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LAS VEGAS -- It's 100 degrees in Las Vegas and feels hotter inside Wanderlei Silva's gym. At one point while I'm there, he grabs my shoulder and admits he killed the air conditioning earlier when no one was looking and opened the back door to all...

Assuming the story is true, the most heinous villain in MMA history may have been born via innocuous text message during the summer of 2009. That's when a previously unremarkable middleweight named Chael Sonnen contacted Joe Silva, offering to mov...

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Heading into UFC 159, figuring out ways that Chael Sonnen could compete with Jon Jones required an active imagination. The leading idea on how to get it done was for Sonnen to put his chin down, stick the crown of his head into Jones' chest and drive...

Josh Gross rates the performances of UFC 159 fighters.

The reality show is wrapped. The spring break title defense against Chael Sonnen is in the books. It's time, is it not, for Jon Jones to get back to business? The 25-year-old UFC light heavyweight champion spun his wheels over the last seven mo...

NEWARK, N.J. -- In a night of strange happenings, perhaps the strangest was saved for last. As most thought he would, Jon Jones (18-1) defended his light heavyweight title against Chael Sonnen at UFC 159 at Newark's Prudential Center, yet he did ...

UFC 159 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event scheduled to be held April 27 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The main event features a light heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen, who served as coaches for season...

Jon Jones bloodied Chael Sonnen with a series of strikes to the face in the first round to win by TKO and defend his light heavyweight championship on Saturday night at UFC 159.

Light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is an overwhelming favorite to retain his belt Saturday night at UFC 159 over Chael Sonnen at the Prudential Center. But Jones has a long way to go before being as popular as his challenger.

Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen

T.R. Foley ranks the top 10 challengers -- including light heavyweights, middleweights and heavyweights -- who could unseat current light heavyweight champ and MMA golden boy Jon Jones. Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustafsson rank as the toughest tests.

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That Chael Sonnen guy: He isn't one of the best light heavyweights in UFC. But Sonnen has the gift of gab. He's second to none in that category. His uncanny ability to come up with catchy phrases, primarily derogatory comments targeted at champions, ...

It has been a bit more than eight months since the cancellation of UFC 151, which at the breakneck pace of the MMA news cycle makes it feel as though it happened sometime during the Bronze Age. Heads have cooled considerably since that bizarre and...

All the UFC 159 promos can't do away with the most basic question: How did we get here? The first time Chael Sonnen fought Anderson Silva, the original novelty was his utter disregard for Silva's legacy. To that point people had only been reverent...