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Tyron Woodley Calls Out Demian Maia For ‘Twitching’ During Staredown

The most stacked UFC card of 2017 is set to go down tomorrow night (Sat. July 29, 2017), and the co-main event will feature an epic welterweight title bout between champion Tyron Woodley and challenger Demian Maia. Woodley and Maia faced off for the first time this past Wednesday following the UFC 214 pre-fight press […]

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Woodley and Maia faced off for the first time this past Wednesday following the UFC 214 pre-fight press conference, and “T-Wood” claims to have seen an interesting tell from his Brazilian counterpart. Woodley spoke to the media following yesterday’s open workouts at the UFC Gym, and said he noticed a bit of a twitch on Maia’s face when they locked eyes (quotes via MMA Fighting):

“His face was twitching a little bit,” Woodley said. “Sometimes guys want to show you that they’re ready and they really want something. They can’t stop their face from convulsing and kind of trembling a little bit.”

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Maia is currently riding an epic seven fight win streak over the most elite competitors at 170 pounds such as Neil Magny, Gunnar Nelson, Matt Brown, Carlos Condit, and Jorge Masvidal. Maia has been campaigning for a shot at the gold since his submission win over Brown last year, but will finally get his shot against Woodley tomorrow night.

In a recent episode of UFC Embedded Maia noted something along the lines of going out with a big title victory, as the 39-year-old knows his fighting days are numbered at this point in his journeyed career:

“This is his shot, man,” Woodley said. “He said one thing in the Embedded thing that really struck a nerve for me. He said, ‘What better way to go out?’ When you start talking about going out when you’re fighting me, I’m a guy that has retired a lot of fighters. Look at Jay Hieron, look at Andre Galvao.

“Those are guys that didn’t fight again after they fought me. If you’re going into this fight thinking this is going to be the crown on the top of your career, I’m the wrong guy. I’m never getting you access to that. I’m not gonna let you get 20 wins against me.”

As for what Woodley believes Maia’s twitch meant on Wednesday – he believes he’s trying too hard:

“It means you’re trying too hard,” Woodley said. “If you really mean it, if you’re really about that life, you don’t have to force it. I’m just calm. I’m relaxed, I don’t have no beef against you. But when you look at me, you know I’m coming to try and knock out you on Saturday. That’s my game plan.”

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Former UFC Champ: McGregor vs. Mayweather Could Beat Ali-Frazier

Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather’s rivalry could rival that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. That’s what former UFC champ Pat Miletich believes as we are just less than a month away (Sat. August 26, 2017) from UFC lightweight champ Conor McGregor and undefeated 49-0 Floyd Mayweather’s boxing superfight at the T-Mobile Arena from Las […]

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Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather’s rivalry could rival that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

That’s what former UFC champ Pat Miletich believes as we are just less than a month away (Sat. August 26, 2017) from UFC lightweight champ Conor McGregor and undefeated 49-0 Floyd Mayweather’s boxing superfight at the T-Mobile Arena from Las Vegas, Nevada. McGregor has been in deep preparation for his professional boxing debut, bringing in the likes of former IBF junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi as a sparring partner.

Miletich recently joined Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour to talk about the upcoming superfight, stating that if MCGregor were indeed to beat Mayweather it would the ‘biggest upset i combat sports history, and it’s already a fight that could rival or beat the biggest heavyweight boxing matches in the sweet science’s storied history. In fact, Miletich went as far as saying that McGregor and Mayweather’s rivalry could be as big, if not bigger, than that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier(quotes via MMA Fighting):

“It’s certainly the biggest combat event ever in the history of, I mean, this is, you think about Thrilla in Manila and [George] Foreman, [Joe] Frazier and guys like [Muhammad] Ali and Frazier and Foreman and all those guys, I mean, this is going to rival, if not beat that.”

