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LAS VEGAS — Cory Sandhagen has proven that he’s good enough to be the UFC featherweight champion. But his is one of those cases where good enough is not enough. Sandhagen will meet Song Yadong on Saturday at Apex in the main event of UFC Vegas 60 in what best could be described as Phase
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7:50 AM ET FOR MAJDI SHAMMAS, the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 9 in Las Vegas were a manager’s worst nightmare. At approximately 4 a.m. local time, Shammas knew his fighter, Khamzat Chimaev, would not make weight for a UFC 279 main event against Nate Diaz. Chimaev and his team had done all they
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LAS VEGAS — This was peak Nate Diaz on Saturday, both inside and outside the Octagon. Inside of it, Diaz did what he’s done so often: He used his boxing, his incredible cardio, a massive will to win and outstanding Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to submit Tony Ferguson in the reconstituted main event of UFC 279 at
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Sep 9, 2022 Editor’s note: Khamzat Chimaev missed weight and Nate Diaz will now fight Tony Ferguson in the main event of UFC 279. STOCKTON, Calif. — GILBERT MELENDEZ, NATE Diaz‘s longtime teammate, was in Stockton with some of his students from El Niño Training Center in South San Francisco for a night training session
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Nate Diaz will face Khamzat Chimaev in the main event of UFC 279 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, a fight Diaz says will be the last of his epic UFC career. Diaz’s name is all over the UFC record books, as he’s second among active fighters with 15 post-fight bonuses, tied for
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There is almost an embarrassment of riches in the UFC’s heavyweight division right now. The only thing that’s holding it back is that many of them are injured and unable to fight. Ciryl Gane was the latest heavyweight to show his stuff, winning a Fight of the Night battle by stopping Tai Tuivasa at 4:23
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Tai Tuivasa and coach Shaun Sullivan go back a long way. Growing up playing rugby league in western Sydney — Sullivan played with one of Tuivasa’s older brothers — their sporting endeavors have long been intertwined. Now, more than a decade on from when a 15-year-old Tuivasa was the second heaviest player at Penrith Panthers
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Jake Paul was a multi-millionaire long before he dreamed of being a boxer, thanks to his wit, his business savvy and his gift of gab. It just so happens that those traits go a long way toward making one successful in professional boxing, as well. Particularly for pay-per-view fights, name recognition is critical, and few
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