Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship will be adding another former UFC fighter to their roster. According to Malki Kawa, the head of First Round Management, he revealed Rivera has agreed to sign with BKFC. Who he will fight and when is uncertain, but the former ranked UFC bantamweight has agreed to join the sans gloves promotion.
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By Matthew Wells | November 2, 2021 9:27 pm ET Follow @mrmwells The final episode of the 2021 season, Dana White’s Contender Series 46, produced a first in the history of the show. In the second bout of the evening, UFC hopefuls Jonas Bilharino (9-1-1) and Canaan Kawaihae (6-2) faced off in front of UFC
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Podcast kingpin and comedian Joe Rogan has served as one of the primary color commentators for UFC for close to two decades now. However, Rogan is a busy man, splitting his time between Spotify controversies, hunting trips, and lots of COVID-19 drama. Ever since WME purchased the UFC, his presence on
12:44 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Kayla Harrison‘s dominance of the PFL continues. For the second consecutive season, Harrison has captured the PFL lightweight championship. She did so with ease Wednesday at the Hard Rock Live; she attempted 90 strikes and landed all but five of them en route to an armbar submission
Conor McGregor is apparently taking aim at Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman’s toughness. Conor McGregor is willing to attack any fighter at any time on social media. The Irish fighter is known to be a very outspoken person both live and on Twitter. His latest social media attack is targeted at Anderson Silva and Chris
The UFC returns to New York City for the first time in two years on Saturday with UFC 268 at Madison Square Garden. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPNNews and ESPN+. A pair of championship rematches headline the card. In the main event, Kamaru Usman (19-1 MMA, 14-0 UFC) puts his
Petr Yan got back to his winning ways last weekend in Abu Dhabi, capturing a unanimous decision victory over top contender Cory Sandhagen in the UFC 267 co-main event. In the process, “No Mercy” reestablished himself as a dominant force in the 135-pound division. And took home the interim bantamweight strap. That means Yan will
7:42 AM ET HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Colby Covington didn’t talk — publicly — for nearly two months after his failed UFC welterweight title bid against Kamaru Usman at UFC 245 in December 2019. From the outside, it was easy to assume reasons why. Covington (16-2), who will challenge Usman for the second time at UFC
UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman has given a breakdown of his successful UFC 245 title defense against his upcoming opponent Colby Covington. After building an immaculate 9-0 UFC record, Usman was given a title shot against then-champion Tyron Woodley. In a dominant performance that sent “The Chosen One” into a downward spiral towards a UFC
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from October 2021: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Submission of the Month” award for October. At the bottom of the post, let us know
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Islam Makhachev is becoming well-known for his dominance inside the cage, but the Dagestani sambo master is apparently prepared for online conflicts as well. Prior to his flawless UFC 267 victory over Dan Hooker (HIGHLIGHTS), Makhachev apparently took note of Middleweight kingpin Israel Adesanya’s prediction, a bold statement backing his team
1:48 PM ET ABU DHABI — In a rare move, UFC removed a referee from its UFC 267 event Saturday, immediately following his performance in a preliminary welterweight bout. The promotion pulled referee Vyacheslav Kiselev from the event after he declined to stop the welterweight bout between Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos and Benoit Saint-Denis. Zaleski
Kamaru Usman says his animosity towards Colby Covington is less ahead of UFC 268 compared to what it was back at UFC 245. Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington have had a great rivalry for years. The two have taken shots at one another repeatedly. It got heated and personal prior to their UFC 245 bout,
By MMA Junkie Staff | November 1, 2021 6:00 pm ET Follow @MMAjunkie Michal Oleksiejczuk beat Shamil Gamzatov with a first-round TKO Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 267 in Abu Dhabi. Take a look inside the fight with Oleksiejczuk, who picked up his second straight win after a pair of submission losses. Oleksiejczuk on knocking opponents
Newly-crowned UFC light heavyweight kingpin Glover Teixeira was only minutes removed from his UFC 267 championship-winning performance over Jan Blachowicz in Abu Dhabi when he came face-to-face with consensus No. 1 title challenger Jiri Prochazka. “Denisa,” who from a distance looks like Ironbar from Beyond Thunderdome — thanks to his Muay Thai “war hair” —
8:00 AM ET Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman defends his UFC title against Colby Covington, in a rematch of their tremendous 2019 fight, which Usman won by fifth-round TKO. The bout on Saturday headlines a packed UFC 268 card that also includes another title rematch, a must-see lightweight fight and an opportunity for a few fighters
UFC lightweight contender Michael Chandler has his eyes still set on UFC gold ahead of his fight with Justin Gaethje. Chandler is looking to get back on track in the lightweight title picture after losing the vacant lightweight title to Charles Oliveira at UFC 262. After a strong start to the fight, he was TKO’d
By Mike Bohn, The Blue Corner | October 31, 2021 7:40 pm ET Follow @MikeBohnMMA Today is Halloween, and plenty of fighters and other MMA notables are embracing the opportunity to dress up and celebrate the holiday. Costumes from the past five years set the bar quite high, but the challenge was certainly met with