Miletich looked into how McGregor could pull off said biggest upset, claiming that if he were training McGregor for the bout, he’d teach him to ‘cheat within the rules’ throughout the entire fight:

“[If] I’m training a fighter who’s going into that fight? Cheat within the rules, the entire fight,” Miletich said.

“Its got to be that close to a street fight. Get two warnings for everything before they take a point, and look, if you get a point taken, you get a point taken. It’s not like he’s winning on the cards anyway. I’m just being honest.”

He then pondered the possibility that “Money” could avoid his usual game-plan of ‘coasting to victories’ and instead attempt to bring the fight to McGregor. Miletich has enough confidence in the Irishman’s chin to survive for 12 rounds, and with his ‘monstrous’ left hand, he definitely has a chance to pull off the upset:

“Mayweather’s good at scoring points, staying ahead on the cards and coasting to victories,” Miletich said. “Will McGregor pull him out of that and make him go out on a limb and try to knock him out? That’s the thing. But McGregor’s got a good enough chin, and I think he can hang around, and that means he’s in there for 12 rounds with that monstrous left hand. It doesn’t matter who you are. If you are that weight and you get hit with that left hand, its going to hurt you.”

“The constant pressure of the tap of the back of the head and the push to the hip at the same time to make the head pop back to throw stuff,” Miletich said. “The bringing the head through and throwing a lead hook which would be opposite side for him. Stuff like that. Blocking the leg when he gets them in the ropes, because they’re the same stance, lean forward, clashing, block the outside of the leg, and get him off balance and take the leg out from under him. Make him stumble, make him lose his balance, and unload on him.

“A lot of different stuff like that to get people off balance, you know?” Miletich continued. “That’s the thing. And he’s got to go at the same time Mayweather goes. He cannot counter by getting out of the way and throwing back. He’s gone. You have to throw at the exact same time as he throws.”

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UFC Rankings Update: Jon Jones Moves Up Pound-For-Pound List

The official UFC rankings are in, and Jon Jones appears to be on the come-up once again. After nearly a year-and-a-half year removed from his last fight, Jones will looks to recapture his light heavyweight belt against incumbent champ Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 this weekend. The pound-for-pound list has been updated as well, with […]

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The official UFC rankings are in, and Jon Jones appears to be on the come-up once again.

After nearly a year-and-a-half year removed from his last fight, Jones will looks to recapture his light heavyweight belt against incumbent champ Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 this weekend.

The pound-for-pound list has been updated as well, with Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson edging out Conor McGregor for the coveted number one spot.

Jones went up two spots on the pound-for-pound list, coming in at number five on the list he used to regularly dominate.

Both Cody Garbrandt and Max Holloway dropped a spot on the P4P list as Jones moves his way back up to the top. Holloway recently defeated Jose Aldo to become UFC featherweight champion, while Garbrandt has remained inactive since taking the bantamweight title from Dominick Cruz in December 2016.

Check out the updated rankings courtesy of UFC.com below:

POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Demetrious Johnson
2 Conor McGregor
3 Daniel Cormier
4 Stipe Miocic
5 Jon Jones +2
6 Max Holloway -1
7 Cody Garbrandt -1
8 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
9 Tyron Woodley
10 Dominick Cruz
11 Michael Bisping
12 Jose Aldo
13 Amanda Nunes
14 Robert Whittaker
15 TJ Dillashaw

FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 Henry Cejudo
3 Ray Borg
4 Wilson Reis
5 Jussier Formiga
6 Sergio Pettis
7 Brandon Moreno
8 Ben Nguyen
9 Tim Elliott
10 John Moraga
11 Ian McCall
12 Dustin Ortiz
13 Alexandre Pantoja
14 Louis Smolka
15 Magomed Bibulatov

BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Cody Garbrandt
1 Dominick Cruz
2 TJ Dillashaw
3 Raphael Assuncao
4 Jimmie Rivera
5 John Lineker -1
6 Bryan Caraway
7 John Dodson
8 Aljamain Sterling
9 Thomas Almeida
10 Marlon Moraes
11 Eddie Wineland
12 Pedro Munhoz
13 Rob Font
14 Matthew Lopez
15 Johnny Eduardo

FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Max Holloway
1 Jose Aldo
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Ricardo Lamas
4 Cub Swanson
5 Chan Sung Jung
6 Yair Rodriguez
7 Jeremy Stephens
8 Brian Ortega
9 Renato Moicano
10 Darren Elkins +2
11 Dennis Bermudez -1
12 Dooho Choi -1
13 Mirsad Bektic
13 Renan Barao +1
15 Jason Knight

LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Conor McGregor
1 Khabib Nurmagomedov
2 Tony Ferguson
3 Eddie Alvarez
4 Edson Barboza
5 Justin Gaethje
6 Nate Diaz
7 Kevin Lee
8 Dustin Poirier
9 Michael Johnson
10 Michael Chiesa
11 Al Iaquinta
12 Beneil Dariush
13 Anthony Pettis
14 Evan Dunham
15 Gilbert Melendez

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Tyron Woodley
1 Demian Maia
2 Stephen Thompson
3 Robbie Lawler
4 Jorge Masvidal
5 Carlos Condit
6 Neil Magny
6 Donald Cerrone +1
8 Colby Covington +1
9 Santiago Ponzinibbio -1
10 Rafael Dos Anjos
11 Gunnar Nelson
12 Dong Hyun Kim +1
13 Kamaru Usman -1
14 Alex Oliveira *NR
15 Tarec Saffiedine

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Michael Bisping
1 Robert Whittaker (Interim Champion)
2 Yoel Romero
3 Luke Rockhold
4 Jacare Souza
5 Chris Weidman
6 Anderson Silva
7 Derek Brunson
8 Kelvin Gastelum
9 David Branch
10 Krzysztof Jotko
11 Vitor Belfort
12 Thales Leites
13 Tim Boetsch
14 Uriah Hall
15 Thiago Santos

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Jon Jones
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Jimi Manuwa
4 Glover Teixeira
5 Volkan Oezdemir
6 Mauricio Rua
7 Corey Anderson
7 Ovince Saint Preux
9 Misha Cirkunov
10 Ilir Latifi
11 Rogerio Nogueira
12 Patrick Cummins
13 Tyson Pedro +1
14 Gian Villante -1
15 Gadzhimurad Antigulov

HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Stipe Miocic
1 Alistair Overeem
2 Fabricio Werdum
3 Cain Velasquez
4 Junior Dos Santos
5 Francis Ngannou
6 Mark Hunt
7 Derrick Lewis
8 Alexander Volkov
9 Stefan Struve
10 Marcin Tybura
11 Aleksei Oleinik
12 Andrei Arlovski +1
13 Travis Browne +1
14 Junior Albini *NR
15 Curtis Blaydes

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Jon Jones Says He’ll ‘Deal’ With Brock Lesnar After UFC 214

He may be slated to finally settle his three-year-long rivalry with Daniel Cormier in the main event of this weekend’s (Sat., July 29, 2017) UFC 214 from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, but much of the hype surrounding former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been about his rumored super fight with former heavyweight […]

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The speculation began when word arrived last week that Lesnar has re-entered the USADA testing pool to begin an octagon return, a notion that was shot down by UFC vice president of athlete health and wellness Jeff Novitzky when he confirmed Lesnar still had six months left on his USADA suspension.

But with the potential of such a massive fight gaining steam, Jones fired up discussions to an all-new level when he said he’d ‘love to fight Lesnar’ during a Facebook live chat earlier this week.

Lesnar was quick to respond to The Associated Press, stating he would fight Jones ‘anytime, anywhere,’ but had to worry about ‘DC’ on Saturday first. Indeed that was a true statement, yet Jones vs. Lesnar was still a topic of discussion at yesterday’s UFC 214 pre-fight presser. Asked about the hulking heavyweight during the last question, White revealed he had not talked to Lesnar, something that people are not surprisingly refusing to believe:

“I haven’t talked to Brock Lesnar. I don’t know. Sounds like nobody believes me, but it’s true. I have not talked to Brock Lesnar.”

