Rashad Evans is back. And now it’s official.
Evans will return to the Octagon for the first time in more than a year to meet Glover Teixeira in the main event of UFC Fight Night 61 on Feb. 22 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the UFC announced Friday. It will be the UFC’s first trip to the city. The main card will air live on FOX Sports 1. The bout was first reported by Globo.
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On a media blitz in New York City Thursday, professional wrestling’s CM Punk began opening up a bit more on the early conversations held with UFC president Dana White prior to his joining the promotion earlier in December.
The WWE star has taken a mountain of flak for his choice to cannonball into MMA’s grandest stage at 36 with no resume to speak of, but Punk says he was willing to endure the entry level tournament that is ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’
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Fabricio Werdum became the third Brazilian to ever win the UFC heavyweight tournament, as well as the individuals of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, gave their fellow countryman a hero’s reception on Monday.
Werdum, who traveled from America to Porto Alegre to encourage the UFC Fight Night card that takes place Feb. 22 in the city, was welcome by several supporters at the Salgado Filho International Airport.
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Jadamba Narantungalag conquered Koji Oishi to become the One FC featherweight champ in August, and Friday’s One FC 23 occasion in Pasay City, Philippines, might place him next in line to get a shot in the gold.
Undefeated possibility Herbert Burns will collide with former champ Honorio Banario at One FC 23 on Dec. 5, and he heard from his supervisor that the promotion will give him a chance at the 145-pound title if he defeats Banario on Friday.
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Bellator has cut all ties to combatant Joe Vedepo following the expert light heavyweight’s recent legal problem in Iowa.
The 31-year old was detained in Iowa City on Nov. 28 after an alleged drunken brawl which made a police officer hospitalized.
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The UFC can create a unique statement with Reebok on Tuesday morning in Nyc. Take a look at the video above.
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Bellator light heavyweight Joe Vedepo was detained this past Friday day after supposedly hospitalizing an Iowa City police officer within a drunken altercation outside of a sports bar.
According to your report from KCRG, policemen reacted around 2:22 p.m. to a call from Sports Column suggesting that Vedepo, 31, was intoxicated and refused to leave the premises. Vedepo allegedly told officers that he “understood his rights” and resisted law attempts as he tried to reenter the pub, ultimately head-shoving one policeman in the chest, sending him to the hospital with back injuries.
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Thiago Tavares and Nik Lentz are set to rematch at UFC Fight Night 60 in February, yet, hours prior to the UFC declared the fight on Tuesday, Tavares experienced emergency knee operation in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
“Only woke up in the Baia Sul hospital after undergoing emergency surgery with Dr. Luis Fernando Funchal,” Tavares posted on his Instagram on Wednesday morning. “Thanks to him, I am going to be 100 percent to fight on Feb. 14, representing my city and my state in the UFC.”
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The supporters were still filing out of London’s O2 Arena after Alexander Gustafsson’s TKO of Jimi Manuwa back on March 8 when the UFC declared it is next date in the city: Feb. 28, 2015.
Of course, Feb. 28 is now the landing date for UFC 184 in Los Angeles, with the double bill of Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort and Ronda Rousey vs. Cat Zingano atop the bill.
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The UFC is heading back to New Jersey.
The organization declared Saturday night it’s going to hold a UFC on FOX event April 18 at Prudential Center in Newark. The town continues to be an annual stop for the UFC recently. No main event was declared yet.
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MEXICO CITY — Luke Rockhold talks about his win over Michael Bisping, his thoughts on Jacare vs. Romero, what could be next for him, training with Daniel Cormier, and more.
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MEXICO CITY — Leslie Smith discusses what happened with her ear during her UFC 180 fight, her issues with her cauliflower ear before the fight, why she would have continued fighting, Jessica Eye’s celebration and more.
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MEXICO CITY — Fabricio Werdum’s coach Rafael Cordeiro explains their strategy, if he had practiced the decisive flying knee, if it was the best moment of his career, and more after UFC 180.
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MEXICO CITY — MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani and Shaun Alshatti wrap up UFC 180, along with FOX Sports’ Marc Raimondi, breaking down the top storylines coming out of Saturday night’s card.
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MEXICO CITY — Despite being the higher ranked and more seasoned fighter, Ricardo Lamas entered his UFC 180 featherweight match-up as the betting underdog to Dennis Bermudez. While those odds appear somewhat strange in retrospect, especially considering it took Lamas a little over three minutes to bring Bermudez’s vaunted seven-fight win streak to a screeching halt, Lamas now wants to repeat the favor against the conductor of division’s boldest hype train.
“I want to get back to the title shot,” Lamas said at UFC 180’s post-fight press conference.
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The UFC’s maiden voyage into Mexico couldn’t have gone better from a finisher’s standpoint. Nor could it have gone quicker.
All five fights on the main card of the UFC 180 pay-per-view in Mexico City ended in finishes on Saturday night. Four of them ended in the first round.
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In the main event of UFC 180 to determine in the interim UFC heavyweight champion in Mexico City, Mexico, it was the Spanish-speaking Brazilian Fabricio Werdum who would walk away with the gold. He stopped Mark Hunt in the second round via TKO.
The two fighters opened cautiously, but a wide right hand cracked Werdum and dropped him. Wanting nothing to do with his ground game, Hunt let him up. Werdum reached for the low single, but could get nothing. A punch hurts Werdum and Hunt uses an underhook to throw Werdum to the mat, but now Werdum has him locked him in his guard.
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This is the UFC 180 live blog for Fabricio Werdum vs. Mark Hunt, a heavyweight bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City on Saturday night
Werdum, who has won four of his past five fights, will face Hunt, who is 3-1-1 in his past five fights, in the main event.
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This is the UFC 180 live blog for Jake Ellenberger vs. Kelvin Gastelum, a welterweight bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City on Saturday night
Ellenberger, who has lost three of his past five fights, will face Gastelum, who is 9-0 in his career, in the co-main event.
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Fan favorite Augusto Montano gave the crowd in Mexico City at UFC 180 what they wanted, dispatching Chris Heatherly with an onslaught of knees in the first round of their main card bout.
Heatherly was able to secure the takedown early and after shucking off a Montano armbar attempt, passed to side control. But Montano faked him out, showing he was going to half guard, but rolled out the opposite way. The two eventually clinched along the fence with the bigger Montano being the aggressor. A knee up the middle badly hurt Heatherly, which helped the Mexican plant Heatherly on his back and attempt to pass.
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