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Tracy Lee shared her pictures from Saturday night's finale of "The Ultimate Fighter." See John Dodson's celebration, Michael Bisping's domination, and a whole new crop of featherweights and bantamweights make their way into the UFC.
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Urijah Faber is a busy man. In addition to running Team Alpha Male and training, he's also been spending time at the hospital as his sister recovers from a serious car accident. (He tweeted that she's alert, aware and rapidly improving.)
But even with all that on his plate, Faber still met the obligations of a bet he made with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Faber bet that his teammate T.J. Dillashaw would beat John Dodson, Jones' teammate at Jackson's MMA. Dodson won the fight at Saturday's "The Ultimate Fighter" finale, so Faber paid up.
Well done, Faber.
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Michael Bisping just wanted a little more credit following his win over Jason "Mayhem" Miller, so he scolded the media who were saying the American ran out of steam early in the fight.
"Did you see the pace of the fight? Did you see how many punches I was throwing? Any time I stop someone it's because they gassed. I guarantee Jason didn't gas. I guarantee Jason could've gone five rounds," said Bisping.
The Brit said he was the reason Miller was physically and mentally sapped by the middle of the third round.
"Guess what? You might have cardio but when someone's landing big body shots like I was ... kneeing you in the stomach and punching you repeatedly in the face, your cardio gets affected," Bisping said. "Even the best runner would gas. You get Lindford Christie in there and beat the [expletive] out of him, see how fast he runs the 100 meters."
Bisping believes Miller can compete in the UFC, but the 30-year-old MMA veteran needs a lot of work.
"I've got good takedown defense and he took me down. Against someone less experienced, he could've gotten a submission. He gave me a tough first round," Bisping said. "If I were him, I'd go train striking, keep his shape a little bit more when he's standing up and be a little more orthodox."
Because Miller was launching his head each time he threw an overhand right, it almost became a short night for Bisping. He got drilled in the first when the fighter's clashed heads.
"He was throwing it and really committing with his head. I could feel it instantly and a big lump on my head," Bisping said. "When I'm sparring I prefer a really good, high-level boxer. Someone who's really good and technical. I do great against those guys. Someone who's unorthodox, a beginner if you will ... they catch you with shots because they do stupid things that they're not supposed to do. They don't follow the guidelines."
Miller has survived solely on his grappling by fighting in Japan, Strikeforce and some of the minor leagues around the U.S. He definitely needs to dedicate himself to the stand-up game or his stay in the UFC could be very brief.
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What's gone wrong with the relationship between Jon Jones and some MMA fans? The brightest young star in the sport is starting collect a sizable group of haters. The fans in Toronto at today's UFC 140 weigh-in greeted Jones with lots of booing.
Jones easily made weight at 205 pounds and was respectful during the staredown with Lyoto Machida (204), but he heard from the Canadians. We weren't sure why the fans in Toronto booed Jones, so we asked for feedback on Twitter.

That's a small sample, are Cagewriter readers on board with this growing anti-Jones sentiment?
Only Dennis Hallman had major issues with his weight. It's almost shocking considering the bad press he got from the blue Speedo he wore at UFC . Hallman wasn't even close to lightweight at 158.5 and failed to get down to the allowable 156. He was fined 20 percent of his purse.
UFC 140 weigh-in (Courtesy MMAjunkie)
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Jon Jones (205) vs. Lyoto Machida (204)
Frank Mir (260) vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (239)
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (204.5) vs. Tito Ortiz (206)
Brian Ebersole (170.5) vs. Claude Patrick (171)
Mark Hominick (145) vs. Chan Sung Jung (145.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ION Television)
Igor Pokrajac (205) vs. Krzysztof Soszynski (206)
Jared Hamman (185) vs. Constantinos Philippou (185)
Dennis Hallman (158.5)* vs. John Makdessi (155.5)
Yves Jabouin (136) vs. Walel Watson (135.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
Mark Bocek (156) vs. Nik Lentz (156)
Rich Attonito (170.5) vs. Jake Hecht (170.5)
John Cholish (156) vs. Mitch Clarke (154.5)
You can watch UFC 140 right here on Yahoo! Sports
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Dana White had to make a tough decision on Thursday.
Miguel Torres, one of the guys who helped build the business for the WEC and lower weight divisions, was fired by the UFC.
Early Wednesday morning, Torres tweeted what appeared to be a rape joke (that may or may not be a line from the television shows "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" or "Workaholics"). By Thursday night, the former 135-pound champ was without his job.
What makes the situation dicey is that it wasn't the only "rape joke" made by a fighter on Wednesday.
During the UFC on Fox 2 press conference in Chicago, White watched Rashad Evans drop a line about the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State child-rape tragedy.
On the heels of a rape joke from Forrest Griffin in November, it put White in a position where he had to do something.
The UFC president told MMAFighting's Ariel Helwani that questionable speech by fighters will be handled individually. He accepted the explanations from Griffin and Evans, but not Torres.
White spoke with SI.com where he first revealed the disciplinary action for Torres.
[...] He said he hadn't heard what happened to Forrest. Really? Where do you live? What business are you in? How do you not hear about these things? You should have paid more attention. It's to the point now where, there's going be times when things happen and mistakes are made. I cannot defend Miguel Torres. I cannot defend what he said. What he said makes no sense other than when he says, "It was a joke." Well, I don't think that's a funny joke. I think it's disturbing. [...]
It's being announced right now to you. You're the only one that knows. Miguel Torres has been cut from the UFC and his career with us now is over.
White said it was different when Griffin got in hot water.
"When Forrest tweeted something like that, his explanation was dead on, and it made absolute sense," said White (8:45 mark).

