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UFC officially suspends Nate Diaz for tweeted slur pending investigation 17 May 2013 | 07:15 am
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief Nate Diaz has officially been suspended by the UFC after calling bantamweight fighter Bryan Caraway "the biggest fag in the world" on Twitter Thursday after...
UFC on FX 8: Luke Rockhold says pre-fight press conference staredown with Vitor Belfort "lit a fire under my ass" 17 May 2013 | 04:30 am
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief Luke Rockhold has been ready for his fight with Vitor Belfort at UFC on FX 8 since the bout was announced, but the continued back and forth between the two ...
Dana White: Nate Diaz "will be either fined and suspended or cut for that tweet" 17 May 2013 | 02:55 am
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief The UFC hasn't immediately decided how to respond to Nate Diaz using a homophobic slur on Twitter Thursday afternoon, but whatever they end up doing, it's n...
UFC lightweight Nate Diaz calls Bryan Caraway "the biggest fag in the world" for taking Pat Healy's UFC 159 bonus 17 May 2013 | 12:15 am
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief "The UFC is a friend and ally of the LGBT community, and expects and requires all 450 of its athletes to treat others with dignity and respect." -UFC statem...
Daniel Cormier gives teammate Luke Rockhold advice on handling the pressure and nerves into his UFC debut 16 May 2013 | 11:45 pm
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief This Saturday night, Luke Rockhold will make his UFC debut against Vitor Belfort in the main event of UFC on FX 8 in Brazil. He's just the latest in a strin...
Chris Camozzi says he needs to fight the "best fight of his life" to defeat "Jacare" Souza at UFC on FX 8 16 May 2013 | 10:35 pm
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief "I don't see a lot of weakness for him which is good. Those are the fights I want. I don't want to fight guys that everybody thinks are pushovers, or weak, o...
UFC bantamweight Urijah Faber wants big fights people care about, which may not be for the title 16 May 2013 | 09:15 pm
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief For whatever reason, fighters in the lower weight classes of the UFC haven't gotten the same type of accolades or coverage as their heavier counterparts, wh...
THURSDAY'S WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hobaugh on issues in MMA which need to be addressed 16 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
Today's all-new website exclusive feature article is a piece from MMATorch contributor Eric Hobaugh. In his piece today, Eric looks at some issues in the sport of mixed martial arts which he feels ne...
UFC's Wanderlei Silva: "The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big" 16 May 2013 | 08:20 pm
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief Though Wanderlei Silva continues to claim that the UFC hasn't offered him a fight with Chael Sonnen yet, he's also continuing to talk about the potential bo...
Bryan Caraway has "zero remorse or guilt" for getting UFC 159 bonus after Pat Healy's failed drug test 16 May 2013 | 07:30 pm
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief With Pat Healy's drug test failure for marijuana negating the bonus money he would have received out of UFC 159, the biggest beneficiary was Bryan Caraway, ...
