170 looks like a good home for Cerrone. He looks smooth and powerful. That Bosse O'Connel fight was crazy, best fight of the year so far. JoJo Calderwood fought like she was on a mission.

Zuffa has accepted a bid of $4.2B for 100% of the UFC. The new owners will be WME-IMG (california), Dalian Wanda (china), Tencent Holdings (china), and Robert Kraft

So Dana gets somewhere in the neighborhood of $380M and gets to keep his job. Life is hard.

GSP just announced that he's ready to fight in the UFC again

From what I'm reading, most of the money came from the chinese companies, but Robert Kraft and WME-IMG will act as the face of the ownership group. Dana White will be given shares in the company to stay on in his current role, and they will pick a new CEO to replace Lorenzo Fertitta. It looks like that could be Garry Cook who is currently running the international side of the UFC.

Dana needs cook over him.

I've heard cook thinks he needs reigned in

The first press conference for Diaz-McGregor 2 will be Thursday, July 7th 2pm central.

I might have to take the afternoon off of work for that.

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OK, I have to see that

Bellator should fire their match makers. Lay and pray guys should never see a televised card.

Anyone catch the Thorton vs. Porter fight yesterday. It was a dandy.

I think I'd taken it for granted as an article of solid faith that Nate Diaz with a full camp is going to make Conor look silly at 202, but after reading this article, I can't help but think that maybe Conor just might have a small chance.

Sure, Conor won the first round, but Diaz later said his gameplan was to take the first round off to make sure he could go 5 since he had no camp, and Conor didn't win the first 8 minutes, Diaz looked good from the 6th minute on, before he rocked Conor. But, it sure sounds like Conor is obsessed and taking the rematch very seriously, so who knows.

The UFC just signed a 5-year deal with the largest sports broadcaster in China. No clue how much $$$ that was worth.

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Nothing confirmed yet, but there are rumors this afternoon that UFC 204 will be Bisping vs Hendo 2. Well, if it makes dollars, it makes sense.

I hope the outcome is the same. I hate Bisping and I'd love to see Hendo hang em up as the champ

USADA decided to lift Islam Makhachev's suspension, but they are still investigating his test failure. His case is complicated. The substance he got popped for was only added to the banned list recently, on January 1. He said he was prescribed the drug (Meldonium, whatever that is) from a doctor and he stopped taking it after it was banned.

USADA is not sure how long that drug stays in your system, but studies are ongoing. They gave him a choice to stay suspended or have it be lifted. The risk is that if they later determined that there was no way it could have still been in his system in April after stopping on January 1, then they will suspend him and he'll get no credit for time served under suspension.

Meldonium is the same thing that this young lady was suspended for as well.

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Looks like our prayers to the training injury Gods are working, because the card is holding together. I am going to watch all 3 events obviously, but I plan to post a UFC 200 thread on Saturday.

What 3 events? Ufc 200 and another 2 leagues?

UFC will have fights on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 5 title fights. (well 4 title fights and a pretend title fight)

Thursday is fightpass only, but RDA is defending his lightweight belt against Eddie Alvarez. Roy Nelson is also fighting the black beast in the co-main.

Friday is the TUF finale on FS1. Joanna Champion is defending her strawweight belt, and not much else on that card unless you were following TUF and care about some of those fighters.

Time to cryo freeze everyone until Wednesday....astonished there haven't been any new injuries.

Can't wait for this week, should be off the charts...

Frank Mir has asked for his outright release of his contract because he was suspended for 2 years. I guess he wants to broadcast and his suspension covers that too. WTF Frank, you knew it was coming!

[SportsCenter] BREAKING: The fight between Jon Jones & Daniel Cormier at UFC 200 is off due to potential doping violation by Jones.

UGH.

No one hurt and STILL it finds a way to get ****ed up.....

What a dummy.

Jon Jones can really truly DIAF. That guy is a terrible person

DC is begging to fight at Heavy just to stay on the card

AGH ADAGGADSGDSGADGADSADSGADDSGAsdg

Coke?

well said

****ing Hell.

Just about ANYTHING else would have been less devastating than this.

The show must go on, and it will still be an awesome card, but God Damn

They haven't said yet, but his last USADA failure was coke and they let him fight, I'm betting something in the test family

If he tested positive for Coke right now, it would not be in-competition. It has to be something else, not a recreational drug

ROFL holy **** what a shit show

What was the roid Bonds was on?

Probably that.

Let no one doubt the independence of ****ing USADA. Yeah Brock got his waiver, whatever, if the UFC had ANY real pull with USADA at all, they would have used it here. They aren't ****ing around with the drug testing.

He has really been blowing DC up about how much stronger he is now than before. I'm guessing this may be related

I bet dc is laughing his ass off.

