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BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

This brings back memories of that giant hematoma that Mark Hominick suffered during his title fight with Jose Aldo. Tonight at Invicta FC 14, in the very first fight of the night, Rachel Wiley made her pro debut and left with something she’ll probably never forget.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

Bellator light heavyweight ‘King Mo’ Lawal isn’t sure why everyone is dismissing Saturday night’s Mayweather vs. Berto fight. The fighter, who will be competing in Bellator’s four-main one-night tournament, taking place on their ‘Dynamite’ event on Sept. 19, told the Three Amigos Podcast that he’s excited for the Mayweather fight and thinks it’s for sure going to be an exciting fight.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

In case you didn’t know, which it seems like a lot of people don’t, Floyd Mayweather will be fighting tonight (Saturday) against Andre Berto, live on Showtime PPV. The fighters weighed in yesterday and made things official. After the weigh-in, Mayweather did a short interview and was asked about his fight with Berto. Mayweather’s response? Of course he had to take a shot a Manny Pacquaio and blame him for their boring fight.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

Kyra Gracie is a three-time ADCC gold medalist and five-time jiu-jitsu world champion, and considered one of the best grapplers in the world. So, will she ever take her skills into the cage and compete in MMA? Maybe. Gracie, who just premiered a new show on Fight Pass, joined The MMA Hour and said that she really can’t rule out ever transitioning into MMA, but right now she’s just to busy.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

At only 19 years-old, Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snyder is now the youngest U.S. world champion. Snyder won the gold medal on Friday night at the United World Wrestling Championships 2015 in Las Vegas. Going in Snyder was ranked 15th in the world and pulled a big upset in the final match, defeating defending world champion, Russia’s Abdusalam Gadisov.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

Invicta FC’s Jinh Yu Frey will fight tonight at the promotions latest event when she takes on Liz McCarthy, but everyone’s still talking about a fight of hers that took place in 2013. Before she made her way into Invicta, Frey took on Darla Harris at SCS 18, on July 27, 2013. I’m sure she didn’t know she would be leaving that night with a viral video on her hands.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

You hear about this a lot, someone trying to be tough and starting a fight with a stranger, then find out really quick that the stranger is a trained fighter. The lesson there is, don’t try to be a tough guy. Case in point, this video below. We see a guy get pretty upset over a basketball game. He keeps on this other guy and keeps going off on him about it.

BJPENN.COM News - September 12, 2015

Yes, this happened live a few weeks ago, at the live Bellator event, but man, it just is too good not to share with you guys. Whenever someone hands Tito Ortiz a mic, just sit back, throw up you legs and relax, because you’re about to get something special.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

Bellator ‘Dynamite’ is set to make history on Sept. 19. It will be the first event of its kind, featuring both MMA fights and GLORY Kickboxing fights in the same night, with a cage and a ring in the same arena. During the prelims some fights will even be going on at the same time.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

Today at the weigh-ins for Mayweather vs. Berto, the two boxers stepped off the scale and faced off one final time before they do it in the ring tomorrow night, on Showtime PPV. It’s pretty evident that there isn’t a lot of hype going into this fight, even thought it’s supposedly Mayweather’s last fight.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

  Well, things didn’t go very well at the ‘Invicta FC 14’ weigh-ins.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

Earlier in the week a report came out stating that Floyd Mayweather Jr. used a banned IV the day before his fight with Manny Pacquiao. The report also points to a strange situation where the United States Anti-Doping Agency knew he did it, then allowed him a TUE exemption for it, 20 days after the fight happened. Manny Pacquiao has spoken up and told reporters, according to Yahoo Sports, that he want’s there to be a punishment for Mayweather and he also wants a rematch with the undefeated boxer, who is facing off with Andre Berto on Saturday night, a fight he says is his last.

Chris Taylor - September 11, 2015

  Bellator MMA has announced the rules for their four-man, single-night light heavyweight tournament, which takes place at “Bellator 142: Dynamite” next week in California.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

Looks like Floyd Mayweather might be getting tired of answering questions about UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey. In a recent interview, on OTR, or Off The Record, host Michael Landsberg, who’s known for having pretty heated interviews on his show from time to time, asks Folyd if he’d ever fight Rousey.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

Longtime promoter of Manny Pacquiao, Bob Arum, said that his fighter is more than willing to accept a fight with Amir Khan, who’s been vocal about this desire to fight the Filipino. According to Latin Post, Arum said that he can make that fight happen and he knows that Pacquiao will fight Khan, now it’s just a matter of Khan accepting to fight Pacquiao.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

  Back in 2010, heavyweight Fabricio Werdum entered the Strikeforce cage in what was the biggest fight of his career.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Back to 1955, when Carlson Gracie took on Waldemar Santana in a classic Vale Tudo fight.

BJPENN.COM News - September 11, 2015

The ‘Invicta FC 14’ weigh-ins were today and they were kind of odd. For one, there were four fighters who missed weight, including the two main event fighters, although later on Tonya Evinger managed to hit the mark.