MMA News

Chris Taylor - October 14, 2016

Former Strikeforce and Dream champion Gegard Mousasi picked up another big win this past Saturday in Machester when he scored a second-round TKO victory over former UFC champion Vitor Belfort in the co-main event of UFC 204. The victory vaulted Mousasi in to the top 5 of the UFC’s stacked middleweight division and has him closer than ever before to a shot at UFC gold.

bjpenndotcom - October 14, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has earned the reputation as not only one of the best trash talkers in the business, but also as someone who is extremely good at gaining a mental edge over his opponents. McGregor has been able to carefully find weak spots in his opponents mental psyche, which he then uses to get them emotionally invested in the fight, making them more likely to be overly aggressive and reckless come fight-night.

Russell Ess - October 14, 2016

Ian “Uncle Creepy” McCall has had the worst string of bad luck with his recently scheduled fights in the UFC. The flyweight has had his last three scheduled fights canceled with suffering one injury that forced him to withdraw from a match while the other two were from issues with his opponents not being able to compete. “Uncle Creepy” spoke with BJPenn.com Radio host, “Kinch,” on Wednesday’s episode and spoke about the disappointment of going through three training camps and not being able to even step into the Octagon to fight and how Internet know-it-alls really don’t know much about matchmaking.

Russell Ess - October 14, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has the chance to make history once again on November 12. “The Notorious” will challenge Eddie Alvarez for the UFC lightweight title and if is victorious in the bout against Alvarez, will be the first fighter in UFC history to simultaneously hold two UFC divison’s titles.

Russell Ess - October 14, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor did a Facebook interview with the LAD Bible on Friday and fielded questions from his die-hard fans. With the recent news of former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey returning to the Octagon at UFC 207 to take on current champion Amanda Nunes for the title, “The Notorious” was asked how he felt about her comeback.

Russell Ess - October 14, 2016

Current UFC interim featherweight champion Jose Aldo is not happy with the way things are going in the UFC. The former UFC featherweight king who once stood far above the pack is still saying that he wants to be released from his UFC contract so that he can pursue new endeavors. What sparked the outburst and intent on leaving the UFC was when it was announced that UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor would be taking on the lightweight champion, Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 for the lightweight title. Aldo, of course, wanted the fight with McGregor for his shot at revenge after losing to his rival at UFC 194. At the very least, Aldo wanted McGregor stripped of the featherweight title with the bout against Alvarez being his third fight outside of the featherweight division with no title defenses made since snatching the belt from him in December of 2015.

Tom Taylor - October 14, 2016

Earlier this year, on the main card of UFC 203, WWE star CM Punk made his long-awaited debut in the UFC’s Octagon. He made this debut against dangerous 24-year-old prospect Mickey Gall. This debut would go disastrously for Punk, who was promptly taken down by his young foe, only to be softened up with ground-and-pound, and submitted with a rear-naked choke before the clock hit 3 minutes. Given that he began his journey to the UFC with precisely zero real martial arts experience, this was not especially surprising.

bjpenndotcom - October 14, 2016

https://youtu.be/lKoFWkxVZEc Former top ranked UFC welterweight Mike “Quick” Swick has recently enjoyed a bit of a career resurgence as a coach at AKA Thailand, a Phuket-based satellite of the original American Kickboxing Academy location in San Jose, California. Under Swick’s leadership, this Phuket facility has been referred to by AKA founder Javier Mendez as “the dream gym.”

