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Al Zullino

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Italy's MMA kingpin | Former Europe's @tapology editor & @bjpenndotcom writer | Husband of the hottest wife ever | Dad | Knickerbocker | Pizza devourer

Puglia, Italia

Joined November 2010

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Al Zullino

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Last year I've started collecting data in search of the best path to be a successful UFC fighter. Does Contender Series produce good UFC fighters or are other established promotions' champions better? Here's a chart with UFC wins for CS vs regional champions. 📊: @NateLatshaw

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2 years

BREAKING: UFC is returning to the UK in July, per sources. Location TBC, but more than likely it's going to be in Liverpool, I'm told.

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This is literally the entire @NoBickal 's professional mixed martial arts career. I did not speed the video up and still could fit that in one single Twitter video.

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Sharabutdin Magomedov makes his long-awaited UFC debut tomorrow. So let's talk about that time he thought it was ok to assault a guy because he and the guy's girlfriend were kissing in public.

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Ha! Kinda satisfying. #UFCAustin

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Drew Dober knocks Bobby Green out cold! #UFCVegas66

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When she said "my parents are not at home"

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Last night during a DAZN Boxing event in Milan, Italy, Italian rapper Tony Effe started a brawl with Italian rapper and pro boxer Ion. Tony's good friend and UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori stepped in and hammer punched Ion knocking him down. Definitely not a good look for him.

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@danawhite Does it slap?

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Marvin Vettori said: "sorry guys, he was really an elite opponent. I love you all, make some noise even if I lost". #UFCParis

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(Almost) every Anthony "Rumble" Johnson's finishes. Rest in peace, legend.

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Conor McGregor's mum went full blackface for Halloween.

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NHL revenue: $2.35B (+15%) UFC revenue: $1.3B (+13%) NHL revenue sharing: 50/50 UFC revenue sharing: 72/18 NHL minimum salary: $750K/year UFC minimum salary: $10K/fight

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TKO president Mark Shapiro declares UFC now one of the 4 major sports: “UFC is now not only mainstream, but it’s one of the four majors. The ratings on ESPN and ESPN2, apples to apples against the NHL — even including the playoffs, we dwarf them”

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2 years

10 finishes out of 10 fights. Could have been worse. Here's all of them. #UFCVegas59

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11 months

So, this just happened in Russia. A vlogger TKOs Aleksander Emelianenko, the ref steps in and stops the fight. But the vlogger says "Nah, why? Let's keep it on!", then shots and takedown and gets submitted? Couldn't have been more fixed. (h/t @pelunaton

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5 months

Is America the worst base for geography?

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Is America the best base for UFC fighters???? When will we ever lose 😟 #USA #UFC

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Per sources, a lightweight bout between Marc Diakiese and Michael Johnson is slated for later this year, on December 3. Location TBD.

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The lowest-paid NBA players make $1.1M Pedro has been in the UFC since 2016 and is still struggling this much. I'm not calling for NBA money, of course. I just want fighters to be at least financially stable.

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"With the (tax) deductions and the loss of the fight tonight, I'm probably going to have to rob someone in the car park. ... Who's got the most on them?" Tyson Pedro opens up about financial challenges following his #UFCVegas87 retirement.

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New Gear! Custom #UFC300 shorts on display! 👕 Get yours now at @UFCStore !

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Native English speakers should really get off their high horse when someone try to speak their language. I can assure you, we wish we don't sound stupid when talking English, but it's really hard. Also, I don't get a single word of the scouse accent.

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I'm talking in English and fuck you in English. #UFC282

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1 year

So, Paddy Pimblett was complaining that Ariel Helwani makes money off fighters... in a Dana White's podcast? Did that really happen?

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6 months

Or the time he snapped after losing a grappling bout.

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3 years

Since he signed that deal with Dolce & Gabbana, my man became so stylish he would wear his shorts backwards.

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2 years

Weight cutting has gone too far.

