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Already 2-0 this year, the 27-year-old Battlefield Fight League (BFL) heavyweight champion competes for the third time in the last eight months on Friday, stepping into the cage for a second time with Canadian pioneer Lee Mein in the second of the Vancouver-based promotion’s back-to-back fight cards taking place Thursday and Friday night at the

USADA announced today that Rogerio Bontorin, of Colombo, Brazil, has accepted a three-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Bontorin, 29, tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) as the result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on May 1, 2021. HCTZ is a Specified Substance in the class of Diuretics and Masking Agents and

And make no mistake about it: Walker wants to be champion, and intends to put his everything into accomplishing that goal, and more, over the next five years. “I promised myself to invest the next five years, 100-percent committed to myself and my career,” began the towering Brazilian, who scored three straight first-round stoppage wins

He’s not kidding. And even now, at 28, the lightweight prospect is one of the steadiest, most well-adjusted humans you will ever meet. He may say that he hasn’t evolved since he first stepped on to a jiu-jitsu mat when he was a kid, but perhaps he was already as close to a finished product

In recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, UFC partnered with Candlelighters across three charitable efforts during International Fight Week, including an auction for two tickets to watch UFC 266 from Dana White’s VIP section, a 50/50 raffle and the 2020 UFC Hall of Fame induction ceremony. More About Partnership Between UFC and Candlelighters At the

While everything has been positive throughout his training camp and during his migration to middleweight, the real test comes Saturday night, when he makes the walk to the Octagon for the first time in his new weight class, where he’ll face off with a divisional stalwart. “It’s a good fight — he’s been around and fought

Key Stats: 1.99 knockdowns per 15 minutes (4th all-time), 3:46 average fight time (5th-shortest all-time among LHW), 72% striking accuracy What It Means: Walker is a creative, explosive and, at times, wild striker who loves finding a flashy knockout shot. He is madly unpredictable when he rushes in to exchange. He is best from a

First, the guys are joined by outdoorsman, television personality, hunter and avid UFC fan Chad Belding. He reveals what it’s like to eat properly cooked bobcat and venison, how some animals hunt to keep their prey alive for days and why, shares which UFC legend he is trying to coax into going hunting, and asks

Marlon Vera is an intense individual on a normal day. On fight day, that gets amped up considerably, and that was certainly the case last Saturday when he met Davey Grant in a rematch of a 2016 bout won by the Brit. For three rounds, Vera just had bad intentions with everything he did, and

“It got to the point where I felt like I was ready for the big show,” Shavers said. “I guess that’s what happens when you take on some of those higher-level guys. It’ll kind of humble you and set you back for a little while.” The downhill slide continued for Shavers. After dropping three straight

“I don’t want to risk getting sick, not at this time,” said Martinez of the switch from hill to dreadmill during prep for a fight that has a lot of importance attached to it after he dropped his first two UFC bouts to Alexandr Romanov and Don’Tale Mayes. So while every fight is a must-win

“I think I have very underrated striking,” O’Neill said. “I’ve been working on it for a long time, so I’ve never really been comfortable enough to throw it in fights whether that be nerves or anything, especially the Shana fight, I was very nervous, so I think that the ground being so comfortable for me,

Boasting 16 knockouts in his 19 professional wins, the Curitiba native isn’t paying much mind to the fact that he’ll have to once again make a name for himself in the UFC, or the fact that he’s often confused with the other Bruno Silva on the roster. “Some people know me, and some people don’t,

When Vera made his first start of 2020 in May, he lost a highly controversial decision to Song Yadong, but in August, he secured the biggest win of his career, stopping Sean O’Malley in the first round. Then came Aldo, but Vera isn’t letting it take him from his path, no matter how much it

With such huge strides in her career, it’s hard to imagine a time when Pena was a starving artist not only fighting in the TUF house, but wanting to go back when it was all over. “When I got out of the house I was almost begging for them to put me back in,” Pena

“It’s easy,” Echeverry said. “Just some dice and be decent at improv and just at least one friend and that’s all you need. If you wanted to, you could just say I’m a Dungeon Master and I’d believe you; now whether you’re a good one or a bad one is different.” Good or bad, in

First, Jim and Matt are joined by Marlon Vera from his very cold Las Vegas hotel room. “Chito” shares why he chooses to hunt his own elk meat, how his father used to mess with him on their family farm, and his motivation to avenge a 2016 loss against Davey Grant this Saturday at UFC

Koch, 32, tested positive for 3′-hydroxy-stanozolol, a metabolite of stanozolol, as the result of a urine sample collected on October 3, 2020. Stanozolol is a non-Specified Substance in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC ADP and UFC Prohibited List. Koch received a six-month reduction to the default two-year