While Conor McGregor is the challenger in the UFC 205 main event, oddsmakers are tabbing the Irishman as a slight favorite against reigning lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez . According to Bovada , McGregor is a -150 favorite heading into the Nov. 12 bout at Madison Square Garden in New York. Alvarez, meanwhile, is listed at +120. Those odds are likely to change as the UFC 205 headliner approaches. The bout was announced Monday night on ESPN. McGregor is coming off a majority decision triumph over Nate Diaz at UFC 202 on Aug. 20. That win avenged a second-round submission defeat to the Stockton, Calif., native at UFC 196 in March, McGregor’s first setback in the Octagon. Alvarez, meanwhile, has won three straight since falling to Donald Cerrone in his promotional debut. After garnering split verdicts over Gilbert Melendez and Anthony Pettis , the Philadelphia native captured lightweight gold with a first-round TKO of Rafael dos Anjos at UFC Fight Night on July 7. UFC 205 features two other title fights on the main card.

The Nov. 12 event slated for Madison Square Garden  in New York, kicked off on Tuesday with a blockbuster press conference. Check out what many of the fight card’s top names had to say about the UFC finally breaking through in New York and their fights.

On Tuesday, however, White made a slight amendment. If McGregor were to win in New York, he would become the first UFC fighter in history to hold two belts in two separate weight classes simultaneously. White said that if McGregor wins the belt, he will then have to give up one or the other. He won’t be allowed to keep both belts.

Editor’s note: The views and opinions expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Sherdog.com, its affiliates and sponsors or its parent company, Evolve Media. * * * There was a lot of pressure on the Ultimate Fighting Championship to deliver with its UFC 205 lineup on Nov. 12. New York has long been the White Whale for the UFC and especially for executive Marc Ratner , leaving high standards for the first card at Madison Square Garden. The deep cards for UFC 194 and UFC 200 have further elevated fan expectations for the UFC’s top events. What would be a strong card for an average UFC pay-per-view could have been taken as a disappointment for UFC 205. Making matters trickier for the UFC was that there was only one realistic path to a fully satisfying card, and that road went through Conor McGregor . There were only three “A” options for the UFC 205 main event: McGregor, Ronda Rousey and Georges St. Pierre . Rousey wanted more time before her return, while St. Pierre was targeting Toronto and seeking the lofty contract that he deserves in his own right.

When Ronda Rousey was UFC bantamweight champion, she was adamant that for a superfight with Cristiane Justino to occur, it would have to be on her terms. While it’s unclear if Rousey would be willing to face “Cyborg” at a 140-pound catch-weight or above now, the Olympic judoka is apparently still interested in a fight against the feared Brazilian. “Ronda wants to fight her,” UFC President Dana White said on the UFC “Unfiltered” podcast. “They’d have to figure out at what weight they fight. But Ronda wants to fight her.” Rousey has been out of the limelight since losing the 135-pound title to Holly Holm at UFC 193 last November. Recently, there have been rumors that “Rowdy” has been offered a championship bout against Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in Las Vegas on Dec. 30. For now, nothing is set in stone, and it remains a possibility that Rousey won’t come back until sometime next year. Meanwhile, Justino has established herself as a legitimate draw in the Octagon. Her promotional debut against Leslie Smith at UFC 198 made the pay-per-view main card, and she headlined UFC Fight Night 95 in Brasilia, Brazil, against Lina Lansberg last weekend.

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Munhoz (13-2) made quick work of Russel Doane in his last fight in July, tapping the former Tachi Palace Fights champion after two minutes of action. The Sao Paulo native now holds a 3-2 UFC record with three first-round victories.

