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bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

Ahead of March 5th’s UFC 196 lightweight title scrap between Conor McGregor and Rafael dos Anjos, Eddie Alvarez is seeking a lightweight title shot.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

https://youtu.be/yFIFxdX00Is In the co-main event of Bellator 149, Kimbo Slice defeated Dada 5000 in the 3rd round of their grudge match. The fight was a strange one that saw Dada 5000 hit the ground in strange fashion.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

A triumphant return to the cage for @realroyce! #Bellator149https://t.co/N0FJbjyMc1 — Bellator MMA (@BellatorMMA) February 20, 2016

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

Tonight in the co-main event of Bellator 149 Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 had their highly anticipated grudge match.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

Ronda Rousey’s UFC 193 KO loss` to Holly Holm was arguably the biggest fall from grace for a champion in the history of MMA. Rousey’s dominance over the UFC women’s bantamweight division made ‘Rowdy’ appear invincible for several fights until she stepped into the Octagon with Holly Holm.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

Sunday night in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, ‘UFC Fight Night: Pittsburgh’ will go down. The event will be headlined by a welterweight scrap between Donald Cerrone and Alex Oliveira.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

Urijah Faber is the latest victim of title belt theft. After Jackson-Winkeljohn head coach Mike Winkeljohn had a title belt stolen from the Jackson-Wink MMA gym in New Mexico, now Urijah Faber has had a title belt stolen from a gym in California.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

It has been almost exactly a year since Cat Zingano lost her UFC 184 women’s bantamweight title fight to Ronda Rousey. Since then Zingano has been on an indefinite leave of absence, even going to Thailand to work on her striking. While there’s been no official word yet on when Zingano will return to the Octagon, her manager says it will likely be soon.

Russell Ess - February 19, 2016

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has been a bit of recluse since losing for the first time in her professional MMA career. The UFC fighter turned pop icon feels like every eye and ear is ready to decipher everything she says or does and twist it into something completely different. Rousey spoke with MMA Junkie recently on her absence from the public eye and media spotlight.

Russell Ess - February 19, 2016

An exciting heavyweight match has been announced for the UFC Fight Night Netherlands card. MMA Fighting reports that Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva and Stefan Struve are set to go to battle against one another. Dutch heavyweight Stefan Struve is looking to get back in the winner’s bracket after winning just one of his four last bouts. Struve’s last fight was against Jared Rosholt at UFC 193 where Rosholt ended up winning a unanimous decision.

Russell Ess - February 19, 2016

[ooyala code=”BwNmQzMTE6MhNnCBj2exuUiIz-aqbpvq” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ width=”1280″ height=”1280″ auto=”true” autoplay=”true”] Check out this video of UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos training for his upcoming fight with featherweight champion Conor McGregor. The two are set to fight in a historic bout as McGregor looks to become the first fighter in UFC history to hold two different weight class’ belts at the same time.

Russell Ess - February 19, 2016

Bellator MMA nearly had a main event fight for the fans in attendance at the Bellator fan event Thursday night in Houston, ahead of Bellator 149 featuring Royce Gracie versus Ken Shamrock and Kimbo Slice versus Dada 5000.

Russell Ess - February 19, 2016

Love can be as simple or as complicated as you make it. For UFC heavyweight Travis “Hapa” Browne and former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, their relationship is what Rousey says stopped her from committing suicide after losing to Holly Holm at UFC 193 back in November. “Hapa” spoke with Activ8Media on their simple relationship and how things were immediately after Rousey’s loss to Holm.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

After Donald Cerrone’s UFC on FOX 17 loss to Rafael dos Anjos, it was revealed that Cerrone would be moving up to welterweight to face Tim Means in Pittsburgh. Ultimately, Means was pulled from the event after it was revealed that he potentially failed a USADA drug test. The UFC replaced Means with Alex ‘Cowboy’ Oliveira in a battle of the Cowboy’s.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor has everyone talking. The brash Irishman has not only broken UFC records, but brought many new eyes to the sport of Mixed Martial Arts with his impressive promotional abilities. In the wake of McGregor’s 13 second KO win over Jose Aldo back at UFC 194, we saw one fan go above-and-beyond with his fandom when he got a Conor McGregor and a Jose Aldo tattoo.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

There has been increased talk recently of fighters banding together to create a fighters union. However with that being said, there has also been talk of seeing the Muhammed Ali Act expanded to cover MMA. Former UFC champion Randy Couture believes that the decision is a “no brainer”.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

While Ronda Rousey has stated several times since her UFC 193 KO loss to Holly Holm that she would be returning to the Octagon for a rematch with Holm after filming several movies, the former champ has been surprisingly happy away from fighting. While the UFC brass wanted to see Holm vs. Rousey II at UFC 200 in July, the former champ’s filming schedule won’t give her enough time to prepare for a fight at UFC 200.

bjpenndotcom - February 19, 2016

https://youtu.be/kybdNrldMOM Sunday night in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone will face Alex ‘Cowboy’ Oliveira in a matchup between two tough gritty lightweights fighting at welterweight.