At least Daniel Cormier seems to have rebounded from his title loss to UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones in good spirits.
A former heavyweight and always unabashed foodie, Cormier appeared shirtless to croon over his love for cake and Popeyes Chicken in video skit for the 2015 World MMA Awards, parodying Meghan Trainor’s popular song, ‘All About That Bass.’ Catch the amusing video below.
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England head coach Peter Moores says he is very confident of a good showing at the upcoming World Cup despite Sunday’s comprehensive loss to Australia.
England were convincingly defeated in the Tri-Series final, losing by 112 runs, but they had earlier impressed in two victories over India.
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NEW YORK – Though mixed martial arts is still banned in New York, that doesn’t mean its piecemeal components are.
Sunday’s Grapple at the Garden event at Madison Square Garden featured wrestling battles between well-known names in the world of MMA, as well as some of the finest wrestlers in the country at the high school and college levels.
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It hasn’t been “The Machida Era” in about half a decade. But “The Dragon” is still one of the best in the world.
Machida cemented his status as a major threat in the middleweight division by destroying C.B. Dollaway in just 62 seconds in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Dollaway on Saturday night in Barueri, Brazil. Machida landed a left kick to the body that clearly hurt Dollaway and Machida pounced with punches.
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The ongoing argument over the next welterweight title shot. The continuing fallout from the UFC’s signing of CM Punk. The class-action lawsuit against the UFC filed by veteran fighters. Oh, and what to make of Saturday night’s main event between Lyoto Machida and C.B. Dollaway.
There is no lack of discussion points in the mixed martial arts world as we barrel toward the holiday season, so let’s jump right into another edition of Fightweets.
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World Series of Fighting welterweight Jon Fitch lost out on the title Saturday night, but he might be missing the use of his right leg for a few months.
The former UFC contender was caught in a first-round kneebar by leglock master Rousimar Palhares Dec. 13 at WSOF 16.
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The California State Athletic Commission will not be punishing Rousimar Palhares, even though he held onto his winning kneebar submission against Jon Fitch a shade too long.
Andy Foster, the CSAC executive director, told MMA Fighting that he was angry Saturday night at World Series of Fighting 16 in Sacramento after the incident in the main event. But after consulting with referee Ed Collantes and watching video of the finish over and over again Monday, Foster determined he would not take any action against the Brazilian fighter.
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On episode three of the Monday Morning Analyst, we review UFC on FOX 13, The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale and WSOF 16. We also briefly discuss the big boxing weekend including Ishe Smith vs. Erislandy Lara, Amir Khan vs. Devon Alexander and Timothy Bradley vs. Diego Chaves.
Editor’s note: Portions of the video and audio lag due to poor Internet connectivity while recording. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Rousimar Palhares added another quick submission to his record, but the fight once again ended with controversy.
The World Series of Fighting welterweight champion, who needed 90 seconds to tap Jon Fitch in the main event of WSOF 16 in Sacramento Calif., on Dec. 13, might have injured Fitch with his nasty submission, but feels he did everything by the book.
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Five months following the initial date, Rousimar Palhares and Jon Fitch will meet for great in the World Series of Fighting cage Saturday night in California, as “Toquinho” was eventually able to focus 100 percent on fighting again.
Palhares requested to withdraw from his first title defense in July, when he was anticipated to meet Fitch in the key occasion of WSOF 11, to manage his mother, who had been hospitalized and underwent operation for extreme thrombosis in her legs.
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Sheymon Moraes had his first World Series of Fighting adversary shifted twice, however he does not care.
Moraes, a 6-0 bantamweight possibility from Team Nogueira in Rio de Janeiro, confronts Gabriel Solorio at Saturday night’s WSOF 16 in Sacramento, and his largest challenge was days prior to the particular fight.
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Jon Fitch joins us in studio to preview his WSOF welterweight title fight against Rousimar Palhares this Saturday night at WSOF 16.
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World Series of Fighting welterweight champion Rousmiar Palhares takes a standing into his title defense against Jon Fitch on Saturday night in Sacramento.
And Fitch acknowledges he is cautious of his contentious foe.
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One FC welterweight champion Ben Askren makes no bones about the fact he considers himself the world’s top 170-pounder.
And while he is not likely to get the chance to examine himself against the UFC’s greatest welterweights any time soon, among the most effective combatants outside the UFC at 170 is quite certain he is contractually clear to make this kind of fight.
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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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Before in 2013, it was Renan Barao. Subsequently it was Jon Jones. At some point, it was likely Jose Aldo, also.
But UFC president Dana White has changed his mind again on who the most effective pound-for-pound fighter on the planet is. He considers it to be Anthony Pettis, who just so happens to be defending his lightweight title against Gilbert Melendez in the co-main event of UFC 181 on Saturday night in vegas.
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Tonya Evinger is arguably the top women’s bantamweight fighter on the planet not now in the UFC. And that suits her just fine.
The vocal Missouri native cannot be any happier in Invicta FC and contains no actual designs on leaving the all-girls’s promotion any moment soon. Evinger will meet Cindy Dandois in the co-chief event of Invicta FC 10 on Friday night in Houston and foresees an busy, successful 2015 coming up. The fights will air live at 9 p.m. ET on UFC Fight Pass.
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