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UFC Champ Frankie Edgar Says Back Injury Sidelined Him, Trying to Avoid Surgery
UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar UFC 130 was hit with a major blow this week when the main event lightweight title bout between champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard was called off...
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Strikeforce Champ Gilbert Melendez UFC Bound… ASAP
If there was any doubt that Strikeforce is in the depths of a vicious downward spiral, UFC president Dana White put any doubts to rest following UFC on Versus 6 on Saturday night in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleUFC President Wants Gilbert Melendez Now (video)
There’s much confusion and debate over Strikeforce champion Gilbert Melendez’s status within that promotion, but one thing is clear, UFC president Dana White wants him in the Octagon and he wants him...
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Bellator Champ Michael Chandler’s Upset of Eddie Alvarez Wasn’t an Upset to Him
While not many people could have predicted how 2011 went for current Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler, don’t count him among them. “I knew my 2011 was going to be three fights in the...
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Gilbert Melendez Wants to Fight the Best, but He’s Out on a Strikeforce Island
When Zuffa took over Strikeforce, they raided the roster, moving most of the top tier fighters to the UFC. Strikeforce champions Jake Shields, Dan Henderson, Alistair Overeem, and Nick Diaz quickly...
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XFC Strips Nick Newell of Lightweight Championship; New XFC 24 Headliner on Tap
XFC president John Prisco on Friday revealed that he is stripping lightweight champion Nick Newell of his belt for refusing to defend it. Prisco said that Newell was expected to defend his belt against...
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Nick Newell is Leaving the XFC; Decision Came Down to What’s Best for...
XFC president John Prisco on Friday revealed that he stripped lightweight champion Nick Newell of his belt for refusing to defend it. He placed Newell’s reasoning for turning down the fight on the idea...
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BJJ Match with Kron Gracie Next, Shinya Aoki Then Wants One FC Featherweight...
Fresh off of a ONE FC title win, Shinya Aoki will be returning to his grappling roots on Saturday when he takes on Kron Gracie at Metamorsis II. The Japanese veteran will compete with the BJJ world...
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After a Little Maintenance, Eric Reynolds Sees XFC 24 as Opportunity to Get...
It’s been nearly seven months since Floridian Eric “It’s A Wrap” Reynolds lost to Nick Newell for the XFC lightweight championship. And even though he’s had opportunities to return from that loss...
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Scott Holtzman Moves Beyond Nick Newell Fiasco, Zeroes In On John Mahlow and...
When MMAWeekly.com last spoke to Scott “Hot Sauce” Holtzman, he had just found out that his originally scheduled XFC 24 opponent, lightweight champion Nick Newell, decided to not defend his title....
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XFC 24 Results: Scott Holtzman Makes a Statement, Captures XFC Lightweight Title
Scott Holtzman seized the night at XFC 24 on Friday night at the Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla., capturing the vacant XFC lightweight title. Holtzman had initially planned on facing XFC champion Nick Newell...
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One FC Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki Set for a Drop to Featherweight
Shinya Aoki has been the most dominant lightweight in Asia for the better part of a decade, but the reigning ONE FC lightweight champion and former Dream, Shooto and WAMMA champion is set for a new...
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Benson Henderson: “I’ve Definitely Been Waiting to Get My Hands on Pettis Again”
UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson recently had his UFC 164 fight with TJ Grant derailed, only to find himself in a rematch with Anthony Pettis, the man that took his WEC belt. Henderson was...
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KOTC’s Victor Meza Now Considers Himself a True Champion Following Recent Win
Former Bellator fighter Victor Meza has hit his stride since leaving the promotion in 2009, having won five of six fights and claiming the King of the Cage lightweight championship in the process. Most...
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UFC Report: Lightweight Champion Anthony Pettis Injured, but Still Expected...
UFC lightweight champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis has reportedly suffered a knee, although it doesn’t appear serious enough to force him out of the first scheduled defense of his title. Pettis is...
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Shinya Aoki Plans to Defend ONE FC Lightweight Title and Challenge for...
Weight issues are on a lot of people’s minds in January as they look to live up to their New Year’s resolutions or lose some of the pounds they piled on at Christmas, but few people can be paying more...
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Titan Champ Rick Hawn Goes Out on Top: ‘I’m Fine with Knowing It’s My Time’
After six years and a 21-4 record, former Bellator title contender and most recent Titan FC lightweight champion Rick Hawn decided it was time to retire from MMA. Speaking to MMAWeekly.com for the...
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WSOF 29 Results and Highlights: Justin Gaethje Takes Out Brian Foster to...
World Series of Fighting lightweight champion Justin Gaethje kept his record unblemished on Saturday night in Greeley, Colo., by chopping down Brian Foster less than two minutes into their headlining...
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Bellator Cuts Lightweight Champ Will Brooks, Strips Heavyweight Champion...
Bellator MMA on Saturday released disgruntled lightweight champion Will Brooks from his contract and stripped the heavyweight belt from Vitaly Minakov. Though he’s one of the top lightweight fighters...
View ArticleUFC Fight Night 90 Video: Rafael Dos Anjos – Warrior Code
UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos discusses what makes him the ultimate warrior in the Octagon. Don’t miss Dos Anjos defend his title for the second time, when he faces Eddie Alvarez at UFC...
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Dana White and Conor McGregor Continue to Battle Over Dual Belts
It had long been a theoretical battle, but now the war of words has become a reality. After granting featherweight champion Conor McGregor a shot at Eddie Alvarez and the lightweight title, UFC...
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Conor McGregor Says UFC Isn’t Fooling Nobody with Those Fake Belts
Conor McGregor etched his name forever in the record books at UFC 205 by becoming the first fighter in UFC history to hold two belts in different weight divisions at the same time. He walked through...
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Conor McGregor Puts Boxing World on Notice
Although Conor McGregor’s recent decision to attain a boxing license in the state of California is far from any reasonable intent to fight the oft rumored, but mostly mythological, bout with retired...
View ArticleConor McGregor Still Flying Around with Two UFC Belts… No Army in Sight
Call it relinquishing the belt, call it stripping the belt, call it what you want… Conor McGregor doesn’t appear to be listening. Although the UFC has promoted an interim UFC featherweight title fight...
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UFC Inks Justin Gaethje, Former WSOF Lightweight Champ
With the World Series of Fighting making the shift to the seasonal-based Professional Fighters League, the UFC has been busy scooping up the promotion’s former champions. On the heels of signing the...
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