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• Kelvin Gastelum Willing to Sit Out Until He Receives UFC Middleweight Title Shot

  13-05-2018 23:43 via sherdog.com
  It’s safe to say that Kelvin Gastelum’s move to middleweight has gone well, as “The Ultimate Fighter 17” winner has lost just once in six appearances since leaving the welterweight division.
  
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• MMANews Fantasy League Results: UFC 224

  13-05-2018 23:15
  Last nights event marked the first pay-per-view event of our MMANews Fantasy League. UFC 224 was filled with breathtaking fights that captivated the Rio de Janeiro crowd. Home heroes prevailed, but some were unable to do enough to earn the victory. The atmosphere inside the Jeunesse Arena reminded MMA fans why Brazil is considered by many […]
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• Aaron Pico’s goals are to be a two-sport world champion

  13-05-2018 23:00
  Two years ago, there was a lot of talk about Aaron Pico’s potential to be a world champion in two sports, wrestling and MMA. He still has a two-sport goal, but now the sports are MMA and boxing. A few years ago, when Aaron Pico was about to start his MMA career, the idea of being a two-sport world champion did not seem out of the question.
  Pico medaled three separate years in his age group at the world championships in wrestling, including winning one world title. And with his childhood b
  
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• Mackenzie Dern to Work with UFC Performance Institute to Address Weight-Cut Issues

  13-05-2018 22:23 via sherdog.com
  The joy of Mackenzie Dern's second Ultimate Fighting Championship triumph was largely overshadowed by what happened on the scale one day prior.
  
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• UFC announces Contender Series debut date for Nick Newell, opponent change for Greg Hardy

  13-05-2018 22:00
  Two of the Contender Series’ most intriguing names are one step closer to seeing their potential UFC dreams come true.
  On Saturday’s UFC 224 broadcast, several dates were announced for Season 2 of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, which is set to kick off on June 12.
  Along with women’s flyweight Antonina Shevchenko, the sister of top 125-pound contender Valentina Shevchenko, former NFL player Greg Hardy and congenital amputee Nick Newell are generating plenty
  
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• Torres: We Agree With Decision to Go Into 5th Round

  13-05-2018 21:50
  After receiving a hailstorm of criticism in the aftermath of UFC 224 for allowing Raquel Pennington to enter the fifth round after telling them that she was “done,” Tecia Torres has spoken up on behalf of the Pennington camp via an Instagram post: “Both us and our coaches agree with the decision made to go […]
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• Tecia Torres says she and Raquel Pennington agree with corner’s decision to let her fight

  13-05-2018 21:30
  Raquel Pennington’s corner has come under a firestorm of criticism for their handling of their fighter in the late stages of their UFC 224 bout against UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes.Pennington was overheard saying she was done with her fight with Nunes after the fourth round of their bout Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro. But she was sent back out and absorbed a brutal beating before the bout was finally waved off in the fifth.
  But, at least publicly, Pennington and
  
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• Tate: I Would Have Done Same Thing as Pennington Corner

  13-05-2018 21:05
  Miesha Tate has spoken up in defense of the Raquel Pennington UFC 224 corner. The main event saw Raquel Pennington challenge Amanda Nunes for the UFC bantamweight championship. The first two rounds were competitive, but Nunes began to pull away in the second half of the fight. At the end of the fourth round, Pennington […]
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• UFC 224 Aftermath: Amanda Nunes here to stay, whether UFC wants it or not

  13-05-2018 21:00
  The UFC has as often as not come across as bitter that they have to promote women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, instead of celebrating a groundbreaking athlete.
  Nunes rolled over Miesha Tate to win the championship at UFC 200. Then she was invisible in the buildup to the promotion of her fight with Ronda Rousey.
  After Nunes sent Rousey running to the safety of scripted shows in 48 seconds flat at UFC 207, the UFC didn’t bother with the sort of followup post-fight hype they b
  
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• ‘King Mo’ planning move down to middleweight after Bellator 199 loss

  13-05-2018 21:00
  It looks like Muhammed Lawal has decided that “moneyweight” means a move to the 185-pound division.
  Following a 15-second knockout loss to Ryan Bader on Saturday in the main event of Bellator 199, “King Mo” took to social media to congratulate his opponent and announce that he expects his next bout to take place at middleweight:
  This is MMA. Things don't always go the way you expected. Congratulations to @ryanbader for his big win tonight. He deserves it. Now, this being
  
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• ‘King Mo’ Lawal Says He’s Moving to Middleweight Division After Bellator 199 Defeat

  13-05-2018 20:20 via sherdog.com
  Things didn’t go at all as planned for Muhammed Lawal at Bellator 199.
  
