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Roy Nelson Doesn’t Regret Kicking Referee After Knockout Win

Heavyweight slugger Roy “Big Country” Nelson added another vicious knockout victory to his record at last night’s (September 25, 2016) UFC Fight Night 95, drilling Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva with a brutal right hand in the second round. Nelson was forced to follow up with a few extra blows, however, and it was clear that he

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“It was a push,” Nelson said of the kick at the UFC Fight Night 95 post-fight press conference. “It was more of like, dude, come on.

“Then we had a conversation in the cage. I was like, ‘Dude, he was knocked out.’ And [McCarthy] was like, ‘No, he wasn’t.’ And I’m like, dude, I know what a knockout is. I knock people out. That’s what I do for a living. I know what a knockout is. Just because the guy didn’t roll his eyes into the back of his head, or shake, or whatever … it was just one of those things.”

“Big Country” admits that he got caught up in the heat of the moment, but he doesn’t regret his actions. Nelson simply said that “Bigfoot” didn’t need to take any more damage:

“I didn’t want to hurt ‘Bigfoot’ more than I had to,” Nelson said. “And I got taken by the moment, because it’s like I’m beating the sh*t out of somebody and you’re like, dude, enough is enough. And for me, it hurt my feelings. And I apologize to Big John, but I wouldn’t take it back. It just hurt me, that I’ve got to keep on hitting a guy that doesn’t need to be hit.”

“I knew I already knocked him out with my first punch, and then I got him one more time,” Nelson said. “In my head, it was like slow-mo, like I’m having a conversation with John going, ‘hey man, how is the weather over there?’ That’s what it felt like. I’m friends with ‘Bigfoot,’ and he has a family. I don’t need to keep on punching him in his face. And it’s not one of those (things) like, if I hit him so hard that he fell flat on his face, I would’ve just walked off like Mark Hunt. But he fell on his back.”

“It wasn’t like [McCarthy] was so far away. He was over here to my side, and I know I had a conversation (with him). I’m like, he’s out. He’s like, ‘no he’s not, keep on moving.’ So for me, I feel like I’m giving ‘Bigfoot’ extra damage, where he doesn’t actually need to get hit that much.”

What do you make of Nelson’s reaction to the stoppage?

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Roy Nelson Says Werdum’s Own People Caused Him To Get Knocked Out

Fabricio Werdum had the opportunity of a lifetime in the main event of last weekend’s (May 14, 2016) UFC 198 from his home of Brazil. Attempting to make the first defense of his UFC heavyweight title, Werdum faced off with Stipe Miocic in front of forty-thousand plus screaming Brazilian fans. Unfortunately for “Vai Cavalo”, however,

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Fabricio Werdum had the opportunity of a lifetime in the main event of last weekend’s (May 14, 2016) UFC 198 from his home of Brazil.

Attempting to make the first defense of his UFC heavyweight title, Werdum faced off with Stipe Miocic in front of forty-thousand plus screaming Brazilian fans. Unfortunately for “Vai Cavalo”, however, he was knocked out by Miocic in the very first round, a stoppage that left the crowd silent.

Fellow heavyweight slugger Roy “Big Country” Nelson feels as if the crowd played a part in Werdum losing his title:

“I think it was the Brazilian crowd of 45,000 people,” Nelson said. “You’re like, ‘Dude, I want to make some things happen. I want to make fireworks.’ And when you do fireworks for the fans, you want to put a show for the fans, you just kind of sometimes get a little over anxious. I know that feeling.” Nelson told MMAFighting.com.

Nelson, while not taking anything away from Miocic, further criticized Werdum, saying that the Brazilian’s strategy wasn’t so ‘bright’:

“I was impressed that he knocked Werdum out because I didn’t see that coming, but at the same time, when you got a 240-pound man running at you, and you just stick your hand out, you’re definitely going to hurt somebody.

