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• Michael Page Not Surprised by Paul Daley’s Absence from Bellator Bracket: ‘He Does His Own Thing’

  17-07-2018 23:54 via sherdog.com
  Michael Page may only be 31 years old, but the British striking ace is already a five-year Bellator veteran. The Viacom-backed promotion has changed drastically throughout those five years, with the newest development being Bellator’s new streaming deal with DAZN and a welterweight tournament that’s stacked with talent.
  
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• Bellator’s 10-Man Welterweight Tourney Begins with Lima vs. Koreshkov 3 on Sept. 29

  17-07-2018 23:44 via sherdog.com
  Bellator announced nine of the 10 welterweights that will comprise its 170-pound tournament on Tuesday after initially revealing the concept last month.
  
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• Dana White’s Contender Series ‘Season 2, Week 5’ Play-by-Play & Results

  17-07-2018 23:36 via sherdog.com
  Sherdog's live Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET.
  
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• DWTNCS 13 Results: Barber, Shahbazyan, & Pilarte Earn UFC Contracts

  17-07-2018 23:31
  UPDATE: The Contender Series 13 has wrapped up. Edmen Shahbazyan, Domingo Pilarte, and Maycee Barber all earned UFC contracts Night 13 of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series is here. In the main event, Legacy Fighting Alliance mainstay Maycee Barber will go toe-to-toe with Jamie Colleen. Also featured on the card will be a bout between Vince […]
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• DWTNCS 13 Live Results: Maycee Barber vs. Jamie Colleen

  17-07-2018 23:31
  Night 13 of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series is here. In the main event, Legacy Fighting Alliance mainstay Maycee Barber will go toe-to-toe with Jamie Colleen. Also featured on the card will be a bout between Vince Morales and Domingo Pilarte. Anthony Adams vs. Chibwikem Onyenegecha, Angelo Trevino vs. Austin Vanderford, and Antonio Jones vs. Edmen Shahbazyan […]
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• Chris Leben coming out of retirement to fight Phil Baroni in bare knuckle match

  17-07-2018 23:14
  “The Crippler” is back.
  Longtime UFC veteran Chris Leben is coming out of retirement to fight fellow Octagon veteran Phil Baroni on Oct. 20 in a bare-knuckle boxing match with the World Bare Knuckle Fighting Federation in Casper, Wyoming.Both fighters confirmed the booking to MMA Fighting on Tuesday following an announcement by the promotion.UFC Veteran Chris "The Crippler" Leban Signs with WBKFFPosted by Bare Knuckle Wbkff on Tuesday, July 17, 2018Leben (22-11) hung up his gloves i
  
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• UFC Hamburg’s Glover Teixeira Addresses Late Opponent Change

  17-07-2018 22:40
  Glover Teixeira recognizes the importance of staying on his toes. Teixeira was scheduled to take on Ilir Latifi this Sunday (July 22). The bout was set to take place inside Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany. Latifi went down with an injury. Corey Anderson signed a new deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and will meet Teixeira as […]
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• UFC set for Argentina debut in Buenos Aires on Nov. 17

  17-07-2018 22:30
  The Octagon will land in Argentina in 2018.
  UFC recently announced earlier this month that a South America card was scheduled for Nov. 17, and MMA Fighting confirmed on Tuesday that the Fight Night event will take place at the 9,000-seat Luna Park arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  The promotion currently has two cards scheduled for the South America continent. On Sept. 22, a Fight Night event will take place at the Ibirapuera gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The UFC has yet to announce which fig
  
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• Brendan Schaub Rips Dana White for Fighter Bashing: ‘Why Continue to S—t on People?’

  17-07-2018 22:30 via sherdog.com
  Dana White has long been known for delivering harsh public criticism to fighters under the Ultimate Fighting Championship banner who fail to live up to his standards in some shape or form.
  
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• Michael Page doesn’t mind if Paul Daley isn’t in Bellator tourney: ‘He kind of sucks’

  17-07-2018 22:15
  NEW YORK — At the DAZN launch press conference, Michael Page discusses being in the Bellator welterweight grand prix, Paul Daley’s absence, criticism of his strength of opposition, Rory MacDonald vs. Gegard Mousasi and more.
  
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• Michael McDonald Hopeful He Can Avoid Surgery for Hand Injury Suffered at Bellator 202

  17-07-2018 21:41 via sherdog.com
  Shortly after his resounding knockout victory against Eduardo Dantas at Bellator 202, Michael McDonald was questioning whether he should continue with his mixed martial arts career.
  
