Former NBA center Darko Milicic made his kickboxing debut Thursday night in Serbia. The 7-footer, who was the second overall draft pick in 2003, lost to Radovan Radojcic in the second round of their exhibition fight via doctor’s stoppage after suffering a cut on his left leg.
“The next time, it will be better,” Milicic said [translated by The Detroit News]. “I’m invincible.”
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The entire UFC on FOX 14 main card was officially announced on Wednesday.
The event, which will be headlined by Alexander Gustafsson vs. Anthony Johnson, will take place at the 30,000-seat Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on Jan. 24. If all goes to plan, it will be the second-biggest event in UFC history behind 2011’s UFC 129, which drew 55,724 fans.
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PHOENIX — MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani and Shaun Alshatti break down the top storylines coming out of UFC on FOX 13. Check out the post-fight show above.
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History was produced in Las Vegas Friday night as the UFC crowned its first strawweight winner. Following the remaining TUF 20 cast fought each other in the undercard, the show’s finalists tangled for the crown. Former Invicta FC strawweight winner Carla Esparza survived a scrappy opening round from Rose Namajunas, but would use her wrestling to fix a third-round rear-naked choke to become UFC champ.
See in what way the experts responded to every one of the night’s activity.
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LAS VEGAS — MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, Dave Doyle, and Chuck Mindenhall break down the very best storylines coming out of UFC 181. Take a look at the post-fight show above.
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Johny Hendricks and Las Vegas judges seemingly simply do not get along. A little over annually after Hendricks fell a controversial split decision to then-champ Georges St-Pierre, history repeated itself at UFC 181 as Hendricks disappeared late and lost another contentious split decision, this time to deliver his UFC welterweight title to Robbie Lawler.
“I say to these men most of the time: do not leave this in the hands of these judges,” UFC President Dana White said of the decision on FOX Sports 1. “You’ve gotta stand up and you have gotta go for this. Hendricks believed Johny looked great standing up. Johny was getting off, he was landing some punches. But then he’d go for that shot and simply sit there and waste time.
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LAS VEGAS – UFC 181 was the 300th occasion in business history. It was likewise the very first in which a former professional wrestler with no MMA expertise got his own press conference.
Phil “CM Punk” Brooks was declared as the UFC’s latest signee on Saturday night. The Chicago native and former World Wrestling Entertainment winner, who had been extremely popular in wrestling groups, step down the WWE early in 2013.
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Travis Browne surprised lots of folks when he said in a interview which he was merely merely “learning to fight” with new trainer Edmond Tarverdyan.
After all, this is a man who spent the past couple of years training at Jackson-Winkeljohn MMA in Albuquerque, N.M., regarded among the top teams on the planet. Tarverdyan tried to describe to Ariel Helwani what Brown meant when he talked to FOX Sports two months past. The trainer told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s The MMA Hour that he “saw lots of errors” in the heavyweight’s match when he arrived at Glendale Fighting Club.
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MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani and Chuck Mindenhall take a closer look at the very top storylines heading into Saturday night’s UFC 181, including UFC welterweight champ Johny Hendricks defends his title in a rematch with Robbie Lawler. In the co-main event, UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis attempts to keep his title against Gilbert Melendez.
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Without question, a featherweight title fight between champion Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor would be not only the greatest bout which can be produced in the division, but also among the largest at any weight class. An Aldo McGregor tilt could fill a stadium in Brazil or Ireland.
As for whether McGregor is really the most worthy competitor at 145 pounds right now? Well, that is another narrative.
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UFC ‘cash weight’ Nick Diaz might be the most effective and worst portrayal of a martial artist in modern MMA.
The expletive hurling, nunchuck twirling Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt is not above breaking out the ole Stockton Salute on occasion, but Diaz says he had never critically target an adversary’s harm.
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Frankie Edgar understood he needed to create an impression on Saturday night, and he did only that, blowing the doors off Cub Swanson to stop the streaking featherweight competition in his tracks in UFC Fight Night 57’s main event.
Swanson entered the bout having a standing guarantee from UFC officials that his six-fight win streak would get cashed in to get a title shot against reigning 145-pound champ Jose Aldo if he toppled Edgar, but in the previous lightweight titleholder, he he met an immoveable force. Edgar commanded the competition for 24 minutes before scoring the most recent finish in UFC history, then let it be understood that his remarkable performance deserved the prize that was cursed to Swanson.
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Rickson Gracie, one of the greatest names in jiu-jitsu and vale tudo history, is a fan of Metamoris.
The legendary Gracie, who is undefeated in MMA and jiu-jitsu matches, was always critical of what jiu-jitsu has become over the years, with the change of rules and the way BJJ fighters compete today. With submission-only 20-minute matches, Metamoris founder Ralek Gracie got his attention.
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The most anticipated superfight in mixed martial arts history went down on a cold Monday night in Las Vegas… kinda.
Fresh from appearances at the UFC’s ‘The Time is Now’ press conference, light heavyweight champ Jon Jones and former middleweight great Anderson Silva collided in a two-hour long sparring session at UFC headquarters, and afterwards both men were all smiles as Silva sung the praises of this “f*cking crazy guy.”
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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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MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani and Shaun Al-Shatti take a closer look at the top storylines heading into Saturday night’s UFC 180, including Fabricio Werdum clashing with Mark Hunt for the UFC interim heavyweight title. In the co-main event, Kelvin Gastelum will square off against Jake Ellenberger.
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MEXICO CITY — We caught up with Mark Hunt just days before his UFC interim heavyweight title fight on Saturday night against Fabricio Werdum.
Hunt discusses his amazing comeback story, his long journey in combat sports, the odds being stacked against him, and his mental state heading into one of the most important fights of his remarkable career.
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“The American Gangster” will return to TV as a MMA analyst.
Fired from FOX Sports after testing positive for five banned substances in two different random drug tests, Chael Sonnen, a former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight title challenger, has signed with ESPN as the channel’s new MMA analyst, The Associated Press reported Tueday.
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Well, the UFC’s Friday Fight Night event in Sydney proved to be quite a hard act to follow along with. Everything came to your head when Ovince Saint Preux pulled off among the more upsetting upsets in recent MMA history by putting Mauricio Rua down early in round one. Here’s the way the MMA world known as the activity.
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Paulo Filho was shot in the leg in a celebration Tuesday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The former WEC winner had a conversation using a guy in a party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was shot in the leg by a guy when he left the house. Psicoticos por VT first reported the news, and sources near the situation, supported the report to MMAFighting.com.
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