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• Dana White Would Understand if Eddie Alvarez Leaves UFC

  07-08-2018 23:50
  Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White would understand if Eddie Alvarez doesn’t re-sign with the promotion. Alvarez decided to fight out of his contract going into his rematch with Dustin Poirier. Alvarez wanted to prove he was worth more than what the UFC was offering at the time. “The Diamond” ended up winning the […]
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• Nathaniel Wood ready to accept Marlon Vera fight ‘right now’ following Twitter back and forth  

  07-08-2018 23:00
  Marlon Vera scored a fantastic second-round TKO to get himself back in the win column against Wuliji Buren at UFC 227, and after the fight he turned his attention to Nathaniel Wood, a man who he has recently traded barbs with on Twitter.Shortly after his signing to the UFC, Wood made an appearance on The MMA Hour. In what appeared to be a tongue-in-cheek proposal, the former Cage Warriors champion called for fights with everyone who had beaten his mentor, Brad Pickett, in the Octagon. Vera&rsqu
  
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• Leon Edwards Wants Welterweight Clash With Jorge Masvidal

  07-08-2018 22:38
  Leon Edwards wants to get back to the action. Edwards was last seen inside the Octagon back in June. He defeat Donald Cerrone via unanimous decision. The victory improved Edwards’ streak to six. “Rocky” now finds himself in the 11th spot on the official Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight rankings. Leon Edwards Wants Bout With […]
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• Dana White says Eddie Alvarez still welcome in UFC, but he’ll ‘absolutely understand’ if he leaves

  07-08-2018 22:00
  UFC president Dana White is fine with the idea of keeping Eddie Alvarez in the fold. But it also sounds like they’re not going to break the bank to keep him.Alvarez, the former UFC and Bellator lightweight champion, took a gamble and accepted a UFC on FOX 30 main event with Dustin Poirier as the last fight on his contract without negotiating a new deal first. And while the match was spectacular, Alvarez ended up on the short end in Calgary, losing on a second-round TKO.
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• Video: Nicco Montaño details injury, health issues prior to Valentina Shevchenko booking

  07-08-2018 21:00
  LOS ANGELES — Nicco Montaño discusses her UFC 228 title fight against Valentina Shevchenko, her staredown with Shevchenko at the UFC’s 25th Anniversary Press Conference, her injuries and health issues that have held her out of action, and much more.
  
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• Joe Rogan Says Extreme Weight Cutting is Sanctioned Cheating

  07-08-2018 20:50
  Joe Rogan says he isn’t a fan of extreme weight cutting. Weight cutting has become an issue in mixed martial arts. While the dangers of weight cutting are obvious, many feel fighters are starting to take advantage by purposely missing weight to gain an edge over their opponent. Even if the fighter does make weight, […]
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• Missed Fists: Chris Wade gets some air at PFL 5, another edition of ‘Who Kicked It Better?’, more

  07-08-2018 20:00
  Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where Jed Meshew and Alexander K. Lee shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day.
  This week, we’re keeping an eye on the United States before taking virtual trips to Japan and Brazil. But first, we check in a UFC veteran who put on the most exciting performance of his career.Chris Wade v. Yuki KawanaAL: Chris Wade had a solid, i
  
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• Dana White’s Contender Series ‘Season 2, Week 8’ Play-by-Play & Results

  07-08-2018 19:48 via sherdog.com
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• UFC Fighter Lyman Good Hits Snag in Lawsuit Against Supplement Manufacturers

  07-08-2018 19:44
  In October of 2016, Lyman Good was ranked as one of the top welterweight fighters in the world. He was about to fight on one of the biggest cards of all time, UFC 205 in Madison Square Garden, featuring numerous title fights and headlined by the Conor McGregor-Eddie Alvarez fight. Everything was looking great. Then […]
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• Video: Khabib Nurmagomedov Pays Homeless to do Pushups

  07-08-2018 19:12 via sherdog.com
  Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight king Khabib Nurmagomedov posted video of himself and a cousin paying what seems to be homeless people to do push-ups, just days after his blockbuster title fight against Conor McGregor was announced.
  
