Month: April 2023

10:51 PM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas was supposed to be a competitive bout between two bantamweight prospects. It turned into a one-sided showcase fight for Song Yadong. Yadong defeated Ricky Simon by TKO in the fifth round of their five-round headliner on Saturday. After torching Simon with a perfect
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Aljamain Sterling has pretty much heard it all during his two-year reign as UFC bantamweight champion. While criticism just comes along with a high-profile job, the 33-year-old New York native has dealt with a bombardment of negativity — largely through no fault of his own — since he claimed the UFC title after Petr Yan
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The Canadian Horth was sharp in the first, showing her soccer roots by landing several hard kicks and working the body well before Cowan pressured forward and had a little more success in the second. In the third, Cowan quickly closed the distance, but Horth successfully worked off the fence and found success in space
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It’s not fair to compare UFC Vegas 72 with BKFC 41. After all, nobody is pointing to the former as a marquee event, whereas the latter was likely the promotion’s biggest in history and came with a hefty price tag. Still, when the two events run nearly back-to-back, it’s hard not to appreciate the differences.
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Preview the UFC Vegas 72 main event featuring action-packed bantamweights Song Yadong and Ricky Simon that is guaranteed to be a banger. Main card action kicks off at 7pm ET / 4pm PT on Saturday. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: https://ufc.ac/3u8FIJp Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service
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At the UFC on FOX 19 weigh-ins, Rose Namajunas and Tecia Torres both made weight Friday evening in Tampa. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com
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UFC Fight Night 223’s Julian Erosa talks to MMA Junkie and other reporters at media day for Saturday’s featherweight matchup with Fernando Padilla in Las Vegas. Full event coverage: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/tag/ufc-fight-night-223 Be sure to subscribe to receive updates when we post new content: http://bit.ly/3YstIQd Visit us on the web: https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com Part of the USA TODAY network:
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MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 72 results for the Song vs. Simon event from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. In the main event, Song Yadong and Ricky Simon will square off in a bantamweight contest. Song has won three of his past five fights, while Simon has won five fights in
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UFC continues its run of events at UFC APEX with an exciting bantamweight contenders’ tilt that will see No. 8 ranked Song Yadong battle No. 10 Ricky Simon. Also, Dana White’s Contender Series signee Caio Borralho looks to push his unbeaten streak to 14 bouts when he takes on hard-hitting Michal Oleksiejczuk in an intriguing middleweight
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to its APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the UFC Vegas 72 mixed martial arts (MMA) event TONIGHT (Sat., April 29, 2023), streaming LIVE on ESPN+. UFC Vegas 72 will be headlined by the 135-pound showdown between Top 10-ranked bantamweight contenders Yadong Song and Ricky Simon. Before that five-round
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3:26 PM ET Three weeks after he announced his UFC retirement after competing at UFC 287 in his hometown of Miami, Jorge Masvidal is a busy man. He’s promoting his Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA show next week and is excited to announce his next Gamebred Boxing card in the near future. Fighting and martial arts have
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Song Yadong and Ricky Simon weren’t supposed to be in a main event this month, but you better believe that they’re ready for the opportunity. Following the unfortunate cancellation of the originally scheduled headliner between Arman Tsarukyan and Renato Moicano, Song and Simon — currently No. 12 and No. 14 respectively in the MMA Fighting
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