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• UFC 231 Embedded, Episode 5: ‘I won’t leave Toronto without the belt — never’

  07-12-2018 23:52
  In the fifth episode of UFC 231 Embedded, Max Holloway hangs out with his son at a holiday market, Brian Ortega shows off the incredible home he’s staying in this week in Toronto, the fighters on the card attend media day and Holloway, Ortega, Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Valentina Shevchenko participate in open workouts.
  
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• Nicolas Dalby hopes win over Philip Mulpeter sets up Cage Warriors title fight

  07-12-2018 23:30
  CARDIFF, Wales — Nicolas Dalby discussed his tough weight cut for Cage Warriors 100, his impression of Philip Mulpeter, having a target on his back within the Cage Warriors welterweight division, how his mental health is in a better place than ever and how he wants to reclaim the welterweight title.
  
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• Philip Mulpeter: Nicolas Dalby is a tougher task than champion Ross Houston

  07-12-2018 23:00
  DUBLIN — Philip Mulpeter discussed his return to MMA after a three-year hiatus, the expectation that surrounded him during teammate Conor McGregor’s initial ascent in the UFC, why he thinks Nicolas Dalby is a more challenging opponent than Cage Warriors champion Ross Houston and why his fight with Dalby will live up to the hype at Cage Warriors 100 on Saturday night.
  
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• Artist Recreates Ortega In Limited Edition Bobblehead

  07-12-2018 22:46 via ufc.com
  MMA Bobblehead captured Ortega's iconic KO of Frankie Edgar.
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• John Bedoya using TUF experience ahead of Copa Combate 2

  07-12-2018 22:30
  Despite being the least experienced fighter in Copa Combate 2, John Bedoya won’t be a rookie entering the one night, eight-man tournament.
  The undefeated fighter enters Combate America’s second annual featherweight tournament with a record of 6-0 – the fewest wins any fighter carries into the tournament. Yet, in his young career Bedoya has been able to experience things other Copa Combate competitors won’t be carrying into the cage on Friday night at the Save Mart Center
  
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• Andres Quintana not concerned with one night, eight man Copa Combate tournament

  07-12-2018 22:00
  Andres Quintana already knows he’s going to emerge victorious from Combate Americas’ upcoming “Copa Combate’ tournament Friday. But to do so, he will have to go through three men in one night.
  Too bad ”The Bullet” doesn’t seem to be overly concerned with the arduous path to victory.
  “I’m leaps and bounds ahead of my opponents,” Quintana said. “They can line them all up. I’ll fight all seven of them in one night. They can sw
  
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• Julianna Peña eyes 2019 return to UFC: ‘I can’t wait to get back in the division and join them’

  07-12-2018 21:00
  It’s been almost two years since fight fans saw Julianna Pena make the walk to the Octagon.
  Peña (8-3), the Season 18 winner of The Ultimate Fighter, has not competed since her submission loss to former bantamweight turned flyweight title challenger Valentina Shevchenko in January 2017.This setback not only snapped her four-fight win streak but marked her first loss under the UFC banner.Since then, “The Venezuelan Vixen” has enjoy new motherhood, after welcoming her dau
  
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• Bellator Returns To Newcastle With Patricky Freire vs. Ryan Scope, Plus Aaron Chalmers

  07-12-2018 20:09 via sherdog.com
  Bellator MMA will be heading back to Newcastle, where it will be pitting one of its stars, Patricky Freire, against a hometown champion in Ryan Scope.
  
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• UFC 231 open workout photos

  07-12-2018 20:00
  UFC 231 open workout photos are for Thursday’s UFC event in Toronto.
  
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• Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roy Nelson set for Bellator 217

  07-12-2018 19:47
  An MMA legend will make his Bellator debut on Feb. 16.
  Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic will meet slugger Roy Nelson at Bellator 217 on Feb. 16 in Uncasville, Conn. MMA Fighting confirmed a Thursday report by ESPN.
  Filipovic (37-11-2, 1 NC), makes his Bellator debut with a legacy that includes a 2006 PRIDE Open Weight Grand Prix championship and a memorable, up-and-down run in the UFC. His most recent fight was a first-round TKO of Roque Martinez in RIZIN on Sept. 30.Nelson (23-16) is look
  
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• Zombie Mentality

  07-12-2018 19:29 via ufc.com
  Kyle Bochniak Aspires To Be Opponent's Worst Nightmare
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• Cage Warriors 100 Weigh-in Results: All Fighters on Weight

  07-12-2018 19:15 via sherdog.com
  Cage Warriors Fighting Championship is ready to celebrate its 100th numbered event, and apparently nobody wanted to ruin it.
  
