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Fighters react to Valentina Shevchenko vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

Former women’s bantamweight title challenger Valentina Shevchenko and former strawweight queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk squared off for the promotions vacant flyweight title in the co-headliner of tonight’s UFC 231 event in Toronto. Shevchenko made her UFC flyweight debut this past February, where she scored a lopsided second-round submission victory over Priscila Cachoeira.

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UFC 231 Results: Valentina Shevchenko defeats Joanna Jedrzejczyk (Highlights)

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

Former women’s bantamweight title challenger Valentina Shevchenko and former strawweight queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk squared off for the promotions vacant flyweight title in the co-headliner of tonight’s UFC 231 event in Toronto. Shevchenko made her UFC flyweight debut this past February, scoring a very lopsided second-round submission win over Priscila Cachoeira.

Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson

UFC 231 Results: Gunnar Nelson submits Alex Oliveira (VIDEO)

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

A welterweight bout between Alex Oliveira and Gunnar Nelson took place on the main card of tonight’s UFC 231 event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gunnar Nelson enters tonight’s contest looking to rebound, this after suffering a first-round knockout loss to Santiago Ponzinibbio this past July in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Fighters react to tonight's UFC 231 war between Thiago Santos and Jimi Manuwa

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

Perennial UFC light heavyweight contenders Thiago Santos and Jimi Manuwa squared off on the main card of tonight’s UFC 231 event in Toronto, Canada. The scrap lived up to fans expectations as Thiago Santos and Jimi Manuwa seemingly threw caution to the wind in a fight that can only be described as an absolute war.

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UFC 231 Results and Highlights - Prelims

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

The octagon returns to Toronto, Ontario, Canada this evening for the promotions UFC 231 pay-per-view event. The fight card is headlined by a featherweight title fight featuring current champ Max Holloway taking on undefeated contender Brian Ortega.

Max Holloway, Brian Ortega
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UFC 231 Live Results

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

The octagon returns to Toronto, Ontario, Canada this evening for the promotions stacked UFC 231 pay-per-view event. The fight card is headlined by a highly anticipated featherweight title fight featuring current champ Max Holloway taking on undefeated contender Brian Ortega.

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Report | Brock Lesnar USADA sample goes missing from database

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

Don’t look now, but it appears that one of the samples submitted by Brock Lesnar to USADA has gone missing and is no longer logged in the company data base. The information comes courtesy of @dimspace, who noticed the discrepancy in USADA’s records.

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Tyron Woodley

Dana White once again blasts current UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley

Chris Taylor - December 8, 2018

UFC President Dana White is making it very clear that he is not at all happy with current UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. During a recent interview at the UFC 231 ceremonial weigh ins in Toronto, Dana White revealed that he is ready to move on from both Tyron Woodley and Colby Covington.

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Dana White 'done' with 'non-issue' regarding Rachael Ostovich and Greg Hardy on UFC Brooklyn, 'she doesn't care'

Drake Riggs - December 7, 2018

Recently, the UFC has caught some heat due to two fight card placements for their premiere event with ESPN in Brooklyn on January 19. The fights in question are the ones involving new UFC heavyweight prospect and former NFL star, Greg Hardy and flyweight prospect Rachael Ostovich.

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Ben Askren offers to face Kamaru Usman in place of Colby Covington

Drake Riggs - December 7, 2018

It appears that things are getting a bit scrambled atop the UFC’s 170-pound division. But that doesn’t mean that the fighters aren’t trying to create solutions of their own. After Kamaru Usman’s big win over Rafael Dos Anjos at The Ultimate Fighter 28 Finale, he was already back to working on his next fight as he announced that he had been offered Colby Covington for sometime in January.

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Opinion | Max Holloway's "Blessed Era" only more special as he battles back from adversity

Mike Pendleton - December 7, 2018

In the fight game, a recurring narrative surrounding fighters, coaches, and promotions is “what have you done for us lately?” and unfortunately, that sometimes leads to greatness being missed. For a perfect example of this, look at Max Holloway, who has been sidelined since he defended the UFC featherweight title against Jose Aldo at UFC 218 in December of 2017. The reason for Holloway being on the sideline so long is still mysterious, and while there are plenty of guesses as to what the issue was, we simply don’t know for sure. The problem with trying to diagnose Holloway and criticize the sound of his speech or the look of his body language is that, there has been plenty of precautions taken to make sure Holloway is healthy enough to fight.

