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Russell Ess - March 29, 2016

A heavyweight championship title fight featuring Fabricio Werdum looking to defend his title against top contender Stipe Miocic will anchor as the main event for UFC 198 that takes place in Curitiba, Brazil on May 14th. A UFC heavyweight title fight is already an exciting fight to hold down a UFC event. However, do these names get you excited?

Russell Ess - March 29, 2016

It was not an easy road for the former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar to get into the UFC. The giant athlete came from professional wrestling and UFC President Dana White definitely did not chase Lesnar down and beg him to join the UFC. Lesnar recalls when he left professional wrestling with aspirations of joining the NFL and eventually the UFC.

Russell Ess - March 29, 2016

Big news broke on Monday when the UFC revealed that Cris “Cyborg” Justino would be making her UFC debut at UFC 198 in her hometown of Curitiba, Brazil on May 14th. Odds for “Cyborg’s” 140 pound catchweight fight with Leslie Smith were recently released by 5Dimes Sportsbook.

Chris Taylor - March 28, 2016

Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos (17-4 MMA) has been in a bit of a slump, going a mere 2-3 during his past five octagon appearances. Although only 32 years of age, “JDS” has been through plenty of wars, most notably his final two bouts with rival Cain Velasquez in which he took a considerable amount of punishment.

Chris Taylor - March 28, 2016

Boxing superstar Andre Berto talked to TMZ Sports earlier this week where he revealed that he told his friend Conor McGregor not to take the Nate Diaz rematch as his next fight.

Chris Taylor - March 28, 2016

There was much speculation from the MMA community regarding which fighters would actually pass their post-fight drug tests prior to UFC 196, which took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. Some people, including one of Nate Diaz’s coaches, really believed that current featherweight champ Conor McGregor had been using steroids in the lead up to his UFC 196 main event welterweight showdown with the “Stockton Slugger”.

Chris Taylor - March 28, 2016

UFC featherweight Dennis Bermudez is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Tatsuya Kawakiri at last month’s UFC Fight Night 83 event in Pittsburgh. Following the victory, Bermudez called out former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion BJ Penn by politely saying that it would be “really cool” to fight a legend who was also one of his “favorite fighters growing up”.

Chris Taylor - March 28, 2016

According to mixed martial arts veteran Renzo Gracie the return of former UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre is imminent. The Brazilian jiu jitsu specialist recently sat down with Ariel Helwani on the latest edition The MMA Hour, where he stated that “GSP” is 100% healthy and will return to the octagon ‘for sure’. His words (as transcribed by Hunter A. Homistek of MMAFighting):

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has run into trouble with the law again and wanted to address the fans before the media got a hold of the story. Jones was recently pulled over by an Albuquerque police officer and given five traffic citations. Jones is seen in the video recorded on the police officer’s body cam visually upset with the officer’s judgement.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is making headlines outside of the cage with video surfacing of a recent incident with police. Apparently Jones was recently pulled over by a police officer in Albuquerque, New Mexico and issued five traffic citations.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

There are a lot of concerns from fighters, fans, and even UFC President Dana White regarding the judging system in MMA.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

https://youtu.be/J7wBzr_w2E8 Nate Diaz is on the biggest wave of his career after beating UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor at UFC 196.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

The highly anticipated UFC debut of Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino has finally been announced. The UFC released the news on Monday that “Cyborg” will face Leslie Smith in a catchweight bout at 140 pounds on the UFC 198 card on May 14. Justino who usually fights at the featherweight limit of 145 pounds will debut in the UFC in front of her home town at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

Nate Diaz was a huge underdog according to the betting odds going into the UFC 196 main event against UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor. It looks like Diaz will be getting the underdog role once again even after submitting McGregor in the second round of their first match.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

Nate Diaz took the biggest fight of his career with just 10 days notice against the biggest star in the UFC, the featherweight champion Conor McGregor. With just 10 days notice stepping in for an injured Rafael dos Anjos, Diaz was out partying in Cabo when he received the call to fight McGregor and with a bit of negotiation, the fight was made. Diaz ended up outclassing “The Notorious” and handing him his first loss in the UFC.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

https://youtu.be/bEFkhFGjzz0 Joe Lauzon and Kenny Florian had quite a beef as the two faced off as opponents at UFC Fight Night 13 all the way back in 2008. Florian ended up beating Lauzon by TKO in the second round of their fight.

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

Many fans of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir thought the referee stopped the fight with Mark Hunt too early. After Hunt landed a devastating strike to Mir’s head that sent him to the canvas at UFC Fight Night 85, Mir spoke on the Phone Booth Fighting podcast about how he was feeling when the fight was called to an end (transcribed by MMA Fighting). “Yes, it was a good stoppage,” Mir said. “My lights were on, but I had no bearings on where anything was coming from. So the effectiveness of me being able to defend myself was very low at that point.”

Russell Ess - March 28, 2016

Undefeated boxer Andre Ward made his light heavyweight debut on Saturday night and found success moving up in weight serving his opponent Sullivan Barrera his first professional loss.