UFC NEWS

BJPENN.COM News - February 25, 2015

Recently the UFC announced that Cain Velasquez vs. Fabricio Werdum would headline UFC 188 in Mexico City on June 13th.

BJPENN.COM News - February 25, 2015

Old school!! #Machida Karate #karate Shotokan A video posted by Lyoto Machida (@lyotomachidafw) on Feb 23, 2015 at 9:25am PST

BJPENN.COM News - February 25, 2015

Josh Koscheck hasn’t been in the Octagon since he was KO’d by Tyron Woodley at UFC 167, over a year ago. The loss extended Koscheck’s losing streak to 3, and opened the door for retirement talks among fans, but not Koscheck.

BJPENN.COM News - February 25, 2015

Tá difícil galera,mas no próximo vou tentar tocar e cantar melhor.It is Hard but next time i will be better!! @pugetoliva #cizinho A video posted by Lyoto Machida (@lyotomachidafw) on Feb 24, 2015 at 9:15am PST

BJPENN.COM News - February 25, 2015

Conor McGregor has another “Thug Life”, or in this case, a “Tug Life” video! This clip comes from his recent fight against Dennis Siver in Boston. Check it out below.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

Heads up Fight Fans!

bjpenndotcom - February 24, 2015

Justin Buchholz of Team Alpha Male and Chris Carlino aka Sir Studboy returned on Thursday with another episode of the MMA video podcast, Stud Show Radio (formerly Team Alpha Male Radio).

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

Theo Rossi, AKA Juice from ‘Sons of Anarchy’, posted up himself in his freshly printed Roots of Fight official BJ Penn T-Shirt.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

“Until you know for sure you can’t say you know, but I would imagine the possibility (of Fedor having used PEDs) is high.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

“I’m very surprised, but I think [Silva’s] a victim. I think he’s a story. I prefer not to talk about that because it’s a very difficult situation. I have a lot of confidence in Anderson. I know that maybe he doesn’t use that. I’m in camp. He’s in America now. I haven’t talked to him for a while. I don’t know what happened. I prefer to stay away from this situation.” “I don’t know. Sometimes back in the day it was allowed to use steroids through TRT [testosterone replacement therapy], but suddenly they banned everything. I don’t know what happened. Maybe a couple guys still using TRT got caught. I try to be away from this stuff because I know it’s very dangerous.”

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

“Honestly, I would have thought long ago, if you would have asked me five years ago, I would have thought, gosh, Jon would have fallen off a cliff, because of the influences from all these idiots hanging out with him. I thought he would fall off the cliff. But Jon has good balance. Apparently he stood at the edge of the cliff, but he didn’t fall off, so now he’s getting back on the path.” “It’s disappointing that he’d be partying before a fight. With that being said, I don’t think it helped him in the fight, I think it probably hurt him in the fight, because partying…it’s taking away from his focus, and he’s not rehabbing the way he should. But, the main thing about it is, okay, now it’s out there, he did it, we got to fix it, he’s got to overcome it and be better for it. It’s so hard. I’m kind of like the older uncle yelling at him all the time.”

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

UFC champion Ronda Rousey gets a thug-life video ahead of this weekend’s UFC 184 main event title fight against Cat Zingano.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

“There’s no sugar-coating this, but the rankings are rather arbitrary. We don’t know much about this panel. How were they chosen? What credentials do they have to have to be on the panel? We have no clue about any of that. That’s very concerning to me, especially considering that our pay is soon going to be based off this system. What I know is that my money is directly correlated to who I fight that’s ranked ahead of me. The higher my own ranking gets, the more I get paid. I’ve got a sponsor that’s paying me $30 grand a fight, and I’m gonna lose that sponsor. That’s not good business, and there’s nothing I can do about that. From what I’m being told, the new sponsorship deal with Reebok is going to be way less than the sponsor I’m gonna lose. There’s one thing that’s an absolute guarantee with me. I’m either going to win big or I’m going to lose big. There’s no in-between for me, and you’re gonna remember my fight. I’m fearless when it comes down to it, winning or losing. I’m not afraid to be successful and I’m not afraid of failing. Because of that, I go at it as hard as I can. Joe Silva came right out and told me why they have me as the opening fight on the main card and that’s because I set the tempo for it. Even if you’re not my fan, you watch my fights because I’m polarizing enough for people to tune in just to see me get smoked. What that did, is it took away my name value. So you’re telling me that I’m gonna get the same sponsor money as the Number 12 ranked 45, 35, 25, and 15 pounders….Hell even the 55ers. Do we even know who the Number 12 ranked 55er is off the top of the head? Who’s the Number 12 ranked 85er? Who knows? I’ve got 13 fights in the UFC. That should count for something. I can’t really bitch and complain, because we haven’t been told a thing about it. We have no clue what’s going to happen with this sponsor money system at all. I could be getting my panties in a bunch for absolutely no reason at all. I have no clue. They might turn around and say, ‘If you have this many fights in the UFC, you’re guaranteed this amount of the sponsor money at this particular ranking.’ They could do all kinds of things. I have no clue, and I don’t know if the Fertittas and Dana even know exactly how it’s going to work. I would imagine that those details are being ironed out over the next couple months. In a longwinded rant, popular UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione tells Bloodyelbow.com’s Steph Daniels that he’s losing a guaranteed $30k per fight over the UFC’s new Reebok deal.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

Popular UFC lightweight James Krause is speaking out against the UFC’s new uniform deal, stating he’s at a loss of income since the UFC’s announcement.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

On episode #1 of UFC 184 Embedded, fight week begins and the best women’s bantamweights in the world prepare to take center stage. Reigning champion Ronda Rousey counters the pressure of a looming title fight with a day of video games; title challenger Cat Zingano trains in Colorado alongside recent UFC headliner Brandon Thatch. The stars of the co-main event also get in the gaming mindset, with Raquel Pennington braving the snow for a pre-fight massage while former boxing champion Holly Holm hits the gym in Albuquerque. UFC Embedded is an all-access, behind-the-scenes video blog leading up to the UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano title fight, taking place Saturday, February 28 on Pay-Per-View.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

UFC on FOX analysts, Brian Stann and Michael Bisping, breakdown this weekend’s UFC 184 main event between Ronda Rousey and Cat Zingano.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

Twitter is a place where smack talking is expected and respect is rarely earned.

BJPENN.COM News - February 24, 2015

More than a year in the making, Ronda Rousey vs. Cat Zingano finally goes down this weekend on pay-per-view. The female title fight, set for the Staples Center in Los Angeles, puts two undefeated female fighters on a collision course for the UFC belt.