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Sept. 23 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings: Barao takes top slot

BAD MMA News — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

UFC interim bantamweight champ Renan Barao admits he considers himself the promotion’s real title holder. After his latest impressive win, it’s hard to argue with him.

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Sept. 16 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings: Karakhanyan cracks list

BAD MMA News — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:45:00 +0000

While the UFC was on hiatus this past weekend, that didn’t stop new World Series of Fighting featherweight Georgi Karakhanyan from making an impact in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA rankings

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Sept. 9 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings: ‘Jacare’ on the move

BAD MMA News — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:45:00 +0000

The UFC’s busy four-event stretch came to a close this past week, and Glover Teixeira and Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza emerged as the two big winners from UFC Fight Night 28.

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Sept. 2 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

BAD MMA News — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:15:00 +0000

After a rare week with two UFC events, the USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com MMA rankings got quite a shuffle this week.

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Aug. 26 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

BAD MMA News — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:00:00 +0000

With the sport’s major promotions on hiatus this past weekend, there was no movement in this week’s edition of the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com rankings. That will not be the case seven days from now.

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Aug. 19 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

BAD MMA News — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 03:30:00 +0000

Chael Sonnen made an undeniable statement with his UFC Fight Night 26 win over former UFC and PRIDE champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, proving that his trashtalk isn’t necessarily the strongest part of the game.

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USA TODAY: For FOX Sports 1 debut, UFC calls on Chael Sonnen

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

(This story first appeared in USA TODAY .) BOSTON – UFC President Dana White has called Saturday’s “UFC Fight Night 26: Shogun vs. Sonnen” event “the best television card” in the promotion’s history. The lineup is stacked with high-profile fighters and intriguing matchups, but how can it be considered the best when the night’s headlining light heavyweights, Chael Sonnen (27-13-1 MMA, 6-6 UFC) and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (21-7 MMA, 5-5 UFC), have merely .500 records in the promotion

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Aug. 12 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

BAD MMA News — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:45:00 +0000

The news from this week’s USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com MMA rankings? Well, there isn’t any.

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Aug. 5 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings

BAD MMA News — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:30:00 +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.

USA TODAY: Chandler on why he’s quick to defend fellow Bellator champ Askren

BAD MMA News — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000

(This story initially appeared on usatoday.com .) Ben Askren isn’t the type to sugarcoat his opinions. Ask him what he thought of fellow Bellator MMA champion Michael Chandler when he first encountered him on the University of Missouri wrestling team in 2004, and he’ll give it to you straight. “In the beginning, he really wasn’t very good,” Askren (11-0 MMA, 8-0 BMMA), a two-time NCAA Division I national champion who now reigns as Bellator’s undefeated welterweight champ, tells USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). Lightweight champion Chandler (11-0 MMA, 8-0 BMMA) doesn’t disagree.

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