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BJPENN.COM News - March 4, 2014

Perennially top-ranked middleweight Yushin “Thunder” Okami (29-8) makes his World Series of Fighting debut on March 29, as he battles Svetlozar Savov (12-4) on the NBCSN-broadcast main card of “World Series of Fighting 9: Carl vs. Palhares.”

BJPENN.COM News - March 4, 2014

Things got very serious between Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at the Bellator 110 Post Fight Conference.

BJPENN.COM News - March 4, 2014

In Brazil, ‘Carnival’ is a pretty big deal. Full of festivities, feasts and an epicly large parade to prepare for lent, the forty day period before easter.

BJPENN.COM News - March 3, 2014

“I like Fedor and I respect him a lot, but it’s not his job, it’s not his concern to act like my mother and to give any kind of advice, especially to me. I think I’m old and I believe wise enough that I will know when it’s time to go. What happened to me in that fight, it could happen to anyone. Really, I don’t know why Fedor said it.” “Later on I heard that Fedor is saying this and that. I don’t think he should do it. Of course he has the right to give his opinion, he’s a legend of mixed martial arts. But I didn’t like his comment, to tell you the truth. … I never gave a comment on his fights. Every loss of Fedor’s, I [felt] like it was my own. “At the end of the day, we used to fight together in the Pride ring, so many time we shared a dressing room. I was fighting in his town and he didn’t show up for the press conference. If Fedor came to my hometown, I would find him a few days before, I would take him to lunch, dinner, whatever, shake hands to see him. And I saw him only in the ring. But that’s him. I think and feel differently.” “I don’t have his phone number, he doesn’t have my phone number. We are not in contact, but I always liked him as a fighter, and especially, we have good memories from Japan, both of us. At the end of the day we were bothers in arms, sharing a few times the dressing room. I was sorry for every loss he had. I was shocked and I was so sad, and at the end of the day I didn’t expect that for him. But enough about Fedor. I really wish him all the best. I’m not mad at him, I just think he shouldn’t have [said] that kind of a comment to me.”

BJPENN.COM News - March 3, 2014

Gunnar Nelson returns to action when the UFC present their fight night card in London’s 02 arena on Sat 8th March. Here Gunnar explains his deep focus, his early fascination with fighting, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and his counter based approach to fighting,

BJPENN.COM News - March 3, 2014

BJPENN.COM News - March 3, 2014

bjpenndotcom - March 3, 2014

Who doesn’t love a good rubber match? Each fighter has a win over the other, both are high level fighters, the belt is on the line (again) and it’s on Pay-Per-View. Of course I’m talking about the third and most likely final fight between Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler.

BJPENN.COM News - March 3, 2014

BJPENN.COM News - March 3, 2014

BJPENN.COM News - March 2, 2014

One of the world’s top non-UFC welterweights, Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley, returned to action over the weekend in a kickboxing match. In typical ‘Semtex’ fashion he put his man away quick and brutally.

Chris Taylor - March 2, 2014

During a recent interview with MMAFighting.com, UFC light heavyweight contender Phil Davis stated that he thinks Jon Jones wants the ‘softer side’ of the UFC’s light heavyweight division. His words:

BJPENN.COM News - March 1, 2014

“I knew I was never going to fight [Lawal] in any of the other organizations I was with, because I knew he wasn’t going to come. I think I can be 100-percent honest with you when I say that half the reason I signed with Bellator was because I was signing with Viacom — not just an MMA organization, but a whole big company — and that I could finally get a chance to beat the s–t out of ‘King Mo’ for all the stuff he said. But I forgive him.” In a recent interview with sherdog.com, former UFC light-heavyeight champ, ‘Rampage’ Jackson, explained his reasoning behind leaving the UFC for Bellator.

BJPENN.COM News - March 1, 2014

Following last night’s Bellator 110 main event, Rampage Jackson and King Mo got into a heated altercation inside the cage.

BJPENN.COM News - March 1, 2014

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BJPENN.COM News - March 1, 2014

Following this morning’s Fight Pass broadcast of the TUF China Finale, UFC officials held a post-fight press conference to go over all the post-fight news and announcements. Here it is in full. Enjoy!

bjpenndotcom - February 28, 2014

Both light heavyweights were quick to meet in the middle of the cage and get the fight underway. M’Pumbu was content with being patient and picking his shots which upset ‘Rampage’. Jackson controlled the center of the cage and worked M’Pumbu’s back up against the cage. Jackson worked for a takedown, but it was going nowhere and the referee reset the action in the middle of the cage.

bjpenndotcom - February 28, 2014

King Mo Lawal showed improvements since his last outings in the Bellator cage. He kept his hands high in anticipation of Zayats’ shots and was more aggressive in controlling where the fight would go. King Mo did a good job in landing shots early on in the fight, but Zayats started to find his range toward the end of the first round.