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• ‘Shogun’ says he deserves a UFC title shot with win over Oezdemir

  23-03-2018 23:00
  Eight years later, Mauricio Rua could earn a shot at the belt that once belonged to him.
  “Shogun” dethroned Lyoto Machida in spectacular fashion back in May of 2010 to win the UFC light heavyweight title. Now riding a three-fight winning streak, his longest ever in the Octagon, the former champion is slated to face Volkan Oezdemir, the No. 2 in the 205-pound rankings, at UFC Chile on May 19.
  ”I think Volkan is a great fighter, the No. 2 in the ranking, but I like challenges,&r
  
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• Artem Lobov Considers A Move Away From The UFC, Perhaps ‘Boxing or K-1’

  23-03-2018 21:07
  Artem Lobov, who is currently 2-4 in the UFC, is known for his durability and willingness to go toe-to-toe with his opponents. Conor McGregor’s training partner and UFC featherweight Artem ‘The Russian Hammer’ Lobov first announced himself on the global MMA stage when he competed on The Ultimate Fighter Season 22. He made it to The […]
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• Undefeated flyweight Deiveson Figueiredo calls out Dustin Ortiz

  23-03-2018 21:00
  Deiveson Figueiredo has a target in mind for his next UFC fight. Unbeaten in 14 professional MMA bouts, “Deus da Guerra” has decided to call out top 10 flyweight Dustin Ortiz for a clash in July.
  Figueiredo last fought in February, when he scored a second-round knockout victory over Joseph Morales in Belem, Brazil, and signed a new four-fight deal with the promotion. Ortiz fought two weeks later, defeating Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 220.
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• UFC Fight Night 130 in Liverpool Gains Lina Lansberg-Gina Mazany Clash at 135 Pounds

  23-03-2018 20:38 via sherdog.com
  UFC Fight Night 130, the Ultimate Fighting Championship's debut in Liverpool, England, continues to grow with the addition of a women’s bantamweight contest.
  
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• Patricio Freire Explains Turning Down Bout With Michael Chandler

  23-03-2018 20:30
  Patricio Freire wanted to face Michael Chandler, but he didn’t get the terms he wanted. Freire and Chandler have been involved in a bit of a beef. It all stems from a bout between Freire’s brother Patricky and Chandler back in June 2016. Chandler knocked out Patricky in the first round. Patricio claims Chandler looked […]
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• Live Video: Invicta FC 28 Weigh-ins (7 p.m. ET)

  23-03-2018 20:16 via sherdog.com
  All 18 fighters slated for action at Invicta FC 28 will hit the scales for ceremonial weigh-ins, starting at 7 p.m. ET. Check out the live action right here on Sherdog.com.
  
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• Invicta FC 28 weigh-in video

  23-03-2018 19:00
  At Invicta FC 28 weigh-ins, all 18 fighters competing at Saturday’s Invicta event at the Union Event Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, will square off.
  In the main event, Mizuki Inoue and Vima Jandiroba will have to make the strawweight limit at 115 pounds.
  The Invicta FC 28 ceremonial weigh-in video will be seen above starting at 7 p.m. ET.
  Check Invicta FC 28 weigh-in results below.
  Main card (UFC Fight Pass at 8 p.m. ET)
  Mizuki Inoue vs. Vima Jandiroba
  DeAnna Bennett vs. Karina Rodriguez
  
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• Thompson vs. Till in the works for UFC Liverpool

  23-03-2018 18:41
  Darren Till has been hunting for a marquee matchup, and he just might have it.
  Sources told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani that a bout between the undefeated welterweight contender and two-time title challenger Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson is in the works for the main event of UFC Liverpool on May 27.
  The potential pairing was first reported by BJPenn.com.
  UFC officials previously announced that Till would be headlining the show in his hometown, but had yet to book an opponent f
  
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• Chael Sonnen: Sambo Sucks, But Khabib Nurmagomedov Doesn’t

  23-03-2018 18:12
  Khabib Nurmagomedov’s domination in the UFC’s lightweight division has been nothing short of astonishing. The way that he mauls his opponents makes it difficult to see how anyone in the lightweight division could cause him any trouble in grappling altercations. Throughout his mixed martial arts career, Khabib’s high-level Sambo style has been incredibly effective and dominant, […]
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• Karl Moore hopes second Cage Warriors belt sets up rematch with Paul Craig at UFC Liverpool

