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• Frankie Edgar Wants to Prove He’s Still an Elite Featherweight

  18-04-2018 23:50
  A knockout loss won’t deter Frankie Edgar from staying motivated. This Saturday night (April 21), Edgar will do battle with Cub Swanson in a rematch. The featherweight scrap will serve as UFC Atlantic City‘s co-main event. The bout is taking place just over one month after Edgar was knocked out by Brian Ortega. Edgar had […]
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• Mike Jackson says UFC 225 will go worse for CM Punk than Mickey Gall fight

  18-04-2018 23:00
  CM Punk was submitted via choke by Mickey Gall at 2:14 of the first round two years ago in his MMA debut at UFC 203. Mike Jackson says that was the “best-case scenario” for the former WWE top guy.
  Jackson, who meets Punk at UFC 225 on June 9 in Punk’s hometown of Chicago, is promising a worse outcome this time around for the pro-wrestling superstar, he told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.
  In other words, Jackson said he doesn’t plan on making Pun
  
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• Three Featherweight Bouts Announced for PFL Season Opener on June 7 in New York

  18-04-2018 21:57 via sherdog.com
  Professional Fighters League season has revealed three matchups for its season debut on June 7, and there are already some accomplished names on the card.
  
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• David Teymur Welcomes Newcomer Don Madge to Octagon at UFC Fight Night Liverpool

  18-04-2018 21:25 via sherdog.com
  David Teymur will go for his fifth straight Octagon triumph when he faces promotional newcomer Don Madge at UFC Fight Night 130 in Liverpool, England.
  
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• Michael Chandler Believes he Would Beat Khabib Nurmagomedov

  18-04-2018 21:00
  Former Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler got redemption in his last fight. Back at Bellator NYC last June, Chandler lost his lightweight title to Brent Primus via TKO due to an injury. Chandler was expected to challenge Primus for the title at Bellator 197. However, Primus pulled out of the fight citing a knee injury. […]
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• Daniel Cormier says he and Stipe Miocic take ‘back seat’ to fighters on TUF 27

  18-04-2018 21:00
  BURBANK, Calif. — Don’t expect Daniel Cormier to rip a door off its hinges, a la Quinton Jackson, or Stipe Miocic to grab Cormier by the neck, like Cody Garbrandt did to T.J. Dillashaw, on The Ultimate Fighter 27.
  Cormier, the UFC’s light heavyweight champion, said Tuesday at a media lunch that the plan all along for this season was to keep the focus on the fighters, all of whom are undefeated prospects. So, no, don’t expect any over-the-top hijinks between Cormier and M
  
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• UFC veteran Mehdi Baghdad debuts at Brave 12 against Pawel Kielek

  18-04-2018 20:30
  UFC veteran Mehdi Baghdad will return to competition on May 11, as he makes his Brave Combat Federation debut in a welterweight clash against Pawel Kielek, promotion officials told MMA Fighting.
  A former RFA lightweight champion, Baghdad (10-5) fought twice in official bouts under the UFC banner in 2016, losing to John Makdessi and Chris Wade.
  Baghdad entered the promotion through the 22nd edition of The Ultimate Fighter, when he defeated Artem Lobov via majority decision. Baghdad was also part
  
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• Daniel Cormier: ‘It Takes a Lot of Drugs’ To Think Like Jon Jones

  18-04-2018 20:06
  Daniel Cormier has given up trying to figure out what goes on inside Jon Jones’ head. Jones is arguably the greatest fighter to ever step inside the UFC Octagon but he’s also self-sabotaged his own career more times than almost anybody in history with a string of legal entanglements including a hit-and-run car accident and […]
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• Mike Jackson Plans To End CM Punk’s MMA Career

  18-04-2018 19:52
  Mike Jackson has his second fight under the UFC banner inside of the Octagon set, and it’s going to be a big one. UFC President Dana White has confirmed that CM Punk would fight Jackson at the upcoming UFC 225 pay-per-view event and that is the case. Punk made his UFC debut in a welterweight […]
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• David Teymur welcomes Don Madge to the Octagon at UFC Liverpool 