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• ‘Jacare’ thinks unusual weight cut contributed to his legs tiring against Gastelum

  13-05-2018 20:00
  Ronaldo Souza noticeably slowed down after a dominant opening round against Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 224, and he thinks an unusual weight cut may have played a part.
  “Jacare” suffered a split decision loss to Gastelum on Saturday night at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, losing the final two rounds on two judges’ scorecards. After controlling an impressive opening five minutes with his vaunted grappling arsenal, the 38-year-old Souza came out for the second round moving slu
  
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• Raquel Pennington’s Corner Failed Her At UFC 224

  13-05-2018 19:32
  The corner of Raquel Pennington failed its fighter in the main event of UFC 224, which took place last night at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the end of the fourth round, after Pennington was already down 40-36 on the judges scorecards to UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, Pennington said to […]
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• Mackenzie Dern ‘Ashamed’ She Missed Weight by 7 Pounds Ahead of UFC 224

  13-05-2018 19:19
  Mackenzie Dern is celebrating her second win in the UFC but there’s no doubt her latest victory was overshadowed by the controversy that surrounded her weigh-in just 24 hours earlier. On Friday, Dern stepped onto the scale at 123 pounds — a full seven pounds over the strawweight limit —but her opponent Amanda Cooper decided […]
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• John Lineker didn’t think he would get KO against ‘tough’ Kelleher at UFC 224

  13-05-2018 19:00
  RIO DE JANEIRO — John Lineker spoke to the media at UFC 224 about his knockout win over Brian Kelleher, wanting a top-5 opponent next, and much more.
  
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• Kelvin Gastelum won’t ‘accept any other fight than the title shot’

  13-05-2018 18:00
  Kelvin Gastelum has his eyes set on the UFC middleweight strap.
  The winner of The Ultimate Fighter 17 picked up a split decision victory over veteran middleweight Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza in the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With that hard-fought win, Gastelum now has a 3-1 record with one no-contest (a first-round TKO of Vitor Belfort that was later overturned when Gastelum tested positive for marijuana) since moving back to the 185-pound divisi
  
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• Amanda Nunes Says Raquel Pennington’s Corner Failed at UFC 224

  13-05-2018 17:59
  Amanda Nunes doesn’t believe Raquel Pennington’s corner had their fighter’s best interest in mind. Last night (May 12), Nunes defended her Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight title against “Rocky.” The title fight headlined UFC 224 inside Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was “The Lioness'” third title defense. While Pennington found some success in the second […]
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• 6 Takeaways & Reflections from UFC 224

  13-05-2018 17:33
  UFC 224 has wrapped up and we’ve got six takeaways and reflections from the event: #6: What a Comeback! Jack Hermansson could be seen visibly wincing during a completed Thales Leites takedown that saw his leg pretzeled underneath him in an awkward manner. At the time, it seemed impressive that Hermansson was able to survive […]
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• Raquel Pennington’s loss at UFC 224 shines spotlight on the onus of cornering

  13-05-2018 17:00
  Back at UFC 188, 10 minutes into giving it his best shot against the younger, stronger Kelvin Gastelum, Nate Marquardt told his longtime cornerman Trevor Wittman he was done. With no trace of inner-conflict or reluctance, Wittman turned to the referee, Dan Miragliotta, and conveyed that sentiment — “it’s over,” he said. “Stop it.” And they did. The fight was stopped. Wittman didn’t linger for a moment on what it means to be a “warrior”, and
  
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• Lyoto Machida explains why he bowed after knocking out Vitor Belfort at UFC 224

  13-05-2018 16:00
  RIO DE JANEIRO — After his KO win over Vitor Belfort, Lyoto Machida discusses his demeanor after knocking out Belfort, why he applied the front kick at that opportunity, the possibility of fighting Michael Bisping next, and more.
  