Russell Ess - October 14, 2016

UFC flyweight Ian “Uncle Creepy” McCall is set to return to compete in the Octagon at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast, Ireland on November 19. McCall will face Ireland’s Neil Seery, who will be fighting for the last time with his intent to retire after their competition. McCall will be looking to get out to Belfast and step into the Octagon as his last three scheduled UFC fights were canceled due to an injury he sustained in one matchup while his other two opponents were forced out of competition leaving him hanging just days out from the fight.

bjpenndotcom - October 14, 2016

In the main event of UFC 204 this month, Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson squared off in a highly anticipated rematch seven years in the making. The fight was an extremely incredible one that went the distance, ultimately seeing Bisping awarded the unanimous decision win to get his revenge on Dan Henderson, and defend the middleweight championship. Although Bisping won a unanimous decision, many members of the MMA community believed that Henderson won the fight given that he dropped Bisping in both the first and second rounds. Despite that, Bisping out struck Henderson throughout the course of the fight, and was awarded the unanimous decision win.

Russell Ess - October 14, 2016

More disheartening news surrounds Australian MMA fighter Julian “Julz the Jackal” Wallace. You may recognize the MMA fighter covered in tattoos from a video that went viral on the Internet. In 2014, Wallace and Ben “10” Nguyen had the infamous weigh-in staredown where “Julz the Jackal” seemingly “bullied” Nguyen only to be knocked out in the first round of their competition.

Tom Taylor - October 14, 2016

On December 10, the UFC will return to Toronto, Ontario, Canada with UFC 206. The card will be headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between current champion Daniel Cormier, and brick-fisted challenger Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. These two fighters, of course, have some history together.

Tom Taylor - October 14, 2016

Last July, in the co-main event of UFC 200, former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar made a successful return to the Octagon with a unanimous decision defeat of Mark Hunt. Given that Hunt has long stood out as one of the UFC’s 10-best heavyweights, and that Lesnar had not competed in mixed martial arts almost five years, this was a pretty impressive feat. Regrettably, it was later announced that Lesnar had failed both in-competition and out-of-competition drug tests. The former champ popped for the substance clomiphene, an estrogen blocker often used to counterbalance the testosterone boost caused by steroid use. This unfortunate twist stamped a big, ugly asterisk beside his defeat of Hunt.

bjpenndotcom - October 14, 2016

Earlier this month, UFC President Dana White revealed that former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey would be making her return to the Octagon to fight Amanda Nunes in the main event of UFC 207 on December 30th. In addition to the fight with Nunes, UFC President Dana White also revealed that if she emerges from UFC 207 victorious, she would have her highly anticipated superfight with Cris Cyborg, who is currently riding a 2-fight win streak in the UFC that most recently saw her TKO Lina Lansberg in the 2nd round of their ‘UFC Brasilia’ fight last month.

Tom Taylor - October 14, 2016

On November 5, in the main event of the UFC’s latest trip to Mexico, streaking lightweight contender Tony Ferguson will take on former champion Rafael Dos Anjos in a bout that could well earn the winner a shot at the lightweight title. One week later, in the main event of UFC 205, Irish superstar Conor McGregor will challenge Eddie Alvarez for that UFC lightweight title. This latter bout is the far more talked about of the two. This, of course, is because McGregor is the most popular fighter in the sport. Over the course of his 9-fight UFC career, the Irishman has blended his fan friendly fighting style with some absolutely stinging trash talk to become a downright MMA mega star.

bjpenndotcom - October 14, 2016

UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping has been a longtime advocate of a clean sport, frequently calling out other fighters for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. With former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar currently in the middle of his appeal process for his two failed drug tests surrounding his UFC 200 fight with Mark Hunt, Lesnar’s name has been in the headlines lately.

bjpenndotcom - October 13, 2016

Chris Weidman isn’t buying Yoel Romero’s claim of tainted supplements as the reason he failed a recent drug test. The former middleweight champion spoke exclusively to BJPENN.com Radio and discussed Romero’s suspension and revealed his goals going into his first fight since losing the title to Luke Rockhold at UFC 199:

Russell Ess - October 13, 2016

With all the fights the UFC puts on every year, UFC President Dana White still finds time to make sure he, himself, is staying in shape. When White appeared shirtless in an episode of “Dana White: Lookin’ for a Fight,’ fans were surprised to see the UFC boss with a ripped physique.