Right off the bat, the teams are back in the house and Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White is raving about the fighters and how they’ve all fought thus far. After a brief introduction of the two men who will fight later tonight, the scene immediately shifts to Rio de Janeiro, which is the home of Ronaldo Candido . Candido shows the TV audience his quaint living quarters before the Shooto Brazil champion is seen training and coaching. Former featherweight champion Jose Aldo explains what Candido beings to his team’s table before the crew is taken via bus to Sao Paulo. Candido is emotional when speaking of his mother and father and this is when the cascade of tears flow from his eye sockets. He’s broken up when explain what his alcoholic father told him and how proud he was, and that he wishes he was a better father to him. But in the end, Ronaldo is a stronger, better person because of it. Back at the TUF palace, the fighters are all huddled around the TV and watching UFC 200. It’s interesting because Candido is Aldo’s jiu-jitsu coach and Jamie Alvarez , who Candido will be fighting by show’s end, trains with Amanda Nunes , who is also fighting on the card.

“He’s just another broke bum trying to sell some s***! That’s it! He’s broke and he’s desperate!”

Ultimate Fighting Championship 170-pound champion Tyron Woodley has some harsh words for republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for mentioning the fighter’s hometown of Ferguson, Mo.

'Gamebred' was originally scheduled to take on Gastelum at TUF: Latin America 3 Finale on November, but he was left without an opponent when the UFC removed Gastelum from the fight to book him against Donald Cerrone at UFC 205 .

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Volkov (26-6) will meet Timothy Johnson (10-2) on Nov. 19 at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. MMAFighting.com confirmed an initial Thursday report by MMAJunkie.com .

Glory welterweight champion Nieky Holzken will put his title on the line against an old rival next month. Glory announced on Wednesday that Holzken (89-11, 46 KOs) will defend his crown against fellow Dutchman Murthel Groenhart in the new main event of Glory 34: Denver on Oct. 21. The two have a settle to score with one another to see who is better. The two have met twice previously with “The Natural” coming out on top both time as Holzken edged his foe by the thinnest of margins on both occasions. Back in October 2010, Holzken was extended into a bonus round on a United Glory 12 card and took home the decision. They met five years later at Glory 26 last December and again, Holzken eked by with a split decision. Holzken was already the Glory champ at the time and defended it again in April when he toppled Yoann Kongolo via decision at Glory 29. Holzken has won 10 in a row and intends on going up 3-0 on his Dutch rival. Groenhart (60-20-3, 34 KOs), who is originally from Suriname, has been much more active than the champ since they last fought. While Holzken only fought once, “The Predator” has entered the ring seven times and has won three consecutive bouts, two via knockout.

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Strikes take on many forms in mixed martial arts, from the surgical precision of Anderson Silva and Joanna Jedrzejczyk to the rugged dirty boxing of Randy Couture and the savage ground-and-pound of Fedor Emelianenko and Cain Velasquez . They vary in impact, intensity, speed and volume, and many result in moments that are permanently etched into our collective consciousness. That is especially true in the Ultimate Fighting Championship , where knees, punches, kicks and elbows populate one highlight reel after another. There was Rich Franklin ’s straight left against Nate Quarry , Edson Barboza ’s wheel kick on Terry Etim , Jeremy Stephens ’ lunging uppercut against Rafael dos Anjos , Rashad Evans ’ overhand right on Chuck Liddell , James Irvin ’s flying knee against Terry Martin and Chris Weidman ’s downward elbow on Mark Munoz . Countless others come to mind. Strikers are also cumulative in nature, as evidenced by the fighters present in the latest installment of the Sherdog Top 10 series . These 10 fighters have landed the most total strikes in

On this week's episode, the panel will discuss the UFC 205 lineup, Tuesday's entertaining press conference, Jose Aldo and Khabib Nurmagomedov's gripes and much more.

Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino stepped into the octagon at “UFC Fight Night 95” ready to impress company brass, and more specifically Dana White, proving that she belonged in the octagon all along. She already proved that she could handle the pressure of the bright lights of UFC at “UFC 198” where she decimated Leslie Smith in the first round, and she put on another impressive performance on FS1. Over one million viewers tuned in to the most-watched female fight in FOX history and saw “Cyborg” finish Lina Lansberg in the second round.

