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Alexander Gustafsson Wants Back In The Title Race

UFC light-heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson returned with a hard-fought victory at UFC Fight Night 93. Facing the underdog Jan Blachowicz in the Hamburg, Germany-based co-main event, the Swedish brawler ended up in one of his trademark wars. His Polish opponent actually started off very well. Gus had to deal with a swollen eye in the

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Having lost two in a row to Anthony Johnson and Daniel Cormier, Gus needed a win badly in Hamburg. The story of the fight included multiple take downs, plenty of top control and some savage elbows. It wasn’t the clean-cut finish that many of his fans had hoped for, but Gustafsson got the win nonetheless. Following his unanimous decision victory over Blachowicz, obvious questions about Gus’ immediate future have arisen.

What’s Next For Gus?

Speaking during the UFC Fight Night 93 post fight presser, Swedish fan favorite Alexander Gustafsson spoke about his goals after beating Jan Blachowicz. As quoted by MMAJunkie.com:

“I just take one fight at a time right now. Let’s see what the next challenge is. Honestly, I don’t really care that much. I’m just staying focused and getting that ‘W’ and getting back to winning again. It’s been a tough last year.”

Rebounding from the gritty loss to Cormier and harrowing KO defeat against ‘Rumble,’ Gustafsson remains realistic about his aspirations at 205 pounds. Given the traffic jam at the top of the division, a number one contender fight could well be up next.

“I feel great being back in the octagon again and competing again. Let’s see what the challenge is and what’s next, what opponent they want for me. Of course, my big focus and goal is to be a contender again and compete for that championship belt again.”

Potential Fights

As mentioned, Jon Jones, ‘DC’ and Johnson need to iron out a few creases at the title end of light-heavyweight. One obvious burner for Gus to look at next is a scrap with Ryan Bader. ‘Darth’ made a victorious return at UFC Hamburg too, starching Gustafsson’s team-mate Ilir Latifi with a highlight reel knockout.

Thoughts?

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‘Rumble’ On Jon Jones: Why Would He Do Something That Stupid?

It was just over a month ago that UFC interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was forced out of his UFC 200 main event against his hated rival Daniel Cormier, when he was flagged for violating the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA) anti-doping policy. The winner of the contest between Cormier and Jones was expected

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The winner of the contest between Cormier and Jones was expected to take on the winner of the upcoming 205-pound contest between Glover Teixeira and Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson at UFC 202 this weekend (August 20, 2016).

During a recent interview with FOX Sports, Johnson reminisced on how he found out of Jones’ pulling from the massive card:

“Honestly, I was flying to Vegas whenever it happened. I got a group on What’s App with me and my friends and we were communicating with each other and had WIFI on the plane and all of a sudden my phone started getting all these notifications from Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and all this other stuff. I’m like what the hell is going on?” Johnson said.

“First thing I saw was ‘Jon Jones pulled from UFC 200 for anti-doping violation’.

I was you’ve got to be kidding me right now. Honestly, I was shocked. I was hoping this wasn’t true. Like this is bad. At the same time, I was like why would he do something that stupid? Knowing that you have a target on your back like that.

Nobody knows his story. I asked the same questions to myself that everybody else asked, why would you even do that to yourself? Why would you put yourself in that situation. I was just shocked,” Johnson said.

“It was crazy. Before I even landed in Vegas, my phone was going crazy. I was shocked, the world was shocked, everyone was shocked.

A lot of people were saying they weren’t surprised but yeah you were. You didn’t see this coming. Nobody saw this coming. So it was just crazy. It was something that threw everybody for a loop.”

One of the most highly-anticipated fights that could have been made in the light heavyweight division was a throw-down between ‘Rumble’ and ‘Bones’, but that all seemed to go down the drain with Jones’ potential two-year suspension looming:

“You know how it is. All the great fights happen when you least expect it, all the great things in life happen when you least expect it,” Johnson said.

