BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » State Department https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:58:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 UFC announces global sports diplomacy partnership with U.S. State Department https://www.badmma.com/ufc-announces-global-sports-diplomacy-partnership-with-u-s-state-department.html https://www.badmma.com/ufc-announces-global-sports-diplomacy-partnership-with-u-s-state-department.html#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:17:14 +0000 BAD MMA News https://www.badmma.com/ufc-announces-global-sports-diplomacy-partnership-with-u-s-state-department.html In a development that has forever merged the worlds of combat sports and international affairs, UFC CEO Dana White and U.S.

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/ufc-announces-global-sports-diplomacy-partnership-with-u-s-state-department.html/feed 0 Still unlicensed for UFC Fight Night 26, Chael Sonnen awaits commission’s ruling https://www.badmma.com/still-unlicensed-for-ufc-fight-night-26-chael-sonnen-awaits-commissions-ruling.html https://www.badmma.com/still-unlicensed-for-ufc-fight-night-26-chael-sonnen-awaits-commissions-ruling.html#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:15:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/still-unlicensed-for-ufc-fight-night-26-chael-sonnen-awaits-commissions-ruling.html On Thursday, a closed-door meeting of the Massachusetts State Boxing Commission – spurred by a union complaint – will determine whether UFC fighter Chael Sonnen receives a license to fight at UFC Fight Night 26 next week. A representative for the state’s Department of Public Safety, which oversees the commission, said that following a complaint from the union, the commission elected to hold the meeting after its regular session to determine whether Sonnen is appropriately using testosterone replacement therapy. “The commissioners will sit in and they’ll hammer out the issue,” DPS spokesman Terrel Harris today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “When they’ve made a final decision, they’ll let everybody know what that decision was. Bottom line is that they have to do it relatively soon, because the fight’s a week from Saturday.” Harris believed the complaint was lodged by Unite Here, a union based in New York and Washington, D.C., and declined to reveal its contents

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Still unlicensed for UFC Fight Night 26, Chael Sonnen awaits commission’s ruling – MMA Junkie

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