UFC NEWS

BJPENN.COM News - February 20, 2013

The Ultimate Fighter returned on FX with the fifth episode of the season – “The Reflection of Perfection”. The youngest man in TUF history, twenty-one-year-old Kelvin Gastellum made quite a debut on Tuesday night submitting Mixed Martial Arts veteran (Robert) Bubba McDaniel, 20-6 in MMA, in the second round. In seemingly the best fight of the season so far, according to coach Chael Sonnen, Gastellum sunk in a rear naked choke at 2:38 of the second to secure his win over coach Jon Jones’ Albuquerque teammate.

bjpenndotcom - February 20, 2013

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2013

Donald “The Cowboy” Cerrone will take on KJ Noons at UFC 160 in a bout with Fight of the Night written all over it. Cerrone will be looking for an opportunity to bounce back from a loss to Anthony “Showtime” Pettis. One which left The Cowboy doubled over in pain from a few very hard body kicks to the liver. Donald Cerrone is sure to come out guns blazing in effort to keep his name in the mix among the top ten lightweights in the world.

Julien Solomita - February 19, 2013

A light heavyweight battle has been added to the quickly improving Memorial Day Weekend UFC 160 card. Ryan Bader (15-3) is set to fight Glover Teixeira (20-2), a fight that will be Teixiera’s fourth fight in just the last year. Both light heavyweights have recently taken down the common opponent of Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Teixiera with relentless striking, and Bader with his takedowns. Bader has relied more and more on his wrestling and takedown base since his knockout loss to Lyoto Machida in August, and has since been resilient with a first round UFC on Fox 6 submission victory over Vladimir Matyushenko.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2013

Dana White has always favored fighters who step up and take fights when they are called upon. He has always shown love for a guy who comes out and says, ‘I want to fight this guy! Please make it happen.’ On the other hand, when a fighter does the opposite and says, ‘I DONT want to fight that guy,’ not only does it look bad in the eyes of the UFC President, it enrages UFC VP for Talent Relations Joe Silva, as proclaimed by Dana White at the UFC on Fuel 7 Media Scrum: “I can tell you this man, you f@$%ing call Joe Silva and turn down a fight, you might as well say f@$%ng rip up my contract,” He also said, “He’s a mean little f@$%er. You don’t call Joe Silva and tell him you don’t want to f@$%ing fight anybody man. You might as well take the fight because it’s going be worse if you don’t. You might as well do it, f@$% it, I’ll fight him.”

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2013

When Rory MacDonald withdrew from UFC 158 with a neck injury, it left Carlos Condit withour an opponent. Not one to seize an opportunity, Johny Hendricks stepped up and took the co-main event fight. However, this left Hendrick’s original opponent, Jake Ellenberger, in the same position Condit was just in. There was talk of Tyron Woodley, Nate Marquardt, and even Damian Maia filling in against Ellenberger. In the end, the UFC decided on Nate Marquardt, who is starting his second stint with the organization.

BJPENN.COM News - February 19, 2013

It was announced yesterday that Johny Hendricks will face Carlos Condit as an injury replacement for Rory MacDonald at UFC 158 in Montreal on March 16. Below are official statements from Carlos Condit and his manager, Malki Kawa, regarding the change.

bjpenndotcom - February 18, 2013

In an interview with UFC Tonight’s Ariel Helwani, Matt Hughes talks about his new job as a liaison with the UFC, and his retirement from fighting in the organization. “I’m 39 years old, I’m not getting any quicker, I’m getting slower and it’s time to hang the gloves up.”

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

“Dana is mistaken. There is no ‘crew rolling around Stockton’ and Nick did not ‘miss’ three interviews. In fact, several earlier dates were arranged without Nick’s knowledge and with no notice to Nick. When Nick learned what had happened, I assisted him in arranging a date and time directly (Thursday, Feb. 14). Nick arrived early and was in good spirits at that Feb. 14 date – the one and only date he knew about in advance. Nick requires things to be done in an organized and orderly manner. That is the kind of professional he is.” Jonathan Tweedale, a lawyer with the Nick Diaz camp, told MMAWeekly.com that Nick Diaz has not missed his countdown show obligations as Dana White Claims.

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

“This will be last time that I will talk about TRT I never hide from UFC that I was on the treatment but I admit that I didn’t admit to the press. I confess that this was my mistake I am MAN enough to admit my mistakes So from now on, guys please don’t fight me if u going to use this as a excuse that’s it. I never lie and never hide from UFC.” Vitor Belfort took to Twitter to vent his frustration with the recent demonizing of TRT by Michael Bisping and other MMA figures.

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

bjpenndotcom - February 18, 2013

Over the weekend Dana White confirmed his knowledge of Former Women’s StrikeForce Featherweight Champion, Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, signing with Invicta Fighting Championship. An all women’s organization in which Santos could find an opponent at 145 lbs. The confusion comes into play after Santos signed with Invicta, not because she is going to be fighting with the organization, but because the UFC was going to have her fight for the organization while still employing her as a UFC fighter. She would have had a UFC contract, she would have been privileged benefits as other UFC fighters, and she would have had the greatest MMA organization in the world at her back, as stated by UFC President Dana White: “We were going to sign her to a contract and then we were going to have her fight in Invicta, which means we’d pay all the bills for her to fight in Invicta. She’d be under a UFC contract with all the perks and benefits of being a UFC fighter, and would fight in Invicta. So instead of doing that, they chose to not do that and fight in Invicta. If you can make logic out of that whole f****** situation, you’re a better man than I”

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

Real Sports 191: Ronda Rousey Ronda Rousey has quickly become the most publicized MMA Fighter in the world. In this clip we get a lok at her HBO special with Bryant Gumbel. `

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

We’ve been training from day one, when she took the title, for this fight. We just finally got the opportunity.” Liz Carmouche Faces Ronda Rousey this weekend in Anaheim at UFC !57.

BJPENN.COM News - February 18, 2013

bjpenndotcom - February 16, 2013

Below are the post fight performance bonuses for UFC on Fuel TV 7 at the Wembley Arena in London. Fight of the Night (FOTN) Bonus: Watson vs Stanislav Nedkov

BJPENN.COM News - February 16, 2013

Immediately following today’s UFC on FUEL TV 7’s main event, BJPENN.COM will be hosting a live feed of the UFC post-fight press conference. Tune in here and use the player below to catch all the action.