Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White is no longer in the Cris Cyborg business ... this much we know. While Cyborg had already made up her mind that she wasn’t going to re-sign with UFC following her win over Felicia Spencer at UFC 240, White came out a few days later to say she didn’t have to wait to sign elsewhere, as her contract was completely void and UFC wouldn’t even try to match.
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The UFC made major waves on Saturday afternoon leading up to UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi by announcing Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal as the headliners for their big UFC 244 event in New York City. That’s right: Nate and Jorge for five rounds, and since having belts at the top of pay-per-views is so important, UFC president Dana White confirmed he’d be making an honorary Bad Motherf**ker belt for the occasion.
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Colby Covington was ready to fight Kamaru Usman at UFC 244 in New York until negotiations broke down over the past week.
That’s the word from the former interim welterweight champion, who confirms that he had verbally agreed to face Usman on the upcoming card in November until the UFC came at him with an unreasonable offer financially that he just couldn’t accept.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov just took out his twelfth UFC opponent, moving his overall MMA record to a staggering 28-0. When someone takes out a guy like Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 with such apparent ease, where do you turn for the next challenge?
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Khabib vs. GSP.
It’s a fight that keeps coming up, even thought UFC president Dana White has shut it down multiple times. Even though Georges St-Pierre retired from the UFC after White shut it down multiple times. Yet we keep talking about it, and over the past several months it’s gone from ‘never going to happen’ to ‘holy crap maybe it will happen’ territory.
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UFC 242 takes place Saturday morning/afternoon from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It is the first UFC pay-per-view event held in Abu Dhabi since UFC 112 in 2010. The event is headlined by Khabib Nurmagomedov (27-0) defending his UFC lightweight title against interim champion Dustin Poirier (25-5, 1 NC). This is Nurmagomedov’s first fight since he defeated Conor McGregor in the highest grossing event in the history of the sport.
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With his dominating third round submission victory over Dustin Poirier in Abu Dhabi, lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov moves to an unparalleled 28-0, with 12 of those wins coming in the UFC.
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UFC 242 takes place Saturday morning/afternoon from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It is the first UFC pay-per-view event held in Abu Dhabi since UFC 112 in 2010. The event is headlined by Khabib Nurmagomedov (27-0) defending his UFC lightweight title against interim champion Dustin Poirier (25-5, 1 NC). This is Nurmagomedov’s first fight since he defeated Conor McGregor in the highest grossing event in the history of the sport.
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