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• Curtis Blaydes Calls Out Former UFC Champion Stipe Miocic

  07-08-2018 18:22
  Curtis Blaydes calls for a bout with Stipe Miocic in perhaps the most respectful challenge to date. Blaydes is coming off a brutal TKO victory over Alistair Overeem. Blaydes was able to take down Overeem and finished him with ground-and-pound. Many believed the win was enough to get Blaydes a title shot, but Brock Lesnar […]
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• Video: Tyron Woodley says Darren Till presents ‘way more threats’ to him than Colby Covington

  07-08-2018 18:00
  LOS ANGELES — UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley discusses his UFC 228 title defense against Darren Till, his fiery staredown with Till at the UFC’s 25th Anniversary Press Conference, Till’s size, Colby Covington, and much more.
  
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• Dustin Poirier Isn’t Worried About Nate Diaz’s UFC 230 Status

  07-08-2018 17:57
  Dustin Poirier isn’t counting on Nate Diaz to no-show UFC 230. Poirier is set to do battle with Diaz on Nov. 3 inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. Plans currently have the bout set as UFC 230’s co-main event. “The Diamond” has gone 4-0, 1 NC in his last five outings and another […]
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• Khabib Nurmagomedov Under Fire For Laughing at Homeless People

  07-08-2018 16:36
  Khabib Nurmagomedov is the UFC’s lightweight champion and one of the most popular fighters on their roster. He captured the lightweight gold at UFC 223 with a unanimous decision victory over Al Iaquinta. A recent video posted by Khabib on his social media is getting a lot of backlash from many people. Khabib, who is shooting […]
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• Dustin Poirier Dismisses Talk of 'GSP' facing winner of Nurmagomedov-McGregor: 'It's Not Happening'

  07-08-2018 16:31 via sherdog.com
  Last week the Ultimate Fighting Championship held a press event to promote the remaining fights of the year and threw a curve ball when it announced an explosive lightweight bout between Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz at UFC 230 in New York.
  
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• Demetrious Johnson Discusses UFC Future

  07-08-2018 16:30
  As the MMA world is now well aware, there is a new king atop the flyweight throne, and his name is Henry Cejudo. Henry Cejudo picked up the split-decision victory over Johnson (48-47 x2, 47-48) at UFC 227, thus making history by ending the record-breaking title reign of Demetrious Johnson. Now that the shock has […]
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• Report: Benavidez vs. Borg, Kunitskaya vs. Lansberg Set For UFC 229 in Las Vegas

  07-08-2018 16:14 via sherdog.com
  Since the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced arguably the year’s biggest fight between current lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and former champion Conor McGregor at UFC 229 on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas, the rest of card has begun to take shape quickly.
  
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• Israel Adesanya Believes UFC Forced Derek Brunson to Accept Fight Against Him

  07-08-2018 16:06
  Derek Brunson vs. Israel Adesanya in a middleweight bout has been confirmed for the upcoming UFC 230 pay-per-view event. Adesanya (14-0) signed with the UFC this year and is 3-0 in the Octagon where he has made his name known as a rising prospect in the division. He is coming off a decision win against […]
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• Featherweight Bout Finalizes Bellator 204 Card

  07-08-2018 16:06
  Bellator MMA returns to network television next weekend with Bellator 204 and the card for this upcoming event has been finalized with a featherweight bout between Tywan Claxton and Cris Williams. Claxton (2-0) is someone that fight fans should keep an eye on as he is a top prospect in the featherweight division under the […]
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• Justin Buchholz thinks ‘proper training’ would have helped Cody Garbrandt ahead of UFC 227

  07-08-2018 16:00
  Former Team Alpha Male coach Justin Buchholz thinks Cody Garbrandt has failed to return to the level that saw him dethrone Dominick Cruz at UFC 207.Buchholz was a spectator at Saturday night’s UFC 227 event at the Staples Center, where he watched two of his former training partners, T.J. Dillashaw and Garbrandt, engage in a rematch. Dillashaw bettered his first showing against “No Love”, finishing him in the second round of their bantamweight title clash.Speaking to the Slip &
  
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• Dominick Cruz Makes His Case for Bantamweight Title Shot

  07-08-2018 15:54
  As the flyweight and bantamweight divisions adjust in the aftermath of UFC 227, one man lurking in the shadows is former bantamweight kingpin Dominick Cruz. New flyweight champion Henry Cejudo has already stepped forward as a potential challenger for T.J. Dillashaw, but it is Cruz, a familiar foe of Dillashaw who, despite picking up the […]
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• Cruz: 'I Know I Deserve The Next Title Shot Against Dillashaw Because I Already Beat Him'

  07-08-2018 15:31 via sherdog.com
  Former Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has sat back as quietly as possible as T.J. Dillashaw and Cody Garbrandt sorted out their differences in the form of two knockout victories for Dillashaw at UFC 217 and this past weekend’s UFC 227.
  