  18-04-2018 19:30
  David Teymur will put his four-fight UFC win streak on the line when he faces debuting former EFC lightweight champion, Don Madge, at UFC Liverpool.UFC announced the bout through its social media channels Wednesday, three hours after Madge initially disclosed the bout on his Instagram page.Teymur (7-1-0) has been unbeaten ever since signing with the promotion on the back of his showing on TUF 22. Poland’s Marcin Wrzosek knocked the Swede out of the competition in the quarterfinals, but he
  
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• Neil Magny Vows to Make Statement Against Gunnar Nelson

  18-04-2018 19:25
  Neil Magny has his next fight lined up and it’s going to be a challenge. Magny is slated to travel across the pond to meet Gunnar Nelson in a welterweight bout at the upcoming UFC Liverpool event. This bout will serve as the co-main event while Darren Till vs. Donald Cerrone (also in a welterweight […]
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• Darren Till Reacts to Tyron Woodley’s Harsh Comments About Him

  18-04-2018 19:03
  Rising UFC welterweight prospect Darren Till has responded to current UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. Till became a name that fight fans should keep an eye on when he beat former UFC lightweight title contender Donald Cerrone last year. Now, he’s slated to take on former welterweight title contender Stephen Thompson at the upcoming UFC […]
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• Nate Diaz Compares Strikeforce Brawl to McGregor Bus Attack: ‘We Started This G S--t’

  18-04-2018 19:02 via sherdog.com
  April 17, 2010 is a day that will live in mixed martial arts infamy.
  
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• Canelo Alvarez suspended six months for positive drug tests for clenbuterol

  18-04-2018 18:36
  Canelo Alvarez lost his scheduled fight next month with Gennady Golovkin, but it could have been worse for the boxing star.
  The Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) suspended Alvarez six months at a disciplinary hearing Wednesday in Las Vegas after he tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol in two out-of-competition drug tests in February.Alvarez’s ineligibility is retroactive to the first drug-test failure, which stemmed from a Feb. 17 sample collection. So, Alvarez will be able
  
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• Clay Guida vs. Bobby Green slated for UFC 225

  18-04-2018 18:00
  Clay Guida is back in action this summer.
  “The Carpenter” fights in the Octagon for the 26th time when he meets Bobby Green at UFC 225 at the United Center in Chicago on June 9, the promotion announced Wednesday. It will be a home booking of sorts for Guida, who hails from Round Lake, Ill.
  The matchup was first reported by FanSided.
  This is the first fight of 2018 for Guida, 36, who finds himself on the first winning streak of his career since 2011 after back-to-back wins over Erik
  
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• Frank Mir: Conor McGregor Ruining What MMA Pioneers Built

  18-04-2018 16:33
  Frank Mir’s 1st professional MMA fight was on July 14th, 2001. That very same day, a young Conor McGregor was celebrating his 13th birthday. Over the course of Mir’s 17-year pro career, he’s seen MMA go through many changes. Mir’s first UFC fight was during the promotion’s bleakest period when they had been thrown off PPV. […]
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• Daniel Cormier: Khabib Nurmagomedov Would Smash Conor McGregor

  18-04-2018 16:30 via sherdog.com
  Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion Daniel Cormier doesn’t believe anyone in the UFC can beat newly-crowned lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
  
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• Firas Zahabi Says There’s no Doubting GSP’s Status as Greatest of All Time

  18-04-2018 16:19
  Georges St-Pierre has been given a strong endorsement from his longtime coach. For years, St-Pierre and Anderson Silva were neck and neck in a battle for the top pound-for-pound spot. Those who sided with St-Pierre felt he had faced stiffer competition. Others in favor of “The Spider” held the former middleweight king’s title defense record […]
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• Gabi Garcia hoping to turn things around after ‘bad’ 2017

  18-04-2018 16:00
  Undefeated MMA fighter and six-time jiu-jitsu world champion Gabi Garcia will face MMA newcomer Veronika Futina in an openweight bout at Road FC 47 in Beijing, China, on May 12, looking to get back on track after a pair of no-contests and a cancelled fight last year.
  ”Rizin (Fighting Federation) allowed me to fight for Road this time, and it’s my first time fighting in a cage,” Garcia told MMA Fighting. “It changes my strategy, my takedowns. I’m doing a different t
  
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• Sean O’Malley Comments On Cageside Joint and New Reebok Sponsorship

