedor. He’s a legend in the sport and one of the best heavyweights ever. He’s one of the reasons I got into this sport,” said Shawn Jordan in an interview with Combat Press. “I started watching Fedor when I was still playing football. He
  
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• Jason 'Mayhem' Miller arrested for alleged assault of officer

  16-10-2015 18:44
  
  Jason "Mayhem" Miller is in legal trouble again. The retired mixed martial arts fighter was arrested early Friday morning outside his California house on suspicion of assaulting an officer, representatives from the Orange County Sheriff's Department confirmed to MMAFighting.com following an initial report by NBC Los Angeles.
  Authorities showed up to Miller's residence after receiving reports of a disturbance in the early morning hours Friday. Miller allegedly threw a ceramic tile
  
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• Ronda Rousey’s Mom Says She’s “Causing Harm’ By Association w/ Coach

  16-10-2015 18:28
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBkBHK7IyYgAnnMaria De Mars, the mother of UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey has gotten a lot of attention this week. First, an interview clip was released showing her blasting Edmond Tarverdyan, her daughter's head coach and striking coach, as a "terrible coach and a bad person." Next, another clip went out (briefly, before being pulled) where she said " I would run him over with my car if there wasn’t a law against it." Now, she's done an
  
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• Dan Henderson not surprised Vitor Belfort failed drug test before UFC 152 title fight with Jon Jones

  16-10-2015 18:00
  
  Vitor Belfort faces Dan Henderson for a third time on Nov. 7, but the match-up became the least important thing six weeks before the fight after a recent report. Deadspin reported that "The Phenom" failed a drug test before facing 205-pound champion Jon Jones in 2012, but the UFC didn’t pull him off the card.
  Henderson, who takes on the Brazilian at the UFC Fight Night 77 in Sao Paulo, wasn’t surprised with the news.
  "I wasn’t surprised he failed the drug test," Henderson told
  
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• Dan Henderson not surprised by Vitor Belfort sketchy drug test before UFC 152 title fight with Jon Jones

  16-10-2015 18:00
  
  Vitor Belfort faces Dan Henderson for a third time on Nov. 7, but the match-up became the least important thing six weeks before the fight after a recent report. Deadspin reported that "The Phenom" had elevated testosterone levels before facing 205-pound champion Jon Jones in 2012, but the UFC didn’t pull him off the card.
  Henderson, who takes on the Brazilian at the UFC Fight Night 77 in Sao Paulo, wasn’t surprised with the news.
  "I wasn’t surprised he failed the drug test," H
  
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• Report: Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller Arrested Following Scuffle with Police Officers

  16-10-2015 17:52 via sherdog.com
  
  According to a report from TMZ, Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Jason “Mayhem” Miller has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.
  
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• Weigh-in Results: Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin, David Lemieux Greenlit

  16-10-2015 17:51 via sherdog.com
  
  One of the fall season’s most anticipated boxing bouts is now official.
  
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• Jason “Mayhem” Miller Arrested For Assaulting An Officer With A Deadly Weapon

  16-10-2015 17:47
  
  Jason “Mayhem” Miller has been involved in yet another legal incident. This time, he allegedly got in a fight with a cop. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Miller was arrested early Friday morning.The sheriff’s department responded to a call from a residence in the 26000 block of Avenida Calidad in Mission Viejo about an alleged altercation involving Miller and a woman. Miller was then arrested for alleged assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer
  
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• Urijah Faber Speaks On T.J. Dillashaw Being Banned From Team Alpha Male

  16-10-2015 17:22
  
  Urijah Faber has addressed on T.J. Dillashaw’s claim that he was banned from Team Alpha Male. As Dave reported on Tuesday, Dillashaw says he was banned after he announced his departure from the gym to go train at Team Evaluation. In an interview with MMA Junkie, Faber says Dillashaw is trying to make himself look like a victim.“It’s unfortunate. I haven’t listened to the interviews, but it sounds like T.J.’s trying to turn himself into a victim like he was kicked ou
  
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• Brendan Schaub Speaks On Poor Sales Of “Terrible” UFC-Reebok Merchandise

  16-10-2015 17:15
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA892WDF4xkOn the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub estimated that his Fighter and The Kid t-shirts earn more revenue than the UFC – Reebok fight kits. Schaub later explained his stance on MMA Junkie Radio, saying the fans think the Reebok sponsorship is B.S.“100 percent. As far as UFC fight kits sold, I’m willing to bet we sold more t-shirts this year than the UFC has sold ‘fight kits.’ I’m not going
  
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• WSOF Announces Global Championship 1 in China

  16-10-2015 16:25 via sherdog.com
  
  Las Vegas-based MMA promotion World Series of Fighting is going global.
  
