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Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will go head-to-head with former WBO interim titleholder Zhilei Zhang atop the “Queensberry vs. Matchroom 5v5” pay-per-view (PPV) event on DAZN, locked and loaded for this Sat. (June 1, 2024) at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This weekend’s lineup also features WBA light heavyweight kingpin Dmitry Bivol and

Paulo Costa is FINE … aside from a few mat burns. “The Eraser” claims the open wound on his foot came from aggressive training — not staph infection — ahead of his UFC 302 pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event, where Costa battles former middleweight champion Sean Strickland. “I haven’t Staph it’s only burned skin on the

After a rare week off, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to the pay-per-view (PPV) market for the upcoming UFC 302 mixed martial arts (MMA) extravaganza, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (June 1, 2024) inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Nicknamed “The Rock,” the Prudential Center is located on Lafayette street and

If you’re a UFC champion, the last thing you wanna do is share a card with Paulo Costa. That’s because the Brazilian has been nothing but bad luck for titleholders not named Israel Adesanya, who defeated “The Eraser” at UFC 253 back in late 2020. Fortunately for “The Last Stylebender,” he was able to take

HEAVY. LEATHER. Two of boxing’s biggest bruisers, Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang, came face-to-face earlier today at the conclusion of the “Queensberry vs. Matchroom 5v5” weigh ins event, held in advance of the DAZN pay-per-view (PPV) spectacle on Sat. (June 1, 2024) inside Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Watch them stare each other down

Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson is confident he could become UFC heavyweight champion in less than two years, and was recently training alongside former welterweight titleholder Robbie Lawler at Kill Cliff FC in South Florida. But don’t expect a jump to MMA anytime soon. Instead, the 24 year-old Steveson will try his luck on the

With the UFC 302 early (and official) weigh ins already in the books (get full results and video here), the cast and crew of tomorrow night’s (Sat., June 4, 2024) “Makhachev vs. Poirier” pay-per-view (PPV) mixed martial arts (MMA) event will head to Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, for the ceremonial weigh ins and

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight kingpin, Islam Makhachev, looks to defend his title for the third time opposite veteran knockout artist, Dustin Poirier, this Saturday (June 1, 2024) at UFC 302 inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Makhachev needed a 10-fight win streak to score his first UFC

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – One of the fighters was the last to the scale, but ultimately there was no weigh-in drama around the UFC 302 co-main event when Sean Strickland and Paulo Costa hit the middleweight limit. Former champion Strickland (28-6 MMA, 15-6 UFC), who has competed across three divisions during his UFC tenure, came

Check out the photos from the UFC 302 official weigh-ins at the UFC host hotel in Jersey City, N.J. (Images by Nolan King, MMA Junkie) andre-lima-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-3 andre-lima-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 andre-lima-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins andre-lima-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-5 mitch-raposo-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins mitch-raposo–ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-1 mitch-raposo-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-3 joselyne-edwards-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins joselyne-edwards-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 joselyne-edwards-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-3 joselyne-edwards-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-4 ailin-perez-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 ailin-perez-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins ailin-perez-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-3 ailin-perez-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-4 ailin-perez-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-5 bassil-hafez-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins mickey-gall-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins jake-matthews-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins phil-rowe-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins phil-rowe-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 joe-solecki-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins grant-dawson-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins grant-dawson-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 alexandr-romanov-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins alexandr-romanov-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 jailton-almeida-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins jailton-almeida-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-2 jailton-almeida-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-3 jailton-almeida-ufc-302-official-weigh-ins-4

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The UFC 302 fight card now is set following Friday’s official weigh-ins session, where all 23 of 24 fighters successfully hit their marks on the scale. Saturday’s event at the nearby Prudential Center (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) in Newark is headlined by a lightweight championship fight, as well as a main card

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – In the heavyweight division, there’s a 60-pound range for fighters to locate their optimal poundage there within. While many heavyweights typically stick within the same few-pound range, Alexandr Romanov has fluctuated greatly in his UFC tenure. Sometimes weighing less than 240 pounds, but more times tipping the scales around the 265-pound

The Nevada Athletic Commission is going to have to cut Diego Lopes a check after Friday’s hearing … sort of. Lopes was fined $5,000 when he hopped over the fence after his UFC 300 finish of Sodiq Yusuff in April. Friday, the NAC cut that suspension in half in an adjudication with Lopes. Officially, his

Igor Severino’s already-infamous biting incident has yet to get a resolution from the regulatory side, but there’s been an update from the Brazilian. Friday, during a Nevada Athletic Commission meeting, used time for public comment to ask the commission to release his purse that’s being withheld so he can afford to live while the NAC

The UFC is back on the East Coast with UFC 302, and the popular “Embedded” fight week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes. UFC 302 (pay-per-view/ESPN/ESPN+) takes place Saturday at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. In the headliner, lightweight champion Islam Makhachev (25-1 MMA, 14-1 UFC) puts his belt on

The UFC has laid the groundwork for a return to Denver for the first time since 2018. While no location has been officially announced for the UFC Fight Night event July 13, the promotion has applied for, and received, an event permit to hold a card on that date at Ball Arena, Colorado Combative Sports

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Michal Oleksiejczuk is thrilled with what he got for his return to the octagon. This Saturday, Oleksiejczuk (19-7 MMA, 7-5 UFC) takes on Kevin Holland in the pay-per-view main card of UFC 302, which goes down at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. This is not only the first time Oleksiejczuk fights