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UFC Phoenix Free Fight: Yair Rodriguez Defeats Charles Rosa in Barnburner

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has been uploading free fights to promote this Sunday night’s (Jan. 15) UFC Fight Night event in Phoenix, Arizona. This time, we go back to June 13, 2015 at UFC 188…

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“El Pantera” and Rosa had an exciting affair that was left in the hands of the judges. Rodriguez got the split decision nod. The two fighters each earned a “Fight of the Night” bonus.

Rodriguez will do battle with the biggest name he has ever encountered. Sharing the Octagon with him will be UFC Hall of Famer and former two-division champion B.J. Penn. Rodriguez will look to extend his winning streak to eight. Penn, on the other hand, will be in search of his first victory since Nov. 2010.

The event’s co-main event will showcase two veteran lightweights. Joe Lauzon will meet former Bellator mainstay Marcin Held. Both men are coming off losses and are vying to rebound. A victory for Held would be the first in his UFC run.

Another bout on tap for the main card will feature a returning welterweight and The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season 11 winner. Ben Saunders makes his return to the Octagon when he goes toe-to-toe with Court McGee.”The Crusher” has gone 4-4 in his last eight bouts. “Killa B” is 6-2 in his last eight outings. In that span, he pulled off the first omoplata submission win in UFC history over Chris Heatherly back in August 2014.

A bantamweight bout between No. 6 ranked Jimmie Rivera and Bryan Caraway was pulled from the card when “Kid Lightening” was bitten by the injury bug. Rivera initially agreed to face replacement Marlon Vera, but he decided not to go through with the bout. “El Terror” was removed from the event and Vera was none too pleased about the situation.

B.J. Penn to Fighters: ‘Make Yourself The Money Fight’

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Famer B.J. Penn knows a thing or two about marquee fights.

“The Prodigy” competed against Georges St. Pierre in a super fight at UFC 94. Penn was the reigning lightweight champion, while “Rush” held the welterweight title. The pay-per-view (PPV) buy rate was estimated at 920,000. Penn’s base salary was $125,000.

A lot has changed since that time and the money has increased. For example, Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis got paid $150,000 to show for their interim title fight at UFC 206. The PPV was only estimated to have done 150,000 buys. Those certainly aren’t buys you’d expect for a super fight, yet both men got paid more than Penn did back in 2009.

Reigning lightweight champion Conor McGregor has played a significant role in some fighters’ change in thinking. With the amount of money “Notorious” makes ($3,500,000 base salary for UFC 205), many competitors, including Tyron Woodley, have tried holding off potential contenders in favor of big money fights.

Penn isn’t thrilled with new craze. He told FOX Sports that fighters should become the attraction rather than beg to face one:

“I’ll tell you this, I’m not the guy to go out there and say ‘oh give me this money fight, give me that money fight. I look at all these guys doing that and I’m like why don’t you go knock out a 100 guys and become the money fight yourself? “(Expletive) (expletive).”

“The Prodigy” will come out of retirement on Sunday (Jan. 15) to face soaring prospect Yair Rodriguez. The bout will be headlining the next UFC Fight Night card. It’ll be Penn’s second fight in the featherweight division. A win over “El Pantera” would be his first in over six years. The action takes place inside the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. The main card will begin at 10 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1 (FS1).

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Famer B.J. Penn knows a thing or two about marquee fights.

Penn isn’t thrilled with new craze. He told FOX Sports that fighters should become the attraction rather than beg to face one:

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Famer B.J. Penn knows a thing or two about marquee fights.

Penn isn’t thrilled with the new craze. He told FOX Sports that fighters should become the attraction rather than beg to face one:

“I’ll tell you this, I’m not the guy to go out there and say ‘oh give me this money fight, give me that money fight. I look at all these guys doing that and I’m like why don’t you go knock out 100 guys and become the money fight yourself? “(Expletive) (expletive).”

