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VIDEO | Watch a 17-Year Old Brian Ortega Sub Everyone in This 2008 Tournament
In just a few hours, all eyes are going to be on Brian Ortega in his high-profile, large stakes fight with former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. Correction, all eyes will be on the ground. Ortega is on a crazy 13-fight win streak and 7 of those are all by submission. His latest sub was […]
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Luke Rockhold is Now a Model for Ralph Lauren Polo Cologne
Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold can add another notch on his long list of accomplishments. While he isn’t a stranger to being featured on magazine covers and doing some photo shoots thanks to his Soul Artist Management, this latest one blows them all out of the water. Rockhold is now the face of Polo […]
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The Increasingly Awesome Ilir Latifi Has Plans for a Wildlife Adventure Show
Even beasts have dreams. For ‘The Brick Layer’ Ilir Latifi, his aspirations go beyond just smashing his opponents. He’s just coming off a spectacular finish over Ovince Saint Preux, strategically calling out UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier afterwards. Finally climbing to the top five of the ranks, Latifi is closer to that gold belt […]
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Miesha Tate Responds To Jon Jones Implying She’s a ‘Quitter’
At the beginning of this week, Jon Jones finally appeared before the California State Athletic Commission. He subsequently had his license revoked, fined $205K, and will wait to see what length of suspension USADA will hand out. In the midst of the ongoing Jon Jones saga, somehow a feud between him and Miesha Tate developed. […]
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Andre Soukhamthath Vows ‘Fake’ Sean O’Malley Will Call Him Big Brother After UFC 222
There’s no mistake about it, Sean O’Malley has made fight week the ‘Suga’ show. He was heavily featured on the Embedded episodes, he crashed the open workouts when he wasn’t scheduled for one, even his media day outfit reminiscent of Hyde from That 70’s Show got some buzz going. Which is only fitting, since he’ll […]
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BREAKING | Paul Daley Staying Put, Welcomes Jon Fitch to Bellator
Bellator’s newest acquisition has his debut opponent. Bellator announced during the Bellator 195 broadcast that former WSOF/PFL welterweight champion, Jon Fitch will be debuting against Bellator staple, Paul “Semtex” Daley in the co-main event of Bellator 199 on May 12. The event will be headlined by the heavyweight Grand Prix matchup between Bellator light heavyweight […]
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BJ Penn Talks Possible Return & Cris Cyborg: “She’s as strong as anyone I’ve felt.”
A masked invader broke into the UFC 222 open workouts and attacked the featherweight champ, Cris Cyborg the other day! Who would do such a thing?! Obviously the one and only ‘Prodigy’ BJ Penn. It was a fun surprise for MMA fans and after all was said and done, Penn took time to talk about […]
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Mamed Khalidov: A Shining Example that You Don’t Need the UFC to Flourish
Many lists have been made over the years revolving around the best fighters outside the UFC. Atop or at the very least, always on those lists is none other than the Polish middleweight icon, Mamed Khalidov. Khalidov has pretty much been the KSW version of Tito Ortiz throughout his career as he’s been with the […]
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BREAKING | Conor McGregor Will Be Stripped of Lightweight Title on April 7
It appears that we have our concrete answer when it comes to whether or not Conor McGregor will be keeping his UFC lightweight championship. As most know by now, at UFC 223 next month, on April 7, Tony Ferguson will be taking on Khabib Nurmagomedov for Ferguson’s interim title. Although…that is no longer the case as UFC […]
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BREAKING REPORT | Chuck Liddell Close to a Huge Deal with Bellator
Year after year, there always seems to be some talk here and there about Chuck Liddell returning to MMA. From UFC 205 all the way up until some heat with Chael Sonnen, it always seems to be penciled in but never actually happens. …Until now. Our own Chris Taylor has just recently broke a report […]
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VIDEO | Daniel Cormier Reacts to the Results of Jon Jones’ CSAC Hearing
The latest installment of the saga of Jon Jones is finally nearing the end. At the beginning of this week, Jones appeared before the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC), resulting in his license being revoked and fined $205K. Tied with him seemingly forever, longtime rival Daniel Cormier has been quiet on the matter but now […]
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Israel Adesanya Says He and Robert Whittaker Are Two Dogs Looking at Each Other
Israel Adesanya believes that destiny has been leading him to everywhere he’s been so far. Traveling the world becoming a master of styles finally resulted in him breaking into the UFC and marking his territory after his successful debut. Carrying on with his mystical journey, Adesanya doesn’t see any other location his pilgrimage takes him […]
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VIDEO | Daniel Cormier Shares a Message as The Ultimate Fighter 27 Wraps Filming
Daniel Cormier reflects on The Ultimate Fighter 27 season after filming has wrapped. #TUF27 #UFC226 pic.twitter.com/YBqP2vNGz8 — Justin Golightly (@SecretMovesMMA) March 2, 2018 You have to be living under an MMA rock if you don’t know that Stipe Miocic is defending his UFC heavyweight title against UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier at UFC 226. […]
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Sean O’Malley Plans to Celebrate UFC 222 Win By Smoking His New Strain of Weed
In the blink of a bloodshot eye, ‘Suga’ Sean O’Malley has lifted himself high onto the main card of a pay-per-view. His blazing performance against Terrion Ware placed him just under the co-main event slot against Andre Soukhamthath at tomorrow’s UFC 222. O’Malley plans to puff, puff, and pass through the former CES MMA bantamweight […]