“Every time somebody is pumped up and everybody’s ready for it and excited about it, it’s not what it turns out to be. It’s just like (Manny) Pacquiao and (Floyd) Mayweather — everybody’s like ‘oh I’m pumped up for this fight’ and when you saw the fight, you’re like this is garbage, I want my money back.”

“Am I disappointed I didn’t get to fight Jon? Yeah, because I wanted to fight the best in the world. The best of the best. I’m doing that but at the end of the day, Jon was and is to me, still the man,” Johnson said.

“He’s that guy because he didn’t lose the title due to fighting. He lost it because of his actions outside of fighting. It is what it is.

“I have another great opponent in front of me in Glover (Teixeira) and I also have Daniel Cormier in front of me. Everything keeps going. We’re still going to make the best of this division and have fun and make history.”

Johnson and Teixeira will meet in the co-main event of UFC 202 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 20, 2016.

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Daniel Cormier Refuses To Fight Jon Jones Next

It’s been a rollercoaster of a month for UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier. At the beginning of July, he was finally set to rematch arch rival Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 200 for a chance to finally unify the 205-pound titles and silence his critics once and for all. But just days

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It’s been a rollercoaster of a month for UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier.

At the beginning of July, he was finally set to rematch arch rival Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 200 for a chance to finally unify the 205-pound titles and silence his critics once and for all. But just days out from the event, “DC” was hit with the heavy news that “Bones” wouldn’t competing at the supposedly monumental event after a potential USADA violation for two banned substances forced the UFC to pull him from the bout.

Cormier fought and beat late replacement Anderson Silva on the much-ballyhooed main card, using his clear area of strength of wrestling to control “The Spider” in an uneventful and, in the eyes of many fans in Las Vegas, disappointing bout. So the champ just couldn’t win – even if he won – and it turned out to be a sort of microcosm of his year in general.

Forever linked to “Bones,” who beat him by unanimous decision at 2015’s UFC 182, Cormier was and is viewed as a fake champion despite wins over top contenders Anthony “Rumble” Johnson and Alexander Gustafsson while the formerly dominant Jones was dealing with his seemingly never-ending legal troubles.

He may never be fully redeemed in the minds of some fans if he never beats Jones, but at this point, he’s just had enough of his rival’s card-wrecking antics. Speaking candidly during his return as a co-host on UFC Tonight last night, Cormier unveiled the stance that he was not going to face Jones, but rather the winner of UFC 202’s pivotal bout between “Rumble” and Glover Teixeira next:

“The sad thing is that you got guys that are doing everything right. Anthony Johnson and Glover Teixeira are doing everything right. So, I am sitting here right now telling you on UFC Tonight, I am going to fight the winner of that fight. I don’t care if Jon Jones comes back, I am not going to reward him. His chance was July 9, and he was not there. Glover Teixeira and Anthony Johnson are very deserving guys, and they should get the title shot after they fight. They’re doing the things the right way.”

It’s a proclamation that won’t be lauded by most, but at the same time, it’s one that is understandable at the same time. Jones and his downward spiral of arrests and drug test failures are putting a serious damper on his overall legacy and career in the long run, but in the short term, they are simply demolishing the high-profile cards he’s booked on.

The UFC was quick to kick featherweight champion Conor McGregor out of the main event slot for missing a press conference, yet while “The Notorious” may have needed to be put in place somewhat, putting the onus of UFC 200 – the so-called “biggest card ever” – on Jones’ (along with Brock Lesnar’s, who also failed two drug tests himself) dubious shoulders was a questionable call at best.

Like it or not, Cormier isn’t going to reward that behavior any longer. Jones may arguably be the best pound-for-pound talent MMA has ever seen.

He also may be the biggest waste of talent the sport has ever built up.

There might be a time when “DC” finally settles his long-held rivalry with Jones; there might not. It just won’t be in Cormier’s next trip to the Octagon.

