Newly crowned Bellator featherweight champ A.J. McKee may soon have the chance to claim the lightweight strap, too. On Saturday, the 26-year-old took less than two minutes to demolish Patricio “Pitbull” Freire in the main card of Bellator 263, picking up a cool million dollar check for his efforts. McKee stunned Freire with a head
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After breaking his leg badly in his fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, Conor McGregor won’t be stepping back into the cage any time soon. But that won’t stop him from rolling into a ring for a charity wheelchair boxing match. No, this isn’t a joke: McGregor will participate in a wheelchair boxing match
By Matthew Wells | August 1, 2021 9:30 pm ET Follow @mrmwells Goiti Yamauchi isn’t known for his hands, but they got the job done on Saturday. At Bellator 263, Yamauchi (26-5 MMA, 12-4 BMMA) faced Chris Gonzalez in the first bout on the main card at The Forum in Los Angeles. To the surprise
5:34 PM ET The MMA world will feature elite action from Inglewood, California, and Las Vegas on Saturday night as Bellator and the UFC share the combat spotlight. Patricio “Pitbull” Freire will take on A.J. McKee at The Forum in one of the biggest bouts in Bellator history. The fight is the finale of the
Cheyanne Buys bought into herself, and she cashed out in a big way with her first-round TKO under the co-main event spotlight at UFC Vegas 33. After losing in what Buys herself describes as an “embarrassing” UFC debut against Montserrat Ruiz earlier this year, the 26-year-old prospect refused to go back down that track and
On Saturday night at UFC Vegas 33, Cheyanne Buys bounced back from an embarrassing March loss to knock out Gloria de Paula in 60 seconds. It was a fast and violent finish that saw Buys hit de Paula with a head kick and then finish her on the canvas with some mean ground and pound.
Uriah Hall is understandably disappointed in the wake of his loss to Sean Strickland at UFC on ESPN 28. Hall (17-10 MMA, 10-8 UFC) had the opportunity to break into the next echelon of middleweight title contention on Saturday when he met Strickland (24-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) in the headliner at the UFC Apex in
12:01 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim There’s nothing flashy about Sean Strickland, unless you’re counting the punches he relentlessly flashes into the face of his opponent. Strickland won his fifth fight in a row on Saturday night, overwhelming Uriah Hall with five rounds of aggression and nonstop punch output to win a lopsided unanimous decision in
UFC Vegas 33 went down tonight (Sat. July 31, 2021) from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC Apex facility and we have the results. The world’s leading mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion compiled an excellent card for fight fans to enjoy. It was headlined by a meeting between Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland in a
Bellator 263: “Pitbull vs McKee” is set to air TONIGHT (Sat., July 31, 2021) from The Forum in Los Angeles, Calif., broadcasting via Showtime. Headlining the event will a Featherweight title fight between division kingpin, Patricio Friere and A.J. McKee. The bout will also mark the conclusion of the promotion’s $1 million Featherweight Grand Prix,
By MMA Junkie Staff | August 1, 2021 1:56 am ET Follow @MMAjunkie Check out the best photos from Bellator 263 at The Forum in Los Angeles, featuring A.J. McKee vs. Patricio Freire in the main event for the featherweight grand prix final and Bellator featherweight title. (Photos courtesy of Bellator MMA) Brian Moore vs
2:50 PM ET One of the biggest events in recent Bellator history is coming to the desert. The Bellator Light Heavyweight World Grand Prix semifinals will take place on the same card Oct. 16 at Footprint Center in Phoenix, sources told ESPN on Saturday. The event will be headlined by the semifinal bout between Bellator
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 7, 2018, 1:07 PM] Uriah Hall started out his UFC career with a ton of potential as a future middleweight contender, which is all still there, but he has struggled greatly inside the Octagon in his past several fights. “Prime Time” has dropped three of his last four Octagon appearances. Physically and
Gilbert Burns is trying to make the most out of his recent decision win over Stephen Thompson at UFC 264 and that includes a specific callout of Nate Diaz. After smothering “Wonderboy” with grappling at UFC 264 and returning to the win column following a TKO loss to UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, Burns has
LOS ANGELES – The Bellator light heavyweight grand prix is set to resume this fall in the desert with the tournament semifinals. Both matchups – champion Vadim Nemkov vs. Anthony Johnson, and Corey Anderson vs. Ryan Bader – have been booked for Oct. 16, promotion officials announced Saturday. The Bellator event, which does not have
7:38 PM ET The UFC is adding a lightweight matchup between Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler to its pay-per-view event in November, multiple sources told ESPN on Friday. Contracts have not been signed, but both parties have agreed to the 155-pound contest. The promotion has not officially announced a date or location for UFC 268,
Fight fans are finally getting what they’ve been asking for in Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Chandler. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reports that Gaethje and Chandler have verbally agreed to collide before 2021 comes to a close. “Ohhhh boy. Here we go, folks. Gaethje vs. Chandler. Verbally agreed, per sources. UFC 268 PPV. No official date or
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Darren Till has a social media presence like few other professional fighters. I cannot actually load his Instagram page at the moment due to the following controversy, but Till has accrued a substantial amount of followers thanks to his erratic trash talk and general humor. Who can forget his never ending