Before the Torres decision had come down, White explained his take on Evans' joke.
"We're dealing with intelligent people here. It's one thing if you're in a sport that's full of stupid people. Guys that are really dumb. You can't fix stupid," White said. "We're dealing with educated guys here, guys who went to college ? handle their own businesses. Guys are going to say stupid stuff and depending on what you say, and how you say it, that's how I'm going to handle this."
Due to microphone issues during the Chicago presser, White didn't really hear the Evans' line clearly.
"Rashad made a mistake yesterday and I talked to Rashad about it after. Rashad was like 'I don't know why I said it. It came out of my mouth and it shouldn't have.' I deal with these guys like normal human beings," White said (7:50 mark)."
White said he was annoyed by some media members and fans, who he thought were coming down hard on Evans and Griffin.
"I hate this holier than thou attitude with people. It makes me sick. Yes, guys are going to make mistakes. They're going to say stupid stuff and depending on what you say and how you say it. People will be punished for things that they say," said White.
The UFC boss said the last thing he wants is a sanitized crew of fighters. He doesn't believe people want to see him become vanilla either.
"Listen if you want me to come out and read a statement from our lawyer [during press conferences]," White said. "[...] I'd be more than happy to come out on camera [and do that]."
Welcome to the world of David Stern, Roger Goodell and Bud Selig. The major-league commissioners from the NBA, NFL and MLB have to make judgment calls on insensitive speech all the time.
In 2011, Stern had to deal with on-court homophobic slurs from Kobe Bryant and several other players. As a face of the league, Bryant received a $100,000 fine while the others got a slap on the wrist or no penalty. Stern had his reasons, but chose to barely explain them. Give White credit, at least he made an attempt to explain his rationale.
With a bigger spotlight for the UFC and its fighters comes more scrutiny and attention on the athletes. Hopefully in the future, the fighters get the message that referencing rape in any sort of joking or sarcastic manner is simply off limits.
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Dennis Hallman won tonight, but he felt a little guilty about doing so.
Hallman ran roughshod over John Makdessi from the opening seconds. The submission specialist got his hands on Makdessi and worked solely for a takedown. Once he got it, Makdessi was finished. Hallman scored a rear-naked choke victory at 2:58 of the first round.
This was Hallman's first attempt to fight down at 155 pounds in a long time. He'd been fighting recently at 170 and 185. He even took a 195-pound fight in 2009. At 35 years old, making lightweight was tough. He missed badly on Friday coming in at 158.5. For that reason, even after dominating Makdessi, Hallman couldn't brag about his easy victory.
"I'm going to stay at 155. I wanted to make this point, this fight is kind of a wash. Put a little asterisk next to the win because I missed weight," Hallman told UFC analyst Joe Rogan.
The size difference was evident in the clinch and once it hit the ground, the smaller Makdessi was helpess defending the power and technique of Hallman. This was the 33rd submission victory for Hallman. To reach 33 victories period is impressive, but 33 by one method is incredible. Hallman, who debuted in the UFC way back in 2000, is now 51-14-2. He is 4-4 with the promotion, but has recently 3-of-4 UFC fights.

Jabouin survives two dangerous submission attempts to take decision
Yves Jabouin and Walel Watson exchanged dynamic striking games with nothing huge landed, so after 15 minutes of fighting it was difficult to call a winner. In a razor thing fight, one judge made the big difference scoring it 30-27 for Jabouin. The Canadian eked out a split decision victory, 29-28, 28-29 and 30-27 to post his first official UFC victory in the UFC 140 opener on ION television.
"They keep giving me those tall guys," Jabouin said of the 5-foot-11 Watson. "It's really hard to get inside. Basically it's a puzzle you have to figure out."
Spinning backfists, front and side kicks and solid conventional striking were flashed by both fighters throughout the fight. Watson did threaten with two dangerous submission situations, so it was surprising to see one judge call it 30-27.
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