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• Kevin Casey vs. Rafael Natal set for UFC on FOX 18

  28-12-2015 22:00
  
  UFC middleweights Kevin Casey (9-3, two no-contests) and Rafael Natal (20-6-1) will clash Jan. 30 at UFC on FOX 18 in Newark, N.J.
  Casey currently rides a six-fight undefeated streak, but that run is marred by two no-contests. The first, a UFC 175 bout against Bubba Bush, was originally ruled a knockout victory for Casey, but the result was overturned after the former The Ultimate Fighter competitor tested positive for the anabolic steroid drostanolone after the fight.
  More recently, Casey compe
  
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• Anthony Johnson Calls Out Jon Jones: “He’s Still The Light Heavyweight Champ In My Eyes”

  28-12-2015 21:31
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWEJPaPrL1YAnthony Johnson believes if he defeats Ryan Bader in their upcoming fight at UFC On FOX 18, he'll be a UFC light heavyweight championship contender. The current champ Daniel Cormier is expected to fight the former champ Jon Jones next, although no date has been set.Johnson explained in a recent interview that he understands if he has to wait in line for the fight, and that he believes Jon Jones is still the true light heavyweight champion.“I want
  
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• Fabricio Werdum Denies Retirement Rumors: ‘Now That I’m Getting Rich, Why Retire?’

  28-12-2015 21:26 via sherdog.com
  
  Fabricio Werdum is at the top of his game, but rumors of the UFC heavyweight champion’s imminent retirement have sprung up in recent weeks.
  
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• Kevin Casey vs. Rafael Natal Added to UFC on Fox 18 in New Jersey

  28-12-2015 21:12 via sherdog.com
  
  After an unsatisfying Octagon outing earlier this month, Kevin Casey will get straight back to work in the new year.
  
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• KSW 34 to Feature Title Triple-Header with Bedorf, Narkun, Sowinski

  28-12-2015 21:11 via sherdog.com
  
  Leading Polish promoter Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on Monday announced that its first event of 2016 will feature a trio of championship bouts.
  
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• UFC 195 conference call audio

  28-12-2015 21:00
  
  On the UFC 195 conference call, UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler, Carlos Condit, Andrei Arlovski and Stipe Miocic will answer questions from the media. The video is expected to begin above at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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• Rizin FF Weigh-in Results: Kazushi Sakuraba, Shinya Aoki Given Go-Ahead in Japan

  28-12-2015 20:20 via sherdog.com
  
  Rizin Fighting Federation will break ground with two Japanese legends wielding its shovels.
  
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• Best of The MMA Hour 2015 edition (vol. 1)

  28-12-2015 19:00
  
  On this "best of" edition volume 1 ofthe show, we'll feature some of our most memorable interviews of 2015.Here's who you'll hear from:
  T.J. Dillashaw, Dominick Cruz, Nate Diaz, Georges St-Pierre, Rampage Jackson, Mirko Cro Cop, Forrest Griffin & Stephan Bonnar and BJ Penn.
  The next live episode of the show will air Jan. 4, and it will feature our 2015 awards.
  Enjoy, and happy holidays!
  Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes (audio feed here; video feed here) or Soundcloud. Liste
  
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• Video: UFC 195 Inside The Octagon – Lawler vs. Condit

  28-12-2015 18:44
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc7sXuzcB_oIn this video posted by the UFC on Monday afternoon, Dan Hardy and John Gooden take an in-depth look at the UFC welterweight title fight between Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit at UFC 195. UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit goes down on Saturday, January 2nd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with live results on MMANews.com starting at 10 PM ET.Here's the card for UFC 195 on pay-per-view on Saturday:Main Card (PPV – 10 PM ET)Champ Robbie Lawler
  
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• Finalized Card For This Saturday’s UFC 195 Event

  28-12-2015 18:33
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pngRELNpAThe UFC's first event of 2016 will be UFC 195, on January 2nd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be headlined by Robbie Lawler defending his welterweight title against Carlos Condit. Heavyweights Stipe Miocic and Andrei Arlovski will face off in the co-main event.MMANews.com will have live round-by-round results of UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit on Saturday night. The main card starts at 10 PM ET on pay-per-view, while the prelims ai
  
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• Werdum On Upcoming Velasquez Fight: “It’s A Good Rematch, But I’ll Win Again”