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• Dana White Changes Tone on Ben Askren to UFC

  07-08-2018 15:20
  One of the names fans and purists of the sport have long clamored to see in the Octagon is Ben Askren. A two-time NCAA champion out of the University of Missouri, Askren has been able to have his way with his opponents with his mat skills, earning him a pristine record of 18-0 with one […]
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• Israel Adesanya on Derek Brunson: ‘I’m already in his head and he’s in his feelings like Drake’

  07-08-2018 15:00
  Israel Adesanya already sees Derek Brunson as another notch on his win column, which currently sits at an impressive 14-0.The bout pitting the middleweight rivals against each other was announced at UFC 25thanniversary press conference on Friday. Following their various interactions over the weekend, including a chance meeting in their hotel and an intense face off at the press conference, “The Last Stylebender” feels as though Brunson is “already scared” of the challeng
  
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• UFC Rankings Report: Major Shakeups at Pound for Pound

  07-08-2018 14:50
  The new UFC Rankings have been released in the aftermath of UFC 227. Below, you will find the changes in each division: Women’s Strawweight: No Changes Women’s Flyweight: Despite dropping a decision to Katlyn Chookagian last week, Alexis Davis saw herself move up one spot to #5 in the rankings. Women’s Bantamweight: No changes Women’s Featherweight: […]
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• MMA News Morning Town Hall August 7, 2018

  07-08-2018 14:30
  Welcome to the MMA News Morning Town Hall! Where we let the voice of the community be heard! TOP STORY:  GSP Interested in Challenging Khabib/McGregor Winner https://www.mmanews.com/gsp-interested-in-khabib-mcgregor/ Yesterday, it was revealed that Georges St. Pierre expressed interest in facing the winner of the Khabib Nurmagomedov/Conor McGregor showdown at UFC 229 when he told Submission Radio, […]
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• Morning Report: Joe Rogan says extreme weight cutting is cheating at a ‘higher scale’ than PEDs

  07-08-2018 14:00
  Arguably the biggest hot button topic in MMA today is the issue of weight-cutting. It’s a complex issue embedded in the culture of the sport, with no easy fix or magic answers. It’s also, according to some, cheating.
  UFC commentator Joe Rogan recently opined as such on his The Joe Rogan Expereience podcast, calling the practice “sanctioned cheating” and arguing that the effects are more beneficial than using PEDs.
  “It is stupid,” Rogan said. “What it is
  
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• Video: Ronda Rousey ragdolls opponent in first televised WWE match 

  07-08-2018 07:10
  Someone might want to tell Ronda Rousey that pro wrestling isn’t a real fight.
  The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion ragdolled her opponent around the ring in her WWE television debut on Monday Night Raw in Jacksonville, Fla. Check out the video above. Rousey has had matches on big events which aired on the digital WWE Network and at shows only for the live crowd, but this was her first one on TV — and it was the main event.In one sequence, Rousey yanked foe Alicia Fox
  
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• Unfiltered Episode 220: Dana White, TJ Dillashaw, Henry Cejudo & UFC 227

  07-08-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  UFC President Dana White joins the show and talks to Jim and Matt about a wide variety of topics including the recently announced Khabib vs. Conor McGregor fight, Nate Diaz's Octagon return, Stipe Miocic feeling disrespected by DC vs. Brock Lesnar, Eddie Alvarez's contract situation, the possibility of Ben Askren joining the UFC, Colby Covington's trip to the White House, and much more. First, TJ Dillashaw calls in and discusses the first defense of his second UFC Bantamweight title reign over C
  
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• Hernandez setting an example; legacy for his kids after his DWTNCS win

  07-08-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  A week after Anthony Hernandez earned a UFC contract with a 40-second win over Jordan Wright on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, he hadn’t started cutting down trees on his two acres of land in Zamora, California, but he was getting ready.“I have a bunch of family, so all of them offered to let me use their chainsaws and come help,” he laughed. “I’m pretty much set.”He’s set in more ways than one, having punched his ticket to the big sh
  
