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• UFC Chile Ceremonial Weigh-ins Live Stream Tonight (May 18) at 6 p.m. ET

  18-05-2018 23:52
  Before the big UFC Chile event tomorrow night (May 19), peep the live ceremonial weigh-ins. Earlier today, 26 fighters on the UFC Chile card tipped the scales. All fights have been made official and every fighter on the card made weight. This of course includes headliners Demian Maia and Kamaru Usman. Maia will be fighting to […]
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• Two Strawweights Blast Mackenzie Dern’s Spot on UFC Rankings

  18-05-2018 23:38
  Mackenzie Dern has made her way to a top 15 spot on the UFC strawweight rankings and two 115-pounders aren’t amused. Dern was victorious in her bout against Amanda Cooper at UFC 224. Dern won the bout via first-round submission. She missed weight by 7.5 pounds and was basically a flyweight going into the bout. Despite […]
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• Frank Mir Eyeing August for ACB Debut, Bellator MMA Return in October

  18-05-2018 23:01 via sherdog.com
  During a press conference ahead of ACB 87 on Friday in England, it was announced that Frank Mir would return to action in August against an undecided opponent under the Absolute Championship Berkutbanner. An exact date was not revealed.
  
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• Brad Scott draws newcomer Carlo Pedersoli Jr. at UFC Liverpool

  18-05-2018 23:00
  Brad Scott is getting a home date after all.
  After thinking that he’d missed out on his opportunity to fight at UFC Liverpool with the injury withdrawal of originally scheduled opponent Salim Touahri, Scott will fight in his native England when he meets Octagon newcomer Carlo Pedersoli Jr. at the Echo Arena on May 27.
  Sources confirmed the bout with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani following an initial report by MMAnytt.com.
  Scott is a regular on the UFC’s England cards, most rece
  
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• Andre Fili Offers to Fight Zabit Magomedsharipov at UFC 227

  18-05-2018 22:35
  Andre Fili has thrown his name in the hat for Zabit Magomedsharipov’s next opponent. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White wanted to book Magmomedsharipov vs. Yair Rodriguez for UFC 227. That didn’t happen as White said Rodriguez turned down the fight. Rodriguez was released from the promotion for also turning down a bout with […]
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• Video: Whiteford, Mousah have to be separated after physical ACB weigh-in confrontation

  18-05-2018 22:00
  Good thing for Frank Mir and Herb Dean.
  The UFC legend and the highly regarded referee had to pull apart a pair of fighters who nearly threw down at ACB 87 weigh-ins Friday in England.
  Robert Whiteford confronted Kane Mousah before he even stepped on the stage. Then, the two went eye-to-eye during a faceoff, but the brim of Mousah’s hat hit Whiteford in the nose. Whiteford slapped the hat off Mousah and then shoved his face.
  Before things could get totally out of hand, Mir grabbed Whitefo
  
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• UFC Fight Night 129 ‘Maia vs. Usman’ Play-by-Play, Results & Round-by-Round Scoring

  18-05-2018 21:30 via sherdog.com
  Sherdog's live UFC Fight Night 129 coverage kicks off Saturday at 6:30 p.m. ET.
  
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• Lightweights Alexander Hernandez, Olivier Aubin-Mercier to Lock Horns at UFC on Fox 30

  18-05-2018 21:12 via sherdog.com
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship has added a clash of lightweight prospects to its UFC Calgary card.
  
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• Alexander Hernandez vs. Olivier Aubin-Mercier slated for UFC on FOX 30

  18-05-2018 20:55
  An intriguing matchup between ranked lightweights Alexander Hernandez and Olivier Aubin-Mercier has been slated for July 28 at UFC on FOX 30 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  The UFC announced the booking Friday.
  Hernandez (9-1) made a thunderous impact in his short-notice Octagon debut at UFC 222, knocking out longtime contender Beneil Dariush in 42 seconds on just eight days notice. In total, the 25-year-old prospect — who goes by the nickname “The Great” — has won seven co
  
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• Alex Hernandez vs. Olivier Aubin-Mercier Official For UFC Calgary

