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It’s been said at least a hundred times since Saturday night and it’ll be said about a hundred more before UFC 188 fully takes over the collective consciousness of MMA fans this week, but in a perfect world, Dan Henderson would have left his gloves in the cage following his win over Tim Boetsch this weekend. At 44 years old and heading into the 44th fight of a career that’s lasted over a decade, Henderson walked into the cage and delivered a trademark “H-Bomb” to the chin of Boetsch to set up a fight-ending uppercut just 28 seconds into the fight. For Henderson to have walked away a...

Antonio Carlos Junior says UFC values ‘trash talk’ over performance, feels better at PFL Share this story Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports Sometimes, being cut from the biggest promotion in the world is not so bad. In Antonio Carlos Junior’s opinion, his UFC release was the best thing to happen to his career in recent times. Especially after getting picked up by the Professional Fighters League, a company which ‘Shoeface’ believes to be more aligned with his own standards. After dedicating almost seven years of his career to the Octagon, Antonio is not sad to turn the page. In an i...

UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The event was headlined by three title fights. In the top-billing, lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez looked to make the first defense of his belt against featherweight kingpin Conor McGregor. Alvarez, a former Bellator MMA titleholder, took the belt away from Brazilian Rafael dos Anjos in July with a first-round TKO finish. McGregor, meanwhile, has never defended the 145-pound title. The Irishman split a pair of welterweight bouts with Nate Diaz earlier this year and looked to hold two belts simultaneously. In the ni...

On the night of June 21, 2008, Amir Sadollah submitted C.B. Dollaway in the first round to win season seven of The Ultimate Fighter. One fighter has gone on to put together a respectable career in the UFC, while the other has struggled to achieve any consistency over the last six-plus years. However, it was the loser that night who would become the long-term winner. It’s Dollaway who has paved the way for himself to make a run at the middleweight title. Dollaway, currently the ninth-ranked middleweight in the UFC, has won four out of his last five fights. The only loss in that span came by...

Image Credit: Christian Petersen / Getty Images After Antonio Carlos Junior lost to Brad Tavares at UFC 257, he was released from the promotion. Carlos Junior was a TUF winner and had some success in the UFC. However, he was on a three-fight losing skid with decision losses to Ian Heinisch, Uriah Hall, and Tavares. Before the setbacks, he was on a five-fight winning streak and has notable wins over Marvin Vettori and Tim Boetsch among others. However, this was not enough to keep his job. Although he was released, Antonio Carlos Junior says he now feels free and is looking at what’s next.