  18-04-2018 15:26
  Sean O’Malley’s claim to fame was being endorsed by Snoop Dogg himself on an episode of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contenders series last summer. Since that time, he’s rattled off two more wins inside the octagon. O’Malley knocked out Alfred Khashakyan in 4 minutes on the Tuesday Night Contenders series. His performance was good enough […]
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• Chat Wrap: UFC TV deal, UFC on FOX 29, Bellator, more

  18-04-2018 15:20
  This is the Promotional Malpractice Live Chat.
  Today on the podcast, we'll look at the latest report from Variety magazine on the UFC's next television deal. What do we make of what was reported? Will fans have to pay for another streaming service? Is being on ESPN+ that prestigious? We'll discuss.
  Plus, UFC Atlantic City is this coming weekend. The card is actually not bad and worthy of examining for both the lightweight and featherweight divisions.
  In addition, Bellator's ratings for Bellator
  
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• Fortunes changed for five at UFC on FOX 29

  18-04-2018 15:00
  No matter how much he does what would get anyone else a one-way ticket out of the sport, Conor McGregor, remains front and center in regards to all decision-making in the UFC’s deepest division.
  On Saturday, when Dustin Poirier (23-5, 1 no contest) overcame the low-kicking game of Justin Gaethje (18-2) to finish him with big punches early in round four, Poirier overcame a leg that was a mess, and in doing so, the immediate talk was where Poirier stands when it comes to the title picture.
  
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• Morning Report: On Conor McGregor bus attack, Nate Diaz says his team ‘started this G sh*t’

  18-04-2018 14:00
  Just a few weeks ago, ahead of UFC 223, former two-division champion Conor McGregor showed up unannounced at a pre-fight media obligation and allegedly attacked the fighter bus that Khabib Nurmagomedov was on, seemingly in retaliation for a minor incident Nurmagomedov had with McGregor compatriot Artem Lobov earlier in the week. The attack resulted in injury to multiple parties and McGregor was arrested and charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of felony mischief.When t
  
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• USA Swimming star Cody Miller meets UFC Fighters in Glendale

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Olympic gold medalist @swimiller vs. @UFC fighters (No Olympians were harmed in the making of this video) #UFCGlendale | @CarlosCondit | @DustinPoirier pic.twitter.com/cmDG4GCtXx— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) April 18, 2018Ahead of the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mesa last week, Cody Miller prepared for his own battle by meeting UFC pro fighters Carlos Condit and Dustin Porier at their open workout in Glendale.RELATED: Dustin Poirier reacts to massive win in Glendale main event
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• TUF: Undefeated - Ep. 1 Recap

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  The first season of The Ultimate Fighter featuring 16 undefeated athletes is officially underway, with head coaches Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier kicking things off this week with team selections and the first fight already in the books.This season will feature unbeaten fighters at lightweight and featherweight, with only two walking away with an unblemished resume after the toughest tournament in sports plays out. As the episode gets underway this week, there's no rest for the weary, as the h
  
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• TUF: Undefeated - Ep. 1 Preview

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  There have been a lot of unique concepts to create the teams over the course of 27 seasons of The Ultimate Fighter. There have been two seasons that helped determine champions as the women's strawweight and women's flyweight divisions kicked off by way of The Ultimate Fighter. There was a season not that long ago that sought to find a worthy challenger to take on flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson. There have been two separate seasons that featured former athletes from the UFC or The Ult
  
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• Sterling on opponent Johns: 'It's not his time'

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Most times when people utter the phrase “timing is everything,” they’re speaking about something positive that happened in their lives because they were in the right place at the right time or made a decision that kicked off a series of events that resulted in good things transpiring.But like almost everything in life, there exists a flip side to the familiar saying; the “glass half-empty” take on the common turn of phrase.The last time Aljamain Sterling was in the
  
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• Guida returns for Chicago bout against Green

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Fighting in his home state of Illinois for the first time since 2013, Clay Guida will put his two-fight winning streak on the line on June 9 when he takes on Bobby Green in a UFC 225 matchup at United Center in Chicago.In the UFC 225 main event, which airs live on Pay-Per-View, Robert Whittaker defends his middleweight title against Yoel Romero. Tickets are on sale now.After a three-year run at featherweight, Guida returned to the lightweight division in 2017 and promptly delivered impressive vi
  
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• Barboza expects 'a big war' against Lee