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• Kiamrian Abbasov Mauls Agilan Thani at One: Destiny of Champions

  07-12-2018 18:58 via sherdog.com
  One Championship’s final event of 2018 went down Friday, Dec. 7 at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  
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• Cage Warriors 100 weigh-in results, video

  07-12-2018 18:51
  All of the fighters who are set to compete at Cage Warriors 100 successfully made weight Friday at the Viola Arena, Cardiff.Unbeaten prospects Jack Shore and Mike Ekundayo collide for the bantamweight title in the main event. In the co-main event, Aidan Lee and Dean Trueman clash to determine the featherweight champion having progressed from the featherweight tournament semi-finals.
  Main Card(UFC Fight Pass, 5 PM ET)
  Jack Shore (134.9) vs. Mike Ekundayo (134.7)
  Aiden Lee (145.0) vs. Dean Truema
  
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• Tenshin Nasukawa media workout ahead of Floyd Mayweather fight at Rizin 14

  07-12-2018 18:30
  LAS VEGAS — Ahead of his Rizin 14 fight with Floyd Mayweather on New Year’s Eve in his native Japan, 20-year-old kickboxing and MMA prodigy Tenshin Nasukawa worked out for the gathered media Thursday.
  
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• UFC 231 Weigh-in Results: All Competitors Cleared, Main Event Backup Renato 'Moicano' Heavy

  07-12-2018 17:31 via sherdog.com
  Right now, the Ultimate Fighting Championship is probably thinking “All’s well that ends well, right?”
  
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• Tenshin Nasukawa ‘confident’ he’ll leave ‘better results’ than Conor McGregor against Floyd Mayweather

  07-12-2018 17:30
  LAS VEGAS — At a media day Thursday, Tenshin Nasukawa discusses his fight with Floyd Mayweather at Rizin 14, how he thinks the fight will play out, how the bout came together, if he thinks he’ll do better than Conor McGregor and more.
  
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• Floyd Mayweather talks Rizin fight with Tenshin Nasukawa, not wanting to do MMA, Conor McGregor, Khabib, more

  07-12-2018 17:03
  LAS VEGAS — At a media day Thursday, boxing legend Floyd Mayweather speaks with the media ahead of his “exhibition match” against Japanese kickboxing champion Tenshin Nasukawa at Rizin 14 in Japan. Mayweather talks fighting Nasukawa, never wanting to compete in MMA, Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov and more.
  
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• Gunnar Nelson Believes McGregor Will Rematch Nurmagomedov, Plans To Help Next Time

  07-12-2018 16:41 via sherdog.com
  Gunnar Nelson believes Conor McGregor will fight Khabib Nurmagomedov again at some point, and he believes he may be an important part of helping his teammate fare better in the rematch.
  
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• The Rise of 'The Blessed Era', Holloway Vows He's Here To Stay

  07-12-2018 16:23 via ufc.com
  "But (Aldo's) era came to an end and it started ‘The Blessed Era.’ I wanted to prove to everybody that I’m the best. It was great to show the world that I’m here to stay.”
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• Dana White Says Max Holloway 'Too Big' For Featherweight, Wants Him To Move To 155

  07-12-2018 16:16 via sherdog.com
  This Saturday night, Max Holloway puts his Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight title on the line against the undefeated Brian Ortega. If his boss has anything to say about it, it might be one of the last times he does so.
  
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• Lyoto Machida Wants To Fight 'Honorable' Ryan Bader At 205 Pounds

  07-12-2018 15:51 via sherdog.com
  Lyoto Machida will make his Bellator MMA debut next weekend at Bellator 213 where he’ll face former Bellator middleweight champion Rafael Carvalho, but he also has his eye on future challenges -- including one past victim.
  
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• UFC 231 weigh-in results: Max Holloway makes weight, title fight with Brian Ortega is official

  07-12-2018 15:27
  The second time was the charm for the Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega fight.
  The highly anticipated matchup of two of the finest young stars in mixed martial arts is now official for Saturday night at UFC 231 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
  Holloway, the UFC featherweight champion, weighed in at 144.5 pounds during Friday morning’s official weigh-in. Ortega, his challenger, also successfully weighed in, hitting the scales at 144.75 pounds.
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• Patrick Freire vs. Ryan Scope, Aaron Chalmers featured in Bellator Newcastle card

  07-12-2018 14:30
  Bellator is kicking off an exclusive fight series in Europe with an event in Newcastle, England, on Feb. 9, and the event will be headlined by Brazilian knockout artist Patricky Freire and former BAMMA champion Ryan Scope.
  The fight card, scheduled for Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena, will feature British reality TV star Aaron Chalmers against a yet-to-be-defined opponent in the co-main event.
  Freire (20-8) won four in a row over the past two years, finishing Josh Thomson, Derek Campos and
  
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• Morning Report: Dana White says Max Holloway is ‘too big’ to continue as featherweight

