UFC News

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

Shortly after it was announced that Conor McGregor would be moving up to lightweight to fight Rafael dos Anjos for the lightweight strap at UFC 197 on March 5th, it was revealed that McGregor could even go up to welterweight to challenge Robbie Lawler for his welterweight championship. At the UFC 197 press conference Wednesday afternoon McGregor once again brought up the possibility of fighting at welterweight, further adding to the hype surrounding ‘Notorious’ fighting in a 3rd weight class.

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.

bjpenndotcom - January 20, 2016

There is a fine line between confidence and cockiness and this fighter found out real quick that your skills better match your cockiness.

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

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