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• Jorge Masvidal loving the new UFC regime, wants to get ‘vengeance’ on Donald Cerrone

  24-12-2016 23:00
  
  Jorge Masvidal is feeling the love with the new UFC ownership.The long-time UFC lightweight, and now welterweight has been getting something he wasn’t fully getting before with old UFC regimen – big name and ranked opponents. Just last week, Masvidal was booked to fight top-5 welterweight and fan favorite fighter Donald Cerrone at UFC on FOX 23, and said it was the new UFC owner, Ari Emanuel, who hooked it up with the high-profile fight.“They gave me the fight, and I want to se
  
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• Coach Mike Winkeljohn says ‘in some ways’ he shares in responsibility for Jon Jones’ travails

  24-12-2016 21:00
  
  Over the years, many superlatives and adjectives have been used when speaking of Jon Jones, most often in the realm of “greatest” or “youngest.” Yet since spring of 2015, when he was involved in a hit-and-run incident in Albuquerque, the word “beleaguered” has crept in front of all titles. The “beleaguered” champion.That sentiment was exacerbated at UFC 200 in July, when Jones — at the eleventh hour — was removed from the main event uni
  
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• Tony Ferguson takes aim at Conor McGregor: ‘He doesn't want any part of this'

  24-12-2016 19:00
  
  With Conor McGregor likely out until mid-2017 due to the birth of his first child, much of the conversation following UFC 205 centered around what could be next for the new UFC lightweight champion. Names like Tyron Woodley, Nate Diaz, and even Khabib Nurmagomedov were floated as potential frontrunners to land the coveted fight by McGregor's team, but one individual was curiously absent from many of those lists: Tony Ferguson.
  Ferguson is currently the 155-pound division's hottest fighter, havin
  
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• Fightweets: Ronda Rousey is returning, but will her fans?

  24-12-2016 18:00
  
  It’s Christmas Eve as this goes live, and chances are you’re either frantically traveling at the last minute or comfortably at home laughing at saps like me who are doing the former.
  Anyway, after we get through the holiday weekend, UFC 207, with Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey topping a loaded show, will be front and center. So it should be no surprise that fight comprises the bulk of this week’s questions. Let’s have at it.Do people still care about Ronda?
  @briancoswald:
  
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• Top MMA storylines of 2016: 8. Ronda Rousey’s absence, 135-pound rollercoaster

  24-12-2016 17:00
  
  For all the UFC’s financial success this year — and by all accounts, it was the promotion’s best 12 months ever — there was one key cog missing: Ronda Rousey.
  The UFC’s biggest mainstream star, the Hollywood supernova, the face of the sport and one of the most dominant champions ever was off the radar. If you wanted to see Rousey, you had to tune in to “Saturday Night Live” in January or “Ellen” in February or Sports Illustrated’s Swims
  
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• Eight years later, Heath Herring returns to all the things that were once so familiar

  24-12-2016 16:00
  
  The last time Heath Herring fought at an end-of-the-year card in Japan was 11 years ago, and the fight ended before it started. That’s when the singlet-sporting Yoshihiro Nakao affectionately gave Herring a kiss during instructions, and Herring, not feeling the love, delivered a short right in return. Nakao stared at Herring through cobwebs from the canvas, piecing it all back together, and that was it.One kiss. One punch. No contest. Herring can laugh about it a decade later, as it all go
  
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• Ronda Rousey not part of media schedule for UFC 207 fight week

  24-12-2016 15:00
  
  The UFC 207 fight week media schedule was sent out to press Friday night and there were conspicuous absences: the two headliners.
  Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes will not be at the UFC Ultimate Media Day on Dec. 28. That function is the typically the only availability for press during the week and will not be open to the public. There will be no UFC 207 pre-fight press conference or open workouts.
  Nunes will defend the UFC women’s bantamweight title against Rousey in the main event of UFC 20
  
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• UFC Statement on Cain Velasquez

  24-12-2016 07:00 via ufc.com
  "Saturday afternoon, UFC was informed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission that Cain Velasquez is unfit to fight. As a result, the former two-time heavyweight champion has been removed from his Dec. 30 bout against Fabricio Werdum at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.UFC 207, which is headlined by the women's bantamweight title fight between Amanda Nunes and Ronda Rousey, will proceed with 10 bouts." Read the Full Article Here
  
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• Chael Sonnen pins Tito Ortiz in college wrestling match

  24-12-2016 04:00
  
  The rivalry between Tito Ortiz and Chael Sonnen might be older then we thought.The two fighters have history that dates back to their collegiate wrestling days. On Jan. 23, 1998, which just happened to be Ortiz’s birthday, Sonnen faced Ortiz in a wrestling match and was able to pin him in just 44 seconds. Sonnen, who wrestled at 177 pounds for The University of Oregon, moved up a weight class for that match, so he could face the bigger Ortiz, who wrestled at 190 pounds for Cal State Bakers
  
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• Rico Verhoeven ‘did what I had to do’ against Badr Hari

  24-12-2016 02:00
  
  By most accounts, the much-anticipated Glory matchup between heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven and longtime star Badr Hari finished with a letdown, as a broken arm suffered by Hari brought the clash in Oberhausen, Germany, to a premature conclusion.But Verhoeven doesn’t see it that way. Appearing on a recent edition of the MMA Hour, the Dutch standout believes that his 50th career kickboxing victory went exactly as it should have.“I’m happy with the result because I did what
  
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• Video: Amanda Nunes Promises To Make A Statement Against Ronda Rousey At UFC 207

  24-12-2016 00:38
  
  https://youtu.be/IFw8Hf77yLIWith one week remaining until the final UFC pay-per-view event of the year, UFC 207, UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes is the subject of the latest promotional video that UFC has released ahead of the big show.Featured above is "UFC 207: Amanda Nunes - I'm Going to Make a Statement," which features the first-ever Brazilian Women's Champion in UFC history making the first defense of her title, which she won via vicious first-round stoppage of former champi
  
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• Bjorn Rebney says he doesn’t watch much Bellator: ‘It’s just not my thing’

  24-12-2016 00:00
  
  Bellator was once Bjorn Rebney's baby, the promotion he founded in 2008 and built from the bottom up. Now? Rebney said he doesn't really consume the product.
  Rebney's idea of what Bellator — and MMA — should be seems to be a contrast to the current path the promotion is on at this stage.
  "What they've been doing over the last few years obviously isn't how I'd do it," Rebney told Ariel Helwani on a recent episode of The MMA Hour. "Again, that's just business."Rebney created Bellator a
  
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