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• After ‘Miscommunication,’ Yair Rodriguez Says ‘UFC and I Are On the Best Terms Ever’

  02-06-2018 23:21 via sherdog.com
  Just a week ago, Yair Rodriguez was getting ready to test the free agent waters.
  
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• Chuck Liddell supports UFC fighter unionization efforts, thinks change is ‘inevitable’

  02-06-2018 23:00
  The landscape of MMA today looks much different than it did during the years when Chuck Liddell was in his prime as UFC light heavyweight champion.
  In Liddell’s heyday during the early-to-mid aughts, the MMA world was fractured and the best talent was spread out across a myriad of promotions, with Pride Fighting Championships and the UFC standing as the two biggest players. That parity slowly evaporated over time, kickstarted by the downfall of Pride, and eventually led to where the sport
  
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• RDA On Darren Till: “He’s Gonna Go To 185 Pounds Eventually”

  02-06-2018 22:39
  Although Darren Till continued his ascension through the UFC Welterweight rankings, in Conor McGregor fashion, shooting up from the bottom of the top ten to number two after defeating the previously number one ranked contender, Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, in the main event of the UFC Liverpool event last month, Rafael dos Anjos doesn’t think his […]
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• Marlon Moraes Now Feels ‘At Home’ in UFC, Wants Bantamweight Title Shot Next

  02-06-2018 22:34 via sherdog.com
  As a World Series of Fighting titlist riding a 13-fight winning streak, Marlon Moraes entered the Ultimate Fighting Championship with a considerable amount of hype behind him.
  
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• With mini-tournament on ice, Khabib Nurmagomedov turns attention to Georges St-Pierre

  02-06-2018 22:33
  While the vast majority of MMA fans want to see Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor next, Nurmagomedov’s manager now says they’ve set their sights elsewhere.
  “We believe the fight to make is the Georges St-Pierre fight at 155 pounds,” Ali Abdelaziz said. “Khabib wants to fight for legacy and not for a soap opera drama show, and we think Conor doesn’t deserve this opportunity. The guy hasn’t fought in almost two years. Why does he deserve to fight for
  
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• Jarred Brooks Reacts To Freak Accident At UFC Utica: “He’s Lucky I KO’d Myself”

  02-06-2018 22:23
  The UFC Fight Night 131 event kicked off with a bang on Friday night, as Jarred Brooks knocked himself out in a freak accident, leading to a TKO loss to Jose Torres in the opening bout of the evening. Following the bout, which had the social media world buzzing due to the bizarre nature of […]
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• Jimmie Rivera Explains Backstage Altercation Following UFC Fight Night Utica Defeat

  02-06-2018 21:59 via sherdog.com
  As far as Jimmie Rivera is concerned, he and Marlon Moraes have no beef.
  
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• Yair Rodriguez Confirms “Happy News”: Back in UFC, Magomedsharipov Next

  02-06-2018 20:43
  Right on the heels of yesterday’s report that Yair Rodriguez and the UFC had reconciled, Rodriguez has come forward to confirm the news via Instagram that he is back in the UFC and that he will indeed be seeing Zabit Magomedsharipov in competition come UFC 228 in September: “I address to all my fans, friends […]
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• Yair Rodriguez announces UFC return, Zabit Magomedsharipov fight at UFC 228

  02-06-2018 20:14
  Yair Rodriguez is sticking around after all.
  On Friday, ESPN reported that the 25-year-old featherweight’s dispute with the UFC has been resolved and that he is expected to fight Zabit Magomedsharipov at UFC 228 on Sept. 8. Rodriguez himself issued a statement on Saturday expressing his gratitude at being back with the promotion.
  #happynews.@zabit_mma @ufc @UFCEspanol @bokamotoESPN pic.twitter.com/8xGDaZFuNn— Yair Rodriguez (@panteraufc) June 2, 2018“After the conversation I&r
  
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• Jimmie Rivera Reacts to KO Loss at UFC Utica

  02-06-2018 20:07
  Jimmie Rivera was quick to break his silence following a 33-second knockout loss to Marlon Moraes. Last night (June 1), Rivera headlined an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) card for the first time in his career. “El Terror” took on Moraes in a potential title eliminator. Things didn’t go Rivera’s way as he was on the […]
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• Jared Brooks says Jose Torres ‘is lucky that I knocked myself out’ at UFC Utica

