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• Not just a one-off, ex-UFC champ Johny Hendricks thinks he could do bare-knuckle boxing ‘for a while’

  30-09-2018 23:00
  Johny Hendricks may have retired from mixed martial arts, but he could be a long way from being done with combat sports entirely.
  A former UFC welterweight champion, Hendricks is slated to make his bare-knuckle boxing debut on Nov. 9 against one-time Bellator title challenger Brennan Ward at World Bare Knuckle Fighting Federation’s inaugural event. It’s a brand new adventure for Hendricks, who announced his exit from mixed martial arts this past June following a 1-5 slump that ended
  
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• Gegard Mousasi Expected Rory MacDonald ‘Would Do More’ in Bellator 206 Title Fight

  30-09-2018 21:55 via sherdog.com
  Gegard Mousasi expected to emerge from Bellator Bellator 206 with his hand raised. But he also expected a little bit more resistance from Rory McDonald.
  
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• At 42 Years Old, Wanderlei Silva Believes He Still Can Do ‘A Few More Fights’

  30-09-2018 21:33 via sherdog.com
  While it certainly wasn’t the Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton Jackson of their Pride Fighting Championships heyday, there were fun flashes of violence in the fourth meeting between the two grizzled veterans at Bellator 206.
  
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• Former BAMMA CEO Dave Green made Head of Bellator Europe

  30-09-2018 21:00
  Former BAMMA CEO Dave Green has been announced as Head of Bellator Europe, following months of speculation regarding the future of BAMMA.
  Green had served as CEO for BAMMA up until the announcement of his new position with Bellator. BAMMA lost the vast majority of its roster to Bellator through the promotion’s signing of nearly 40 fighters across the U.K., Ireland and Western Europe and has not put on an event since June 28.
  BAMMA had provisionally booked four dates at the 3 Arena in Dubl
  
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• Bellator 206 Salaries: ‘Rampage’ Jackson ($300K), Wanderlei Silva ($200K) Top Payroll

  30-09-2018 20:48 via sherdog.com
  Quinton Jackson and Wanderlei Silva might be past their respective primes, but the veterans were still well compensated for their heavyweight co-main event bout at
  Bellator 206.
  
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• Rory MacDonald Says He ‘Froze in the Cage’ During Bellator 206 Defeat to Gegard Mousasi

  30-09-2018 20:33 via sherdog.com
  Rory MacDonald was not competitive in the champion vs champion bout against Gegard Mousasi that served as the Bellator 206 headliner at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday night.
  
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• Rory MacDonald issues statement following Bellator 206 loss: ‘I have zero excuses’

  30-09-2018 19:20
  Rory MacDonald knows he laid an egg on Saturday.
  The Bellator welterweight champion was attempting to become the first fighter in promotional history to hold two belts simultaneously when he challenged middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi in the main event of Bellator 206 at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. Mousasi dominated their duel before finishing MacDonald with ground-and-pound in round two.
  On Sunday, MacDonald took to Twitter to express disappointment in his own performance and provide an
  
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• Dan Hardy breaks down Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor

  30-09-2018 19:00
  There are two basic schools of thought on how things will go down when Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov square off for the UFC lightweight title at UFC 229.
  One line of thinking has it that Nurmagomedov will take McGregor to the mat at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and bludgeon him.
  Others subscribe to the theory that McGregor will tag the champion with his devastating left hand, and that will be all she wrote.
  The thing that makes this an argument which will be debated vigorously right up
  
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• Owen Roddy: Khabib Nurmagomedov making weight ‘could be a concern’ for Conor McGregor clash

  30-09-2018 18:00
  Given Khabib Nurmagomedov’s history of encountering trouble with his weight, Conor McGregor’s striking coach, Owen Roddy, admitted the Russian’s battle with the scales “could be a concern” ahead of UFC 229.
  Roddy underlined that the team are putting Nurmagomedov’s previous weight struggles to the back of their heads ahead of the Oct. 6 date.
  “It could be a concern, yeah. It has happened before,” Roddy told Peter Carroll on MMA Fighting’s Eur
  
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• Gegard Mousasi reminds Rory MacDonald (and fight world), ‘champ-champ’ ain’t no easy thing