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• Brendan Schaub Rips Dana White For Berating UFC Fighters

  17-07-2018 21:29
  Brendan Schaub isn’t fond of Dana White’s treatment of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) athletes. Schaub and White aren’t exactly friends, but they are allegedly “Eskimo brothers.” The slang term means two men who have had sex with the same woman. Schaub is Ronda Rousey’s ex-boyfriend, so you can come to your own conclusion on that […]
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• Reports: Russian Promotion ACB Cancels Upcoming Event in Cyprus; Three Other Cards Scrapped

  17-07-2018 21:14 via sherdog.com
  It appears that Absolute Championship Berkut has fallen on hard times.
  
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• Michael McDonald gives update on latest hand injury

  17-07-2018 21:00
  Michael McDonald’s latest injury isn’t as bad as he initially thought.
  “Mayday” picked up a spectacular 58-second knockout win over former two-time bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas last Friday at Bellator 202, but the victory was almost pyrrhic as McDonald said in his post-fight interview that he’d broken his left hand. This comes on the heels of his Bellator debut last December in which his right hand was broken.
  The mounting injuries had McDonald questioning
  
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• Competitors for Bellator Welterweight Tournament Announced

  17-07-2018 20:39
  We now know who will be competing in the upcoming Bellator welterweight grand prix tournament. It was revealed at Tuesday’s press conference by Bellator MMA President Scott Coker that the tournament will start on September 29 in San Jose, California in connection with the launch of the promotion’s new digital network partner DAZN. The new […]
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• Bellator announces 10-man welterweight tourney field, including MacDonald, ‘MVP,’ Lima, more

  17-07-2018 19:46
  The field is just about set for Bellator’s upcoming welterweight tournament.
  Ten of the promotion’s best at 170 pounds will be featured in the bracket, including current champion Rory MacDonald; former champions Douglas Lima and Andrey Koreshkov; undefeated welterweights Michael Page, Neiman Gracie, Ed Ruth, and Yaroslav Amosov; and former UFC standouts Lorenz Larkin and Jon Fitch.
  Bellator president Scott Coker announced the participants at a press conference for the U.S. launch of
  
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• Wanderlei Silva Says He’ll Make Rampage Jackson’s Spirit Run Away

  17-07-2018 18:56
  Wanderlei Silva wants to break the will of Quinton Jackson in their fourth meeting. Silva and “Rampage” are set to clash once again on Sept. 29. On that same Bellator card, middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi and welterweight title holder Rory MacDonald will collide for the 185-pound gold. This will be Bellator’s first card airing on […]
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• Bellator DAZN U.S. launch press conference video

  17-07-2018 18:32
  Watch today’s DAZN U.S. launch press conference live from New York to see boxing and MMA announcements from Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn and Bellator’s Scott Coker, plus information regarding the streaming service that will serve as the new home of Bellator in 2019.
  
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• Bellator DAZN U.S. launch press conference live now

  17-07-2018 18:32
  Watch today’s DAZN U.S. launch press conference live from New York to see boxing and MMA announcements from Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn and Bellator’s Scott Coker, plus information regarding the streaming service that will serve as the new home of Bellator in 2019.
  
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• Francis Ngannou ‘Hurt’ by UFC President Dana White's Ego Remarks

  17-07-2018 18:27 via sherdog.com
  Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White has a history of criticizing fighters he feels don’t perform, especially if they’re on high profile pay-per-views like at UFC 226,when a hugely-anticipated heavyweight clash between two of the biggest hitters in the division in Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis took place in the co-main event.
  
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• Brendan Schaub tired of Dana White’s fighter bashing: ‘What are you doing?’

  17-07-2018 18:27
  Harsh words have been exchanged between retired heavyweight Brendan Schaub and UFC president Dana White over the past week, but Schaub says the matter extends beyond their relationship.
  On his Below the Belt program, Schaub gave an explanation as to why he and his former boss are butting heads over a few pointed comments on social media. White went after Schaub on Instagram for what he perceived to be an unfair analysis of middleweight prospect Israel Adesanya — Schaub would later say he
  
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• T.J. Dillashaw: Beating Cody Garbrandt Twice Makes Me the Bantamweight GOAT

  17-07-2018 18:23 via sherdog.com
  Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight king T.J. Dillashaw is confident that a win in his rematch with former champion Cody Garbrandt puts him at the top of the list as the greatest bantamweight of all time in MMA.
  
