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• Dustin Poirier to Justin Gaethje: You Have A Lot Of Skill That You’re Not Showing

  21-04-2018 23:47
  UFC on Fox 29 was headlined by a fight of the year contender when Dustin Poirier faced off against Justin Gaethje. This bout did not disappoint as both fighters put everything on the line in an attempt to come out on top. Poirier prevailed after finishing Gaethje in the 4th round, but Poirier believes that Gaethje needs […]
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• On last fight of UFC contract, Luan Chagas ignores extra pressure against Bahadurzada

  21-04-2018 23:00
  The stakes are high for Luan Chagas’ UFC Atlantic City fight against Siyar Bahadurzada.
  The Brazilian welterweight is slated to meet Bahadurzada in the preliminary portion of Saturday’s card in what will be the last bout of his current contract with the UFC.
  According to Chagas, the UFC didn’t reach out to offer him a new deal after his first victory in the Octagon — a second-round submission over Jim Wallhead last June — and he’s doing everything he can to t
  
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• Troubled Ex-NFL Star Greg Hardy to Make Pro MMA Debut on Dana White’s Contender Series

  21-04-2018 22:05 via sherdog.com
  With just three amateur bouts under his belt, former NFL star Greg Hardy will get an opportunity to earn a UFC contract in his first professional fight.
  
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• Breaking Anderson Silva’s record is ‘cool,’ but Thiago Santos aims for UFC belt

  21-04-2018 22:00
  Anderson Silva is the greatest middleweight of all-time, arguably the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter ever, but Thiago Santos is close to breaking one of his UFC records.
  “The Spider” shocked the world for years with his striking, knocking out the likes of Vitor Belfort, Forrest Griffin, Chael Sonnen, Rich Franklin and many others. But now, more than five years after Silva’s eight knockout win at middleweight, Santos aims for his nine knockout finish against David Branch at U
  
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• Jon Jones Makes Promise to Alexander Gustafsson: ‘You Will Never Beat Me’

  21-04-2018 21:31 via sherdog.com
  According to Jon Jones, Alexander Gustafsson will never do better than his near miss against the former light heavyweight champion in their classic bout at UFC 165.
  
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• Controversial ex-NFL player Greg Hardy to make pro MMA debut on UFC’s ‘Contender Series’

  21-04-2018 21:29
  A former NFL All-Pro with a controversial past will get a crack at fighting in the UFC.
  Greg Hardy will make his professional mixed martial arts debut on June 12 in a heavyweight matchup against Brandon Sayles on a Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series event in Las Vegas. MMA Fighting confirmed an initial report by MMA Today.Hardy, who trains with American Top Team, has a 3-0 record as an amateur, with all three victories coming by way of knockout in under two minutes.Sayles (5-1),
  
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• Daniel Cormier & Alexander Gustafsson Continue Airing Out Their Issues On Social Media

  21-04-2018 21:22
  Although he is preparing for his legendary showdown against UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 during International Fight Week in Las Vegas in July, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier sure seems to be spending some time airing out his issues with Alexander Gustafsson. By now, everyone has seen the painfully awkward interview […]
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• UFC 225 Poster For Stacked Card Released

  21-04-2018 21:09
  This weekend, UFC released the official promotional poster for what is shaping up to be one of their most stacked fight cards from top-to-bottom of the year — UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2. Headlined by the rematch between linear UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker and interim UFC Middleweight Champion Yoel Romero, UFC 225 goes […]
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• Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega, Francis Ngannou vs. Derrick Lewis Slated for UFC 226

  21-04-2018 21:09 via sherdog.com
  UFC 226 is shaping up to be one of 2018’s biggest cards.
  
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• Dustin Poirier’s advice to Gaethje: Start using ‘the skill that you’re not showing’

  21-04-2018 21:00
  Dustin Poirier understands and respects Justin Gaethje the way only two top-level fighters who engage in a memorable battle together can fully appreciate.
  Poirier found a second wind in the fourth round of their sensational brawl at UFC on FOX 29 last Saturday to finish the ultra-tough Gaethje in front of the latter’s hometown fans in Glendale, Ariz.
“It was as I expected,” Poirier said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “Maybe a little tougher. I hit him b
  
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• Edson Barboza ready for ‘war’ with Kevin Lee: ‘I’m still really close to getting my title shot’

  21-04-2018 20:00
  Edson Barboza and Kevin Lee are coming off losses to two of the best lightweights in the world, and the Brazilian striker expects to be close to his long-awaited shot at the gold once again after Saturday night.
  Barboza faces Lee in the main event of UFC Atlantic City, scheduled for the Boardwalk Hall on April 21, and is confident ahead of the first five-round fight of his UFC career.
  It’s been an active month for Barboza and his team in New Jersey, and the fact that Frankie Edgar, Marlon
  
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• UFC Atlantic City Results: Lee vs. Barboza