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Ferreira has won back-to-back fights to get back on track after suffering consecutive knockout losses to Sam Alvey and Jorge Masvidal in 2015. The Masvidal fight was his debut at welterweight, but after the loss he returned to 185 pounds and took a unanimous decision from Oluwale Bamgbose at UFC on FOX 19 in April, then topped Anthony Smith at the TUF 23 Finale in July. The middleweight winner of the first season of “The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil” now will go after three straight for the second time in his UFC tenure.

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“As a representative from Rizin, I want to tell you that Rizin’s doors are open for you. I want to invite you to fight in Japan, where you will be respected and put in a place you deserve. As a representative from Rizin in Brazil, I invite you to go there with me so we can make history there together. You will have the respect you deserve there at Rizin, my champion.” “Aldo, come to Japan with me. Let’s fight at Rizin. This promotion you’re trying to leave also took my desire to compete away from me. I know what you’re going through. But in Japan I’m treated as the samurai and champion I am and having the respect I deserve, and that’s the respect you deserve as well.”

Even as the class action lawsuit against the UFC over antitrust allegations marches slowly onward, the history of MMA fighters vs. the UFC in court has classically not been kind to fighters. Whether it’s Randy Couture giving up on a money-sucking defense against Zuffa’s claims that he caused them injury in an HDNet press conference, or Ken Shamrock ending up owing Zuffa legal fees after claiming the organization owed him another fight, or BJ Penn ending up belt-less and in K-1 after attempting to sit on the welterweight title as a bargaining chip for a bigger contract. However you slice it, fighters who have ended up in court with the UFC don’t tend to get what they want.

Resurrection Fighting Alliance returns to St. Charles, Mo., for another night of mixed martial arts action Friday evening and the Las Vegas-based promotion’s lightweight title will be on the line. Thiago Moises will defend his crown against Zach Freeman in the main event of RFA 44 inside the St. Charles Convention Center, with AXS TV televising the action live beginning at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. At Thursday’s weigh-ins, both main event combatant easily made the lightweight limit, giving their showdown the greenlight. Freeman was the first to the scale and he came in just under the limit at 154.9 pounds. The Brazilian was up next and he nearly identical to his foe; Moises clocked in officially at 154.8 pounds. The co-featured bout will be a flyweight battle between Nick Urso and Ken Porter . Both men were on point; Porter tipped the scale at 125.9 pounds while Urso checked in at 125.5 RFA 44 Weigh-in Results: Thiago Moises (154.8) vs. Zach Freeman (154.9) Nick Urso (125.5) vs. Ken Porter (125.9) Drakkar Klose (155.9) vs. Hugh Pulley (155.7) Adam Osmoe (156.

John Lineker boasts an impressive 9-2 record in the UFC including this first-round submission victory over Francisco Rivera last year. Lineker faces John Dodson in the main event of UFC Fight Night Portland on Saturday, October 1.

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"I've had coaches that I've had as different role models in my life teach me the same lesson so to see a man go out there and compete and he won the fight fair and square. I can't take that away from him. He was the better man that night. But to carry yourself in that demeanor — to carry yourself that way and to be so unprofessional about things in that type of situation — it was just ugly. I didn't want to have anything to do with it. I don't think it has any place in this sport."

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"Everybody gets those jitters the first time and we knew. I don’t ever throw cans at any of these guys that come from anywhere. You want to fight in the UFC, you're going to fight a real guy and Mickey Gall might have been 2-0 but Mickey Gall is legit. That kid's a tough kid, he's a tough up and comer and I respect Punk for giving it a shot."

