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TUESDAY 8/12 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:
-In some massively disappointing news to fans and the UFC, Jon Jones has suffered a leg injury in training, delaying his bout with Daniel Cormier until UFC 182 on January 3, 2015. Additionally, that injury removal has forced the UFC to weaken UFC 177 further by pulling its second title fight – the Flyweight Title bout between Demetrious Johnson and Chris Cariaso – and moving that to UFC 178. More on the highly unfortunate injury on our mobile site at MMATorch.com in your phone or tablet browser.
-With that fight shifting to January, it means that the man Jones was originally going to fight at UFC 178 – Alexander Gustafsson – has his rematch delayed even further, and he's not happy about it. Catch his comments with some further thoughts on his current predicament on the mobile site now.
-In a new roundtable today, the crew addressed Wanderlei Silva, and what would be an appropriate punishment from the NAC for him skipping out on their attempt to randomly drug test him. Excerpt from Frank Hyden: “They need to give Silva the same punishment that they would give him for failing a drug test. Skipping a drug test is the same as failing one, so that's the baseline. They have to go the maximum, though, don't reduce it like they do sometimes. You give him at least a full calender year, no less. I think that's sufficient.” Full roundtable on the mobile site now.
-In some Bellator news, the organization's matchmaker, Sam Caplan, is on his way out after four and a half years, as former Strikeforce matchmaker Rich Chou has been brought in. On that note, Bellator is now considering bringing back the women's division, and has gotten in on the Gina Carano comeback conversation as well. More on both of those stories on the mobile site now.
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!
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