  30-09-2018 17:00
  Rory MacDonald’s ambition is to be admired. At the same time the Canadian star committed to competing in a tournament in which he would defend his welterweight championship through every round of his participation, he simultaneously moved up a weight class to fight reigning middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi. In retrospect, the plan was far too audacious, as Mousasi emphatically denied MacDonald’s bid to become Bellator’s first-ever two-division champ with a smashing second-
  
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• Scott Coker: Watching Aaron Pico is like ‘watching lightning’

  30-09-2018 16:00
  Aaron Pico has officially put the entire Bellator featherweight division on notice.
  Pico (4-1), a multiple-time boxing, freestyle wrestling and pankration champion, steamrolled through former title challenger Leandro Higo (18-5) in violent fashion at Bellator 206 in San Jose. During the scrap, fans witnessed the 22-year-old turn in a skull rattling first round TKO, putting to rest the talks of Pico being overmatched against the experienced Brazilian.
  “I was saying this was the biggest tes
  
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• Bellator 206 photos

  30-09-2018 15:38
  Bellator 206 photos are for the Bellator event Saturday night in San Jose.
  
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• Georges St-Pierre believes fighters with PED pasts should be ‘removed’ from GOAT discussions

  30-09-2018 15:00
  As the rash of performance-enhancing drug related headlines continue to ravage the daily MMA newscycle, it’s easy to remember that Georges St-Pierre effectively called his shot on the issue, championing a push for increased drug-testing in the UFC long before USADA ever entered the picture and often in a way that was at odds with the promotion itself.
  Back in 2013, St-Pierre went to great lengths to attempt to secure drug-testing overseen by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) fo
  
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• Rizin 13 Results: Kyoji Horiguchi Loses Kickboxing Debut; ‘Cro Cop’ Wins 9th Straight

  30-09-2018 13:48 via sherdog.com
  Kyoji Horiguchi came up short in his kickboxing debut against 20-year-old phenom Tenshin Nasukawa at Rizin 13.
  
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• Officials explain why UK fans ended up watching ‘Peppa Pig’ instead of Bellator 206 main event

  30-09-2018 13:00
  Bellator’s first attempt at exclusively streaming an event online was expected to have hiccups, but it was the United Kingdom’s television viewers that experienced the biggest disturbance.
  When the highly anticipated Bellator 206 main event between middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi and welterweight champion Rory MacDonald finally kicked off on Saturday evening, it was 10 p.m. in San Jose, Calif. (where the event was taking place) and 6 a.m. over in the U.K. Instead of seeing that
  
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• RIZIN 13: Tenshin Nasukawa earns judges’ nod after throwing the kitchen sink at Kyoji Horiguchi

  30-09-2018 12:41
  Tenshin Nasukawa went into hyper speed in in an effort to finish Kyoji Horiguchi in the third round of their main event clash at RIZIN 13 in Saitama, Japan on Sunday, but couldn’t find a means to put him away.The 20-year-old kickboxing sensation launched himself into two rolling thunders in the final round, appearing to crack the MMA fighter who changed over to the striking discipline for the bout.
  Horiguchi’s defensive work was masterful in the second. He caught a cartwheel kick of
  
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• Bellator 206 post-fight show

  30-09-2018 12:22
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — With Bellator 206 in the books, MMA Fighting’s Marc Raimondi and Dave Meltzer and Bellator women’s flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane break down the top storylines coming out of the event.
  
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• ‘Drunk’ Rampage Jackson talks Wanderlei Silva fifth fight, 50 Cent beef, Roy Nelson, strip clubs

  30-09-2018 11:05
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — At the Bellator 206 post-fight press conference, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson discusses his TKO win over Wanderlei Silva, whether he wants a fifth fight to decide the rivalry with Silva, how he spent his bet money with Chael Sonnen at strip clubs, squashing his beef with 50 Cent and much more.
  
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• Aaron Pico details heated interaction with Patricio ‘Pitbull’ following Bellator 206 win

  30-09-2018 10:50
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — After his big win at Bellator 206, blue-chip prospect Aaron Pico discusses his TKO win over Leandro Higo, whether he felt it was a late stoppage, his confrontation with Patricio Freire after beating Higo, his next step and much more.
  
