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Mickey Gall called his shot ... and he did not disappoint. The rising star in UFC dispensed of CM Punk earlier this year in a dominant fashion that made him look like a trained veteran taking on a rookie. On Saturday, Gall put on a textbook jiu-jitsu performance, forcing "Super" Sage Northcutt to tap out in the second round.

After a fairly even first round, Gall took control in the second, dropping Northcutt with a stiff right jab. Gall then grabbed ahold of Northcutt's back and locked in the rear-naked choke to finish off the fight.

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It was a rough night in the octagon for Paige VanZant. The 115-pound contender was hoping to get back into the strawweight title conversation, but Michelle Waterson had other ideas.
Waterson landed a fantastic hiptoss to take the fight to the ground before getting VanZant's back and locking in the rear-naked choke. Despite her best efforts to break out of it, VanZant was forced to submit.

Watch Michelle Waterson submits Paige VanZant in first round

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight veteran Nate Diaz was fined $50,000 by Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) on Thursday (Dec. 15, 2016) for his role in the UFC 202 press conference melee, which also included fellow headliner Conor McGregor.
The penalty represents 2.5 percent of his $2 million purse, which is the exact percentage “Notorious” was dinged after his legal representatives appeared before NSAC back in October.
Diaz hasn’t competed since his unanimous decision loss to the trash-taping Irishman and claims to be riding the pine until promotion president Dana White grants him a rematch.
McGregor, meanwhile, moved on to capture the crown from Eddie Alvarez, before taking 10 months off to celebrate fatherhood. That makes a rubber match unlikely when you consider the current logjam at 155 pounds.
Diaz is currently ranked No. 6 in the official UFC rankings.

Brock Lesnar suspended for one year, fined $250,000 for failed UFC 200 drug tests


The Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) on Thursday issued former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar a one-year suspension stemming from two failed drug tests in relation to his UFC 200 bout against Mark Hunt.
In addition to the suspension, Lesnar has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine as part of a settlement agreement with the Nevada attorney general's office. His win against Hunt will be overturned into a no contest.
Lesnar twice tested positive for the anti-estrogenic agent Hydroxy-clomiphene in drug tests administered prior to his UFC 200 fight on July 9 against Hunt, first in an out-of-competition USADA drug test on June 28, then in an in-competition test the day of the event.
Lesnar (5-3, 1 NC) initially defeated Hunt via unanimous decision. He earned a then-UFC record $2.5 million purse for his victory, according to NAC documents. The $250,000 fine is equivalent to 10 percent of that purse.
The one-year suspension closely mirrors the punishment received by former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones for a similar infraction and is expected to match the concurrent suspension that will be handed down to Lesnar by USADA, although that case is still in pending.
Lesnar, 39, is a former UFC heavyweight champion and a current superstar in the world of professional wrestling. He made his unexpected return to mixed martial arts for UFC 200 following a five-year layoff from the sport. He will be eligible to return to MMA in July 2017.

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Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is set to make her comeback after over a year out from competition.
“Rowdy” Ronda Rousey will take on the current UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in a five-round title fight and will get a chance to get back to the top of the division. This comes just a little over a year since Holly Holm shocked the world by knocking Rousey out in the second round of their fight at UFC 193.

Prior to the announcement that Rousey would return to fight at UFC 207, which will close out the year on December 30, many questioned if the former champion would ever fight again. Rousey had already accumulated massive success in her MMA career and began a career outside of the Octagon with endorsements and starting another career in acting.
“If money is the motivation, then f— you,” Rousey said in a recent story by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN. “All these Money people… Money [Floyd] Mayweather, Money [Conor] McGregor. I see they’re trying to do an angle or whatever. People buy it.
“The worship of money in our society is so deep. But just because that’s the easiest way to keep people’s attention or entertain them doesn’t mean that’s the right way.”
Shelburne states that Rousey never had expensive taste and her idea of a fun night involves just staying at home with boyfriend Travis Browne, playing World of Warcraft or reading mind-opening posts on Reddit.

“I’ve had no money before, and it wasn’t the end of the world,” said Rousey. Shelburne adds that Rousey is dreaming of moving to a home in Idaho or Alaska with Browne and their future kids set up with an animal sanctuary. “All I need is me and Travis and our little house in the woods, popping out babies and making snowmen and I’m cool, man. Really, I’m good.”
Rousey says money isn’t the motivation for her comeback. It’s simply the competitive nature in her that made her so successful and regarded by many as one of the best fighters in the world.
“I want to be able to walk away with my head held high,” Rousey says. “It’s like a painter looking at what he made and knowing it’s not done yet. You could get away with it. You could sell that painting and it would sell. But you’ll always know it was never as good as it could have been. I don’t want ‘Good enough’ to be my legacy.”

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Conor McGregor had a role created for him in Vin Diesel’s ‘xXx: The Return of Xander Cage’ movie, but decided to pull out after losing to Nate Diaz at UFC 196.
McGregor avenged his first loss inside the Octagon with a decision victory over Diaz five months, and Diesel, who replaced “The Notorious” with Michael Bisping in the movie, explained the change in an interview with Brazilian TV show Giro Combate.
"I wanted to have an English accent in the movie," Diesel said. "I had created a role for Conor McGregor and after he lost to Nate Diaz, he had to go to a dark place, he had to go get his manhood back to fight the second time, so he wasn't able to do this film at the time.
"But I needed that accent, I wanted this English accent to be speckled in the movie. But I also wanted someone that could do fight sequences. A lot of the UFC guys do great fight sequences in movies. You saw when I put Gina Carano in 6, and Ronda Rousey in 7. I had great experiences when putting UFC fighters in the movie, so I wanted someone that had that English accent, they talk like this, and I got Michael Bisping to come and do that."
While he was filming ‘xXx' in Toronto, Bisping got a call from UFC president Dana White asking if he would replace injured Chris Weidman against middleweight champion Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, and scored one of the biggest upsets of the year to win the UFC title by first-round knockout.

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