The MMA Nightcap is your nightly recap of all the comings and goings in the MMA world. Consider it your MMA Sportscenter. With far less Tim Tebow.
– All the fighters on the UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson card passed drug tests, including TRT users Vitor Belfort and Dan Henderson.
– In a fight with serious middleweight contender ramifications, Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza and Francis Carmont will fight in the co-main event slot at Feb 15th's UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Mousasi in Brazil.
– The two big MMA events from this past weekend pulled in plenty of TV viewers – the UFC 167 prelims scored the second-largest live UFC show rating for the UFC on FS1, averaging 998,000 sets of eyeballs. Meanwhile, Rampage Jackson's Bellator debut on Friday garnered 793,000 watchers, with a peak of 1.2 million during the main event that saw Jackson TKO Joey Beltran.
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