Brock Lesnar and Mark Hunt is now the new main event. UFC 200 is Lesnar vs Hunt.

ROFL

Brock got a waiver to a UFC policy, not a USADA testing regimine

DC isn't going to get a nice payday.

ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

True, I think he dislikes Jones enough as a person he is enjoying this at least a little

I doubt it, if JJ is stripped again, they may never fight. DC is 37 and has precious few years left to fight. If Jones is suspended for a year or two, the specter of Jones will always hang over DC's title

Dana said that DC is furious and very emotional right now. He REALLY wanted this fight to prove the haters wrong. Now, even if he does defend his title 2 or 3 more times, he'll always have to live with people taunting him that he's not the real champ.

He was sure right about Jones though wasn't he.

"You're the scum of the earth, You're a terrible human being but when the cameras are on you sure know how to turn it on."

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He was spot on.

UFC now relying on a WWE star to save their card.

Ugh.

I really hope USADA is right about this one. If they are, if they really caught Jon Jones and stopped the main event of ****ing UFC 200, then other fighters will probably think twice about cheating. This just might end up being the most important day in the history of the sport of MMA.

Classic.

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Their protocol doesn't allow the to test the 'b' sample until after the initial hearing but I don't doubt their lab results.

It's still a stacked card, Edgar/Aldo, Tate/Pena, Velasquez/Browne, all potential great fights. No way Lesnar should top any of those fights for some one off shit show

A TON of LHW fighters are bombarding the matchmakers saying they are ready to fight DC on 3 days notice.

They should probably go ahead and make that happen, go ahead and make Lesnar and Hunt the main event, but keep DC on the card if they can. Jon Jones royally ****ed up his career, no point in saving DC at this point.

****

I still get to see my favorite fighter Edgar fight the great Jose Aldo. Which is the fight I've been looking forward to the most since this card was announced.

DC really had the opportunity to trash Jones but he was very classy in his presser.

Mousassi is the most interesting at this point

That shit has been easy as **** to see, though. Even for us viewers, it's easy to see the douchiness in Jon Jones. It's overlooked because of his elite talent level. Now though, he's ****ed himself.

If he gets 2 years suspension, Dana will bring him back like nothing ever happened.

I was actually just wondering that myself. Maybe so. Who knows, though. With the sale of the company, and the new ownership hinting at a more professional environment (I'm purely speculating based on the comment about reeling Dana in a bit), maybe Jon has finally burned the bridge. He has caused the company a number of major headaches over the last few years. Of course he's also made them a lot of money.

Bones press conference scheduled for 8:30 this morning (pacific) be interesting to see what "tainted supplement" gets the blame.

Jones is a dumbass. :shake:

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Press Conferences today:

10:30 am CT: Jon Jones

1:30 pm CT: Diaz/McGregor

time for Bisping to take the fight and become the GOAT

Apparently judging by twitter, Jon Jones is an emotional wreck. Says he didn't knowingly take PED's, trying to think of the supplements he's taken, etc. They are testing the B sample today. If that is positive, I assume we're gonna hear the old tainted supplement defense again.

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In case anyone is wondering, he is facing a 2 year suspension.

My guess is that Jon Jones lawyers up, they start talking tainted supplements and the 7 negative tests, figure out a way to attack the lab, etc. Then USADA offers him a plea bargain somewhere around 1-1.5 years which he'll then accept. If his B sample is positive, his only move is to reduce the suspension as much as possible.

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If he can make weight, that might be the best they can do.

edit: the problem with that though is Gustaffson's last fight was a title shot against DC, which he lost.

The rumor on the internet is that DC has agreed to a HW fight. That makes a lot of sense, he still fights, still gets paid, and if he loses, well he's not a heavyweight so he's probably not expected to win the fight. He probably would prefer to defend his belt against an opponent who he can prepare for longer than 3 days.

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LOL, uhhh Jon. I hope you weren't taking those supplements. That might be a clue.

Dana White said that DC will fight on Saturday. I assume they will reveal his opponent tonight. (maybe the fightpass card tonight?)

Brazilian media is reporting DC vs Anderson Silva in a 3 round non-title fight. No one else is confirming yet, Helwani says the fight was discussed but there are other options and its not final.

Silva posted on his IG account saying he going to Vegas to fight. But didn't say if it was a title shot or not.

I's rather see Gus than Silva, but either way I just hope for DC's sake that he gets to fight and still gets his piece of the PPV buys. I'd hate to think that in addition to ruining his own life, costing the UFC his trainers andhis family, and smashing into pregnant women, that Jones wake of destruction keeps pulling people in

I think DC has made it pretty clear to Dana that he wants to fight since this will probably be his biggest payday ever, and there is no shortage of fighters willing to challenge him. It doesn't even have to be a title fight, if its heavyweight or catchweight thats fine, then DC can focus on a proper title defense.