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MMA Community reacts to Amanda Nunes win and Raquel Pennington’s corner forcing their athlete to continue fighting
A women’s bantamweight title fight between champion Amanda Nunes and top contender Raquel Pennington headlined tonight’s UFC 224 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amanda Nunes utilized some nasty low kicks to batter the legs of her opponent early and often throughout the course of their championship bout. At the end of round four Pennington […]
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UFC 224 Results: Amanda Nunes finishes Raquel Pennington (VIDEO)
A women’s bantamweight title fight headlined tonight’s UFC 224 event as Amanda Nunes put her title on the line against Raquel Pennington. Round one begins and Nunes starts off quickly by taking the center of the octagon. She leaps in with a left that fails to hit the mark. Nunes with a huge low kick […]
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MMA Community reacts to Kelvin Gastelum’s UFC 224 win over Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza
A key middleweight scrap between Kelvin Gastelum and Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza served as the co-headliner of tonight’s UFC 224 event in Brazil. Souza was almost able to end the fight with an armbar in round one, but Gastelum managed to survive the submission attempt. In round two Gastelum would find his range and proceeded to […]
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UFC 224 Results: Lyoto Machida destroys Vitor Belfort (VIDEO)
A middleweight fight featuring former UFC light heavyweight champions Vitor Belfort and Lyoto Machida took place on the main card of tonight’s UFC 224 pay-per-view event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The bout is expected to serve as Belfort’s retirement fight. Round one begins and both fighters seem tentative early. Both men are staying at […]
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MMA Community reacts to another incredible Ezekiel choke submission from Alexey Oleynik
40-year-old UFC heavyweight Alexey Oleynik (53-11-1 MMA) picked up the eleventh Ezekiel choke submission victory of his career at tonight’s UFC 224 event submitting his opponent Junior Albini in the very first-round. “The Boa Constrictor” is the only man to ever record an Ezekiel choke submission win in UFC history and he has now done […]
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UFC 224 Results: Alexey Oleynik submits Junior Albini (VIDEO)
A heavyweight fight between Alexey Oleynik and Junior Albini took place during tonight’s UFC 224 prelims from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Round one begins and Oleynik misses with a jab to the body. A follow up punch does land and the fighters clinch. Alexey presses Albini against the cage. That doesn’t last long as Junior […]
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VIDEO | Nick Diaz not fond of Nate vs Georges St-Pierre idea, says he was “poisoned” ahead of GSP fight
“I think whoever tries to make that fight [between Georges St-Pierre and Nate Diaz], I’m gonna have to give ’em a backhand slap. At the end of the day, I fought the dude [St-Pierre], they poisoned my IV with some kind of drug that put me to sleep, I’ve never slept more than five hours […]
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UFC 224 Live Results
UFC 224 Live Results Unable to catch tonight’s UFC 224 pay-per-view event from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil? BJPENN.com has you covered! Stay glued to this page for up to the minute live results from all of tonight’s action. The fight card is headlined by a women’s bantmaweight title fight featuring current champion Amanda Nunes taking […]
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50 Cent takes a shot at Chael Sonnen and the “American Gangster” fires right back!
Earlier this week rapper/actor 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) sent the mixed martial arts community in to a buzz after he teased a potential fight between himself and former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on Instagram. Most fight fans laughed off the Fifty’s social media post assuming it to be a simple publicicty stunt. […]
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Colby Covington blasts “slob” Mackenzie Dern for missing weight at UFC 224
Jiu-jitsu ace Mackenzie Dern (6-0 MMA) will return to the octagon at tonight’s UFC 224 event in Brazil where she will square off with Amanda Cooper. The Dern vs. Cooper fight will take place at catchweight, this after Mackenzie badly missed the strawweight limit (116 pounds) by coming in at 123-pounds. Mackenzie Dern was fined […]
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The fighting Irish and Ryan ‘Thunder’ O’Connor
Ryan ‘Thunder’ O’Connor hails from County Cork, located in the South West of Ireland. Cork is a county steeped in rebellion, which dates back to the 15th century, due to the encroachment of English forces on Irish soil, and more recently the 20th century, where it played a prominent role in the Irish War of Independence […]
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Megan Anderson believes she’s important for the featherweight division, excited to showcase her evolution at UFC 225
Finally set to make her long-awaited UFC debut is the former Invicta FC featherweight champion, Megan Anderson. Anderson will be making her debut at UFC 225 on June 9th when she takes on former UFC bantamweight champion, Holly Holm. Since the UFC’s inception of the women’s 145-pound featherweight division in February 2017, they have essentially […]
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VIDEO | Nate Diaz gets into altercation with Clay Guida at Combate Americas event
Is it possible for Nate Diaz to be a spectator at a non-UFC event without getting into some sort of altercation? So far, it just doesn’t seem like it. Everyone remembers the infamous Nashville brawl at Strikeforce: Nashville in 2010 when the Cesar Gracie camp broke out in a big post-fight brawl with Jason “Mayhem” […]
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Tito Ortiz announces that he’s coming out of retirement, wants the Chuck Liddell trilogy fight
Eight years ago we expected to be seeing one of MMA’s most heated rivalries cap off via trilogy. That rivalry being Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz after season 11 of The Ultimate Fighter. Little did we know that we could very well be getting that trilogy’s conclusion in 2018… Ortiz took to Instagram today to […]
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Under the MMA Microscope | Is the UFC hyping the wrong fighters?
