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Payton Talbott targeted to fight former UFC champion at UFC 332
A bantamweight showdown between former UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo and rising prospect Payton Talbott is targeted for the UFC 332 card on Oct. 3 in Salt Lake City. MMA Fighting has confirmed following a report from Leo Guimaraes. Both sides have agreed to the match but contracts have yet to be signed. The promotion […]
Umar Nurmagomedov reacts to Merab Dvalishvili brawling with friend at RAF event: ‘How do you live with that?’
Umar Nurmagomedov and Merab Dvalishvili have gone five rounds in the octagon before and they almost became physical again at a recent RAF event in Georgia. At the inaugural RAF Georgia event this past July, fans caught footage of one of Nurmagomedov’s friends getting into an altercation with Dvalishvili during a pre-fight press conference. Dvalishvili […]
Matt Brown: Ian Machado Garry has championship potential but Islam Makhachev is the ‘wrong guy at the wrong time’
Ian Machado Garry is finally getting his shot at UFC gold on Saturday, but he faces a daunting task going up against the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport in Islam Makhachev. Currently riding a remarkable 16-fight win streak, Makhachev has effectively looked unstoppable at both lightweight and welterweight. He’s heavily favored to win […]
RIZIN 54 results: Patchy Mix drops fourth in a row, Alex Pereira teammate replicates iconic celebration after violent knockout
Patchy Mix knew he wouldn’t get his hands raised Tuesday in Tokyo, as he missed weight for his RIZIN 54 co-main event bout with Shoko Sato and any other result other than a loss would be immediately overturned to a no-contest, and the two-point deduction for the miss made the difference in the end. Mix […]
Morning Report | Chael Sonnen calls Ian Machado Garry ‘the perfect bad guy’
Ian Machado Garry has the Chael Sonnen seal of approval. This Saturday, Garry challenges Islam Makhachev for the welterweight title in the main event of UFC 330. Heading into the fight, much has been made of Garry’s recent comments about women ruling the world, with several prominent MMA figures ripping him and huge swaths of […]
‘UFC 330 Countdown: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry’ video
Islam Makhachev puts his welterweight title—and his status as MMA’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter—on the line this Saturday against the polarizing Ian Machado Garry. Watch UFC 330 Countdown above to see how Makhachev and Garry ended up on the path to Saturday’s main event in Philadelphia, as well as an inside look at Mackenzie Dern […]
Ex-champ Kleber Koike enters ‘last shot’ for RIZIN title with eyes on PFL, MVP merger
Kleber Koike treats his RIZIN 54 main event clash against Kyoma Akimoto on Tuesday as his final chance to earn a shot and regain the RIZIN featherweight title, and watching the Japanese promotion partner with the PFL — and automatically MVP — gives him extra motivation to pursue more gold. Koike, who turns 37 in […]
On To the Next One: Matches to make after UFC Vegas 120
The UFC returned to the newly renovated Meta APEX this past Saturday night for another UFC Fight Night event, and in the headliner, Quillan Salkilld delivered the best performance of his career as he stopped Mateusz Gamrot via submission in the first round. Where does Salkilld go following his breakout performance? On an all-new edition […]
Melissa Amaya survived insane submission sequence to advance to TUF 34 finals: ‘I could feel my arm doing things it’s not supposed to’
Melissa Amaya is headed to the finals of The Ultimate Fighter 34 and, fortunately, she’s bringing both arms with her. That wasn’t a guarantee during her matchup against GiGi Canuto, who dominated the early portion of their semifinal bout and looked to have Amaya dead to rights with an armbar and then a triangle choke […]
Arman Tsarukyan vs. Dillon Danis set for title clash at RAF 14
Arman Tsarukyan finally booked his return to the UFC with a co-main event set against Mauricio Ruffy at UFC 331 in September, and he’s already plotting his next move after booking a match at RAF 14 scheduled for Oct. 3 in Las Vegas. Tsarukyan is set to face Dillon Danis to crown the inaugural crossover […]
Michael Morales weighs an astonishing amount less than a week out from backup role for UFC 330
Michael Morales has a lot of weight to cut for UFC 330. On Saturday, Islam Makhachev defends his welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry in the main event of UFC 330. Morales is set to serve as the backup fighter for the matchup, meaning he will need to make championship weight of 170 pounds come […]
Video: Recent Tyson Fury opponent pummeled in bizarre 6 vs. 1 beatdown
Why? That’s really the first word that should come to mind when you watch veteran boxer Mariusz Wach’s latest combat sports outing, which saw him take on six MMA fighters at once at a Prime Show MMA event in his native Poland. The 46-year-old was recently on the receiving of a one-sided knockout loss to […]
Edson Barboza: UFC 330 ‘could be the finish line’ for career