It’s far from difficult to surmise just why people wouldn’t believe White has talked to Lesnar amidst seemingly infinite rumors about his return, as White has gained a nefarious reputation for saying one thing was not true only to see it announced within a matter of days – or even hours. Lesnar’s return at UFC 200 was also shrouded in secrecy – at least, the UFC attempted to havee it be that way last June, but the story was broke early before it was to be announced at UFC 199.

So the promotion, despite being under new ownership, may still be playing it coy with Lesnar’s return. He does have the aforementioned six months left on his ‘frozen’ suspension from his win over Mark Hunt, before and during which he failed USADA drug tests for banned substance clomiphene, retiring when he was handed a ban.

He could return in 2018, and obviously a fight against Jones, if he’s able to beat Cormier and stay out of trouble until then, would obviously be a massive pay-per-view success. Jones knows that, and so does White, yet “Bones” chose to take a stance along the lines of Lesnar’s suggestion at the press conference:

“I’ll deal with Daniel, and then I’ll deal with Brock Lesnar.”

Probably a good idea after only one fight in the last two-and-a-half years. There are many hurdles to be toppled in the fight becoming a legitimate possibility, as Jones and Lesnar’s well-documented troubles with performance-enhancing drugs (and other illegal drugs in Jones’ case) will factor in perhaps more than any other fight, as both were ironically suspended at the same event for the same substance.

That makes it seem like Jones vs. Lesnar, while a fight fan’s dream on paper, could be tough to actually book in real life. As jones says, he has to get by Cormier first.

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Jon Jones Calls Weight-Cutting Daniel Cormier ‘Crackhead With A Suit On’

Perhaps there has been no other UFC rivalry with the sheer amount of trash talk, backstory, and animosity than the over three-year spat between current light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and longtime former champion Jon Jones. The two started off their resilient confrontation with the spectacle that was the UFC 178 media day brawl back […]

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The two started off their resilient confrontation with the spectacle that was the UFC 178 media day brawl back in the summer of 2014, and after fighting once in early 2015, the foregone conclusion that was a rematch was then rescheduled more than once thanks to injuries from Cormier and a never-ending stream of drug-related troubles for Jones.

They’ll finally rematch in the main event of Saturday night’s (July 29, 2017) UFC 214 from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and today, the two light heavyweight legends went face-to-face for what will hopefully rank as the final press conference of many. Due to that fact, Jones not surprisingly got the trash talk rolling early, snubbing a well-known MMA reporter before going off on “DC” as predicted.

It all started when Cormier was asked if he truly believed Jones had used steroids to get to the championship, to which the champ relied he believed he had and was not afraid to say it:

“Earlier this week, Jon about cried because I accused him of using steroids. Do I feel like he tried to cheat? Yeah I do. Why can I not say what I feel? Why can I not say what I want? If I believe it in my heart, I will say it. And yes, I do believe he’s done it for a long time, so I don’t care.”

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Jones interrupted his opponent by asking how long he thought he’d been on the juice:

“How long do you think I’ve been doing steroids?”

Cormier gave an honest assessment of his view, believing Jones to have not used steroids only during the very first part of his career while being dirty for the vast majority of his time at the top:

“Well, you’ve earned the title fight, you know, so I imagine you’re about 3-0 in the UFC, so those first three fights. Ovince Saint Preux, Gusmao, and Forrest Bonnar – what’s that guy’s name that he beat? Yeah, Stephan Bonnar. Stephen Bonnar those three fights is when you didn’t do steroids, but everything else in the middle is eliminated.”