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• Filling in the some of the gaps on Nick the Tooth

  16-10-2015 16:00
  
  Like a ghost ship in an old Scooby Doo, one day Nick the Tooth just sort of appeared out of the ether. It happened when Dana White decided to make him part of his fight week vlog series at UFC 155. The only thing we knew about the Tooth at that moment was what Dana told us — that he had some old friend who had got himself into a mess with Joe Lauzon after a good session with Jack Daniels, and now it was time to make a delusion become a form of reality.
  And just like that, Nick the Tooth &m
  
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• Filling in some of the gaps on Nick the Tooth

  16-10-2015 16:00
  
  Like a ghost ship in an old Scooby Doo, one day Nick the Tooth just sort of appeared out of the ether. It happened when Dana White decided to make him part of his fight week vlog series at UFC 155. The only thing we knew about the Tooth at that moment was what Dana told us — that he had some old friend who had got himself into a mess with Joe Lauzon after a good session with Jack Daniels, and now it was time to make a delusion become a form of reality.
  And just like that, Nick the Tooth &m
  
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• WSOF 24 weigh-in video

  16-10-2015 15:00
  
  At the WSOF 24 weigh-ins, all 24 fighters taking part in Saturday night's WSOF 24 fights will step on the scale Friday evening, and we'll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com.In the main event, Jon Fitch and Yushin Okami will have to make the welterweight limit of 170 pounds.The WSOF 24 weigh-in video takes place at 5 p.m. ET, and the video is above.Check out the WSOF 24 weigh-in results below.Main card (NBC Sports at 8:30 p.m. ET)
  Jon Fitch vs. Yushin Okami
  Blagoy Ivanov vs. Derrick Mehm
  
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• Morning Report: Wanderlei Silva vows not to fight in Nevada, but wants a job working with the Nevada Athletic Commission

  16-10-2015 14:00
  
  Wanderlei Silva is taking wins wherever he can find them.
  Celebrating Nick Diaz's successful online petition calling for the review of his five-year ban by the Nevada Athletic Commission, Silva is reminding fans that he has his own issues with the NAC.
  Silva was handed a lifetime ban and a $70,000 fine by the commission in September 2014 after he evaded an out-of-competition drug test in May 2014.
  In May, judge Kerry Earley of the Nevada district court ruled that the NAC's suspension and fi
  
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• Legacy Fighting Championships 47 Results & Play-by-Play

  16-10-2015 13:54 via sherdog.com
  
  Sherdog.com's live Legacy FC 47 coverage kicks off at 10 p.m. ET.
  
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• Tweets of the Week - 10/16

  16-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Happy F-Day, You Guys!Ok......maybe more like my second 'F' word. ... https://t.co/DTtfsXUKql pic.twitter.com/U6XAl5tyx0— Alpha Cat Zingano (@CatZingano) October 16, 2015Watch This!#OnTheFly featuring #UFCDublin's @Duffy_MMA starts this Thurs on @UFCFightPass! FREE Trial: http://t.co/WpRG2g1L3f https://t.co/DtsCIqVDzh— UFC (@ufc) October 12, 2015#ThugLifeMy son just took my Texas toast off my plate and stared me in the eye as he ate it. #punked— Joe Lauzon (@JoeLauzon) October
  
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• Shooto Brazil 58 Preview

  16-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Live from Rio de Janeiro, Shooto Brazil returns to UFC FIGHT PASS on Sunday, October 18 with a 15-fight card headlined by a women’s strawweight rematch between Priscila de Souza and Luciana Pereira. With former bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz and Jason Chambers on the call, Sunday afternoon’s action is sure to satisfy your need for mixed martial arts excitement this weekend.De Souza and Pereira first met earlier this year, with the 26-year-old Parana Vale Tudo representative de Souz
  
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• GSP to train with Sage Northcutt

  16-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  Since winning his UFC debut earlier this month in just 57 seconds, lightweight Sage Northcutt has elicited comparisons to retired former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.Both are physical specimens with explosive talent inside the cage and trained politeness in conversation outside of it. On Thursday, however, Northcutt was compared to GSP by someone who ought to know -- St-Pierre's long-time friend and head coach, Firas Zahabi.Northcutt is visiting Zahabi's TriStar gym in Montreal, this
  
