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Dana White confirms UFC White House event lands on America’s 250th birthday

BAD MMA News — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:32:19 +0000

The UFC’s first-ever event at the White House has received a surreal update, with Dana White confirming the showcase will land on July 4, America’s birthday.

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Dana White ‘can’t risk’ putting Jon Jones on the UFC White House event

BAD MMA News — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:45:16 +0000

UFC CEO Dana White and the fight promotion’s staff are in the early stages of planning the historic UFC event on the White House grounds expected to take place on July 4th, 2026. While White can’t predict what the landscape of the sport will be like next July to have any idea what fighters will be on the fight card, he knows who will not be fighting at the event. During the UFC 318 Post-Fight Press Conference in New Orleans last Saturday, White said that he ‘can’t risk’ putting former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones on the fight card. “That fight (card) is a year away.

UFC White House event to take place on the South Lawn

BAD MMA News — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:39:46 +0000

When President Donald Trump made the announcement that the White House grounds would host a UFC event next year, little details were given. Speaking at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, Trump said, “Every one of our national parks, battlefields and historic sites are going to have special events in honor of America 250, and I even think we’re going to have a UFC fight.” “We’re going to have a UFC fight, think of this, on the grounds of the White House. We have a lot of land here.

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Dominick Cruz on Renan Barao: “I Can Trick Him Out In A Lot of Different Ways”

BAD MMA News — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:05:32 +0000

UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has been in physical exile for the past two years due to consecutive knee surgeries while interim bantamweight titleholder Renan Barao has ruled his kingdom. The landscape of the division has changed during the time Cruz has been sidelined. Barao was crowned the interim champion and has defended his title twice. Cruz is on track to return to action in early 2014 and face Barao to determine the true bantamweight champion. And Cruz isn’t concerned with potential ring rust arising from 24 months of inactivity.

Dominick Cruz on Renan Barao: “I Can Trick Him Out In A Lot of Different Ways” – MMA Weekly

Bellator boss Bjorn Rebney gets wish with ‘Rampage’-Ortiz pay-per-view

BAD MMA News — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:45:00 +0000

(This story first appeared in USA TODAY .) Bjorn Rebney had a holy grail of MMA. He went after it, and in November he’ll make it a reality. That’s when the Bellator MMA CEO will cross two things off his bucket list: Seeing a fight between former champions Quinton Jackson (32-11 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Tito Ortiz (16-11-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), and putting on his company’s first pay-per-view event. Rebney long has talked about his desire to delve into the pay-per-view landscape with Bellator.

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Bellator boss Bjorn Rebney gets wish with ‘Rampage’-Ortiz pay-per-view – MMA Junkie

Ask the Fight Doc: When’s the right time for refs to stop fights due to strikes?

BAD MMA News — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:15:00 +0000

by Dr. Johnny Benjamin on Jul 29, 2013 at 4:15 pm ET When exactly is the right time for a referee to halt an MMA bout due to strikes? As MMAjunkie.com medical columnist and consultant, Dr. Johnny Benjamin explains, it can be tough for officials to determine. However, there are signs they can look for to determine when a fighter is concussed and susceptible to serious health issues. However, in the current landscape of professional fighting, many of those signs are often ignored

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July 22 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

BAD MMA News — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Ranking Criteria The rankings take into account a fighter’s wins/losses, quality of competition, finishing rate/dominance and frequency of fights. Fighters are no longer eligible to be ranked after they’ve been inactive for 24 months, either due to injuries, drug/conduct suspensions, contract disputes or self-imposed hiatuses. Fighters serving drug/conduct suspensions are eligible to be ranked, so long as they’re not inactive for more than 24 months. To the best of our ability, fighters will be ranked in their primary weight class. Catchweight fights and bouts outside the fighter’s primary weight class can have a positive or negative impact on the ranking. However, fighters can be ranked in only one weight class at a given time, and in most cases, they won’t be ranked in a new weight class until they’ve had their first fight at that weight. After another off week on the major MMA landscape, there was no movement in this week’s USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

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July 22 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings – MMA Junkie

Ralek Gracie’s Metamoris is Changing the Jiu-Jitsu Industry

BAD MMA News — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:00:54 +0000

Metamoris hosts its second event on June 9 in Los Angeles, and the elite invitational jiu-jitsu tournament is changing the landscape of the jiu-jitsu industry. “The jiu-jitsu industry is taking a turn where the standard format is a ten-minute match with points in different positions, and mainly top positions. So if you get in certain top position, whoever gets the most recent and most number of positions ends up winning the match,” Metamoris founder Ralek Gracie told MMAWeekly.com . “As a result, over time, what happens is people desire very eagerly to become champions in jiu-jitsu, they effectively train for a very positional game. And you end up seeing something that is kind of a different sport,” he said. Aside from taking promotional queues from mixed martial arts and leveraging the appeal of fighters like Shinya Aoki and Brendan Schaub in its events, Metamoris is also changing the fundamental structure of the competitions. Metamoris matches consist of a single 20-minute round where winners are determined by obtaining a submission or a clear-cut decision

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