Dangerous women’s Strawweights attempt to rebuild this Saturday (Oct. 1, 2022) when submission ace, Mackenzie Dern, and all-action slugger, Yan Xiaonan, battle it inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also on tap for UFC Vegas 61 are a Welterweight slugfest between Randy Brown and Francisco Trinaldo, Featherweight fireworks pitting Sodiq Yusuff against Octagon newcomer
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9:31 AM ET UFC women’s strawweight contenders Mackenzie Dern and Yan Xiaonan look to shake up the rankings as they go head-to-head at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday (7 p.m. ET on ESPN+, with prelims at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN+). Dern, ranked No. 6 in ESPN’s divisional rankings, earned a split
The ONE on Prime Video 2 ceremonial weigh-ins and faceoffs take place Thursday (Friday locally) in Singapore, and you can watch a live stream of the festivities right here on MMA Junkie at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT). The main event features a third encounter between champions as atomweight titleholder Angela Lee challenges Xiong
MMA fighter Ali Foladi ended his ONE debut at ONE 161 with a vicious right cross to Matheus Felipe’s chin in the first round. Foladi and Felipe kicked off the preliminary card of ONE 161 on Thursday in Singapore. The two light heavyweights looked to begin the card with a bang in what was an
Bellator MMA President, Scott Coker, has announced plans for the promotion to begin its next Grand Prix tournament, and it will take place in the stacked Lightweight division beginning in early 2023. Coker stopped by The MMA Hour to drop the news, though he couldn’t commit to the eight participants who will take part in
1:38 AM ET The UFC already has its first headlining bout of next year booked. Perennial UFC middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum will take on up-and-comer Nassourdine Imavov in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Jan. 14, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. The card is likely to take place at the UFC Apex
For as good as everyone thinks Islam Makhachev is, Javier Mendez says he’s even better. Ahead of Makhachev’s lightweight title fight against Charles Oliveira at UFC 280 on Oct. 22, his head coach Mendez has declared him the most well-rounded lightweight of all time. A bold statement from the American Kickboxing Academy head coach, who
Old rivals Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz are at it again on social media despite the latter’s recent release from the UFC. Diaz recently fought out his UFC contract by defeating Tony Ferguson in the UFC 279 headliner just weeks ago. He was set to face Khamzat Chimaev in the main event before Chimaev’s weight
It’s tough to find a bad match up at 155 pounds. Eurosport confirmed today (Weds., Sept. 28, 2022) that a battle between top 15 contenders, Arman Tsarukyan and Damir Ismagulov, will go down on Dec. 17, 2022, at UFC Vegas 66. The Lightweight tilt joins a current seven-fight lineup of action that closes out the
7:27 PM ET The UFC has closed off Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card at its Apex facility in Las Vegas to the public as well as the media. The company declined to provide a reason for the closure at the time of the announcement earlier this week, but UFC president Dana White said Tuesday that
The UFC kicks off a tame October schedule Saturday with UFC Fight Night 211, which takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and streams on ESPN+. A card relatively thin on ranked names features an important fight in the main event. Mackenzie Dern (12-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) looks to make good on her
The finals of this year’s Professional Fighters League (PFL) season have been announced for November 25, with the card set to mark the promotion’s first pay-per-view offering. After the conclusion of the 2022 regular season and a playoff stint that included first-time ventures across the pond to Wales and England, the PFL will return to
UFC featherweight veteran Edson Barboza suffered a knee injury and has withdrawn from his Ilia Topuria co-headliner at the upcoming UFC Vegas 63 MMA event on ESPN+, scheduled for Sat., Oct. 29, 2022 at the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. That’s according to a report from MMA Fighting. Barboza (22-11), a former contender
10:27 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Prepare yourselves for some Bo Nickal hype. Nickal, a three-time NCAA Division I national collegiate wrestling champion, starched another opponent on Dana White’s Contender Series on Tuesday night, submitting Donovan Beard with a triangle choke just 52 seconds into their middleweight bout. It was Nickal’s second win on the
Despite a recent setback, Enrique Barzola’s championship dreams in Bellator remain strong. The winner of season two of “The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America” is still gunning for the Bellator bantamweight title following his exit from the promotion’s grand prix. Barzola (18-6-2 MMA, 2-1 BMMA), who entered the tournament after defeating Nikita Mikhailov in the wild
It didn’t take a full minute for newly signed UFC middleweight Bo Nickal to finish Donovan Beard in his second fight on Dana White‘s Contender Series. Nickal faced Beard in the DWCS Season 6 Finale on Tuesday night at the UFC Apex. He won his first go-around on DWCS by smothering Zack Borrego in August,
Welcome to Midnight Mania! In his second appearance on “Contender Series,” Bo Nickal squared off against CFFC Middleweight champ Donovan Beard. Similar to his first fight, Nickal made quick work of his opponent. This time, there was a brief feeling out process. Then, at the 30 second mark of the first round, Nickal cracked his
11:54 AM ET Former UFC bantamweight title challenger Marlon Moraes has decided to come out of retirement, and will do so under a new multi-fight deal with PFL. In addition to the new deal, Moraes (23-10-1) has agreed to a featherweight matchup against Shane Burgos (15-3) on the promotion’s tournament finals card later this year.