UFC NEWS

Chris Taylor - January 28, 2014

Benson “Smooth” Henderson recently moved his UFC record to an impressive 8-1 with his ‘UFC on FOX 10’ split-decision victory over former Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson.

Chris Taylor - January 28, 2014

UFC President Dana White was involved in a rather heated back-and-forth conversation with reporter T.J. Simers, who decided to call out the Zuffa fight boss on a variety of different topics during yesterdays UFC 169 media luncheon. MMAWeekly’s  Erik Fontanez was on the scene and basically tweeted a live play-by-play of the comments and questions made by Mr. Simers, who did his best to get underneath the skin of the UFC President:

BJPENN.COM News - January 28, 2014

“The doctors came out and said they want to ban it? Well, that’s the answer. It’s legal in the sport. The commissions let you do it. You get an exemption, and you have to be monitored and all the stuff that’s going on, but if they’re going to do away with it? There you go. It’s a problem solved.”

BJPENN.COM News - January 28, 2014

“I agree with you (Aldo’s done everything at featherweight). It’s tough for him to make that weight. And it wouldn’t be a bad idea that when Pettis comes back, for him (Aldo) and Pettis to fight. We were going to do that fight once at Aldo’s weight, it might not be a bad idea for him, should he win this weekend, to possibly move up.”

Chris Taylor - January 28, 2014

If you are thinking of sending any ill-worded messages towards a fighter via social media for whatever reason, you better cross former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva off of your hit list.

BJPENN.COM News - January 28, 2014

“No, (not surprised), he’s got some heavy hands and if you watch his fight, they’re sort of even and then all of a sudden, Robbie catches them. That’s something that I really have to focus on, is making sure that I don’t get caught. There are a couple of things he will do, and then when you put him in certain situations he will come firing. In the fights that I’ve seen, people sort of wait. They’re like, what’s he going to do?’ Then, boom, it’s over. Then he’ll jump on them and hit them a couple of more times and it’s really over. So, that’s what I have to make sure is, that with him, that I’m out of range if I want to relax. If I’m in range, I have to be 100-percent tight and throwing punches and not let him get off too much. That’s the type of fight I have to put on.” In a recent interview with ‘The MMA Hour‘, top UFC welterweight, Johny Hendricks discussed his upcoming title fight against Robbie Lawler set for UFC 170.

bjpenndotcom - January 28, 2014

UFC 172’s main event will be Jon Jones vs Glover Teixeira for the UFC’s light heavyweight championship. It was already announced that another fight on that card, which takes place April 26 in Baltimore, would be Jake Ellenberger vs. Tarec Saffiedine.

bjpenndotcom - January 28, 2014

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has confirmed that the eagerly awaited The Ultimate Fighter Brasil: Team Wanderlei vs Team Sonnen season will be available exclusively on the organization’s new digital subscription service UFC Fight Pass.

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

The Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation released the medical suspensions list from last Saturday’s UFC on FOX 10 event. The longest of which is due to a highlight head kick K.O. delivered by Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone.

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

“Wanderlei and Chael fought. Just today. They literally fought. While they were fighting one of Wanderlei’s guys sucker punched Chael. They went crazy, crazy shit happened there. We’re dealing with that right now too. … They literally fought today, it went on for awhile. It’s one of those things, it’s on a reality show, it’s good and it’s bad. A fight didn’t need to break out between these two for people to be excited about this fight, because these two have been at each other’s throats.”

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

Chris Taylor - January 27, 2014

There has been speculation that the threat of severe weather could cause a change of date in regards to this weekend’s scheduled Super Bowl game between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, which is set to go down Sunday Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

UFC bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey, says her favorite sport outside of the UFC is boxing.

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

“I still have four fights left in my contract. Until the end (of the contract), I don’t think too much about the future. It will depend on the results of my fights. I don’t want to keep losing too many fights. I think I have two or three years left. I’m almost 38, and I don’t want to fight after I’m 40. I don’t have a date (to fight again) yet. The UFC said five names, and I believe I’ll be fighting again until May. I’ll be ready in three months. Unfortunately, they didn’t offer Frank Mir. I would like to fight him. In our last fight, I was kicking his ass and he came back and got my arm.” MMA legend, Minotauro Nogueira, recently told the folks over at MMAFighting.com that he will be leaving the sport before he starts to lose too many fights.

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

Cletus the robot makes an appearance at UFC on Fox 10, boxing with the ring girls as seen in the .gif above.

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

“I feel like they wanted him to beat me, keep the train going. I think they thought he might out-strike me and beat me up and what not. I didn’t mind. I feel like that’s how it is with every fight. They put me in there to lose. That’s not a big deal, I just keep surprising people then.”

BJPENN.COM News - January 27, 2014

It was just a little over a week ago that Cole Miller took to the mic to blast, Donald ‘Clownboy’ Cerrone, for even thinking about moving down to Miller’s division.