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• Colby Covington on Accusations of Homophobia: I Have Gay Friends

  20-11-2017 23:56
  Colby Covington has defended offensive anti-gay slurs aimed at Fabricio Werdum in their altercation in Sydney by claiming that he has gay friends Covington appeared on Monday’s episode of the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani and discussed the criticism he has received for his choice of language in the altercation (transcription via MMAMania): “At that […]
  
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• Tyron Woodley says Colby Covington is a disgrace to MMA: ‘He makes the sport look horrible’

  20-11-2017 23:41
  Whether by insulting the entire country of Brazil or engaging in a street altercation with a former UFC heavyweight champion, Colby Covington has made plenty of noise since his win last month over Demian Maia. But one man who has said little about the controversy surrounding Covington is also the one man who holds what Covington covets most: UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley.
  And for Woodley, who repeatedly called Covington’s actions “embarrassing” on Monday’s episo
  
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• UFC Hoping for ‘Quick Turnaround’ for Georges St-Pierre to Make Perth Event

  20-11-2017 23:27
  The promotion is hoping that Georges St-Pierre can commit to a middleweight title unification bout against incumbent champion Robert Whittaker in Australia The UFC makes its debut in Perth this February and is hoping that the ‘stars align’ to make it a memorable one. Whittaker defeated Yoel Romero in July to announce himself as the number […]
  
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• Floyd Mayweather Back in Gym, Sparking Conor McGregor Rematch Rumors

  20-11-2017 23:07
  Floyd Mayweather Jr. posted a video from inside his gym to Instagram on Sunday which has led to rumors of a return to the ring With no fight likely to earn him more than a rematch with UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor, some believe that Mayweather may be gearing up for just that. Mayweather exhibited […]
  
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• Volkan Oezdemir: Police Report Released Following Arrest

  20-11-2017 22:23
  A copy of the police report pertaining to the arrest of Volkan Oezdemir on charges of battery has been released by authorities Oezdemir was taken into custody on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability. The Swiss fighter’s manager, Fredric Englund, claimed that Oezdemir was caught up in […]
  
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• Tyron Woodley Claims Nick & Nate Diaz are ‘Scared’ as ‘Its in the Bloodline’

  20-11-2017 22:10
  With no word from Nate Diaz following Tyron Woodley’s call-out for a UFC welterweight title-shot, “The Chosen One” is lashing out While Diaz is formally registered as a UFC lightweight, his two bouts with Conor McGregor in 2016 were fought at 170 pounds. Woodley, who clearly sees a bout with the fan-favorite Diaz as a […]
  
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• Bellator What to Watch: Julia Budd vs. Arlene Blencowe (Video)

  20-11-2017 22:04
  Julia Budd vs. Arlene Blencowe has received the “What to Watch” treatment. Budd will go one-on-one with Blencowe inside the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma on Dec. 1. The bout will serve as Bellator 189’s main event. It’ll be contested for Budd’s women’s featherweight title. The official YouTube channel of Bellator has rolled out […]
  
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• Colby Covington Compares Critics to ‘Adolf Hitler & the Nazis’ Over ‘Snitch’ Comments

  20-11-2017 21:37
  Colby Covington believes that those criticizing his decision to press charges on former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum are promoting ‘fascist’ ideals Following an altercation between the outspoken UFC welterweight contender and the Brazilian heavyweight, charges were brought against Werdum. Covington, who has been relishing his role as an outspoken villain of late, allegedly received […]
  
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• Colby Covington says Fabricio Werdum sucker punched him, threatened to kill him in boomerang incident

  20-11-2017 21:30
  Colby Covington said a Fabricio Werdum sucker punch started their altercation last week in Australia — not him calling Werdum an “animal.”
  On Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Covington said he was talking trash to Tyron Woodley on Twitter last Wednesday while waiting for a cab outside the fighter hotel in Sydney when someone punched him in the head. He looked up and it was Werdum, Covington said.
  “All of a sudden I get in the face from the side,&
  
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• UFC Shanghai Free Fight: Michael Bisping vs. Cung Le

  20-11-2017 21:27
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is rolling out free fights as we get closer to their next event (Nov. 25). UFC Fight Night 122 takes place inside the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, China. Former middleweight champion Michael Bisping and Kelvin Gastelum will do battle. The bout is set to headline the event. The official […]
  
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• Rory MacDonald on Heavyweight Tournament: ‘I Spoke to Scott Coker About it’

  20-11-2017 21:19
  Rory MacDonald wants to insert himself in the Bellator heavyweight tournament. The participants for Bellator’s 2018 heavyweight tournament have been revealed. Dates and locations haven’t been announced. Furthermore, the promotion is still in the process of naming alternates. MacDonald hopes to become an alternate. The welterweight contender has a title bout against Douglas Lima on […]
  
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• Colby Covington Aiming for Conor McGregor at 155 ‘After Taking Woodley’s Belt’