  21-04-2018 19:04
  The UFC hits Atlantic City, New Jersey tonight (Sat. April 21, 2018) for a great mixed martial arts (MMA) card from top to bottom. In the main event former interim UFC lightweight title challenger Kevin Lee will collide with decorated striker Edson Barboza. Both men come off high-profile losses and are looking to get back […]
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• Kevin Lee plans to ‘put a whupping’ on Barboza worse than Nurmagomedov did

  21-04-2018 19:00
  Kevin Lee has seen the blueprint for beating Edson Barboza. On Saturday, he plans to improve upon it.
  Brazil’s Barboza is one of the most feared strikers in the lightweight division and he’ll bring his elite standup skills to the Octagon on Saturday when he fights Lee in the main event of UFC Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall in New Jersey. The 32-year-old has had trouble with grapplers in the past, and wrestling just happens to be one of Lee’s most effective weapons.
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• Kevin Lee plans to ‘put a whooping’ on Barboza worse than Nurmagomedov did

  21-04-2018 19:00
  Kevin Lee has seen the blueprint for beating Edson Barboza. On Saturday, he plans to improve upon it.
  Brazil’s Barboza is one of the most feared strikers in the lightweight division and he’ll bring his elite standup skills to the Octagon on Saturday when he fights Lee in the main event of UFC Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall in New Jersey. The 32-year-old has had trouble with grapplers in the past, and wrestling just happens to be one of Lee’s most effective weapons.
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• Fightweets: Sizing up the Leslie Smith situation

  21-04-2018 18:00
  Another Friday, another weigh-in scene that makes a sport trying to be a multi-billion dollar mainstream business look instead like one of those low-rent carnivals that set up shop in mall parking lots. On the plus side, the fallout from Friday’s UFC Atlantic City weigh-in fiasco gives us plenty to discuss on what had previously seemed a slow week. So let’s get right into it.The Leslie Smith situation
  @fightfeedhq: What do you think about the Leslie Smith situation?
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• After quitting drinking, former flyweight contender Louis Smolka seeks return to UFC

  21-04-2018 17:00
  For a while, it seemed like no matter what Louis Smolka did, he couldn’t lose.
  Four years into his pro MMA career, he’d had a dozen pro fights and just one defeat, a close split-decision call to Chris Cariaso. Outside of that, Smolka was untouchable and one of the most exciting fighters at 125 pounds. He dispatched Richie Vaculik with a side kick that evoked legendary pro wrestler Shawn Michaels, and submitted Paddy Holohan with a rear-naked choke in the Irishman’s hometown of
  
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• All these years later, there’s still something about a Gustafsson vs. Jones sequel

  21-04-2018 16:00
  So, Alexander Gustafsson signed a new deal with the UFC and Jon Jones wasted zero seconds in crushing his spirit with a simple tweet: You will never beat me. Damn. It brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it? That these old rivals have drifted so far apart after The Great Encounter, yet still carry a flame? This thing won’t soon go away, not after what happened. Not after all they put each other through.
  Back in 2013, after going toe-to-toe for five rounds at UFC 165 in Toronto, Gustafs
  
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• UFC Atlantic City predictions

  21-04-2018 15:00
  The UFC returns to Atlantic City for the first time in almost four years and two lightweight contenders will look to stay in the mix with a big win Saturday. In the main event, Edson Barboza takes on Kevin Lee in a classic striker vs. grappler matchup pitting two fighters against one another who have never suffered consecutive defeats. They’re both looking to bounce back from tough losses and the results should be compelling.
  In other main card action, Cub Swanson looks for revenge agains
  
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• Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega On Tap for UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier

  21-04-2018 07:05
  Max Holloway wanted to make his return at UFC 226 and now he’ll get his wish. The reigning UFC featherweight champion will put his title up for grabs when he faces No. 1 ranked contender Brian Ortega as part of International Fight Week 2018 with their bout joining UFC 226 on July 7 in Las […]
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• Matt Serra named to UFC Hall of Fame, Class of 2018

  21-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Las Vegas – UFC® today announced that former UFC welterweight champion and winner of season four of The Ultimate Fighter®, Matt Serra, has been named to the UFC Hall of Fame class of 2018 as a Pioneer. The 2018 UFC Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place on Thursday, July 5, at Pearl Theatre inside the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The event will be streamed live and exclusively on UFC FIGHT PASS®.“Matt Serra is one of the most underrated mixed martial art
  
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• Matt Serra - Hall of Famer

  21-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  First impressions are often lasting ones. That’s certainly the case with the man who will be joining the UFC Hall of Fame’s Pioneer Wing this summer, Matt Serra.When I first ran into “The Terror” in 2001, he was an unbeaten 26-year-old from Long Island about to make his UFC debut against Shonie Carter. His reputation as a Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black belt was well established, but there were questions about his ability as a complete mixed martial artist. I asked him what
  
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• Lee looks unstoppable in Atlantic City main event