“No, I don’t think it was a lucky punch. I just think Werdum wasn’t so bright because he was just very like, ‘just stand there, man. Just fight.’ Nelson said. “He just ran at him.”

Do you agree with “Big Country’s” assessment?

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Cris Cyborg Can ‘Absolutely’ Make Bantamweight – But There’s a Price

Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino is a massive 145-pounder, and her weight has kept her out of the UFC for years given the fact that the promotion currently doesn’t have a featherweight division. She has attempted to cut down to 135-pounds before, but has yet to compete at that weight. With her UFC

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She has attempted to cut down to 135-pounds before, but has yet to compete at that weight.

With her UFC debut, which was an 81-second destruction of Leslie Smith in a 140-pound catch weight bout at UFC 198 (May 14, 2016), now in the rearview mirror, talks have unsurprisingly turned to whether or not the Brazilian slugger would ever really be able to make the bantamweight limit safely.

A plethora of fights would await her at 135-pounds including the long rumored super fight with ex-champion Ronda Rousey as well as a possible clash with current divisional title holder Miesha Tate.

Speaking on the topic, “Cyborg’s” nutritionist, George Lockhart, said that she could ‘absolutely’ make the cut down to bantamweight, although it would likely come at a price:

“Could she make the cut? Absolutely,” Lockhart explained on The Luke Thomas Show (Transcription via MMA Fighting). “She can make 135. She can make 130, but performing? That’s another question. That right there comes down to time. She put in a lot of time for this.”

“People don’t realize how hard it was just to get down to 139. She had to do three-a-days every single day of the week. Sundays she had a day off, but still. Three-a-days, it’s a lot. She’s running, doing a lot of road work.”

Lockhart may have a point here, as a draining weight cut could take away some of Justino’s advantages, specifically her brutal knockout power.

At the end of the day, however, the coach feels as if making bantamweight is possible, although he doesn’t know how realistic the move would be:

“If she ever said, ‘You know what? I want to come down to the 135.’ I think it’d be possible,” Lockhart said. “But is it definite? Honestly, I don’t know.”

What do you expect of “Cyborg’s” future in the UFC?

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Six Ways Stipe Miocic Is Changing The HW Division For Good

It’s often said in mixed martial arts that although getting to the top of the food chain is difficult, staying on top is simply that much harder. We have seen that to be true time and time again, and most clearly within the UFC’s heavyweight division, a division in which a champion has never defended

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It’s often said in mixed martial arts that although getting to the top of the food chain is difficult, staying on top is simply that much harder.

We have seen that to be true time and time again, and most clearly within the UFC’s heavyweight division, a division in which a champion has never defended his title more than twice.

In fact, the title once again changed hands this past weekend (May 14, 2016) for the second time in less than 12 months. Stipe Miocic seized the opportunity of a lifetime in his main event bout with Fabricio Werdum in Brazil at UFC 198, finishing “Vai Cavalo” with a clean right hand in the first round to become the new titleholder.

Now the king of the mountain, the Croatian-American will be faced with the daunting task of keeping a shiny gold belt strapped around his waist in the unforgiving waters of the heavyweight division.

But he may be up to the task. He’s not exactly young at 33 years old, yet that does make him surprisingly spry in the quickly aging heavyweight landscape, and he is clearly defining a new breed of heavyweight fighter by himself.

Let’s take a look at six reasons why Miocic may defy the odds and continue to wreak havoc on the heavyweight class for more than just two title defenses….

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UFC Rankings Update: Stipe Miocic Soars Following Title-Sealing KO

There was a huge amount of heavy-hitting action at last weekend’s (Sat., May 14, 2016) UFC 198 from the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil, and not surpisingly, the official UFC rankings have echoed that. Obviously the biggest shift was made by newly-crowned heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, who knocked out former champ Fabricio Werdum with a massive

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Obviously the biggest shift was made by newly-crowned heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, who knocked out former champ Fabricio Werdum with a massive counter right hand that changed the UFC’s heaviest division in a big way by injecting some new (and perhaps unexpected) blood at the top. For the victory, Miocic debuted on the pound-for-pound rankings list, coming in at No. 11. Werdum dropped a lofty 11 spots as a result of the loss.

