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bjpenndotcom - June 3, 2016

Ahead of UFC 199 this Saturday, many are wondering just how long Dan Henderson has left in the sport before he finally makes the decision to retire. After fighting for nearly two decades without mentioning retirement, ahead of his UFC 199 scrap against Hector Lombard, Henderson has finally opened the door to retirement talks. He spoke to MMAJunkie to discuss Lombard as an opponent, and why he feels he could be “talked” into retirement by UFC President Dana White.

bjpenndotcom - June 3, 2016

Many fans quickly began to turn on UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk when season 23 of The Ultimate Fighter began airing. Jedrzejczyk was portrayed in a rather negative way, as footage of her provoking Claudia Gadelha and her coaches with trash talk began to air. Jedrzejczyk has remained quiet on the situation, however in a recent interview with SiriusXM Fight Club she explained that she isn’t watching the show.

bjpenndotcom - June 3, 2016

This is pretty cool! Check out @bisping's reaction as he's given the #BackBisping flag ahead of #UFC199… 🇬🇧 https://t.co/36jv349I9v — UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) June 3, 2016

bjpenndotcom - June 3, 2016

The UFC’s outfitting deal with Reebok now makes it so that fighters can only wear Reebok gear, or clothing without a noticeable logo, during media appearances, and fight-week. When fighters don’t follow the protocol, they are either fined, or they have to remove the article of clothing. When UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold showed up to the UFC 199 press conference yesterday wearing Adidas shoes, adjustments had to be made.

Russell Ess - June 3, 2016

FABER vs CRUZ!!!! A video posted by Dana White (@danawhiteufc) on Jun 2, 2016 at 3:03pm PDT

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

[ooyala code=”pndmF3MzE6sJ64YllwcZqQjNBohOgt3P” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ auto=”true” width=”1280″ height=”722″ autoplay=”true”] With just two and a half weeks to go until Donald Cerrone faces Patrick Cote at UFC Fight Night 89 on June 18th, ‘Cowboy’ spent some time training with famed kickboxer Joe Schilling at ‘The Yard’ in California.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

On Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 199, Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber will have a chance to finally put an end to their rivalry nearly 10 years after the pair’s first meeting under the WEC banner in 2007.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

Thursday afternoon at the UFC 199 press conference, things got extremely heated between Dominick Cruz & Urijah Faber, and Luke Rockhold & Michael Bisping.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

Amazing press conf today with @lukerockhold vs @mikebisping @ufc A video posted by Dana White (@danawhiteufc) on Jun 2, 2016 at 6:36pm PDT

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

Amazing press conf today with @lukerockhold vs @mikebisping @ufc A video posted by Dana White (@danawhiteufc) on Jun 2, 2016 at 6:35pm PDT

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

Amazing press conf today with @lukerockhold vs @mikebisping @ufc A video posted by Dana White (@danawhiteufc) on Jun 2, 2016 at 6:37pm PDT

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

Saturday night in the co-main event of UFC 199, Dominick Cruz & Urijah Faber will have their highly anticipated trilogy fight for the bantamweight championship nearly a decade after the pair’s initial meeting in 2007. Ahead of the fight, the pair have traded verbal jabs back and forth, however ahead of weigh-ins on Friday, Faber took the offensive as he posted a photoshopped picture of he and Cruz to Instagram.

Russell Ess - June 2, 2016

A rematch with Nate Diaz is the fight Conor McGregor wants the most at this point. “The Notorious” wants their second meeting under the same rules and conditions as their initial bout at UFC 196, which took place back in March where Diaz was able to submit McGregor in the second round. McGregor wants the fight, however, Diaz is holding his position to make sure he gets his fair share of the prize money that the fight will bring in for the UFC and for McGregor.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

News broke earlier this week that UFC women’s bantamweight Valentina Shevchenko was at a chicken shop in Peru when an armed robbery took place. Without missing a beat, Shevchenko’s coach left into action, pulling out a firearm and shooting one of the robbers. Unfortunately, he was also his by return fire from the men, and was rushed to the hospital.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

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Russell Ess - June 2, 2016

There are tough guys and then there are trained martial artists.

Russell Ess - June 2, 2016

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has not fought in the Octagon since losing the belt to Holly Holm back in November 2015. Prior to her fight against Holm at UFC 193, Rousey told Rolling Stone she would be taking time off and wanted to “disappear for a while” as she had movie projects to take care of. “Rowdy” even made it known that she wanted to stay outside of the Octagon until UFC 200, but UFC President Dana White didn’t sound positive that Rousey would even be back to fight in 2016 in an interview on SportsCenter on Thursday.

bjpenndotcom - June 2, 2016

https://youtu.be/CJ2Lvhk6q94?t=36s With just two days to go until Luke Rockhold steps into the Octagon in the main event of UFC 199 to face Michael Bisping for the middleweight championship, the champ isn’t wasting any time in trying to adjust to the late opponent change.