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Bellator 284 is primed and ready to go down later TONIGHT (Fri., Aug. 12, 2022) inside Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., featuring a Welterweight bout between submission specialist, Neiman Gracie, and Goiti Yamauchi. Co-headlining the event will be a hard-hitting Heavyweight affair between Valentin Moldavsky and Steve Mowry. Many readers check in before, during
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9:02 AM ET The UFC men’s bantamweight division will assume center stage over the coming months, as eight of the top 10 contenders have fights booked, including champion Aljamain Sterling. The marquee 135-pound action begins this weekend with a five-round main event between former champion Dominick Cruz (24-3) and Marlon “Chito” Vera (21-7-1) in San
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Paddy Pimblett is in the United States doing a mini promotional tour following his latest big win over Jordan Leavitt at UFC London last month (watch highlights). And as we’ve come to expect from post-fight Paddy, he’s packing on the pounds … fast. We didn’t dub him “Paddy The Fatty,” that’s something Pimblett has called
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Pat Downey’s wrestling career might have taken an unexpected turn, but MMA was always inevitable. Downey (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA), a former NCAA Division I All-American wrestler, was kicked off the Iowa State University wrestling team in 2017 for repeated violations of team rules and found himself in the midst of various other controversial incidents
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12:19 PM ET UFC flyweight Molly McCann will look to continue her breakout year in 2022, when she takes on Erin Blanchfield in November. The UFC has added a 125-pound contest between McCann (13-4) and Blanchfield (9-1) to its UFC 281 lineup on Nov. 12 in Madison Square Garden. Both flyweights announced the bout on
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An MMA fighter has been convicted of murder following the 2015 death of an escort in an office building in Newport Beach, California. 36-year-old mixed martial artist Nain Isaac Nieto Hernandez was arrested and charged with the killing of 23-year-old Long Beach native Sarai Alcaraz on December 30, 2015, 12 days after the fatal meeting.
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11:22 AM ET Bellator MMA has rebooked a featherweight matchup between Aaron Pico and Jeremy Kennedy in October, officials told ESPN on Tuesday. The 145-pound bout will take place at Bellator 286 on Oct. 1 in Long Beach, California. That event is headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire (33-5) and
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A title fight between current Bellator MMA Lightweight champion, Patricky Pitbull, and undefeated (15-0) 155-pound wrecking machine, Usman Nurmagomedov, is being targeted to go down at an upcoming event on Nov. 18, 2022. That’s according to MMA Junkie, who confirmed the plans for the match up after an initial report from MMA Fight Universe. Pitbull
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11:11 PM ET One of the best prospects in all of MMA is on the cusp of a UFC contract. Bo Nickal, a former three-time NCAA Division I wrestling national champion, finished Zack Borrego via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:02 of the first round Tuesday night on Dana White’s Contender Series at the UFC Apex
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