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Tom Taylor - November 2, 2017

After dominating Demian Maia to a unanimous decision, and setting the MMA community on fire with a heated post-fight speech, Colby Covington believes he’s ready for a title fight with welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. And while Woodley has been dismissive of this possibility, Covington believes the champ needs him far more than he knows. “It only makes sense,” Covington said of his possible title shot on the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio. “Me and Tyron Woodley for the world championship, first quarter next year in St. Louis, Missouri. Tyron Woodley needs me. Tyron Woodley is not a likeable guy, he fights like shit, he’s boring, no one wants to see him fight unless he’s fighting a guy like me who a lot of people hate. All of Brazil hates me. You know, so he needs me. He needs a bad guy where people are going to team up on his side and actually believe in him and want to root for him because no one wants to root for Tyron Woodley, that guy’s not a draw, he’s a joke. He needs Colby “Chaos” Covington versus Tyron Woodley in St. Louis, first quarter of next year.”

Justin Golightly - November 2, 2017

Just a couple of more sleepless nights until UFC 217 is finally upon us. Michael Bisping will defend his UFC middleweight title against the returning Georges St-Pierre, which is a huge fight for any card. However, even the biggest of fights always have us all asking what will come next. St-Pierre has said he’s contractually bound to fight Robert Whittaker next if he becomes champion again on Saturday. Dan Hardy has another idea as to what St-Pierre might decided to do. “[Georges St-Pierre] said himself in his contract for the title fight against [Michael] Bisping that it’s in there that he defends against [Robert] Whittaker immediately afterwards. I think that he would, I think that he would take a fight against Whittaker. Against someone like Rockhold, I don’t think he would. I think he would rather relinquish the belt and maybe go for [Tyron] Woodley. But I think alternatively, I think he may fight Bisping and if he wins and takes the belt I think he’ll challenge Tyron Woodley straight away. You know, he comes back, he fights twice, he wins two belts and then he retires. That’s a good gamble in my eyes.”

Tom Taylor - November 2, 2017

Last month, it was announced that Norway’s Emil Meek will be taking on 11th-ranked UFC welterweight Kamaru Usman at UFC 219. Shortly after this fight was announced, however, Usman began suggesting that Meek might not show up, and that the UFC was attempting to book Colby Covington as his replacement opponent. When Covington denied these claims, Usman accused him of ducking. Speaking on Wednesday’s edition of BJ Penn Radio, Meek reiterated that, despite Usman’s claims, he still has every intention of showing up to fight at UFC 219, and that he finds Usman’s ducking accusations of Covington a little strange.

Tom Taylor - November 2, 2017

Last weekend, moments after taking out former welterweight title challenger Demian Maia, Colby Covington unleashed a fiery post-fight callout of Tyron Woodley. During this callout of the champ, Covington also referred to Brazil as a “a dump,” and its people as “filthy animals.” These remarks generated a tidal wave of controversy. In the opinion of Covington’s good friend and training partner Jorge Masvidal, however, this controversy has been a little overblown. “What was he supposed to say?” Masvidal queried on the latest episode of BJ Penn Radio. “‘I love Brazil, I love you guys’ like every other fake fucking fighter that goes over there and says that, though they got spit on, pushed, shoved and they chanted all types of shit? The guy actually spoke from the heart and he gets crucified for it.”

Tom Taylor - November 2, 2017

Mickey Gall seems to be as famous for his post-fight callouts as he is for his fights themselves. That, after all, is how he earned high-profile scraps with pro wrestling superstar CM Punk and popular prospect Sage Northcutt. Gall’s next fight will occur on the undercard of UFC 217 this weekend, when he will take on Randy Brown. Speaking to Ariel Helwani at the UFC 217 media day this week, he divulged that he’s already got another name to call out if he wins this fight.

Tom Taylor - November 2, 2017

Last weekend, Lyoto Machida returned from a lengthy hiatus to battle the dangerous Derek Brunson. Unfortunately for Machida and his fans, this comeback fight went disastrously, as he was knocked senseless inside the first frame. In the wake of this loss, Machida was initially quite silent. Now, however, the former light heavyweight champion has finally broken his silence, having issued a lengthy statement on Instagram.

Tom Taylor - November 2, 2017

Last weekend, in the main event of the UFC’s action packed returned to Sao Paulo, Brazil, Derek Brunson shot up the middleweight rankings with a first-round drubbing of Lyoto Machida. Post-fight, when pressed by on-duty color commentator Daniel Cormier, Brunson issued a fun callout of former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold.

