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Highlights: Matt Brown Knocks Out Diego Sanchez In Possible Retirement Fight

In the co-main event of last night’s (Sat., November 11, 2017) from the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia, longtime UFC veteran Matt Brown made what may be the final Octagon appearance of his mixed martial arts (MMA) career against Diego Sanchez. Brown’s last notable win streak came from 2012 to 2014 when he […]

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In the co-main event of last night’s (Sat., November 11, 2017) from the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia, longtime UFC veteran Matt Brown made what may be the final Octagon appearance of his mixed martial arts (MMA) career against Diego Sanchez.

Brown’s last notable win streak came from 2012 to 2014 when he strung together seven straight wins before being defeated by Robbie Lawler in July of 2014. He would go on to lose five of his next six fights, including his most recent bout in which he suffered a devastating third-round knockout loss to Donald Cerrone last December. “The Immortal One” was hoping to end his fighting career on a high note by picking up a win over Sanchez.

Sanchez’s fighting career had been very up-and-down in the past several years as well. Sanchez had lost five of his last eight fights inside the cage and was most recently knocked out by Al Iaquinta in Nashville this past April. The 35-year-old veteran was hoping to spoil Brown’s retirement plans with a big win.

In the opening round Sanchez attempted to blitz Brown with a barrage of punches and takedown attempts, but after “Immortal” caught a kick from Sanchez and pressed him against the cage it was all over. Brown loaded up for a huge elbow that planted Sanchez on the canvas unconscious – picking up a first-round knockout win to potentially end his career.

Watch the highlights of his monstrous KO win here:

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Twitter Reacts To Vicious UFC Norfolk Main Event

UFC Fight Night 120 went down tonight (Saturday, November 11, 2017) from the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, VA. The night was headlined by a lightweight battle between Dustin Poirier and Anthony Pettis. The two engaged in a “Fight of the Year” contender through two rounds, with Poirier scoring with takedowns and ground and […]

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UFC Fight Night 120 went down tonight (Saturday, November 11, 2017) from the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, VA. The night was headlined by a lightweight battle between Dustin Poirier and Anthony Pettis.

The two engaged in a “Fight of the Year” contender through two rounds, with Poirier scoring with takedowns and ground and pound and Pettis threatening with submissions. The pair traded back-takes, scrambles, and elbows for the better part of three rounds, but Poirier gradually wore Pettis down. In the third round, he took Pettis’ back again, locked in a body triangle, and rolled over to mount as Pettis tried to turn into him. Pettis tapped as Poirier got to mount with the body triangle still in, apparently suffering an injury.

The co-headliner featured the retirement fight of action hero Matt Brown, as he took on another bonus hunter in Diego Sanchez. This one ended much more quickly and with finality. Sanchez pursued the takedown but was unsucessful. Brown caught a body kick – Sanchez’s other weapon of choice – backed him to the cage, and knocked him clean out with one vicious downward elbow.

See how Twitter reacted to these slugfests below:

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Matt Brown Elbows Diego Sanchez Into Oblivion

Matt Brown shut the lights off Diego Sanchez. The co-main event of UFC Fight Night 120 featured a welterweight clash between two respected veterans. Brown and Sanchez clashed inside the Ted Convention Center in Norfolk, Virginia. Sanchez stormed his opponent early. He shot in with Brown’s back against the fence. Brown kept his balance and […]

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Matt Brown shut the lights off Diego Sanchez.

The co-main event of UFC Fight Night 120 featured a welterweight clash between two respected veterans. Brown and Sanchez clashed inside the Ted Convention Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

Sanchez stormed his opponent early. He shot in with Brown’s back against the fence. Brown kept his balance and landed an elbow. He then landed a knee to the head. “The Immortal” got separation. He connected with a jab.

