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UFC 323 Embedded, Episode 4: ‘Don’t blink’

BAD MMA News — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:21:25 +0000

On the fourth episode of UFC 323 Embedded, Joshua Van arrives in Las Vegas for UFC 323 Fight Week; Athletes make their check in rounds at the UFC APEX; Chris Duncan talks about why fighting is so important to him; Payton Talbott discusses cravings during fight week; Champ Alexandre Pantoja hits pads in the Athlete Hotel; Bogdan Guskov has a helicopter ride over the Las Vegas Strip; Champ Merab Dvalishvili starts his weight cut. UFC 323 takes place at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday and features two world title bouts. Bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili puts his title on the line in the fight card’s main event in a rematch against former titleholder Petr Yan .

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UFC 321 Embedded, Episode 3: Frozen yogurt, luxury cars, and pad work

BAD MMA News — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:59:53 +0000

On the third episode of UFC 321 Embedded, heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall goes shopping and tries frozen yogurt for the first time; Virna Jandiroba uses square dancing for training; Mario Bautista trains at the athlete hotel; Athletes for UFC 321 begin their fight week check ins; Hamdy Abdelwahab goes for a drive in a Rolls Royce; Alexander Volkov trains with Dumpling; Mackenzie Dern hits pads with her coach. UFF 321 takes place on Saturday at Etihad Arena in the United Arab Emirates. The fight card is headlined by two world title bouts

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. placed in maximum security prison in Mexico following U.S. deportation

BAD MMA News — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:45:58 +0000

After his deportation from the United States, well-known boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been thrown into a maximum security prison in Sonora, Mexico.

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MMA fighter no-shows despite getting paid before event: ‘This is bullsh*t’

BAD MMA News — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0000

Wilian Poles Wilian Poles entered the cage Saturday night to face Daniel Alves—but his opponent never showed up.

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MMA fighter no-shows despite getting paid before event: ‘This is bullsh*t’

BAD MMA News — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0000

Wilian Poles Wilian Poles entered the cage Saturday night to face Daniel Alves—but his opponent never showed up. Scheduled for a lightweight bout at BSB Fight in Brasilia, Brazil, Poles walked to the cage and told commission officials there would be no fight, but they still applied Vaseline on his face and did the normal pre-fight routine

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‘That was killing me inside’: Marcus Buchecha considered retirement during forced layoff at ONE, celebrates UFC debut

BAD MMA News — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Marcus Buchecha | ONE Championship Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Marcus Buchecha makes his octagon debut later this month, taking on Martin Buday on July 26 at UFC Abu Dhabi , but the heavyweight talent almost never made it this far. In fact, he considered ending his career during a feud with his previous promotion, ONE Championship.

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UFC Fight Night 28′s Ryan Bader says scouting trip, fan doubt, fueled his prep

BAD MMA News — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:30:00 +0000

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – Breaking training camp to fly 12,000 miles round trip isn’t generally common practice for an athlete. But for Ryan Bader, what could have been a difficult challenge wound up being what he feels is a huge benefit.

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Former Champ Mike Brown Eager to Return to Action at UFC Fight Night 26 After Long Layoff

BAD MMA News — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 02:36:52 +0000

It wasn’t that long ago when Mike Thomas Brown sat atop the 145-pound division as champion, but a lot can change in five years. Brown (26-8) defeated then-champion Urijah Faber in November 2008 to capture the WEC featherweight title. He defended the belt twice before losing it to current UFC titleholder Jose Aldo . After losing the title, Brown went 2-3 in his next five fights. The 37-year-old American Top Team trained athlete has won his last two bouts, but hasn’t competed since May 2012. Long layoffs typically don’t benefit fighters, but Brown spent the time improving his game

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Sergio Moraes on UFC 163 opponent: ‘A modern MMA athlete without any speciality’

BAD MMA News — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Sergio Moraes doesn’t believe his opponent at tonight’s UFC 163 event is especially skilled in any one area. And that’s precisely why he considers him dangerous. Moraes (7-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) meets fellow welterweight Neil Magny (8-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) tonight at Rio de Janeiro’s HSBC Arena in a preliminary-card bout that airs on FX. Magny has just one fight on MMA’s biggest stage, but Moraes knows he’s dangerous. “I’ve watched him fight,” he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “He starts out striking but usually goes for a takedown. He’s a modern MMA athlete without any speciality.

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Top-ranked flyweight Darrell Montague has ‘only one organization on my mind’

BAD MMA News — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:15:00 +0000

Take a look at the top-10 fighters in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com flyweight MMA rankings , and one man stands out as the only athlete not already under contract with the UFC. He’d like to change that. “There’s only one organization on my mind,” Darrell Montague told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “I don’t want to fight just to fight. I want to fight the best opponents in the world.” Montague is a 25-year-old Californian who is perhaps best known as the former Tachi Palace Fights flyweight champion, a title he held at just 23 years old – and at a time when that California-based promotion boasted one of the best 125-pound rosters in the world

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