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Despite a 17-3 pro record, J.J. Ambrose believes he’s fallen short when it matters most.

So as he prepares for an opening-round matchup in Bellator’s season-six lightweight tournament – one that finally could bring him some international notoriety – he has some advice for opponent Brent Weedman.

“The message I have for Brent Weedman is this: Brent, just sit on your coach and play video games. Watch romantic comedies, and don’t do any cardio before the fight,” he told MMAjunkie.com

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira just couldn’t help himself.

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TOKYO – Five months ago, heavyweights Cheick Kongo and Mark Hunt were sucking air together in the elevation of Denver.

Present for a training camp that concluded with Hunt’s meeting with Ben Rothwell and Quinton Jackson’s fight with champ Jon Jones, Kongo wasn’t particularly close to the New Zealand native in the weeks before UFC 135.

He was surprised, nonetheless, when the Kiwi came up as his next opponent at this weekend’s UFC 144 event. It didn’t occur that he might have to fight Hunt.

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Mauricio “Shogun” Rua surprised many Tuesday when he announced on Twitter that he will no longer work with Eduardo Alonso, the manager who has overseen his career for nearly five years.

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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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