  20-11-2017 21:14
  Colby Covington has claimed that he is planning to muscle his way into an elite club of UFC two-weight champions in 2018 Beating the third man inducted into that club, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor, is his aim. Covington recently spoke to BJPenn.com about his ambitions for the future, which he believes will open up […]
  
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• Alex Volkanovski Issues a Threat to UFC Featherweight ‘Bullies’

  20-11-2017 20:41
  UFC featherweight Alex Volkanovski got the job done on Saturday night in Sydney and now has his eyes set on bigger names in the 145-pound division The Australian dispatched short-notice replacement Shane Young on his way to a unanimous decision but is not getting carried away just yet: “A win’s a win – 30-26, so […]
  
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• Dustin Poirier Wants Alvarez or Gaethje, Won’t Accept Anything Else

  20-11-2017 20:37
  Dustin Poirier has his sights set on just one fight. At UFC Fight Night 120, Poirier took on former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis. In an exciting scrap, Poirier earned a third-round TKO victory. After the fight, he called out the winner of Eddie Alvarez vs. Justin Gaethje. Speaking to Flo Combat, “The Diamond” said his […]
  
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• Mike Perry Gives his Take on the Link Between Animals & MMA

  20-11-2017 20:24
  “Platinum” Mike Perry danced like a rooster following his impressive 79-second knockout of Alex Reyes at UFC Pittsburgh in September While the post-fight performance provided some comic relief and went viral not long after, Perry explained why the motivation behind his unique celebratory dance was not as random as some would have believed: “Martial arts […]
  
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• UFC’s Volkan Oezdemir charged with felony battery after reported bar fight

  20-11-2017 20:00
  UFC light heavyweight title contender Volkan Oezdemir's arrest Saturday stemmed from a bar fight that took place on Aug. 12, according to details from his bond hearing on Sunday.
  According to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the 28-year-old Oezdemir was in a fight with a man named Kevin Cohen. Cohen sustained swelling and received cuts on his head from the fight, it was said at the hearing.
  The alleged incident took place at an unnamed Fort Lauderdale bar. Oezdemir'sattorney, Bruce A.
  
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• ‘F*ck You, USADA’: Uriah Hall is ‘Sick of Steroid Using D**kheads’ Impacting his Life

  20-11-2017 19:54
  UFC middleweight Uriah Hall hit out at USADA agents and the dopers who have justified the efforts of the organization  Hall claims to have been woken up on Monday morning for the purposes of a test – one which he clearly feels was unnecessary. Uriah Hall is not happy with USADA pic.twitter.com/QpYnZ9gP96 — Tom Taylor […]
  
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• Colby Covington: I’ve Taken Tyron Woodley’s Soul in the Gym

  20-11-2017 19:39
  The UFC’s new self-appointed super-villain Colby Covington has given his take as to why he is next in line for a shot at Tyron Woodley’s welterweight title For Covington, he is the only candidate that ‘makes sense’ for the next title shot. “I’m next in line at welterweight,” Covington told BJ Penn Radio. “You know, I’m […]
  
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• Jose Aldo Defends Conor McGregor over Bellator Incident

  20-11-2017 19:33
  Former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo ‘does not condemn’ Conor McGregor for his behavior during Bellator 187 in Dublin recently Aldo, quite surprisingly, has rationalized the actions of the man who knocked him out in 13-seconds to end a 10-year unbeaten run in MMA and claim his UFC title. “Scarface” has never hidden his disdain […]
  
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• Yoshitaka Naito Defends Against Alex Silva at One's ‘Warriors of the World’ in Bangkok

  20-11-2017 19:01 via sherdog.com
  One Championship’s next trip to Thailand now has a title bout in store with undefeated Japanese 125-pound champion Yoshitaka Naito facing Brazil’s Alex Silva.
  
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• Oscar De La Hoya Refusing to ‘Chase’ Conor McGregor

  20-11-2017 18:48
  Former boxing superstar and Olympic gold medalist Oscar De La Hoya surprised many last week by claiming that he was targeting a boxing bout with Conor McGregor The Golden Boy Promotions CEO and boxing legend asserted that it would take him no more than ‘two rounds’ to finish “The Notorious” inside the ropes. De La […]
  
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• Jose Aldo defends 'emotional' Conor McGregor in Bellator 187 incident

  20-11-2017 17:30
  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Conor McGregor returned to the cage earlier this month, and it was a controversial decision.
  The UFC lightweight champion wasn’t defending his belt or competing in a superfight of any kind, he just climbed the fence and entered the Bellator 187 cage to celebrate what he thought was Charlie Ward’s win over John Redmond on Nov. 10 in Dublin, Ireland.
  McGregor had an altercation with referee Marc Goddard in the cage, and later released an statement apologi
  
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• In LFA in-cage near tragedy, cutman also got a second chance

