Cody Garbrandt is officially headed to flyweight. MMA Fighting confirmed with sources with knowledge of the matchup that the former bantamweight champion will make his 125-pound debut against Kai Kara-France, the No. 11 flyweight in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, at a Dec. 11 UFC event with a location still to be determined. ESPN was
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Dustin Poirier walked out with his hand raised in his latest encounter with Conor McGregor, but he definitely felt the effects of the fight after. During an appearance on American Top Team’s Punchin’ In podcast, Poirier went into detail on how the kicking exchanges between himself and McGregor at UFC 264 last month took a
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Julian Marquez will try to continue his memorable comeback tour this fall. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Marquez will face Jordan Wright at the UFC’s event on Oct. 16. While a location and venue have yet to be announced, the card is expected to take place at
A.J. McKee is as good as advertised. In one of the biggest nights in Bellator history, McKee (18-0) showed why he should be considered among the best featherweights in the world. The undefeated 26-year-old steamrolled through the most decorated champion in Bellator history, Patricio Freire (32-5), dropping the Brazilian with an early left head kick
Lightweight prospect Usman Nurmagomedov plans on using the blueprint his cousin Khabib Nurmagomedov used during his rise in the sport of mixed martial arts. The 23-year-old will make his second Bellator appearance this Saturday when he faces Manny Muro in a main card matchup. The event takes place at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. and
MMA Fighting has Bellator 263 results for the Pitbull vs. McKee fight card, a live blog of the main event, and live Bellator 263 Twitter updates. In the main event, two-division champion Patricio Freire defends his featherweight title in the Bellator featherweight grand prix finals against undefeated phenom A.J. McKee. The winner of the fight
At the UFC Vegas 33 weigh-ins, all 26 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas are set to step on the scale Friday for the event at UFC APEX. MMA Fighting will have official weigh-in highlights above when available. In the main event, middleweights Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland can weigh no more than
A pair of longtime veterans will collide on Jorge Masvidal’s second bare-knuckle MMA event, as a featherweight bout Rob Emerson vs. Charles Bennett is official for September 11. Gamebred Fighting Championship matchmaker Dean Toole announced the fight Thursday. Emerson (20-14, 1 NC) hasn’t competed since a first-round submission loss to Dileno Lopes at an ACA
Lamar Odom is getting a slight upgrade in competition for his next celebrity boxing bout. The two-time NBA champion is reportedly set to fight two-time world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe at James L. Knight Arena in Miami on Oct. 2, Celebrity Boxing founder Damon Feldman told TMZ Sports. This marks Odom’s second high-profile venture into
A new bantamweight champion will be crowned at BKFC 20 on Friday night, Aug. 20, as Johnny Bedford clashes with Reggie Barnett Jr. in the main event. Bedford previously held the bantamweight title before losing a close decision to Dat Nguyen at BKFC Knucklemania back in February. Nguyen was then stripped of the title after
Kayla Harrison has plenty of business to take care of at 155 pounds, but don’t think that she doesn’t hear the calls for her to drop down a weight class. Two seasons into her run with the PFL, Harrison has unsurprisingly established herself as the woman to beat in the lightweight division. Since Harrison declared
Ricky Turcios is again just a win away from becoming a UFC fighter. Team Volkanovski’s No. 3 bantamweight pick became the first fighter to advance to The Ultimate Fighter 29 finals, taking a convincing decision in an action-packed scrap with Team Ortega’s Liudvik Sholinian (9-1-1)*. As he did in his semifinal thriller opposite Dan Argueta,
T.J. Dillashaw got a win in his first fight in more than two years but now he’s headed into surgery after earning a split decision victory over Cory Sandhagen at UFC Vegas 22. The former bantamweight champion revealed on Tuesday that an MRI revealed a couple of tears in his knee that will force him
UFC Vegas 33 has lost its expected co-main event after Shamil Abdurakhimov vs. Chris Daukaus was cancelled. A person with knowledge of the cancellation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting after an initial report from TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter. Abdurakhimov was forced to withdraw from the card for undisclosed reasons. UFC Vegas 33, which takes place
Few things infuriate MMA fans more than a fight being scored incorrectly, though the term “robbery” tends to be thrown around carelessly and is often steeped in bias. With Robbery Review, we’ll take a look back at controversial fights and determine whether the judges were rightly criticized for their decision or if pundits need to
The UFC Vegas 33 fight card will be headlined by a middleweight clash between Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland. Hall (17-9) and Strickland (23-3) have both won four fights in a row. Strickland defeated Krzysztof Jotko via unanimous decision at UFC Vegas 25 this past May in his most recent outing, while Hall defeated Chris
Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt saw the UFC Vegas 32 headliner for Cory Sandhagen – not his former teammate and longtime rival T.J. Dillashaw. Garbrandt indicated he wasn’t biased by his own personal feelings about Dillashaw, who took home a split decision on Saturday night with two 48-47 scorecards to Sandhagen’s single 48-47 score.