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  The first time Frankie Edgar squared off with Cub Swanson, the featherweight contenders were the headlining act in Austin, Texas and Edson Barboza picked up a victory in the penultimate bout of the evening.As the 145-pound stalwarts get ready to run it back this weekend in Atlantic City, the roles are reversed. This time around, Edgar and Swanson will be setting the table for Barboza, who faces Kevin Lee in his first main event assignment as the UFC makes its return to the Jersey Shore. “I
  
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• AFC is live tonight on UFC FIGHT PASS

  18-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  #AFC139 is going down tonight on #UFCFIGHTPASS!12am ET / 9pm PT @AlaskaFighting pic.twitter.com/chrLea7iIh— UFC Fight Pass (@UFCFightPass) April 18, 2018Alaska Fighting Championships is back at the Alaska Airlines Center for AFC 139. The event will stream live and exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS tonight at 9 pm PT.The main event of the evening will mark the return of Jared Mazurek (6-1 in MMA), who will be making his first appearance in the AFC cage since losing his bantamweight title b
  
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• Report: ESPN, Fox Propose Joint Bid for UFC Programming Rights

  18-04-2018 04:27 via sherdog.com
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship could have two broadcast partners after its current deal with Fox comes to an end.
  
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• Yancy Medeiros to Meet Mike Perry at UFC 226 in Las Vegas

  18-04-2018 04:03 via sherdog.com
  A potential welterweight slugfest has been booked for UFC 226, as Yancy Medeiros will face Mike Perry in Las Vegas on July 7.
  
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• Video: TUF 27 contestants talk Miocic vs. Cormier, experience on the show, more

  18-04-2018 04:00
  BROOKLYN — The Ultimate Fighter 27 contestants Mike Trizano (left) and Joe Giannetti discuss their experience on the show, coaches Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic, their future UFC goals, and much more.
  
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• Yancy Medeiros vs. Mike Perry Made Official For UFC 226

  18-04-2018 02:54
  Yancy Medeiros and Mike Perry will share the Octagon on July 7. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced the match-up earlier today (April 17). The Las Vegas Review-Journal made the initial report. The bout is set to take place on the UFC 226 card. Medeiros is coming off a first-round TKO defeat to Donald Cerrone. […]
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• MMA Fighting Archives: Nick Diaz apologizes for infamous Strikeforce Nashville brawl

  18-04-2018 02:42
  Take a look back into the MMA Fighting Archives to see Nick Diaz apologize for the infamous post-fight brawl between the Skrap Pack and Jason “Mayhem” Miller at Strikeforce Nashville on April 17, 2010.
  
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• Daniel Cormier named high school head wrestling coach in Northern California

  18-04-2018 01:06
  UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier is a busy man these days. And yet, here he is adding another important responsibility to his plate.
  Cormier has been named the Gilroy High School head wrestling coach, the school announced Tuesday. Gilroy is a city located in Northern California’s Santa Clara County, and it is where Cormier currently resides with his wife and two children.
  In addition to his new high school job, Cormier will continue serving as the head coach of the Daniel Cor
  
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• DC: Conor McGregor will ‘get taken down and smashed’ by Khabib Nurmagomedov

  18-04-2018 01:00
  BURBANK, Calif. — The way Daniel Cormier sees it, Khabib Nurmagomedov’s “0” is never going to go.
  Nurmagmedov ran his overall record to 26-0 — 10-0 in the UFC — with his UFC lightweight title victory over Al Iaquinta at UFC 223. And while Cormier is biased, as a teammate of Nurmagomedov at San Jose’s American Kickboxing Academy, he truly believes no one at 155 pounds is going to defeat Nurmagomedov before he calls it a career.“He’ll be the o
  
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• Mike Perry vs. Yancy Medeiros slated for UFC 226

  18-04-2018 00:07
  A welterweight contest between hard-hitting contenders Mike Perry and Yancy Medeiros has been scheduled for July 7 at UFC 226.The UFC announced the matchup Tuesday following an initial report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  Perry (11-3) looks to rebound from the first losing streak of his career after suffering back-to-back decision setbacks at the hands of Santiago Ponzinibbio and Max Griffin over a two-month span. The latter fight took place in February at UFC on FOX 28.Prior to his recent s
  
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