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3/4 AFTERNOON UPDATE: Silva holding steady on PED denials after all; interview with Roufusport's Robbins; Pettis wants to be best ever lightweight; more
Mar 4, 2015 - 3:15:24 PM 3/4 AFTERNOON UPDATE: Silva holding steady on PED denials after all; interview with Roufusport's Robbins; Pettis wants to be best ever lightweight; more

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3/4 AFTERNOON 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. 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:

-Despite the reports from over the weekend that Anderson Silva's team would be admitting PED use for his recovery, Silva himself did a video interview on the street with someone for TMZ Sports where he said once again that he doesn't know what happened, and insists he didn't take anything that he knew was against the rules. Head to our mobile site at MMATorch.com in your phone or tablet browser for his latest comments with further analysis on his situation.

-Roufusport gym manager Kali Robbins will make her pro debut on Friday at RFA 24, and I spoke with her this week ahead of that event. Excerpt from Robbins on getting into jiu jitsu: “I didn't even know what jiu jitsu was. Had zero idea, wasn't watching the UFC or anything like that. I had a girl go in with me; I bought the gi, I bought everything, and I took the first class or two, and then she disappeared. I [thought] 'well, I have to stay now otherwise I'm going to look like a punk.' So I stuck with it, and really ended up falling in love with jiu jitsu. I spent a lot of time focusing on that, stepped away from kickboxing a little bit, started working there, and it's just sort of morphed into things.” Get more on Robbins and her debut fight on Friday night on the mobile site.

-On the Roufusport note, UFC Lightweight Champ Anthony Pettis faces Rafael dos Anjos next week at UFC 185, and he thinks he's going to continue establishing himself as the best lightweight in the world. His ambitions don't stop there, however, as he believes he can become the greatest champion the division has seen, and move into the realm of top pay-per-view draws as well. See his comments, with further analysis, on the mobile site.

-A new season of “The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America” will begin filming this month in Las Vegas, and Ultimate Fighter winners Kelvin Gastelum and Efrain Escudero will serve as coaches for the season. More on the new season, with comments from Gastelum and Escudero, on the mobile site now.

-Cat Zingano was in complete disbelief after UFC 184, and she wants more than anything to get another shot at Ronda Rousey. To that end, she's willing to do anything and everything she needs to in the cage to earn that opportunity. Catch her post-fight comments with additional thoughts on the path in front of her on the mobile site.

-While Zingano probably doesn't want to relive it, head to the mobile site for a must-see claymation version of her loss to Rousey last weekend.

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!