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Bellator’s first interim heavyweight title fight is set for next month. With current heavyweight champion Ryan Bader moving on in the light heavyweight grand prix, promotional officials confirmed to MMA Fighting that Tim Johnson and Valentin Moldavsky will compete for an interim title at Bellator 261. The event takes place June 25 at Mohegan Sun
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MMA Fighting has Bellator 258 results for the Archuleta vs. Pettis fight card Friday night from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. In the main event, Juan Archuleta will defend his Bellator bantamweight title for the first time against Sergio Pettis. Archuleta has won four of his past five fights, while Pettis has won
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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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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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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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With UFC Vegas 25 in the books, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Jose Youngs, Alexander K. Lee and E. Casey Leydon break down the top storylines following Saturday night’s event at the APEX, including Jiri Prochazka’s “Knockout of the Year” candidate in his victory over Dominick Reyes in the main event.
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As if Jon Jones needed anymore motivation to fight Francis Ngannou, apparently now he’s doing it for America? Jones rattled off a minor tweet flurry on Thursday, targeting the UFC heavyweight champion with a series of messages capped off by a vow to bring the heavyweight title back to the U.S. (Ngannou was born in
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The highly anticipated Bellator Light Heavyweight World Grand Prix opening round matchup between Yoel Romero and Anthony Johnson is off. MMA Fighting confirmed with Bellator officials and Romero’s management that Romero has been forced to withdraw not just from his co-main event bout with Johnson at Bellator 258 on May 7, but from the light
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MMA Fighting has PFL 2 results for the MacDonald vs. Millender fight card Thursday night at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J. In the welterweight main event, former Bellator champion Rory MacDonald makes his PFL debut against Curtis Millender. Defending PFL welterweight champion Ray Cooper III fights Jason Ponet in the co-main event, and
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