Month: April 2021

Jon Jones splits from longtime management team Former UFC light heavyweight champion and top ranked pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Jon Jones, has split with his longtime management team at First Round Management. First Round Management announced on Monday that the company and Jones have parted ways via social media. “After an 11 year journey
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Featured News On April 28, ONE Championship completes its quartet of April events on TNT, with championship gold on the line, and several high-profile rematches and returns. The card will be headlined by a surprise last-minute booking. As reigning light heavyweight champion, Aung La Nsang will now defend his title against current middleweight champion Reinier
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Chris Weidman juggles his way through his weight cut. Rose Namajunas is friendly with champion Valentina Shevchenko. The presser draws fans including the Florida governor and Jacksonville mayor; Jorge Masvidal and champ Kamaru Usman get big reactions. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital
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Before UFC Fight Night 84, Michael Bisping and former UFC champion Anderson Silva exchange words at an open workout session Thursday in Los Angeles. Watch Conor McGregor’s staredown with Rafael dos Anjos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbDG0ZU7D9M Watch Holly Holm staredown Miesha Tate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBfgaWLTKQ4 ‘Excited’ CM Punk Says No One Knows What He’s Going to Bring to the Table
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Colby Covington talks to MMA Junkie’s Mike Bohn about the UFC 261 main event between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal, bringing Masvidal’s family business into the public, what’s next for him and more. #UFC261 #ColbyCovington #UsmanvsMasvidal For more MMA news: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com Part of the USA TODAY network: http://www.usatoday.com Connect with MMA Junkie: Facebook: https://facebook.com/officialmmajunkie Twitter:
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Brazilian welterweights Gleison Tibau and Joao Zeferino will now face each other at Friday night’s PFL 2 in Atlantic City, N.J., after their original opponents Aleksei Kunchenko and Magomed Magomedkerimov withdrew from the card due to undisclosed reasons, PFL announced. Magomedkerimov was the PFL season 2018 welterweight champion but hasn’t fought since October 2019, withdrawing
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I hate getting into the all-time great debate while a fighter is still active. But Kamaru Usman is making me go back on my word with each performance. On Saturday night, “The Nigerian Nightmare” knocked out Jorge Masvidal in emphatic fashion, and in just five title
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Invicta FC was recently purchased by Anthem Sports & Entertainment Inc, a globally integrated media company creating content for passionate communities, whose properties include AXS TV, Fight Network, IMPACT Wrestling, and Game+ among others. Part of the deal includes Invicta FC moving its event broadcasts to AXS TV, the first of which will be Invicta FC
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By John Morgan and Nolan King | April 26, 2021 3:30 pm Bellator officials continue to fill out the promotion’s summer lineup, and June’s Bellator 260 has received a pair of new contests. MMA Junkie today learned from Bellator officials that featherweights Lucas Brennan vs. Matt Skibicki[/autotag and women’s featherweights [autotag]Amanda Bell vs. Marina Mokhnatkina
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12:23 AM ET UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman dominated Jorge Masvidal last year over five rounds, but he wasn’t satisfied with that performance — he thought he could do better. Usman put a stamp on his rivalry with Masvidal on Saturday night, dropping him with a crushing right hand and following up on the ground
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JACKSONVILLE — Middleweight Uriah Hall spoke with reporters backstage following his first-round TKO win over Chris Weidman on the main card of Saturday’s UFC 261 event. “Prime Time” reacted to Weidman snapping his leg on the former champion’s first thrown strike of the bout, how he felt about the result, wanting to give Weidman another
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