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• Jon Jones says ‘big money fight’ against Brock Lesnar is ‘always appealing’

  25-12-2018 22:00
  “Brock Lesnar, you want to know what it feels like to get your ass kicked by someone 40 pounds lighter? Meet me in the Octagon.”
  That was the challenge Jon Jones threw out into the world following his victory over Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 in July 2017, a bout which was later changed to a no-contest.More than a year later, those words are still hanging around.
  But now, after Lesnar stormed the Octagon at UFC 226 in July, it’s a fight against Cormier, who defeated Stipe Miocic
  
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• TUF 28 winner Macy Chiasson to face Gina Mazany at UFC 235

  25-12-2018 21:00
  The Ultimate Fighter 28’s featherweight champion Macy Chiasson is dropping to 135 pounds for her next fight.
  Chiasson, fresh off of an impressive run on the UFC’s long-running reality series, will face Gina Mazany in a bantamweight bout at UFC 235 on March 2 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  This will be Chiasson’s first fight at 135 pounds. The 27-year-old made a successful Invicta FC debut in May with a unanimous decision win over Allison Schm
  
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• Alex Oliveira Injured By Grenade Blast On Christmas Eve

  25-12-2018 20:17 via sherdog.com
  Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight contender Alex Oliveira suffered injuries to his leg and foot last night when he was caught in the blast of a thrown grenade.
  
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• Cat Zingano breaks down Cris Cyborg vs. Amanda Nunes, still has goals of being two-division champion

  25-12-2018 20:00
  Cat Zingano is already riding her fair share of momentum from the healthiest and most active year of her Octagon career. Now, she’s viewing her back-up opportunity against Megan Anderson at UFC 232 as the first chapter toward the completion of her ultimate goal: Becoming the UFC’s first two-division women’s champion.
  “My goals are to have the belt at each division and beat both divisions, all of the girls,” Zingano said recently on The MMA Hour. “Whatever tha
  
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• Alex Oliveira injured by grenade fragments in Christmas eve incident in Brazil

  25-12-2018 19:00
  UFC welterweight Alex Oliveira suffered a bizarre injury on Christmas eve in Brazil.
  Born and raised in Tres Rios, a small town located 80 miles from Rio de Janeiro, the fighter known as “Cowboy” went to buy gasoline for his mother’s car Monday night when he saw members of his family involved in an altercation. Oliveira stopped his car, and moments later a grenade was thrown at his direction.
  MMA Fighting confirmed the news after the UFC fighter himself explained the situation
  
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• Pearl of Wisdom: Dad’s life lessons guide Gonzalez’s journey

  25-12-2018 18:00
  SAN DIEGO — A smile cuts through the tears as Pearl Gonzalez recalls the memories of her dad taking her to school in the working-class Chicago neighborhood in which she was raised.
  Anthony Gonzalez wasn’t a perfect human being. He experienced the depths of heroin addiction and the disintegration of his marriage to a crack-addicted wife before he turned his life around and made something of himself.
  His daughter, Pearl, was his everything. His motivation to be a better person. His mo
  
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• Top MMA storylines of 2018: 1. Conor McGregor-Khabib Nurmagomedov saga

  25-12-2018 17:00
  A slap. A bus attack. Shattered glass. Injured fighters. An arrest. A post-fight melee.
  In the end? The highest-selling UFC pay-per-view event of all time.
  Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov had a year that was both infamous and incredibly lucrative. No one left UFC 229 on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas looking all that great — not McGregor, not Nurmagomedov and not the UFC. Yet, all the parties involved made a boatload of money. The event sold 2.4 million pay-per-views, obliterating the previou
  
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• Mark Hunt delivers profane criticism to UFC, Dana White over UFC 232 move

  25-12-2018 16:42
  Mark Hunt has never been afraid to speak out against his employers and you can bet he’s willing to go to bat for his fellow fighters as well.
  This week, the UFC decided to move it’s year-end UFC 232 event from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., after the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to grant a temporary license to light heavyweight title challenger Jon Jones due to a drug-testing abnormality that the United States Anti-Doping Agency concluded
  
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• UFC 231 Rewind: Holloway vs. Ortega

  25-12-2018 16:00
  After UFC 231, MMA Fighting’s E. Casey Leydon takes a look back at Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega fight week and an exciting card from Toronto.
  
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• All I want for Christmas is Khabib vs. Ferguson (and a few other things)

  25-12-2018 15:00
  Mixed martial arts is a sport that demands a lot of its fans. Primetime Saturday nights. Viewing fees. The masochistic ability to listen to “Face the Pain” for 16 years running. In return, we have the right to offer feedback on the operation and make a few requests along the way. While there is much to like about the sport right now, we all have hopes for the next 12 months and beyond.Santa, all I want for Christmas is Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson to finally take place. I k
  
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• Tickets for UFC 232 at The Forum in Inglewood to go on sale Wednesday

  25-12-2018 03:00
  UFC 232 has a new home and fans will be able to purchase tickets for the event on Wednesday.
  Per Ticketmaster, sales for Saturday’s show that was moved from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. will go on sale tomorrow, with first priority going to those who purchased tickets for the originally scheduled venue and official platinum ticket buyers at 12 p.m. PT.
  The change in location was made after news broke Sunday evening that the Nevada State Athletic Commission
  
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• UFC 232 Embedded, Episode 2: ‘She’s knocked out a few dudes this camp’

  25-12-2018 02:44
  In the second episode of UFC 232 Embedded, Jon Jones prepares at JacksonWink (and jams to Bob Marley), Alexander Gustafsson hangs out with WBC & WBA boxing champion Badou Jack in Las Vegas, Cris Cyborg shows off her cats, and Amanda Nunes packs to travel to Las Vegas.
  
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• Ansaroff: ‘No doubt’ Nunes becomes women’s GOAT with win over Cyborg

  25-12-2018 02:00
  The stakes are high for Cris Cyborg and Amanda Nunes.
  Two of the best female fighters in the world will collide in the co-main event of UFC 232 in Las Vegas on Dec. 29, and Nunes’ training partner and fiancee Nina Ansaroff, a fellow UFC fighter, feels that more than a second belt is on the line for “The Lioness.”
  Nunes has held the UFC’s bantamweight champion since a spectacular first-round submission victory over Miesha Tate in 2016. Now she will move up to 145 pounds t
  
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• ‘Disappointed’ Corey Anderson Details Difficulties, Frustrations with UFC 232 Relocation

  25-12-2018 01:10 via sherdog.com
  In an alternate universe, Corey Anderson might have been a short-notice replacement for Jon Jones had UFC 232 remained in Las Vegas.
  
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• Jon Jones Mandated by CSAC to Enroll in VADA Testing in Order to Approve UFC 232 Bout

  25-12-2018 00:15 via sherdog.com
  When it was optional, Jon Jones said, “No thanks.” Now, the former UFC light heavyweight champion has no choice if but to enroll in Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) testing if he wants to fight on Saturday.
  
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• UFC champ Robert Whittaker calls the concept of backup fighters ‘a little silly’

  25-12-2018 00:00
  LOS ANGELES — Kamaru Usman weighed in on Sept. 7 as an alternate — a backup fighter — for the UFC welterweight title fight between champion Tyron Woodley and Darren Till. If either Woodley or Till had missed weight or dealt with some kind of catastrophe, Usman, in theory, would’ve filled in for either one.Woodley, though, said he’d only fight Till, even if Till had missed weight. However, if Till for some reason wouldn’t have even it to the scale, Woodley sai
  
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