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• Brazilian MMA fighter shot, likely paralyzed after armed robbery

  09-01-2016 23:18
  
  Henrique Alves de Aquino (1-1), a bantamweight from the Renovacao Fight Team, was shot Friday morning during an armed robbery in the northeast area of Rio de Janeiro. The MMA fighter, who also works as a bus driver, was shot when two teenagers tried to rob people at a bus stop.
  According to RFT, Alves, a black belt in luta livre, was rushed to the Getulio Vargas hospital and will live, but will likely be paralyzed since the bullet hit his spine.
  "We’re living a complicated situation where
  
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• Sara McMann: Questioning Ronda Rousey's resilience is 'completely insulting'

  09-01-2016 22:00
  
  One of the big storylines coming out of Ronda Rousey's historic loss to Holly Holm last month is a question: Can Rousey come back and be the same after being knocked out with a head kick in the second round in front of more than 56,000 with another million or so watching on pay-per-view?
  Sara McMann thinks any insinuation that Rousey cannot is a joke.
  McMann, who lost to Rousey by first-round TKO in 2014, has been fired up in recent weeks. She is not the biggest fan of the former UFC women's ban
  
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• Conor McGregor Calls Out Floyd Mayweather Over Racism Comments

  09-01-2016 21:39
  
  Conor McGregor has officially called out undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather, saying the two "can organize a fight no problem."McGregor recently wrote a message on his Facebook page mostly addressing the media and apologizing for a photo of him with a rifle, but the note also took aim at Mayweather. McGregor responded to an interview Mayweather did in December, where the boxer said he feels the media favors McGregor to him due to racism."I don't really know the McGregor guy, never seen him fight,"
  
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• Conor McGregor Apologizes For Gun Photo

  09-01-2016 20:05
  
  UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor has issued an apology after news broke that he's under investigation in Ireland regarding a photo he posted on Instagram, which depicted a man in a ski mask holding what appeared to be an automatic rifle.  The caption read, “Put the fight game in the bag and step away from the vehicle.”McGregor posted this update, explaining that it was in fact him in the photo, but it was an 'airsoft' replica gun and he&nbs
  
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• Frankie Edgar clears up the Twitter mix-up between him and his manager, Ali Abdel-Aziz

  09-01-2016 20:00
  
  A couple of weeks back, featherweight contender Frankie Edgar hosted a holiday Q&A via his Twitter account where he made a few bold proclamations in regards to fighting Conor McGregor for the belt.
  Or…or did he?
  In what was a perhaps an awkward glimpse behind the curtain, Edgar’s manager Ali Abdel-Aziz ended up answering a question directed at Frankie as if he were Frankie himself. The question was, "what round will you beat Conor [McGregor] in?"Abdel-Aziz answered from his own
  
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• Fightweets: Holly Holm's risks and rewards in fighting Miesha Tate

  09-01-2016 18:00
  
  For most of the week, it seemed the buzz from the superb UFC 195 battle between Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit would carry us through a rare slow weekend.
  Then, overnight, we had a megacard with a superfight dropped into our laps. At the not-yet-officially announced UFC 197 on March 5, expected to be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor will go up in weight and challenge lightweight champ Rafael dos Anjos and Holly Holm will put her UFC wome
  
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• Top 10 Brazilian prospects to watch in 2016

  09-01-2016 16:00
  
  Brazil had mixed emotions on the big MMA stages in 2015, with fighters like Jose Aldo and Douglas Lima losing titles in major organizations like the UFC and Bellator, while Rafael dos Anjos and Fabricio Werdum put the country on top in other divisions.
  As a new year starts, MMA Fighting lists 10 fighters that will likely burst onto the scene in 2016. Check it out:
  Guilherme Faria (15-5) has won 11 of his past 12 bouts, and will likely have the chance to redeem himself in his first fight of the y
  
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• How a near tragedy sparked the rise of Hawaii's second generation of MMA stars