In the current UFC era, it’s been made loud and clear what the new ownership’s motives are: get rich or die tryin’. Well…maybe not to that extreme of a level but 50 Cent has been getting involved with the MMA scene lately(whatever that means) so don’t tell me that that’s not a good quote choice. […]
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Nate Diaz claims Georges St-Pierre cheated against brother, Nick, says fight with GSP is “wolf tickets”
The Georges St-Pierre vs the Diaz brothers drama continues. Originally in what started with a longtime rivalry in the making against Nick, St-Pierre appears to be positioned towards a potential bout against the younger Diaz brother, Nate. Since the reports of the bout, there has been speculation of whether or not the fight will actually […]
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Darren Till: after win over Wonderboy “Woodley has to come to me”
On May 27, in the main event of the UFC’s debut in Liverpool, England, Darren Till will take on two-time welterweight title challenger Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson in a bout that is far and away the biggest test of his career thus far. If Till topples this momentous challenge, he expects to become one of the […]
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EXCLUSIVE | No longer injured, Gokhan Saki excited to continue MMA journey with KO of Khalil Rountree
Back in September, fearsome kickboxing legend Gokhan Saki made a successful UFC debut, authoring a thunderous first-round knockout of Henrique da Silva. On July 7, when the UFC returns to glimmering Las Vegas, Nevada with UFC 226, Saki will partake in his second UFC bout, as he faces off with the dangerous Khalil Rountree. Saki’s bout […]
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Eddie Alvarez roasts Khabib Nurmagomedov: People are literally sleeping during Khabib time
Former UFC lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez, who is now set to rematch Dustin Poirier in the main event of the UFC’s July 28 return to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is hoping that a big win will position him for a title shot opposite reigning lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov. That being said, Alvarez doesn’t seem to be […]
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Amanda Bobby Cooper reacts to opponent Mackenzie Dern’s seven pound weigh-in miss
If you’ve been paying attention to the MMA headlines this morning, you’ve surely seen that Mackenzie Dern missed weight for her UFC 224 scrap with Amanda Bobby Cooper. Dern, who has missed weight for multiple other bouts in the past, tipped the scales at 123 pounds, a whopping seven pounds above the strawweight division’s 116-pound […]
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UFC 224 weigh-in results: Mackenzie Dern misses weight by 7 pounds
Tomorrow night, the UFC will take over Rio de Janeiro’s Jeunesse Arena with UFC 224. On Friday morning, the 26 fighters on the card’s 13-fight bill took to the scales to weigh in for their imminent battles. As always, the weigh-ins included a high dose of drama. This time, that drama came courtesy of grappling star […]
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Tony Ferguson shares promising update: “I’m back”
Tony Ferguson’s year has not been off to a great start. Though he was scheduled for a UFC 223 lightweight title fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov, he was unfortunately forced out of the bout at the last minute when he sustained a knee injury whilst taking care of some media obligations for the card. With his […]
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Eddie Alvarez says he’s “not super excited” about Dustin Poirier rematch in Calgary
Last night, after much back-and-forth, we learned that a rematch between former UFC lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez and surging contender Dustin Poirier will officially go down this July 28 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The negotiations for this fight were not exactly breezy, but both fighters have agreed to it, and it’s a go. https://twitter.com/Ealvarezfight/status/994599154419752961 https://twitter.com/DustinPoirier/status/994743724503642112 Speaking […]
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Report | Several UFC employees held at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro
Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any crazier during a fight week after UFC 223’s incident, reports of a scary situation have been brought to light. UFC 224 takes place this Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and ESPN’s Brett Okamoto has reported that several UFC employees and associates of UFC 224 were […]
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BREAKING | Yair Rodriguez released from the UFC, Dana White says “he can take his act elsewhere”
Surprising news has just come out from the LA Times’ Lance Pugmire that top UFC featherweight prospect, Yair Rodriguez has been cut from the UFC after refusing to fight Zabit Magomedsharipov at the proposed August 4th date for UFC 227 in Los Angeles, California. The @latimes has learned that Yair Rodriguez has been cut from […]
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VIDEO | Brendan Schaub hints at Conor McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov in September
https://twitter.com/btbshowtime/status/994625993561305088 “Well, the rumor going around is that it’s going to be Nate Diaz vs GSP [Georges St-Pierre] in Los Angeles. I don’t think so. From what I hear, GSP doesn’t want that Nate Diaz fight. For him to make 155 [pounds], which him and Nate Diaz would fight at in Los Angeles, it’s too […]
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Dana White on Leslie Smith’s labor complaint against the UFC: “That’s not my problem”
If things had gone according to the initial plan, Leslie Smith would have fought Aspen Ladd on the undercard of April’s UFC Atlantic City card. Regrettably, things took an incredibly ugly turn at the last minute, and the end result was Smith’s release from the UFC. The trouble began when Ladd missed weight for the fight, […]
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Kenny Florian says Georges St-Pierre’s coaches were surprised and unaware of a potential Nate Diaz fight
The news that’s gotten most of the buzz lately is that of a potential Nate Diaz vs Georges St-Pierre fight in which Dana White confirmed is what he would like to add to UFC 227 in Los Angeles, California on August 4th. While the fight between the former two-division UFC champion and The Ultimate Fighter […]