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MMA Top 10 Featherweights: Aldo on Top, Mendes No. 2

Filed under: UFC, Bellator, Rankings, FeatherweightsJose Aldo has now made his UFC debut and won the UFC’s first featherweight title fight, an entertaining if not terribly competitive unanimous decision over Mark Hominick at UFC 129. So what does the U…

Filed under: UFC, Bellator, Rankings, Featherweights

Jose Aldo has now made his UFC debut and won the UFC’s first featherweight title fight, an entertaining if not terribly competitive unanimous decision over Mark Hominick at UFC 129. So what does the UFC do with Aldo from here?

The fight I think the UFC really wants to make for Aldo is against Kenny Florian, who has more name recognition than anyone else on the UFC’s featherweight roster. If Florian wins his featherweight debut against Diego Nunes at UFC 131, he’ll instantly step into title contention — and into the featherweight Top 10.

But for now, the No. 1 featherweight appears headed toward an August showdown with the undefeated Chad Mendes — and on my featherweight rankings, that’s the right call.

Mike Brown on Recent UFC Losses: ‘My Heart Is Broken’

Filed under: UFCBack when Mike Brown was the WEC featherweight champion, he heard the same question all the time. People who barely followed the sport, people who didn’t know any better, they’d ask him, ‘Does this mean you get to go to the UFC now?’

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Back when Mike Brown was the WEC featherweight champion, he heard the same question all the time. People who barely followed the sport, people who didn’t know any better, they’d ask him, ‘Does this mean you get to go to the UFC now?’

Only now that the UFC has absorbed the lighter weight fighters from the WEC roster, Brown’s stay in the UFC isn’t going at all like he planned. It started with a split decision loss to Diego Nunes at UFC 125. Three weeks later, he was back in action again for a unanimous decision loss to Rani Yahya.

In less than a month’s time the former champ was 0-2 as a featherweight in the UFC, and his career outlook was suddenly quite grim.

MMA Top 10 Featherweights: New Year, New Faces

Filed under: DREAM, UFC, Sengoku, Featherweights
An injury forced featherweight champion Jose Aldo to drop out of his scheduled fight at UFC 125, and while Aldo was on the sideline for New Year’s, the featherweight division underwent some radical chang…

Filed under: DREAM, UFC, Sengoku, Featherweights

An injury forced featherweight champion Jose Aldo to drop out of his scheduled fight at UFC 125, and while Aldo was on the sideline for New Year’s, the featherweight division underwent some radical changes.

The New Year’s cards for the UFC, Dream and Sengoku all had big featherweight fights that featured several surprise results, and now that the dust has settled, the featherweight division looks a whole lot different heading into 2011 than it did for most of 2010 — with the exception, of course, that Aldo is still the king.

Check out our rankings of the rest of the featherweight division below.

Diego Nunes Credits Eye Injury for Helping Him Get Past Mike Brown

Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, Videos

LAS VEGAS — MMA Fighting spoke to featherweight Diego Nunes after his split decision win over Mike Brown at UFC 125 about how he was able to overcome an eye injury in the first round, Brown’s illegal knee in the first round, the emotions he felt after the fight and what’s next for him.

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UFC 125 to Feature Marcus Davis’s Lightweight Debut, Mike Brown’s UFC Return

("That’s it. Diet starts tomorrow.")
After getting put to sleep by Nate Diaz at UFC 118 — his third loss in four attempts — Marcus Davis announced his intention to drop to lightweight. According to MMA Junkie, the Irish Hand Gre…

("That’s it. Diet starts tomorrow.")

After getting put to sleep by Nate Diaz at UFC 118 — his third loss in four attempts — Marcus Davis announced his intention to drop to lightweight. According to MMA Junkie, the Irish Hand Grenade’s 155-pound debut will take place at the UFC’s stacked New Year’s Day card in Las Vegas against Jeremy Stephens, who publicly requested to be Davis’s first lightweight opponent. Stephens most recently lost a split decision to Melvin Guillard at UFC 119.

Another likely matchup for UFC 125: Resolution will be former WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown making his promotional return against Diego Nunes. Brown made a single UFC appearance as a lightweight back at UFC 47 in 2004, losing by first-round submission to Genki Sudo. He most recently scored a quick TKO over Cole Province at WEC 51 in September. Representing Nova Uniao, Nunes has put together a 4-1 record in the WEC, and is coming off of consecutive decision wins against Raphael Assuncao and Tyler Toner.

The tentative lineup for UFC 125 is after the jump…