By MMA Junkie Staff | July 30, 2021 11:41 pm ET Follow @MMAjunkie Thomas Petersen entered LFA 113 ready to wrestle, but he didn’t need it. Petersen needed just 1:02 to earn a scintillating TKO finish of Vernon Lewis to claim the vacant LFA heavyweight championship Friday at Bell County Expo Center in Belton, Texas.
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Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 8:01 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Uriah Hall has won four fights in a row. Sean Strickland has won four fights in a row. On Saturday night, they meet to determine whose momentum will be supercharged. Hall (17-9) has been at center stage under the bright lights before. This weekend’s
Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo has explained why he thinks T.J. Dillashaw deserved the victory over Cory Sandhagen. After serving a two-year suspension, Dillashaw returned to the Octagon in the UFC Vegas 32 main event against “The Sandman,” who entered the fight as the #2-ranked bantamweight. After an enthralling and evenly-contested five rounds, the
Longtime middleweight contender Uriah Hall will look to maintain his spot in the division Top 10 — and keep Sean Strickland seated at No. 11 — when he goes to war with “Tarzan” in the upcoming UFC Vegas 33 headliner on ESPN and ESPN+ this Sat. night (July 31, 2021) inside APEX in Las Vegas,
LOS ANGELES – The Bellator 263 main event loser will take home a six-figure payday with the winner earning seven figures. Bellator featherweight champion Patricio Freire is set to make $250,000 in disclosed show money while A.J. McKee will pocket $150,000 in disclosed show pay. The winner will be awarded an additional $1,000,000 – the
12:49 AM ET Carlos Contreras Legaspi The fight between bantamweights Aspen Ladd and Macy Chiasson that was scratched from Saturday’s UFC event has been rescheduled for Oct. 2, sources said. The card has not yet been announced by the promotion. The original matchup was postponed just hours before Friday’s weigh-ins due to a Chiasson injury.
Patricio “Pitbull” Freire and AJ McKee got testy during the final pre-fight press conference for Bellator 263. McKee will be challenging Freire for the Bellator Featherweight Championship. This bout will also be the final match in the Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix. The action takes place this Saturday night (July 31) inside The Forum in
Welcome to Midnight Mania! By returning from a 2.5 year layoff to score a split-decision win opposite Cory Sandhagen in an all-action fight, TJ Dillashaw may have just earned a title shot. Of course, he’ll have to wait out Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling 2 and recover from knee surgery, but all things considered, Dillashaw’s
Jared Gooden knows he put himself in position to take on a big challenge at UFC on ESPN 28, but he said he’s up for it. After losing his first two UFC appearances, Gooden (17-6 MMA, 0-2 UFC) stepped up into a risky position on Saturday when he jumped in as a replacement opponent against
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 1:08 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Amanda Nunes, the pound-for-pound best female fighter in the UFC, will have to wait a little longer for the next defense of her bantamweight championship. She tested positive for COVID-19, UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell told ESPN on Thursday, canceling her fight with
The Pulse of MMA: Fan Reactions To The Sport’s Biggest Stories Here are some of the raw reactions from the MMA community about yesterday’s featured stories. Covington Ready To Cement Legacy At UFC 268 Alongside Lil Wayne Colby Covington, Lil Wayne During an interview with Submission Radio released yesterday, Colby Covington revealed that Lil Wayne
Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, who also wears gold at 145 pounds, was pulled from her upcoming title defense opposite Julianna Pena in the UFC 265 co-main event on Aug. 7 in Houston, Texas. UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell told ESPN that “Lioness” will be rebooked against “The Venezuelan
By MMA Junkie Staff | July 29, 2021 2:00 pm ET Follow @MMAjunkie The UFC wraps up its busy July schedule on Saturday with UFC on ESPN 28, which features a middleweight headliner of Uriah Hall vs. Sean Strickland. Hall (17-9 MMA, 10-7 UFC) and Strickland (23-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) are both currently riding four-fight
11:36 PM ET Chris Weidman has another hurdle to overcome after a gruesome broken leg sustained in a fight earlier this year. The former UFC middleweight champion wrote Wednesday on Instagram that he will need another surgery on the right leg he fractured in a fight with Uriah Hall at UFC 261 on April 24.
AJ McKee is intrigued at the thought of mixing it up with the best fighters from different promotions. McKee is due for the biggest bout of his pro MMA career. Mckee will challenge Patricio “Pitbull” Freire for the Bellator Featherweight Title. This will also serve as the final bout in the Bellator Featherweight World Grand
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Vitor Belfort is among the many MMA legends chasing boxing money. The former UFC champion is currently scheduled to face boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya in a professional boxing match set for Sat., Sept. 11, 2021 inside Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. However, that’s likely not the end of
LOS ANGELES – Chris Gonzalez spoke to the media ahead of Bellator 263 at Wednesday’s media day. Gonzalez (6-0 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) discussed being happy that he got a top-five matchup in Goiti Yamauchi, having “no regrets” pivoting from the Olympic wrestling trials to pursue MMA, “definitely looking to contend for the (lightweight) belt soon”
8:00 AM ET Scott Coker took the reins of Bellator MMA in 2014 with a firm plan for growth. The longtime combat sports promoter was going to apply some of the principles that worked well when he ran Strikeforce, from its first MMA event in March 2006 until it was acquired by the UFC’s parent