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• Scott Coker still enthusiastic about working with Paul Daley

  13-05-2018 15:00
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Even though Paul Daley has said that his contract with Bellator was up and he ended up talking up a storm in the third round of his loss to Jon Fitch on Saturday night in San Jose, Calif., Bellator MMA President Scott Coker remained positive about his future with the company.
  ”My feelings have not changed,” he said about Daley after the show. “That is one of the most dynamic fighters I’ve ever been associated with. He had a tough matchup with Fit
  
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• Mackenzie Dern on bad weight miss: ‘I am ashamed of that’

  13-05-2018 14:00
  If you think Mackenzie Dern considers her seven-pound weight miss some sort of big joke, the potential star has a message for you.“I’m ashamed of that,” Dern said at the UFC 224 post-fight press conference. “I don’t want that to happen again.”
  Dern came in at 123 pounds for a scheduled strawweight bout with Amanda Cooper on Friday, which didn’t stop Dern from earning a first-round submission win on Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro.
  Afterward, Dern said
  
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• Amanda Nunes: Raquel Pennington’s coaches ‘failed’ at UFC 224

  13-05-2018 13:00
  Raquel Pennington didn’t seem to want to continue Saturday night in between the fourth and fifth rounds at UFC 224. She told the coaches that she was “done.”
  The coaches in her corner, though, told Pennington to carry on and “we’ll recover later.” Pennington went out for the fifth round and ended up getting stopped via TKO by Amanda Nunes in the main event of the card in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  At the end, Pennington was left in a pool of her own blood, likel
  
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• UFC 224, Bellator 199 post-fight show

  13-05-2018 12:15
  After UFC 224, MMA Fighting’s Luke Thomas and Jed Meshew break down the biggest storylines from the event, as well as news coming out of Bellator 199.
  
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• Ryan Bader vs. King Mo full fight video highlights

  13-05-2018 10:43
  Watch Ryan Bader vs. King Mo full fight video highlights from Bellator 199’s main event above, courtesy of Paramount Network.
  Bellator 199: Bader vs. King Mo took place May 12 at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. Light heavyweight champion Ryan Bader (25-5) faced off against Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (21-7, 1 NC) in the final quarterfinal bout of Bellator’s Heavyweight Grand Prix in the night’s main event, which aired live on Paramount Network. Catch the video high
  
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• Video: Paul Daley boos own fight, criticizes Bellator officials while being wrestled by Jon Fitch

  13-05-2018 10:00
  Paul Daley’s issues with Bellator are no secret. And they came back to the forefront Saturday night in the most unusual of ways.
  Daley suffered a unanimous decision loss to Jon Fitch at Bellator 199. As is Fitch’s modus operandi, the contest was a grinding, wrestling-heavy affair that drew plenty of boos from the crowd inside the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. — and some of those boos came from Daley himself.In a bizarre and somewhat hilarious exchange, cageside microphones ca
  
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• Amanda Nunes vs. Raquel Pennington full fight video highlights

  13-05-2018 09:00
  Watch Amanda Nunes vs. Raquel Pennington full fight video highlights from UFC 224’s main event above, courtesy of FOX Sports.
  UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington took place May 12 at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes (16-4) looked to defend her belt against Raquel Pennington (9-6) in the night’s main event, which aired live on pay-per-view. Catch the video highlights below.
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• Kelvin Gastelum vs. Jacare Souza full fight video highlights

  13-05-2018 08:57
  Watch Kelvin Gastelum vs. Jacare Souza full fight video highlights from UFC 224’s co-main event above, courtesy of FOX Sports.
  UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington took place May 12 at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Middleweight contenders Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (25-6, 1 NC) and Kelvin Gastelum (15-3, 1 NC) collided in the night’s co-main event, which aired live on pay-per-view. Catch the video highlights below.
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• UFC 224 bonuses: Lyoto Machida earns 50k for front-kick KO of Vitor Belfort

  13-05-2018 08:30
  Lyoto Machida got another knockout and with it came another Fight Night bonus.The former UFC champion earned a $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus for knocking out fellow veteran Vitor Belfort at Saturday’s UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro. The 39-year-old Machida stopped Belfort with a front head kick in the second round of their middleweight bout. “The Dragon” is on a two-fight win streak and hold a professional MMA record of 24-8.
  Additionally, three other fighters received $50
  
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• Video: Raquel Pennington tells corner ‘I’m done,’ gets sent back out for fifth round at UFC 224

  13-05-2018 08:20
  Minutes before she was brutally finished by Amanda Nunes in the main event of UFC 224, Raquel Pennington tried to tell her corner that she was done.
  Pennington suffered a TKO defeat at 2:36 of the fifth round to Nunes, the reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champion, on Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prior to that though, in the time between the fourth and fifth round of a fight she was soundly losing, Pennington told her coaches, “I’m done. I want to be done.”
  
