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Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

A bantamweight bout between Felipe Arantes and Erik Perez took place during tonight’s UFC Fight Night 98 prelims in Mexico City. Round one highlights:

Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

A bantamweight scrap between Marco Beltran and Joe Soto took place on tonight’s UFC Fight Night 98 prelims in Mexico City. Round one begins and Joe Soto scores a quick takedown. He immediately drops back for a heel hook and the submission is in tight. Wow! This one is all over. What a performance from Joe Soto!

Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

A bout between Max Griffin and Eric Montano took place during tonight’s UFC Fight Night 98 prelims in Mexico City. Max Griffin pounced on Eric Montano early and was able to score a quick TKO finish after some nasty ground and pound.

Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

A bantamweight bout between Henry Briones and Douglas Silva de Andrade kicked off the UFC Fight Night 98 prelims on FS1. Both men were happy to trade shots early, as round one began with a furious exchange of punches.

Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

A bout between Marco Polo Reyes and Jason Novelli served as the second fight of tonight’s UFC Fight Night 98 event in Mexico City. Novelli starts things off with a leg kick. Reyes replies with a right hand. Marco is circling trying to find his way inside. Novelli with another leg kick. Reyes is applying the pressure. He misses with a jab to the body but lands a follow up overhand left. A nice body kick scores for Novelli. He circles away and misses with a right. Reyes misses with a looping left. Novelli shoots in and scores a takedown. Reyes pops right back up to his feet. Novelli retreats but lands an eye poke on Reyes. After a very brief break we are back to the action. Reyes with a leg kick. He presses forward with a combination. Round one comes to an end.

Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

A featherweight bout between Chris Avila (5-4 MMA) and Enrique Barzola (13-3-1 MMA) kicked off tonight’s UFC Fight Night 98 event in Mexico City. Round one begins and Barzola scores with a nice combination to start. He shoots in and scores a quick takedown on Avila. Chris is able to scramble right back to hit feet. Nice leg kicks from Barzola. Avila returns fir with a right. Both men exchange nice shots. Barzola gets a hold of Avila and presses him against the fence. He is able to pick Avila up and slam him to the floor. Avila is doing a nice job of preventing Enrique from entering his guard. Eventually Barzola does break through the defense of Avila but Chris again scrambles and gets back to his feet. Barzola just misses with a big right hand. He scores with a body shot and then a body kick. He shoots in and scores a single leg takedown. Barzola with some shots. Avila gets up to his feet. Barzola has him pressed against the cage. He scores with a right and then they break. A big leg kick lands for Enrique. Round one comes to an end.

Chris Taylor - November 5, 2016

Unable to catch tonight’s UFC Fight Night 98 event in Mexico City? BJPENN.com has you covered. Stay glued to this page for up to the minute live results from tonight’s fight card. The event is headlined by a key lightweight contest featuring former division title holder Rafael dos Anjos taking on the always dangerous Tony Ferguson.

bjpenndotcom - November 5, 2016

Recently, it was revealed that UFC middleweight Tom Lawlor had been notified of a potential USADA anti-doping violation stemming from a random out-of-competition drug test back in October.

bjpenndotcom - November 5, 2016

Friday afternoon, #8 ranked UFC featherweight Charles ‘Do Bronx’ Oliveira stepped onto the scale to weigh-in for his ‘The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America 3’ Finale scrap with Ricardo Lamas on Saturday. Oliveira hit the scales and weighed-in a whopping nine pounds overweight, nearly an entire weight-class, 10 pounds over the featherweight limit if taking into account the extra pound allowance for fighters when weighing-in for non-title fights.

bjpenndotcom - November 5, 2016

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bjpenndotcom - November 5, 2016

Legendary NHL enforcer Tie Domi earned the reputation as one of the most feared men on the ice throughout the course of his 17 year professional hockey career, during which he was involved in numerous iconic fights.

bjpenndotcom - November 5, 2016

On January 21st, former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz, and former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen will step into the cage under the Bellator MMA banner in a highly anticipated matchup. When Sonnen celebrated the end of his two-year suspension several months ago, it was announced that he was coming out of retirement, and had already signed an exclusive multi-fight contract with Bellator MMA. In addition, Sonnen called out former UFC champ Tito Ortiz for his first Bellator MMA fight. Ultimately, the pair were booked to fight in the main event of Bellator 170 on January 21st, a date targeted by Ortiz due to the fact that it’s just two days before his birthday.

bjpenndotcom - November 5, 2016

UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping is an extremely polarizing figure. ‘The Count’ is never one to shy away from speaking his mind, even when it means he faces backlash from his fellow fighters, or the MMA community. For example, after his UFC 204 win over Dan Henderson in Manchester, England, last month, Bisping took time out of his post-fight Octagon interview to shred the rest of the top ranked middleweights. Despite a 5-fight win streak that has seen him go 3-0 over the course of 2016, winning the middleweight championship by knocking out Luke Rockhold on just two weeks notice before then defending the belt just months later by defeating Dan Henderson via unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 204.

bjpenndotcom - November 4, 2016

https://youtu.be/StOcgp-bBf4 With just over a week to go until UFC 205, the UFC’s historic inaugural event at the Madison Square Garden, the anticipation for the stacked fight card is at an all-time high.

Russell Ess - November 4, 2016

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has her first fight scheduled since losing the belt to Holly Holm at UFC 193 last November. Rousey will look to get back to the top of her division but is tasked to do so against a tough opponent in the current champion Amanda Nunes.

Russell Ess - November 4, 2016

The UFC has been split between putting together the big money fights versus the top contenders challenging the champions, especially with UFC star Conor McGregor in the mix. Multiple fighters have voiced their resentment of some of the recent title fights that have been put together recently such as Eddie Alvarez vs. Conor McGregor and Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey.

Russell Ess - November 4, 2016

UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is set to defend his title for the first time at UFC 205, which takes place at New York’s Madison Square Garden on November 12. “The Chosen One” will take on #2 UFC ranked welterweight Stephen Thompson. Initially after winning the title over Robbie Lawler at UFC 201 in July, Woodley called for a “money fight” against Nick Diaz to which many criticized the new champion for the move with just winning the belt.

Russell Ess - November 4, 2016

The historic UFC 205 event taking place in New York’s Madison Square Garden will go down next weekend. UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has a chance to make history when he meets UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez in the center of the Octagon. If McGregor finds his hand raised over Alvarez on November 12, he will become the first fighter in UFC history to be a concurrent two-weight UFC champ.