  20-11-2017 16:00
  Jeron Lewis was a senior on the University of Southern Indiana’s basketball team in 2010. In a game against Kentucky Wesleyan in January of that year, Lewis collapsed underneath one of the baskets.Lewis, 21, hit his head on the court and began convulsing, according to reports from the time. Hours later, after being rushed to a Kentucky hospital, he was dead. An autopsy showed that Lewis had an enlarged heart.
  You can read a book, you can hear about things, but you don’t know what you
  
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• The MMA Hour with Tyron Woodley, Cris Cyborg, Holly Holm, Chael Sonnen, Colby Covington, Mirko Cro Cop, Michael Chandler, Patrick Côté, Garry Tonon in studio

  20-11-2017 14:00
  The MMA Hour is back in your life. Below is a rundown of Monday's episode:
  1:00 p.m. ET -- Former UFC fighter Patrick Côté will talk about starting his own sports management firm.
  1:25 p.m. -- Chael Sonnen will discuss his part in the Bellator heavyweight tournament.
  1:45 p.m. -- Michael Chandler will explain why he's not fighting Brent Primus next and preview his upcoming fight against Goiti Yamauchi.
  2:05 p.m. -- Colby Covington will talk about his altercation with Fabricio Werdum
  
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• Morning Report: Tyron Woodley to Nate Diaz: Don’t be scared, homie.

  20-11-2017 14:00
  Last week, rumors began circulating that the UFC was looking to headline the UFC 219 card at the end of the year with a welterweight title fight between current champion Tyron Woodley and former lightweight title challenger Nate Diaz. And while so far those plans do not seem to have worked, Woodley says the fault doesn’t lie with him.
  Speaking recently on his online show with TMZ, The Hollywood Beatdown, Woodley said that he has already accepted the fight the UFC offered him and that Diaz
  
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• UFC Sydney Scorecard

  20-11-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  Saturday’s UFC Sydney event is in the books, and now that the dust has settled down under, it’s time to go to the scorecard to see who the big winners were at Qudos Bank Arena.1 – Frank Camacho and Damien BrownHad to put this pair of Fight of the Night winners together because separating them defeats the point. Yes, Frank Camacho missed weight and he emerged victorious, but Damien Brown can’t be listed as 1a or 2 on this list because it takes two to put together a war lik
  
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• Ottow sets big goals ahead of first co-main in Shanghai

  20-11-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  Zak Ottow poses for a post fight portrait backstage after defeating Joshua Burkman during the UFC Fight Night event at the Moda Center on October 1, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC)" align="center" /> There was good news and bad news for Zak Ottow when he got the call to face Li Jingliang this weekend in Shanghai.The good news was his first co-main event as a UFC fighter. The bad? He has to travel halfway around the world to Li’s backyard of China to do it. Yet
  
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• On the Rise: Shanghai Edition

  20-11-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  The non-stop month of November wraps up this weekend with the UFC’s first event on Mainland China, airing exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS.While this month has already produced a handful of stunning performances from established stars – the trio of new champions crowned at UFC 217, Dustin Poirier’s victory over Anthony Pettis, Matt Brown’s hellacious finish of Diego Sanchez – there have also been a slew of emerging prospects that have propelled themselves into the spot
  
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• 3 Australian Fighters Impress In UFC Debuts At UFC Fight Night 121 In Sydney

  20-11-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  For the past five years, the UFC has visited Australia during November or December. This year’s event, UFC Fight Night 121 took place at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. The event, held on November 18, was headlined by a decidedly non-local heavyweight bout between Brazilian competitor Fabricio Werdum and Polish fighter Marcin Tybura. Before the two big boys stepped into The Octagon a number of fighters with Australian roots threw down. Three of those pugilists – Nadia Kassem, Tai Tuivasa
  
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• Volkan Oezdemir’s Manager Releases Statement on Fighter’s Arrest

  20-11-2017 03:33
  Volkan Oezdemir’s manager has sent out a statement addressing his fighter’s recent arrest. Last night (Nov. 18), number two ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight Oezdemir was arrested in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. “No Time” was taken into custody for aggravated battery. A bond hearing was set for this morning. Oezdemir’s manager Frederic Englund, released a […]
  
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• Mike Perry explains ‘prehistoric rooster’ dance that followed recent UFC win

  20-11-2017 02:00
  Mike Perry created one of September’s most memorable gifs with his post-fight celebration at UFC Pittsburgh.After scoring a vicious 79-second knockout over Alex Reyes, Perry strutted around the cage imitating — no joke — a rooster. With his mohawk doubling as the comb atop a rooster’s head, it was a skillful bit of silliness from the hard-hitting welterweight contender, who joked recently on The MMA Hour that he was emulating a “prehistoric rooster.” Perry als
  
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• Undefeated Ketlen Vieira to Face Former Title Challenger Cat Zingano at UFC 222 on March 3

  20-11-2017 00:01 via sherdog.com
  Undefeated Brazilian prospect Ketlen Vieira won’t be facing a former Ultimate Fighting Championship titlist in her next bout. Instead, she’ll have to settle for a former title challenger.
  
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