  23-03-2018 18:00
  Karl Moore looks to become the first man since Conor McGregor to hold two Cage Warriors titles when he meets heavyweight champion, Mauro Cerilli, at Cage Warriors 92: Super Saturday this weekend.The west Belfast native won the promotion’s light heavyweight title in his last outing when he saw off Bellator and TUF veteran, Josh Clark, after five rounds in Dublin’s 3 Arena.Moore has spent some time in SBG ahead of his heavyweight debut. His usual stomping ground, Fight Academy Ireland
  
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• PFL signs former TUF finalist Ramsey Nijem

  23-03-2018 17:58
  Another former UFC fighter has signed with the new Professional Fighters League.
  Ramsey Nijem (9-6) recently inked a deal with the promotion, MMA Fighting has learned.
  Nijem left the UFC in 2015 after losing two fights in a row to Carlos Diego Ferreira and Andrew Holbrook. He reemerged on last year’s 25th season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” dubbed “Redemption,” and went 1-1 on the show. He hasn’t competed since then.
  The lightweight, who lost to Tony Ferguson o
  
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• Manuel Gaxhja injured, out of Bellator 196 co-main event vs. Adam Borics

  23-03-2018 17:34
  It’s more bad news for Adam Borics.
  The fast-rising Hungarian fighter was supposed to fight Manuel Gaxhja in the featherweight co-main event of Bellator 196 at BOK Hall in Budapest, but officials confirmed with MMA Fighting that Gaxhja has been forced to withdraw due to an undisclosed injury.
  MMAjunkie was first to report the withdrawal.
  Gaxhja was actually Borics’s second scheduled opponent for Bellator 196. Originally, Borics was supposed to fight undefeated Irishman James Gallagh
  
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• UFC Light Heavyweight Division has Reached A Low Point

  23-03-2018 17:30
  For years, the UFC’s light heavyweight division was arguably the promotion’s marquee weight class. Some of the greatest fighters in MMA history have been light heavyweights and they have put on some of the greatest fights of all time. Superstar fighters such as Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, Forrest Griffin and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson […]
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• Manuel Gaxhja Out of Bellator 196; Unbeaten, Demoted Adam Borics Now Awaits Third Opponent

  23-03-2018 17:20 via sherdog.com
  Bellator’s 196's card continues to shuffle, as once-headliner Adam Borics now awaits his third opponent.
  
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• ONE of a kind: Martin Nguyen’s startling rise leads to one of MMA’s most dominant champions

  23-03-2018 17:00
  Seven months ago, Martin Nguyen was just another name on the ONE Championship roster. Just another fighter trying to carve out a path in the leading Asian mixed martial arts promotion’s 155-pound division.Last August, Nguyen had a chance to unseat ONE 155-pound champion Marat Gafurov. With four straight victories and already under weight, Nguyen was perhaps prematurely thinking about who he was going to call out next even before the title fight with Gafurov.Bibiano Fernandes was the man h
  
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• UFC Fight Night 129 in Chile Adds Claudio Puelles-Felipe Silva Clash at Lightweight

  23-03-2018 16:57 via sherdog.com
  UFC Fight Night 129 has a new lightweight contest, bringing the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Chilean debut to nine bouts thus far.
  
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• Neil Magny vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio Expected For UFC Chile (Updated)

  23-03-2018 16:47
  UPDATE: A new report says that Ponzinibbio will be fighting Kamaru Usman, not Neil Magny. ORIGINAL: Another interesting bout appears to be close to finalized for UFC Chile. According to multiple sources, a battle between highly-regarded welterweight contenders Neil Magny and Santiago Ponzinibbio is set for the first-ever UFC event in Chile on May 19th. […]
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• Neil Magny vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio Expected For UFC Chile

  23-03-2018 16:47
  Another interesting bout appears to be close to finalized for UFC Chile. According to multiple sources, a battle between highly-regarded welterweight contenders Neil Magny and Santiago Ponzinibbio is set for the first-ever UFC event in Chile on May 19th. Chris Taylor of BJPenn.com was the first to report the news that the Magny-Ponzinibbio bout is […]
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• Report: Darren Till vs. Wonderboy Set For UFC Liverpool

