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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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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: Jose Aldo next great Brazilian hope for UFC

BAD MMA News — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0000

(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) The best news for UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo might be that Anderson Silva can’t keep fighting forever. Brazil’s most famous fighter eventually has to retire, and when he does it could be Aldo (23-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC) who fills his shoes. Regardless of whether Silva (33-5 MMA, 16-1 UFC) regains his UFC middleweight title when he has a rematch with new champ Chris Weidman at the end of the year, Brazil’s king of MMA superstardom is closing in on 40. Aldo is 26, and in excellent position to assume the throne once Silva’s fighting days are done. That’s the hope, anyway, both for Aldo and for the UFC. After another successful title defense at UFC 163 in Rio de Janeiro, however, it’s tough to tell whether Aldo can inspire the same fierce passion in one of the UFC’s key markets. In 2011, when Silva led the charge for the UFC’s first Brazilian event in more than a decade, tickets sold out in less than two hours. The return to the same venue two years later revealed clumps of empty seats on the pay-per-view broadcast, with UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik telling USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com this latest event was probably within 1,200-1,300 seats of a sellout

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USA TODAY: In a nation of legends, UFC 163′s Jose Aldo is the people’s champion

BAD MMA News — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:20:00 +0000

(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) RIO DE JANEIRO – It takes a small army of security personnel to usher Jose Aldo into the van that awaits the UFC’s featherweight titleholder. Along the way, he answers as many reporters’ questions as possible, smiles for camera click after camera click and signs a few dozen autographs. Thursday’s swirl of activity follows a three-hour engagement in which Aldo participated in a news conference, put on a public workout session that featured a soundtrack by a live rock band and then waded through a sea of fans and reporters to answer even more questions as microphones, cameras and recorders were shoved in his face. It was time for Aldo to retreat to his hotel, but his removal from the scene was anything but easy. “You get more experienced with fighting, and you get more experienced with everything else that goes with it, too,” Aldo told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) through a translator. “I’m OK with it. Just go in there and do my job. I feel like that makes me more comfortable with everything.” In his native Brazil, Aldo is a superstar, plain and simple

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