“Bones” then pointed out that he when he was attempting his comeback in early 2016 and posting videos of him lifting insane amounts of weights at a new powerlifting gym, USADA was in effect and he did not test positive, choosing to leave out the fact that he was removed from last summer’s UFC 200 rematch with Cormier for failing a USADA drug test:

“When I started powerlifting four days a week, with these chicken-ass legs , with these bad genetics, and I started deadlifting 600 pounds, squatting 500 pounds, USADA was in full effect. So how did I get away with that?”

Cormier clarified his words, adding that he didn’t believe Jones was on steroids for his lackluster defeat of Ovince Saint Preux at UFC 197 last year, and it showed:

“I’m not saying you did it last year versus Ovince Saint Preux. You were clean last year when you fought Ovince Saint Preux. That’s why you look like you look. You look like a bum.”

That’s when Jones took things up a level, sowing off his physique that has been a highly discussed topic this week:

(Lifts shirt up) “How do I look? How do I look DC?”

Never one to rely on the merits of his physique, Cormier brushed Jones’ six-pack off as vanity muscle:

“That’s all just for show.”

But Jones wasn’t playing, as he ripped into an obviously drained Cormier for actually being the one who looked like the junkie of the two, ending the assault with a vicious insult:

“Who looks like a junkie here? Look at this guy’s face. Who looks like a junkie here today? You look like a crackhead with a suit on.”

Finally, Cormier ended the back-and-forth by noting that while he can look like a crackhead with a suit on as long as he’s never been one like Jones had:

“I can look like a crackhead with a suit on, but I’ve never been a crackhead like you have though. So you can say I look like one, but I’ve never been one. I’ve never been one.”

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Jon Jones Brutally Snubs Reporter At UFC 214 Press Conference

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will finally return from a one-year suspension and a host of other outside-the-cage problems when he meets current champion and rival Daniel Cormier in the main event of Saturday’s (July 29, 2017) UFC 214 from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The two bitter rivals continued a verbal […]

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The two bitter rivals continued a verbal battle that has lasted more than three years at today’s UFC 214 pre-fight press conference, and not surprisingly, things got heated quickly.

But it may not have been how you expected it to go down. Part of that was exacerbated by the fact that Jones , when asked if he cared about being the so-called “bad guy,” any longer, told MMA Junkie’s John Morgan he had stopped caring:

“Yeah, I feel like I’m at a pretty good place in my life with who I am, and I’ve just kind of learned not to give a fuck, and it feels great.”

An interesting choice of words, as it could certainly be suggested that not giving a you-know-what was what got Jones into all of the trouble that has severely hampered his otherwise decorated fighting career for the past three years.

Indeed Jones’ entire UFC run has been littered with massive successes held back by only head-scratching mishaps involving drugs and other poor decisions. Now that he has turned 30, Jones was asked by MMA Fighting’s Luke Thomas how he viewed his 20s:

“You’re 30 now, so I’m wondering as you turned 30, I guess on the 19th of July, what would you say about your 20s? Was it good, was it bad, was it somewhere in between, how would you look back on that decade?”

Jones appeared to not like that question whatsoever, telling Thomas he did not like him and would therefore deny answering his question:

“I don’t really like you, Luke, so I’m not going to answer your question.”

There’s no clear explanation of what past discord Jones and Thomas may have had with one another, but it was clearly enough, at least in Jones’ mind, to publicly call out a man who is widely respected as one of the best and most thorough journalists in the MMA industry.

We’ll reserve our own judgements for now, however, as once again, the details of why Jones declined are uncertain. Depending on just what they are, Jones, who probably should be trying to repair his extremely tarnished image, has instead taken the not-so-tactful stance of “not giving a f***,” and that seemed to come off on a reporter just trying to gain a point of view today. The fans in California seemed to side with Jones, cheering when he snubbed Thomas, but they were probably there to see some drama unfold in the first place.

What was your opinion of the press conference scene? Did Thomas somehow deserve to be brushed aside, or is Jones continuing on the same path despite claiming to be a changed man for his latest comeback?

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