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,
Cheyanne Buys banks a bonus for UFC Vegas 33 co-main event finish Melsik Baghdasaryan, Cheyanne Buys, Jason Witt, and Bryan Barberena all walked away from UFC Vegas 33 with $50,000 performance bonuses for their work Saturday night. Witt and Barberena were awarded Fight of the Night bonuses for their three round brawl, while Baghdasaryan and
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
UFC Vegas 33 event loses several bouts on short notice, Kamaru Usman could dominate Colby Covington in the rematch, Cory Sandhagen welcomes TJ Dillashaw rematch after controversial UFC Vegas 32 result, Tatiana Suarez out of her upcoming return bout, Douglas Lima vs. Michael Venom Page 2 is set for Bellator London event, Sam Alvey will
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
Gloria de Paula returns a different fighter for her second octagon appearance at UFC Vegas 33 this Saturday night in Las Vegas. “Glorinha” joined the company after winning a decision over Pauline Macias at Dana White’s Contender Series in November 2020, but was no match for Jinh Yu Frey’s wrestling and top control in her
Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports In the main event of UFC Vegas 33, two of the middleweight division’s most intriguing contenders in Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland face off in a battle of top-15 standouts. UFC Vegas 33 Preview: Uriah Hall vs Sean Strickland Hall, 36, has won four straight fights since a loss to
[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
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor suffered a horrific broken leg in the UFC 264 main event against Dustin Poirier on July 10 and has been recovering from surgery. McGregor hasn’t let the broken leg keep him from living life. He’s posted photos of himself hanging out with Justin Bieber, at a Bieber concert and
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,
MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 33 results for the Hall vs. Strickland fight card, a live blog of the main event, and live UFC Vegas 33 Twitter updates. In the main event, Uriah Hall faces off with Sean Strickland in a middleweight fight. The co-main event sees Rani Yahya fight Kyung Ho Kang. Check out
Credit: USA TODAY via Imagn Content Services, LLC The co-main event of UFC Vegas 33 features bantamweights South Korea’s Kyung Ho Kang returning from a year-long layoff in search of his fourth straight victory, going up against Brazilian grappling standout and divisional veteran Rani Yahya. Kyung Ho Kang vs Rani Yahya UFC Vegas 33 preview
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
Tyron Woodley releases new behind-the-scenes footage of training camp for Jake Paul boxing match | Video Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley makes the jump to boxing to take on actor and YouTube personality turned boxer Jake Paul on Aug. 29. Woodley has trained with Floyd Mayweather Jr., and others, to prepare for his bout
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.