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• Conor McGregor Still Has Designs on Becoming a Three-Division UFC Champ

  14-08-2016 23:54 via sherdog.com
  
  The first setback of Conor McGregor’s UFC career hasn’t lowered his long-term expectations.
  
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• Two Titles on the Line at Invicta FC 19

  14-08-2016 23:27 via sherdog.com
  
  Invicta Fighting Championships, the world’s leading all-women mixed martial arts promotion, announced on Wednesday that it will return to the famed Scottish Rite Temple in Kansas City, Mo., on Sep. 23.
  
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• ‘Superstitious’ Julianna Peña lets Dana White pick her walkout music

  14-08-2016 23:00
  
  For years, Rory MacDonald walked to the Octagon to music that wasn’t his own. After changing his phone number, a random person who’d inherited his number selected his entrance cuts, and this went on for a long time. He finally got it sorted out, but yielding control of his walkout music didn’t seem to bother him.Nor does it bother women’s bantamweight contender Julianna Peña, who at UFC 200 walked out to Heart’s "Crazy On You." Those who thought she had pegge
  
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• Scott Coker: Bellator MMA Working to Upgrade Undercard Quality to Boost Digital Presence

  14-08-2016 21:28 via sherdog.com
  
  While in the past years Bellator MMA preliminary cards have been merely an afterthought, often heavily populated with local fighters to help better sell tickets, the California-based promotion is working to beef up its digital presence.
  
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• Conor McGregor: Floyd Mayweather is ‘running around the Showtime offices gathering my money’

  14-08-2016 21:00
  
  LAS VEGAS — Just when you thought the Floyd Mayweather talk died, it rose up Friday night.
  At a gym day to promote UFC 202, Conor McGregor was asked about that potential boxing match with Mayweather that was bandied about a couple of months ago before the rematch with Nate Diaz was booked. McGregor said he'd be willing to box Mayweather, the undefeated legendary boxer — provided Mayweather and company pony up $100 million.
  "Yeah, of course," McGregor said. "Right now I have Floyd run
  
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• John Lineker vs. John Dodson Announced As Headliner For UFC Fight Night 96

  14-08-2016 19:55
  
  UFC announced the official main event for their upcoming return to Portland, Oregon, as John Lineker and John Dodson will meet in the headline spot at UFC Fight Night 96.Scheduled to take place on October 1st, Lineker-Dodson will headline the FS1 event, which emanates from the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.UFC wrote the following regarding the Lineker-Dodson main event:"Top bantamweight contenders will square off in Portland, Oregon on Oct. 1, as hard-hitting John Lineker faces "The Magician"
  
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• The Weekly Grind: Alan Jouban works in Versace commercial, Tim Kennedy pranks friends

  14-08-2016 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."
  @TheNotoriousMMA if You had fought me you wouldn't be 2 division champ,you would be dead.Look what a out of shape Diaz did to U #I'llbeback
  
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• Mackenzie Dern’s MMA goal: Fight for the UFC title by end of 2017

  14-08-2016 18:00
  
  Mackenzie Dern didn’t get the submission she was hoping for in her mixed martial arts debut, but the strawweight prospect dominated Kenia Rosas for 15 minutes at Legacy FC 58. Rosas, a fellow MMA newcomer, was able to survive many submission attempts by the current No. 1 pound-for-pound grappler in the world, but Dern wasn’t upset about it.
  "I’m always confident in my jiu-jitsu, especially since it was Kenia Rosas’ pro debut, and it was my first fight, so I was definitely
  
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• McGregor Would Consider Leading Fighters Union in the Future ‘If It Is Presented Correctly’

  14-08-2016 17:32 via sherdog.com
  
  A fighters union for mixed martial artists has been a hot-button topic lately, and last week a new group formed hoping to further that agenda in the UFC.
  
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• Video: McGregor On Jones & Lesnar Failing Drug Tests: “F*ck Them Both”

  14-08-2016 17:31
  
  https://youtu.be/_B2sd5vwUcoDuring his UFC 202 Media Day Q&A in Las Vegas, Nevada (watch full archive here) earlier this week, UFC mega-star Conor McGregor had some choice words for two of the UFC's biggest stars -- Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar.When asked if he feels Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar should be banned from the UFC for life for testing positive for multiple banned substances in tests connected to their fights at the historic UFC 200 event, "The Notorious" one bluntly replied, "I don't
  
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• McGregor On Jones & Lesnar Failing Drug Tests: “F*ck Them Both”

  14-08-2016 17:31
  
  During his UFC 202 Media Day Q&A in Las Vegas, Nevada (watch here) earlier this week, UFC mega-star Conor McGregor had some choice words for two of the UFC's biggest stars -- Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar.When asked if he feels Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar should be banned from the UFC for life for testing positive for multiple banned substances in tests connected to their fights at the historic UFC 200 event, "The Notorious" one bluntly replied, "I don't give a sh*t.""You know what," he continue
  
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• Conor McGregor: UFC featherweights are ‘praying I don’t come back’ down