Edson Barboza could be entering the octagon for the final time Saturday, when he battles Esteban Ribovics on the main card of UFC 330 in Philadelphia, and he’s at peace with that. At 40 years of age, and 32 UFC fights under his belt, a legendary run against four future lightweight champions and some all-time […]
UFC 330 main card announced
UFC 330 is only days away and features two title fights on the top of the card. In the main event, UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev puts his belt on the line against Ian Machado Garry. Makhachev has reeled off 16 straight victories, while Machado Garry has won two consecutive fights since his first career […]
Ian Machado Garry explains why he puts Islam Makhachev on a ‘pedestal’ ahead of UFC 330 showdown
Ian Machado Garry has talked about becoming UFC welterweight champion since the day he first arrived in the promotion, but after amassing a 10-1 record in the octagon, he’s finally getting his chance when he faces Islam Makhachev in the UFC 330 main event. In the leadup to the fight, both men have made bold […]
Patchy Mix misses weight by staggering amount at RIZIN 54 weigh-ins
Patchy Mix failed to make weight for his bantamweight bout at RIZIN 54, coming in almost 6.3 pounds over the limit for his fight with Shoko Sato in Tokyo. The promotion announced he will no longer be featured in the co-main event, elevating another fight to that position. Kyoma Akimoto and former champion Kleber Koike […]
Morning Report | Dakota Ditcheva broke both hands at PFL New York
Dakota Ditcheva has another layoff ahead of her. In July, Ditcheva returned to the cage after a year-long absence, winning a decision over Denise Kielholtz at PFL New York. Ditcheva’s long layoff was, in part, due to breaking her hands. And now, she’s done it again. On Sunday, Ditcheva posted a video to her YouTube […]
RAF 13 adds matchup between Luke Rockhold and Joe Pyfer
Luke Rockhold returns to the Real American Freestyle mats next month. On Sunday, RAF announced that Rockhold will face current top-15 middleweight Joe Pyfer in a catchweight bout at RAF 13 on Sep. 19 at Watsco Center in Miami. A former UFC middleweight champion, Rockhold made his RAF debut at RAF 5 in January, where […]
Tommy McMillen battles fellow undefeated prospect at Noche UFC
Tommy McMillen is getting his wish, but is now set for his toughest test to date. McMillen, the longtime teammate and protégé of former UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley, faces Marwan Rahiki at the promotion’s annual Noche UFC card on Sept. 12 in Glendale, Ariz. UFC’s broadcast partner Paramount+ announced the bout on social media. […]
Bidder pays $60,000 at Neymar auction for fan experiences with Alex Pereira, Charles Oliveira
An unnamed bidder has purchased fan experiences with UFC stars Alex Pereira and Charles Oliveira for R$ 310.000 ($60,500) at the annual Instituto Projeto Neymar auction on Monday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The person has also received a pair of boxing gloves autographed by legendary heavyweights Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield. The Oliveira experience […]
‘Ilia Topuria would f*cking annihilate 100% of your roster’: Manager fires back at rival
Ilia Topuria’s manager Malki Kawa isn’t taking Ali Abdelaziz’s latest boast lying down. Kawa took aim at his fellow MMA manager following Abdelaziz’s recent appearance on the Pound 4 Pound podcast hosted by clients Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, with Abdelaziz boasting PFL star Usman Nurmagomedov would come over to the UFC and make easy […]
UFC 332 set for return to Utah in October
The UFC is headed back to Utah for UFC 332, which takes place at Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Check out the official announcement for the news below. That’s now two numbered events scheduled to take place in October, with UFC 332 going down Oct. 3 and then UFC 333 booked for Etihad Arena […]
Matt Brown blasts toxic fandom in MMA after Anthony Smith’s recent arrest
Anthony Smith has been bombarded with negative comments ever since he was arrested on a trio of felony charges stemming from a domestic incident with his wife on July 26. While he awaits his next court date on Aug. 17, the one-time UFC title challenger has made no public comment about his arrest, which came […]
Quillan Salkilld reveals he may have suffered knee injury in win over Mateusz Gamrot: ‘I heard a little pop’
Quillan Salkilld was dominant in his victory over Mateusz Gamrot in the UFC Vegas 120 main event but that doesn’t mean he’s walking away unscathed. Despite a lopsided performance in his biggest fight to date, the Australian lightweight revealed afterwards that an awkward wrestling exchange may have actually hurt his knee. While he’s hopeful that […]
RAF exec: Dillon Danis not banned after brawl with Khamzat Chimaev
Khamzat Chimaev and Dillon Danis will both be back on the Real American Freestyle mat despite a brawl taking place in the main event of RAF 10 in June. Chimaev defeated Danis via pinfall at the event in St. Louis, but Danis appeared to be slapping on a jiu-jitsu choke during the exchange. When the […]
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