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2:08 AM ET As anticipation builds for his return to the Octagon, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has pumped the brakes on a potential trilogy bout with archnemesis Daniel Cormier. Jones, in an interview with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, said he doesn’t care to set up a third fight with Cormier, the current lightweight
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9:24 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor is notoriously late for most UFC-related obligations. If he has to be at a news conference or open workout at a certain time, there is a good chance he will show up at least a half-hour late. Khabib Nurmagomedov was not going to wait Thursday. Nurmagomedov took
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1:20 AM ET Conor McGregor has his hands full on Saturday night against Khabib Nurmagomedov, but on Monday’s episode of “Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show” he raised a lot of eyebrows when he said he would like to fight Anderson Silva. Conor McGregor told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani he would win this weekend by “devastating KO” over
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12:47 PM ET LAS VEGAS — According to UFC president Dana White, Saturday’s lightweight championship fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor is projecting to smash company records in both pay-per-view revenue and gate revenue in the state of Nevada. Late last month, White told Yahoo! Sports he was confident Saturday’s UFC 229 pay-per-view offering,
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9:02 AM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor have combined to face 18 different opponents in the UFC. Only one of those — Nate Diaz — ever managed to secure a win (against McGregor, in March 2016) and even he went on to lose a subsequent rematch. Translation: Victories are tough to come by against
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2:18 PM ET The UFC has booked a 125-pound women’s title fight between Valentina Shevchenko and Sijara Eubanks to headline its UFC 230 pay-per-view event on Nov. 3 in Madison Square Garden, according to sources. The five-round bout will be for the vacant flyweight title. The UFC stripped former champion Nicco Montaño of the belt
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