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Chris Taylor - December 9, 2016

A light heavyweight bout between Corey Anderson and Sean O’Connell took place on tonight’s UFC Fight Night 102 main card in Albany, New York. Round one begins and O’Connell starts things off with a leg kick. Anderson circles out and then comes in with a combination. Sean with a nice kick to the body. He presses forward and lands a left. Anderson grabs a hold of O’Connell and slams him to the floor. Corey moves immediately to side control and begins working some knees to the body. O’Connell gets back to half guard but eats some short shots and elbows for his troubles. Anderson with some short right hands from the half guard position. He has Sean pressed against the cage and switches to elbows. More good short right hands from Anderson. Two minutes remain. Big elbows now from Anderson. O’Connell scrambles and tries to stand back up. He utilizes the cage to wall walk but Anderson trips him back down to the canvas. O’Connell keeps battling and manages to get back to his feet. Anderson takes him right back down however and once again begins unloading some heavy ground and pound. Corey is working from half guard and landing some good short left hands. Round one comes to an end.

Chris Taylor - December 9, 2016

A light heavyweight bout between Gian Villante and Saparbek Safarov kicked off tonight’s UFC Fight Night 102 main card in Albany, New York. Round one begins and Safarov opens with a leg kick and then a stiff jab. Villante answers back with a hard leg kick of his own. Gian lands a nice shot that opens up a cut on Saparbek. Villante circles and then comes in with a nice body shot. Safarov with a nice leg kick. Villante comes forward and lands a big shot that drops Safarov. Saparbek gets back up and eats a huge uppercut for his efforts. He’s back on the floor and Gian comes in with punches from the top. Villante opts to let Safarov back up. Saparbek charges forward with punches. He lands a shot but then eats a right hand from Villante. Another crisp jab scores for Gian. Safarov throws a front kick and it connects low. We break so that Gian can recover from the groin shot. We restart and Villante lands a big shot. Safarov returns fire with a nice combination. He lands a big shot that drops Villante. Gian pops right back up but he eats another hard right hand. Saparbek presses him against the cage and works a knee. The fighters break off of the fence and Safarov lands another nice counter right hand. Gian with a leg kick. Saparbek with a right hand. Round one comes to an end.

Chris Taylor - December 9, 2016

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Russell Ess - December 9, 2016

UFC Hall of Famer and two-division champion, BJ Penn, will make his anticipated return back to the octagon on January 15 at UFC Fight Night 103 against Yair Rodriguez. As the former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion, Penn will be eyeing to win his third title, now in the featherweight division.

Russell Ess - December 9, 2016

There is a UFC interim featherweight title on the line in the main event of UFC 206, which takes place at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Saturday night.

bjpenndotcom - December 9, 2016

"You don't take that advice. You don't listen to a doctor."- @bisping on Anthony Pettis. #UFC206 https://t.co/qt8NfxmQZk — FOX Sports: UFC (@UFCONFOX) December 9, 2016

bjpenndotcom - December 9, 2016

Back in July, ‘The Chosen One’ Tyron Woodley picked up the biggest win of his MMA career as he knocked out reigning UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler in the first round of their UFC 201 main event scrap to claim the UFC welterweight championship. Following the win, Woodley sparked some controversy as he shut down welterweight #1 contender Stephen Thompson on the Fox Sports 1 post-fight show, opting to call out former welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre, and MMA veteran Nick Diaz. Diaz, who was still suspended at the time of the callout, was ineligible to fight due to not paying his fine with the NSAC.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

Until this morning, Anthony Pettis had never missed weight for a fight. Now, that’s a claim he can unfortunately no longer make. The former lightweight champion and current featherweight contender was regrettably unable to make the featherweight division’s 145-pound limit for his planned UFC 206 interim title fight with Max Holloway.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

On Friday morning, we learned that former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis had missed weight for his UFC 206 interim featherweight title fight with Max Holloway. Though this weigh-in miss will thankfully not force the cancellation of their bout, it will nix Pettis’ chances of winning interim featherweight gold. Holloway will still be crowned interim champion with a win, but Pettis will not. Needless to say, this was a disappointing twist for fight fans. Perhaps nobody was more disappointed by the news, however, than UFC President Dana White, who has been bending over backwards trying to keep the UFC 206 lineup from falling apart.

Russell Ess - December 9, 2016

UFC fan favorite Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone caught a lot of people’s attention with his injury that he claims was from a real accident. Just weeks away from his fight against Matt Brown at UFC 206 taking place in Toronto, Canada, Cerrone posted a video of a gruesomely injured eye. Cerrone explained to MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani at a UFC 206 media interview that he doctored his actual injury up just to get some attention.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

On Saturday night, on the main card of UFC 206, South Korean featherweight prospect Doo Ho Choi will face the toughest test of his career in Cub Swanson. If he’s able to pass this test, he’ll move to 4-0 in the UFC’s crowded featherweight division, and emerge as a legitimate title contender. Unfortunately, there’s a bit of a cloud hanging over Choi’s rapid rise up the featherweight ranks: he could soon be forced out of action to partake in two years of mandatory military service.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

In mixed martial arts, athletic commissions are known for their strange policies and their iron-fisted enforcement of those policies. The latest manifestation of this reputation occurred this morning, when the Ontario Athletic Commission, who will oversee UFC 206 in Toronto, forced main card fighter Emil Meek to shave his trademark beard. Failure to do so, they said, would result in his expulsion from the card. Meek took to Facebook to announce that he’d been asked to shave his beard early Friday morning. Unsurprisingly, he wasn’t pleased by this development.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

Tomorrow night, the UFC will return to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the first time since 2013. The organization will do so with UFC 206, a card that has been battered by fighter withdrawals and other issues from the moment it was announced. This morning, the 24 fighters on this 12-fight card took to the scale to weigh in for battle. Unfortunately, a whopping three fighters on the bill failed to make their contracted weights.

bjpenndotcom - December 9, 2016

Jose Aldo and the UFC have been at odds over the last several months. After being knocked out by Conor McGregor in just 13 seconds at UFC 194, Aldo hoped for an immediate rematch with the Irish superstar, in hopes of reclaiming his featherweight championship. After Conor McGregor moved up to welterweight for a fight with Nate Diaz at UFC 196, Aldo fought Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 for the interim featherweight title in a fight which saw Aldo pick up a unanimous decision win.

bjpenndotcom - December 9, 2016

Friday morning, unfortunate news surfaced that former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis had missed weight for his UFC 206 interim featherweight title fight with Max Holloway Saturday night in the main event of the Toronto-based card. Unfortunately, Pettis missing weight by three pounds forced the UFC to make it so that the fight would only be an interim featherweight title fight for Holloway. For ‘Showtime’ on the other hand, the fight would be just another fight, his second at featherweight. In addition, Pettis was forced to give up 20% of his purse to Holloway.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

Earlier this morning, news broke that Anthony Pettis had missed weight for his interim featherweight title fight with Max Holloway, which was scheduled to serve as the main event of Saturday night’s UFC 206. Now that the dust of Pettis’ unfortunate weigh-in miss has settled, the UFC has announced how it will proceed with the bout.

Tom Taylor - December 9, 2016

Good news for Jon Jones fans. The former light heavyweight champion and pound-for-pound great has reached an agreement with the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC). He has been suspended for one year. Because this suspension is retroactive to July 7, 2016, he’ll be able to fight again on July 7 of the coming year. This suspension matches the one-year suspension Jones was handed by the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA). This news comes from MMAJunkie.com.

Russell Ess - December 8, 2016

UFC 207 will end another exciting year of mixed martial arts for the UFC.