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109-year-old Monk Wild but that might be enough internet for me today

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8 months

Per @thephuketnews , UFC fighter Khusein Askhabov and his twin brother have been arrested in Thailand along with three other men for allegedly forcing their way into an Italian man's house, robbing, kidnapping and torturing him. More:

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2 years

Per sources, a featherweight scrap between Charles Jourdain and Nathaniel Wood has been booked for #UFCParis which takes places next month, on September 3.

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7 months

Reading the comments makes my head hurt. People praising him/the UFC but it's him/UFC who banned the flags in the first place, not the fans. UFC fans are truly special.

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Dana White confirms the UFC flag ban is OVER. "If any flags hurt your feelings, too f*cking bad." Full video:

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4 years

Oooh, man! That was VICIOUS! #BellatorParis

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2 years

BREAKING: It seems that UFC is investing big in Europe as I'm hearing an event in Paris, France is slated for later this year, on September 3. No confirmation yet, but that's the promotion's plan, I'm told.

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2 years

Marvin Vettori and his nutritionist @DrCapodaglio pose with their pants backwards 😂

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1 year

This dude is a clown.

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4 years

I'm sorry, y'all. Had to do it, tho.

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2 years

The Queen chose to die over watching Nate Diaz getting mauled by Khamzat Chimaev.

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3 years

Apparently Conor McGregor beat up a well-known Italian singer, DJ Francesco, at a party in Rome, the latter's wife stated on her social media. She said that thought it was all joke, a show, at first, but then she saw her husband bleeding and McGregor being held against the wall.

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3 years

Are we gonna talk about this card or...?

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What an event #UFC282 it's been! 10 finishes out of 12 fights! Here's all of them.

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6 months

@roboticplebtwo Nah. Worded it wrong, I guess. The guy was kissing his own girlfriend.

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11 months

At what cost, though?

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A stat in support of the theory that Marvin Vettori is made of cement. Most Significant strikes absorbed among current fighters without suffering a KO/TKO loss in the UFC.

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2 years

Is it just good lighting or -- you know -- USADA played a role here?

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1 year

Former UFC fighter Aaron Brink, father of the Colorado Springs Club Q shooter speaks out. "We're Mormons, we don't do gay."

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3 years

If MMA will actually become an Olympic sport, which country is going to bring home more medals?

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4 years

France's own superstar Morgan Charrière will lock horns with German Max Coga on Sept 26 in Manchester for Cage Warriors featherweight gold. The Frenchman is arguably the most followed European fighter not signed to the UFC. Just look at the likes in the pic below.

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2 years

Sorry, I wanted to make one of this too.

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2 years

Who did it better?

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1 year

In case it needed any more confirmations, Marvin Vettori is actually at Xtreme Couture, training for his next fight against Roman Dolidze... who trains at Xtreme Couture as well.

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3 years

My wife be like: "you have plans for tonight?" "Yeah, watching UFC?" "Again? You watched it last night" "That was Bellator" "What's that?" "MMA" "Oh. You watched it on Thursday" "That was PFL" "What about Wedn—" "Brave" "Yeah but—" "Some Greek show" "F— you. I want the divorce"

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Al Zullino

4 years

Per Marvin Vettori's fitness coach, "The Italian Dream" will now lock horns with Brazilian legend Jacaré Souza on December 12, at UFC 256. Full story drops soon at @bjpenndotcom .

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Jesus Christ, dude...

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1 year

Alexsandre Topuria, brother of UFC featherweight Ilia Topuria, improved his professional MMA record to 5-1 (3 T/KOs, 2 submissions) this weekend, as he collected another W in Spain, at WOW 9. Here's all of his finishes. 🧵

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1 year

Gambling is a big no, but crypto scam is cool?

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khabib nurmagomedov

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Do you want to enter a closed community and get the chance to meet with me? The new crypto product that I am creating in collaboration with the GMT project will be your pass. I'll tell you all the details soon:

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3 years

The only man who has been able to knock out Israel Adesanya is about to make his UFC debut, as Alex Pereira locks horns with Andreas Michailidis in a 185-pound clash, multiple sources informed me. The fight will take place at UFC 268, on November 6. 🔗:

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1 year

An all-Brit featherweight showdown is in the works for #UFC286 , as Manchester's own Lerone Murphy (11-0-1) is set to face a fellow Englishman in Nathaniel Wood (19-5). The fight is not finalized yet, but the promotion is working to book it for March 18, in London, England.

