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USA Today
17-06-2025
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Back in win column, Jamey-Lyn Horth angles for home Vancouver fight after UFC Atlanta
Back in win column, Jamey-Lyn Horth angles for home Vancouver fight after UFC Atlanta Show Caption Hide Caption UFC on ESPN 69: Jamey-Lyn Horth post-fight interview UFC on ESPN 69 winner Jamey-Lyn Horth talks to MMA Junkie and other reporters post-fight after her decision win over Vanessa Demopoulos in Atlanta. ATLANTA – Jamey-Lyn Horth met the media Saturday after her unanimous decision win over Vanessa Demopoulos at UFC on ESPN 69. Horth (8-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) dominated Demopoulos (11-8 MMA, 5-5 UFC) in the standup game and landed nearly three times the amount of total strikes, which led to a scorecard sweep and a trio of 30-27 scores. Horth was a heavy 7-1 favorite going into the fight and got back in the win column against a short-notice opponent in Demopoulos, who stepped in to save the bout after Tereza Bleda pulled out. Horth said she wants to take her momentum and carry it into a fall fight in Vancouver in her home Canadian province of British Columbia. "I'd like to fight as often as possible. I'm not scared to fight. I'm always in camp. I'm always training. The UFC's coming to Vancouver, and that's my backyard. I'd be super stoked to be put on that card, and I think that's a pretty good turnaround – four months. Just (to be on) the card itself would be great. I've fought at 135 and 125, so I'm not scared to be at either one." Horth came to the UFC unbeaten as an LFA champion, but has alternated wins and losses for her five fights in the promotion – all decisions. Check out Horth's post-fight news conference in the video above.
USA Today
16-06-2025
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Michael Chiesa has mixed feelings about Court McGee win at UFC Atlanta
Michael Chiesa has mixed feelings about Court McGee win at UFC Atlanta Show Caption Hide Caption UFC on ESPN 69: Michael Chiesa post-fight interview UFC on ESPN 69 winner Michael Chiesa talks to MMA Junkie and other reporters post-fight after his decision victory over Court McGee in Atlanta. ATLANTA – Michael Chiesa met the media Saturday after his unanimous decision win over Court McGee at UFC on ESPN 69. Chiesa (19-7 MMA, 14-7 UFC), the Season 15 winner of "The Ultimate Fighter," outworked McGee (22-14 MMA, 11-13 UFC), the Season 11 winner – but wasn't entirely happy with his performance. "Unless you finish Court McGee, he's really not an easy guy to look good against," Chiesa told MMA Junkie at his post-fight news conference. "… It's the fight I expected, so I guess I shouldn't be so critical of myself. I've won three fights in a row. "… Me wanting to go for finishes has cost me at times. We felt like that was Court's best way to beat me, was if I got ahead of myself like I did against (Vicente) Luque. … I had to force myself to be patient, and it paid off." Chiesa said with three straight wins, he normally would have a callout. But with his side hustle as a key member of the UFC's analyst desk during events, he's got a busy summer and early fall. One fighter he said he won't bother trying to fight anymore is Colby Covington, though. Check out Chiesa's post-fight news conference in the video above.
USA Today
16-06-2025
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- USA Today
Emotional Phil Rowe ready to assert himself at welterweight after UFC Atlanta
Emotional Phil Rowe ready to assert himself at welterweight after UFC Atlanta Show Caption Hide Caption UFC on ESPN 69: Phil Rowe post-fight interview UFC on ESPN 69 winner Phil Rowe talks to MMA Junkie and other reporters post-fight after his TKO victory over Ange Loosa in Atlanta. ATLANTA – Phil Rowe met the media Saturday after his third-round TKO win over Ange Loosa at UFC on ESPN 69. Rowe (11-5 MMA, 4-3 UFC) was down two rounds on all three scorecards against Loosa (10-5 MMA, 2-3 UFC) after being outwrestled for a large part of the fight. But he turned the tide and after he knocked out Loosa's mouthpiece, Rowe put together a barrage that eventually ended the fight in the final minute. An emotional Rowe said the win, which snapped a two-fight skid, was an important one. "I just needed this," Rowe said at his post-fight news conference. "I'm so much better than I show. I'm just tired of not showing what I can do. I've got a lot of people counting on me. "I'm one of the most skilled guys at welterweight. For me, it's just me and my mind. I've just got to get over that mental hurdle. I've got better jiu-jitsu than these guys, better boxing, better defense. I'm just in there fighting myself most of the time. Once I can just learn to let go and let my skill set take over – most of the time, I'm just in there battling myself." Check out Rowe's post-fight news conference in the video above.
USA Today
14-06-2025
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Cody Brundage not intimidated by unbeaten Mansur Abdul-Malik\u00a0at UFC Atlanta
Cody Brundage not intimidated by unbeaten Mansur Abdul-Malik at UFC Atlanta Show Caption Hide Caption Cody Brundage UFC Atlanta Media Day Cody Brundage speaks to the media at Wednesday's media day for UFC Atlanta. ATLANTA – Cody Brundage met the media Wednesday ahead of his fight at UFC on ESPN 69. Brundage (11-6 MMA, 5-5 UFC) takes on the unbeaten Mansur Abdul-Malik (8-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) in a middleweight fight on the ESPN main card at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. At media day, Brundage took questions from media members before his fight. Brundage is the second biggest underdog on the card. If he beats Abdul-Malik, who is as much as a 9-1 betting favorite, it will be one of the biggest upsets in UFC history – literally. But the 31-year-old, who has won three of his past four fights, all by first-round knockout, said the odds don't concern him. "I'm definitely the most experienced guy he's ever fought – I have more fights in the UFC than he has in his entire career," Brundage told MMA Junkie. "Experience goes a long way. Yeah, he's tough. The tougher the guys I fight, I think it pulls my skills out. The better the guy I'm fighting, all the pressure, it pulls something out of me that makes me be great. I'm just excited for it. "… He's got a ton of momentum right now, and if you put him in the fire and make him face a little bit of a adversity, he hasn't really been there. He doesn't know how to respond to that, and that's my job Saturday." Check out Brundage's full media day interview in the video above.
