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Confirmed: Pitbull vs. Karakhanyan Next Bellator FW Title Fight
It’s official: Georgi Karakhanyan is next in line to challenge Patricio “Pitbull” Freire for his Bellator Featherweight Championship. Georgi Karakhanyan put on a beautiful performance against Bubba Jenkins on Friday night when he submitted him in the first round. Jenkins went for two takedown attempts, but walked into two separate guillotine attempts. The second guillotine […]
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UFC 179 Results: Aldo Retains Title Against Mendes in FOTN Performance
Both fighters’ striking looked fluid in the opening moments of the fight. Mendes’ hands were fast and attacked from different angles, allowing him to catch Aldo off guard several times. Aldo’s attack was just as impressive, but he was able to land the leg kicks which forced Mendes to constantly change his stance. Each fighter […]
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Holloway Wants A Rematch Against McGregor
Prior to tearing his ACL, Conor McGregor put on an impressive performance against Max Holloway, something ‘Blessed’ hasn’t forgot. He spoke to MMAJunkie about his desire to climb the ranks and get a rematch against Conor McGregor. “The McGregor fight, I got hurt in the first 30 seconds,” Holloway said. “He complains about hurting his […]
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Conor McGregor Cracks Top 10 In UFC’s Official Rankings
Conor McGregor has managed to secure himself a spot on the top 10 ladder of the featherweight division in the UFC’s official rankings after dominating Diego Brandao on Saturday at UFC Dublin. The UFC’s official top 10 ladder for the featherweight division is as follows: Champion : Jose Aldo 1 Chad Mendes 2 Frankie Edgar […]
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Ricardo Lamas Slams Nik Lentz: He Has No Heart
Top ranked UFC featherweight Ricardo Lamas fired back at Nik Lentz today during an interview with MMAJunkie. Lentz took a shot at Lamas’ performance this past Saturday against Hacran Dias, saying he would beat Lamas easy. “The Bully” didn’t take too kindly to that, and fired back by saying: “if he wants some, he can […]
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Ricardo Lamas: I Beat Myself In The Aldo Fight
Top ranked UFC featherweight Ricardo Lamas joined Majority Draw Radio during a recent interview to discuss his fight against Jose Aldo, and how Aldo didn’t beat “The Bully”, he beat himself. “No, not at all, I felt fine (after sitting out). The only thing is, because it was a title shot, I was being a […]
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Kogan Slams Aldo, Calls Him A N***a
MMA Manager Mike Kogan shot back at UFC Featherweight champion Jose Aldo today via Instagram. Aldo appeared on an episode of Inside MMA and expressed his distaste for fighter pay. Check out Kogan’s post below. Caption reads, This n***a needs to make up his mind. Or more like stick to his guns and stop flip […]
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Manny Gamburyan Wants To Drop To 135
UFC Featherweight Manny Gamburyan is eyeing a drop to bantamweight according to the fighters latest Tweet, and eyeing a September fight. Check out the Tweet below. All I have to do to make 135 is walk around 160. And I will do it… September sounds good. @ufc lets do it
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McGregor Calls Aldo ‘Basic’, Blasts Sanchez, Swanson, Poirier, More
By Evan Stoumbelis Featherweight Conor McGregor may not have stepped in the Octagon to fight recently, since August to be exact, however that hasn’t stopped him from trying to pick fights outside of the Octagon with his fellow UFC peers. McGregor went on a rant (transcribed by) MMAFighting.com about several of his UFC peers including, featherweight […]
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Bellator Denies Freire Title Shot – Freire Wants Out of Contract
By Evan Stoumbelis Yesterday Bellator announced former featherweight champion Pat Curran would be granted a rematch with the man who took his title from him in November at Bellator 106, Daniel Straus. Fight fans that saw the last fight will be looking forward to the rubber match between Curran and Straus. However, one person isn’t […]
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Poirier: Brandao said he would stab me in the neck
