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BJPENN.COM News - October 7, 2015

Current Bellator MMA welterweight Paul Daley has his eye on gold, but not just MMA gold. The top 170-pound Bellator fighter is at the top of the division and has said before that he wants to win the title before a big rematch with Josh Koscheck takes place. However now he’s added a new goal and wants to fight the GLORY Kickboxing welterweight champion, Nieky ‘The Natural’ Holzken, as well. Pauly most recent scrap was in the GLORY ring, although it was as a Bellator contracted fighter during the special ‘Dynamite’ event. Now Daley wants to challenge the champ in an attempt to possibly hold a belt in both promotions. First step? Get both sides to agree on it.

BJPENN.COM News - October 7, 2015

New details are emerging about the new Japanese promotion, which will feature the return of Fedor Emelianenko on New Years Eve. Yesterday a report came out revealing who his opponent will be. Fans were obviously disappointed, although probably not surprised, that the fighter who’s reportedly going to fight Fedor has only one MMA fight to his name. Another detail that came out is that there will actually be three events in the span of three days, leading up to Fedor’s return. So on Dec. 29, 30 and 31 the new promotion will look to hold three different shows. Also according to that report, from MMAFighting, the headlining fight for that Dec. 29 card will a catchweight fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Shinya Aoki.

BJPENN.COM News - October 7, 2015

Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will face off with David Lemieux in 11 days and is looking ready to go in this recent training footage.

BJPENN.COM News - October 7, 2015

Working the basics with @raylongomma A video posted by Chris Weidman (@chrisweidmanufc) on Oct 6, 2015 at 12:12pm PDT

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

Former UFC fighter Rousimar Palhares was stripped of his World Series of Fighting welterweight title and suspended indefinitely following his most recent fight against Jake Shields. In that fight he repeatedly put his fingers near Shields’ eye and seemed to scratch, or gauge them. Even after the referee warned him he continued to do so. Then, during the fight ending kimura he locked in on Shields, he refused to let go after Shields tapped and the referee tried to pull him away. Palhares has had issues with holding submissions too long in the past and WSOF had seen enough. Now, he waits for his disciplinary hearing with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which is expected to go down sometime this month. Palhares recently talked to MMAFighting and said that he just hopes the commission treats him fairly.

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

https://youtu.be/yEoI8fY5YFA There’s been a lot going on today in headlines regarding the sudden departure of UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw.

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

Fan favorite and flashy striker Michael ‘Venom’ Page now has an opponent locked down for the upcoming Bellator 144 event. It was announce by the promotion that the undefeated fighter will be taking on Charlie Ontiveros. The welterweight scrap will take place at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., on October 23. The main event for that card will be a bantamweight title fight between Marcos Galvao and Eduardo Dantas.

bjpenndotcom - October 6, 2015

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BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

Fedor Emelianenko will return to action on New Years Eve and headline a big event in Japan. We’ve known that since it was announced at Bellator’s ‘Dynamite’ event.

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

The new Japanese promotion that will be holding an event on New Years Eve and will feature the return of Fedor Emelianenko is planning on holding a press conference on Thursday and the word on the street is that they’ll be officially announcing who Fedor will be fighting. But, since the MMA media and fan base are so inpatient, we might already know who that opponent will be.

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez recently called out Andre Ward, accusing him of being a liar and using GGG’s name to stay relevant in the sport. Ward has stated that GGG’s promoter turned down a fight offer for Ward to go up against Golovkin. However, Golovkin’s trainer says that’s absolutely false and that Ward never even mentioned Golovkin or fighting him until after GGG had signed a contract to fight IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux on Oct. 17.

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

With Floyd Mayweather gone there certainly is a void left in his place. Mayweather, for better or worst, was basically the face of boxing. Yes, there are fighters like Manny Pacquiao, but you can’t argue with the numbers Mayweather brought in throughout his career and the the fact that he was someone who people just simply talked about. He was polarizing, in his bad and good moments. So, who can take up that spot now that he’s retired? According to Bernard Hopkins, the man for the job is former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.

BJPENN.COM News - October 6, 2015

A video posted by Quinton Jackson (@rampage4real) on Oct 5, 2015 at 8:18pm PDT

BJPENN.COM News - October 5, 2015

The official White House petition to get Nick Diaz’s five year suspension lifted has blown up, but he still needs all the help he can get! Nearly one month ago, Nick Diaz was suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for failing one of his post fight drug tests for marijuana. The commission wanted to make an example out of the fighter and unjustly suspended him for five years. When the result of the hearing was released, fighters took to social media to voice their disproval and it wasn’t long before the White House petition was created.

bjpenndotcom - October 5, 2015

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BJPENN.COM News - October 5, 2015

There are occurrences that take place in the world of mixed martial arts that fans are thankful have never taken place inside the world-famous octagon. Nothing would be more mortifying for the glory of the sport than watching a grown man or woman poop their pants and have it fall over the mat in the cage on FS1.

bjpenndotcom - October 5, 2015

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BJPENN.COM News - October 5, 2015

As soon as it was revealed that Nick Diaz would be getting suspended for five years for failing one of his UFC 183 post-fight drug tests, the mixed martial arts community came out in full support of the popular UFC fighter. Everybody from Ronda Rousey to Henry Cejudo spoke out against the Nevada State Athletic Commission on the unfit punishment, and it seems like the music world has Nick’s back as well! American singer and fashion icon Cher is the latest celebrity to tweet in support of Nick Diaz’s suspension being lifted! The music icon shared the following tweet with her three million followers: