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Chris Taylor - March 18, 2017

UFC Fight Night 107 Results: Brad Pickett vs. Marlon Vera A bantamweight scrap between Brad Pickett and Marlon Vera took place at today’s UFC Fight Night 107 event in London, England.

Chris Taylor - March 18, 2017

UFC Fight Night 107 Results: Arnold Allen vs. Makwan Amirkhan A lightweight bout between Arnold Allen and Makwan Amirkhan kicked off the main card of today’s UFC Fight Night 107 event in London, England.

bjpenndotcom - March 18, 2017

https://youtu.be/FK3Br3gvjvQ On the latest episode of UFC Tonight on Fox Sports 1, hosts Michael Bisping, Kenny Florian, and Karyn Bryant participated in a new segment called ‘Shot Caller’ where Bisping and Florian took turns impersonating ‘shot callers’ in the UFC, discussing their next fights.

Chris Taylor - March 18, 2017

UFC Fight Night 107 Results: Joseph Duffy defeats Reza Madadi A lightweight bout between Joseph Duffy and Reza Madadi served as the featured bout of today’s UFC Fight Night 107 prelims in London, England.

Chris Taylor - March 18, 2017

UFC Fight Night 107 Results: Marc Diakiese KO’s Teemu Packalen Round one begins and Marc Diakiese starts off quickly. He is bouncing around and looking to find his way inside. Diakiese leaps in and lands a huge right hand that absolutely floors Teemu. This one is all over folks. What an amazing knockout!

bjpenndotcom - March 18, 2017

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate recently retired in the midst of a 2-fight skid that saw her drop a submission loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 200, where she lost the bantamweight title, followed by a UFC 205 unanimous decision loss to Raquel Pennington. Tate explained that after 11 years fighting professionally, she no longer had it, and would be stepping away from the sport. While many believed that the move was an impulsive one, Tate has stuck to her retirement.

Chris Taylor - March 18, 2017

UFC Fight Night 107 Live Results Thread Unable to catch today’s UFC Fight Night 107 event in London, England? BJPENN.com has you covered! Stay glued to this page for up to the minute live results of all today’s fights.

bjpenndotcom - March 18, 2017

Unfortunate news surfaced this week that three fighters who competed on February’s ‘UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Dennis Bermudez’ card have all been suspended and fined for failing fight night drug tests for marijuana. According to MMAFighting, Niko Price, Curtis Blaydes, and Abel Trujillo have all been suspended 90 days and fined $1000 by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for the infraction, however USADA spokesman Ryan Madden has revealed that none of the fighters will be penalized by USADA given the fact that all of the men had less than 150ng/ml of marijuana metabolites in their system in samples collected.

bjpenndotcom - March 18, 2017

Streaking UFC welterweight prospect Alan Jouban is coming off an impressive unanimous decision win over ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry last year, which extended his win streak to 3 following back to back wins over Brendan O’Reilly and Belal Muhammad. During a recent interview with BJPenn.com, Jouban spoke about a variety of topics, including the highly anticipated return of former UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre, who will be returning to the Octagon later this year to fight Michael Bisping for the UFC middleweight championship.

bjpenndotcom - March 18, 2017

News surfaced Friday morning that Curtis Page, the father of Bellator MMA star Michael Page, is currently facing 22 sex-related charges, and has begun to appear in court. Page has been charged with 6 rapes, 14 incident assaults, and 2 counts of sex with a child under the age of 13, and is accused of committing said acts between 1985 and 1995. The prosecutor in the case recalled several horrifying incidents for the court, in which Page is accused of having sexually abused a female student after martial arts class on one occasion, before he then allegedly “raped her with a blade held to her throat and threatened to throw her out of the window of her 18th floor flat”.

bjpenndotcom - March 17, 2017

On this episode of American Animals, the Animals are here and ready to discuss the biggest news in MMA. First, we get a review of UFC Fortaleza and Kevin Gastelum’s TKO defeat of Vitor Belfort. Then, Ian and Erik are joined by Matt “The Immortal” Brown who is here to update us on what’s going on in his world, as well as what he is looking forward to in upcoming fights. Join us for this episode of American Animals! About us: You can email your questions and comments to info@2americananimals.com and find the show at www.2americananimals.com on the web, on social media at facebook.com/2AmericanAnimals and @2AmericanAnimal on Twitter and @2AmericanAnimals on Instagram.

Russell Ess - March 17, 2017

Chris Taylor - March 17, 2017

April’s UFC Nashville Fight Card is set! The octagon will return to Nashville on April 22 for UFC Fight Night 108, a thirteen-bout fight card headlined by a featherweight tilt between Artem Lobov and Cub Swanson.

bjpenndotcom - March 17, 2017

While an official date for Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre has yet to be announced, the UFC has officially announced that former welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre will be returning to the UFC later this year to fight UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping for the middleweight strap. While fight fans are rather excited for the booking, as former middleweight champion Chris Weidman pointed out, the fight holds up the rest of the middleweight division quite a bit.

bjpenndotcom - March 17, 2017

In the main event of UFC 209, Tyron ‘The Chosen One’ Woodley and Stephen Thompson stepped into the Octagon for a highly anticipated rematch that had been several months in the making. While both men stated prior to the fight that they were looking to go out and erase any doubts from their first meeting, where Woodley took a majority draw to retain the welterweight strap, the rematch was a rather lackluster affair that saw Thompson back Woodley against the cage as both men remained hesitant to open up with strikes. Ultimately, the fight was scored a majority decision for Woodley, who retained the belt once again.

bjpenndotcom - March 17, 2017

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo may currently be gearing up for his UFC 212 fight with Max Holloway on June 3rd to unify the interim and undisputed featherweight titles, however the UFC veteran has some long term plans of his own.

Chris Taylor - March 17, 2017

Former UFC interim bantamweight title challenger Michael “Mayday” McDonald (17-4 MMA) has been granted an official release from his contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship according to ESPN. McDonald cited “dishonest” business practices as his reasoning for requesting to be released by the promotion earlier this month.

Chris Taylor - March 17, 2017

Former UFC champion Vitor Belfort suffered his third-straight TKO loss this past weekend in Brazil at the hands of surging division contender Kelvin Gastelum. With that said, “The Phenom” knows that it is almost time to call it a career but he would first like to finish his career on a winning note.