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• Tonya Evinger returns to the Octagon at UFC Austin, meets Marion Reneau

  26-12-2017 23:08
  Tonya Evinger has a date and opponent for her second UFC fight.The former Invicta FC bantamweight champ has been scheduled to take on Marion Reneau in a 135-pound contest at UFC Austin (UFC Fight Night 126). The news was announced by the promotion on Tuesday.Evinger returns to the Octagon after having lost to Cris Cyborg in a short-notice bout for the vacant women’s UFC featherweight title back in July at UFC 214. The fight with Cyborg marked Evinger’s promotional debut in the UFC. T
  
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• Bruce Buffer: Pacquiao’s Friends Asked me to Speak to Conor McGregor’s Team

  26-12-2017 23:00
  UFC’s official Octagon announcer Bruce Buffer claims that he has been approached by the boxing legend’s friends regarding a fight with Conor McGregor With the UFC lightweight champion remaining tight-lipped on a potential ETA on his return to MMA and Pacquiao clamoring for a big-money payday with the Irishman, anything can happen. Buffer certainly believes […]
  
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• Arjan Bhullar hoping for Reebok turbans and a spot at UFC London in 2018

  26-12-2017 23:00
  Arjan Bhullar became the first Indian-origin athlete and the first Sikh to compete in the UFC back in September.Following his decision win over Luis Henrique in his debut, the former Olympian wants a sophomore outing at UFC London.“I really want to come over to London for my next one,” Bhullar told MMAFighting.com. “There is a huge Indian population over there, and I think that would be a tremendous event for me to get on.”England boasts an Indian population of approximat
  
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• Priscila Cachoeira: From Crack Addiction and Sexual Abuse to the UFC

  26-12-2017 22:00
  Priscila Cachoeira makes an unlikely UFC debut against former title challenger Valentina Shevchenko at UFC Belem in February For Cachoeira, things could have been very different. “A series of things hurt me inside,” Cachoeira said, via MMAFighting. “I was mistreated by my father, he said I wasn’t his daughter, he did things to hurt me. […]
  
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• Donald Cerrone vs. Yancy Medeiros Targeted for UFC Fight Night 126 Headliner in Austin

  26-12-2017 21:16 via sherdog.com
  A welterweight clash pitting Donald Cerrone against Yancy Medeiros has been targeted as the UFC Fight Night 126 main event, according to multiple reports.
  
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• UFC 219 ‘Inside the Octagon’ Spotlighting Cris Cyborg vs. Holly Holm

  26-12-2017 21:15
  This Saturday night, former world boxing champion and ex-UFC female bantamweight titleholder Holly Holm challenges Cris Cyborg for the featherweight belt at UFC 219. The event takes place from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. On the latest edition of Inside the Octagon with Dan Hardy and John Gooden, the two offer up their expert […]
  
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• Donald Cerrone-Yancy Medeiros Set for UFC Fight Night 126 Headline Bout

  26-12-2017 21:12
  Donald Cerrone will take his “Cowboy” ways to Texas this February, as the former lightweight title challenger meets Yancy Medeiros in the main event of UFC Fight Night 126. MMA Fighting first reported the bout for the main event on February 18 from the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. It marks the third time […]
  
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• Donald Cerrone vs. Yancy Medeiros slated to headline UFC Austin

  26-12-2017 21:05
  A popular veteran with a long-established reputation for exciting scraps will tangle with a competitor fresh off one of 2017’s most exciting bouts.A welterweight match between Donald Cerrone and Yancy Medeiros is all but official for the UFC Austin main event on Feb. 18, sources told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani on Tuesday.
  Cerrone (32-10, 1 NC) has dropped three consecutive fights after winning his first four at 170 pounds. His most recent fight was a first-round knockout loss to Da
  
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• John Lineker to have tooth surgery Wednesday after cancelled UFC 219 fight with Jimmie Rivera

  26-12-2017 21:00
  Forced out of UFC 219, John Lineker will have to go under the knife.
  The Brazilian bantamweight stepped up to face Jimmie Rivera on short notice in Las Vegas on Dec. 30, replacing an injured Dominick Cruz, but MMA Fighting broke the news on Sunday that Lineker would also be out of the card due to a serious tooth infection.
  “I noticed this when I came to Las Vegas earlier,” Lineker told MMA Fighting on Tuesday, as he was flying back to Brazil. “I didn’t know how bad it was
  
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• ‘UFC 219 Embedded’: Holly Holm Recounts Forced Booger Eating [VIDEO]

  26-12-2017 20:35
  The latest installment of UFC’s popular ‘Embedded’ series follows the stars of Saturday’s UFC 219, which will close out an interesting year in the promotion The headline bout at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena sees featherweight champion Cris Cyborg face former bantamweight champion and inaugural 145-pound title challenger Holly Holm go head to head in one […]
  
