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Cheyanne Buys left it all behind and then left it all in the cage. The strawweight prospect was one of the stars of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 33 event, needing just 60 seconds to dispatch of Gloria de Paula in the evening’s co-headlining bout. Buys landed a cracking head kick as de Paula scrambled to recover

Gloria de Paula returns a different fighter for her second octagon appearance at UFC Vegas 33 this Saturday night in Las Vegas. “Glorinha” joined the company after winning a decision over Pauline Macias at Dana White’s Contender Series in November 2020, but was no match for Jinh Yu Frey’s wrestling and top control in her

MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 33 results for the Hall vs. Strickland fight card, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 33 Twitter updates. In the main event, Uriah Hall faces off with Sean Strickland in a middleweight fight. The co-main event sees Rani Yahya fight Kyung Ho Kang. Check out

UFC Vegas 33 has officially lost one of its anticipated bouts. Sources close to the situation confirmed to MMA Fighting that the bantamweight matchup between Trevin Jones and Ronnie Lawrence is officially off of Saturday’s fight card. Jones successfully made weight at 135 pounds, while Lawrence did not step on the scale—which was removed with

A pair of longtime veterans will collide on Jorge Masvidal’s second bare-knuckle MMA event, as a featherweight bout Rob Emerson vs. Charles Bennett is official for September 11. Gamebred Fighting Championship matchmaker Dean Toole announced the fight Thursday. Emerson (20-14, 1 NC) hasn’t competed since a first-round submission loss to Dileno Lopes at an ACA

Juancamilo Ronderos has received a sanction from UFC anti-doping partner U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for cocaine. USADA announced Thursday that Ronderos (4-1) was suspended for one month following a positive drug test for cocaine and its metabolite benzoylecgonine stemming from an in-competition sample collected for his UFC debut on May 22 at UFC

A new bantamweight champion will be crowned at BKFC 20 on Friday night, Aug. 20, as Johnny Bedford clashes with Reggie Barnett Jr. in the main event. Bedford previously held the bantamweight title before losing a close decision to Dat Nguyen at BKFC Knucklemania back in February. Nguyen was then stripped of the title after

This is The A-Side Live Chat. For this episode, José Youngs, Mike Heck and E. Casey Leydon to react to some of the biggest stories in MMA and boxing. Some POSSIBLE topics include fallout from UFC Vegas 32, T.J. Dillashaw’s split decision over Cory Sandhagen, Maycee Barber’s controversial win over Miranda Maverick, Rachael Ostovich’s win

Ricky Turcios is again just a win away from becoming a UFC fighter. Team Volkanovski’s No. 3 bantamweight pick became the first fighter to advance to The Ultimate Fighter 29 finals, taking a convincing decision in an action-packed scrap with Team Ortega’s Liudvik Sholinian (9-1-1)*. As he did in his semifinal thriller opposite Dan Argueta,

The first press conference for the Oscar De La Hoya vs. Vitor Belfort Triller Fight Club Legends II boxing card is set to take place Tuesday in Los Angeles, and MMA Fighting will have live video of the proceedings. De La Hoya returns to the ring for the first time in 13 years after a

UFC Vegas 33 has lost its expected co-main event after Shamil Abdurakhimov vs. Chris Daukaus was cancelled. A person with knowledge of the cancellation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting after an initial report from TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter. Abdurakhimov was forced to withdraw from the card for undisclosed reasons. UFC Vegas 33, which takes place

Stipe Miocic believes he should be fighting Francis Ngannou next and he’s not happy about waiting for a trilogy with the series tied between them at one win a piece. The former UFC heavyweight champion expressed his frustrations in an Instagram post made by ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong asking about who he should sign

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz The UFC Vegas 33 fight card will be headlined by a middleweight clash between Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland. Hall (17-9) and Strickland (23-3) have both won four fights in a row. Strickland defeated Krzysztof Jotko via unanimous decision at UFC Vegas 25 this past May in his most

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Raulian Paiva stepped in to replace Raphael Assuncao on Saturday at UFC Vegas 32, taking on Kyler Phillips in his first octagon bout as a bantamweight. If victorious in Las Vegas, Paiva will ask for a quick turnaround against Assuncao. Once ranked a top-10 in the UFC flyweight division, Paiva hopes to be “thrown at

MMA Fighting has BKFC 19 results for the VanZant vs. Ostovich event Friday night and more from the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla. In the main event, UFC veteran Paige VanZant will try to bounce back from her opening BKFC loss in a rematch against Rachael Ostovich. VanZant defeated Ostovich via submission (armbar) in

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz At the UFC Vegas 32 weigh-ins, all 22 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas are set to step on the scale Friday for Saturday’s event at UFC APEX which can be watched above. In the main event, Cory Sandhagen and former UFC champion T.J. Dillashaw will have