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• UFC 194 Embedded: 'We'll collide at that first exchange and then that will be it'

  06-12-2015 23:08
  
  In the debut episode of UFC 194 Embedded, the highly anticipated fight between Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor, to unify the UFC featherweight title, is highlighted. The history of the rivalry is featured and co-main event bout between middleweight champion Chris Weidman and Luke Rockhold is also previewed.
  
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• Dana White: Ronda Rousey is 'bigger now' than before loss to Holly Holm

  06-12-2015 23:00
  
  One of the storylines coming out of UFC 193 was how much a knockout loss could affect Ronda Rousey's star power. The former women's bantamweight champion has made a lot of money based on the fact that she was an undefeated -- and nary unbeatable -- freight train of a fighter.
  Dana White isn't worried about all that. The UFC president said Thursday on ESPN's "First Take" that Rousey might be a bigger star than she has ever been right now.
  "It's crazy, because you win and lose in the fight game,"
  
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• Benson Henderson On WWE’s Daniel Bryan Training MMA At His Gym, Says Bryan Has Real Talent

  06-12-2015 22:49
  
  Former UFC Lightweight Champion and current UFC Welterweight contender Benson Henderson recently spoke about WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan (Bryan Danielson) training MMA during his off-time from WWE at his gym, "The MMA Lab" in Glendale, Arizona.While Henderson has not yet personally trained with the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion, he admitted that he is impressed with Bryan's technical ability on the jiu-jitsu mat."He was out with some injuries in WWE," Henderson said to SportingNews.com ab
  
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• Georges St-Pierre on Sage Northcutt: 'I think he's going to be great'

  06-12-2015 21:00
  
  After Sage Northcutt made a big splash in his UFC debut, the Texas teenager made it clear there was one UFC fighter who inspired him more than the rest: Georges St-Pierre.
  It's not tough to see why, as both come from karate backgrounds.
  In the weeks since his swift UFC 192 knockout of Francisco Trevino, the 19-year-old Northcutt got his chance to work with St-Pierre, as the Houston-area native made a trip up to Montreal to train at the famed TriStar Gym.
  And St-Pierre says he likes what he saw f
  
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• This Week in Struggle: Perverts, bad driving, number of the beast, Anderson Aldo, hanger, zipper trauma

  06-12-2015 20:00
  
  Life is hard for all of us, but especially for professional cage fighters. Join us now for a laugh and a cry as we reflect on "This Week in Struggle."
  The struggle is best paired with Tom Waits. Enjoy.
  I've been in Vegas for 3 weeks, 20 minutes from UFC HQ but they fly to Texas for Pfister. https://t.co/2g84iLnmLa
  — Michael Chiesa (@MikeMav22) December 5, 2015
  @ALIAQUINTA Apparently being co-main against one of the most winning lightweights on the roster just isn't enough #NoLove
  &mda
  
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• Miesha Tate: Bethe Correia 'needs a more brutal beatdown' than Ronda Rousey gave her

  06-12-2015 19:00
  
  If a title shot isn't in the cards for Miesha Tate, maybe a grudge match will be on the table.
  Tate told Inside MMA on Friday that she would be willing to face Bethe Correia next given Correia's rants against her on Twitter.
  "If that's the fight that she wants, I'd be willing to step in there and teach her a lesson," Tate said. "Obviously, she needs a more brutal beatdown than Ronda gave her and I'd be happy to do that."
  Ronda Rousey knocked out Correia in 34 seconds at UFC 190 in August. That h
  
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• Agent: Jon Jones' relationship with the UFC is 'professional,' but needs 'a lot of repair'

  06-12-2015 18:00
  
  Jon Jones spent a good portion of an interview last week with MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani talking about the UFC and how he has been treated by the promotion. For the most part, Jones was critical of executives in how they have handled certain situations.
  The relationship between Jones and the UFC is not fractured, though, according to Jones' agent Malki Kawa.
  "I think his relationship with the UFC is OK," Kawa told Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "I think it's a professional,
  
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• Looking At Potentially The Biggest UFC Weekend Ever & UFN 80 Embedded (Episodes 1-3)

  06-12-2015 17:00
  
  https://youtu.be/FL33me6jGO4As UFC begins their journey into what has to be considered one of the most fan-friendly weekends in the history of the promotion, they have started the "Embedded" rollout for their back-to-back-to-back sold out events in Las Vegas, Nevada next Friday, Saturday and Sunday.On Saturday, UFC premiered their special hour-long "UFC 194 Embedded" show on FOX, which gave an in-depth look at the biggest of the three events this weekend. UFC 194 features two title fights, as in
  
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• Boxing promoter: 'Ring' should have put Holly Holm on cover before she kicked 'the sh*t out of' Ronda Rousey

  06-12-2015 17:00
  
  Ring Magazine was criticized by boxing purists for putting Ronda Rousey on the cover back in October. That ire has only intensified after Rousey lost to Holly Holm, who just so happens to be a former multi-time championship boxer.
  Boxing promoter Lou DiBella was the latest to get his jabs in Saturday night following an event headlined by Daniel Jacobs and Peter Quillin at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. DiBella bashed the magazine, not only for putting Rousey on the cover, but ignoring Holm when sh
  
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• Andrei Arlovski won 'pretty good money' betting on Holly Holm

  06-12-2015 16:00
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. -- Andrei Arlovski talks about his teammate Holly Holm's win over Ronda Rousey, what the win meant for him, his UFC 195 fight against Stipe Miocic, what's at stake and more.
  