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• Virna Jandiroba pulled off a ‘true miracle' before Invicta FC debut

  26-12-2017 20:00
  Virna Jandiroba put on an impressive performance in her first appearance inside the Invicta FC cage in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 8, but getting to the cage was no easy task.
  Jandiroba was making her highly anticipated international debut after racking up a perfect 11-0 record on the Brazilian circuit, and made quick work of TUF 23 veteran Amy Montenegro. “It was better than I imagined,” Jandiroba admits, as she predicted a second-round victory.
  “Apparently she was intimidated b
  
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• Report: Jimmie Rivera Will Not Fight at UFC 219, Marlon Moraes ‘Full of Sh*t’

  26-12-2017 20:00
  Having seen three potential opponents for UFC 219 withdraw in various circumstances, Jimmie Rivera appears to have given up all hope of fighting this Saturday Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz pulled out of their scheduled fight with a broken arm before John Lineker also withdrew. Rivera claims a late-notice fight with former World Series […]
  
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• Holly Holm Recognizes Similar Feel to ‘Cyborg’ Bout, Upset of Ronda Rousey at UFC 193

  26-12-2017 19:48 via sherdog.com
  Holly Holm may never be able to top her monumental upset of Ronda Rousey when it comes to shock value, but comfort in the underdog role could be beneficial for “The Preacher’s Daughter” as she prepares for a different kind of challenge at UFC 219.
  
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• UFC 219 Embedded, Episode 1: ‘When it goes to the ground, it’s gonna be lights out’

  26-12-2017 19:27
  In the first episode of UFC 219 Embedded, Cynthia Calvillo gets in some training at Team Alpha Male, Cris Cyborg goes for a sunrise run, Holly Holm trains at JacksonWink MMA, Khabib Nurmagomedov jokes around with Daniel Cormier, Edson Barboza does strength and conditioning and Carla Esparza goes to the chiropractor.
  
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• Georges St-Pierre Was Driven to Answer Past Criticisms at UFC 217

  26-12-2017 19:22
  John Danaher claims that Georges St-Pierre and his team wanted to answer all criticism of his fighting style ahead of his UFC middleweight title fight win against Michael Bisping For Danaher, he had no desire to see St-Pierre slot back into the welterweight division where he cemented himself as one of the greatest mixed martial […]
  
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• Jimmie Rivera no longer scheduled to compete at UFC 219

  26-12-2017 19:15
  Despite a flurry of activity on social media to try and salvage Jimmie Rivera’s trip to Nevada, it looks like “El Terror” is out of luck.
  Rivera was supposed to be fighting John Lineker at UFC 219 on Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, but a tooth infection forced Lineker to withdraw from the bout with less than a week to go before the event. Though it sounded like fellow bantamweight contender Marlon Moraes was volunteering to step up and replace Lineker, somewhere th
  
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• Tonya Evinger Returns to Bantamweight, Meets Marion Reneau at UFC Fight Night 126

  26-12-2017 19:10 via sherdog.com
  Tonya Evinger will square off against Marion Reneau in a bantamweight clash at
  UFC Fight Night 126, the promotion announced Tuesday.
  
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• Top MMA storylines of 2017: 4. Money, merit and interim titles

  26-12-2017 18:00
  There was once a time when interim titles were rare. The UFC only instituted one for a division if the titleholder was out (usually injured) for an extended period.
  It took Dominick Cruz to be out for nearly a year due to surgery and facing another year-long injury absence for the UFC to put an interim title on the line between Renan Barao and Urijah Faber in 2012. Cain Velasquez didn’t defend the UFC heavyweight title between October 2013 and June 2015 and the UFC never made an interim be
  
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• GSP planned to overcome the three biggest criticisms of his legacy at UFC 217

  26-12-2017 16:00
  Celebrated jiu-jitsu coach John Danaher revealed that Georges St-Pierre and his team came up with a plan to tackle the three biggest criticisms of his career in his successful comeback fight at UFC 217.
  According to Danaher, he had no interest in seeing St-Pierre return to his old welterweight stomping ground. He claimed that he suggested that the former champion should look to answer his critics if he did decide to return to the Octagon.
  “It’s a huge thing to come back after four ye
  
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• Priscila Cachoeira overcame crack addiction, sexual abuse in improbable journey to the UFC

  26-12-2017 15:00
  NITEROI, Brazil — Priscila Cachoeira will make her UFC debut against longtime veteran Valentina Shevchenko at the UFC's first trip to Belem, Brazil, on Feb. 3, but the road to the Octagon had its ups and downs.
  On her first day of training at PRVT in Niteroi, Cachoeira was put inside the cage to spar with UFC strawweight contender Jessica Andrade. She unsurprisingly got beat up by the one-time title challenger, but in the end, one word from Andrade made Cachoeira’s Octagon dreams sou
  