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Coach: BJ Penn Remembered Who The F*ck He Is

Legendary former UFC lightweight and former UFC welterweight champion BJ “The Prodigy” Penn is set to make his return to action in the main event of this weekend’s (Jan. 15, 2016) UFC Fight Night 103 from Phoenix, Arizona. Penn last competed in 2014, and he’ll be facing a tough test this Saturday, as he’s set

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Many have doubted Penn heading into his return bout given the fact that he hasn’t won a fight since 2010, but his longtime boxing coach Jason Parillo, who recently spoke on The Extra Rounds Podcast, said that Penn ‘remembered who the f*ck he is’ during this training camp:

“I think he’s made some gains and remembered who the f-ck he is,” Parillo said.
“I think he’s going to go out there and give this kid a shock.”

Penn last fought former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar in July 2014 and it unfortunately turned out to be of the worst performances of his illustrious career. Now at age 38, however, Penn has reunited with Parillo and has also trained under the tutelage of legendary trainers Greg Jackson and Mike Winklejohn in New Mexico.

Parillo feels as if the necessary changes have been made and he expects to see a different version of “The Prodigy” in this upcoming fight:

“He’s preparing maybe for a guy he saw fight Frankie Edgar fight last but I think BJ’s a different guy than he was.”

Do you expect Penn to return to form against Rodriguez?

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Rivera: Bryan Caraway ‘Probably’ Faked Another Injury

Top bantamweight contenders Jimmie Rivera and Bryan Caraway were supposed to clash on the main card of this weekend’s (Jan. 15, 2016) UFC Fight Night 103 from Phoenix, Arizona. Caraway, however, was recently forced to withdraw from the bout due to injury. Rivera isn’t surprised on the matter, even accusing Caraway of possibly faking his

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Rivera isn’t surprised on the matter, even accusing Caraway of possibly faking his injury:

“I’m not surprised in a way, this is the third or fourth time I’ve tried to fight Caraway,” Rivera told SiriusXM .”I shouldn’t be surprised that it happened, but you just keep training like you have a fight and just kinda wait and see what happens and see what the UFC or Sean Shelby are going to do.”

“He got hurt this time or he’s faking injury,” Rivera said. “The times before that he just simply didn’t want to fight me. Take for instance the Faber fight, it was supposed to be Caraway and I but he said no to it and Faber stepped in. That’s how it happened.”

Continuing on, Rivera said that “Kid Lightning” ‘picks and chooses’ his fights:

“Probably [fighters’ fake injuries], at least he does, I think so,” Rivera said. “He [Caraway] picks and chooses his battles and times when he wants to fight. I know I’ve seen it in the past. It is what it is, right now there is nothing really I can do. I just have to wait and see what happens.”

Rivera, who is coming off of a dominant victory over Urijah Faber, was originally supposed to stay on the card and take on a relative unknown in Marlon Vera, although he elected not to take the fight because he didn’t want to look like a bully.

What do you make of Rivera’s latest comments?

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Video: Full Replay of UFC Fight Night Phoenix ‘Countdown’

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If you missed the initial airing of UFC Fight Night Phoenix’s “Countdown” show on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), don’t fret. The official YouTube channel of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has rolled out the…

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Sunday’s (Jan. 15) UFC Fight Night event will take place inside the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. The main event will feature a featherweight clash between a thriving prospect and a UFC Hall of Famer. Yair Rodriguez will be vying for the biggest win of his career when he goes toe-to-toe with B.J. Penn.

This will be the first time “El Pantera” will do battle with a former world champion. His last opponent was Alex Caceres in a bout that earned both men a “Fight of the Night” bonus. Rodriguez emerged victorious to extend his winning streak to six.

On the other hand, Penn is coming out of retirement. “The Prodigy” chose to hang up his gloves after getting smoked by Frankie Edgar in their third encounter. The retirement lasted less than three years. Penn’s last win was in Nov. 2010. He knocked out Matt Hughes in 21 seconds. Penn has gone 0-3-1 in his last four bouts.

The co-main event will see battle tested veteran Joe Lauzon compete for the 39th time in his career to take on former Bellator mainstay Marcin Held in a lightweight clash. Ben Saunders will return to the UFC to meet The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season 11 winner Court McGee.

Bantamweight Jimmie Rivera pulled out of the card despite initially agreeing to face would-be replacement Marlon Vera. “El Terror” was going to face Bryan Caraway, but “Kid Lightening” went down with a shoulder injury. As of this writing, there has been no word on if the main card slot will be filled.

The prelims begin at 8 p.m. on FS1. The action continues at 10 p.m. ET with the main card.