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Eddie Alvarez & Dustin Poirier Reach Verbal Agreement For UFC 211 Bout

Eddie Alvarez vs. Dustin Poirier is all but confirmed. Rumors surfaced about a week ago claiming that the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight title holder will go one-on-one with Poirier. The bout was said to take place on May 13 inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas for UFC 211. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto […]

Eddie Alvarez vs. Dustin Poirier is all but confirmed. Rumors surfaced about a week ago claiming that the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight title holder will go one-on-one with Poirier. The bout was said to take place on May 13 inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas for UFC 211. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto […]

Jorge Masvidal: ‘UFC Figured They Can Use me to Take Out Guys They Don’t Like’

Jorge Masvidal believes he knows exactly why he was booked to face Demian Maia. “Gamebred” feels the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) wants him to defeat Maia and prevent him from receiving a welterweight title opportunity. Masvidal clashes with the No. 3 ranked welterweight on May 13 at UFC 211 in Dallas, Texas. Masvidal appeared on […]

Jorge Masvidal believes he knows exactly why he was booked to face Demian Maia. “Gamebred” feels the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) wants him to defeat Maia and prevent him from receiving a welterweight title opportunity. Masvidal clashes with the No. 3 ranked welterweight on May 13 at UFC 211 in Dallas, Texas. Masvidal appeared on […]

Demian Maia: ‘I Was Told I Needed to Remain Active to Get my Chance’

Demian Maia has to win at least one more fight to earn his welterweight title shot. Many fans and analysts were puzzled when the third ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 170-pounder was booked to take on sixth ranked Jorge Masivdal at UFC 211 on May 13. The bout was announced just days before the welterweight […]

Demian Maia has to win at least one more fight to earn his welterweight title shot. Many fans and analysts were puzzled when the third ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 170-pounder was booked to take on sixth ranked Jorge Masivdal at UFC 211 on May 13. The bout was announced just days before the welterweight […]

Demian Maia vs. Jorge Masvidal Official For May’s UFC 211

It was rumored Demian Maia would battle Jorge Masvidal at April 22’s UFC Fight Night 108, but instead the pivotal 170-pound contest will happen on a suddenly packed pay-per-view (PPV) instead. News broke from MMA Junkie this afternoon (February 28, 2017) that surging No. 3-ranked Maia will face longtime veteran and No. 6-ranked Masvidal on the main

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It was rumored Demian Maia would battle Jorge Masvidal at April 22’s UFC Fight Night 108, but instead the pivotal 170-pound contest will happen on a suddenly packed pay-per-view (PPV) instead.

News broke from MMA Junkie this afternoon (February 28, 2017) that surging No. 3-ranked Maia will face longtime veteran and No. 6-ranked Masvidal on the main card of May 11’s UFC 211 from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

The elite match-up will join two title bouts when heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic looks for his second title defense against former champion Junior dos Santos in a rematch of their grueling 2014 brawl, and dominant women’s strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk looks for her fifth in just over two years against dangerous contender Jessica Andrade.

Rounding out the card, former heavyweight champ Fabricio Werdum will face Ben Rothwell in a top-level heavyweight bout which will also provide some backup should a main event participant be injured.

On a peerless five-fight win streak, Maia has the look of a championship threat and had previously said he’d wait for the title shot he believed he earned by submitting former interim champion Carlos Condit in the first round of his last fight. However, with a title rematch between Tyron Woodley and Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson set for this weekend’s UFC 209 and Georges St-Pierre returning to the 170-pound fray later this year, Maia knows everything is light years away from guaranteed in the crowded UFC 170-pound landscape.

All he can do to further his case is continue dominating the top-ranked opponents they put in front of him.

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Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Jessica Andrade Officially Announced For UFC 211

A second title bout has been announced for UFC 211. Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight title holder Joanna Jedrzejczyk will defend her championship against Jessica Andrade. The action takes place inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on May 13. The 115-pound ruler was last seen defending her title against Karolina Kowalkiewicz inside […]

A second title bout has been announced for UFC 211. Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight title holder Joanna Jedrzejczyk will defend her championship against Jessica Andrade. The action takes place inside the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on May 13. The 115-pound ruler was last seen defending her title against Karolina Kowalkiewicz inside […]

Junior Dos Santos Wants Fourth Match-Up With Cain Velasquez

Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos is slated to rematch reigning divisional kingpin Stipe Miocic in the main event of May 13, 2017’s UFC 211 from Dallas, Texas, but prior to the booking of that fight, he had expressed interest in a rematch with fellow former champion Fabricio Werdum. Dos Santos has claimed that

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Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos is slated to rematch reigning divisional kingpin Stipe Miocic in the main event of May 13, 2017’s UFC 211 from Dallas, Texas, but prior to the booking of that fight, he had expressed interest in a rematch with fellow former champion Fabricio Werdum.

Dos Santos has claimed that Werdum turned down the fight multiple times, however, which is why he no longer wants to fight “Vai Cavalo”, also throwing Alistair Overeem’s name into that category:

“Why am I going to fight this guy? He denied to fight me three times,” dos Santos said (Via MMAMania). “He was ranked first in rankings and I thought maybe we could have a good fight. But now, he denied me three times and now I don’t want to fight him anymore.

“He don’t add anything on my career,” he continued. “Let’s see in the future, but he denied me three times, and Overeem denied me twice. That’s what UFC told me. These guys just want to fight me when I am a really good thing for them. Other than that, then they don’t want me because they know how well I do during the fights. I am coming here to be champion again.”

If he scores another victory over Miocic, however, “Cigano” is interested in sharing the cage with Cain Velasquez again. The two have met three times to date, with Dos Santos knocking Velasquez out in the first meeting, and the Mexican-American destroying the Brazilian in the rematch and the rubber match.

While ha hasn’t had much luck against Velasquez in recent memory, Dos Santos said it’s now the ‘moment of truth’:

“I think this is one of the fights I for sure want to do. I hope he can get better, heal from surgery. I want to fight him again,” proclaimed dos Santos. “I feel like I have to go for fourth fight. After our third fight, Cain said it was the last time, but he was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. I hope he does well because I am going to be very happy to face him again. Things are different now. It’s the moment of truth.”

Would you like to see Dos Santos and Velasquez do battle for a fourth time?

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