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• Eddie Alvarez says he'll defeat Rafael dos Anjos, become UFC champion 'whether you like it or not'

  12-06-2016 23:00
  
  To Eddie Alvarez, the stage is irrelevant.
  What matters right now is that he's fighting Rafael dos Anjos July 7 for the UFC lightweight title. Those are the only pertinent details.
  "I don’t give a s**t where [this fight takes place]," Alvarez told MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour. "I don’t care if they even got a ref in there. Where this thing is and when it airs and where it airs, that ain’t got nothing to do with me. I’m getting a
  
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• Promoter Says Fedor Chose Maldonado From List, Other Potential Opponents Revealed

  12-06-2016 21:08
  
  Apparently the decision to fight former UFC contender Fabio Maldonado was made by Fedor Emelianenko specifically.The promoter of the Fight Nights Global events, Kamil Gadzhiev, claimed during a recent podcast appearance that Fedor specifically chose Maldonado from a list of potential opponents."Fedor was choosing from opponents that I offered him," Gadzhiev said to the ValeTudo.ru podcast. "This is a situation where Fedor's name is much bigger than the name of Fight Nights. We have to call thing
  
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• Royce Gracie Says He’s Interested In MMA Fights With Sean Sherk & Dan Severn

  12-06-2016 21:03
  
  Although he is approaching his 50th birthday, MMA legend and UFC Hall Of Famer Royce Gracie is apparently not ready to call it quits just yet.Gracie (15-2-3), who last fought at Bellator 149, defeating fellow MMA legend and UFC Hall Of Famer Ken Shamrock via first-round TKO back in February, recently told Brazilian MMA outlet Combate that he is not ready to call it a career yet.“Man, I’m trying to leave this game,” Gracie said. "I’m not retired. I’m on a break, but
  
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• Adam Milstead celebrates victory in UFC debut with 12-hour work days

  12-06-2016 21:00
  
  UFC heavyweight Adam Milstead is a blue-collar kind of dude.
  When he's not smashing faces inside the cage, you can find him rippin' lips from his kayak, testing the accuracy of his Springfield XD-S, or crafting his latest country tune. You may even find him tossing back a cold one in between (and he might even invite you to join him).
  But it's not all fun for Milstead, who recently made his debut at UFC Fight Night 88 with a second-round TKO of Chris de la Rocha.
  Milstead embraced the
  
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• Conor McGregor’s Coach Admits He’s Unsure If McGregor Will Return To 145-Pound Division

  12-06-2016 20:54
  
  While reigning UFC 145-pound champion "The Notorious" Conor McGregor prepares for his 170-pound rematch against Nate Diaz at UFC 202 in August, the 145-pound division will crown an interim champion, as former champion Jose Aldo takes on Frankie Edgar in a rematch at UFC 200 in July.Ahead of both pairs of fights, McGregor's SBG Ireland coach John Kavanagh spoke with Jonathan Shrager of MMA Underground (via Jonathan Bradley of FOX Sports) about whether or not he sees McGregor returning to the UFC'
  
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• UFC's Marc Ratner reflects on Boxing Hall of Fame career

  12-06-2016 20:00
  
  The UFC's Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Marc Ratner, just a week out from being the first pure regulator to be elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, noted the significance of that honor just hours after the death of the Hall of Fame's most famous member, Muhammad Ali, on June 3.On June 26, 1961, a 16-year-old Ratner drove himself for the first time to a major fight, to see Cassius Clay, as Ali was known at the time, beating Duke Sabedong at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
  
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• The Weekly Grind: Fan scares UFC fighters with a snake, Max Holloway vs. Spiderman, and more

  12-06-2016 19:00
  
  The life of a professional fighter isn't all glitz and glamour. As if getting punched, kicked, kneed, choked and twisted into a pretzel on a regular basis isn't enough, fighters attract a general wackiness that makes their lives, well, interesting. To commemorate these day-to-day hardships, slip-ups, pranks, and more, we bring you "The Weekly Grind."
  @TouchyFili yeah that still frame of yair kicking your face
  — James Onder (@poongyaimak) June 8, 2016
  That was pretty clever actual
  
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• Report: Former Bellator MMA Fighter Dies After Playing Russian Roulette

  12-06-2016 18:59
  
  Former Bellator MMA fighter Ivan Cole passed away on Saturday, June 11, 2016 after suffering a gunshot wound to the head following an alleged game of Russian roulette.Specific details regarding the incident that resulted in Cole losing his life this weekend are scarce, however CBS DFW is reporting that Cole died of a self-inflicted gunshot after playing a game of Russian roulette."BREAKING NEWS: Mixed Martial Arts fighter Ivan "J.P." Cole killed himself while reportedly playing roulette with gun
  
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• Renzo Gracie: 'It's a compliment to your opponent if you don't tap'

  12-06-2016 18:00
  
  Rear-naked choke. That's the move both Nate Diaz and Miesha Tate used to win their respective bouts at UFC 196. Although Diaz and Tate applied similar techniques, their opponents had different reactions: One tapped out and the other didn't.
  After the event, Holly Holm, Tate's opponent, was praised by fans for fighting to the very end by choosing not to tap out, going unconscious. But Diaz's opponent, Conor McGregor, was criticized for choosing to tap out, forcing referee Herb Dean to stop the fi
  
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• Click Debate: What's all this talk about the Ali Act coming to MMA?

