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Jon Jones recently explained his decision to cut his UFC retirement short and revealed why he plans to return to competition
Thompson (17-9-1 MMA, 12-9-1 UFC) lost a split decision to Gabriel Bonfim (18-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) in Saturday's co-main event at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. – a decision many observers deemed controversial. Longo also thought "Wonderboy" won the fight and explained why he thinks Thompson being 42 factored into the judges' decision.
In a recent Instagram post, the ESPN MMA account posted DM replies after asking a number of notable names to share their best memories from Poirier’s UFC career. Joining the likes of Daniel Cormier and Jorge Masvidal in responding was the UFC 318 headliner’s wife, Jolie, who has been by his side throughout.
He faced unbeaten Brazilian slugger Tallison Teixeira, 25, who earned a UFC slot with a win on Dana White's Contender Series and stopped Justin Tafa in just 35 seconds in his official company debut on a pay-per-view undercard five months ago.
Dana White discussed what's next for Stephen Thompson after he suffered his third-straight loss at UFC on ESPN 70.
During his media day interviews on UFC 318 fight week, Dustin Poirier confirmed that the dream scenario that he pitched for his final walk out is set to happen on Saturday night. Anyone who has been watching ‘The Diamond’ for some time knows that his walk out song of choice is the iconic James Brown track, ‘The Boss’.