At heavyweight, Werdum dropped to the No. 1 spot, sending Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem down to No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.

Several other top-flight fighters also benefitted from “Vai Cavalo’s” drop, as the previous Nos. 5-12 fighters each rose up a spot, including Conor McGregor to No. 7, while previous No. 14-ranked pound-for-pound fighter Joanna Jedrzejczyk rose up two spots to No. 12.

In other movement, No. 3-ranked middleweight Vitor Belfort stayed put at that spot even though he was largely dominated by No. 2-ranked Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza in UFC 198’s co-main event. Also at 185, Thiago Santos made his debut at No. 14 after finishing longtime vet Nate Marquardt in Curitiba, pushing another longtime vet in Dan Henderson to the No. 15 spot.

At welterweight, Demian Maia continued his climb back up the rankings after his submission victory over Matt Brown, his fifth straight. The talented Brazilian rose two spots to No. 4, pushing Carlos Condit and Johny Hendricks each down a spot to Nos. 5 and 6, respectively. Gunnar Nelson also traded spots with Kelvin Gastelum, rising to No. 12 and forcing Gastelum down to No. 13.

Here are the fully updated rankings courtesy of UFC.com:

POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Jon Jones
2 Demetrious Johnson
3 Luke Rockhold
4 Dominick Cruz +1
5 Rafael Dos Anjos +1
6 Robbie Lawler +1
7 Conor McGregor +1
8 Daniel Cormier +1
9 Jose Aldo +1
10 Chris Weidman +1
11 Frankie Edgar +1
12 Joanna Jedrzejczyk +2
13 Stipe Miocic *NR
14 TJ Dillashaw -1
15 Fabricio Werdum -11

FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 Henry Cejudo
3 Jussier Formiga
4 Kyoji Horiguchi
5 Ian McCall
6 John Moraga
7 Zach Makovsky
8 Wilson Reis
9 Dustin Ortiz
10 Ali Bagautinov
11 Justin Scoggins
12 Louis Smolka
13 Ray Borg
14 Sergio Pettis
15 Ben Nguyen

BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Dominick Cruz
1 TJ Dillashaw
2 Renan Barao
3 Urijah Faber
4 Aljamain Sterling
5 Raphael Assuncao
6 Michael McDonald
7 Thomas Almeida
8 Bryan Caraway
9 Takeya Mizugaki
10 John Dodson
11 John Lineker +1
12 Johnny Eduardo -1
13 Frankie Saenz
14 Jimmie Rivera
15 Eddie Wineland

FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Conor McGregor
1 Jose Aldo
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Chad Mendes
4 Max Holloway
5 Ricardo Lamas
6 Cub Swanson
7 Charles Oliveira
8 Dennis Bermudez
9 Jeremy Stephens
10 Hacran Dias
11 Darren Elkins
12 Brian Ortega
13 Tatsuya Kawajiri
14 Yair Rodriguez
15 Mirsad Bektic

LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Rafael Dos Anjos
1 Khabib Nurmagomedov
2 Eddie Alvarez
3 Tony Ferguson
4 Donald Cerrone
5 Nate Diaz
6 Edson Barboza
7 Anthony Pettis
8 Michael Johnson
9 Michael Chiesa
10 Beneil Dariush
11 Dustin Poirier
12 Al Iaquinta +1
13 Bobby Green -1
14 Rashid Magomedov +1
15 Evan Dunham -1