  18-05-2018 20:22
  Alex Hernandez vs. Olivier Aubin-Mercier is official. The UFC took to Twitter to announce the match-up. The two had been in talks earlier this month, but nothing was set in stone. This adds to an already stacked card featuring former champions. Hernandez pulled off a sensational UFC debut. He finished Beneil Dariush in just 42 […]
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• Rafael Carvalho Says Bellator 200 Will Solidify His Career

  18-05-2018 19:56
  Rafael Carvalho believes Bellator 200 will be his time to shine. Carvalho will defend his Bellator middleweight title against Gegard Mousasi in the co-main event of Bellator 200. Despite being a title bout, the match-up will take a backseat to Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roy Nelson II. This isn’t the first time Bellator has done […]
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• ONE Championship results: Angela Lee edges Mei Yamaguchi in thrilling rematch

  18-05-2018 19:09
  After a year on the sidelines due to a career-threatening car accident, Angela Lee took off where she left off by defending her atomweight title in the main event of ONE Championship: Unstoppable Dreams Friday night in Singapore.Lee claimed a unanimous decision win over Mei Yamaguchi after another epic five rounds in their rematch.After a tentative first five minutes, Lee locked up and armbar in the second that hyperextended Yamaguchi’s limb. Despite her arm looking like it was on the ver
  
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• Jon Jones Rips Chuck Liddell’s String of Losses

  18-05-2018 19:09
  The bad blood between Jon Jones and Chuck Liddell has not subsided. Liddell recently revealed that he’s making a comeback in mixed martial arts. “The Iceman” said his immediate hope is to meet Tito Ortiz in November, but that facing Ortiz for a third time isn’t the only reason he’s making a comeback. Liddell expressed […]
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• TUF 27 Finale poster released

  18-05-2018 19:00
  Just three fights into his UFC career, Israel Adesanya has landed on his first UFC poster.
  “The Last Stylebender” shares top billing with middleweight veteran Brad Tavares, who will be competing in the Octagon for the 17th time, on the poster for The Ultimate Fighter 27 Finale, which will take place at the Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas on July 6.
  It goes down in Las Vegas.Your #TUF27 Finale: @BradTavares @Stylebender poster HAS JUST DROPPED❗️ pic.twitter.com/Vrg93nCz
  
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• UFC Fight Night 129 Weigh-in Results: Demian Maia, Kamaru Usman Hit Marks in Chile

  18-05-2018 18:20 via sherdog.com
  Demian Maia has built his career on upending bigger, faster and stronger opposition in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Can he do it one more time?
  
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• Kamaru Usman Credits Former UFC Champion Rashad Evans for Mentorship

  18-05-2018 18:15 via sherdog.com
  Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight contender Kamaru Usman will take on grappling ace Demian Maia at UFC Fight Night 129 in Chile this Saturday night.
  
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• Chael Sonnen Says the UFC Had to Release Yair Rodriguez

  18-05-2018 18:07 via sherdog.com
  Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight contender Chael Sonnen has come out to support the UFC releasing one of their hottest rising Latino stars in Yair Rodriguez.
  
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• UFC Chile Weigh-in Results: All Fighters Make Weight

  18-05-2018 17:51
  It was smooth sailing at the UFC Chile weigh-ins. Tomorrow night (May 19), UFC Chile takes place inside the Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile. In the main event, welterweights Kamaru Usman and Demian Maia will do battle. Maia tipped the scales at 171 pounds, while Usman clocked in at 170 pounds. In the co-main event, strawweight […]
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• Uriah Hall Believes He Almost Died After Suffering Through Brutal Weight Cut

  18-05-2018 17:10
  Uriah Hall knows he’s probably lucky to be alive right now. It was just four months ago when Hall was unconscious after suffering the ill effects of a brutal weight cut that landed him in the hospital, which led to the cancellation of his fight against Vitor Belfort. The harrowing situation had several other fighters […]
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• UFC Chile weigh-in video, results

  18-05-2018 17:10
  At the Chile weigh-ins, all 26 fighters taking part in Saturday night’s fights at the Moviestar Arena in Santiago, Chile will step on the scale Friday, and we’ll have the live video here at MMA Fighting.
  In the main event, Demian Maia and Kamaru Usman made the welterweight limit of 170 pounds with one-pound allowance.
  The UFC Chile ceremonial weigh-ins are at 6 p.m. ET, and the video is above.
  Main card (FOX Sports 1 at 10 p.m. ET)
  Demian Maia (171) vs. Kamaru Usman (170)
  Alexa Gras
  
