Carla Esparza derails Rose Namajunas hoopla train, becomes first UFC girls"s strawweight winner

LAS VEGAS — All everyone wished to talk about heading into Friday night was Rose Namajunas and how she’s the opportunity to be a crossover star for the UFC. UFC president Dana White even alluded to her as the next Ronda Rousey on summer time.

Both of these things could prove to be accurate. But right now, there is no doubting Carla Esparza is the greatest 115-pound girl in the business.

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Carla Esparza derails Rose Namajunas hoopla train, becomes first UFC girls"s strawweight winner

One year after disaster, Carla Esparza on brink of bringing UFC title back to Team Oyama

LAS VEGAS — UFC heavyweight Shane Del Rosario expired nearly exactly one year ago on Dec. 9, 2013. His existence remains felt perpetually at his precious fitness center, Team Oyama in Irvine, Calif.

The plan’s patriarch, Colin Oyama, only talked with Del Rosario’s dad this week. And Carla Esparza said she thought of her former teammate frequently while she was in The Ultimate Fighter house on summer time, heading into her just-finished training camp.

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One year after disaster, Carla Esparza on brink of bringing UFC title back to Team Oyama

UFC unveils Anthony Pettis" Wheaties carton

UFC lightweight winner Anthony Pettis won a lover-vote this previous summer to formally became the primary mixed martial arts to ever grace the cover of a Wheaties box, and at Thursday’s UFC 181 media day in vegas, Pettis’ cover was shown.

The winner is here. pic.twitter.com/wmsevy9ds4

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UFC unveils Anthony Pettis" Wheaties carton

Anderson Silva warns Nick Diaz against trash talking: "I don"t like to be disrespected"

Nick Diaz and pre-fight animosity aren’t exactly strangers. With his brazen style and tendency to speak his mind, Diaz has proven to be a master at provoking his opponents both inside and outside of the cage, even drawing the usually-reserved Georges St-Pierre into his now-infamous dark place before the pair fought at UFC 158.

And while Diaz has remained largely silent since his blockbuster return bout against former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was scheduled for early 2015, that didn’t happen to be the case when the fighting pride of Stockton was still angling for the fight earlier this summer while Silva was rehabilitating his badly broken left leg.

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Anderson Silva warns Nick Diaz against trash talking: "I don"t like to be disrespected"

Joe Warren promises to give Eduardo Dantas a "family ass-beating affair"

The press releases and promotional materials may sell Bellator 128’s main event as a title unification bout, but don’t tell that to the man wearing the interim strap. After being burned by a six-day notice cancellation of their summer meeting, Joe Warren tends to reject the idea that young Brazilian bantamweight Eduardo Dantas can still call himself a rightful Bellator champion.

“I’m the champion now. I have the belt around my waist now,” Warren told MMAFighting.com. “He has pulled out for the last year. Bellator pretty much let me know for the last year that this guy would never fight again, so I don’t believe a lot of things this kid says. I’ve been scheduled to fight him twice now in the last year, and he’s backed out both times.”

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Joe Warren promises to give Eduardo Dantas a "family ass-beating affair"

Khabib Nurmagomedov eyeing February return, calls Anthony Pettis "easy money"

One of the UFC’s most intriguing lightweight contenders, Khabib Nurmagomedov, is now targeting a February return to action after tearing the meniscus in his right knee this past summer — but the road to Nurmagomedov’s rehabilitation has been more unusual than most.

After discovering that Nurmagomedov has been working through and paying for his own rehabilitation in Russia, UFC officials recently flew the Dagestani sambo champion out to Los Angeles to visit the same orthopedic physician who treated Georges St-Pierre and Conor McGregor for similarly problematic knee injuries, MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani reported on Wednesday’s edition of UFC Tonight.

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Khabib Nurmagomedov eyeing February return, calls Anthony Pettis "easy money"