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• UFC 224 Bonuses: Gastelum, ‘Jacare,’ Machida, Oleynik Pocket $50K Awards

  13-05-2018 07:57 via sherdog.com
  On an evening filled with finishes, Kelvin Gastelum, Ronaldo Souza, Lyoto Machida and Alexey Oleynik went home with $50,000 bonus checks for their work at UFC 224.
  
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• Video: Watch Ryan Bader Knock Out King Mo in 15 Seconds

  13-05-2018 07:53
  In 15 seconds, Ryan Bader advanced to the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix semi-finals. Bader took on Muhammed Lawal in the main event of Bellator 199. The action took place inside the SAP Center in San Jose, California. The main card aired live on The Paramount Network and CMT. A clean shot was all it took […]
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• UFC 224: Pros react to Nunes vs. Pennington, Gastelum vs. Jacare, more

  13-05-2018 07:24
  Raquel Pennington lobbied unsuccessfully for her corner to stop her fight against Amanda Nunes after the fourth round at UFC 224. Minutes later, the fight was over anyway.
  Nunes defended her women’s bantamweight title for the third consecutive time, defeating Pennington via fifth-round TKO with a harrowing salvo of strikes Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro in the main event of UFC 224. The performance was a masterclass by the Brazilian champion, and capped off a violent night at the Jeunes
  
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• UFC 224 Highlights: Amanda Nunes Butchers Raquel Pennington (Video)

  13-05-2018 07:22
  Amanda Nunes was able to top Raquel Pennington in brutal fashion. In the main event of UFC 224, Nunes defended her women’s bantamweight title against Pennington. This was “The Lioness'” third title defense. Like her last title defense, the fight went to the fifth round. The difference is, Nunes was able to nab a finish […]
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• UFC 224 results: Amanda Nunes finishes Raquel Pennington in fifth round

  13-05-2018 07:07
  It wasn’t the most exciting main event in UFC history, but Amanda Nunes was effective on Saturday night.
  The UFC women’s bantamweight champion went home to fight in Brazil for the first time in five years, and left the cage a winner. Nunes picked apart a game-but-overmatched Raquel Pennington at UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro before finishing her in the fifth round.The time of the stoppage was 2:36 for the TKO win on Saturday night as Nunes had her third successful title defense.“I
  
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• UFC 224 post-fight press conference video

  13-05-2018 06:54
  The UFC 224 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the Octagon, and we have the live video below at MMAFighting.com.
  UFC officials will announce the winners of the Fight of the Night and the Performance of the Night bonuses, and winning fighters will meet the media after their fights.
  The UFC 224 post-fight press conference takes place about 30 minutes after the main event ends, meaning it will start around 1:30 a.m. ET.
  
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• Bellator 199 Results: Ryan Bader, Aaron Pico, and Cheick Kongo all score quick KOs

  13-05-2018 06:29
  The Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix semifinals are set, and it didn’t take much time to do it.
  At the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., Ryan Bader took on Muhammed Lawal in a rematch from their college wrestling days where Lawal beat Bader by tech-fall. The light heavyweight champion got his revenge on Saturday night though, knocking out “King Mo” just 15 seconds into their main event fight at Bellator 199. Bader caught Lawal with a short left hook with the first exchange of the
  
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• Dan Henderson-‘Shogun’ Rua UFC 139 Bout to Be Enshrined in UFC Hall of Fame ‘Fight Wing’

  13-05-2018 06:16 via sherdog.com
  The classic five-round battle between Dan Henderson and Mauricio Rua at UFC 139 will be enshrined in the UFC Hall of Fame “Fight Wing” this summer.
  
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• Amanda Nunes Pummels Raquel Pennington to Fifth-Round Stoppage at UFC 224

  13-05-2018 06:05 via sherdog.com
  Amanda Nunes stops Raquel Pennington in the fifth round to retain her bantamweight title at UFC 224 on Saturday in Brazil.
  