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1 year

All Stephan Bonnar UFC finishes. May he rest in peace. What a sad day.

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Fellas, am I destroying the sport I love if I want the athletes get a larger slice of the pie? The athletes without whom the sport wouldn't exist?

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@phre This is so misleading, you weirdos are always trying to destroy the sport you are supposedly fans of

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Guys, guys, guys. Wait a minute. I hate to see thesre pics as much as anyone else, but you got to understand that they can't refuse to do this, they have family in Chechn— oh, wait.

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Former UFC champs Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, along with Justin Gaethje, are all currently in Chechnya at the invitation of the republic's warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. Here they are testing out guns at a special forces facility in Gudermes.

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2 years

Tom Aspinall x Alexander Volkov Jack Shore x Timur Valiev Paddy Pimblett x Rodrigo Vargas Molly McCann x Luana Carolina Cory McKenna x Elise Reed Jake Hadley x Allan Nascimento Nathaniel Wood x Liudvik Sholinian Cage Warriors London card is shaping up pretty nicel— oh, wait.

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1 year

I don't wanna pile sh*t on anyone involved in this story, but this just shows and confirms how MMA *journalism* is pretty much non existent. 99% of it is just PR.

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Media friends, I'm not crazy, right?

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1 year

Imagine assaulting someone and posting the video on social media.

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Finally ran into the bitch Mike Jackson He quickly discovered the difference between calling people Nazis In person vs on Twitter This racist is lucky so many people were there to save his pathetic racist ass

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Nah, f*ck them fans. I've been following the sport for almost two decades now, and I think we're going through the worst fanbase, to date. Or probably, back in the day, social media weren't too mainstream, so idiots were shouting their useless takes to the void.

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From the desk of @Jon_Anik Thankful to all the @AnikFlorianPod faithful

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1 year

One of the best to ever do it, yet one of the most underrated fighters by the younger fans. The man who made me fall in love with the sport of mixed martial arts. BJ Penn. Here are all of his finishes. @bjpenndotcom

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"Media members mocked us! 😭" *Proceeds to show clips of random youtubers and screenshot from anonymous accounts from social media, and out of context clips of people talking about the main event not being enough for such historical card* It's not the flex you think, Dana.

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Pimblett does the no hand shaking prank: HAHAHA DUDE IS SO FUNNY! Vettori does the same: F*** HIM! SO DISRESPECTFUL!

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1 year

@izumabakumatsu For a brawl? Nah. Very very unlikely.

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2 years

UPDATE: multiple sources confirmed to me that next UFC UK takes place on July 23 (already reported by @niallmcgrath4 ), but in London. Also, but take this with a grain of salt, above-mentioned gig could be headlined by Kamaru Usman vs Leon Edwards, if everything goes as planned.

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BREAKING: UFC is returning to the UK in July, per sources. Location TBC, but more than likely it's going to be in Liverpool, I'm told.

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4 years

That's one of the greatest thing I've ever seen in my whole life.

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1 year

The Lazy King is the fist ARES champ champ! #ARES11

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2 years

Junior Tafa, younger brother of UFC heavyweight Justin Tafa, improves to 2-0 as he knocks out Kelvin Fitial (15-13-2) at Hex Fight Series 23.

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Paul Hughes & Salahdine Parnasse Tonight both men fought out of their contracts with CW and KSW. Didn't let their opponents get out of the first round. Don't f*ck this up UFC. You have at least 2 upcoming cards in Europe. Hughes vs Charrière 2 in Paris would be something else.

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2 years

Great job. 🤡

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3 years

Following what happened last night between a well-known reporter and a UFC debutant, it's pretty obvious that most MMA fans don't have a single clue about how MMA reporting works. Let me break this one down for you, then. A thread:

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6 months

PFL owns Bellator, now, I'm told. They're taking over from 2024. As I've already reported, the plan is to run the Bellator brand for the next two years.

