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6/22 EVENING UPDATE: Penick's WSOF 10 Notebook; White shuts down Hendricks on idea of Weidman bout; Gustafsson updates fight result tattoo; ref McCarthy comments on ref-pushing incident and punishment; more
Jun 22, 2014 - 11:15:28 PM 6/22 EVENING UPDATE: Penick's WSOF 10 Notebook; White shuts down Hendricks on idea of Weidman bout; Gustafsson updates fight result tattoo; ref McCarthy comments on ref-pushing incident and punishment; more

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SUNDAY 6/22 EVENING UPDATE

If you're tuning in to the App for the first time in a while, make sure to check out the big update on the App's home page for notes and information on the changes made to the new mobile site at MMATorch.com in your mobile browser. Our tech team has been working on even more tweaks based on your feedback, and have optimized the site for Safari and the default Android browser. They're continuing to work on the same for both Chrome and Opera as well. Keep sending your thoughts in to mmatorch@gmail.com so we can make the mobile site the best experience for you! We truly appreciate the feedback, and we're making changes as necessary. Here's what's on the site today:

-I gave some further lingering thoughts on last night's World Series of Fighting 10 event today in a new notebook piece. Excerpt: “On the production side of things, Todd Harris continues to be an embarrassment. In the fifth round of Aguilar-Fujino, he was positing that people might want to see a rematch if Aguilar couldn't finish the fight. In the Luiz Firmino-Tyson Griffin fight, while talking about Firmino's last win, said it came against "Yacob" Volkmann; not Jacob, "Yacob." And he said it as if he thought that was the correct pronunciation for some foreign opponent that Firmino had beaten, perhaps not even realizing he had called that fight himself.” The full article is in the main listing at our mobile site at MMATorch.com in your phone or tablet browser.

-UFC President Dana White and UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks were both on Inside MMA on AXS TV on Friday, where Hendricks attempted to broach the subject of a superfight with Chris Weidman. White essentially shut him down, letting him know he's got a lot left ahead of him before he's thinking about fights outside of his weight class. Here's one of those times I definitely agree with White. See his comments with further thoughts in the main listing now.

-Referee “Big” John McCarthy chimed in on the ref pushing incident from Jason High at UFC Fight Night 42 earlier this month, with McCarthy of the belief that he's been punished too harshly by both the UFC and the New Mexico State Athletic Commission. Catch his comments with further thoughts in the main listing.

-Alexander Gustafsson added to his arm tattoo this weekend, where he has his own creative way of keeping track of the wins and losses on his record. He has triangles representing each result, and he has something a little bit in between for the loss to Jon Jones, as he believes he won the fight. Check it out with some additional thoughts in the main listing.

-Invicta's Ediane Gomes had some harsh words this week for the female competitors in the UFC, whom she accuses of caring more about “showing their asses” than for actually fighting. See her comments with some additional thoughts in response in the main listing.

-Louis Gaudinot released a statement denying any wrong doing after the news came out this weekend that he'd failed a drug test for diuretics out of his March win over Phil Harris. However, he's still accepting the UFC's punishment of a six month suspension. Further thoughts in the main listing.

We thank all of our readers for their feedback and patience as we continue making improvements on the new mobile site. We're an independent voice in the MMA space with no corporate backing, and as such we stay afloat on ad revenue. This shift to the full listing on mobile web brings us a better chance to keep ourselves going and to bring our readers everything we have for the last five years and more, as the mobile advertising market is simply stronger than that on the app. Continue sending us your feedback to mmatorch@gmail.com and let us know how the new features with the Disqus comments section and more are working for you on mobile web!