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• Dana White: Jon Jones Is Completely Transformed, “Definitely” Moving To Heavyweight

  06-12-2015 15:52
  
  https://youtu.be/kv_VWTb1HK0Dana White and Jon Jones haven't exactly been on the best of terms since Jones' hit-and-run incident and subsequent hour-long interview with Ariel Helwani where he claimed, among other things, that UFC knew about Vitor Belfort being on steroids going into their UFC 152 fight and let him fight anyways, a claim White disputes.
  Regardless, when White spoke about Jones during his appearance on ESPN earlier this week, he couldn't help but step into his promoter shoes to si
  
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• 'His potential is limitless': Top prospect Phil Hawes turning heads, drawing comparisons at JacksonWink

  06-12-2015 15:00
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Phil Hawes is on the verge of great things in mixed martial arts  .... so long as the sport's preeminent free spirit, Donald Cerrone, doesn't accidentally get him killed first.
  Hawes, a highly touted middleweight prospect out of the JacksonWink camp, has spent his share of time at Cerrone's BMF Ranch, about an hour out of the city. And like any newbie attempting to fit in, the 26-year-old New Jersey native has found himself doing things he never would have imagined.
  "Wh
  
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• The Reintroduction of Zubaira Tukhugov

  06-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  The featherweight division will be front and center this week when the UFC rolls out fight cards on three consecutive evenings, with five different bouts in the 145-pound ranks, culminating with the highly anticipated championship unification clash between Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor at UFC 194.Two nights before the long-reigning Brazilian and his Irish adversary wrap up an whirlwind week of mixed martial arts at its highest level, the second bout of the three-night, 30-plus fight avalanche of
  
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• Sterling: The Nickname King has Arrived

  06-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Aljamain Sterling may be young in years, but he certainly understands the game he’s playing.The 26-year-old, undefeated bantamweight has put himself on the radar with three consecutive victories inside the Octagon, but the Serra-Longo product knows simply winning isn’t enough to move the proverbial needle these days. In the current era of mixed martial arts, it’s the fighters who draw attention who get the biggest push, and Sterling’s 2015 campaign has been a non-stop flo
  
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• Holly Holm Celebrates World Title Win With Hometown Fans

  06-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Hundreds of people showed up to greet newly crowned women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm on Sunday in her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico as a part of her victory parade.An emotional Holm spoke to the assembled and proud crowd, thanking them all for their support along her way to the top of the MMA world.Holm knocked out longtime champion Ronda Rousey in historic fashion in Melbourne, Australia on Nov. 15 in front of a record Etihad Stadium crowd of 56,214 people to win the title.
  
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• Chiesa Thinks It's Time to Pass the Torch

  06-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Michael “Maverick” Chiesa believes it’s time for some UFC veterans to pass the torch to the younger crop of fighters who have begun to lay their claim to the promotion’s spoils, and he’s setting out to prove his point when he takes on lightweight veteran Jim Miller on December 10 in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant in Las Vegas.In Miller, Chiesa faces someone whom he has watched perform long before he entered professional MMA, and he&rsquo
  
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• Boxing: Danny Jacobs Shocks Peter Quillin With Stunning First-Round Stoppage

  06-12-2015 05:30 via sherdog.com
  
  BROOKLYN -- They said he might not ever be able to walk again. They told him boxing is over.
  
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• Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier full fight video

  06-12-2015 04:00
  
  After months of buildup characterized by smack talk and vitriol, Irishman Conor McGregor met Louisiana's Dustin Poirier at the center of the Octagon to throw down at UFC 178.
  Watch the full fight above to see how their much anticipated featherweight tilt played out.
  McGregor, now the UFC's interim featherweight champion, faces 145-pound king Jose Aldo in a title unification bout Dec. 12 at UFC 194.
  
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• UFC Fight Night 80 Embedded, Episode 3: 'She was beating the crap out of him'

  06-12-2015 02:55
  
  On the latest episode of UFC Fight Night 80 Embedded, Rose Namajunas talks about why she has short hair now, Paige VanZant cuts weight with Urijah Faber and tells a good story about VanZant's fight with a teen in the gym, Cody Pfister hangs with his girlfriend, and Sage Northcutt trains.
  
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• Cathal Pendred explains why he decided to retire from mixed martial arts

  06-12-2015 02:00
  
  The announcement by now former UFC welterweight Cathal Pendred that he was calling it quits as a fighter at just 28 years old came as something of a surprise. Sure, he'd lost two in a row, but that's not uncommon for many fighters at the UFC level. Besides, he'd won four in a row before that, including performance bonuses.
  Yet, there it was on Nov. 25, Pendred's announced retirement via social media. So, what exactly contributed to the SBG Ireland fighter's early exit?
  "I'd just been thinki
  
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