BARUERI, Brazil — Dominick Cruz talks to reporters before UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Dollaway weigh-ins about his pending UFC bantamweight title fight with T.J. Dillashaw, what changed while he was out for nearly three years with injuries and his opinion on the UFC’s controversial signing of former WWE star CM Punk.
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Josh Samman understood before he even got word in the UFC.
“I believe I recently wrote the check,” he told reporters Saturday night after his unbelievable head kick knockout of Eddie Gordon at UFC 181.
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LAS VEGAS – When Jon Jones takes his corner after walking out for his UFC 182 title shield against Daniel Cormier on Jan. 3, do not anticipate any of his cornermen to show his light heavyweight title belt for enthusiasts and television viewers to see.
“I could not bring my belt out to the cage,” Jones told reporters at last week’s “The Time is Now” media event.
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When Nick Diaz retired in March 2013 fresh from losing a lopsided unanimous decision to then-UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre, he told reporters that the only fights to could coax him back to the cage will be a rematch contrary to the Canadian or a superfight against Anderson Silva. At that time, Diaz’s requests were mostly scoffed at. This is a man who had lost two straight trips; he was not just in the position to barter for another huge chance.
But a funny thing occurred in the 16 months that followed that night. St Pierre retired, lifting the curtain to the sport’s drug outbreak on his way outside; Silva lost simply not once, but twice in outrageous manner; Chael Sonnen unceremoniously left the limelight; a rash of harms sailed from the other side of the UFC’s top echelon; the promotion’s fading draws disappeared only somewhat more.
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LAS VEGAS – Nick Diaz has it in his head that fighters can take pretty much anything they want up in Canada, without repercussion.
Diaz, who returns from his self-imposed exile to meet Anderson Silva in the main event of UFC 183, told reporters on Tuesday that he’d be down for a rematch of his last fight, a unanimous-decision loss to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 158.
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Bethe Correia has made it clear she needs a part of UFC women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey.
On Saturday, Rousey made it clear the feeling is reciprocal. Talking to reporters at UFC Fight Night 51 in Brasilia, Brazil, Rousey says she really wants to fight Correia and would not mind doing it on Correia’s home turf.
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