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These days, the UFC encourages fighters to air their matchmaking wishes in a public forum. Provided it’s not too wacky a request, callouts can help gauge interest in future bouts.

But that’s one offer Matt Brown is going to turn down.  

“I sort of called out one person in my entire career, and that was Renzo,” he told MMAjunkie.com Radio. “I wished I never did it; I pretty much got barred from their team.”

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LAS VEGAS – The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s own media notes on
Brazilian bantamweight Renan Barao sum it up nicely:
“Has best record, on paper, in all of MMA.”

On Saturday night, Barao earned his 28th-straight win by downing onetime
title-challenger Scott Jorgensen via unanimous decision.

The 24-year-old is now 5-0 under the Zuffa banner, and while UFC
president Dana White isn’t ready to grant him a title shot just yet, he
admits the Nova Uniao product is quickly becoming one of Brazil’s most
popular fighters.

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From now on, Michael Johnson is taking a new approach to fighting.

“I had good footwork because I was a running back,” the lightweight told MMAjunkie.com Radio.

And following his win over Shane Roller on the
preliminary card of UFC on FOX 2, Johnson hopes to
charge into spring with a fight in late March or early April.

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CHICAGO – It’s official: Evan Dunham has put himself back into the fray of UFC lightweight title contention.

Dunham primarily used his standup to secure a second-round TKO (via doctor’s stoppage) over a game Nik Lentz, who was stopped for the first time in his UFC career.

The bout served as the featured preliminary-card contest and aired on FUEL TV as part of the UFC on FOX 2 preliminary card.

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CHICAGO – Regardless of what Chael Sonnen says, should he defeat Michael Bisping at Saturday’s UFC on FOX 2 event, Anderson Silva is next.

UFC president Dana White clarified the organization’s plans at today’s UFC on FOX 2 pre-event presser in Chicago.

“Chael is nuts,” White told MMAjunkie.com. “He says
all kinds of crazy things. … He will fight Anderson Silva if he wins.”

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ask UFC heavyweight Pat Barry a question, and you can expect an honest answer in reply.

The striking specialist has been an open book since his very first fight
in the UFC, and he doesn’t mince words when it comes to describing both
the good and the bad that comes with fighting in the octagon.

And so it was on Friday night, when Barry admitted that he was pleased by his
performance but that his 6-foot-6 opponent wasn’t his toughest challenge
of the night. That honor belonged to pure fear.

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RIO DE JANEIRO – UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is just about done with his vacation.

UFC president Dana White told MMAjunkie.com he’s
currently working on Jones’ next outing, and both the champ and the
promotion hope to book that sooner rather than later.

“Maybe April,” White said.

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Diego Brandao’s mom has her house.

The featherweight winner of “The Ultimate Fighter 14″ went back to his hometown of Manaus, Brazil, to buy his life’s guiding light what he promised her.

Mom had already started partying when he called her the day after submitting Dennis Bermudez in the reality-show’s finale.

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MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the studio UFC 141 co-headliner Donald Cerrone.

We also catch up with two recent Strikeforce competitors, Gegard Mousasi and Jorge Masvidal, as well as The Sunday Junkie winner Cal Rocha.

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Undersized but not overmatched, John Dodson became the first-ever bantamweight winner of “The Ultimate Fighter” on Saturday, finishing T.J. Dillashaw in less than two minutes in the live season finale at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

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