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UFC Fight Night 42: Live Results, Play by Play and Fight Card Highlights

UFC Fight Night 42 hits Albuquerque, New Mexico on Saturday night. The 11-fight event is capped off by a key matchup in the lightweight division.
No. 2-ranked contender Benson Henderson takes on No. 11-ranked challenger Rustam Khabilov in the main even…

UFC Fight Night 42 hits Albuquerque, New Mexico on Saturday night. The 11-fight event is capped off by a key matchup in the lightweight division.

No. 2-ranked contender Benson Henderson takes on No. 11-ranked challenger Rustam Khabilov in the main event.

Bleacher Report will have complete coverage of the event from start to finish.

UFC Fight Night 42 Fight Card

  • Benson Henderson (155.5) vs. Rustam Khabilov (156)
  • Diego Sanchez defeats Ross Pearson by split decision (30-27, 27-30, 29-28)
  • John Dodson defeats John Moraga by TKO (doctor stoppage) at 5:00 of the second round
  • Rafael dos Anjos defeats Jason High by TKO at 3:36 of the second round
  • Piotr Hallmann defeats Yves Edwards via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:31 of the third round
  • Bryan Caraway defeats Erik Perez via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:52 of the second round
  • Sergio Pettis defeats Yaotzin Meza by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
  • Lance Benoist defeats Bobby Voelker by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
  • Scott Jorgensen defeats Danny Martinez by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
  • Jon Tuck defeats Jake Lindsey by TKO (verbal tapout) at 2:47 of the third round
  • Patrick Cummins defeats Roger Narvaez by TKO at 2:28 of the second round

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UFC Fight-Picking Contest: Win a Copy of ‘In the Blood’ Starring Gina Carano!


(Stay tuned for our Fight Flicks review of the movie, coming later this week.)

Today marks the home video release of In the Blood — that GIF-tacular action movie starring Gina Carano — which is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD. Our dear friends at Anchor Bay Films have hooked us up with a Combo Pack that contains the flick in all three formats, and we figured we’d put it up for grabs in another UFC fight-picking contest. You want it? Well listen up.

This Saturday, UFC Fight Night 42: Henderson vs. Khabilov goes down at the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Check out the fight card here, and submit a prediction for any fight on the lineup in the comments section below. The most accurate guess will win the In the Blood combo pack. Your picks should be in this format…


(Stay tuned for our Fight Flicks review of the movie, coming later this week.)

Today marks the home video release of In the Blood — that GIF-tacular action movie starring Gina Carano — which is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD. Our dear friends at Anchor Bay Films have hooked us up with a Combo Pack that contains the flick in all three formats, and we figured we’d put it up for grabs in another UFC fight-picking contest. You want it? Well listen up.

This Saturday, UFC Fight Night 42: Henderson vs. Khabilov goes down at the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Check out the fight card here, and submit a prediction for any fight on the lineup in the comments section below. The most accurate guess will win the In the Blood combo pack. Your picks should be in this format…

Ben Henderson def. Rustam Khabilov via split decision (48-47, 48-47, 47-48)
or
Jon Dodson def. John Moraga via submission (triangle-armbar), 2:50 of round 3
or
Patrick Cummins def. Roger Narvaez (who??) via TKO, 3:17 of round 1

In other words: Winner’s name first, and include the method of victory, time of stoppage, round of stoppage, or the judges’ scores if you think the fight will go the distance; we’ll need that in case of a tie-breaker. Please submit your picks to the comments section by Friday night at midnight ET. Winners will be announced the following Monday. Only one entry per person, please. Any questions, let us know in the comments section (or if the comments section isn’t working, as is often the case, tweet us @cagepotatomma).

Good luck everybody, and thanks to Anchor Bay Films and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for making this happen.

UFC Fighter Ross Pearson Puts Training Partner on Queer Street with High Kick

This is why you wear headgear, kids. 
UFC lightweight Ross Pearson recently knocked out his sparring partner with a left high kick, and the carnage was captured via Pearson’s Instagram for the world to enjoy. 
As the video, which surfaced on&…

This is why you wear headgear, kids. 

UFC lightweight Ross Pearson recently knocked out his sparring partner with a left high kick, and the carnage was captured via Pearson’s Instagram for the world to enjoy. 