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1 year

Unfortunately, it's true. As confirmed by @MrTudorLeonte , Italian MMA fighter Iuri Lapicus is dead after a motorcycle crash. Iuri was 27, had 14-2-1 NC record, and competed under the ONE banner, where he faced legends in the likes of @Ealvarezfight and @ChristianLeeMMA . RIP.

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3 years

True. Like her first period.

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These two have been through a whole lot together.

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1 year

@WillHarrisAOAF This you, mate?

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4 months

UFC fans should really start watching other promotions. It's fun, I promise.

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4 months

My biggest project of 2023 was answering the question "do Contender Series alumni perform better than regional promotions/non-UFC champions?" It almost started as a joke to dunk on some random Twitter user who was talking crap to Cage Warriors champions, but it quickly became…

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8 months

UPDATE: Just got another txt message confirming ‘PFL is buying Bellator’. Apparently, it's happening right now. I'd say we're actually very close to an official announcement, now. Also, trying to understand how it's gonna play out, I'm hearing there will be two different leagues.

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Rumors about PFL (not) buying Bellator are wildly circulating during these hours, so I thought it could be a good idea to ask around. Take it with a grain of salt, but multiple trusted sources today told me “It’s a done deal”. I guess we can just wait and see.

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11 months

Alessandro Botti fakes to miss weight putting weight in his underwear just to piss Venator president Frank Merenda.

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Show me some “no way that shit actually happened” moments in MMA

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3 months

MMA became legal in France in January 2020. In just 4 years it became one of the biggest hotbeds in Europe, having a staple promotion in ARES, and 11 fighters in the UFC: C. Gane B. Saint Denis M. Fiorot F. Ziam T. Lapilus K. Jousset W. Gomis M. Charriere N. Cornolle Y. Ghemmouri

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1 year

Here's Marvin and Tony Effe together.

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2 months

Active Georgian UFC fighters' records in the promotion: Ilia Topuria 7-0 🏆 Merab Dvalishvili 10-2 Roman Dolidze 6-3 Giga Chikadze 8-1 Guram Kutateladze 1-2 Total 32-8 Percentage 80% Not bad for a 3,7M-population country.

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3 years

@AlexBemutated 4-1.

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3 years

This makes me sad.

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2 years

Askar Mozharov x Nuerjiang (according to YouTube). What happened here? 😅

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4 months

Following an initial report by @MMArena_ , I've been able to confirm that a massive all-France fight between Cédric Doumbé and Baissangour "Baki" Chamsoudinov is set for #PFLParis , on March 6.

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1 year

If I, a grown man, would refer to anyone else as "Top G", I would reconsider my whole existence, all my life choices.

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4 months

As already hinted by @arielhelwani , it seems the PFL x Bellator: Champions vs Champions event could actually go on in Saudi Arabia, on February 24. The event will be a PPV. One fight I've been able to confirm with multiple sources is Patricio Pitbull vs Jesus Pinedo.

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1 year

Per sources, a heavyweight clash between Jon Jones and Cyril Gane has been finalized. Match will serve as the main event for #UFC285 on March 4.

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2 years

Man, what a bummer Ferguson x Chandler got canceled last minute. That would have been one hell of a fight. #UFC274

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2 years

Anatomy of a 🤡

@WillHarrisAOAF

Anatomy of a Fighter

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2 years

I know a lot of people are about to pour it on Hardy, but take a look at the couch you're sitting on before you do. #UFC272

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2 years

Tell me you don't watch anything outside the UFC without telling me you don't watch anything outside the UFC. Lad said "MMA history" 😅

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3 years

Per sources, the following fights have been added to the UFC September 4 card: Marcel Dorff x Paddy Pimblett Graham Boylan x Jason House Ariel Helwani x Guilherme Cruiz

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When did UFC history start?

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‘only cameroonian in ufc history’ ufc hate francis ngannou

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2 years

So weird not putting this in London.

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🚨Breaking🚨 Jack Shore will fight Ricky Simon on July 16, per sources.

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