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Video: Watch UFC 164′s Benson Henderson win title vs. Frankie Edgar

BAD MMA News — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:15:00 +0000

UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson puts his title on the line later this month against the only fighter to beat him the past six and a half years. Henderson (19-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) meets Anthony Pettis (16-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) in the main event of UFC 164 in Pettis’ home town of Milwaukee. The fight is a rematch of the pair’s WEC finale title fight in December 2010, when Pettis took Henderson’s title to become the final WEC champ. UFC 164 takes place Aug. 31 at Bradley Center with a main card on pay-per-view following prelims on FOX Sports 1 and Facebook. Henderson was scheduled to meet T.J. Grant before Grant was forced out with an injury. And Pettis was tapped after recovering from an injury of his own that took him out of the UFC 163 main event featherweight title fight against Jose Aldo .

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Invicta FC 6 Results: Cris Cyborg Dominates Marloes Coenen, Captures Featherweight Championship

BAD MMA News — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:09:38 +0000

function not found Invicta FC returned to the Ameristar Casino in Kansas City for its sixth event, but its first on traditional satellite and cable TV pay-per-view. Company president Shannon Knapp couldn’t have picked a higher profile event to make the move to PPV, as a rematch three years in the making headlined the fight card. Cris “Cyborg” Justino and Marloes Coenen first met three-and-a-half years ago with Cyborg, then the Strikeforce 145-pound champion, winning by way of TKO stoppage in the third round. On Saturday night, they met with the inaugural Invicta FC featherweight championship on the line. The belt that was on the line was about the only difference from their first fight to this one. Much like their first fight, Cyborg was clearly still the much more aggressive, stronger, and more powerful fighter. Coenen opened strong, attacking with leg kicks and punch combinations, but it was evident from the first round that Cyborg was in full control of the fight

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Inspired by Liddell, UFC 162′s David Mitchell vowed Vegas return as UFC fighter

BAD MMA News — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:10:00 +0000

Eight years ago, David Mitchell watched Chuck Liddell win the UFC light heavyweight title by knocking out Randy Couture at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena. Right there, he resolved not to return to the city until he was fighting in the octagon. “Seven-and-a-half years later, that dream comes true,” Mitchell told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “Regardless of what happens, I feel like I’ve already made it.” On Saturday, Mitchell will fight for the first time in Sin City in what is his fourth UFC appearance. It also could be the last time he steps into a cage at all. On his road to the octagon, he’s suffered nerve damage in his spine that once left the left side of his body with a fraction of its usual strength. So Mitchell (12-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC), whose nickname is “Daudi,” feels he’s got little to lose when he walks into the MGM Grand Garden Arena to fight Mike Pierce (16-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC) at UFC 162 in the event’s Facebook-streamed curtain-jerker. “This might be my last fight,” he said.

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Ex-UFC welterweight Jon Fitch responds to Dana White’s fighter-pay comments

BAD MMA News — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:45:00 +0000

Welterweight Jon Fitch cut a video today to respond to UFC President Dana White’s angry rebuttal about his tenure with the industry-leader. Responding to White’s assertion that he made $302,000 in discretionary bonuses, Fitch added up his fight purses, saying he was paid a total of $1,022,000 for 18 bouts with the promotion and “about $300,000 in bonuses,” which he said brought his total payout to $1,322,000. “Sounds like a lot of money,” he said. “But let’s look at that a little bit closer. Out of the 18 fights in that fight purse, I paid 20 percent of that to management and the gym. So if you take that number, divide it by seven-and-a-half years, I was making roughly $176,000 a year before management and gym fees.” The onetime welterweight title challenger, who in January signed with the upstart World Series of Fighting promotion after his high-profile UFC release, said he was in the “medium to high pay grade,” but added, “most fighters didn’t make as much money as I did.” Fitch’s take-home figure also leaves out taxes (UFC fighters are paid as independent contractors)

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