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‘Rumble’ vs. Teixeira, Cerrone vs. Story Join UFC 202 Lineup

August 20’s UFC 202 pay-per-view (PPV) from Las Vegas already has a blockbuster main event in Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz, and now it has two more high-profile bouts joining its lineup. Announcements came tonight that light heavyweights Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson and Glover Teixeira will meet on the card. The fight is a rescheduling of

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August 20’s UFC 202 pay-per-view (PPV) from Las Vegas already has a blockbuster main event in Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz, and now it has two more high-profile bouts joining its lineup.

Announcements came tonight that light heavyweights Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson and Glover Teixeira will meet on the card. The fight is a rescheduling of their UFC on FOX 20 bout that was recently called off due to an injury to ‘Rumble.’

The No. 2-ranked ‘Rumble’ has won two straight blurs by knockout over Ryan Bader and Jimi Manuwa. Teixeira, meanwhile, has won three straight by finish over Rashad Evans, Patrick Cummins, and Ovince St. Preux. The winner of the fight is expected to get the next crack at the winner of UFC 200’s Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones main event.

The event also got a big boost in the form of a welterweight scrap between rising veterans Donald Cerrone and Rick Story. After a failed title bout against lightweight champ Rafael dos Anjos late last year, fan favorite ‘Cowboy’ has made an extremely successful transition to welterweight by stopping Patrick Côte and Alex Oliveira in consecutive bouts.

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Jon Jones Is Reconsidering Jump To Heavyweight

Throughout his amazingly dominant career, UFC interim light heavyweight champion Jone Jones has ruled the UFC’s 205-pound division since he first made the walk to the Octagon, as his opponents have been forced to deal with his combination of a freakish athletic physique and explosive unorthodox striking. Much talk has been thrown around throughout Jones’

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Much talk has been thrown around throughout Jones’ career about a possible jump up to the thunderous heavyweight division, but in a recent interview with MMA Junkie, Jones stated he’s starting not to like that idea as much as he once did:

“To be honest with you, heavyweight really doesn’t really seem as appealing to me as it once did,” Jones said.

“I’m almost 30 now, and I’m not really having any more growth spurts,” Jones said. “This is pretty much the size I’m going to be, and it’s so easy for me to make light heavyweight.

As I get older, and as I mature and take things more seriously – you know, diet and everything – it’s become easier for me to maintain, and I’ve never missed weight.”

Jones’ sudden change of heart most likely has to do with the fact that the Jackson-Wink product feels like he has some unfinished business in the 205-pound division:

“I would love to rematch Gustafsson at some point,” Jones said. “Anthony Johnson is obviously a fight that I need to get out of the way.

Beating Daniel Cormier again is huge for my legacy. But really, just those three names, Cormier, Gustafsson and Johnson, are the guys I want to fight again the most, and that’s it. That’s as far as my eyes can see right now.”

While Jones isn’t completely ruling out a jump to the heavyweight division, he’s more than content to finish out his career in the light heavyweight division he’s ruled for nearly eight years:

“The only way I will go up to heavyweight, it will really have to be stylistically the right fight for me, and the numbers will have to make sense,” Jones said. “Or, obviously, just fighting the right champion for that opportunity to go straight for the title.

“Move up and finish my career there? I don’t see a point when I’m doing so well where I’m at.”

Jones will meet Daniel Cormier in the main event of UFC 200 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 9, 2016.

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Six UFC Career-Changing Left Hooks

Fighters have long utilized the left hook as a way to counter their opponents and inflict fight-ending damage. A proper slip followed by a left hook can change the momentum in any fight, many times resulting in a win – in this list, however, we target something a little different. In the following examples, we

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In the following examples, we take a look at five times that a single left hook has not only changed the trajectory of a fight, but rather shifted the momentum of an entire career. The selections are specific to UFC bouts, each with a unique storyline line that followed the fight ending blow.

It’s time to fire up the UFC Fight Pass subscription and see who made the list, because these knockouts are must-see for any fight fan.

The fights selected span over the entirety of the UFC’s 23 year history and range from title fights to normal bouts. The placement of each bout on the list is dependent on the magnitude of the knock out from an in-fight perspective, and how it affected the careers of the fighters involved following the bout.