  14-08-2016 17:00
  
  LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor has altered many things going into this rematch with Nate Diaz. One of them? Not making any decisions yet on what will be next after UFC 202.
  That's a marked difference from past fights. Before UFC 196 and prior to Diaz stepping in for an injured Rafael dos Anjos, McGregor was talking about winning the UFC lightweight title and moving up to face then-champion Robbie Lawler for the welterweight belt at UFC 200.
  There was a plan in place at that point. Being one or
  
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• Four-Time NCAA All-American Gregor Gillespie to Make UFC Debut on Sept. 24

  14-08-2016 16:01 via sherdog.com
  
  Four-time NCAA All-American wrestler Gregor Gillespie will make his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut opposite Glaico Franca at UFC Fight Night “Cyborg vs. Lansberg” on Sept. 24 at Nilson Nelson Gymnasium in Brasilia, Brazil.
  
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• Dan Henderson wants 'to go out on top' as bookend to storied MMA career

  14-08-2016 16:00
  
  Is retirement ever really final in mixed martial arts? Yes, there comes a time when every competitive athlete has to stop. The problem, however, is identifying whether the this time is one where they're ready to hang up the gloves. With the opportunity for more money or attractive fights, it's hard to tell when a fighter has truly committed themselves to post-fighting life.
  For Dan Henderson, who reportedly faces UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping on October 8th in Manchester, England, he
  
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• Undefeated Paul Craig to Defend Light Heavyweight Title in BAMMA 26 Main Event

  14-08-2016 15:28 via sherdog.com
  
  Paul Craig will defend the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts light heavyweight crown against Chris Fields in the BAMMA 26 headliner on Sept. 10 at 3 Arena in Dublin.
  
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• Technique Talk: Dave Camarillo explains judo success of Kayla Harrison, Travis Stevens

  14-08-2016 15:00
  
  At the Rio Olympic Games, two Americans - Travis Stevens and Kayla Harrison - will walk home with medals in judo. Stevens adds a silver medal to his resume while Harrison, who became the first American judoka to earn a gold medal at the London Games in 2012, earned a consecutive gold medal.
  The United States may earn more medals aggregately than other countries at the Summer Games, but it has historically not been strong performers in judo. Instead, nations like Russia, Cuba, France and Japan ha
  
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• Click Debate: What are the next steps in MMA’s rapid evolution?

  14-08-2016 14:00
  
  LAS VEGAS — The evolution of mixed martial arts was on full display during International Fight Week here back in July.
  No, not the historic UFC 200, which set the promotion's Las Vegas gate record, or the accompanying cards around it. The true mark of where the sport is going was seen two days before a fight took place, in a corner of T-Mobile Arena overlooking The Strip.
  On the Tuesday night prior to International Fight Week began in earnest, the UFC held an educational summit for coaches
  
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• UFC's first Irish fighter shares his story

  14-08-2016 07:00 via ufc.com
  
  When it was all said and done, all Tom Egan could do is smile. More than five years after he became the first Ireland native to compete in the UFC, he was back in Dublin, back in the O2 Arena, and watching his teammates win on the biggest night in Irish MMA history. He will never forget July 19, 2014.“I was nothing but happy,” Egan said. “I was so happy and so emotional for all those guys for everything that they had done. I wasn’t thinking of anything other than pure sup
  
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• Nate Diaz vs. Michael Johnson full fight video

  14-08-2016 03:00
  
  At UFC on FOX 17, Nate Diaz (19-10) returned to the wining column by outpointing top lightweight Michael Johnson. That night Diaz and Johnson took home Fight of the Night awards.
  Coming off the biggest win of his career over UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, the Stockton fighter is getting ready for a highly anticipated rematch with the Irish fighter. Both Diaz and McGregor are scheduled to fight in the main event of UFC 202 which takes place on Aug. 20 at the T-Mobile Arena in&nbs
  
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• Benson Henderson talks fighters association, state of sponsorships in Bellator

  14-08-2016 01:00
  
  Benson Henderson is in a unique position these days. The former UFC lightweight champion is one of the few fighters to have experienced all sides of the aisle, having competed in the UFC under the pre- and post-Reebok eras, as well as for Bellator MMA, the promotion he now calls home.
  That experience gives Henderson a perspective few fighters have on the business of the fight game, and Henderson shared a little of that perspective Monday on The MMA Hour, revealing how the post-Reebok sponsorship
  
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• John Lineker vs. John Dodson set to headline UFC Fight Night 96

  14-08-2016 00:17
  
  Two former flyweight contenders who have moved up in weight for different reasons are on a collision course that leads to the main event of UFC Fight Night 96 on Oct. 1.John Dodson (18-7), a longtime top flyweight contender, meets John Lineker (28-7) in the main event of an FS1 show in Portland, Ore. at the Moda Center. Dodson is currently ranked as the No. 9 contender to champion Dominick Cruz, while Lineker is the No. 5 contender.Dodson, after two losses to flyweight champion Demetrious Johnso
  
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