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UFC books two key heavyweight tilts for early 2017
The first quarter of 2017 will be a big stretch for the heavyweight division, as the UFC has pencilled two huge heavyweight scraps onto the calendar. These fights will see the division’s two best prospects take big steps up in competition against well established names. The first of these heavyweight showdowns will occur on January 28, […]
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Floyd Mayweather sends Nate Diaz message regarding Conor McGregor
While many combat sports fans believe that talks of a potential Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather boxing match are nothing more than talks to stir up the combat sports community, Mayweather has continued to indicate that he has every intention of fighting Conor McGregor. On a recent Instagram Live video, the undefeated boxer FaceTime called […]
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VIDEO | Behind the scenes footage of UFC 206’s biggest winners and losers
Last weekend, the UFC returned to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the first time since 2013. The promotion did so with UFC 206. In advance of this Toronto return, the card was heavily criticized for its lack of big names. When its originally planned Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson main event fell through, these criticisms […]
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Urijah Faber content with upcoming retirement, but won’t rule out return
This Saturday, MMA legend Urijah Faber will compete in the last fight of his career. He will do so against England’s Brad Pickett on the main card of UFC on Fox 22, which will emanate from his hometown of Sacramento, California. With his fighting career in the rear-view, Faber will shift his focus to managing […]
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Chuck Liddell not confident in Ronda Rousey ahead of UFC 207: “I don’t know where she is mentally”
Last November, in the main event of UFC 193, then women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey was knocked out by a Holly Holm head-kick in one of the biggest upsets in the history of our sport. She has not returned to the cage since. That will soon change, of course, as Rousey is scheduled to take on […]
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Vin Diesel created role in ‘xXx’ for Conor McGregor but ‘had to go to a dark place’ for Nate Diaz rematch
Going into the rematch against Nate Diaz, Conor McGregor chose to put his fighting career ahead of starring on the big screen. McGregor was scheduled to play a role in Vin Diesel’s “xXx” movie, which Diesel says he created just for the current UFC lightweight champion. “I wanted to have an English accent in the […]
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Mickey Gall on CM Punk fighting in the UFC again: ‘I think he’ll be dealt the same way I dealt him’
Phil Brooks, better known by his WWE wrestling name, CM Punk, made his professional mixed martial arts debut at UFC 203 in September. There were some people that were unhappy that the former WWE wrestling superstar seemingly strolled his way into the biggest MMA promotion in the world while others were happy to have the […]
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Urijah Faber explains decision to retire
This Saturday, MMA veteran Urijah Fbaer will step into the Octagon for the final time as he fights Brad Pickett in front of his hometown fans in Sacramento, California. For Faber, the fight will mark the end of what has been a truly remarkable MMA career that has seen him compile a 33-10 record over […]
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AUDIO | Nick Diaz recalls hilarious story about how Rampage Jackson tried to steal his girl as a teen
https://youtu.be/T81m3AdHDx4?t=3m5s Nick Diaz has been enjoying his time off from fighting and it is surely showing in some of his recent interviews and guest spots on radio shows and podcasts. Recently, the Stockton scrapper was a guest on The Jasta Show and recalled a hilarious story from when he was a teen growing up in […]
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Ronda Rousey: ‘If money is the motivation, then f*** you’ – ‘Money Mayweather, Money McGregor’
Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is set to make her comeback after over a year out from competition. “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey will take on the current UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in a five-round title fight and will get a chance to get back to the top of the […]
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Nate Diaz issued big fine and ordered to do community service for UFC 202 water bottle war
Nate Diaz was served a stiff punishment from the Nevada Athletic Commission on Thursday. According to the NAC documents reported by MMA Fighting, Diaz was served a $50,000 fine and ordered to do 50 hours of community service for the water bottle throwing incident at the UFC 202 pre-fight press conference. Diaz and the commission […]
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Brock Lesnar receives suspension & fine for failed drug tests
Earlier this year, former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar made his return to the Octagon after five years away from the Octagon. Lesnar fought fan-favorite heavyweight Mark Hunt, and while the fight was a highly anticipated one, the month leading to the bout wasn’t without controversy. It was announced at UFC 199 that Lesnar would […]
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Floyd Mayweather offering $10k to best caption for vid of McGregor being submitted
CAPTION THIS! Best caption wins $10,000.00. The winner will be announced on Monday, Dec 19. Stay tuned ! #TMT A video posted by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Dec 14, 2016 at 8:51pm PST While the war of words between UFC superstar Conor McGregor and undefeated prizefighter Floyd Mayweather has continued, Mayweather is now looking to […]
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Vin Diesel discusses Michael Bisping replacing Conor McGregor in ‘xXx’
Earlier this year, it was revealed that UFC superstar Conor McGregor would be making the transition to Hollywood for a role in the next highly anticipated installment in the ‘xXx’ franchise, ‘xXx: The Return of Xander Cage’. Those plans changed back in March however, when Rafael dos Anjos withdrew from his scheduled UFC 196 lightweight […]
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Gray Maynard still confused by loss to Ryan Hall
