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Russell Ess - February 10, 2016

Is Urijah Faber’s career coming to an end soon? Faber’s Team Alpha Male teammate Cody Garbrandt seems to think that it might be the case, with “The California Kid” taking a bow at the top of the game. Garbrandt spoke on the Submission Radio show about his mentor’s future in fighting (transcribed by Bloody Elbow): “If Urijah would be the champion I think he would beat Cruz in the next fight. We talked about it before, he’ll go out as champion, retire,” Garbradt said. “Urijah has done so much for the sport and been a world champion, he’s been the Featherweight king at the WEC – and people seem to forget Urijah ruled that era for a very long time, fought some of the best fighters. What else would he have to prove? You win the title and go out, storybook ending. Boom, done.”

Russell Ess - February 10, 2016

Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson made a big statement against former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks at UFC Fight Night 82. It took Thompson less than one round to put the former champion out with a highlight reel combination of strikes that surely had the entire welterweight division on watch. “Wonderboy” spoke on the Sherdog Radio Network’s “Beatdown” show recently about his game.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

https://youtu.be/WVjHTRzQnGY The UFC announced earlier this month that Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier would have their highly anticipated rematch for the UFC light heavyweight championship on April 23rd at UFC 197.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

https://youtu.be/4ywEvjeX7kc It was announced earlier this week that MMA veteran Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller would be returning to MMA to fight former UFC fighter Luke Barnatt for the Venator FC middleweight championship in Italy on May 21st.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

Iron Sharpens Iron @JacksonWinkMMA https://t.co/UawvX7zh5M pic.twitter.com/6wx2uv2XBp — BONY (@JonnyBones) February 9, 2016

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

#4 Lightweight Tony “El Cucuy” Ferguson will be facing Khabib Nurmagomedov on FOX 19 in April. Ferguson is on a 7 fight win streak and doesn’t look to be slowing down finishing three of his last four fights.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

Former UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St. Pierre has never confirmed that he will in fact return to the UFC, however that hasn’t stopped everyone from speculating as to whether or not ‘Rush’ will return. In addition to his coach stating that GSP could be preparing to ‘make a splash’ soon, Rory MacDonald slipped up and said that GSP would be returning for super fights, not for the UFC welterweight championship.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

Both fighters come from humble, hard beginnings and started their careers in bare knuckle backyard battles, to the bright lights of Bellator.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

#2 Women’s bantamweight Miesha Tate has her big shot at a capturing gold next month when she goes head to head with champ Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm in Las Vegas in the co-main event of the evening.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

Felt the need to put my Knees in the Breeze A photo posted by Donald Cerrone (@cowboycerrone) on Feb 9, 2016 at 10:15am PST

Chris Taylor - February 9, 2016

In this week’s segment of “Tough Guy Tuesday” we feature former National Hockey League forward Rick Tocchet.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

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Russell Ess - February 9, 2016

Check out this informative video from Tristar head coach Firas Zahabi. In this video, Zahabi goes into detail on the gameplan going into a fight against a bigger and stronger opponent.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

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Russell Ess - February 9, 2016

More of Team Alpha Male has been training with the Elevation Fight Team in Colorado after T.J. Dillashaw jumped ship. The members of Team Alpha male including Dillashaw basically had to choose sides between coaches Urijah Faber and Duane Ludwig after their falling out. Team Alpha Male fighter Cody Garbrandt spoke with Submission Radio recently on the split between some of the team and if he would ever go to train with the Elevation crew (transcribed by MMA Fighting):

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

In Donald Cerrone’s fight with Rafael dos Anjos earlier this year, ‘Cowboy’ wore a small piece of cloth on his shorts which he has worn in all of his fights throughout his career. The difference in the dos Anjos fight was that under the new Reebok deal, Cerrone was fined for violating the ‘outfitting policy’.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

UFC President Dana White has been touring the country with former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra and close friend Nick The Tooth for his “Lookin’ For A Fight” series. The series has found UFC standouts such as Sage Northcutt, Mickey Gall, and Randy Brown.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2016

Check out this UFC Minute video and get yourself up to speed with what’s going on in the UFC.