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• Video: Ryan Bader knocks out King Mo Lawal in 15 seconds at Bellator 199

  13-05-2018 05:48
  Ryan Bader got his revenge, and it barely took him any time at all.Taking on Muhammed Lawal in a rematch from their college wrestling days, Bader dropped “King Mo” with a cracking left hook and followed it up with punishing ground strikes to get the stoppage just 15 seconds into the first round.
  Watch Bader punch his ticket into the next round of the Bellator heavyweight grand prix below.
  King Mo vs Ryan Bader #bellator199Wow pic.twitter.com/A4mxArB9KZ— Fancy Combat (@FancyCom
  
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• UFC 224 results: Mackenzie Dern submits Amanda Cooper

  13-05-2018 05:36
  Mackenzie Dern had a bad Friday, but she sure didn’t have any problems on Saturday.
  Dern missed weight by seven pounds for a planned strawweight bout with Amanda Cooper at UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  And while Cooper ripped Dern for her unprofessionalism after the bad weight miss, there’s no denying Dern got the job done when the duo stepped into the cage. A wicked overhand right set up the finish, as choked out Cooper at the 2:27 mark of the opening round.
  “I’m v
  
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• UFC 224 live blog: Jacare Souza vs. Kelvin Gastelum

  13-05-2018 05:30
  This is the UFC 224 live blog for Jacare Souza vs. Kelvin Gastelum, a middleweight bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro.
  “Jacare”, winner of three of his last five bouts, fights Gastelum, who has won three of his last four (excluding one no-contest), in the co-main event.
  Check out the UFC 224 live blog below.
  Round 1: Co-main event time, and a good one. Third man in the octagon is Leon Roberts. Souza touches gloves with the young fellow,
  
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• UFC 224 results: John Lineker knocks out Brian Kelleher

  13-05-2018 05:13
  When John Lineker is on, he’s a tough man for any bantamweight to beat.
  The fighter nicknamed “Hands of Stone” lived up to his nickname Saturday night at UFC 224, as the Brazilian put on a show for his homeland fans in Rio de Janeiro. Lineker peppered Brian Kelleher with shots to the head and body throughout the bout and punctuated things late in the third round with a knockout left hand.The time of the finish was 3:43 of the third round.“‘Hands of Stone’ is
  
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• UFC 224 live blog: Dern vs. Cooper

  13-05-2018 05:11
  This is the UFC 224 live blog for Mackenzie Dern vs. Amanda Cooper, a 123-pound catchweight bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro.
  The bout was originally scheduled as a strawweight encounter, but Dern missed the mark by seven pounds.
  Dern, a decorated Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner with a 6-0 professional MMA record, fights Cooper, an Ultimate Fighter finalist who has gone 2-2 in the UFC, on the main card.
  Check out the UFC 224 live blog below.
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• Dan Henderson vs. ‘Shogun’ Rua I to be inducted into UFC Hall of Fame

  13-05-2018 05:11
  Dan Henderson and Mauricio Rua are surefire UFC Hall of Famers in the future. First, though, the men will be honored for their roles in one of the best fights of all time.
  Henderson vs. “Shogun” from UFC 139 will be inducted into the“fight wing” of the UFC Hall of Fame this summer, the promotion announced Saturday night during the UFC 224 broadcast. The ceremony is scheduled for July 5 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
  Henderson beat Rua on Nov. 19, 2011 by unanim
  
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• Ryan Bader Advances in Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix with 15-Second Knockout of ‘King Mo’

  13-05-2018 03:57 via sherdog.com
  Ryan Bader wasted zero time Saturday at Bellator 199.
  
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• UFC 224 Prelims: Cezar Ferreira Chokes Karl Roberson Unconscious in Rio de Janeiro

  13-05-2018 03:51 via sherdog.com
  Karl Roberson woke up looking at the lights, likely with little recollection of how he got there.
  
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• UFC 224 results: Jack Hermansson has spectacular comeback win over Thales Leites

  13-05-2018 01:43
  If you didn’t tune in for the UFC 224 Fight Pass prelims, you missed an epic display of heart and determination.
  Swedish middleweight Jack Hermansson was highly likely down on the scorecards of his bout with former title challenger Thales Leites on Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro, and was in a bad way in the final round.
  But Hermansson, who fought through an apparent broken rib suffered in the first round, somehow managed to reverse position, and when he did, he took full advantage.
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• UFC 224 photos

  13-05-2018 00:41
  UFC 224 photos are for Saturday’s UFC event in Rio de Janeiro.
  
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• Video: Aaron Pico vs. Justin Linn

  13-05-2018 00:30
  At Bellator 183 back in September, Aaron Pico entered his second professional MMA bout in hopes to get his first win. That night in San Jose, Calif., the blue-chip prospect scored a quick knockout win, putting away Justin Linn at the 3:45 mark of round one.Now, a few months later, Pico will be taking on Lee Morrison in a featherweight contest at Bellator 199. The event, which is being headlined by Ryan Bader vs. King Mo, is set to go down on Saturday at the SAP Center in San Jose.
  
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