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• Dan Hooker hopes to get quick turnaround to fight at UFC 221 in Australia

  01-01-2018 23:00
  LAS VEGAS — Dan Hooker speaks to the media at UFC 219 about submission win over Marc Diakiese, wanting a quick turnaround to fight at UFC 221, moving up to the lightweight division, and much more.
  
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• Video: Check out the official trailer for UFC 220, featuring Stipe Miocic, Francis Ngannou

  01-01-2018 22:00
  Watch the UFC’s latest pay-per-view trailer for the upcoming heavyweight championship clash between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou.
  The clip features Miocic’s rise to the top of the division, Ngannou’s emergence as an electrifying challenger, and a highlight reel of their numerous knockouts.
  UFC 220 takes place in Boston, Mass. at the TD Garden arena on Jan. 20.
  
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• Cris Cyborg fires back at JacksonWink associate for insulting post

  01-01-2018 20:00
  It’s a brand new year, but Cris Cyborg finds herself having to deal with the same old insults.
  The UFC women’s featherweight champion defended her title for the first time and won her 19th consecutive fight on Saturday, earning a five-round unanimous decision over Holly Holm at UFC 219 in Las Vegas, Nev. It was a triumphant moment for the 32-year-old Brazilian who arguably cemented herself as the greatest female fighter in MMA history.
  However, not everyone was content to just let C
  
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• Top MMA storylines of 2017: 1. Mayweather vs. McGregor

  01-01-2018 19:00
  The lights were dim inside the UFC Performance Institute. It was quiet, except for the voice of one man: Conor McGregor.
  McGregor had just been handed a smartphone. On it was a video of he and Paulie Malignaggi sparring. The never-before-seen clip had just been leaked by UFC president Dana White minutes earlier.For a couple of weeks, McGregor and Malignaggi had been bickering over whether or not McGregor dropped him during the session. The brief video seemed to support McGregor’s assertio
  
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• Mackenzie Dern scheduled to make UFC debut in March against Ashley Yoder

  01-01-2018 17:18
  Mackenzie Dern is off to the UFC.
  The strawweight prospect is scheduled to make her long-awaited Octagon debut against Ashley Yoder at UFC 222 on March 3 in Las Vegas, MMA Fighting has learned.
  Dern (5-0) is considered one of the greatest female Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners of all time, as she’s won multiple gold medals in some of the most prestigious grappling tournaments around the world.
  In 2016, Dern made her MMA debut to much fanfare. Since then, she’s won her first five f
  
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• Conor McGregor reacts to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s ‘dog sh*t’ win at UFC 219

  01-01-2018 16:59
  It took a couple days, but Conor McGregor has fired back after Khabib Nurmagomedov’s thunderous win to close out 2017.
  McGregor, the current UFC lightweight champion, posted a series of tweets early Monday indicating that he was unimpressed by Nurmagomedov’s performance, which saw the undefeated Dagestani smash Edson Barboza in a one-sided contest at UFC 219 to the tune of 30-25 (x2) and 30-24 scores. McGregor criticized Nurmagomedov’s “sloppy” win and hinted at hi
  
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• This is a New Year’s column is which the hashtag #DefendOrVacate is used

  01-01-2018 16:00
  There’s an iconic scene in the 1979 movie The Warriors where the New York gang leader Luther shows up in Coney Island on the morning After the Trouble and chants, “Warriors, come out to play-ee-ay!”I got that feeling Saturday night when Khabib Nurmagomedov left Edson Barboza in poor order after three rounds of sustained human mauling. He was like Luther out there in Coney Island, clanking beer bottles together delicately on his fingertips, trying to provoke the warriors &mdash
  
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• Khabib Time: Nurmagomedov’s electric return injects jolt into wild UFC lightweight title picture

  01-01-2018 15:00
  Two UFC lightweights currently walk around their respective places on earth with the right to carrying gold championship belts, but it’s possible neither is the best 155-pounder in the world. That honorific—still in dispute—may well belong to Khabib Nurmagomedov, the 29-year-old Dagestani who has never tasted defeat in a nine-year professional career.For Nurmagomedov, it’s 25 opponents up and 25 opponents down after mauling Edson Barboza for the entire 15 minutes of thei
  
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• Invicta headliner Sarah Kaufman predicts she’ll be back in UFC title contention in 18 months

  01-01-2018 01:00
  LAS VEGAS — Sarah Kaufman speaks to the media at UFC 219 about headlining Invicta FC 27 against Pannie Kianza, the state of her MMA career, her experience as a free agent, wanting to get back in the UFC, and much more.
  
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