Month: December 2019

2:44 PM ET PFL will have to go to Plan B for its featherweight final on New Year’s Eve. Daniel Pineda’s disciplinary hearing in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has been pushed to January. The extension was brokered between the commission and Pineda’s representatives at an NSAC meeting Wednesday. Pineda was scheduled
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UFC flyweight Priscila Cachoeira, whose Octagon career started with a brutal beatdown courtesy of champ Valentina Shevchenko, has been suspended by the UFC’s anti-doping partner. Cachoeira accepted a four-month term after an out-of-competition drug test conducted Oct. 19 revealed the presence of hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) and its metabolites. HCTZ is in the class of masking agents
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FRANKIE EDGAR VS. CHAN SUNG JUNG These veteran featherweight contenders were slated to meet last November in Denver, Colorado, but Edgar was forced out with a bicep injury and the fight world was sad. But Yair Rodriguez stepped in, he and Jung went to war, resulting in one of the best fights and craziest knockouts
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Image Credit: Bellator MMA Earlier this afternoon, news surfaced that former Bellator welterweight champion Rory MacDonald has parted ways with the Viacom-owned promotion and signed with the Professional Fighters League (PFL). While this is exciting news for MacDonald and the PFL, it does represent an unfortunate twist for fans who were hoping to see a
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, made his first 170-pound title defense with a thrilling, “Fight of the Night” performance against bitter rival, Colby Covington, in the UFC 245 pay-per-view (PPV) main event. Now the promotion is giving you a second look at all the in-cage highlights from last weekend’s big shebang, including
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He’s back! Irish superstar Conor McGregor makes his return to the Octagon on January 18, and he’s kicking off 2020 with a welterweight showdown against the man with the most wins in UFC history, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. Returning to action for the first time since October 2018 in the main event of UFC 246, the
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8:07 PM ET Just hours after Kamaru Usman‘s welterweight title defense Saturday night, Conor McGregor sent out a tweet. It read: “145. 155. 170.” McGregor has already held UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight — or 145 pounds and 155 pounds. The 170 represents the pound limit for welterweight. It sure seemed like McGregor was
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But first, flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko calls in to talk about her title fight in February at UFC 247 against Katlyn Chookagian, training with Halle Berry, and her aspiring film career (she has a degree in film directing). Then, Brian Ortega calls in to update us on his unfortunate partial ACL tear which caused him
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