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RIO DE JANEIRO – Jose Aldo just might be the new pride of Brazil.

Five months after middleweight champion Anderson Silva sent the HSBC Arena into a frenzy at UFC 134, Aldo knocked out Chad Mendes in the first round to defend his featherweight title for a third time.

The title fight headlined UFC 142 and aired on pay-per-view following prelims on Facebook and FX. It took place at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro.



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Mike Brown’s recent withdrawal from next month’s UFC on FX 1 event was due to a recent knee surgery.

UFC officials announced on Thursday that Brown, a former WEC featherweight champion, scratched from his bout with Vagner Rocha due to an injury.

Brown today clarified the nature of it and said he expects a quick return to training.



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UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has cleared one hurdle on his comeback trail.

The injured fighter had successful knee surgery on Tuesday in Los Angeles, he recently tweeted.

A torn ACL and damaged meniscus recently forced St-Pierre out of a February UFC 143 title fight with Nick Diaz. Carlos Condit and Diaz now will fight for an interim title while St-Pierre’s on the sidelines for six to 10 months.



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UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos underwent successful surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee on Wednesday morning.

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Akira Corassani has been waiting for this moment since the day he left
the house as a cast member of “The Ultimate Fighter 14.” The Twitter
messages, the traffic to his website, the message board postings – all
of it.

As he predicted, his fight with Dustin Neace in the quarterfinals of the
reality show competition has caused a stir. Fans say he tapped to
Neace’s heel hook in the first round. The tape tells the tale.

“Did I think of tapping? Hell yeah, I thought of tapping,” Corassani
today told MMAjunkie.com. “If you look at it -
hundreds and hundreds of times I looked at it – when he’s going to crank
it (and) take it, my heel pops out, and he misses.”



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UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre suffered a setback on Tuesday, spraining his knee during a sparring session at Tristar Gym in Montreal and subsequently bowing out of his title defense against Carlos Condit at UFC 137.

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Georges St. Pierre has suffered a knee injury and will be unable to defend his UFC welterweight title against Carlos Condit at UFC 137.

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The UFC 137 fight card just took a major hit as UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has been forced off…

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A knee injury has forced Rick Hawn out of Bellator 49 and his opening-round welterweight-tournament bout with Ben Saunders.

Hawn announced the news via Twitter.

Bellator officials haven’t confirmed the injury or a possible replacement for the eight-man tournament, which kicks off Sept. 10 at Caesars Atlantic City in New Jersey.



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xWelterweight Rick Hawn has suffered a knee injury and has been forced to withdraw from Bellator’s upcoming fifth-season welterweight tournament.

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