Sanchez got in and drove his opponent against the fence again. Once again, Brown got out of the grappling exchange. Sanchez had trouble getting the wrestling going. Sanchez landed a liver kick that backed Brown up a bit. Brown landed a knee. He knocked out Sanchez with a thunderous elbow

Final Result: Matt Brown def. Diego Sanchez via KO (elbow) – R1, 3:44

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UFC Fight Night 120: Matt Brown Explains Decision to Retire

Matt Brown has decided that it is the right time to hang up the gloves. Brown will face Diego Sanchez this Saturday night at UFC Fight Night 120, and “The Immortal” plans to end his fighting career after the contest. For Brown, the decision…

Matt Brown has decided that it is the right time to hang up the gloves. Brown will face Diego Sanchez this Saturday night at UFC Fight Night 120, and “The Immortal” plans to end his fighting career after the contest. For Brown, the decision boils down to not wanting to become a “gate-keeper.” “The No. […]

UFC Fight Night 120 Preview: 3 Can’t-Miss Fights from Norfolk Fight Card

Hungover from UFC 217? Eat a greasy hamburger, drink a sports beverage, hit the sauna and get your head back in the game. UFC Fight Night 120 happens Saturday, and the company’s first event to Norfolk, Virginia, comes packed with dynamite.
There are no…

Hungover from UFC 217? Eat a greasy hamburger, drink a sports beverage, hit the sauna and get your head back in the game. UFC Fight Night 120 happens Saturday, and the company’s first event to Norfolk, Virginia, comes packed with dynamite.

There are no title fights on the card. Only five of the 12 main-card fighters appear in the UFC’s official rankings (for the loaded UFC 217, it was eight of 10).

So sluggishness is understandable, and I would stop short of calling this essential viewing. But if you are a fight fan, there’s a good chance you are going to be entertained. The 13-fight slate is packed with action fighters and mouthwatering matchups. Here are the three bouts you can’t miss.

For the sake of variety, we will look past the main event of Dustin Poirier vs. Anthony Pettis. That should be a great fight, but it’s no fun to pick the main event.

              

Strawweight

Angela Hill (7-3) vs. Nina Ansaroff (7-5)

Odds: Hill -188 (wager $188 to win $100)

Airs on: Fox Sports 1

Former Invicta strawweight champ and The Ultimate Fighter competitor Angela Hill is looking for her second straight win in her second UFC run. Her first fight back was a loss but earned Fight of the Night honors against top contender Jessica Andrade.

Hill brings her hyperathletic muay thai to bear against Nina Ansaroff’s kickboxing. Neither of these fighters is exceptionally interested in the ground, though if anyone’s going to take it there, it’s Ansaroff. But if it goes true to form, this fight will be a striking battle. And that striking battle will be downright pyrotechnic.

                   

Welterweight

Matt Brown (20-16) vs. Diego Sanchez (27-10)

Odds: Brown -315 (wager $315 to win $100)

Airs on: Fox Sports 1

This is as much of a no-brainer as the main event. Perhaps more so. There is zero chance this plays out as anything other than a slugfest.

Matt Brown’s American muay thai is one of the more rugged offensive attacks in UFC welterweight history. He has put away good fighters time and again in his career—with extreme prejudice.

Diego Sanchez is one of the greatest berserkers the UFC has ever seen, in any division. At one time known for power wrestling, Sanchez has turned into an unabashed brawler, known and loved for his blood-soaked abandon in the cage and his, uh, colorful lifestyle outside it.

Both of these men badly need a win to get back on top. Brown is 36 and Sanchez 35, but given their styles, they have both aged beyond their years. Brown is a substantial favorite, but Sanchez won’t give an inch. That’s the attitude fans love and fear.

                 

Bantamweight

Marlon Moraes (18-5-1) vs. John Dodson (19-8)

Odds: Dodson/Moraes -110 (wager $110 to win $100)

Airs on: Fox Sports 1

Here’s a hidden gem for the prelim watchers. During his entire five-year UFC tenure, Jackson-Winkeljohn product John Dodson has lost to two men. One of those men is flyweight champ and reigning pound-for-pound king Demetrious Johnson, who beat him twice, hence Dodson’s reappearance at bantamweight.

Dodson remains incredibly athletic, lightning-quick in his movements and packing river stones for a left hand. He’s no stranger to the ground or the clinch, either.

