UFC News

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

Jose Aldo was undoubtably and understandably devastated by his 13 second KO loss to Conor McGregor at UFC 194. After a world tour leading up to UFC 189, and then many more months of buildup leading to UFC 194, Aldo certainly felt the pressure going into the fight. In a recent interview with Combate, Aldo opened up on what the worst part about his loss to McGregor was, and why he is optimistic that a rematch would go differently.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

While Conor McGregor is an extremely polarizing figure in the world of MMA, there’s no doubt that when McGregor speaks about his motivation to be the best in the world, he is inspiring. One of McGregor’s recent quotes even has NBA superstar LeBron James motivated this season!

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

Wednesday afternoon UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, featherweight champion Conor McGregor, women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, and Miesha Tate all joined UFC President Dana White for the UFC 197 Press Conference. In addition, the fighters came face to face for staredowns for the first time.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

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bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

Earlier today in Las Vegas the UFC hosted the first UFC 197 press conference ahead of the highly anticipated March 5th event. On hand for the event was UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, and Miesha Tate.

Russell Ess - January 20, 2016

One of the most historic fights in UFC history is coming upon us as Conor McGregor will look to become the first fighter to simultaneously hold two championship titles in two different weight classes. McGregor has a tough task ahead of him in the lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos. Dos Anjos spoke with MMA Fighting recently about his outspoken opponent and the former featherweight king Jose Aldo.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

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Russell Ess - January 20, 2016

“Kenny Florian, stop copying and pasting man.” Those were the words from Dominick Cruz in his post-fight interview in the Octagon after taking the UFC bantamweight belt from T.J. Dillashaw. The verbal jab from Cruz was regarding Kenny Florian’s recent case of plagiarism on a fight breakdown he did on the FOX Sports website, which got him suspended from the media company.

Russell Ess - January 20, 2016

Matt Mitrione’s eye looks to be healing and looking much better than it did immediately after the fight with Travis Browne at UFC Fight Night 81 in Boston on Sunday. Mitrione posted a photo update after the fight and another at the doctor getting his swollen eye drained. Mitrione found out through doctors that he suffered a broken orbital floor in his controversial fight with Browne where Mitrione suffered two accidental eye pokes, which he feels hindered his abilities to fight to the best of his potential.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

UFC welterweight Matt Brown has earned a reputation for being one of the toughest fighters on the UFC roster. During his stint on The Ultimate Fighter season 7 Forrest Griffin even went as far as to state “If Chuck Norris was a human being and not an evil alien robot he would be Matt Brown.”

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

https://youtu.be/XEUsAoTg3Fk?list=PLYcz9c2MN1um-V_UcJFGr04AFqlZB8RIy Attempting to intimidate someone verbally in any scenario is one thing, to do it in the largest stage with all eyes on you before you step inside a cage to fight someone is a completely different level.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

Early Wednesday morning it was announced that Mike Tyson was the mystery character for EA Sports UFC 2. EA Sports broke the news on Instagram, which included a photo of ‘Iron’ Mike in the game.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

WOW! As if the hype surrounding EA Sports UFC 2 wasn’t enough before, now EA Sports has revealed that the mystery character in the game is none other than boxing legend ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

The UFC tentatively has reserved the Madison Square Garden on April 23rd for a highly anticipated Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier rematch at UFC 198 without knowing for certain whether or not New York will allow the UFC to host an event there. On January 19th the UFC requested a ruling from Judge Kimba Wood in regards to their Primary Injunction filed back in September.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

Since Dominick Cruz reclaimed his UFC bantamweight championship on Sunday night in Boston there has been much speculation as to who he would defend his title against first. While many felt that the fight with Dillashaw was close enough to warrant an immediate rematch, Urijah Faber played the role of the opportunist and called out Cruz within moments of ‘The Dominator’ reclaiming his belt.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

https://youtu.be/3AQ7dlmZIFU Today the UFC will hold its UFC 197 press conference ahead of the highly anticipated March 5th event.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

https://youtu.be/I7nIjdyDbTk On Friday tickets will go on sale for what is sure to be a historic UFC event. At UFC 197 on March 5th Conor McGregor will go up to lightweight to challenge Rafael Dos Anjos for the UFC lightweight championship.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

Former UFC fighter Cung Le went back to his bread and butter doing action films and he’s just as action packed as always.   In 2008 Le one the Strikeforce middleweight title and entered the UFC in 2011.   His first task was Wanderlei Silva at UFC 139, the scrap ended  in a TKO loss for Le.