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• Welterweights Alexander Volkanovski, Jeremy Kennedy Booked for UFC 221 in Perth

  03-01-2018 23:42 via sherdog.com
  A welterweight clash pitting Alexander Volkanovski against Jeremy Kennedy has been added to the
  UFC 221 lineup.
  
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• Featherweights Alexander Volkanovski, Jeremy Kennedy Booked for UFC 221 in Perth

  03-01-2018 23:42 via sherdog.com
  A featherweight clash pitting Alexander Volkanovski against Jeremy Kennedy has been added to the
  UFC 221 lineup.
  
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• Three fights added to UFC Austin card

  03-01-2018 23:00
  Three bouts have been added to UFC Austin.
  On Wednesday, the UFC announced three fights for the Feb. 18 card in Texas: A welterweight matchup between Brian Camozzi and Geoff Neal; a bantamweight bout between Sarah Moras and Lucie Pudilova; and a flyweight fight between Joby Sanchez and Roberto Sanchez.
  Dallas’ Neal (8-2) is on the first fight of his new UFC deal, a contract he earned with his TKO of Chase Welden during last summer’s Dana White Tuesday Night Contender Series. Camozzi
  
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• ‘Korean Superboy’ Dooho Choi Completely Devastates Thiago Tavares

  03-01-2018 22:30
  Back at The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale in 2016, Dooho Choi earned his second consecutive bonus when he finished off Thiago Tavares. Choi, nicknamed “The Korean Superboy,” knocked Choi out in the opening round, flashing the incredible potential that has led him to a main event next Saturday night. Up next for Choi will be […]
  
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• Fortunes changed for five at UFC 219

  03-01-2018 22:00
  Since the departure of Ronda Rousey from UFC one year ago, there has been a question as to whether a woman's fight could pull decent numbers as a pay-per-view main event.
  Saturday's Cris Cyborg vs. Holly Holm fight was the third women's pay-per-view main event of 2017, and was expected to be the biggest draw of the three. Just as Holm looked on paper to at least have a chance at beating Cyborg, this fight matched two fighters who had at least proven to be able to draw above average television r
  
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• Julio Arce Replaces Charles Rosa, Meets Dan Ige at UFC 220 in Boston

  03-01-2018 21:57 via sherdog.com
  A pair of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series competitors will square off at UFC 220, as Julio Arce meets Dan Ige in Boston on Jan. 20.
  
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• UFC 219 Medical Suspensions: Holly Holm, Edson Barboza Receive 3-Month Terms

  03-01-2018 21:13 via sherdog.com
  Holly Holm will be out for three months after her loss to Cristiane Justino at
  UFC 219.
  
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• ‘UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm’ Gets the Fight Motion Treatment

  03-01-2018 20:30
  Just in case you haven’t had enough of UFC 219 yet, check out almost two minutes of highlights through the fight-motion cameras. UFC 219 took place this past Saturday night from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. In the main event, Cris Cyborg defended her female featherweight title with a decision victory over Holly Holm. […]
  
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• UFC 219 medical suspensions: Cynthia Calvillo potentially out six months

  03-01-2018 20:00
  UFC strawweight prospect Cynthia Calvillo highlighted a list of three fighters to receive lengthy medical suspensions in the aftermath of UFC 219.The Nevada Athletic Commission released the event’s medical suspension report on Wednesday to MMA Fighting.
  Calvillo dropped a close decision to former UFC strawweight champion Carla Esparza on the night’s main card. As a result of damage sustained in the contest, she will be required to seek clearance on a potentially injured left hand or
  
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• Satoshi Date scores wild rolling thunder KO over Shunsuke Kazuki in Japan

  03-01-2018 19:15
  If the early indications are any example, 2018 is going to be a very violent year.
  Japanese flyweight Satoshi “Tiger” Date kicked off the new year with a rarely seen rolling thunder knockout Wednesday at a special rules match at a Ganryujima event in Urayasu, Japan. The 21-year-old Date (6-9-7) flattened his debuting opponent, Shunsuke Kazuki (0-1), with the highlight-reel move, evoking shades of Peter Graham’s legendary KO of Badr Hari.
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• Cris ‘Cyborg’ Says She’s Accepted a Fight Against Megan Anderson at UFC 221

  03-01-2018 18:53 via sherdog.com
  Cristiane Justino could be making her next featherweight title defense in a little more than a month’s time.
  
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• Jessica Aguilar vs. Livia Renata Souza, Three Other Bouts Added to UFC Fight Night 126

  03-01-2018 18:33 via sherdog.com
  Four new contests have been added to the UFC Fight Night 126 lineup, including a strawweight clash pitting Jessica Aguilar against Livia Renata Souza.
  