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• Hardy delivers quick KO & Dana gives out three more contracts

  07-08-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
   Greg Hardy celebrates after his TKO victory over Tebaris Gordon in their heavyweight fight during Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series at the TUF Gym on August 7, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger/DWTNCS LLC)" align="center" />After seven weeks, 19 contracts, two developmental deals, one spot on Season 28 of The Ultimate Fighter and a trio of Octagon debuts for victors, Season 2 of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series wrapped up this week with one fina
  
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• Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series Season 2 - Week 8 Preview

  07-08-2018 07:00 via ufc.com
  It's all come down to this.Following a season filled with some of the most action-packed fights in the sport, the latest season of Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series will come to an end tonight with 10 more fighters hoping to punch their ticket to a UFC contract.The most recent edition of the Contender Series saw four more athletes earn UFC contracts after another night filled with submissions and knockout finishes.Roosevelt Roberts, Ian Heinisch, Jordan Griffin and Juan Adams all joine
  
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• T.J. Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt 2 full fight video highlights

  07-08-2018 06:43
  Watch T.J. Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt 2 full fight video highlights from UFC 227’s main event above, courtesy of FOX Sports.
  UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 took place Aug. 4 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw (16-3) and former titleholder Cody Garbrandt (11-2) collided in a rematch in the night’s main event, which aired live on pay-per-view. Catch the video highlights below.
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• Lina Lansberg vs Yuna Kunitskaya Reported for UFC 229

  07-08-2018 04:22
  Two former opponents of Cris Cyborg have been reported by Kimura.se to be facing off at UFC 229 when Lina Lansberg squares off against Yuna Kunitskaya. Kunitskaya confirmed the news via her Instagram page. Lina Lansberg will be entering the fight with an 8-3 record, most recently rebounding from her loss against Cyborg by defeating […]
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• Vitor Miranda Announces Release From UFC

  07-08-2018 03:46
  Vitor Miranda is no longer a member of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) roster. Miranda was last seen inside the Octagon just last month. He dropped a unanimous decision to Abu Azaitar. This was Miranda’s third straight loss and it was enough for the UFC to hand him a virtual pink slip. Prior to his three-fight […]
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• TUF Brazil 3 finalist Vitor Miranda announces UFC release

  07-08-2018 03:00
  Vitor Miranda is no longer on the UFC roster, he announced on social media.
  Miranda, who turned 39 in March, joined the promotion in 2014 after making it to the TUF Brazil 3 final as a heavyweight.
  “Lex Luthor” (12-7) won three straight with a trio of knockouts after going down to middleweight, but was cut after losing his last three, most recently a decision to Abu Azaitar at UFC Hamburg.
  On his social media, Miranda revealed he’s already negotiating with another promotion an
  
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• Rizin 12 card complete as Yusuke Yachi gets new opponent for main event

  07-08-2018 02:00
  Rizin Fighting Federation returns Sunday with a 10-fight event in Nagoya, Japan, and the company’s 12th card is now complete with Luiz Gustavo stepping in to face Yusuke Yachi in a lightweight clash.
  Yachi (20-6) was originally booked to face Bruno Carvalho but, as MMA Fighting previously reported, the Brazilian was forced to withdraw from the bout due to an injury.
  With Carvalho out, Rizin signed his Evolucao Thai teammate Luiz Gustavo, who holds a perfect 8-0 record in MMA with eight fi
  
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• Sarah Moras vs Talita Bernado Reported for UFC Moncton

  07-08-2018 01:56
  A battle in the women’s bantamweight division has been reported by Combate for UFC Fight Night Moncton as Sarah Moras will face off against Brazilian Talita Bernardo. Sarah Moras will enter with a record of 5-3 and most recently suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Lucie Pudilova at UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Medeiros. Although […]
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• Greg Hardy Looking to Impress in Sophomore DWTNCS Bout

  07-08-2018 01:04
  Former NFL defensive end Greg Hardy is looking to impress Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) officials once again. Tomorrow night (Aug. 7), Hardy will head back to “The Ultimate Fighter” Gym in Las Vegas, Nevada. There he will meet fellow unbeaten heavyweight Tebaris Gordon. The bout will serve as the main event for Dana White’s Tuesday Night […]
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