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Tim Kennedy dusting off trashtalking skills in hopes of securing new opponent

BAD MMA News — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:25:00 +0000

When Tim Kennedy woke up on Friday, he had his mind set on fighting Lyoto Machida. Now he’s just hoping to fight anyone who will step in the cage.

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UFC Fight for the Troops 3 Update: Colton Smith vs. Michael Chiesa and Dennis Bermudez vs. Nik Lentz

BAD MMA News — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:02:52 +0000

Ever since announcing Lyoto Machida vs. Tim Kennedy for the UFC Fight for the Troops 3 fight card, the promotion has been busy unleashing additional fights for the Nov.

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UFC Fight for the Troops 3 Update: Colton Smith vs. Michael Chiesa and Dennis Bermudez vs. Nik Lentz – MMA Weekly

Lyoto Machida drops to 185, meets Tim Kennedy at UFC Fight for the Troops 3

BAD MMA News — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:45:00 +0000

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida will make a long-discussed drop to middleweight, and his first test will be military hero Tim Kennedy – on a military base.

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If Nick Diaz uninterested, UFC’s Tim Kennedy says he’ll fight Lyoto Machida

BAD MMA News — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:30:00 +0000

Earlier this week, UFC President Dana White said he offered Nick Diaz a fight against Lyoto Machida. But if Diaz doesn’t want to fight the ex-light-heavyweight champ in his middleweight debut, at least one other guy does.

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UFC president Dana White makes Nick Diaz an offer: Lyoto Machida at 185 pounds

BAD MMA News — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:05:00 +0000

BOSTON – For now, Nick Diaz remains retired. But if he wants to come back, UFC President Dana White has an offer for him: Lyoto Machida in a middleweight contest. “I talked to Diaz today, and I made him an offer, so we’ll see what happens,” White said. “He had been talking about going to 185 pounds. Machida has been talking about going to 185 pounds. So we wanted to see if he wanted to fight Machida at 185.” White revealed his offer during a special Q&A session at Boston’s Barrio Cantina, where he appeared as part of a fundraising effort for The Shawn Thornton Foundation at an event billed as the UFC Homecoming

UFC president Dana White makes Nick Diaz an offer: Lyoto Machida at 185 pounds – MMA Junkie

Dana White Wouldn’t Mind Putting Vitor Belfort vs. Lyoto Machida in UFC 167 Co-Main Event

BAD MMA News — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:15:15 +0000

Vitor Belfort wants to fight for the UFC middleweight championship. Lyoto Machida wants a rematch with Phil Davis. Neither is going to get the fight that they want, but they may just get a fight against each other. UFC president Dana White wouldn’t mind putting the two in a fight together, especially if it were at 185 pounds, according to a report on UFC Tonight on Tuesday. In fact, White told UFC Tonight reporter Ariel Helwani that he would make the fight the co-main event of UFC 167: St-Pierre vs. Hendricks , the promotion’s 20th Anniversary event. UFC 167 takes place on Nov. 16 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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Radio (noon ET): Phil Davis, Joe Warren, Sal D’Amato, Brett Roberts

BAD MMA News — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:20:00 +0000

MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the show Phil Davis , Joe Warren , Sal D’Amato and Brett Roberts. Davis is coming off a unanimous decision win over Lyoto Machida at this past weekend’s UFC 163 card in Brazil. He’ll join us to talk about the controversial decision – and why he believes the judges got it right. One of those judges, Sal D’Amato, also will call in to talk about why he scored that fight 29-28 in Davis’ favor.

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Joe Silva’s Shoes: What’s next for the UFC 163 winners?

BAD MMA News — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:05:00 +0000

“UFC 163: Aldo vs. Korean Zombie” is in the books and in one of the most highly criticized pay-per-view fight cards of 2013, the UFC produced a mixed bag of knockouts, submissions, controversial judging and disfigured limbs. A Brazilian fighter had his hand raised in four of the five main card bouts as John Lineker , Thales Leites , Cezar Ferreira and, of course, Jose Aldo , defeated their respective opponents in impressive fashion. The lone non-Brazilian to score a victory on the pay-per-view was Phil Davis , who upset former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida in a decision that had many, including UFC President Dana White , up in arms. No matter the nature of each man’s victory, they all accomplished the ultimate goal of the sport, and that’s being declared the winner at the conclusion of the fight.

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Judging ‘The Dragon’: Machida’s style seems too easy for judges to miss

BAD MMA News — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:00:00 +0000

You can tell judging is a special kind of problem in MMA just by the cliches we use to make peace with it. “Don’t leave it in the hands of the judges,” we say after questionable decisions such as the one that gave Phil Davis the win over Lyoto Machida at UFC 163. As if we’re concerned that fighters might bypass a chance at a knockout finish just to let the officials at cageside show off their ability to add up 10s and 9s. What we’re really saying is, “You know these people who are here to do only one job? Yeah, we don’t trust them to do it

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The Sunday Junkie: Aug. 4 edition

BAD MMA News — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Saturday’s UFC 163 card in Rio de Janeiro saw Jose Aldo defend his featherweight title against Chan Sung Jung with relative ease – though “The Korean Zombie” certainly was a game opponent until separating his shoulder in the fourth round. The Sunday Junkie, MMAjunkie.com’s weekly reader-feedback feature, got a lot of submissions about Aldo, as well as the co-main event upset of Lyoto Machida by Phil Davis . And there was plenty of reaction to Bellator’s first pay-per-view, featuring former UFC champs Quinton Jackson and Tito Ortiz . But this week’s winner, Oskar Arnason, of Seltjarnarnes, Iceland, got a little creative and piled us into a time machine heading toward the future of MMA – or his vision of it, anyway. For his winning entry, Arnason wins a free one-year subscription to ” Fighters Only ” magazine, the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle magazine.

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