One Championship “Defending Honor” will now feature two title bouts, as the Singapore-based promotion announced Thursday that Marat Gafurov will put his featherweight title on the line against Narantungalag Jadambaa in the co-main event. That contest joins a lightweight championship headliner between Shinya Aoki and Eduard Folyang on the Nov. 11 card. One Championship “Defending Honor” takes place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Four other contests were announced for the card: Eddie Ng vs. Adrian Pang at lightweight; Timofey Nastyukhin vs. Kotetsu Boku at featherweight; Amir Khan vs. Samir Mrabet at lightweight; and Michelle Nicolini vs. Mona Samir at strawweight. Unbeaten in 14 professional outings, Gafurov initially captured 145-pound gold with a fourth-round submission of Jadambaa in their first meeting last November. The 31-year-old Russian then defended his title with a second-round tapout of Kazunori Yokota at One Championship 43 “Kingdom of Champions.” Ten of Gafurov’s career triumphs have come by way of submission.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s featherweight division may be one of the most stacked weight classes in the sport, and the elite talent up top is creating a bit of a log jam. It hasn’t helped that the champion, Conor McGregor, has not fought in the division since he won the championship from Jose Aldo in December 2015; He has fought Nate Diaz at welterweight twice and will be challenging Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight championship in November.

UFC President Dana White wasn’t pleased that Roy Nelson made physical contact with referee John McCarthy following his knockout victory over Antonio Silva this past Saturday. “Big Country” caught a Silva kick and floored his opponent with a counter uppercut in the second frame of their heavyweight bout at UFC Fight Night Brasilia . Nelson then landed four or five follow up punches before McCarthy halted the contest at the 4:20 mark. In the aftermath, Nelson pushed McCarthy in the rear with his foot and gave the veteran official the middle finger. “I had John in my last fight. We talked about what’s considered damage. He doesn’t know what’s going on in MMA,” Nelson said on Fox Sports 1. “That’s why when I actually, when I knew I hit a home run with ‘Bigfoot,’ I already knew he was out. I could have done the Mark Hunt and walk away and then hopefully he might stop it. “But I stood over him, waited, waited, waited, and then I started throwing bombs and he let me throw just clean punches. Bigfoot’s my friend, I know he has a family to go to.

After losing his UFC flyweight title rematch to Demetrious Johnson, John Dodson made the decision to return to 135 lbs, where he won TUF 14 by knocking out TJ Dillashaw. Dodson headlined the Fight Pass prelims at UFC on FOX 19 back in April, when he squared off against former WEC featherweight title challenger Manny Gamburyan.

We are less than two months away from what could be considered the biggest UFC card in company history, and the first promo for the event has just been released! It may be fan-made, but it is already getting us pumped for the card!

With its debut event at Madison Square Garden finalized, the UFC is now turning its attention to nearby Albany, N.Y.

“That’s what the doctors recommended for me for various reasons. Honestly, I was barely taking any of it. It was just to keep my body within normal limits,” Henderson added. “My body felt a littler better back then, but obviously, I’m still able to compete without it. I was competing before I started that for who knows how long.”

Fans have been anxiously waiting for news about the return of Nick Diaz to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but he seems to be enjoying life away from the bright lights of the octagon just fine!

If Conor McGregor has said it once, he has said it a thousand times: When a fighter signs on the dotted lines to square off with Conor McGregor, it’s “red panty night”. Essentially what McGregor is getting at is that when you fight him, you will get paid a lot more money than if you were fighting anybody else. While this has proven to be true with Nate Diaz who earned the third highest payday in Ultimate Fighting Championship history with $2,000,000, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone doesn’t necessarily believe “red panty night” to be true.

Jeremy Stephens has had a long career in the UFC with some memorable fights. Memorable to you and us, that is, but apparently not to Conor McGregor . At the UFC 205 press conference, when McGregor was asked who on stage was the hardest fight for him, Stephens interrupted and claimed to be that guy. McGregor’s response? “Who the f**k is that guy?”

A former UFC heavyweight title contender, Gonzaga told MMA Fighting on Wednesday that his plans for the future don’t include competing in MMA anymore. "Napao" fought the last fight of his contract with the UFC in April, losing to Derrick Lewis in Zagreb, Croatia.