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• Chael Sonnen: People Will Start Copying Colby Covington

  17-07-2018 17:34
  Chael Sonnen sees Colby Covington as a trendsetter. It’s no secret that Sonnen has the gift of gab. “The American Gangster” was the first fighter to become a true rival to Anderson Silva. He’s also stirred the pot with Jon Jones and Tito Ortiz. Ahead of his Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix bout with Fedor Emelianenko, […]
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• Darren Till on Stephen Thompson: If he Wants a Rematch he Can Have it

  17-07-2018 17:11
  Darren Till isn’t backing down from the thought of a rematch with Stephen Thompson. Till and Thompson clashed back in May in the main event of UFC Liverpool. Going into the bout, Till missed weight at 188 pounds. He couldn’t weigh anymore than that on fight night and he was able to get down to […]
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• Tina Lahdemaki moving on from MMA, but she’ll always be the answer to a UFC trivia question

  17-07-2018 17:00
  For Tina Lahdemaki, at least as far as her UFC journey was concerned, the beginning turned out to be the end.
  The date was July 16, 2014, and Lahdemaki became part of history, battling Claudia Gadelha in the first-ever strawweight bout in the UFC. She would lose a unanimous decision, but going three rounds with the highly respected Gadelha only seemed to indicate that the then-26-year-old Lahdemaki had a bright future ahead of her inside the Octagon.
  Issues with a past shoulder injury arose soo
  
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• Video: Silva talks ‘Rampage,’ fighters union, UFC split, retirement, more

  17-07-2018 16:00
  CURITIBA, Brazil — The fourth chapter of the rivalry between Wanderlei Silva and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson takes place at the Bellator 206 card in San Jose, Calif., on Sept. 29, and MMA Fighting flew to Curitiba to chat with “The Axe Murderer” about his upcoming fight, whether or not it will be his last time in a MMA cage, his tumultuous past with the UFC, his political career, and much more.
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• Paul Felder Discusses Potential Future at Welterweight

  17-07-2018 15:55
  At UFC 226, Paul Felder would suffer a loss to Mike Perry via split decision, but would earn quite the moral victory by gutting out three rounds with a broken arm and even getting the nod on one judge’s scorecard. Appearing on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show Monday, Paul Felder put his analyst hat back on […]
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• Tecia Torres a “Monster” Right Now says Raquel Pennington

  17-07-2018 15:30
  Over the weekend, Joanna Jedrzejczyk shared an Instagram post where she claimed to be in the best condition she has ever been in leading into her UFC on Fox 30 bout against Tecia Torres in less than two weeks on July 28th. And while it has become somewhat of a cliché for fighters to feel […]
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• Vince Morales Fighting for “Title of a Fighter” on DWTNCS

  17-07-2018 15:00
  Within hours from now, Vince “Vandetta” Morales will appear on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series with the opportunity to earn a contract into the UFC when he squares off with Domingo “Son of Fire” Pilarte. Morales entered 2018 driven to advance his MMA career to uncharted territory. In order to do that, Morales had […]
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• Sonnen believes fighters are going to ‘start copying’ Colby Covington: ‘It’s interesting and it’s clearly working’

  17-07-2018 15:00
  Regardless of whether you like him or not, it’s hard to argue that Colby Covington’s controversial approach to the fight game hasn’t been effective.The 30-year-old ATT product flipped from being another faceless wrestler on the periphery of contendership into the interim UFC welterweight champion in a little more than a year after ramping up his willingness to trash talk and becoming a divisive, WWE-esque character on the mic. Covington is now slated to challenge welterweight
  
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• Mike Jackson Remains Unsure of UFC Future

  17-07-2018 14:30
  In the weeks following Dana White’s promise that the UFC has seen the last of Mike Jackson following his UFC 225 victory over CM Punk, Jackson has still not received official word about his future with the promotion. “He’s still got me on timeout,” Jackson told MMAjunkie Radio. The “timeout” occurred due to Dana White’s interpretation […]
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• Nick Newell Motivated By Pressure Headed into DWTNCS Bout

  17-07-2018 14:00
  One week from today, Nick Newell (14-1) will finally have the opportunity he has longed for when he appears on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series to square off against Alex Munoz (4-0). Although Newell’s handicap of fighting with one arm has been widely publicized, he will be entering the fight next Tuesday with one […]
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• Morning Report: Robert Whittaker out with injury, won’t defend middleweight title until early 2019

  17-07-2018 14:00
  After winning a split decision over Yoel Romero in their rematch last month at UFC 225, middleweight champion Robert Whittaker was looking forward to getting to compete with someone other than “Soldier of God.” Unfortunately, it looks like he won’t be able to do that for awhile.Whittaker, who broke his hand in the first round of the bout, spoke with Ariel Helwani of ESPN yesterday and revealed that he had surgery on his hand but will likely be sidelined until February of next
  
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• Unfiltered Episode 214: Sage Northcutt, Jon Anik & UFC Boise Recap

