Posted by thesportsjunky on April 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The UFC headed to Russia once again to highlight some of the more promising Russian prospects but for one his rise was halted by a UFC veteran and living MMA legend.
Posted by thesportsjunky on April 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The UFC heads to Russia where a familiar story will play out as a rising heavyweight takes on a UFC legend with both looking to position themselves in that title hunt.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on December 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The youth movement has taken over sports including MMA as the UFC is seeing nearing the end of the year and at UFC 218 it continued with two young stars establishing themselves in their own divisions.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on November 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Two fights will determine the future of two divisions as things could continue as normal or change entirely setting up a very exciting 2018 as UFC 218 determines the future.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 11, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The UFC may have never thought of Cleveland as a destination for their travelling circus but with a local heavyweight champion the biggest promotion in MMA made the trip.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 8, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The heavyweight division is finally active again as the new champion defends his belt immediately while the most polarising figure in the UFC begins his career.
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The UFC travelled to the Netherlands for the first time as two Dutch fighters were in complete display showing why their country is a centre for combat sports.
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The UFC will make their trip to the Netherlands where two Dutch stars take the spotlight in a country that has loved combat sports for years.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 6, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The MMA world is not an extremely large one as everyone seems to know everyone else and they all run the in the same circles. There are only a small number of promotions that see the top fighters and so two fighters from the same division are likely to run into each other at some point if they fight long enough. That was the case for Gegard Mousasi and Ronaldo Souza who met much earlier in their careers during the Dream 6: Middleweight Grand Prix in 2008.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The UFC is fresh off of an embarrassing weekend with their main event suffering a last-minute change. The UFC had never been in that situation before as only 24 hours before they were set to fight the main event between T.J. Dillashaw and Renan Barao saw a change with Barao being forced out. The UFC was sent scrambling and found a last-minute replacement who put up a good showing but never really had a shot.
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The Sport Addiction 