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• Cris Cyborg Has Agreed to Face Megan Anderson at UFC 221

  03-01-2018 18:04
  UFC female featherweight champion Cris Cyborg claimed following her UFC 219 title defense vs. Holly Holm that she believed fighting Megan Anderson – in Anderson’s home country of Australia – was the next logical bout. And now it appears closer than ever to being a reality. Cyborg posted on Instagram that she has accepted a […]
  
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• Soffian Haj Haddou hopes the ‘Meteorite Punch’ puts him on the UFC’s radar

  03-01-2018 18:00
  Soufian Haj Haddou had a lot of expectation on his shoulders heading into his second outing of 2017 when he was booked to fight Marcel Jedidi at GMC 13 in Dusseldorf on Dec. 16.After a two-year hiatus from mixed-martial arts, the economics and engineering student returned to action earlier in the year, banking what he claims is the quickest knockout in German MMA history with his 14-second finish of Wandenberg Nascimento.When he met Jedidi in mid-December, Haj Haddou found himself in a similar
  
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• Jimmy Smith Explains What Forced Exit From Bellator MMA

  03-01-2018 18:00
  Jimmy Smith, who served as the color commentator for years for Bellator MMA, appeared on a recent edition of the Joe Rogan Experience to discuss what led to the two separating. “It’s not a Bellator thing,” Smith said (thanks to MMA Fighting for transcribing). “They were great to work with. They were great about the […]
  
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• UFC Champ Rose Namajunas: ‘Stars Seemed To Align For Me’ In 2017

  03-01-2018 17:00
  UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas stunned the MMA world when she completely dominated Joanna Jedrzedczyk, winning the title in 2017. For Namajunas, who advanced to the finals of The Ultimate Fighter before falling to Carla Esparza for the inaugural title, the year was one she’ll never forget. But it didn’t always appear to be that […]
  
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• Demetrious Johnson explains origins of legendary 2017 armbar, 2018 plans

  03-01-2018 17:00
  Last year may not have been historic campaign in mixed martial arts like in years past, but 2017 still produced plenty of memorable moments for the sport, and few were more standout than Demetrious Johnson’s brilliance at UFC 216, when “Mighty Mouse” submitted Ray Borg with an instantly legendary suplex-to-armbar sequnce to break the record for all-time consecutive UFC title defenses.
  Johnson, the reigning UFC flyweight champion, will likely collect every 2017 Submission of th
  
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• Live Chat: UFC 219 in review, Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor in Tweets and more

  03-01-2018 15:15
  This is the Promotional Malpractice Live Chat.
  Today on the live chat (the first of 2018!), we'll go over all of the results from UFC 219. What to make of Cris Cyborg's win over Holly Holm, the ensuing fallout with the JacksonWink camp over a photo caption and who will face her next? We'll get into all of it.
  Plus, Khabib Nurmagomedov looked as dominant as ever in facing and bulldozing Edson Barboza in that night's co-main event. Later on Twitter, he and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor h
  
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• MMA Fighting’s 2017 Knockout of the Year: Francis Ngannou’s ‘uppercut from hell’ crushes Alistair Overeem

  03-01-2018 15:00
  The truest thing Dana White has ever said about mixed martial arts is that it’s a sport of moments. Specifically, about “Holy sh*t!” moments that propel you out of your chair, all slack-jawed and loopy with delirium. In 2017, the holiest of those moments was authored by an individual with just over four years of sports — not professional athletics, just sports — under his belt.
  Francis Ngannou's story itself is intrinsically incredible, a poor Cameroonian seemingly
  
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• Former NFL Star Greg Hardy Added to Legacy Fighting Alliance 33

  03-01-2018 15:00
  Still competing as an amateur, Greg Hardy’s climb up the MMA ladder will include a stop with Legacy Fighting Alliance. The promotion announced that Hardy, a former standout in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys, will take on Ryan Chester in a heavyweight amateur bout on February 16 from The Bomb Factory in Dallas. Hardy […]
  
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• Morning Report: Joe Rogan says he tried to get UFC to hire ex-Bellator broadcaster Jimmy Smith years ago

  03-01-2018 14:00
  Last week, in a surprising move, Bellator MMA parted ways with long-time commentator Jimmy Smith. Along with the announcement, Bellator released a statement saying the company and Smith “mutually agreed to part ways,” and Tuesday on The Joe Rogan Experience MMA Show, Smith spoke with long-time UFC color commentator Joe Rogan about his departure from the second-biggest organization in MMA., agreeing that the split was not acrimonious.“It’s not a Bellator thing,” sai
  
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• The Top Ten Biggest Upsets of 2017

  03-01-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Unless you’re on the wrong side of the result, everybody loves a good upset. As the old saying goes, “It’s why they fight the fights,” and with four-ounce gloves and so many ways to win and lose, it’s inevitable that on any given night, the underdog will bite back and get the win. Here are the 10 biggest UFC upsets of 2017.1 - Rose Namajunas-Joanna Jedrzejczykhttps://www.ufc.tv/video/rose-namajunas-vs-joanna-jedrzejczyk-ufc-217 No surprise here, only in the outcome.
  
