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• Mike Beltran Replaces Injured Herb Dean to Referee UFC 232 Main Event

  26-12-2018 23:31 via sherdog.com
  UFC 232 already changed states and venues due to an abnormality in Jon Jones’ drug test results. Now Saturday’s headliner will have a new referee.
  
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• Coach thinks ‘the day will come’ when Jon Jones tries out heavyweight for ‘the right opportunity’

  26-12-2018 23:00
  For a long as Jon Jones has reigned as one of the best fighters of his era, questions have always persisted about how well he would do against the true Baddest Men on the Planet.
  With his 6-foot-4 frame and monstrous 84.5-inch reach, size has rarely been an issue for Jones in the light heavyweight division. Aided by his enviable physical gifts, “Bones” became the most decorated 205-pound fighter to ever compete when he racked up eight consecutive UFC title defenses from 2011 to 2015
  
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• CSAC to extend UFC 232 official weigh-in window due to event location change

  26-12-2018 22:40
  UFC 232 fighters will get an extra hour to weigh in Friday.
  The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) is extending the weigh-in window from two hours to three hours due to the short-notice change in location of the event from Las Vegas to Inglewood, Calif., per CSAC executive officer Andy Foster. The official weigh-ins will now run from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. local time.
  UFC 232 was initially scheduled to be in Las Vegas, up until Sunday. But the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) would not lice
  
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• Cain Velasquez vs. Francis Ngannou Official for UFC on ESPN 1 Headliner

  26-12-2018 22:12 via sherdog.com
  A previously rumored clash between Cain Velasquez and Francis Ngannou is now official for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s debut on the ESPN Network.
  
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• Video: B.J. Penn trains jiu-jitsu for UFC 232 fight with Ryan Hall

  26-12-2018 22:00
  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — B.J. Penn is set to make his return to the Octagon on Saturday night, facing grappling wizard Ryan Hall at UFC 232 in Inglewood, Calif., and decided to do his entire training camp at Nova Uniao.
  On Sept. 14, before “The Prodigy” kicked off his camp in Rio de Janeiro, MMA Fighting visited the gym to catch Penn’s first time training berimbolo at Nova Uniao. Watch the former UFC champion roll in Rio ahead of his clash with the TUF 22 winner.
  
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• UFC Partners with Cryptocurrency Company Litecoin Ahead of UFC 232

  26-12-2018 21:37 via sherdog.com
  While it may not be the ideal week for UFC 232, it looks like the Las Vegas-based promotion will start adding its own cryptocurrency sponsor for the final pay-per-view of 2018. Today, the Litecoin Foundation announced it the official cryptocurrency sponsor of the event and looks to be a first for the UFC, but not in MMA.
  
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• UFC 232 Embedded, Episode 3: ‘He didn’t do anything wrong. So the fight should happen’

  26-12-2018 20:57
  In the third episode of UFC 232 Embedded, Amanda Nunes arrives in Las Vegas, Cris Cyborg goes to church, and Alexander Gustafsson checks out the Grand Canyon before finding out that there’s been a major change to his fight with Jon Jones.
  
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• Francis Ngannou vs. Cain Velasquez announced for UFC on ESPN main event

  26-12-2018 19:20
  After over two years on the sidelines, Cain Velasquez is ready to roll again.
  Officials announced Wednesday that the former UFC heavyweight champion will fight for the first time since July 9, 2016, when he takes on Francis Ngannou in the main event of UFC on ESPN on Feb. 17 at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix. ESPN was first to report that the bout was in the works.
  Velasquez (14-2) last fought at UFC 200, where he defeated Travis Browne via first-round TKO. That was just the two-time hea
  
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• Cris Cyborg Unhappy Promotion Didn’t Contact UFC 232 Fighters Regarding Location Change

  26-12-2018 17:26 via sherdog.com
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship apparently didn’t do a good job informing those competing on the UFC 232 card that the event would be relocating from Las Vegas to California on less than one week’s notice.
  
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• Alexander Hernandez: Donald Cerrone ‘just another step in the ladder to the top’

  26-12-2018 17:00
  The opportunities keep on coming for Alexander Hernandez and he hasn’t shied away from one yet.
  That includes his upcoming lightweight matchup with Donald Cerrone on Jan. 19 in Brooklyn, a fight that only materialized after the UFC pulled Hernandez out of an already scheduled bout with Francisco Trinaldo that was supposed to take place a week later at the since-canceled UFC 233.
  Hernandez had an eventful Year 1 in the UFC to say the least, debuting on just eight days’ notice with a
  
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• ‘TUF 28’ Winner Macy Chiasson to Meet Gina Mazany at UFC 235 on March 2

  26-12-2018 16:33 via sherdog.com
  “The Ultimate Fighter 28” featherweight winner Macy Chiasson will drop to 135 pounds to face Gina Mazany at UFC 235.
  