  09-01-2016 14:00
  
  Charles Kipili Jr. was lying in a hospital bed three years ago, not knowing whether he'd live or die.
  The one thing he did know is that if he managed to survive this savage stabbing, the one that severed the brachial artery near his bicep, he had to get his act together. If not just for himself and his family, but also the fighters he had taken under his wing.
  "I just started thinking about when I got shot [in 2007], all the fights I've been in and I felt like, 'Oh man, I'm not gonna get a lot o
  
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• Conor McGregor on next fight: 'Just another night of easy work for me'

  09-01-2016 13:00
  
  Conor McGregor doesn't seem to want to confirm or deny his next opponent will be Rafael dos Anjos. But he does have an opinion on the matter anyway.
  "The Notorious" wrote Friday on Facebook that his next fight will go very much like the other ones.
  "My next fight," McGregor wrote. "What can I say, it's just another night of easy work for me."
  McGregor will move up to lightweight and challenge dos Anjos, the champion, in the main event of UFC 197 on March 5 in Las Vegas, MMA Fighting confirmed wi
  
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• Old school Alvarez ready for Pettis test

  09-01-2016 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  The best story regarding Eddie Alvarez’ move back to Philadelphia from sunny Florida would be that the hard-nosed lightweight contender had gotten too civilized in Boca Raton and needed to get his grit back in the City of Brotherly Love.That wouldn’t be true though. Instead, the 31-year-old’s decision to go back home and work with the Ricardo Almeida Fight Team for his Jan. 17 bout with Anthony Pettis has nothing to do with fighting. It’s much more important than that.Up
  
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• Dominick Cruz vs. Takeya Mizugaki full fight video

  09-01-2016 04:00
  
  After almost three years of not competing inside the octagon, Dominick Cruz (20-1) made his long-waited return by knocking out top contender Takeya Mizugaki on Sept. 27, 2014 at UFC 178.
  Cruz knocked out Mizugaki at 1:01 of round one.
  The former bantamweight champion hasn't competed since his victory over Mizugaki due to another ACL injury. Now healthy, Cruz is scheduled to fight current UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw in the main event of UFC Fight Night 81 on Jan. 17.
  
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• Rizin draws 156,000 viewers for Breakfast with Fedor

  09-01-2016 03:00
  
  Thursday morning isn't exactly the right time to draw a mass audience for a sport event, even if it's on something of a holiday.Spike TV presented the debut of the Rizin Fighting Federation on Dec. 31, and averaged 156,000 viewers over the nearly three-hour show, which aired from 10 a.m. to about 12:45 p.m., entitled "Breakfast with Fedor."The number wasn't good for that time of the day, but paled in comparison to what it would have been expected to do in a better time slot.   
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• Chris Curtis Overthrows Welterweight Champ Gil de Freitas in CES MMA 32 Headliner

  09-01-2016 02:08 via sherdog.com
  
  Remember the name: Chris Curtis.
  
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• UFC Champ T.J. Dillashaw on New Training Camp: ‘I’ve Never Had This Much Attention’

  09-01-2016 01:59 via sherdog.com
  
  T.J. Dillashaw’s highly-publicized exit from Team Alpha Male earlier this year was once of the uglier fighter-camp splits in recent memory, as Urijah Faber has since declared his friendship with the bantamweight champion ”off the table.”
  
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• Conor McGregor responds to Floyd Mayweather: 'Don't ever bring race into my success again'

  09-01-2016 01:30
  
  Conor McGregor has responded to Floyd Mayweather Jr., and this time it's real.
  McGregor took umbrage with Mayweather's implication that race has something to do with why McGregor has emerged as one of the most popular fighters in the UFC in a Facebook post Friday.
  "Floyd Mayweather, don't ever bring race into my success again," McGregor wrote. "I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling tha
  
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• Anthony Pettis, Eddie Alvarez Welcome Conor McGregor’s Lightweight Ambitions

  09-01-2016 00:58 via sherdog.com
  
  There will be plenty at stake when Anthony Pettis and Eddie Alvarez square off in the UFC Fight Night Boston co-main event -- just not an immediate lightweight title shot.
  
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