  23-03-2018 16:27
  It appears that the fight between Darren Till and Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson will be happening at UFC Fight Night 130 after all. As noted, UFC announced an event for May 27th at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. They also announced that Darren Till would be headlining the card, but did not name an opponent. […]
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• Breen: Twitter and Its Potential Dumbing and Numbing Effect on MMA

  23-03-2018 16:05 via sherdog.com
  This week marked 12 years since the founding of Twitter. Undoubtedly, it has changed the discourse and promotion of MMA forever. However, for as many positives that have been gained via social media in that culture shift, if we are not careful, it can amplify the ugliest parts of the sport, writes Jordan Breen.
  
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• Report: Demetrious Johnson-T.J. Dillashaw Superfight Shelved for Now

  23-03-2018 15:33 via sherdog.com
  It seems fans will have to wait for the superfight between arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and current Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson and the two-time UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw.
  
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• UFC 185-Pound King Robert Whittaker Questioning Yoel Romero’s Mindset Ahead of UFC 225

  23-03-2018 15:29 via sherdog.com
  Newly appointed Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight king Robert Whittaker has questioned Yoel Romero’s motivations ahead of their much anticipated rematch after comments the Cuban made around retirement and the fact he didn’t make weight in his last fight against Luke Rockhold.
  
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• Max Holloway Provides Injury Update, Comments on Brian Ortega

  23-03-2018 15:03
  UFC featherweight champion, Max Holloway, is hoping to fight #1 contender, Brian Ortega, sometime this summer. The hold-up in scheduling the bout, however, is the status of the ankle injury which forced Holloway out of UFC 222. He spoke with UFC.com recently and updated the status of his injury and commented on potentially fighting a […]
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• Patricio Freire explains why he’s not fighting Michael Chandler at Bellator 197

  23-03-2018 15:00
  Michael Chandler will fight Brandon Girtz in the main event of Bellator 197 in St. Charles, Miss., on April 13, but that was not the company’s first backup plan.
  Chandler, who was originally slated to rematch Brent Primus for the lightweight championship in April, found himself without an opponent after Primus pulled out with an injury.
  The former 155-pound titleholder told ESPN on Thursday that featherweight champion Patricio Freire was offered a fight against him, but turned it down.
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• Gina Mazany vs. Lina Lansberg set for UFC Liverpool 

  23-03-2018 14:30
  Gina Mazany and Lina Lansberg will lock horns at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Sunday, May 27.UFC announced the bantamweight showdown through its social media channels on Friday morning.A contestant on TUF 18, Mazany had fought just one time in three years before she stepped up the plate to fight Sara McMann at UFC Fight Night Halifax last February.Although the former title contender submitted her in the first round, “Danger” got back to winning ways when she bested Yanan Wu over
  
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• Crashing the Party

  23-03-2018 14:00
  Five years after Ronda Rousey fought Liz Carmouche at UFC 157, women are thriving in the Octagon — so much so that you have to wonder how the UFC ever got along without them “Some women fear the fire, some women become it” – Social media poet, r.h. Sin.
  **So, the ladies.
  On April 7, Rose Namajunas will defend the women’s strawweight title against the person she took it away from, Joanna Jedrzejczyk. It’s a big enough fight to be the co-main event of a major p
  
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• Morning Report: Joe Rogan would like the UFC to get rid of the ‘win bonus’ system

  23-03-2018 13:00
  When Zuffa sold the UFC for $4.2 billion to WME-IMG, fighter pay in the suddenly became a much more aggressively discussed topic of conversation among the MMA world. But while those talks have mostly centered around fighters receiving a bigger piece of that $4 billion pie, UFC commentator Joe Rogan is concerned about another aspect of fighter pay: win bonuses.
  Every UFC fighter contract, save for those at the very top of the sport, is divided into two payment sections, “show money”
  
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• Dana White: T.J. Dillashaw vs. Demetrious Johnson Super Fight ‘Is Not Happening’