  02-06-2018 19:00
  Jose Torres scored one of the craziest victories in UFC history at Friday’s Fight Night card in Utica, N.Y., and Jared Brooks called it luck.
  Brooks welcomed the former Titan FC two-division champion to the Octagon for the first time on Friday, and ended up knocking himself out when a slam went wrong in the second round of their flyweight bout.
  “[You’re] lucky that I knocked myself out and you didn’t do sh*t to me that whole fight,” Brooks wrote to Torres on Twitte
  
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• UFC Utica Video Highlights: Gillespie Taps Out Pichel In Second Round

  02-06-2018 18:03
  The UFC Fight Night 131 (UFC Utica) card on Friday evening saw five finishes in six fights on the main card, which aired on FOX Sports 1 (FS1). Among them was the co-main event, which saw Gregor Gillespie pick up a submission victory. Gillespie took on Vinc Pichel in a battle of lightweight prospects in […]
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• Bec Rawlings discusses UFC regret, preparation for Bare Knuckle FC

  02-06-2018 18:00
  Just one day after finding out she was released by the UFC, Bec Rawlings got an interesting message on Facebook. It was a fight offer — but not for MMA. This was a whole different animal.
  Rawlings told Ariel Helwani on Tuesday’s edition of The MMA Hour that in early May a representative for Bare Knuckle FC reached out to her and she was intrigued. Rawlings said she contacted her manager and coach Eric Del Fierro of Alliance MMA in San Diego and basically gave her his blessing.
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• UFC Utica Video Highlights: Arce Submits Teymur With Nasty Rear-Naked Choke

  02-06-2018 17:52
  Not only did the UFC Fight Night 131 (UFC Utica) event on Friday night feature an exciting lineup of fights that ended via knockout or technical knockout, there were some pretty spectacular submissions on the card as well. Among them was the second fight of the evening on the main card on FS1, which saw […]
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• UFC Utica Video Highlights: Harris TKOs Spitz In Battle Of Heavyweights

  02-06-2018 17:36
  As noted, the UFC Fight Night 131 (UFC Utica) event on Friday featured a ton of exciting knockouts and submissions in what was a big night for finishes. One of the more exciting ones of the evening saw Heavyweight sluggers Walt Harris and Daniel Spitz battle it out until Harris blasted Spitz with an enormous […]
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• UFC Utica Video Highlights: Saunders TKOs Ellenberger In Battle Of Veterans

  02-06-2018 17:26
  The UFC Fight Night 131 (UFC Utica) event on Friday featured a lot of exciting finishes. Among them was the highly-anticipated main card bout between two well-known, longtime UFC veterans. In the third fight on the main card last night, which aired on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), Ben Saunders took out Jake Ellenberger in the […]
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• Five Takeaways From UFC Utica

  02-06-2018 16:12
  Yesterday (June 1st), the UFC ventured into upstate New York to host UFC Utica — the company’s first ever event to be held in Utica, NY. 5,063 fans were in attendance for the Friday night event. Let’s recap the action and discuss a few things we learned: MARLON MORAES IS READY FOR A TITLE SHOT […]
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• Fightweets: Fix weight-cutting issues before tragedy strikes

  02-06-2018 16:00
  The MMA machine rolls on with its usual array of subplots. So let’s get right into the latest edition of Fightweets.Darren Till and weight-cutting reform@jimwezendonk: Should they ‘punish’ fighters who missed weight by making them weight in again a few hours before the fight, where the fighter can’t weigh in more than the division above him?
  There was something about Darren Till’s weigh-in situation in the lead-up to UFC Liverpool that really put an exclamation poi
  
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• Rafael dos Anjos: Darren Till won’t be in welterweight division much longer

  02-06-2018 15:00
  LOS ANGELES — Rafael dos Anjos knows a thing or two about tough weight cuts. Yet he said he felt some “shock” when watching a video chronicling Darren Till’s grueling weight cut before UFC Liverpool last weekend.
  Dos Anjos said Friday at a UFC 225 media day that he doesn’t believe Till is long for the welterweight division. Dos Anjos moved up from lightweight to welterweight when cutting weight became too oppressive and he believes Till will do similar.
  “I do
  
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• UFC Fight Night 131 Bonuses: Moraes, Gillespie, Saunders, Wood Receive $50K

  02-06-2018 07:57 via sherdog.com
  Marlon Moraes had the shortest night of any winner at UFC Fight Night 131, but he was perhaps the easiest choice for a post-fight bonus check.
  
