Simpson regains featherweight crown from Lindsay - BBC Sport

John Simpson won a bruising battle in Belfast to dethrone defending champion Martin Lindsay and reclaim the British featherweight title. Scot Simpson traded punches with the previously unbeaten Northern Irishman in a see-saw contest and ended the 12 rounds
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Laviolette moves up to featherweight, claims another boxing title - The Chronicle Herald
Moving up a weight class didn’t hinder Joey Laviolette’s bid to extend his string of national boxing championships. The Lower Sackville fighter subdued Ontario foe Jermaine Badchkam on points Saturday afternoon to claim the belt in the featherweight
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Featherweight standout Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto in UFC contract negotiations - MMAjunkie.com
In its three-plus years under the umbrella of Zuffa LLC, the WEC aggressively has recruited talent from overseas, particularly among the ranks of Japanese fighters who've traditionally dominated the rankings in lighter weight classes. They've been
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UFC inks featherweight Michihiro Omigawa, books Chad Mendes for early-2011 - MMAjunkie.com
Michihiro Omigawa (12-8-1 MMA, 0-2 UFC) is returning to the UFC. This time as a featherweight. After resurrecting his career in his native Japan and emerging as one of the 145-pound division's top-ranked fighters, he's signed with the UFC and expected to
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Changing of the guard: MMA Awards list full of newcomers - USA Today
Honorable mention: •Joe Warren:  In the spring, he racked up three wins in three months over opponents with a combined record of 44-4-1 to win Bellator Fighting Championships' Season 2 featherweight tournament. He scored a second-round technical
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UFC returning to Brazil after more than a decade - Las Vegas Sun
There are several fighters from Brazil in the UFC, highlighted by current light heavyweight champion Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua, middleweight champion Anderson Silva and featherweight champ Jose Aldo. No matchups have been scheduled for the card, but it
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USA TODAY 2010 MMA Awards: New faces appear - USA Today
In the spring he racked up three wins in three months over opponents with a combined record of 44-4-1 to win Bellator Fighting Championships' Season 2 featherweight tournament. He scored a second-round technical knockout of Joe Soto in September to win the
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Panamanian seeks to win featherweight championship - Xinhua News Agency
PANAMA CITY, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Panamanian boxer Celestino "Pelenchin" Caballero looks forward to winning the featherweight championship of the World Boxing Association (WBA), in which he will have to fight Argentine Jonathan "Joni" Barros, Caballero's
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Jose Aldo Hoping to Return in March for UFC Featherweight Title Defense - MMAFrenzy.com
UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo hopes to make his Octagon debut as soon as March after a back injury forced him out of a Jan. 1 UFC 125 title defense against Josh Grispi last month, Aldo’s manager Ed Soares recently told Versus . Aldo received the
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