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Israel Adesanya Warns ‘Flat-Footed’ Marvin Vettori That He’s in for a Starching
The Last Style Bender Israel Adesanya isn’t intimidated by a quick turnaround. Actually, Adesanya isn’t intimidated by much of anything. He treated the bright lights of his UFC 221 debut just like another fight, which paid off in spades. Next he’ll fight former Venator welterweight champion Marvin Vettori, believing that it won’t go any different […]
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Tonya Evinger Doesn’t See How Yana Kunitskaya Beats Cris Cyborg on Any Level
Cris Cyborg is only a day away from defending her UFC women’s featherweight title against former Invicta FC bantamweight champion Yana Kunitskaya. Another woman who held that belt is Tony Evinger, who knows both women in the main event of UFC 222 very well. Not only has she fought Cyborg, but she fought and beat […]
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Stefan Struve Doesn’t Like the Idea of Brock Lesnar Returning: “He brings a certain image that’s not good for the sport”
According to the bossman, Dana White, it sounds like we will definitely be seeing former UFC heavyweight champion and current WWE star, Brock Lesnar returning to the octagon at some point. White isn’t the only one who believes so as multiple other fighters and analysts alike have been stating their belief on whether or not […]
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Top 5 Upcoming Fights for March 2018
Did you think that March Madness was only a basketball event? Well, this year it might as well be an MMA event! The month is loaded with some crazy matchups with several different reasons as to why. Comebacks, prospect battles, title fights, champion vs champion fights, big name short notice bouts, there is a little […]
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Rumor | UFC 224 Could Be Getting a Battle Between Top Light Heavyweights
The UFC light heavyweight division is all over the place these days. Their champion is moving up to challenge the heavyweight champion, the number one contender might be moving up as well, and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua currently holds the longest winning streak in the division. But the wheels have to keep turning! Word out of […]
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VIDEO | Cris Cyborg Grapples With Surprise Guest BJ Penn at the UFC 222 Open Workouts
The combat sports game is chaotic, sometimes you have to roll with punches outside of the cage just as much as the punches inside of it. After the main and co-main events got switched and transplanted, Cris Cyborg stepped up to defend her UFC women’s featherweight title against former Invicta FC bantamweight champion Yana Kunitskaya […]
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VIDEO | UFC 222 Staredown Gets Heated Between Sean O’Malley and Andre Soukhamthath
Well, that escalated quickly… Who you got, @SugaSeanMMA or @AndreSoukMMA? 😮#UFC222 pic.twitter.com/hMq6uPOiwg — MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) March 1, 2018 For a fight week Thursday, things have been mostly quiet. The UFC 222 card has suffered a triple threat of changes including two late replacements, so it’s understandable that not a lot of heat is coming from […]
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Alexander Gustafsson is Considering Moving to Heavyweight
As Daniel Cormier heads up to heavyweight in one of the blast few big fights before he walks away from the sport, he’s not the only one changing weight classes. His teammate Luke Rockhold has announced his move to light heavyweight is ‘imminent’ and Alexander Gustafsson has offered to welcome him to the new division. […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BJPENN.COM RESET/RELAUNCH Fresh MMA served daily! The NEW BJPENN.COM website has officially been LAUNCHED! We are happy to announce the RESET/RELAUNCH of your favorite independently owned Mixed Martial Arts news website, which contains a plethora of exciting new features. Over the years we have been relentlessly at work to provide you with the latest […]
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Three rising UFC fighters who are ready for top-15 opponents
The UFC is always bolstering its roster with promising prospects. Sometimes, these prospects don’t amount to much. Other times, however, they transform from prospects into contenders, and in rare cases, into world champions. At present, there are a number of rising prospects on the UFC roster who have earned the opportunity to test their mettle […]
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Hear Sage Northcutt Describe His Riveting Encounter With a Bear
The kid tested, mother approved Sage Northcutt is no stranger to doing death-defying flips inside the Octagon. We all have grown familiar with his Power Ranger post-fight celebrations and his fruit-crushing outside of the cage. Back in October of last year, he nearly gave us a heart attack hiking with Team Alpha Male, but it […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Flyweight contender Sergio Pettis breaks down DJ vs. TJ super fight
From the sounds of it, UFC flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson’s next title challenger could well come in the form of reigning UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw. Speaking on the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio, flyweight contender Sergio Pettis gave his take on this compelling flyweight title superfight. “I mean it’s and interesting […]
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Brian Ortega Still ‘In the Hood’ Despite Being Close to UFC Gold
This is Brian Ortega’s moment on Saturday. You can almost hear Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ playing in the background when thinking about the upcoming match-up with Frankie Edgar. At only 27-years old, this may not be Ortega’s ‘one shot’, but it certainly is his biggest yet. Edgar has made a career about being the enforcer who […]
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BREAKING | UFC Veteran Jon Fitch Signs With Bellator
When you talk about UFC’s welterweight division, you can’t mention it without bringing up Jon Fitch. He was never able to capture the title, but he damn near came close before falling short against Georges St-Pierre and ending his 16-fight win streak and still maintains a slot as one of the best 170-pounders ever. Eventually, […]