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• UFC Utica bonuses: Marlon Moraes, Gregor Gillespie among winners

  02-06-2018 07:55
  Four dramatic finishes, four big bonus winners.
  There was no Fight of the Night award handed out Friday, but Marlon Moraes, Gregor Gillespie, Ben Saunders, and Nathaniel Wood all won $50,000 Performance of the Night bonuses for putting away their opponents at UFC Utica.
  Moraes capped off the night in dramatic fashion with a lightning fast head kick finish of Jimmie Rivera. It took the former World Series of Fighting bantamweight champion all of 33 seconds to defeat Rivera and vault himself to t
  
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• Marlon Moraes vs. Jimmie Rivera full fight video highlights

  02-06-2018 07:35
  Watch Marlon Moraes vs. Jimmie Rivera full fight video highlights from UFC Utica’s main event above, courtesy of FOX Sports.
  UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes took place June 1 at the Adirondack Bank Center in Utica, New York. UFC bantamweight contenders Jimmie Rivera (21-2) and Marlon Moraes (21-5-1) collided in the night’s main event, which aired live on FOX Sports 1. Catch the video highlights below.
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• UFC Utica: Pros react to Marlon Moraes’ brutal 33-second KO of Jimmie Rivera

  02-06-2018 07:11
  Jimmie Rivera kept an unbeaten streak alive across nearly 10 years and 20 fights. It came to an end in just 33 seconds once he met Marlon Moraes.
  Moraes destroyed Rivera with a highlight-reel head-kick KO in the opening seconds of his headlining fight Friday night at the Adirondack Bank Center at UFC Utica. The performance marked the second of its kind in a row for the former WSOF bantamweight champion, as Moraes needed just 67 seconds to do the same to Aljamain Sterling last December. After br
  
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• UFC Utica Highlights: Moraes Finishes Rivera With Head Kick (Video)

  02-06-2018 07:04
  UFC Utica is in the books and it ended with a doozy. Marlon Moraes and Jimmie Rivera did battle inside the Adirondack Bank Center in Utica, NY. The two took center stage in the main event. This was the first time either man headlined a UFC card. Going into the bout, many expected a five-round […]
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• Fight Night Utica: Fantasy Rewind

  02-06-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  It took Marlon Moraes just 33 seconds to catapult his name into title contention with a stunning first-round knockout over Jimmie Rivera in the main event at UFC Fight Night in Utica on Friday night.As soon as the fight got underway, Moraes and Rivera met in the center of the Octagon with each of them gauging the distance to unleash the first strike.It was Moraes who acted first as he uncorked a lightning quick kick that ricocheted off Rivera's head and sent him crashing to the canvas. Moraes fo
  
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• Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship Results

  02-06-2018 07:00
  MMA Fighting has Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship results from its event June 2 at the Cheyenne Ice and Events Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  The main card features the quarterfinal round of the heavyweight tournament, featuring former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez and other ex-MMA veterans, as well as former UFC fighter Bec Rawlings against Alma Garcia in the co-main event.
  Check out the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship results below.
  Main card (PPV at 9 p.m. ET)
  Ricco Rodriguez v
  
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• UFC Utica results: Marlon Moraes knocks out Jimmie Rivera in opening minute

  02-06-2018 06:54
  Just in case there were any remaining questions, the main event of UFC Utica on Friday night left no doubt: Marlon Moraes is on the very short list of legitimate UFC bantamweight title contenders.
  The former World Series of Fighting champion needed just 33 seconds to knock out the very tough Jimmie Rivera. That give Moraes three straight wins and 16 in his past 17.
  “I’m very happy with this,” Moraes said. “I’m a mixed martial artist, if you think I’m going to
  
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• UFC Utica live blog: Rivera vs. Moraes

  02-06-2018 06:31
  This is the UFC Utica live blog for Jimmie Rivera vs. Marlon Moraes, a bantamweight bout at Friday’s UFC event at the Adirondack Bank Center in Utica, N.Y.
  Rivera, who is on a 20-fight win streak dating back to November 2008, fights Moraes, a former World Series of Fighting champion who has won 15 of his last 16 bouts, in the main event.
  Check out the UFC Utica live blog below.
  Round 1: Referee Dan Miragliotta overseeing the main event. Leg kicks from Moraes to start. A left head kick cli
  
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• UFC Utica results: Gregor Gillespie submits Vinc Pichel, remains unbeaten

