Taking a Chance
After a major fight fell through Ronaldo Souza had to make a decision to take fight on short notice with plenty of risk and not a lot of payoff.
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Fighters are always looking for that spring to their careers whether it be a good year or a great opportunity and Jack Hermansson is looking for both in Fort Lauderdale.
Development Leads to the Same Result
The sport of MMA is constantly getting ore sophisticated making rematches tougher than ever but despite the constant evolution a very similar result occurred in a rematch at UFC on FOX 27.
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There are a lot of fighters sitting in the middle of the UFC roster where they are not good enough to fight for multiple titles but good enough to stay in the top promotion, two of those fighters look to step out at UFC on FOX 27.
Great Fighters emerge in Kansas City
The UFC put together a great card for UFC on FOX 24 with great fighters all looking to step up and show that they belong at the top of the promotion but only some could come through with the right performance at the right time.
Title Pictures Form in Newark (UFC on FOX 15 Review)
The UFC returned to Newark, New Jersey with plenty of important fights on the card as a number of fighters looked to move towards the title in their respective divisions.
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The UFC takes the show to network television for the second time this year as a number of top contenders try to solidify their spots in the title hunt.
Finishes Reign in Connecticut (UFC Fight Night 50 Review)
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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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.
Middleweight Moving Day in Brazil (UFC Fight Night 36 Review)
2013 was a big year for the middleweight division in the UFC as the division ruled by the most dominant champion in UFC history would finally see a change. Anderson Silva would fall not once but twice to Chris Weidman meaning that the middleweight division would have a new champion for the first time since 2006. That would set the scene for the New Year as the division went from one of the most stable to one of the least stable in one fight