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• Michael Page: ‘Jealousy’ played a role in Daley ‘trying to sabotage himself’ with Bellator

  18-05-2018 16:00
  When all is said and done, Michael Page vs. Paul Daley will likely go down as the one that got away from Bellator.
  A welterweight pairing between the two English strikers has been one of the most talked about fights in Bellator over the last few years, but despite several false starts and a bevy of callouts from both sides, the match never came together. And now, as a disgruntled Daley publicly feuds with Bellator officials while pledging to leave the promotion after his next fight, it appears
  
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• ONE Championship 73 results, live stream

  18-05-2018 15:53
  MMA Fighting has ONE Championship 73 results for the “Unstoppable Dreams” event Friday at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
  In the main event, Angela Lee will defend her ONE strawweight title against. Mei Yamaguchi.
  Check out ONE Championship 73 results below.
  Main card (One Championship app at 7 a.m. ET)
  Angela Lee vs. Mei Yamaguchi
  Martin Nguyen def. Christian Lee via split decisionShinya Aoki def. Rasul Yakhyaev via submission (triangle choke) at 3:15 of R1
  Eduard Folaya
  
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• 5 UFC Chile Prospects To Keep Your Eye On

  18-05-2018 15:46
  UFC Chile takes place this Saturday at Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile. It’s the UFC’s first trip to Chile and while at first glance this looks like a card barren of high-powered name value, if you dig a little deeper there are a number of fighters to pay attention to on this card. Here are […]
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• ONE Championship 73 Results

  18-05-2018 14:04
  MMA Fighting has ONE Championship 73 results for the “Unstoppable Dreams” event Friday at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
  In the main event, Angela Lee will defend her ONE strawweight title against. Mei Yamaguchi.
  Check out ONE Championship 73 results below.
  Main card (One Championship app at 7 a.m. ET)
  Angela Lee vs. Mei Yamaguchi
  Martin Nguyen vs. Christian Lee
  Shinya Aoki vs. Rasul Yakhyaev
  Eduard Folayang vs. Kharun Atlangeriev
  Amir Khan vs. Sung Jong Lee
  Chao Xie def
  
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• Morning Report: Angela Hill, Felice Herrig slam Mackenzie Dern’s presence in UFC rankings 

  18-05-2018 14:00
  The biggest news of UFC 224 last weekend was blue chip prospect Mackenzie Dern weighing in at 123 pounds for her strawweight fight against Amanda Cooper. Since she was seven pounds over the limit, Dern was forced to give 30 percent of her fight purse to Cooper. But it seems that was the only punishment for Dern, who submitted Cooper quickly and, as of this week, is ranked in the strawweight division. When the newest rankings were announced, Dern came in at No. 15 and that did not sit well with
  
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• Rivas proud to represent Chile on Saturday's Fight Night

  18-05-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  With the UFC making its first visit to Chile on Saturday, it’s clear that the last few years have seen significant progress in the mixed martial arts scene in the South American nation. No one knows that better than the lone Chilean on the UFC Fight Night card in Santiago, Diego Rivas.“A while back, I said that the popularity of MMA in Chile was growing and now that the UFC is here, it's growing at an immense rate,” said Rivas, who faces Guido Cannetti. “It's all over TV
  
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• Maia match-up is Usman's chance to prove he belongs

  18-05-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  With all the difficulty Kamaru Usman has had in finding a suitable opponent, it was jokingly suggested to him that there is always golf to be played in Florida.Usman laughed, recalling what sport his father tried to steer him towards when the future welterweight contender was a teenager.“When I was younger and going to get into sports in high school, my dad tried everything to get me to play baseball. I just did not take to it and now I am kicking myself. (Laughs) If I spent all this time
  
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• Lee wants to be someone people talk about

  18-05-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  It wasn’t the scenario Andrea Lee had planned out, but now that a short-notice UFC debut was on her doorstep last fall, she wasn’t about to turn it down. Fresh from a September 22 win over Jamie Thorton, “KGB” Lee was going to be a UFC fighter facing Kalindra Faria at UFC 216 in Las Vegas on October 7.“I’m in shape,” she told me that week. “I just need to cut my weight again. I could wait until December and have a whole other camp to go through and
  