  02-06-2018 06:30
  Gregor Gillespie continues to make his name in the UFC lightweight division.
  The buzzsaw from Long Island put on another impressive performance on Friday night, scoring a one-sided victory over Vinc Pichel to improve to 12-0.
  The victory came by way of submission at the 4:06 mark of the secound round at UFC Utica.
  Gillespie set the tone in the opening round as he instantly shot for a single-leg takedown which he scored with ease. Pichel got back to his feet, but Gillespie got him right back to
  
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• UFC Utica results: Sijara Eubanks decisions Lauren Murphy

  02-06-2018 04:10
  Finally, Sijara Eubanks has her first official UFC victory under her belt.
  The Springfield, Mass. native earned a spot in the The Ultimate Fighter 26 Finale last year, which would have meant a chance to fight for the inaugural UFC women’s flyweight title.
  Eubanks had to pull out of the bout with Nicco Montano after her weight cut ended with kidney issues.
  But she returned to action on Friday night at UFC Utica and made a statement she belongs in the conversation at 125 pounds. Eubanks ear
  
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• Video: Hand wrap demonstration for historic Bare Knuckle FC event

  02-06-2018 03:13
  WYOMING — Bare Knuckle FC officials demonstrate the hand-wrapping technique that will be in effect for Saturday’s historic bare-knuckle fight card. Former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez takes on Lewis Rumsey in the night’s main event, while ex-UFC fighter Bec Rawlings meets Alma Garcia in the co-headliner.
  
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• Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship weigh-in photos

  02-06-2018 03:09
  Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship weigh-ins were held Friday evening.
  
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• Rafael dos Anjos UFC 225 media lunch scrum

  02-06-2018 03:00
  LOS ANGELES — At a UFC 225 media lunch in Los Angeles, Rafael dos Anjos discusses his rivalry with Colby Covington, Darren Till’s brutal weight-cutting video, his own weight-cutting issues and more.
  
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• Holly Holm UFC 225 media lunch scrum

  02-06-2018 02:00
  LOS ANGELES — At a UFC 225 media lunch in Los Angeles, Holly Holm discusses her fight with Megan Anderson in Chicago, how she looks back at her knockout of Ronda Rousey, what division is in her future and much more.
  
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• UFC Utica results: Nathaniel Wood submits Johnny Eduardo in second round

  02-06-2018 01:57
  London’s Nathaniel Wood brought plenty of hype into his UFC debut.
  And on Friday night, he delivered on his advance billing. The bantamweight nicknamed “The Prospect” shook off a slow first round and then finished veteran Johnny Eduardo in the second. The UFC Utica bout was waved off at the 2:18 mark of the second round via D’Arce choke.
  Eduardo took it to Wood in the opening round, landing clean and crisp combos and never letting Wood find his rhythm.
  But Eduardo made a
  
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• UFC Utica Video Highlights: Brooks TKOs Himself Against Torres In Wild Opener

  02-06-2018 01:50
  The UFC Fight Night 131: Rivera vs. Moraes (UFC Utica) event kicked off with a bang on Friday night. In the opening bout on the UFC Fight Pass preliminary card, Jarred Brooks lost to Jose Torres after suffering a freak accident, knocking himself out while slamming Torres in the second round. When scooping Torres up, […]
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• Video: Jose Torres wins via TKO after bizarre Jarred Brooks self slam at UFC Utica

  02-06-2018 01:40
  Nobody could have predicted Jose Torres’s UFC debut ending like this.
  The former Titan FC flyweight champion picked up his first win inside the Octagon under the most unique circumstances as he capitalized on a botched slam by opponent Jarred Brooks to score a second-round TKO win in the opening Fight Pass bout of UFC Utica on Friday.
  Welcome to the UFC @ShortyTorres125!!He gets the finish in round 2!#UFCUtica pic.twitter.com/reuP4QWzzq— UFC (@ufc) June 1, 2018After a first round th
  
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• Report: Yair Rodriguez, Zabit Magomedsharipov Verbally Agree to Meet at UFC 228

  02-06-2018 01:07 via sherdog.com
  Yair Rodriguez’s situation in the UFC has taken an unexpected turn.
  
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• Jessica Aguilar vs. Jodie Esquibel Removed from UFC Fight Night Utica Card

  02-06-2018 00:37 via sherdog.com
  A scheduled strawweight bout between Jessica Aguilar and Jodie Esquibel has been removed from UFC Fight Night 131 hours before the event.
  
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