Justin Golightly - November 1, 2017

If it’s attention Colby Covington wanted, attention he got. He took out former UFC welterweight title challenger Demian Maia, trashed Brazil, called out Tyron Woodley, and later spoke out against American Top Team co-founder Ricardo Liborio. Ben Saunders, fellow welterweight and ATT member, didn’t take too kindly to any of Covington’s comments. Matter of fact, he got super heated and decided to get some stuff off his chest. This resulted in a profanity-laced video that would make any bleep button sound like a Morse code distress message.  “Killa B” Ben Saunders with an emotionally charged message for Colby Covington. https://t.co/UMUtglv0Xi pic.twitter.com/pepuWQY5WS

Jason Kindschy - November 1, 2017

BJPENN Radio returns tonight at 8PM ET/5PM PT with more great guests! 8:15PM ET– Kicking things off, we are joined by a man stealing all the headlines this week, Colby Covington. Following the biggest win of his career over the weekend against Demian Maia, and the post-fight interview that made “Chaos” the most talked about guy in MMA right now, we’ll be recapping the fight and discussing all the controversy.

Justin Golightly - November 1, 2017

The UFC is coming back to Australia in February for UFC 221. According to a report by Perth Now, Robert Whittaker is scheduled to appear, which definitely makes sense for the hard-hitting Aussie. It was natural to assume that UFC interim middleweight champ Whittaker and whoever comes out the actual middleweight champion at UFC 217, would attempt to unify the titles at UFC 221. However, Michael Bisping put a cork in those plans if he’s still got the strap after this Saturday. “Yeah, yeah [UFC 221 on February 11th is a quick turnaround]. I’m not awfully keen on fighting down in Australia. I mean, my wife’s Australian. I’ve fought in Australia three or four times already from one career. My next fight, if I have any say in it, is going to be in Manchester. Obviously, I don’t own the UFC, but If I beat Georges [St-Pierre] I’d like to think I still get a bit of say in it. I’d like that to be in Manchester, but we’ll see.”

Russell Ess - November 1, 2017

If you are not one that has added to the 35 million plus views on the Conor McGregor vs The Mountain YouTube video, the topic has been brought up once again for you to take a look. Back in 2015, ahead of his UFC featherweight title unification bout against Jose Also, “The Notorious” spent some time doing some rather playful sparring with Icelandic strongman Hafthor Bjornsson, who some may know better as Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane from “Game of Thrones.”

Justin Golightly - November 1, 2017

Earlier this month, we got a sneak peak behind the scenes of the new EA Sports UFC 3 video game thanks to Angela Hill in a motion capture suit. Other than that, we haven’t gotten much news about the third installment in the EA UFC franchise. For those who wanted more, a new teaser dropped today letting us know that we have a full trailer to look forward to this Friday. We get flashes of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Demetrious Johnson, Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva and Conor McGregor. It also gives us reason to put on our tinfoil hats regarding a very interesting freeze frame. Get Ready for Round 3 #EAUFC3

Tom Taylor - November 1, 2017

For months, UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal and UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping have exchanged venomous trash talk in interviews and on social media. Given that they’re both scheduled to fight at UFC 217 in New York City this Saturday, it seemed like a matter of time before they crossed paths in person and all hell broke loose. Well, it finally happened.

Justin Golightly - November 1, 2017

Leading up to UFC 217, Joanna Jedrzejczyk has been her most intimidating yet. Her entire language has leveled up from its usual confidence, to near super villain levels. She’s out here tearing her long sleeve shirts with elbows in training and declaring her dominance will never endure so much as a hiccup. Some people may be writing her challenger Rose Namajunas out, but Jedrzejczyk is preparing like she’s about to fight a war. In startling contrast to this, the UFC strawweight champ answered 25 of Us Magazine‘s questions on everything from hip hope music and weird habits.  1. My fans always pump me up before a fight, so I like to see them right before I go out and I fight for them.

Russell Ess - November 1, 2017

UFC Fight Night 119 took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil over the weekend. Colby Covington made a lot of noise there in Brazil after beating the most recent UFC welterweight title challenger, Demian Maia. Covington lashed out at the fans in Brazil and made some people upset, despite later explaining he is just having fun with promoting himself.

Tom Taylor - November 1, 2017

Here’s a preview of what to expect on November 4th at #UFC217. Thanks to @BudLightCA for making it happen. #sponsor pic.twitter.com/rEiTeJUaCX — Georges St-Pierre (@GeorgesStPierre) November 1, 2017

Tom Taylor - November 1, 2017

This weekend, the UFC will return to New York City’s hallowed Madison Square Garden with the stacked UFC 217. In the main event of this massive card, former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre will return from a multi-year hiatus to battle reigning UFC middleweight champion Michael “The Count” Bisping. The co-main event of the card, finally, will see bantamweight champ Cody Garbrandt and challenger TJ Dillashaw settle a long-standing beef, while the card will also feature a third title fight as strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk attempts to defend her strap against Rose Namajunas.

Tom Taylor - November 1, 2017

This weekend, in the main event of the stacked UFC 217 card, former UFC welterweight king Georges St-Pierre will return from a hiatus of some four years to battle reigning middleweight champ Michael Bisping. While plenty of people are confident St-Pierre will be as sharp as ever in his return, others are worried that he will be effected by ring rust. His coach Firas Zahabi, however, doesn’t think this will be an issue.