MMA News

bjpenndotcom - February 4, 2016

https://youtu.be/kupUoplXBkA With the UFC’s packed schedule it’s easy to get left behind in the ever changing world of MMA news. Ariel Helwani joined ‘UFC Tonight’ to give updates on just what’s going on with several top-ranked fighters.

bjpenndotcom - February 4, 2016

https://youtu.be/1ycgcsbKEsY As many know, this Saturday’s ‘UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson’ fight card on Fox Sports 1 was initially UFC 196.

bjpenndotcom - February 4, 2016

Yesterday the ‘Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson’ media day went down in Las Vegas.

Russell Ess - February 4, 2016

We caught up with our former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion BJ Penn as he had a couple days off from training in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the JacksonWink MMA Academy. Penn, who recently announced his decision to come out of retirement to shake up the UFC featherweight division has sought out the help of famed MMA coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winklejohn and spoke with us at how training is going.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

At the UFC 196 press conference, Conor McGregor wasn’t too pleased with the promotional poster that was used. The poster in question showed McGregor standing behind dos Anjos, and didn’t include McGregor’s featherweight title belt. Of course McGregor’s title belt wasn’t included because his featherweight championship wasn’t on the line in the fight due to the fact that he was moving up in weight to challenge dos Anjos for the lightweight championship.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

.@katienolan with another scoop! @LukeRockhold will rematch @ChrisWeidmanUFC in June #GTLive https://t.co/FPRrmAP9og — Garbage Time (@GarbageTime) February 3, 2016

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

https://youtu.be/kbVsaqxBTSk There has been many a great story tellers in our time but none as vividly explained with enthusiasm and great detail like Urijah Faber.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

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bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

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Russell Ess - February 3, 2016

We said it in our piece featuring Sage Northcutt talking about his loss to Bryan Barberena at UFC on FOX 18. Many people do not like to hear excuses on why a fighter lost. No other person in the world should be more upset about excuses than the competitor that beat the fighter trying to explain the reasoning behind losing. Bryan Barberena spoke about his win, and how the excuses from Northcutt are upsetting him (transcribed by MMA Fighting):

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

Famed MMA coach Mike Winkeljohn was nominated for ‘MMA Coach of the Year’ for the Fighter’s Only World MMA Awards. The awards show goes down February 5th from The Venetian in Las Vegas, and ahead of the show we took the opportunity to talk with Coach Winkeljohn to get some insight into the mind of an expert coach.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

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Chris Taylor - February 3, 2016

In today’s segment of “Wednesday Warriors” we feature a scrap between current National Hockey League enforcers Anthony Peluso and Ryan Reaves.

Russell Ess - February 3, 2016

Bellator recently released a highlight of Fedor Emelianenko and Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal’s fights at the RIZIN New Year’s Eve card.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

Jon “Bones” Jones goes head to head in the World’s first UFC ‘Battle of the Dougies’ Urijah Faber dominates in the early stages of this epic ‘Dougie’ Battle.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

More in depth coverage on Sage Northcutt and the how the young prospect can gain more from this loss moving forward. Northcutt received a verbal beat-down on social media for his performance resulting in what appeared to be a ‘quick tap’ in his last outing.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

This past Saturday UFC on FOX 18 went down from the Prudential Center in Newark New Jersey. The preliminary card was headlined by Tarec Saffiedine vs. Jake Ellenberger which saw Saffiedine return to the win column and pick up a unanimous decision win.

bjpenndotcom - February 3, 2016

Luke Rockhold is coming off of a TKO win over Chris Weidman back at UFC 194, and while he currently has no opponent for his first title defense, many are expecting the UFC to give Chris Weidman an immediate rematch for the title. On the main card of UFC 194 Yoel Romero also defeated Jacare Souza to become the #1 contender at middleweight. After the fight however it was revealed that Romero failed a drug test. Given the failed drug test the UFC decided to book Jacare vs. Belfort for a #1 contender fight. This has lead many to assume Weidman will get an immediate rematch.