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• Morning Report: Jimmie Rivera says ‘full of sh*t’ Marlon Moraes refused 145 pound fight at UFC 219

  26-12-2017 14:00
  Jimmie Rivera did not have the best Christmas.
  Over the weekend, Rivera was subject to some bad news when John Lineker was forced out of their scheduled fight this weekend due to a tooth infection. Lineker himself was already a replacement for former bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz, leaving Rivera in the lurch when just a few weeks ago he had a title eliminator bout.With just a few days left before UFC 219, opportunities for Rivera to find a suitable replacement opponent seemed thin on the g
  
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• Undefeated Calvillo taking nothing for granted

  26-12-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  Cynthia Calvillo (R) wrestles with Amanda Cooper during UFC 209 on March 4, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images)" align="center" /> The last time we checked in with Cynthia Calvillo, just before her July bout against Joanne Calderwood, the strawweight contender admitted that following six fights in 11 months, her Team Alpha Male squad wasn’t going to let her in the gym for a month once the Calderwood bout was done.So?“It kind of worked itself out because I t
  
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• UFC 219: Cyborg vs Holm Fantasy Cheat Sheet

  26-12-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  The UFC will see 2017 come to an end this weekend with a women's featherweight title fight headlining the final show of the year as Cris Cyborg puts her belt up for grabs for the first time against former women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm. UFC 219 marks Holm's second shot at capturing the 145-pound women's title after she came up just short of winning the inaugural belt back in February. Now Holm will challenge arguably the most dominant women's fighter of all time in Cyborg, who has look
  
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• Holm prepares for each fight as if it's her last

  26-12-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
   There is something uniquely appealing about speaking with Holly Holm. In an age where so many competitors use a lot of words to say very little, the 36-year-old Albuquerque native stands apart as someone who chooses her words carefully and makes sure they count.Talking to Holm about her career, her state of mind or her upcoming fight with Cris Cyborg for the UFC women’s featherweight title isn’t some cliché-filled back-and-forth where both parties are desperate to get it
  
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• Holly Holm on Facebook LIVE

  26-12-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  Ahead of her appearance in the main event of UFC 219 this Saturday, Holly Holm took questions from fans on Facebook LIVE. See what she had to say below. Read the Full Article Here
  
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• Evinger battles Reneau in Austin this February

  26-12-2017 07:00 via ufc.com
  Texas' own Tonya Evinger will fight in her home state for the first time in over three years on Feb. 18, as she returns to the bantamweight division to face Marion Reneau in a UFC Fight Night bout at Frank Erwin Center in Austin on Feb. 18.Tickets for the card go on sale on Jan. 5. FS1 will televise.One of the most respected veterans in the sport. Evinger is a former Invicta FC bantamweight champion who made her long-awaited UFC debut in 2017 against Cris Cyborg. And while she lost that UFC 214
  
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• Nasrat Haqparast-Alex Reyes Lightweight Contest Added to UFC Fight Night 127 in London

  26-12-2017 05:57 via sherdog.com
  Nasrat Haqparast will take on Alex Reyes in a 155-pound contest scheduled for UFC Fight Night 127.
  
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• John Lineker Out of Jimmie Rivera Bout at UFC 219 Due to Tooth Infection

  26-12-2017 05:39 via sherdog.com
  Heavy-hitting Brazilian John Lineker has pulled out of his slated Saturday bout with rising bantamweight contender Jimmie Rivera. MMAJunkie was first to report the change on Sunday evening.
  
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• Josh Emmett hoping for top contender fight against Brian Ortega

  26-12-2017 03:00
  Josh Emmett went from an unranked prospect to the No. 5 featherweight in UFC with his devastating first-round upset over Ricardo Lamas at UFC on FOX 26.
  Emmett, serving as a late replacement for Jose Aldo, knocked out Lamas with a hellacious left hook just four minutes into UFC on FOX 26’s co-main event. The win instantly rocketed Emmett into the top five of the UFC’s media-generated featherweight rankings, and now the 32-year-old Team Alpha Male product has his sights set on taking
  
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• Rafael dos Anjos bounced back after becoming a 'broken man’ in 2016, wants Tyron Woodley next

  26-12-2017 00:00
  Rafael dos Anjos started 2016 as the UFC lightweight champion, having successfully defended his belt with a 66-second win over Donald Cerrone, but everything changed that year.
  dos Anjos saw a huge title fight with Conor McGregor slip through his fingers due to a broken foot. A few months later, he lost his belt to Eddie Alvarez, and lost one more against Tony Ferguson later that year. A year have passed, and he’s at the top once again.
  The Brazilian veteran decided to move up to welterwei
  
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