Earlier this month at the ‘Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions’ finale, TUF winner Ryan Hall squared off against UFC veteran Gray Maynard in a fight which had all the makings of an old-school ‘style vs. style’ matchup. Maynard of course looked to keep the fight standing in hopes of landing a big punch and picking […]
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Julianna Pena will “raise hell” if snubbed of title fight
Top ranked women’s bantamweight contender Julianna Pena has been on a tear of the women’s bantamweight division recently. After winning the Ultimate Fighter season 18 by defeating Jessica Rakoczy in 2013, Pena was forced to sit on the sidelines with injuries for nearly 2 years. In early 2015, she returned to the Octagon when he […]
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Georges St-Pierre discusses joining the MMAAA
Earlier this month, former UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre joined several other high-profile fighters such as Cain Velasquez, TJ Dillashaw, Donald Cerrone, and Tim Kennedy in announcing the formation of the MMA Athletes Association. The association was the first of its kind, and while the MMA Fighters Association was announced earlier this year, the MMAAA […]
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VIDEO | UFC 206: Fight Motion – slow motion action from Swanson vs. Choi, Cerrone vs. Brown, Holloway vs. Pettis
Despite losing the initially scheduled UFC light heavyweight main event between champion Daniel Cormier and challenger Anthony Johnson, the UFC 206 card that took place in Toronto, Canada over the weekend gave fans an action packed event. The main card featured some fights that had many of the people in the Air Canada Centre, as […]
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VIDEO | Floyd Mayweather says he spoke with UFC boss about fighting Conor McGregor
The thought of a Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor boxing match has been talked about for some time now. The undefeated and retired boxing superstar claims to have even started the rumor of arranging a fight with McGregor and the talk will surely not stop as long as Mayweather and McGregor keep talking about each […]
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VIDEO | Dana White verbally attacks Michael Landsberg during interview when asked about fighter pay
https://youtu.be/jeSfmTYz9FI Last week leading up to UFC 206, UFC President Dana White did some interviews with the media to promote the event that took place at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. White appeared as a guest on TSN’s Sportscentre and was interviewed by sports journalist Michael Landsberg. The two talked about various topics from […]
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BJPENN.COM Radio Ep. 11 // Tiffany “Time Bomb” Soest | Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal
BJPENN.COM Radio is back at 8PM ET/5PM PT tonight with a streamlined episode for your listening pleasure! 8:15PM ET- Tiffany “The Time Bomb” Van Soest @TiffanyTimeBomb will join us from Amsterdam via the magic of prerecording. The first ever GLORY Women’s Super Bantamweight champ recaps the tournament in which she captured the title and gives […]
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Jose Aldo says he is chasing down Conor McGregor for rematch and interim belts are ‘bullshit’
Newly promoted UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo is hungry for a rematch against his rival Conor McGregor. After being defeated for the first time in ten years in a shocking 13-second knockout coming from the hands of McGregor at UFC 194, Aldo is looking to follow the Irishman up to the UFC lightweight division if […]
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The 10 best welterweight fights in UFC history
This Saturday, the UFC will touch down in sun-soaked Sacramento, California with UFC on Fox 22. One of the many highlights of this card is a welterweight scrap between bona fide excitement generators “Platinum” Mike Perry and Alan Jouban. Given the propensity for violence shared by these two fighters, many fans consider their imminent scrap […]
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‘UFC Fight Night: Albany’ medical suspensions, 6 fighters out indefinitely
This past weekend, the UFC held their second event in New York following the legalization of MMA earlier this year. The event was headlined by a heavyweight clash between Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and Shamil Abdurakhimov. Lewis ultimately secured himself a fourth round TKO win despite what he believed was a disappointing performance. In […]
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VIDEO | Former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard stops armed criminal and body slams him on pavement
Former WWE superstar Shad Gaspard brought some of his body slamming days back into his life when he stopped an alleged criminal in a gas station convenience store recently. TMZ released footage of the massive actor and trained fighter taking a gun away from a man in a gas station convenience store and then shoves […]
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Miesha Tate discusses retirement, recent win at Submission Underground
2016 has been quite the year for WMMA pioneer Miesha Tate. Tate kicked off 2016 by fighting Holly Holm for the UFC women’s bantamweight championship at UFC 196 in March. With the fight looking as though it was going to the judges scorecards midway through the fifth round, Tate secured a submission win to earn […]
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Tony Ferguson rips Khabib Nurmagomedov & his ‘padded record’
Top ranked UFC lightweights Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson have fought the best of the best in the UFC’s lightweight division, but have never fought one another. When the pair were set to square off earlier this year in Nurmagomedov’s highly anticipated Octagon debut, Ferguson was forced out of the fight with an injury, and […]
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Dana White fires back at Cris Cyborg following news of Holm vs. de Randamie
This week, the UFC announced that former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, and #11 ranked women’s bantamweight Germaine de Randamie would be fighting for the inaugural women’s featherweight championship at UFC 208 on February 11th. That didn’t sit too well with Invicta FC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg, who is now 2-0 in the […]