  21-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  LEE vs BARBOZAKevin Lee is POURING it on Barboza here in round 1!!#UFCAC @MotownPhenom pic.twitter.com/jqepn02fkE— UFC (@ufc) April 22, 2018n his first bout since losing a challenge for the interim lightweight title against Tony Ferguson in October, Kevin Lee looked Motown phenomenal against Edson Barboza, surviving a third-round head kick to dominate his opponent and stop him in the fifth round of their UFC Fight Night main event at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.Starting in the southpaw
  
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• LaFlare, Simon, Anderson earn wins in Atlantic City prelims

  21-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Nice bounce back win for @RLaFlare at #UFCAC! pic.twitter.com/g6pMyCQjwI— UFC (@ufc) April 22, 2018LaFLARE vs GARCIABack in action for the first time since a July loss to Alex Oliveira, Long Island welterweight Ryan LaFlare returned to the win column at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday with a three-round unanimous decision over Alex Garcia in UFC Fight Night prelim action.Scores were 30-27 across the board for LaFlare, now 14-2. Montreal’s Garcia falls to 15-5.Fighting tac
  
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• Holloway-Ortega, Ngannou-Lewis set for UFC 226

  21-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  The most stacked card of 2018 just got bigger, as two more stellar matchups are on their way to the UFC 226 event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 7.In a five-round championship bout, undisputed featherweight champion Max Holloway will attempt to follow up a pair of victories over Brazilian superstar Jose Aldo with another signature win as he defends his title against unbeaten phenom Brian Ortega. Ortega earned his shot at the crown with finishes of Frankie Edgar and Cub Swanson, and now h
  
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• Edgar back in win column in front of hometown fans

  21-04-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
   EDGAR vs SWANSON 2Edgar closes the distance and lands a nice shot on Swanson, but Cub stuffs the takedown! #UFCAC pic.twitter.com/HXM7OkFqCk— UFC (@ufc) April 22, 2018Making a quick turnaround from his March 3 defeat to Brian Ortega, Frankie Edgar got back in the win column in his first fight in his home state of New Jersey in over a decade, defeating fellow featherweight contender Cub Swanson via unanimous decision in their rematch at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.Scores were 30-2
  
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• UFC Atlantic City Results: Barboza vs. Lee

  21-04-2018 06:00
  MMA Fighting has UFC Atlantic City results for the Barboza vs. Lee fight card Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  In the main event, Edson Barboza and Kevin Lee will square off in a catchweight contest after Lee failed to make weight. Former UFC champion Frankie Edgar will try to bounce back from his first KO loss against Cub Swanson in the co-main event.
  Check out UFC Atlantic City results below.
  
Main card (FOX Sports 1 at 10 p.m. ET)
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• Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega targeted for UFC 226

  21-04-2018 05:53
  UFC 223’s loss could end up being UFC 226’s gain.
  A much-anticipated featherweight title bout between UFC champion Max Holloway and undefeated challenger Brian Ortega is being targeted for the International Fight Week card on July 7 at UFC 226, sources close to the situation told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani. The bout has yet to be officially signed, per Helwani.
  Holloway (19-3) was scheduled to replace the injured Tony Ferguson earlier this month against Khabib Nurmagomedov i
  
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• UFC 225 poster released

  21-04-2018 04:37
  On Friday, the UFC released a star-studded poster for their upcoming Chicago pay-per-view.
  Featured most prominently are UFC 225 main event competitors Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero. The two will meet in a rematch for the UFC middleweight championship that Whittaker won by defeating Romero via five-round unanimous decision last July. That victory earned Whittaker an interim title that has since been promoted to undisputed status.
  ARE YOU READY!?Your OFFICIAL #UFC225 poster has just landed. p
  
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• After Aspen Ladd weight miss, Leslie Smith says ‘it feels like the UFC is paying me off to go away’

  21-04-2018 04:03
  Part of Leslie Smith wanted to fight Aspen Ladd on Saturday night. A big part of her. Smith said it was “very f*cking tempting.”
  Had she done so, though, Smith believes she would have been, in essence, compromising everything she stands for and everything she has been preaching to other fighters as one of the sport’s labor leaders.
  Ladd missed weight by 1.8 pounds Friday at the UFC Atlantic City weigh-ins. Smith would have gotten 20 percent of Ladd’s purse — $2,400
  
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• UFC Fight Night 128 ‘Barboza vs. Lee’ Play-by-Play, Results & Round-by-Round Scoring

  21-04-2018 01:31 via sherdog.com
  Sherdog's live UFC Fight Night 128 play-by-play kicks off Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET.
  
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• Kevin Lee Apologizes For Missing Weight Ahead of UFC Atlantic City

  21-04-2018 00:39
  Kevin Lee has released a statement following his failed weight cut ahead of UFC Atlantic City. Lee is scheduled to take on Edson Barboza tomorrow night (April 21) in the main event of UFC Atlantic City. Both men are coming off losses against two of the best lightweights in the world. Lee and Barboza will […]
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