  28-12-2015 18:19
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAm11m7HzeYFabricio Werdum says he's confident going into his fight against Cain Velasquez at UFC 196 in February. This will be a rematch from their UFC 188 bout, where Werdum won by submission in the third round to become the UFC Heavyweight champion.In an interview with The MMA Hour, Werdum explained even though he believes Velasquez will come strong, he'll be victorious again.“The rematch, he (will) come very strong again,” he said. “I think I
  
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• 'Moneyweight' King Mo envisions big fights in three weight classes for Bellator in 2016

  28-12-2015 17:00
  
  Muhammed Lawal lets out a groan when he's asked about the Bellator: Dynamite tournament back in September.
  "King Mo" was supposed to fight Phil Davis in the final, but he injured his ribs in a win over Linton Vassell in the semifinals. Davis ended up knocking out reserve Francis Carmont. Three months later, Lawal is still thinking about what would have happened if he was the one standing across the cage.
  "I thought I matched up great against Phil," Lawal told MMA Fighting. "I was like, 'Yeah, I
  
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• 2015 Fighter of the Year: Conor McGregor

  28-12-2015 15:00
  
  There's only one Conor McGregor.
  And there's only one fighter who delivered like McGregor in 2015.
  It's almost comical now to look back on where the newly crowned UFC featherweight champion stood when this year began.
  Remember that? McGregor was called the UFC's protected one. The golden boy. The guy who had just one win over a Top-10 divisional opponent (Dustin Poirier), yet the one whose mugs was plastered all over FOX on NFC conference championship Sunday leading into his Jan. 18 clash with D
  
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• Morning Report: Matt Brown explains why Jose Aldo deserves the shot at Conor McGregor over Frankie Edgar

  28-12-2015 14:00
  
  It's amazing to think that someone could go from the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world to an afterthought in just 13 seconds, but that's exactly what's happened to Jose Aldo.
  Conor McGregor made short work of Aldo in the main event at UFC 194 and his next match was being discussed before the Brazilian was even up off the mat.
  Despite the one-punch knockout, UFC welterweight Matt Brown believes Aldo should still be awarded an immediate rematch.
  "I think Aldo should fight Conor. Yeah, I t
  
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• UFC 195 headliners focused on task at hand, nothing else

  28-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  If you were expecting some Conor McGregor-level trash talk and pontificating in advance of the UFC’s first event of 2016, Monday’s media conference call was as far removed from that as possible. The four principals involved in Saturday night’s final two pairings were all business and clearly focused on the task at hand and nothing else.More on UFC 195: Ageless Lawler enjoying career resurgence | WATCH Countdown: Lawler vs. Condit | Inside the numbers for Lawler vs. Co
  
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• Reasons to watch UFC 195 this Saturday

  28-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  While Conor McGregor and Holly Holm made the biggest splash in 2015, UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler needed only one fight in 2015 to capture Fight of the Year honors, raising his title in his first defense against Rory MacDonald at UFC 189 in July. //
  Lawler’s career resurgence has produced one of the most exciting and vicious champions in the UFC.When “Ruthless” steps into the Octagon, it’s usually a safe bet that he’s going to put on a show. And next
  
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• 'Mayday' returns as wild card in bantamweight division

  28-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Seven-hundred-forty-nine days – that’s how long it will have been between fights when Michael McDonald crosses the threshold into the Octagon on Saturday night to face Masanori Kanehara at UFC 195.Once the brightest young star in the bantamweight division, McDonald challenged then-interim champion Renan Barao for the title and became a fixture in the Top 5 as a 22-year-old, amassing a 16-3 record with five victories in his first seven UFC appearances, his only setbacks coming against
  
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• Casey vs. Natal Added to Newark Show

  28-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  An eye injury prompted a premature end to his December bout against Antonio Carlos Junior, but middleweight prospect Kevin Casey will get a chance to extend his unbeaten streak to seven when he faces veteran Rafael Natal in UFC Fight Night action on January 30 in Newark, New Jersey.The FOX-televised event at Prudential Center is headlined by the light heavyweight bout between Anthony "Rumble" Johnson and Ryan "Darth" Bader. Tickets are on sale now.A member of the Ultimate Fighter 17 cast, Casey
  
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• Andrei Arlovski making the most of second UFC run