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• Darren Elkins: The Damage Awakens

  16-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Midwest tough, all the way down to his Local 597 union card as a pipefitter in his native Indiana, Darren Elkins is probably the last person you would expect to join up with “No Shirt Nation,” aka Team Alpha Male, in Sacramento. But after a disappointing loss to Hacran Dias last December, Elkins felt it was time to shake things up a bit.“I’m at the point right now where I need to evolve my game some and work with some different guys this time,” the featherweight sta
  
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• By the numbers: 10 welcome returns to UFC

  16-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  In the fourth quarter of this year and in the first of the next, a lot of memorable UFC names will be making their Octagon returns after substantial spells on the sidelines. Here is a list of some familiar faces with bouts scheduled who have been out far too long. Reza Madadi - UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. DuffyWelcome back, “Mad Dog.” The Iranian-Swedish lightweight with a penchant for comeback submission wins is returning to Octagon action for the first time in two and a half years
  
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• BTN - Ten Welcome Returns

  16-10-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  In the fourth quarter of this year and in the first of the next, a lot of memorable UFC names will be making their Octagon returns after substantial spells on the sidelines. Here is a list of some familiar faces with bouts scheduled who have been out far too long. Reza Madadi - UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. DuffyWelcome back, “Mad Dog.” The Iranian-Swedish lightweight with a penchant for comeback submission wins is returning to Octagon action for the first time in two and a half years
  
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• Patrick Holohan vs. Louis Smolka Promoted to UFC Fight Night Dublin Co-Main Event

  16-10-2015 05:57 via sherdog.com
  
  A flyweight clash pitting Patrick Holohan against Louis Smolka will now serve as the co-headliner for the UFC Fight Night card in Dublin on Oct. 24.
  
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• UFC: Dublin gets new co-main event with Paddy Holohan vs. Louis Smolka

  16-10-2015 05:00
  
  The UFC Fight Night 76 co-main event just keeps on changing.
  According to UFC President Dana White, flyweights Paddy Holohan and Louis Smolka will now be featured in the co-headlining slot of the Oct. 24 card, replacing a lightweight bout between Norman Parke and Reza Madadi.Holohan vs Smolka is now the co-main event in Dublin! Here’s the Paddy vs Sampo fight from the last Dublin show http://t.co/jDaezqzZWa
  — Dana White (@danawhite) October 16, 2015Neither of those matchups was
  
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• Myles Jury: 'Nobody is gonna to beat me' at 145 pounds

  16-10-2015 02:00
  
  Myles Jury was one of the best in the world at lightweight. He thinks he'll be even better at featherweight.
  Jury recently announced his plans to move a division down after he cleaned up his diet. Already, he has noticed a significant difference. In his featherweight debut, Jury will take on Charles Oliveira at UFC on FOX 17 on Dec. 19 in Orlando.
  "I was hell on wheels at 155," Jury told MMA Fighting. "At [145], nobody is gonna beat me. I just want to get this first fight, get the cut down and g
  
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• Faber: Conor McGregor Beating Jose Aldo Is Good For The Sport

  16-10-2015 01:55
  
  Urijah Faber said in a recent interview that he thinks Conor McGregor beating Jose Aldo at UFC 194 would be good for the sport.“Conor winning is f-cking good for the sport," explained Faber. "People f-cking love that guy, so I think the big money fights would be with him as champion. So (a McGregor win) makes a lot of sense. But I really like Jose Aldo. It’s kind of a win-win for me.”“Who’s the easier fight for some of my guys? I’ve gotta say Conor is. Aldo&rs
  
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• Legacy FC 47 Weigh-in Results: Clay Harvison Misses Weight, Cleared to Scrap

  16-10-2015 00:32 via sherdog.com
  
  Legacy Fighting Championship returns to AXS TV Friday night with another edition of MMA action with Legacy 47, to be held inside Center Stage Atlanta.
  
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• Duane Ludwig: T.J. Dillashaw Would ‘100 Percent’ Be UFC Champion Without Me

  16-10-2015 00:05 via sherdog.com
  
  The recent conflict between Team Alpha Male founder Urijah Faber and Duane Ludwig, the camp’s former striking coach, has made for a number of juicy headlines.
  
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