By Evan Stoumbelis This Saturday fans got to see a great night of fights with UFC 168. In kicking off the main card on PPV Dustin Poirier knocked out Diego Brandao in the first round. For those that didn’t watch the weigh ins Brandao weighed in 8 pounds over the featherweight limit of 145 pounds. […]
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Dennis Siver vs. Manny Gamburyan added to UFC 168
By Evan Stoumbelis – @MMAEvan Featherweights Dennis Siver and Manny Gamburyan are officially set to square off on an already stacked UFC 168 card. After dropping to featherweight Dennis Siver won two fights in a row before losing to Cub Swanson via 3rd round TKO at UFC 162: Silva vs. Weidman in July. Manny Gamburyan […]
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Edgar: I will defeat Charles Oliviera
By Evan Stoumbelis – @MMAEvan Frankie Edgar spoke to UFC.com recently on his upcoming fight with Charles Oliviera which will be the co-main event at UFC 162 Weidman vs. Silva. “It’s a blessing in disguise, I feel like, coming back to a three-round fight. It’s going to make me get out of the gun early […]
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TJ Grant Comments On Pettis Trying To Jump The Line: “It Was Pretty Dirty”
By Evan Stoumbelis – @MMAEvan TJ Grant recently spoke on the ESPN UFC podcast about numerous things ranging from TRT to Anthony Pettis. Grant, who has been quiet on the situation of Pettis asking for Grant’s August 31st title shot against Ben Henderson, opened up with his thoughts on the situation saying: “I wish it […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Ricardo Lamas In-Depth: “I’m Not Going To Play TKZ’s Game”, Talks Title Shots & More | Late Night Cageside Radio
UFC featherweight Ricardo Lamas joined BJPenn.com’s ‘Late Night Cageside’ Radio Show for an interview. Are you surprised with how fast the sport of MMA has grown in such a short period of time? “No not at all, when you look at it MMA has something for everybody. Its got wrestling and jiu-jitsu for the grappling […]
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Cub Swanson vs Dennis Siver Added to UFC 162 | UFC NEWS
Two UFC featherweight stand outs will come together, in what should make an exciting stand up battle, when Cub Swanson and Dennis Siver meet at UFC 162. Swanson, on a four fight win streak, and most recently coming off a very impressive victory over Dustin ‘The Diamond’ Poirier, is on the hunt for UFC gold […]
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Dennis Bermudez vs. Max Holloway added to UFC 160 card
By Evan Stoumbelis UFC 160: Velasquez vs. Bigfoot 2 has picked up another fight, Dennis ‘The Menace’ Bermudez vs. ‘Blessed’ Max Holloway. The fight will take place in Las Vegas, with no news as to whether it will be on the main card or the preliminary card. The 21-year old Hawaiian native Holloway is 3-1 […]
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Dana White: Aldo vs. Pettis is on
By Evan Stoumbelis Dana White just announced via Twitter that Jose Aldo will fight Anthony Pettis for the Featherweight title in August. There had been some speculation as to whether or not the fight would happen Dana White told reporters after UFC 157 that Aldo was refusing to fight Pettis because he didn’t think Showtime […]
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Henderson vs Edgar II set for UFC 150
By Evan Stoumbelis: Lightweight champ Ben Henderson now has a date set for his first title defense. His opponent…none other than the man he defeated to win the belt, Frankie Edgar. The rematch doesn’t come as a big surprise to fans, after Ben Henderson defeated Frankie Edgar at UFC 144 in a thrilling fight, there […]
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Dennis Siver Emerges Victorious In Featherweight Debut Over Diego Nunes
By Evan Stoumbelis: Cutting 10 pounds, missing weight, and #9 ranked featherweight Diego Nunes couldn’t hinder Dennis Siver in his debut bout at the 145 pound division. In round 1 Siver comes out and establishes octagon control, as Nunes circles around the outside, they get within striking range as both men throw head kicks that […]
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Editorial Spotlight | Dennis Siver Looking For Opportunity As A Featherweight Tomorrow Night
By: Evan Stoumbelis UFC Lightweight Dennis “The Meanace” Siver (19-8) is moving down to the 145 featherweight division and is set to face Diego “The Gun” Nunes (17-2) at the upcoming UFC on FUEL TV 2 event tomorrow night. Siver was set to have a rematch with Ultimate Fighter winner Ross Pearson at the same […]