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• Brennan Ward rolling with the punches all the way to Japan for Rizin

  26-12-2015 23:00
  
  Brennan Ward has fought on five separate occasions at the Mohegan Sun, not far from where he grew up in New London, Connecticut. He won four of those fights, and lost once to Tamdan McCrory. Each time he fights there he brings a good portion of New England in to root for him. It is always a Brennan Ward crowd when Bellator visits the Mohegan reservation.So when he got the call to fight in Japan on Dec. 29, on the inaugural Rizin card as a Bellator loaner, the 27-year old saw it as an adventure &
  
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• Michael Bisping To Anderson Silva: “See You In London, Just Leave The Viagra Out Of It”

  26-12-2015 22:37
  
  The trash talk for UFC Fight Night 83 has begun. After UFC officially announced last week that Michael Bisping would face Anderson Silva at the event in London, Bisping took a jab at Silva on Twitter, saying he hopes Silva will "leave the Viagra out of it" on February 27th.https://twitter.com/bisping/status/680136479637549056Bisping is referencing Silva's claim that a “sexual performance medication” he took tainted his drug test result for his fight against Nick Diaz in January.UFC F
  
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• Tamdan McCrory outlines three-step plan for UFC success: 'Make weight. Crush your opponent. Get paid.'

  26-12-2015 21:00
  
  In a time when MMA's "free market" is as publicly discussed and seemingly alluring as ever, there goes Tamdan McCrory, trotting up to the UFC's front desk and eagerly filling out a job application.
  The 29-year-old New Yorker fought for the UFC from June 2007 to August 2009, posting a 3-3 record during that stretch, only to endure a series of hardships that bucked him from the sport of MMA altogether.
  "I’ve had to overcome loss – personal, professional and financial issues I’ve
  
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• John Kavanagh: If Conor McGregor lost, I would have gotten 'Ronda Rousey's coach's treatment'

  26-12-2015 20:00
  
  John Kavanagh had dozens of worried Irish fans come up to him last week. Some of them apologized that he was not Conor McGregor's coach anymore. Others were flat outraged.
  "I spent all my life savings on this trip and you have him doing cucaracha or something," Kavanagh said one fan told him.
  The coach's response to all of them was this: "You must be watching UFC Embedded."
  The vlog series follows around fighters in the final week before big fights. In this particular edition, McGregor was shown
  
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• Nick Diaz Says What UFC Pays His Brother Makes Him Sick

  26-12-2015 19:04
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUIdJhjZZkNick Diaz recently appeared on Chael Sonnen's You're Welcome podcast, and spoke out against how the UFC pays their fighters.
  Diaz brought up that his brother Nate earned only $40,000 to compete and win at UFC on FOX 17.
  “[Nate’s purse] makes me sick. It makes me sick what I get paid. It makes me sick for what I’ve done in the past. Then you see this guy [McGregor] come out and do really well, and it drives you crazy. [Nate] is stuck in
  
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• Kimbo Slice Says He Plans To Retire As Heavyweight Champion

  26-12-2015 18:50
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOs6NTWtT58In an interview to promote his upcoming fight in February against Dada 5000 for Bellator, Kimbo Slice identified his goal in the sport of MMA: To become a champion. Slice explained that he hopes to fight for the heavyweight title, and he would be happy to end his career that way.“The ultimate goal would be to fight for a title. How else would I want to end my career?” Slice told MMAjunkie. “When I think about not fighting or retiring,
  
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• Anderson Silva: Michael Bisping is a ‘big test’ before title shot

  26-12-2015 18:00
  
  Anderson Silva will return from suspension against Michael Bisping, and he made it clear he wants to reclaim the UFC belt.
  Scheduled to headline a UFC Fight Pass card on Feb. 27, "The Spider" competes in London for the first time since an epic reverse elbow knockout over Tony Fryklund to defend his Cage Rage title in 2006.
  "I would love this fight to be in Brazil, but it’s going to be a pleasure to come back and face Michael Bisping at the sold out O2 Arena in London," Silva told UFC.com.
  
