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‘More than just a chin’: Kris Moutinho hopes for UFC return after beating demons, opponents outside it

BAD MMA News — Tue, 28 May 2024 17:23:43 +0000

Kris Moutinho walked out of the cage. Sean O’Malley and Joe Rogan stood in the winner’s circle and faded into the background behind him. Blood was smeared all over his face from a half-executed attempt by his cornermen to tidy him up before the official decision. There was no hiding the battle wounds. He wore the 230 strikes he absorbed prior to the late third-round TKO stoppage. His left cheek sported a gash

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10 highest UFC event gates in promotion history

BAD MMA News — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:15:42 +0000

UFC 300 made history in various ways Saturday. Among historical feats achieved, the event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas placed third all-time for UFC’s live gates. According to the promotion, it pocketed a ticket sales sum of $16,508,823. The event is the fourth since the beginning of 2023 to place in the promotion’s top 10. Seven of the top 10 have taken place since the start of 2021.

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Conor McGregor says he knew leg could snap in Dustin Poirier fight, vows to return and settle score

BAD MMA News — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:08:00 +0000

Conor McGregor had an inkling, he said, that his leg may break in his trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier at UFC 264. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) broke his leg at the end of Round 1, but the former UFC dual-champ had previously revealed that he entered the fight with stress fractures in his leg . The cageside doctor waved the fight off as soon as it was noticed McGregor’s left leg was broken, giving Poirier the TKO win. That’s why McGregor says he was in pain, but didn’t agonize as much as Chris Weidman and Anderson Silva did when they broke their legs because he already saw it coming. He thinks the shock factor contributed to the former UFC middleweight champions’ exhibition of pain after their legs broke. “Same leg, same spot

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Conor McGregor says he knew leg could snap in Dustin Poirier fight, vows to return and settle score

BAD MMA News — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:08:00 +0000

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Dustin Poirier says he’s ‘living rent free’ in Conor McGregor’s head after latest Twitter exchange

BAD MMA News — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:56:22 +0000

Dustin Poirier isn’t bothered by Conor McGregor ’s latest Twitter attacks. Poirier (28-6 MMA, 20-5 UFC) won out his high-profile trilogy with McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) with a first-round TKO at UFC 264 in July that ended when his rival’s leg broke. Since then, “The Notorious” has been very active on social media, and has taken many shots at “The Diamond” in the process. The latest exchange came on Monday, when McGregor once again went personal by bringing up Poirier’s wife and more. It kicked off the following back-and-forth between the pair (via Twitter ): Ye sounds about right https://t.co/iG9Oz7rRuz — Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) August 23, 2021 pic.twitter.com/QRfiK65jka — The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) August 23, 2021 Ye pal live on that one way back, I will too. I bounced your head off the canvas like a basketball

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Gilbert Burns explains how a golf club to the head wasn’t enough to keep him out of UFC 264

BAD MMA News — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:18:12 +0000

Gilbert Burns ’ recent win over Stephen Thompson may not have been the best performance of his career, but “Durinho” was awfully happy he even got the chance to fight. Just one week before the co-main event of this month’s UFC 264 , Burns took a direct hit from a golf club to the head, and he admits he was worried it might cost him the fight. “I got a cut on my head a week before the fight,” Burns recently told MMA Junkie. “My son was playing golf. He freaking threw the golf club on my head.” If you’re wondering what kind of madness takes place around the Burns’ household, the top UFC welterweight contender explains things aren’t quite as crazy as it might seem.

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Joe Rogan explains why he interviewed Conor McGregor after UFC 264

BAD MMA News — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:54:33 +0000

Joe Rogan received plenty of criticism for interviewing Conor McGregor after UFC 264 , but he says there’s a logical explanation. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC), who suffered a TKO doctor’s stoppage loss to Dustin Poirier (28-6 MMA, 20-5 UFC) earlier this month, was waiting to get stretchered out of the octagon after breaking his leg towards the end of Round 1.

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Dustin Poirier on Conor McGregor’s pre-fight injury talk: ‘Mentally, I just feel like it’s weak’

BAD MMA News — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:28:27 +0000

Dustin Poirier thinks Conor McGregor bringing his pre-fight leg injury to light is a sign of weakness. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) revealed that he’d been having issues prior to the trilogy bout with Poirier (28-6 MMA, 20-5 UFC) at UFC 264, which might’ve contributed to his leg breaking. McGregor posted images of his ankle taped up , as well as an x-ray of his ankle, claiming that both the Nevada Athletic Commission and UFC president Dana White were aware that he had stress fractures in his leg going into the fight. But Poirier thinks McGregor is only offering up excuses as to why he lost. “Right off the bat, mentally, I just feel like it’s weak,” Poirier said on “THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas.” “It’s weak, it’s excuses, but I’m trying not to read too far into it or go down these days of reading what videos are out and what people are saying, because I’m back home with my family

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Conor McGregor’s excuses for losing to Dustin Poirier ‘are very invalid’ to Anthony Smith

BAD MMA News — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 17:40:01 +0000

Anthony Smith doesn’t think Conor McGregor ’s pre-fight injury claim should be a part of the post-UFC 264 narrative. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) broke his left tibia and fibula in a first-round TKO loss to Dustin Poirier in the main event, with doctors stopping the fight at the end of the opening frame.

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