Married At First Sight star Mikey Pembroke had to undergo emergency surgery following his first MMA fight and victory last weekend. The 31-year-old Pembroke, of MAFS fame, defeated his opponent at an Alta / Wake Your Warrior event. Wake Your Warrior was previously known as Wimp 2 Warrior, a 20-week program that transforms ordinary people
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Bellator Dublin is set to go down tomorrow (Fri., Sept. 23, 2022) live from inside 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland. Headlining the event will be a Lightweight bout between Benson Henderson and Peter Queally. In the co-main event, Yoel Romero will battle Melvin Manhoef in what is sure to be a hard-hitting affair. The early weigh-ins
Sep 20, 2022 The Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva boxing undercard will feature an unorthodox matchup. UFC and Bellator MMA veteran Chris Avila will compete against YouTube star Doctor Mike in a four-round, professional boxing match Oct. 29 in Glendale, Arizona, officials told ESPN. The contracted weight will be 185 pounds, and the pair will
Yoel Romero hopes to cross paths with Jake Paul. The multiple-time UFC title challenger and current Bellator contender is down to jump over to the boxing world and fight YouTube star and undefeated boxer Jake Paul. Romero (14-6 MMA, 1-1 BMMA), who returns to action this Friday at Bellator 285 against veteran Melvin Manhoef, thinks
Jaqueline Amorim is the newest member of the UFC strawweight division. The UFC strawweight division is growing. There are so many talented ladies in the division and it might be the most stacked of the female division at this time. Now there will be some more firepower at 115 pounds. The LFA strawweight champion Jaqueline
Yoel Romero and Israel Adesanya are probably just going to have to agree to disagree on who’s to blame for their fight’s lack of entertainment value. UFC 248 in March 2020 was the promotion’s last event before the world shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. In the event’s headliner, the Middleweight crown was “fought”
11:16 PM ET Eddie Alvarez and ONE Championship have agreed upon his release, the decorated MMA fighter wrote Tuesday night on Twitter. Alvarez, a former UFC and Bellator lightweight champion, wrote that he left ONE “amicably” and is “officially a free agent.” Alvarez signed with ONE as a free agent from the UFC in October
Watch a preview for the latest edition of “The Thrill and the Agony,” which goes behind the scenes of UFC 279. Nate Diaz (21-13 MMA, 16-11 UFC) fought out his UFC contract in the main event of the pay-per-view event by tapping former interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson (25-8 MMA, 15-6 UFC) with a guillotine
Former two-division UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen believes that there’s one option for MMA star Nate Diaz that isn’t being heavily discussed. At UFC 279 earlier this month, one of the sport’s biggest names culminated his time in the Octagon — for now, at least. In the Las Vegas-held headliner, Diaz fought out his UFC
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Eddie Alvarez has traveled far and wide fighting many of the best Lightweights of all time, and “The Underground King” isn’t stopping just yet. Per a report from South China Morning Post, Alvarez and One Championship have agreed to part ways. The former Bellator and UFC champion last fought for the
10:50 PM ET The UFC is bringing in a fighter who is just shy of his 18th birthday. Raul Rosas Jr. became the youngest fighter to sign with the UFC on Tuesday night, following a unanimous decision win over Mando Gutierrez on Dana White’s Contender Series. White, impressed by Rosas’ performance, offered the teen a
LAS VEGAS – Dana White doesn’t think Raul Rosas Jr. is too green for the UFC. Despite just being 17-years-old, the UFC president had no hesitation in giving Rosas (6-0) a contract with the UFC after his dominant showing at Dana White’s Contender Series 55. Rosas dominated Mando Gutierrez (7-2) to win a clean 30-27 scoring
Former UFC and Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has formally agreed to part ways with ONE Championship. The mutual separation was originally reported by South China Morning Post on Tuesday evening. This news brings a close to a four-year marriage between Alvarez and the promotion. Upon Alvarez’s signing with ONE Championship, he revealed that the
Mike Perry and Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) have thrown their names into the hat of the Nate Diaz sweepstakes. UFC 279 two weekends ago (Sept. 10, 2022) marked the official end of Diaz’s 15-year run with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Defeating Tony Ferguson via fourth round guillotine submission (watch highlights), the Stockton, California native
5:27 PM ET The fight between Cody Garbrandt, the former UFC bantamweight champion, and Rani Yahya, a Brazilian veteran who is 5-1-1 in his past seven bouts, on the Oct. 1 UFC Fight Night: Mackenzie Dern vs. Xiaonan Yan card has been postponed after injuries to both fighters. Yahya reportedly suffered a neck injury last
LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene reporting live from Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Series 55 event. Added: Dana White’s Contender Series cards see prospects fighting for the opportunity to sign a UFC deal, with UFC president Dana White on hand to make the decisions. The ninth and penultimate week of Season 6 will
UFC middleweight contender Paulo Costa is seemingly not over USADA’s weight-cut interruption prior to UFC 278 last month. At the August 20 pay-per-view, held at Salt Lake City’s Vivint Arena, Costa shared the Octagon with Luke Rockhold. While he got the job done on fight night, outpointing the former champion in the event’s FOTN, “Borrachinha”
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Iron sharpens iron. Glover Teixeira deserves some credit in helping Alex Pereira’s explosive UFC rise. Obviously, the explosive knockout artist had quite a bit of skill previous to his first trip into the Octagon, but having the jiu-jitsu black belt helped shore up his defensive wrestling and grappling a good deal.