BAMMA returns this week with a card featuring a pair of title fights as well as a struggling UFC vet in the main event. 
Reports coming out of Brazil are saying that UFC Flyweights Joseph Benavidez and Jussier “Formiga” da Silva will meet in September. The bout is set to to go down in Brazil on an unannounced UFC on FOX Sports 1 card on September 4th. Globo?s SporTV was the first to report the bout. Benavidez is looking…
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It?s a sign of how dominant Anderson Silva has been that any challenger to his middleweight reign seems to become a star just by facing off with him. Being the greatest of all time, as Joe Rogan described Silva recently, has a way of doing that. The recent drama about Chris Weidman, and how the [...]
A pair of bouts have been reportedly targeted for unofficial UFC on FOX Sports 1 3 card. In the first targeted bout of the evening, light heavyweights Glover Teixeira and Ryan Bader are set to face off, while middleweights Ronaldo “Jacar�” Souza and Yushin Okami are also set to meet. Brazilian site Porto do Vale [...]
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Anderson Silva is the best there's ever been. Chris Weidman is the top contender for his title. What will happen when two masters of mixed martial arts bring their best to one another?Source: http://mmalice.com/videos/ufc-162-undisputed-vs-unde-ed-video_ebnktq3j.html
After 26 fights and a key role in turning the UFC into the promotion it is today, Forest Griffin has retired. His decision was announced at the UFC 160 post-fight press conference.
"It's been a good eight years, I guess. Biggest thing I've learned ... when [UFC president] Dana White says retire otherwise you will blow your knee out," Griffin said at the press conference.
Griffin's last fight was a win over UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz in July of 2012. Coincidentally, it was Ortiz's last bout before retirement. He won that fight by decision. His career included 19 wins, 7 losses and stint as the UFC light heavyweight champion.
What Griffin will always be remembered for is being one-half of a fight that catapulted the UFC into fame. He and Stephan Bonnar were finalists on the first season of the UFC's reality show, "The Ultimate Fighter." Their fight was a close, thrilling battle that played on Spike TV on April 9, 2005.
It was responsible for earning the UFC many fans, which helped earn bigger sponsors and television deals. Griffin won the decision, taking the title of the first "Ultimate Fighter," but both fighters were given contracts.
During the media scrum following the press conference, White said that Griffin and Bonnar will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame together.
Griffin went on to be a force in the 205-lb. division, upsetting Pride star Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in 2007, then taking the belt from Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in July of 2008. He lost the belt to Rashad Evans that December.
White said Griffin will continue to have a role with the UFC.