Marlon Moraes has good jiu-jitsu, but his real stock-in-trade is muay thai. He loves to wear people down with strikes from the clinch and chew them up in open space. He’s not a power striker, but he will slice opponents open and leave them in tatters. If Dodson can’t get in on the taller Moraes and land that big left flush, he may be in for a long night with the savvy, well-rounded Brazilian.

           

Odds accurate as of Tuesday and according to OddsShark.

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Matt Brown Opens Up On His Decision To Retire

Matt Brown is calling it a career following his next bout. The MMA (mixed martial arts) veteran announced last week that he will retire after his upcoming bout with Diego Sanchez on Nov. 11 at UFC Norfolk. Brown recently spoke with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour to open up on his decision to retire […]

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Matt Brown is calling it a career following his next bout.

The MMA (mixed martial arts) veteran announced last week that he will retire after his upcoming bout with Diego Sanchez on Nov. 11 at UFC Norfolk. Brown recently spoke with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour to open up on his decision to retire from the sport.

According to Brown, his retirement thoughts came about prior to his fight against Donald Cerrone last December, which was his most recent bout.

“Maybe that wasn’t necessarily when I first felt it, but that was when I came to the realization that it’s something I should start really thinking about,” Brown said. “Because when I was sitting in the locker room, it literally crossed my mind to not even walk out. I thought about just walking outside, getting an Uber, going back to the hotel and just being done with it. It wasn’t out of fear, it wasn’t out of nerves, it was just no excitement. I was kind of tired, a little bored. And just like, ‘Man, I don’t know if I feel like doing this right now.’

“I didn’t get into this to be a journeyman, or to be in second place, I came into this to be a champion and I got very, very close to that, I think I was one round away from beating Robbie Lawler and getting to a title shot. Being that I got that close, right now, I don’t feel like I have that hunger inside my heart that’s going to get me back to that point and that’s not to say I won’t ever come back one day. I don’t plan on pulling out of the USADA testing pool and I don’t plan on canceling my UFC contract because I’d like to keep that just in case there. But I’m not going to come back unless I plan on making a run for the title.”

As seen in the fight against Cerrone, Brown suffered a KO loss after getting hit by a nasty head kick in the third round. This marked the the first time that Brown had ever been knocked unconscious like that.

It also was the second consecutive time he’d been finished with strikes following a TKO loss to Jake Ellenberger at UFC 201.

“Absolutely, I got knocked out for the first time in my life in my last fight,” Brown said. “Got knocked down for the first time in my life before that. I have to wonder if – you know, I had a concussion last year for the first time. All these first time things start happening 40 fights into my career, as a father and a family to go home to, when I’m slurring words to my kids, you start thinking, ‘How much is it worth all this?’ So that definitely plays a part, but it’s not necessarily my primary concern though. It’s not my primary motivation to retire, but it is a piece of the puzzle for sure.”

Brown is happy that he is facing the always game Sanchez and that it will be in Norfolk, Va. It’s a highly anticipated bout due to Sanchez having a reputation for wild scraps. Brown wants to put on an entertaining show for a crowd.

As a result of the UFC announcing the bout along with its location, Browne figured that he should let everyone know ahead of time that this will be his last bout.

“Part of it was I just kind of had to commit to it,” Brown said. “What I’m afraid would happen is I would end up having a great camp, which right now I’m having probably one of the greatest camps I ever had, and then I’d get in there and feel amazing and I’d be like, ‘You know what? I’m not going to retire.’ And then a couple of weeks later be like, ‘Ah man, I don’t know, I want to retire.’ I don’t want to go through that whole up and down, that rollercoaster, I don’t want to put my family through all that.

“The second part is that I want everybody to come out, my family and everybody to know that it’s going to be my last one and they can get their tickets and everything and they can come out. Norfolk is coincidentally right in between my wife’s family and my family. My family is in Ohio, her family is in Massachusetts, it’s right there in the middle. I have a lot of family in North Carolina and Virginia Beach also, so it kind of works for everybody to kind of meet right there. And again, I think Diego makes a perfect retirement fight. I think we’re going to go out there and we’re going to have a great war and it’s going to be an amazing fight.”

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