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• Fighters celebrate Christmas and the holidays

  26-12-2018 16:00
  Christmas is now over and the MMA world made sure to celebrate the holiday this 2018. Fighters from the UFC, Bellator, ONE Championship and other organizations took to social media to share how they spent Christmas with their family and friends.
  Below is how the MMA and UFC stars celebrated the holidays:View this post on InstagramWant to wish you all the most wonderful Christmas. #UFC232 A post shared byJon Bones Jones (@jonnybones) on Dec 24, 2018 at 4:57pm PSTView this post on InstagramHappy
  
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• Joe Rogan Doesn't Believe Jon Jones's Recent Test Result Indicates Continued PED Use

  26-12-2018 15:17 via sherdog.com
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship went into crisis mode this week, moving the highly-anticipated UFC 232 from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on six days’ notice after learning that the Nevada Athletic Commission would not license headliner Jon Jones to fight.
  
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• The A-Side Live Chat: Jon Jones drug test, UFC 232 short-notice move, Alexander Gustafsson, Cyborg vs. Nunes

  26-12-2018 15:15
  This is The A-Side Live Chat on MMA Fighting.
  Today on the show, we’ll talk the adverse findings in Jon Jones’ drug test and why the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) did not want to license him to fight Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232 this coming Saturday. Why is USADA and the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) not considering this a Jones drug-test failure, while the Nevada commission is not too sure?
  We’ll also discuss UFC 232 moving to California from Las Vegas, be
  
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• The A-Side Live Chat: Examining all angles of the Jon Jones, UFC 232, USADA situation

  26-12-2018 15:15
  This is The A-Side Live Chat on MMA Fighting.
  Today on the show, we’ll talk the adverse findings in Jon Jones’ drug test and why the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) did not want to license him to fight Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232 this coming Saturday. Why is USADA and the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) not considering this a Jones drug-test failure, while the Nevada commission is not too sure?
  We’ll also discuss UFC 232 moving to California from Las Vegas, be
  
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• Kid Yamamoto lives on through his sister, Miyuu Yamamoto

  26-12-2018 15:00
  In September, when Miyuu Yamamoto told her brother, the legendary Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, that she had a fight lined up at Rizin 13 at the end of the month, she was hoping that would bolster his spirits. Instead, it was right around then that he began to slip away. He had made it public only a couple of weeks earlier that he had been battling stomach cancer, and everything was happening so fast. Too fast for anybody close to him to wrap their minds around. There was still optimism
  
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• Gunnar Nelson considering following Demetrious Johnson into online gaming market

  26-12-2018 02:00
  Gunnar Nelson is known for his stoic demeanor and submission savvy, but those close to him know that he is also an avid gamer.On a recent trip to Mjolnir for training, SBG welterweight, Peter Queally, cited Nelson’s love for video game shoot ’em up Call of Dutyin an Instagram post.In a recent interview with Eurobash, Nelson spoke of his love for the franchise and other video games.“I love Call of Duty,” Nelson told Peter Carroll. “I’m playing the new one now,
  
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• Cris Cyborg on UFC 232 change: ‘How can you call media and not call your fighters?’

  26-12-2018 01:00
  Cris Cyborg was not happy about how she found out her fight was moving to a new city on just days notice.
  The UFC women’s featherweight champion said on her video blog that she didn’t like that the UFC didn’t contact the fighters about moving the entire UFC 232 card from Las Vegas to Los Angeles before telling the media.
  “This is crazy,” Cyborg said. “They’re supposed to contact everybody. We’re partners. We’re partners. We can’t partn
  
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• Four wins, two KOs in one night, and a chance at a million — Ray Cooper III has emerged as the face of PFL

  26-12-2018 00:00
  Heading into 2018, Ray Cooper III was a relative unknown for anybody outside of Hawaii. He was coming off a split decision loss against Handesson Ferreira in a Mid-Pacific Championships fight that virtually nobody in the continental U.S. paid attention to. But, as a tough Hawaiian kid on the verge of breaking out, he signed up with PFL as a kind of intrigue as an unknown, because the PFL season-to-playoffs structure is meant to unearth talent while providing a million-dollar dangling carrot to
  
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