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• Dominick Cruz to T.J. Dillashaw: ‘Don't try to compare me to other people because you're too silly to talk'

  26-12-2015 16:00
  
  If it seems like Dominick Cruz takes a particular glee from the verbal napalm he's been dropping on T.J. Dillashaw ahead of UFC Fight Night 81... well, it's because he does.
  So it should come as no surprise that after his latest round of mental warfare led an irritated Dillashaw to speculate whether Cruz was trying to emulate Conor McGregor's loquacious promotional approach, Cruz couldn't help but crack a smile.
  "That's how he (Dillashaw) sees it, because he can't talk," Cruz
  
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• 2015 Event of the Year: UFC 189

  26-12-2015 14:51
  
  "Events" can be tricky, because they’re a confluence of two clashing directions: Prospect and retrospect. One very seldom has much to do with the other in MMA. Some cards that look great on paper play out as ultimate duds. Some cards that look like dog mush up front end up reminding us why we watch the fight game to begin with.We can control our excitement going in (or at least most of us can), but even if we try to sugarcoat things afterwards we can’t reshape what happened. It eithe
  
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• Demetrious Johnson, the UFC pound-for-pound king, has earned distinction

  26-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  It should have been celebration time for Demetrious Johnson, but the UFC flyweight champion isn’t built that way. So when asked during a pre-UFC 194 media day in Las Vegas if Ronda Rousey’s November loss to Holly Holm cleared the way for “Mighty Mouse” to be declared the most dominant champion in the UFC, a debate followed in which he spoke of Rousey’s body of work, as well as that of champions in other sports such as Serena Williams.In short, he wasn’t about
  
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• Best UFC social media images of 2015

  26-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  It's been a memorable year in 2015 and we wanted to celebrate. So we checked the numbers across our social media platforms and have come up with the 10 most popular pictures of the year.To nobody's surprise, Ronda Rousey, Conor McGregor and the new women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm are well represented.So enjoy the photos and have a safe and happy New Year. Let's do it again in 2016, shall we? Read the Full Article Here
  
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• Best UFC images of 2015

  26-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  It's been a memorable year in 2015 and we wanted to celebrate. So we checked the numbers across our social media platforms and have come up with the 10 most popular pictures of the year.To nobody's surprise, Ronda Rousey, Conor McGregor and the new women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm are well represented.So enjoy the photos and have a safe and happy New Year. Let's do it again in 2016, shall we? Read the Full Article Here
  
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• Bader finds peace as he piles on wins

  26-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  This has got to be it for Ryan Bader. He’s won five fights in a row, is coming off a win over former world champion Rashad Evans, and on January 30 in Newark, New Jersey, he faces off with the No. 2 ranked light heavyweight in the world, Anthony “Rumble” Johnson.With a win, a title shot has to be his, right?More on Fight Night Newark: Fight Card | Get tickets | Time is now for Rumble“Who knows?” Bader laughs. “Every fight feels like that. Every
  
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• 10 Best – Greatest UFC fighters of the year

  26-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  It’s all come down to this – the Highly Unofficial picks for the best fighters of 2015. As always, the rule is that someone had to have fought at least twice to be considered for the list, but with so many shows, what used to be an issue is an issue no longer, as there were plenty of top performers showing what they do best in the Octagon.10 – Neil Magny Back in the same spot he was in at this time last year, Colorado’s Neil Magny continues to impress as he climbs up the
  
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• Robbie Lawler vs. Josh Koscheck full fight video

  26-12-2015 04:00
  
  At UFC 157, Robbie Lawler (26-10-1 NC) returned to the UFC to face Josh Koscheck after competing outside the octagon for almost nine years. Koscheck was believed to be a bad matchup for Lawler, but that wasn't the case as Lawler stopped the former two-time welterweight title challenger at 3:57 of round one.
  Lawler is currently scheduled to defend his welterweight title against Carlos Condit (30-8) on Jan. 2 at UFC 195.
  
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• Aljamain Sterling wants 'a bank account that represents me being a pro athlete'

  26-12-2015 02:00
  
  Aljamain Sterling took a gamble. Now, he's ready to get paid.
  One of the brightest young potential stars in the sport went to 12-0 last Thursday with his second-round finish of Johnny Eduardo in an exciting fight.
  That was the last fight on the up-and-coming bantamweight's contract. The Serra-Longo Fight Club competitor got a contract renewal offer from the UFC before the Eduardo fight, didn't like what he saw, and opted to take the chance of fighting out his contract.
  After a job well done agai
  
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