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• Fight Night Chile: Official Weigh-in results

  18-05-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  Fight Night Chile, which features the welterweight main event bout between Demian Maia and Kamaru Usman, is live on FS1 Saturday, May 19 at 10pm/7pm ETPT from Santiago, Chile.Four prelim bouts will air live and free on FS2 starting at 8pm/5pm ETPT. Three prelim bouts will air live on UFC FIGHT PASS starting at 6:30pm/3:30pm ETPT.Five-round lightweight main eventDemian Maia (171) vs Kamaru Usman (170)Main CardAlexa Grasso (115) vs. Tatiana Suarez (115)Jared Cannonier (205) vs. Dominick Reyes (205
  
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• Jon Jones fires back again at ‘old man’ Chuck Liddell

  18-05-2018 04:56
  This, apparently, was Jon Jones’ mic drop.
  The former UFC light heavyweight champion let loose with some tweets Thursday night, in response to the latest barbs from UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell. Liddell tweeted Wednesday that the Octagon would be a good place for Jones to “learn from a true legend” and took a shot at Jones for his outside-the-cage conduct.
  To that, Jones replied that Liddell is “far from innocent.”
  @ChuckLiddell Brother I don’t have to be
  
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• Wanderlei Silva Targets “Rampage,” Dan Henderson & Vitor Belfort

  18-05-2018 04:08
  Wanderlei Silva hopes to go old school with his next opponent. Silva last competed at back in June 2017. He dropped a unanimous decision to Chael Sonnen in the main event of Bellator NYC. Silva was able to drop his opponent, but had no answer for the wrestling and top control. “The Axe Murderer” didn’t […]
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• Brian Stann joins PFL to lead competition/rules committee

  18-05-2018 03:00
  The PFL has recruited Brian Stann to help with its upcoming 2018 season.
  On Thursday, the league announced that Stann has signed on to be the head of its Fighter and Competition/Rules Committee. Stann, 37, fought professionally for seven years, becoming a champion in the World Extreme Cagefighting promotion and a contender in the UFC.
  “I am excited to be a part of the PFL in its vision to bring a new format and a new platform to professional MMA,” Stann said in a press release. &ldq
  
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• UFC Signs Italian Welterweight Carlo Pedersoli Jr. to Face Bradley Scott at UFC Liverpool

  18-05-2018 02:28 via sherdog.com
  It seems that Bradley Scott has found an opponent forUFC Liverpool.
  
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• Tyron Woodley to Fans: #AllLoveAllWeek

  18-05-2018 01:30
  Tyron Woodley has a message to MMA Fans: All love Often criticized for complaining too frequently, in a live chat with fans, Tyron Woodley acknowledges that, as a human, he comes with his set of flaws and is also aware of the perception many MMA fans have of him: “I ain’t perfect. I’ve complained: ‘Oh, […]
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• ‘Shogun’ reacts to Henderson fight being inducted into UFC HoF

  18-05-2018 01:30
  RIO DE JANEIRO — At the UFC 224 post-fight press conference, Mauricio Rua discusses his fight with Dan Henderson at UFC 139 getting inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, what he remembers about that fight, his upcoming fight with Volkan Oezdemir and more.
  
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• Mirko Cro Cop Isn’t Banking on Fedor Emelianenko Rematch

  18-05-2018 00:55
  Mirko Cro Cop doesn’t believe he’ll go one-on-one with Fedor Emelianenko again. Cro Cop will be making his Bellator debut on May 25. In the main event of Bellator 200, Cro Cop will meet Roy Nelson in a rematch. The bout is to determine who gets a spot as an alternate in the Bellator Heavyweight […]
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• Mirko Cro Cop doesn’t expect Fedor rematch to ever happen

  18-05-2018 00:00
  Few could have predicted back in 2005 when Mirko Filipovic and Fedor Emelianenko collided in the biggest heavyweight fight in MMA history that both men would still be going strong 13 years later, nonetheless still fighting under the same umbrella.
  While each man has faced his fair share of false retirements in the years since their clash, the 43-year-old “Cro Cop” and 41-year-old Emelianenko have remarkably combined to win 14 of their last 15 fights. Both are also currently alive in
  
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