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• Rizin 13 Results: Nasukawa vs. Horiguchi

  30-09-2018 08:20
  MMA Fighting has RIzin 13 results for the Nasukawa vs. Horiguchi fight card Sunday from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
  In the main event, Tension Nasukawa will square off against Kyoji Horiguchi in a kickboxing rules bout.
  Check out the Rizin 13 results below.
  Main card
  Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Kyoji Horiguchi
  Miyuu Yamamoto vs. Andy Nguyen
  Jiri Prochazka vs. Jake Heun
  Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roque Martinez
  Mikura Asakura vs. Karshyga Dautbek
  Daron Cruickshank vs. Diego Brandao
  Osunaarashi vs
  
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• Bellator 206 in Tweets: Pros react to Gegard Mousasi vs. Rory MacDonald and Rampage Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva 4

  30-09-2018 08:00
  There will be no double champ in Bellator, at least not yet. Gegard Mousasi has seen to that.
  On Saturday night,at Bellator 206 in the SAP Center in San Jose, California, Mousasi mauled welterweight kingpin Rory MacDonald to retain his middleweight title with a second-round TKO victory. The win capped off one of Bellator’s best cards in recent memory, including a co-main event tetralogy fight between Quinton Jackson and Wanderlei Silva that was more entertaining than it had any right to b
  
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• Greg Hardy improves to 3-0 with quick KO at XFN 352 show

  30-09-2018 07:46
  Greg Hardy’s career change has been a successful one so far.
  The former NFL Pro Bowler improved to 3-0 as a professional MMA fighter with a 53-second knockout of Rasheem Jones in the heavyweight main event of an Xtreme Fight Night show on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla. Hardy was coming off of two KO victories on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, the program on which he earned a developmental contract with the UFC.
  XFN 352 marked his first pro bout outside of the Contender Serie
  
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• Bellator 206 post-fight press conference video

  30-09-2018 07:38
  The Bellator 206 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the cage, and we have the live video above at MMAFighting.com.
  The Bellator 206 post-fight press conference takes place about 30 minutes after the main event ends, meaning it will start around 1 a.m. ET.
  
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• Bellator 206 results: Gegard Mousasi pummels Rory MacDonald in clash of champions

  30-09-2018 07:28
  It seemed like a dream fight on paper: Bellator’s first superfight, featuring welterweight champion Rory MacDonald going up in weight to challenge middleweight titleholder Gegard Mousasi for the latter’s championship in an attempt to become Bellator’s first simultaneous two-weight titleholder.
  In practice, however, the main event of Bellator 206 turned out to be exactly what it was: A welterweight fighting against a competitor who held light heavyweight titles in multiple orga
  
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• Gegard Mousasi Destroys Rory MacDonald, Retains Middleweight Title in Bellator 206 Headliner

  30-09-2018 07:22 via sherdog.com
  Reigning Bellator MMA middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi utterly dominated Rory MacDonald in the superfight main event of Bellator 206.
  
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• ‘Rampage’ Jackson leads Bellator 206 payroll with $300,000 guaranteed

  30-09-2018 07:18
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — It was a good night for “Rampage.”
  Quinton Jackson defeated Wanderlei Silva by second-round TKO in the co-main event of Bellator 206 — and took home a guaranteed $300,000 to do it. That figure led the card’s payroll. The information comes from a document obtained by MMA Fighting from the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC).
  Jackson and Silva fought three times previously, with Silva winning the first two times by knockout. Now, the series
  
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• Bellator 206 results: Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson finishes Wanderlei Silva in second

  30-09-2018 06:55
  It took 15 years to get there, but Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has pulled even in his legendary series with Wanderlei Silva.The former UFC light heavyweight champion defeated his former PRIDE 205-pound counterpart in their fourth career meeting via second-round TKO on Saturday night at Bellator 206. The time of the finish of the co-feature bout at SAP Center in San Jose was 4:32 of round two.
  With that, “Rampage” tied their series at two apiece.
  “All the respect in t
  
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• Bellator 206 live blog: Rampage vs. Wanderlei 4

  30-09-2018 06:16
  This is the Bellator 206 live blog for Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva 4, a heavyweight bout at Saturday’s Bellator event at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif.
  Jackson and Silva have fought three times previously, with Silva picking up a pair of knockout wins when they competed in Japan’s Pride promotion, and Jackson gaining a measure of revenge with a KO of his own when the two fought in the UFC. They meet again on the main card.
  Both fighters are coming off o
  
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• Bellator 206 results: Aaron Pico rolls over Leandro Higo