As the video, which surfaced on Reddit MMA, shows, Pearson’s training partner is simply no match for the veteran professional on the feet. 

Pearson tags him with a nice left hook to the liver, then follows up this attack with a high kick that shuts off the lights and prompts an apology from the English UFC combatant. 

Whoops. 

Since winning the lightweight division of The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom, Pearson has gone 6-3 inside the UFC Octagon with one no-contest. 

Half of those victories came via knockout, a fact that has earned Pearson a reputation as a hard-hitting KO artist within the lightweight division. 

Now, the former The Ultimate Fighter winner will face 20-fight UFC veteran Diego Sanchez at UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Khabilov June 7 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

If Pearson can recreate his training room magic against Sanchez, fans and critics would be shocked. Sanchez has never been legitimately knocked out in 31 career professional bouts, and his only loss via TKO came from a cut sustained during a lightweight title fight against BJ Penn. 

Needless to say, “The Dream” “The Nightmare” is tough to put out, and Pearson will have a significant task on his hands June 7 if he hopes to finish Sanchez before the final horn sounds.

Still, anything can happen. When the cage door closes, all bets are off, and any number of results are possible. 

If this recent video is any indication, Pearson’s knockout power is fully intact, and Sanchez should exercise caution if he wades into the Brit’s striking zone. 

He might just get put out with a high kick. It wouldn’t be Pearson’s first, after all. 

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Diego Sanchez Faces Ross Pearson at UFC Fight Night 42 in Albuquerque

Despite a loss to Myles Jury earlier this month, UFC lightweight Diego Sanchez isn’t waiting around for his next fight. With the UFC heading to his adopted hometown of Albuquerque, N.M. in June, Sanchez will jump immediately into another training camp …

Despite a loss to Myles Jury earlier this month, UFC lightweight Diego Sanchez isn’t waiting around for his next fight. With the UFC heading to his adopted hometown of Albuquerque, N.M. in June, Sanchez will jump immediately into another training camp and prepare for a bout against Ross Pearson.

The Albuquerque Journal first reported the bout on Friday morning.

Sanchez, 32, is a veteran of the first season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show. He won the middleweight tournament that season by defeating Kenny Florian and then racked up five consecutive wins. Since that winning streak, however, he has gone 7-7 in his UFC career, bouncing between lightweight and welterweight.

He has lost two consecutive fights to Gilbert Melendez (in a 2013 fight of the year candidate) and Jury. After the Jury loss, Sanchez tweeted that he’d been overcome with a case of food poisoning after eating steak tartare and quail eggs the previous evening.

Pearson, 29, is also a veteran of The Ultimate Fighter. He appeared on Season 9, winning the entire thing by beating Andre Winner in the finals. Pearson went to a no-contest in his last bout when Melvin Guillard landed an illegal knee. Prior to that, the Brit had racked up consecutive wins over George Sotiropoulos and Ryan Couture.

UFC Fight Night 42 in Albuquerque is headlined by a lightweight bout between former champion Benson Henderson and Greg Jackson-trainee Rustam Khabilov. Other notable bouts include John Dodson vs. John Moraga and Sergio Pettis vs. Yaotzin Meza.

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Diego Sanchez Faces Ross Pearson at UFC Fight Night 42 in Albuquerque

Despite a loss to Myles Jury earlier this month, UFC lightweight Diego Sanchez isn’t waiting around for his next fight. With the UFC heading to his adopted hometown of Albuquerque, N.M. in June, Sanchez will jump immediately into another training camp …

Despite a loss to Myles Jury earlier this month, UFC lightweight Diego Sanchez isn’t waiting around for his next fight. With the UFC heading to his adopted hometown of Albuquerque, N.M. in June, Sanchez will jump immediately into another training camp and prepare for a bout against Ross Pearson.

The Albuquerque Journal first reported the bout on Friday morning.

Sanchez, 32, is a veteran of the first season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show. He won the middleweight tournament that season by defeating Kenny Florian and then racked up five consecutive wins. Since that winning streak, however, he has gone 7-7 in his UFC career, bouncing between lightweight and welterweight.

He has lost two consecutive fights to Gilbert Melendez (in a 2013 fight of the year candidate) and Jury. After the Jury loss, Sanchez tweeted that he’d been overcome with a case of food poisoning after eating steak tartare and quail eggs the previous evening.

