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BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

Jump Front Kicking @danawhite @ufc pic.twitter.com/Cmfq0EF2oW — Sage Northcutt (@sagenorthcutt) October 8, 2015

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

Last week music icon Cher sent out a tweet, to her millions of fans, showing her support for UFC fighter Nick Diaz, who was handed a controversial five year suspension by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

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BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

https://youtu.be/-sG3uYg17ts ‘A flurry of early exchanges between Ben Rothwell and Brendan Schaub at UFC 145 ended in a thrilling knockout win for Rothwell.’

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier doesn’t feel the need to wear shirts, since he has no sponsors.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

UFC interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor has some of the best striking to watch. His movement and calm presence in the cage are something you don’t see from a lot of fighters.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

UFC fighter Roan Carneiro, aka Jucao, was scheduled to fight Gegard Mousasi at UFC Fight Night 75 but was forced to pullout with an injury. In his place Uriah Hall jumped in and well, you know what he did to Mousasi, finishing him in the second round with a highlight reel spinning kick and flying knee combo. After that fight Jucao took to twitter and said he would like to fight Hall when he returns from his injury. Unfortunately for him, Hall jumped right back into camp and will fill in for an injured Michael Bisping.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

Alright guys, we’re now on the home stretch and need a final big push to get this thing going. Nick Diaz’s official White House Petition has only a week left to meet its goal and only needs 27,286 more signatures. It’s currently at an astounding 72,714 signatures, that’s crazy! But, we need more. So, if you haven’t signed it yet, please do so, it takes just a moment of your day.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

UFC bantamweight fighter Raphael Assunção hasn’t fought since October of 2014, when he beat Bryan Caraway in a three round fight and earned the decision. After that fight, it was expected that he would be getting the next title shot, especially since he’s on a seven fight win streak. However, injuries have kept him out of action and he’s still recovering.

bjpenndotcom - October 9, 2015

[ooyala code=”52NXV2dzpKLgaCcRGvPH7-PX10nNLqjn” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ width=”1280″ height=”720″ auto=”true” autoplay=”true”] In a new interview with BJPENN.COM’s Layzie The Savage, UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos talks Reebok, his legacy, and the upcoming title fight against Donald Cerrone.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

Check out the video above and see which fighters Chael Sonnen put on his ‘top five MMA fighters of all time’ list.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

https://youtu.be/5NcEFZCC1TU In the clip above you can see UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey sending a video message to Steve Watts, an MMA fighter who suffered an injury during a fight that caused him to be paralyzed from the neck down. Rousey saw the story and decided to reach out to Watts, who then answered back.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

UFC bantamweight fighter Michael McDonald hasn’t fought since 2013, where he lost to Urijah Faber via guillotine choke in the second round. In a recent interview with ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, McDonald talked about his long layoff and said that he isn’t really interested in fighting for the UFC if they’re going to keep paying him what he’s been getting paid.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

https://youtu.be/0iYeIH-O4tc UFC champion Ronda Rousey and Joanna Jedrzejczyk will both defend their titles at UFC 192, on Nov 14 in Melbourne, Australia.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

“As of now, I’m still a freshman, because I’m 19. But last semester, I was taking full-time classes and the workload is so much that you really don’t get time to train. So I got to work out a little bit, work out, like, biceps and do some cardio, but not much time to train MMA. “So in the future, with more fights to come, I might actually take time off from school and take a break and train full-time. That might be a little scary for some people, because I think I’ll be a totally different animal out there training full-time.”

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

UFC bantamweight Jessica Andrade now plans on dropping some serious weight in order to get down to the strawweight division. Andrade who’s fought at 135 and went 4-3 in two years has now decided to make the drop after losing to Raquel Pennington in her last outing. Just last year Andrade talked about a move down and could be quoted saying that it was too much weight for her to drop. Well something must have changed because now she’s all for it and has already started to make the change.

BJPENN.COM News - October 9, 2015

“I support this idea, of course. In the NFL, Nike makes the uniforms, but teams still pay their athletes, the same goes for NBA. Life gets hard for fighters who are just starting and earn no pay-per-view money. We spend a lot with trainers, sparring partners, etc. Nobody in this day and age goes to a gym to be punched in the face for free. Whether we like it or not, we are susceptible to injuries which could leave us sidelined for a long time. That harms the fighter who only gets paid when he fights. If you’re hurt, there’s no income. It’s good to have sponsors, because that’s what keeps a fighter going.” UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo recently talked to Combate and said that he’s down for fighters getting a monthly salary. Aldo says training can get very expensive, especially for up and coming fighters. The champ also talked about when fighters get injured and can’t fight saying that it’s tough during that time because you aren’t getting paid.

BJPENN.COM News - October 8, 2015

https://youtu.be/jtYCjoldkys Thursday’s episode above!