  07-12-2018 14:00
  On Saturday at UFC 231, Max Holloway will return to the cage after a year-long layoff to defend his featherweight title against Brian Ortega, assuming he can make weight. But the one man who should arguably be the most concerned with Holloway’s weight cut, says he isn’t worried.
  “It’s weird. I’m not nervous, but I should be,” UFC President Dana White told MMAJunkie recently. “You know, I didn’t want him to fight again at ’45. He wanted this
  
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• Ben Nguyen announces UFC release

  07-12-2018 13:37
  Ben Nguyen is no longer on the UFC roster.
  The flyweight announced on his social media on Friday that he has been released by the promotion following a unanimous decision defeat to Wilson Reis at UFC Adelaide, which took place Dec. 1 in Australia.
  Competing in the Octagon for three and a half years, “Ben 10” compiled a 4-3 record with wins over Alp Ozkilic, Ryan Benoit, Geane Herrera and Tim Elliot. It’s still unclear if the UFC will really get rid of the 125-pound division in
  
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• UFC 231 weigh-in video

  07-12-2018 13:00
  At the UFC 231 weigh-ins, all 26 fighters taking part in Saturday night’s UFC 231 fights will step on the scale Friday, and we’ll have the live video here at MMA Fighting.
  In the main event, Max Holloway and Brian Ortega will need to hit the featherweight limit of 145 pounds.
  The UFC 231 official weigh-in video is at 9 a.m. ET, and MMA Fighting will have the video.
  The UFC 231 ceremonial weigh-in video will be at 6 p.m. ET.
  Check out the UFC 231 weigh-in results below.
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• Floyd Mayweather vs. Tenshin Nasukawa rules announced

  07-12-2018 03:30
  One of the many questions surrounding the Floyd Mayweather vs. Tenshin Nasukawa fight was finally answered. Mostly.
  The rules of the exhibition matchup were released by Mayweather’s Swanson Communications public relations team Thursday. Mayweather and Nasukawa were both at Mayweather’s boxing club in Las Vegas on Thursday for a media day. Nasukawa, a 20-year-old kickboxing prodigy, worked out for the reporters gathered, many of them from his native Japan.Per the release, Mayweather
  
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• Teen Kay Hansen in for Kanako Murata vs. Sharon Jacobson at Invicta 33

  07-12-2018 03:00
  An undisclosed injury has forced a change to Invicta FC 33.
  Kay Hansen will fight Sharon Jacobson in the strawweight fight on Dec. 15, replacing an injured Kanako Murata, the company reported on Thursday.
  Just 19, Hansen, of Whittier, Calif. has already put together a 3-2 pro MMA record. All three of her victories have come by way of finish. In her most recent fight, Hansen dropped a majority decision in a hard-fought bout against Erin Critchfield at Invicta 32.
  Jacobson, meanwhile, boasts a 5-
  
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• Chookagian To Clash With Eye In Big-Time Flyweight Showdown

  07-12-2018 02:41 via ufc.com
  The co-main event at UFC 231 isn’t the only fight taking place in the women’s flyweight division.
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• UFC 231 media day photos

  07-12-2018 02:30
  UFC 231 media day photos are for Thursday’s UFC event in Toronto.
  
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• Unfiltered Episode 252

  07-12-2018 01:45 via ufc.com
  Renzo Gracie, Valentina Shevchenko and UFC 231 Preview & Picks
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• T.J. Dillashaw vs. Henry Cejudo moved from UFC 233 to Brooklyn event

  07-12-2018 01:19
  UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and flyweight titleholder Henry Cejudo were slated to fight in their backyard next month, but instead, they’ll be traveling cross-country to New York.
  The duo, who had been scheduled to main event UFC 233on Jan. 26 at Anaheim’s Honda Center with Cejudo’s 125-pound title at stake, will instead fight on UFC’s ESPN debut on Jan. 19 at the Barclays Center in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, according to the UFC. ESPN was first t
  
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• Valentina Shevchenko UFC 231 open workout highlights

  07-12-2018 01:00
  TORONTO — At UFC 231 open workouts, Valentina Shevchenko put on a show for the fans and the media Thursday afternoon in Toronto.
  
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• Ortega: "I'm not leaving without that belt"

  07-12-2018 00:45 via ufc.com
  "There’s no way that this isn't gonna be a war. You’ve got one guy that wants to keep his crown & you got another one that wants to take it. I’m not leaving without that belt."
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• Cejudo vs Dillashaw Superfight To Headline Brooklyn

  07-12-2018 00:43 via ufc.com
  The Flyweight Title Will Be On The Line January 19th.
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• Joanna Jedrzejczyk UFC 231 open workout highlights

  07-12-2018 00:30
  TORONTO — At UFC 231 open workouts, Joanna Jedrzejczyk put on a show for the fans and the media Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Brian Ortega UFC 231 workout highlights

  07-12-2018 00:00
  TORONTO — At UFC 231 open workouts, Brian Ortega put on a show for the media and the fans Thursday evening in Toronto.
  
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