  28-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  Even after everything Andrei Arlovski has been through over the years, he still remembers the date he came to the U.S. for the first time.“September 29, 2000,” he says without hesitation. The Belarus native was a mere prospect at the time, 3-1 as a professional mixed martial artist and less than two months away from his UFC debut against Aaron Brink.He won that fight, submitting Brink in less than a minute, but when he was stopped in back-to-back bouts by Ricco Rodriguez and Pedro Ri
  
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• Ageless icon Lawler enjoying career resurgence

  28-12-2015 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  In the 2008 Brad Pitt film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the protagonist was born an old man and got younger and younger with each birthday. To hear American Top Team coach Kami Barzini tell it, the film might as well be about the UFC welterweight champion “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler. “He gets younger and younger with every fight,” Barzini said. “In all my years coaching I’ve never seen anything like it. The man has been fighting for 14 
  
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• Stipe Miocic vs. Mark Hunt full fight video

  28-12-2015 04:00
  
  At UFC Fight Night 65, Stipe Miocic (13-2) solidified himself as one of the top contenders in the UFC heavyweight division by dominating Mark Hunt.
  Miocic used his wrestling and ground and pound to stop Hunt at 2:47 of round 5.
  The Croatian fighter is currently scheduled to face former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski in the co-main event of UFC 195. This card will take place on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas, Nev. Robbie Lawler is set to defend his welterweight title against Carlos Condit in the m
  
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• Video: Countdown To UFC 195 For Lawler-Condit & Arlovski-Miocic This Saturday (Full Episode)

  28-12-2015 03:48
  
  https://youtu.be/F-49IYabcCgUFC posted the two "Countdown to UFC 195" videos on their official YouTube channel immediately after the show premiered on cable on Sunday afternoon.Watch the above video to watch the full breakdown for this coming Saturday's UFC 195 main event, which features UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler defending his 170-pound title for the first time against former interim UFC Welterweight Champion, "The Natural Born Killer" Carlos Condit, in what is a fight that might n
  
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• Gegard Mousasi vs. Thales Leites targeted for UFC London co-main event

  28-12-2015 02:33
  
  Gegard Mousasi appears to have received a new opponent in short order.
  Mousasi wrote Sunday on Facebook that he'll be meeting Thales Leites in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Bisping on Feb. 27 in London. Leites' camp also confirmed with MMA Fighting that the fight is a go.
  UFC officials have yet to confirm the matchup. Mousasi seems to have deleted the post as of Sunday evening.
  Mousasi (37-6-2) was supposed to face Michael Bisping on the card, but Bisping was given the main eve
  
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• Khabib Nurmagomedov tells Conor McGregor to stay at 145, says he wants to stay busy in 2016

  28-12-2015 02:00
  
  Khabib Nurmagomedov hasn't fought since April 2014, and he's looking to make a splash when he makes his long-awaited return to the UFC Octagon.
  "I think, first of all, I need to stay healthy, and next year, I think March is a perfect date for me," Nurmagomedov told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "I need to fight somebody in March and fight for the title maybe [at] UFC 200...This is my little dream now."Nurmagomedov's "little dream" already has some players, too. While many fi
  
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• Chuck Liddell: “I Knew Tito Ortiz Was Afraid Of Me”

  28-12-2015 01:41
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfVzFRHKQEkFormer UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell recently appeared on Undeniable with Joe Buck and was asked about his feud with Tito Ortiz. Liddell specifically recalled their first fight at UFC 47 in April 2004. Here's what he had to say:“I’m actually smirking in my walkout,” Liddell said. “That’s how confident I felt walking out. It was just one of those fights. I knew he was afraid of me.”Liddell defeated Ortiz
  
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• This Week in Struggle: Hoverboard fails, last-minute Xmas shopping, Holiday weight cuts

  28-12-2015 00:46
  
  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.
  The struggle of cutting weight during the holidays. Watching everyone else eat good food lol. #WeightCut #8MoreDays pic.twitter.com/yOstR8PXwv
  — Michael McDonald (@MaydayMcDonald) December 25, 2015My wife made gluten free choc chip cookies and wonders why I am not eating them. Some thin
  
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• 'Countdown to UFC 195' video

  28-12-2015 00:26
  
  The 'Countdown to UFC 195' video takes a closer look at the upcoming UFC 195 event on Saturday, Jan. 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.In the main event, UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler will square off against Carlos Condit. Stipe Miocic faces Andrei Arlovski in the co-main event.Stipe Miocic vs. Andrei Arlovski
  
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