  17-07-2018 07:00
  "Super" Sage Northcutt, fresh off his first UFC Welterweight win over Zak Ottow in Boise, calls in to discuss the fight, working on his ground game at Team Alpha Male, how he'd match up with Mike Perry, and a lot more, including answering fan questions. Then, lead UFC Play-By-Play man Jon Anik calls in and discusses a wide range of topics including DC winning the UFC Heavyweight title, JDS vs. Blagoy Ivanov, Ngannou vs. Lewis, Brock Lesnar's potential UFC return, judging problems in MMA, and mor
  
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• Three more contracts given out in Week 5 of DWTNCS

  17-07-2018 07:00
  After handing out a record four contracts following an explosive second week inside the TUF Gym, just four additional competitors have gotten the call to the Octagon in the subsequent weeks, as the blistering performances have given way to more closely-contested battles over the last two weeks.Coming off a week where the two returning competitors from Season 1 delivered strong performances and earned contracts, the action on Week 5 of the second season of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contend
  
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• Teixeira loves his job, still motivated

  17-07-2018 07:00
  Sitting in the backyard of his Danbury, Connecticut home just a few days prior to departing for Hamburg, Germany, Glover Teixeira is as content as can be.Another training camp in the books, the warm summer afternoon is spent in the company of the characters in the book he’s reading and the birds that flit and sing as he flips the pages and soaks up the sun.“I told my wife a few years ago that I was looking for different things to do eventually because I could start planning my retire
  
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• Fight Night Hamburg: Fantasy Cheat Sheet

  17-07-2018 07:00
  The UFC will embark on a return to Germany this weekend with a card headlined by a pair of light heavyweight matchups, including one that sees former champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua looking for his fourth straight win as he takes on upstart contender Anthony Smith in the main event.Former title challenger Glover Teixeira will also be back in action this weekend as he takes on former Ultimate Fighter winner Corey Anderson, who stepped up on short notice for the opportunity to take on the top five-
  
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• Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series Season 2 - Week 5 Preview

  17-07-2018 07:00
  The latest season of Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series will roll on this week with a featured matchup taking place in the women's strawweight division between Maycee Barber and Jamie Colleen.On last week’s show, UFC President Dana White handed out two more contracts as Bevon Lewis and Jordan Espinosa will join the roster following two highlight reel finishes. Lewis is now a two-time Contender Series veteran with a pair of knockouts as he joins the UFC's middleweight division. Mea
  
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• Khabib Nurmagomedov Talks Not Confronting Conor McGregor at World Cup

  17-07-2018 03:58
  Khabib Nurmagomedov kept things civil during the World Cup. The beef between Nurmagomedov and McGregor has been brewing. During the week of UFC 223, Nurmagomedov and his team confronted Artem Lobov in a hotel lobby in New York City for comments he had made regarding “The Eagle.” McGregor retaliated by attacking a fighter bus holding […]
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• Khabib Nurmagomedov: No Reason to Approach Conor McGregor at World Cup Final

  17-07-2018 03:55 via sherdog.com
  Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor were both in attendance at Sunday’s FIFA World Cup final at Luzhniki Stadium in Russia, but the two UFC stars never came face to face.
  
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• K-1 veteran, MMA coach Andre Dida to make in-ring return with Rizin

  17-07-2018 03:00
  CURITIBA, Brazil — Andre Dida is back.
  Leader of Evolucao Thai team in Brazil, Dida told MMA Fighting he has agreed to return to mixed martial arts by the end of the year under the Rizin Fighting Federation banner in Japan.
  The date and opponent are yet to be confirmed, but Rizin 14 is planned for Dec. 31 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
  ”I’m preparing to fight by the end of the year in Rizin,” Dida said. “I already have an opponent in mind, so I&rsquo
  
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• Robert Whittaker Sidelined Until 2019

  17-07-2018 01:54
  Robert Whittaker announced Monday that following a hand injury suffered in his split-decision victory over Yoel Romero at UFC 225, he will not be able to have his next defense, announced to be against Kelvin Gastelum, until sometime in 2019. Whittaker stated February would be the ideal month for his return following the surgery: “I […]
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• Daniel Cormier Says He’s Retiring After Brock Lesnar Fight

  17-07-2018 01:25
  Daniel Cormier says he will be calling it a career once he fights Brock Lesnar. Cormier captured the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 226. “DC” knocked out Miocic in the opening round to become a two-division champion. “DC” has made it clear that he’s only […]
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• Hand Injury Likely to Sideline UFC Champ Robert Whittaker Until February

  17-07-2018 00:27 via sherdog.com
  Robert Whittaker’s next title defense likely won’t come until early next year.
  
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• Curtis Blaydes admits he wasn’t expecting to be among elite heavyweights ‘so soon’

  17-07-2018 00:00
  LAS VEGAS — On the UFC Hall of Fame red carpet, Curtis Blaydes discusses why he wants a title shot at heavyweight, finishing Alistair Overeem, his quick rise in the division and more.
  
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