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Tyron Woodley assures he is fighting Colby Covington next

Tom Taylor - December 7, 2018

Shortly after Kamaru Usman defeated Rafael dos Anjos last Friday night in Las Vegas, UFC President Dana White suggested that “The Nigerian Nightmare” might have stolen Colby Covington’s spot at the front of the contendership line and earned himself a title fight with reigning champ Tyron Woodley. “I would like to see [Usman] fight Woodley now after seeing that,” White told the media post-fight. “Listen, Colby Covington pulled out of the fight, didn’t defend his belt, this, that, and the whole thing. I’m one of these guys, when I just see a fight like this, I want to see Usman fight now. We’ll see what happens, though I’m not saying that’s the case. Sure [it’s possible].

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Top-10 flyweight Ben Nguyen announces UFC release

Tom Taylor - December 7, 2018

Another top flyweight has been released from the UFC. Shortly removed from the departures of Jared Brooks, Justin Scoggins, Roberto Sanchez, Jose Torres, Ulka Sasaki and of course, Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, Ben Nguyen has also parted ways with the promotion. Nguyen, who held the number 10 spot at flyweight in the latest UFC rankings, announced his release from the promotion on his Facebook page.

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Colby Covington says he will not accept anything less than a fight for the undisputed belt

Christopher Taylor - December 6, 2018

Colby Covington has not competed since June’s UFC 225 event in Chicago, where he defeated former lightweight title holder Rafael dos Anjos via unanimous decision to capture the promotions interim welterweight title. Following his impressive victory over “RDA”, it was expected that Colby Covington would compete in a title unification bout with reigning division champion Tyron Woodley in his next octagon appearance.

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Floyd Mayweather opens up on potential fights with Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov

Christopher Taylor - December 6, 2018

Floyd Mayweather may be preparing for his upcoming exhibition fight with Tenshin Nasukawa, but that hasn’t slowed the amount of questions the undefeated boxing legend is being asked about potential fights with UFC stars Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov. Floyd Mayweather has already competed against Conor McGregor inside of the squared circle. “Money” ultimately defeated the Irishman via tenth-round TKO in their highly anticipated fight in August of 2017.

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Dana White says current featherweight champion Max Holloway is 'too big' to keep fighting at 145-pounds

Christopher Taylor - December 6, 2018

UFC President Dana White believes current featherweight champion Max Holloway is ‘too big’ to keep fighting in the promotions 145-pound division. Max Holloway is set to put his featherweight title on the line against undefeated contender Brian Ortega in the main event of this Saturday’s UFC 231 event in Toronto.

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EXCLUSIVE | Chris Luttrell says move to Las Vegas has been amazing for Claudia Gadelha

Mike Pendleton - December 6, 2018

The UFC Performance Institute is not only a state-of-the-art facility with scientific advances available for fighters, sometimes it’s their new home. Such is the case for strawweight contender Claudia Gadelha who moved from Luttrell/Yee MMA to train full time at the Performance Institute. Looking for a place where everything she could possibly need from training to recovery and get the most attention from her coach Chris Luttrell, Gadelha decided to pack up and leave Albuquerque, New Mexico and move to Las Vegas so she could train there full time.

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Gunnar Nelson vows to help Conor McGregor prepare for Khabib Nurmagomedov rematch

Tom Taylor - December 6, 2018

Conor McGregor brought in a lot of top talent to help him prepare for his UFC 229 title fight with undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. One fixture of McGregor’s past training camps that wasn’t a part of these preparations for the Russian champion, however, was Icelandic welterweight contender Gunnar Nelson. Speaking to the media ahead of his UFC 231 fight with Alex Oliveira, Gunnar Nelson explained why he wasn’t a part of Conor McGregor’s training for Khabib Nurmagomedov.