  23-03-2018 07:42
  It appears a proposed super fight between T.J. Dillashaw and Demetrious Johnson is officially off the table. For the past few months, Dillashaw and Johnson have been talking about facing each other in a champion versus champion showdown with hopes that they could land on the UFC 226 card during International Fight Week in July. […]
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• TUF experience gave Dobson comfort for UFC debut

  23-03-2018 06:00 via ufc.com
  Shana Dobson kicks Ariel Beck in their women's flyweight bout during the TUF Finale event inside Park Theater on December 01, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)" align="center" />With just three pro fights leading up to her Octagon debut against Ariel Beck last December, Shana Dobson was a prime candidate for the first-time UFC jitters. But they weren’t even in the building when “Danger” made the walk and then put on a ste
  
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• The 10: Best Lightweights in UFC History

  23-03-2018 06:00 via ufc.com
  On April 7, Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov will be in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in a fight for the 155-pound championship that has had quite a history in the UFC over the years.Pulver. Sherk. Penn. Edgar. Henderson. Pettis. Dos Anjos. Alvarez. McGregor. All have etched their names in the annals of UFC history for their reigns over what many believe is the toughest division in the sport. And though all-time great lists like this are always subjective and are meant to spark debate an
  
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• Santiago vs Ige set for UFC 225

  23-03-2018 06:00 via ufc.com
  Featherweight Mike Santiago's third trip to the Octagon will undoubtedly be a memorable one, as he will be competing in his hometown of Chicago when he faces Dan Ige in a UFC 225 bout at United Center on June 9.In the UFC 225 main event, which airs live on Pay-Per-View, Robert Whittaker defends his middleweight title against Yoel Romero. Tickets go on sale on April 13.Born and raised in Illinois, Santiago has been fighting professionally since 2010, but it was in 2017 when his career was changed
  
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• Pearl Gonzalez returns with Invicta FC bout Saturday

  23-03-2018 06:00 via ufc.com
  Pearl Gonzalez is back.After coming up short in two UFC bouts in 2017, Gonzalez, 6-3 in MMA, is looking to remake herself under the Invicta FC banner, where she will make her promotional debut this Saturday, March 24, at Invicta 28, which streams live and exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS. The latest offering from the world’s leading all-female MMA promotion is headlined by an Invicta FC strawweight title clash between Mizuki Inoue and Virna Jandiroba.Gonzalez describes her experience in the U
  
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• Paul Craig Lands New Deal With UFC, Talks Not Settling For Another Promotion

  23-03-2018 01:58
  Paul Craig isn’t going anywhere. Ahead of UFC London, Craig had made up his mind. He was going to give it his all against Magomed Ankalaev and then walk away from the sport of mixed martial arts. He knew that there was a chance that the last fight on his current UFC contract would indeed mean […]
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• Dana White: Demetrious Johnson vs. T.J. Dillashaw isn’t happening

  23-03-2018 01:43
  The UFC’s latest attempt at a superfight is off the table, according to company president Dana White.
  White told the Los Angeles Times via text that a long-discussed bout between UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson and two-time UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw is “not happening.”
  The two titleholders have openly lobbied in interviews and over social media for a bout with one another under the assumption that Dillashaw would drop down to 125 pounds to challenge fo
  
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• The Parting Shot Podcast 3/22 MMA News Recap

  23-03-2018 01:29
  The Parting Shot Podcast with your hosts James Lynch and Adam Martin is back with another brand new episode for MMA fans to enjoy. In today’s episode, James and Adam talk about some of the new matchups announced in the UFC and Bellator. Thanks as always to our sponsors MMAOddsbreaker.com and Bad Boy MMA. If you would […]
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• Felipe Silva vs. Claudio Puelles slated for UFC Chile in May

  23-03-2018 00:00
  A lightweight clash between Felipe Silva and Claudio Puelles was added to UFC’s upcoming trip to Santiago, Chile, on May 19. Combate first reported the news.
  Silva (8-1) is looking to rebound from his first career loss last September, a 84-second knockout defeat to Mairbek Taisumov at UFC Rotterdam. The Brazilian talent, who beat Shane Campbell in 73 seconds in his Octagon debut in 2016, now holds a 1-1 UFC record.
  Puelles (7-2) is the TUF Latin America 3 lightweight runner-up, losing to
  
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