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• Nurmagomedov's UFC 219 gets attention of champ McGregor

  03-01-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  It may have taken a few days, but Khabib Nurmagomedov's domination of Edson Barboza at UFC 219 did indeed catch the eye of the current lightweight champion Conor McGregor.That Dagestani was dog shit the other night you's are all nuts. Game full of sloppy bums asking to be slept. Pay me my worth and Kings back.— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) January 1, 2018Nurmagomedov, for his part was unmoved. From the Octagon following the fight, he announced to the UFC that he only needs 60 minutes
  
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• Nate Marquardt – A Career Well Fought

  03-01-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Nate Marquardt celebrates after defeating Tamdan McCrory by KO in their middleweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at the Moda Center on October 1, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC)" align="center" /> An 18-year professional fighting career will produce several memories, and the MMA run of Nate Marquardt was no different. Yet whether it was his first King of Pancrase title, his rise to a middleweight title shot, a Strikeforce welterweight championship or sever
  
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• DWTNCS alums added to UFC 220 card

  03-01-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  With Charles Rosa forced to withdraw from his UFC 220 bout against Dan Ige due to injury, Boston's TD Garden will now see a clash of graduates from Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series, as Ige now faces Julio Arce on Jan. 20.UFC 220, which is headlined by a pair of championship bouts pitting Stipe Miocic against Francis Ngannou and Daniel Cormier against Volkan Oezdemir, airs live on Pay-Per-View.A winner on week three of DWTNCS, Hawaii's Ige improved his pro record to 8-1 with a submissi
  
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• 2017 ESPN MMA Fighter of the Year: Rose Namajunas

  03-01-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Very little has come easy for Namajunas, but she has spent a lifetime figuring out how to channel negative events into positive energy. She perfected it in 2017, which is why she is ESPN's Fighter of the Year.Read full story here. Read the Full Article Here
  
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• UFC Bans Jackson-Wink Photographer for Referring to ‘Cyborg’ as a Man on Social Media

  03-01-2018 04:33 via sherdog.com
  Jackson-Wink MMA photographer Mark Aragon won’t be attending any more UFC events after referring to women’s featherweight champion Cristiane Justino as a man in an Instagram post.
  
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• Monday Morning Analyst: Khabib Nurmagomedov looked new and improved at UFC 219

  03-01-2018 03:00
  After UFC 219, just how good is Khabib Nurmagomedov? Does he run over every other lightweight including Tony Ferguson and Conor McGregor? If not, why not? And how did he get past Edson Barboza? I break down all of these questions in this episode of the podcast.
  
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• UFC strips credentials from JacksonWink MMA staffer after Cris Cyborg comments

  03-01-2018 01:50
  The UFC is putting its foot down regarding offensive comments written by a gym employee about women’s champion Cris Cyborg.
  In a statement released Tuesday, the UFC said it would not be allowing JacksonWink MMA social media staffer and photographer Mark Aragon access to future events after he referred to Cyborg as a man multiple times in a social media post.instagram.com/ma2_mediaMark Aragon (left) has had his UFC photo credentials revoked after an offensive post about UFC champ Cris Cybo
  
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• Former NFL player Greg Hardy set for third amateur MMA fight

  03-01-2018 01:00
  Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive end Greg Hardy is set to return to the mixed martial arts cage.
  The 29-year-old Hardy, who trains with the American Top Team, will compete in an amateur heavyweight bout at LFA 33 in Dallas on Feb. 16.The 2-0 Hardy will meet Ryan Chester (2-1).
  Hardy played for the Carolina Panthers from 2010-14 and earned a Pro Bowl spot in 2013, then played for Dallas in 2015. He was involved in a domestic violence case in 2014, for which he was ultimately suspended by the NFL in
  
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• UFC 219 Fighter Salaries: Cris Cyborg Scores $500,000 For Title Defense

  03-01-2018 00:00
  UFC female featherweight champion Cris Cyborg earned much respect and a large check for her performance this past Saturday night at UFC 219, netting $500,000 in disclosed salary. Cyborg bested Holly Holm via decision from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Holm, a former UFC bantamweight champion, earned $300,000. The two also scored $50,000 each […]
  
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