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Trading Shots: How big a story should the UFC’s first openly gay champion really be?

BAD MMA News — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:51:23 +0000

Jul 9, 2016; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Miesha Tate (red gloves) walks out before fighting Amanda Nunes (blue gloves) during UFC 200 at T-Mobile Arena. Nunez won by rear naked choke. Mandatory Credit: Joshua Dahl-USA TODAY Sports Jul 9, 2016; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Miesha Tate (red gloves) walks out before fighting Amanda Nunes (blue gloves) during UFC 200 at T-Mobile Arena. Nunez won by rear naked choke. Mandatory Credit: Joshua Dahl-USA TODAY Sports Jul 9, 2016; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Miesha Tate (red gloves) enters the octagon before fighting Amanda Nunes (blue gloves) during UFC 200 at T-Mobile Arena.

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Video: White says Rousey won’t be reprimanded for calling ‘Cyborg’ an ‘it’

BAD MMA News — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:51:55 +0000

Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Tagged: Cristiane Justino , Fallon Fox , Ronda Rousey , UFC 172 BALTIMORE – UFC President Dana White doesn’t believe women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey deserves to reprimanded for calling Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino an “it.” The comment wasn’t any reference to sexuality, White insists, and only a reference to her past steroid use. “I think that this is the fight business, and people say mean things about each other,” White said at Thursday’s pre-UFC 172 press conference in Baltimore. “Is it not true? Has [Justino] not taken (steroids)? She got busted for taking Winstrol, the same drug that Ben Johnson took and many other athletes took to do what?

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Video: Sneak peek of transgender fighter Fallon Fox on HBO’s ‘Real Sports’

BAD MMA News — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:47:13 +0000

Filed under: News , UFC Tagged: Fallon Fox Check out a sneak peek of Tuesday’s new edition of HBO’s “Real Sports,” which profiles transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox . The award-winning show, currently in its 20th season, airs at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and replays are available throughout the week. In the “Real Sports” segment, which is produced by Jake Rosenwasser with correspondent Mary Carillo, Fox’s controversial MMA career is put under the spotlight, and we also learn more about her background before taking up the sport in 2012. From HBO: Boyd Burton was born into a conservative religious family in Toledo, Ohio, in 1975. Nearly 30 years later, after extended struggles with sexual identity issues, he underwent gender-reassignment surgery, and assumed the name Fallon Fox.

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