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Robbie Lawler
1 Rory MacDonald
2 Stephen Thompson
3 Tyron Woodley
4 Demian Maia +2
5 Carlos Condit -1
6 Johny Hendricks -1
7 Neil Magny
8 Matt Brown
9 Dong Hyun Kim
10 Tarec Saffiedine
11 Rick Story
12 Gunnar Nelson +1
13 Kelvin Gastelum -1
14 Hector Lombard
15 Thiago Alves

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Luke Rockhold
1 Chris Weidman
2 Jacare Souza
3 Vitor Belfort
4 Michael Bisping
5 Anderson Silva
6 Robert Whittaker
7 Lyoto Machida
8 Gegard Mousasi
9 Tim Kennedy
10 Uriah Hall
11 Derek Brunson
12 Thales Leites
13 Rafael Natal
14 Thiago Santos *NR
15 Dan Henderson -1

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Jon Jones (Interim Champion)
2 Anthony Johnson
3 Glover Teixeira
4 Alexander Gustafsson
5 Ryan Bader
6 Ovince Saint Preux
7 Mauricio Rua +1
8 Rashad Evans -1
9 Jimi Manuwa
10 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
11 Nikita Krylov +2
12 Corey Anderson
13 Ilir Latifi +1
14 Patrick Cummins -3
15 Gian Villante

HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Stipe Miocic
1 Fabricio Werdum -1
2 Cain Velasquez -1
3 Alistair Overeem -1
4 Junior Dos Santos
5 Ben Rothwell
6 Andrei Arlovski
7 Travis Browne
8 Mark Hunt
9 Josh Barnett
10 Roy Nelson
11 Derrick Lewis +1
12 Frank Mir -1
13 Stefan Struve
14 Ruslan Magomedov
15 Alexey Oliynyk

WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Joanna Jedrzejczyk
1 Claudia Gadelha
2 Carla Esparza
3 Rose Namajunas
4 Tecia Torres
5 Valerie Letourneau
6 Jessica Penne
7 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
8 Paige VanZant
9 Maryna Moroz
10 Michelle Waterson
11 Joanne Calderwood
12 Randa Markos
13 Jessica Aguilar
14 Juliana Lima
15 Justine Kish

WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Miesha Tate
1 Holly Holm
2 Ronda Rousey
3 Cat Zingano
4 Amanda Nunes
5 Julianna Pena
6 Sara McMann
7 Jessica Eye
8 Liz Carmouche
9 Valentina Shevchenko
10 Raquel Pennington
11 Bethe Correia
12 Germaine de Randamie
13 Lauren Murphy
14 Ashlee Evans-Smith +1
15 Marion Reneau -1

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Matt Brown: I Finally Made It Back To The US Alive

A few close shaves for Matt Brown in Brazil… It was a pretty sub standard weekend in the life of Matt Brown, but surprisingly his loss to Demian Maia was at the bottom of the list of things that sucked in Brazil for ‘The Immortal.’ The strange events of the UFC 198 fight weekend for

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A few close shaves for Matt Brown in Brazil…

It was a pretty sub standard weekend in the life of Matt Brown, but surprisingly his loss to Demian Maia was at the bottom of the list of things that sucked in Brazil for ‘The Immortal.’ The strange events of the UFC 198 fight weekend for the entertaining welterweight slugger started before he’d even stepped foot in the octagon. Brown had flipped off the crowd at the UFC 198 weigh ins, instantly making himself some 15,000 Brazilian enemies as his hit the scales with his back turned to them. Apparently they didn’t take kindly to this gesture, and the drama spilled over in to the arena on fight night.

During his UFC 198 walkout, Matt Brown was swiped at, grabbed, and even struck by one angry fan, forcing ‘The Immortal’ to throw a punch before he’d even made it to the octagon. Check out the video of that crazy moment:

Well it wasn’t the end of the world for Brown, perhaps a slightly poor timed annoyance on a night already filled with pressure, but he remained relatively unscathed. After being dominated and submitted by Demian Maia inside three rounds, ‘The Immortal’ was then attacked the following day by his former coach Rodrigo Botti…

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