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Chad Mendes has been training for most of his life.

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Next week’s UFC 142 event will now have just 10 fights.

UFC officials today announced that light heavyweight Fabio Maldonado suffered an injury in training and has been forced
to withdraw from the event.

With less than one week to locate a replacement opponent for Caio
Magalhaes, UFC officials elected to scrap the fight.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sometime near the end of 2010, Jason Guida decided to give it a rest. A professional mixed martial arts career that began in 2003 had fallen on hard times, and while Guida’s win-loss record had never been especially pretty, 10 defeats in 11 outings have a way of making a man reassess his lot in life

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LAS VEGAS – While former Strikeforce champ Nick Diaz certainly didn’t
have the best first round of his professional career on Saturday night,
he rebounded over the final 10 minutes in an epic beatdown of MMA legend
B.J. Penn.

UFC president Dana White called the performance “awesome,” and labeled both Diaz and Penn “warriors.”

It’s everything Diaz could have hoped for in his octagon return and yet
it sounds as if it was nothing that he wanted. In fact, at Saturday
night’s post-event press conference, Diaz admitted he simply wasn’t
happy – about just about anything, really.

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Diego Sanchez has been cleared to resume training.

The UFC veteran recently scratched from a UFC 135 fight with Matt Hughes earlier this month when he was sidelined by a broken right hand.

Doctors, though, have removed his cast and cleared the lightweight fighter to resume training, though no return bout has been booked.

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After much anticipation, super-prospect Guram Gugenishvili finally came to America.

Well, sort of.

The 25-year-old M-1 Global heavyweight champion did fly to Las Vegas to
train at Xtreme Couture three weeks prior to his stateside MMA debut and
was planning on putting his title on the line in a rematch against
Kenny Garner at M-1 Challenge 27. That was until he got hurt in training and had to pull out of the fight.

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With his stunning, 59-second knockout of George Sotiropoulos in July, Rafael dos Anjos once again turned heads in the MMA world. Even UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar was impressed with the BJJ specialist’s improved standup skills, calling upon dos Anjos to help him train for his UFC 136 title defense against Gray Maynard.

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Mixed martial arts fans are invited to train with Forrest Griffin, Tito Ortiz and Frank Mir.

UFC officials recently announced that the three fighters will each host
two-hour training and development sessions at October’s UFC Fan Expo
Houston.

Scheduled in conjunction with conjunction with “UFC 136: Edgar vs.
Maynard III,” the two-day UFC Fan Expo Houston Oct. 7-8 at Houston’s
George R. Brown Convention Center.

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Paul Buentello seemed to think Cole Konrad was going to try to take him down when they met Aug. 20 at Bellator Fighting Championships 48.

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With UFC 135 just a couple of weeks away, the co-main event has taken a hit as Diego Sanchez has been forced off the card with a broken hand. Read More >>

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