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NewsATT owner details trying to buy UFC, twice
“It may have stayed around, but it would have been on a very, very, very small scale. I just didn’t want to see it go out of business. I wanted a place for our guys to fight.”
NewsChael: Conor to cut 27 pounds this week
Chael Sonnen: “(Conor McGregor)’s got to be 145 lbs in eight days. I don’t know how he’s going to do it. He’s very lean. He has a very busy schedule.”
NewsWhite: Aldo probably would have made close to $4,000,000
Dana White on what Jose Aldo’s purse would have been: “Millions of dollars. Yeah, he probably would’ve made close to four million.”
NewsUFC 189 Embedded, Episode 6
On Episode 6 of UFC 189 Embedded, featherweight headliner Chad Mendes gives cameras a peek inside his healthy hunter’s lifestyle… and a tour of his chicken coop.
NewsReport: UFC releases 17 fighters, 14 unannounced
The UFC released 17 fighters includung Lisa Ellis, Jessica Rakoczy, Zhang Lipeng, Luiz Dutra, Josh Sampo, Hatsu Hioki, Ryan Jimmo, and Andrew Todhunter.
NewsAguilar: Jedrzejczyk is ‘one-dimensional’
Jessica Aguilar is confident she can be a contender quickly and defeat the champion, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, who she believes is a one-dimensional fighter.
NewsConor offers White and Fertitta $3,000,000 bet on 2nd rd KO win
Dana White: “I can’t even believe I’m going to say this, but, he told Lorenzo and I the other day ‘I’ll bet you $3 million I knock him out in the second round.'”
Coach: It’s hard enough for Cyborg to make 145 lbs.
Eye: I believe I’ll be world champion by end of 2015
Inside the Brand: Diamond MMA
Rothwell: I’d beat Arlovski in devastating fashion
Larkin: Tumenov’s call-out couldn’t have been more Russian