  30-09-2018 05:33
  They’ve been calling Aaron Pico the sport’s brightest blue-chip prospect for years now. But it’s time to retire that label, because it is clear the Southern California native is the real deal and well on his way to the top.
  In just his fifth pro fight, Pico rolled over former Bellator title challenger Leandro Higo on Saturday night at Bellator 206.
  Pico’s speed and punching power was too much for Higo to handle, as Pico earned a TKO win at San Jose’s SAP Center at
  
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• Bellator 206 live blog: Lima vs. Koreshkov 3

  30-09-2018 05:23
  This is the Bellator 206 live blog for Douglas Lima vs. Andrey Koreshkov 3, a welterweight bout at Saturday’s Bellator event at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif.
  Lima and Koreshkov have faced each other twice, with Koreshkov taking the welterweight title from Lima via unanimous decision at Bellator 140 and Lima later winning it back via third-round KO at Bellator 164. They meet again on the main card.
  Since then, Lima has gone 1-1 with a successful defense against Lorenz Larkin before droppi
  
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• Bellator 206 results: Keri Melendez ekes out decision over Dakota Zimmerman

  30-09-2018 05:06
  Someone apparently forgot to tell Dakota Zimmerman she was supposed to simply show up and collect a paycheck to be an opponent on Saturday night.
  Keri Melendez was the clear A-side of their strawweight matchup at Bellator 206, but Zimmerman, in her professional MMA debut, gave Melendez all she could handle in a competitive strawweight main card fight.In the end, though, Melendez had just enough guts and guile to eke out a narrow victory, taking a split decision at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif.
  
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• Bellator 206 results: Gaston Bolanos knocks out Ysidro Gutierrez

  30-09-2018 04:34
  Gaston Bolanos was given a slot in the main-card opener of the big Bellator 206 event because the up-and-coming featherweight has already shown a propensity for fireworks in his young career.
  And Bolanos delivered on the faith his company placed in him on Saturday night. The Dublin, Calif., resident by way of Peru delivered a second-round knockout of Ysidro Gutierrez to kick off the first DAZN main card at SAP Center in San Jose. The time of the finish was 1:37.
  Bolanos (4-1), who had recorded
  
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• Bellator 206 Prelims: Arlene Blencowe Slam, Hammerfists Dispatch Amber Leibrock

  30-09-2018 03:56 via sherdog.com
  Bellator MMA women’s featherweight contender Arlene Blencowe traveled all the way from Australia to get back on the winning track.
  
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• Video: Arlene Blencowe knocks out Amber Leibrock with violent slam

  30-09-2018 03:35
  Who would have thought fight fans would witness a violent slam knockout from a fighter not named Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at Bellator 206?
  Well that is exactly what went down when Arlene Blencowe took on Amber Leibrock on the preliminary card airing on MMA Fighting and DAZN.
  After two hard fought rounds, Blencowe found herself stuck in an armbar from top position. Standing up, the Australian lifted her opponent into air before dropping her square on her head:
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• Jake Shore Remains Unbeaten with First Round TKO in Cage Warriors 97 Headliner

  30-09-2018 01:26 via sherdog.com
  The Welsh revolution is taking Cage Warriors by storm.
  
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• Cage Warriors 97 results: Welsh duo Jack Shore, Mason Jones shine in Cardiff

  30-09-2018 00:38
  Jack Shore improved to 9-0 with a first-round win over eleventh-hour replacement, Wessley Maia, in the main event of Cage Warriors 97 Saturday in Cardiff, Wales.Shore was supposed to fight Oemer Cankardesler - his second scheduled opponent - for the promotion’s vacant bantamweight title on the night, but the German failed to gain medical clearance to compete at the event.The Brazilian came out strong, but it wasn’t long before he was on Shore’s terms as “Tank” bull
  
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• Douglas Lima wants ‘round six’ with Rory MacDonald in Bellator tournament final

  30-09-2018 00:00
  Douglas Lima wants to recapture the welterweight championship through Bellator’s 170-pound grand prix, and it would feel even better to meet his last foe in the tournament final.
  Facing Andrey Koreshkov in a quarter-final bout Saturday night in San Jose, Calif., Lima guarantees he’s focused solely on this trilogy bout at Bellator 206. However, he hopes that current titleholder Rory MacDonald, who defeated him via decision in January, is successful in his journey as well so that they
  
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