Pearson, 29, is also a veteran of The Ultimate Fighter. He appeared on Season 9, winning the entire thing by beating Andre Winner in the finals. Pearson went to a no-contest in his last bout when Melvin Guillard landed an illegal knee. Prior to that, the Brit had racked up consecutive wins over George Sotiropoulos and Ryan Couture.

UFC Fight Night 42 in Albuquerque is headlined by a lightweight bout between former champion Benson Henderson and Greg Jackson-trainee Rustam Khabilov. Other notable bouts include John Dodson vs. John Moraga and Sergio Pettis vs. Yaotzin Meza.

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Diego Sanchez Avoids Bowel Surgery, Will Face Ross Pearson at Fight Night Albuquerque in June


(“The Dream” is not impressed by your moshing skills. Check out this bromoshop and more here.)

Less than a day after I hinted at the possibility of 2014 becoming the true year of the injury curse, Georges St. Pierre tore his ACL while training for absolutely nothing. Proof of the curse, or of my prophetic abilities as a blogger? I can’t say for certain, but I do know that the job of an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine is becoming more lucrative by the day thanks to UFC stars like Johny Hendricks, Chris Weidman, and Carlos Condit, making my decision to drop out of fancy doctor school and follow my passion of writing fart jokes for a living seem…hasty.

Thankfully, those two-bit body mechanics (technical jargon) won’t be able to get their greasy hands on Diego Sanchez, whom most assumed would be going under the knife after he was (self) poisoned by a raw quail egg and beef tartare at UFC 171. Quite the contrary, however, as Sanchez has not only managed to avoid surgery, but has already booked his next fight against TUF 9 winner Ross Pearson at a Fight Night event in his native Albuquerque on June 7th. A true “mind over matter” story if I’ve ever seen one before.

Sanchez finds himself in a unique position with the UFC, having dropped three out of his past four fights for the first time in his career. His excitement-over-strategy style has been entertaining as of late, sure, but “The Dream” better approach this fight with a more intelligent gameplan than lowering his hands and asking bros to come at him if he wants to score that win he so desperately needs.


(“The Dream” is not impressed by your moshing skills. Check out this bromoshop and more here.)

Less than a day after I hinted at the possibility of 2014 becoming the true year of the injury curse, Georges St. Pierre tore his ACL while training for absolutely nothing. Proof of the curse, or of my prophetic abilities as a blogger? I can’t say for certain, but I do know that the job of an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine is becoming more lucrative by the day thanks to UFC stars like Johny Hendricks, Chris Weidman, and Carlos Condit, making my decision to drop out of fancy doctor school and follow my passion of writing fart jokes for a living seem…hasty.

Thankfully, those two-bit body mechanics (technical jargon) won’t be able to get their greasy hands on Diego Sanchez, whom most assumed would be going under the knife after he was (self) poisoned by a raw quail egg and beef tartare at UFC 171. Quite the contrary, however, as Sanchez has not only managed to avoid surgery, but has already booked his next fight against TUF 9 winner Ross Pearson at a Fight Night event in his native Albuquerque on June 7th. A true “mind over matter” story if I’ve ever seen one before.

Sanchez finds himself in a unique position with the UFC, having dropped three out of his past four fights for the first time in his career. His excitement-over-strategy style has been entertaining as of late, sure, but “The Dream” better approach this fight with a more intelligent gameplan than lowering his hands and asking bros to come at him if he wants to score that win he so desperately needs.

Pearson, on the other hand, has not fought since his Fight Night 30 bout with Melvin Guillard was declared a No Contest due to an illegal knee that wasn’t really illegal. “The Real Deal” was scheduled to rematch Guillard at Fight Night 37: Gustafsson vs. Manuwa earlier this month until a knee injury (CURSE!!) forced him to bow out. Now that Guillard has been released by the UFC following his loss to Pearson’s replacement opponent, 46 year-old Olympic sprinter-turned 27 year-old MMA fighter Michael Johnson, the likelihood of the rematch has been downgraded to “nah, son.”

Fight Night Albuquerque transpires on June 7th and features a rematch between flyweight title challengers John Dodson and John Moraga as well as Ben Henderson vs. that guy he thought was Khabib Nurmagomedov.

–J. Jones