  12-06-2016 17:00
  
  Fighters competing at UFC 199 lined a hallway inside The Forum in Los Angeles last week. The event was part of the organization's fight-week festivities, a media day designed to promote the upcoming card.
  The conversations ranged from how the fighters felt they matched up with their upcoming opponents to the new weigh-in procedure installed by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC).
  One topic the athletes didn't seem to have a very good grasp on, though, was boxing's Muhammad Ali Act. L
  
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• Cody Garbrandt Talks At Length About Backstage Altercation With Dominick Cruz At UFC 199

  12-06-2016 16:21
  
  https://youtu.be/lFSQsjPzWpoApparently Nate Diaz and Jason Guida wasn't the only backstage altercation that happened at last Saturday night's UFC 199 event at The Forum in Inglewood, California.As UFC Bantamweight contender Cody Garbrandt explained during a recent edition of Team Alpha Male's Stud Radio (watch above), he and reigning UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz nearly got into it after he defeated Garbrandt's teammate Urijah Faber in the co-main event."Yeah, [he, Cruz, popped out of
  
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• Fighting runs in the family for Daniel Kelly -- a.k.a. Mr. ‘Dad Bod’

  12-06-2016 16:00
  
  Because Daniel Kelly has the look of a fellow who drives a Honda Odyssey to work everyday, his upset victory over Antonio Carlos Junior back in March stood out among the many held at UFC Fight Night 85 in Brisbane. As far as surface narratives go, why not? Here was a man who was 38 years old, scoring a technical knockout over a fighter a dozen years his junior, defying Vegas odds and Darwin’s theories alike, in his native country.
  Not a bad night.
  Yet what Kelly could have lived without wa
  
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• Valentina Shevchenko opens up about getting caught in shootout crossfire, her coach being shot

  12-06-2016 15:00
  
  Valentina Shevchenko was not scared in the moment. Adrenaline took over. She needed to help her longtime coach to the hospital after he was shot.
  It was only afterward, in the ensuing days, that the UFC women's bantamweight contender felt real fear.
  "I didn't want to go the street," Shevchenko told MMA Fighting. "I was at the house. Every time they were working on the street, I was looking around like maybe somebody was going to attack me at this moment."
  Late last month, Shevchenko and her coac
  
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• Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski full fight video

  12-06-2016 04:00
  
  At Affliction: Day of Reckoning back in October 2008, Fedor Emilianenko took of former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski in the main event of the card. That night, Emilianenko earned one of the most vicious knockouts in MMA, catching Arlovski with a brutal right hand that sent Arlovski face first to the canvas. The official stoppage came at 3:14 of round one.
  Now on a three-fight wiing streak, "The Last Emperor" is schedule to take on former UFC fighter Fabio Maldonado at EFN 50 in St. Pe
  
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• UFC hires lobbying firm to combat extension of Ali Act to MMA

  12-06-2016 02:00
  
  The UFC is making its feelings regarding the possible extension of the Ali Act to MMA very clear.
  This week, the world's leading mixed martial arts promotion hired Washington, D.C. firm Farragut Partners to lobby against the new proposed bill that would bring the Ali Act to the sport, according to a release by O'Dwyers PR.
  The Muhammad Ali Expansion Act was recently introduced to Congress by Con. MarkWayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Mullin, a former MMA fighter himself, believes the balance of pow
  
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• Tony Ferguson 'upset' that Khabib Nurmagomedov took the fight against 'project manager'

  12-06-2016 01:00
  
  LOS ANGELES -- At UFC 199, Tony Ferguson talked to the media about his injury that pulled him out of fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov, his upcoming fight against Michael Chiesa, the new weight cut procedure, and much more.
  
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• Team Alpha Male Coach Details Backstage Scuffle Between Nate Diaz, Jason Guida at UFC 199

  12-06-2016 00:44 via sherdog.com
  
  On the same night that his rematch with Conor McGregor was officially announced, Nate Diaz got into an altercation backstage with Clay Guida’s older brother.
  
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