Month: May 2021

3:09 PM ET The UFC finally has an official main event for this coming weekend. Marina Rodriguez will meet the popular Michelle Waterson in the UFC Fight Night headliner Saturday in Las Vegas, the promotion announced Tuesday. The originally scheduled main event between former bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw and top contender Cory Sandhagen was postponed
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5:22 PM ET The Florida State Boxing Commission has made a major change to its policy regarding cannabis. At a meeting Tuesday, the commission voted to essentially eliminate marijuana from its prohibited drug list, Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation spokesperson Patrick Fargason told ESPN on Tuesday. Previously in Florida, even trace amounts of
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Joe Rogan’s recent comments concerning COVID-19 vaccinations have put him the sights of TV host John Oliver. This isn’t the first time that Oliver has been critical of a major MMA personality over their behavior during the pandemic, as he also questioned the wisdom of UFC President Dana White embarking on a trip to Fight
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At the Bellator 258 weigh-ins, all 24 fighters on Friday’s fight card in Uncasville, Conn., stepped on the scale Thursday morning. In the main event, Bellator bantamweight champion Juan Archuleta and Sergio Pettis will have to weigh no more than 135 pounds, the maximum allowed for a bantamweight title fight. Watch video of the ceremonial
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Mohammed Usman’s decision-making process to sign with the PFL was a family affair. When your brother happens to be Kamaru Usman—the welterweight champion of the UFC and currently one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in all of MMA—you tend to listen, and for Mohammed, when it came time to make a jump up to the
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Editorial News Bellator 258 Bellator 258 takes place Friday, May 7, and will feature a bantamweight title fight between reigning champion Juan Archuleta and first-time title challenger, Sergio Pettis. After a run in the UFC, Pettis made the jump to Bellator and after going 3-0 in the division, he finds himself competing for the title,
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He may be far away, but he’s moving pretty fast to get to where he wants to go. A winner on season four of Dana White’s Contender Series last September, Nchukwi earned his UFC contract with a highlight reel knockout of Al Matavao, a victory that followed a 2:30 TKO of William Knight, and three
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“He was able to keep focus for five rounds straight; he never lost focus but there were times in the cage where I was losing focus and having lapses,” Neal said about Thompson. “He never had one the whole fight. He showed me you have to be focused for the full 25 minutes or you’re
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