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Wise words from Katlyn Chookagian following SD loss to Jessica Eye on Saturday
McGregor and now Nurmagomedov granted continuances to not appear at NAC meeting Monday
The Nevada Athletic Commission holds a regular meeting that fell on this Monday, and Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor had been scheduled to appear at it to answer for their roles in the UFC 229 post-fight melee. However, both fighters requested and were granted continuances. In October NSAC chair Anthony Marnell said that both athletes would have to appear in person before the commission to answer questions. The next regularly scheduled meeting falls on 29 January 2019.
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Marreta plans to stay at 205 due to health
Thiago 'Marreta' Santos went 5-1 at middleweight, and moved up to 205 in September vs. Eryk Anders with the Fight of the Night, and decided the outcome at UFC 231 on Saturday would determine whether he stayed up, and KOed Jimi Manuwa in Round 2 winning another performance bonus: “I’m in this division (now). I want to stay at 205. I want to fight, and I believe I’m in the top 10. I want to fight someone in the top five, for sure. One of the biggest reasons I want to stay at 205 is I’ll be more healthy. I still can fight at 185, but I won’t perform the way you guys saw at 205. At 205, I’m healthy and I feel happy. I can make 185, but it’s not what I want. I want to stay at 205.” h/t MMAjunkie
Eye wants a title shot following SD win vs. Chookagian at UFC 231
Jessica Eye was 1-5 at bantamweight, but is now 3-0 at flyweight, and wants a title shot at Valentina Shevchenko: “I’m never going to get what I feel I deserve. Isn’t that what keeps your expectations high and keeps you driving for the better things? I’m a hard worker, and no matter what it is I’m always going to strive to be better. But I do believe I’ve earned my right for a title shot. I do believe I’ve earned to be given a chance to change my life and maybe help other people see my story.” h/t MMAjunkie
Well rounded Vasyl Lomanchenko asks fans if he should fight McGregor in the UFC
White: Round 5 would have been very bad for Brian Ortega's health
“I wanted them to stop that fight going into the fifth round. I was hoping that either the referee or the corner was going to stop that fight. For all of us that have been in the fight game a long time, that’s what you call too tough for your own good. And I believe he could have done the fifth round. I believe he would have done the fifth round, but it should have never happened. That fifth round should have never happened. He’s a young, talented guy, and I think going into that fifth round would have been very bad for him, health-wise. The fourth round wasn’t good for him health-wise. I commend the doctor here in Toronto for stopping that fight. He did a great job.” h/t MMAjunkie
White wants Jedrzejczyk to return to 115 following flyweight title shot loss
“I love her, she’s such a great fighter and such a good person. I actually consider her a friend. I want her to take some time off, go spend some time with her family and then we’ll get together and talk about it. But I’d like to see her stay at [115 pounds]." h/t MMA Fighting
Jedrzejczyk says she'll return to strawweight once, for a title shot
“I must do this for myself and put dot on 'i'. I will drop one more time to the strawweight division. But I’m not getting younger, I’m getting older. And I’ve been in this business for 15 years, so I want to take care of my body. This camp I realized how it can impact your body, your brain and your performance being on such a strict diet for so many weeks. Or the weight cut. Definitely, I want to protect myself, protect my body. But yeah, the other stupid thing is I want to do this one more time — that’s it. One more time. We always give second chance to ourselves and I want to do this. Definitely, I want to challenge myself and chase my other dream and go for the strawweight belt again. So I will wait for Andrade and Rose to fight next year. Rose has only four months left to defend the belt, because otherwise she might lose the belt with no fight. That’s the thing. Because I was a pretty busy champion, other champions were pretty busy. But if you defend your title once a year, you’re losing the belt. We will see.” h/t MMA Fighting
Holloway responds to White call to move up to middleweight
“When a king leaves a throne and his village, someone tries to come and invade. So I’m here to stay. I’m here to stay, this was the easiest weight cut of my life. We’ll see what happens though. I keep hearing the boss, this guy keeps talking to the media before me, he keeps saying we’re talking about 155. Sometimes you can’t get what you want. He’s the boss and if he wants me up, so be it. We’ll go up there. But I want to defend. But there’s a lot of interesting fights for me at 155, for sure. ... Dana White is the boss. The boss is looking for superfights. All the UFC guys, you guys be talking about me fighting at 155 for superfights. I keep hearing the names Conor, Khabib. At the end of the day, they got something to figure out. ... So best of luck to them, and we can sit down with Dana and figure it out.” h/t MMA Mania
'Blessed' aims to be G.O.A.T. says for now Jose Aldo is the featherweight G.O.A.T.
Why Cejudo vs. Dillashaw was moved to UFC on ESPN+ debut
“We did it last time when we launched, too,” said White. In 2011 the UFC inaugurated the deal with FOX with then-champ Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos. The deal with ESPN is bigger still, and so the UFC wants the champ vs. champ superfight. But what about the danger of Dillashaw not being able to drop to the championship flyweight limit? “I don’t worry about a lot of that stuff. These guys are professionals. Dillashaw has been around for a long time and knows what he’s doing.” h/t MMAjunkie
Valentina Shevchenko plans to hold belt until sister is #1 then fight Nunes
“It was everything I expected from Joanna. I knew it will be good fight, it will be tough fight, because she is tough opponent. I am happy to get this belt from this kind of fight. I will keep this belt before [my sister Antonina] go all the way to No. 1 contender, then I will see what I’m gonna do because I still have unfinished business with my opponent in bantamweight. I know exactly I never lost that fight [with UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes] and she knows that she was not winner of that fight. We’ll see, just waiting for my sister until she climbs all to No. 1.”
Dana White wants 'Blessed' to move to lightweight
"Listen, Max is a grown man and we need to talk but I'd like to see Max go to [155] now. I think that the guy is 27 going on 28 years old, he's in the prime of his life, never looked better. Continues to improve every single fight that he's in and I think he's done everything he can do at [145]. Why keep cutting that weight and I think there's some big things for him at 55. If Holloway goes to 55, everybody in the top five is a fun fight for him." h/t MMA Weekly
