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Jose Aldo To Defend Featherweight Belt At UFC 208, Max Holloway May Not Be Opponent

UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo is preparing to make the first defense of his newly handed title at UFC 208, and while the interim featherweight champion is Max Holloway, Holloway may not be the man that Aldo defends the gold…

Niko Price Replaces Sabah Homasi At UFC 207

Sabah Homasi has suffered an undisclosed injury and he is out of UFC 207. Replacing him against Brandon Thatch will be Niko Price. Price (8-0-0) will be making his UFC debut in this fight, after spending his entire eight fight…

Emil Meek Forced To Shaved Beard Before UFC 206

Emil Meek earned a unanimous decision win over the returning Jordan Mein in his UFC debut at UFC 206. The fighter did suffer a loss that weekend,  however — in the form of his beard. The Ontario Athletic Commission (OAC) forced…

UFC 206 Reebok Payouts, Live Gate, Attendance & Bonuses

Reebok Payouts Max Holloway: $30,000 def. Anthony Pettis: $15,000 Donald Cerrone: $20,000 def. Matt Brown: $20,000 Cub Swanson: $20,000 def. Dooho Choi: $2,500 Kelvin Gastelum: $5,000 def. Tim Kennedy: $5,000 Emil Meek: $2,500 def. Jordan Mein: $5,000 Misha Cirkunov: $2,500…

Anthony Pettis To Return To The Lightweight Division

Former UFC Lightweight Champion Anthony Pettis started off his run at featherweight by submitting Charles Oliveira at UFC On Fox 21, but after a failed weight cut and loss to Max Holloway at UFC 206, the former lightweight champion will…

UFC To Add Women’s Featherweight Division

Despite initially refusing to create a women’s featherweight division, UFC President Dana White recently announced to Fox Sports Australia that the women’s featherweight division will be coming to the promotion in 2017. There is an interesting catch to this story…

Lando Vannata Says His Spinning Head Kick KO Was Better Than Edson Barboza’s

There were plenty of highlights coming out of the UFC 206 event, but one of the biggest happened on UFC Fight Pass portion of the preliminary card when Lando Vannata knocked out John Makdessi with a spinning head kick — a spinning…

UFC Threatened To Not Participate In Congressional Hearing Due To Randy Couture

Last Thursday, the United States Congress took part in a special hearing to take a look at the sport of MMA and the possible participation of the Ali Act in the sport. According to Representative Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma), the UFC threatened…

UFC Fight Night 102 Reebok Payouts, Attendance, Live Gate & Bonuses

Reebok Payouts Derrick Lewis: $5,000 def. Shamil Abdurakhimov: $2,500 Francis Ngannou: $2,500 def. Anthony Hamilton: $2,500 Corey Anderson: $5,000 def. Sean O’Connell: $5,000 Gian Villante: $10,000 def. Saparbek Safarov: $2,500  Justin Kish: $2,500 def. Ashley Yoder: $2,500 Randy Brown: $2,500 def. Brian Camozzi: $2,500 Gerald Meerschaert:…

Matt Bessette/Kevin Croom Headlines CES MMA 41

The CES MMA Featherweight Title is going to be defended at CES MMA 41 as champion Matt Bessette will be defending the gold against Kevin Croom. Bessette (20-7-0) will be making the first defense of his featherweight championship, which he…