The Ultimate Fighting Championship remained at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada for its second event of the weekend tonight at The Ultimate Fighter 19 Finale. The event featured a featherweight trilogy bout between Frankie “The Answer” Edgar and “The Prodigy” B.J. Penn.

In tonight’s co-main event, Corey “Beastin’ 25/8” Anderson took on Matt “Gutter” Van Buren in the TUF 19 light heavyweight final, and rising star Dhiego Lima squared off against Eddie “Truck” Gordon in the middleweight final. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for the TUF 19 Finale main card.

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UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey wasted absolutely no time in securing her latest highlight-reel victory tonight at UFC 175: “Weidman vs Machida” in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rousey retained her UFC title by knocking out Alexis “Ally-Gator” Davis in a mere 16 seconds.

Just as she did against past opponents Sarah Kaufman and Sara McMann, Rousey prevented Davis from getting anything going right from the outset of the fight. She threw the challenger on her head and unloaded with punches on the ground until the brief bout was waved off just as quickly as it began.

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship returned to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada tonight for UFC 175: “Weidman vs Machida.” The event was headlined by a UFC Middleweight Championship battle between “All-American” Chris Weidman and Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida.

In tonight’s co-feature, UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey put her title on the line against BJJ black belt Alexis “Ally-Gator” Davis. Uriah “Primetime” Hall took on Thiago “Marreta” Santos in a middleweight bout. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for the card.

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The Ultimate Fighter 20 begins filming this week and the latest season’s all-female cast has now been fully revealed. For the first time in the show’s lengthy history, TUF 20 will determine a titleholder when the tournament winner is crowned as the inaugural UFC Women’s Strawweight Champion.

Among those participating in the competition are former Invicta FC champs Carla “Cookie Monster” Esparza and Jessica Penne. Joining them is rising star Tecia “The Tiny Tornado” Torres, Joanne “JoJo” Calderwood and 12 others all hoping to become the UFC’s first 115-pound female champion.

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Olympic silver medallist Sara McMann looks to bounce back from the first loss of her mixed martial arts career when she returns to the cage at UFC Fight Night 47: “Bader vs St. Preux” on August 16th in Bangor, Maine. The standout wrestler faces Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Lauren Murphy.

UFC officials announced the featured matchup earlier today. McMann fought her way to a UFC title shot against fellow Olympic medallist “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey in February, but succumbed to a knee to the body early in round one. Murphy is unbeaten and she captured the Invicta FC title in December.

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s second women’s strawweight bout is set to take place on July 26th at UFC on FOX 12: “Lawler vs Brown” in San Jose, California. Unbeaten rising star Joanna Jędrzejczyk will make her Octagon debut against fellow striker Juliana “Ju Thai” de Lima Carneiro.

MMANews.pl first reported on the 115-pound matchup earlier this week. Jędrzejczyk is coming off of her biggest win to date this past month when she knocked out Rosi “The Surgeon” Sexton. Lima rebounded from her first defeat under the Invicta FC banner by stopping Liliani Trolezi in October.

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This year’s edition of the Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup tournament is set to take place on August 2nd at Yamano Hall in the Yoyogi district of Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. The 2014 Girls S-Cup includes many of the promotion’s top stars including three-time Girls S-Cup tournament champion Rena Kubota.

Among the other participants confirmed for next month’s Shoot Boxing card is Kubota’s teammate and protégé, two-time Shoot Boxing JKS48 champion Mio Tsumura. Former Shoot Boxing Japan Women’s Flyweight Champion Ai Takahashi, “V.V” Mei Yamaguchi and Madoka Jinnai will also compete.

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UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson retained his title with a dominant Unanimous Decision victory on June 14th at UFC 174 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Johnson shut out rising star Ali “Puncher” Bagautinov and remains atop the 125-pound flyweight rankings.

In other June bouts, top-ranked strawweight Jessica “Jag” Aguilar made a successful first defence of her WSOF title by outpointing Emi “Kamikaze Angel” Fujino at WSOF 10. Joanna Jędrzejczyk continued her climb up the women’s flyweight rankings by knocking out Rosi “The Surgeon” Sexton.

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