Bellator 255 took place Friday night on Showtime, and you can find the results from the card right here. Below are some of the highlights from the night’s action! The main card began with a competitive fight between flyweights Kana Watanabe and Alejandra Lara. Watanabe earned the split-decision nod, and you can find a quick
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Will Jon Jones return to the UFC for a big money superfight against new heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou? No one knows for sure at this moment, what with Jones very visibly fighting with UFC brass over payment terms for a fight of this size. Past the will it / won’t it question, there’s also the
Bellator 255 Highlights: Patricio Pitbull chokes out Emmanuel Sanchez! Patricio “Pitbull” Freire continued to lord over two divisions at Bellator 255. The lightweight and featherweight champ choked out Emmanuel Sanchez in the featherweight championship main event, which was also a Featherweight Grand Prix semifinal bout. Check out the Bellator 255 highlights below! Having defeated Sanchez,
Image Credit: UFC.com Former two-division title challenger Demian Maia will make his return to the Octagon at UFC 263 for a welterweight bout with Belal Muhammad. That news comes courtesy of ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, who shared the following information on Twitter. Per sources, Demian Maia (@demianmaia) vs. Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170 ) agreed to for UFC
Due to injuries, please note the following updates for next weekend’s event: Darren Till has been removed from his main event middleweight bout against Marvin Vettori. Replacing Till will be Kevin Holland, who steps in on short notice after competing in his first UFC main event just weeks earlier. Bea Malecki has been removed from
UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou fielded questions from the media at Thursday’s pre-fight press conference with UFC President Dana White. Subscribe to get all the latest UFC content: http://bit.ly/2uJRzRR Experience UFC live with UFC FIGHT PASS, the digital subscription service of the UFC. Visit https://ufcfightpass.com/ To order UFC Pay-Per-Views on ESPN+, visit
12:20 AM ET The UFC is finalizing a welterweight bout between Demian Maia and Belal Muhammad for a pay-per-view event on June 12, multiple sources told ESPN. Contracts have not been signed, however, verbal agreements are in place, sources said. The bout will take place at UFC 263 at a location to be announced. Maia
A new poster has emerged ahead of UFC Vegas 23 on April 10 after Kevin Holland stepped up on short notice to face Marvin Vettori in the new five-round main event. Holland is looking to bounce back after he lost a largely one-sided contest to Derek Brunson in March, which snapped a five-fight win streak
Two top-5 heavyweights will meet when Ciryl Gane faces Alexander Volkov as the headliner of the June 26 UFC card. According to an ESPN report, Ciryl Gane and Alexander Volkov have verbally agreed to fight one another on June 26 in what will be the second fight of the year for both men. There is
Fight fans got to see a ridiculous highlight-reel finish on Friday when Paul Capaldo scored a perfect spin kick knockout at Cage Fury Fighting Championship 95 in Philadelphia. Capaldo, who came into the fight undefeated, was matched up against rising youngster Chris Vasil. After two back-and-forth rounds it was Capaldo who landed the most meaningful
Flashback: Jon Jones talks to Steve-O about Francis Ngannou and UFC pay Jon Jones has long been at odds with the UFC over his contract. The situation resurfaced recently when the potential megafight between him and newly minted UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou became a very public negotiation that has turned ugly. That’s nothing new
Image via Marvin Vettori on Instagram, photo by ROF Industries Inc. Perennial middleweight contender Marvin Vettori is looking absolutely shredded ahead of his UFC on ABC 2 fight with Kevin Holland. Vettori (16-4-1 MMA) and Holland (21-6 MMA) are set to square off in the headliner of next weekend’s UFC Fight Night event in Las
“I kicked him in the head, but I kicked him light,” Griffin said. “It was more like a slap kick, but my foot hit his ear and his ear started ringing. After the practice he was like, ‘my f****** head’s still ringing!’” Not that a former champion, TUF winner, savior of a sport and frontrunner
12:10 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Two-division champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire showed off what makes him the best fighter in Bellator and perhaps the top featherweight in all of MMA on Friday night. Freire, a 33-year-old from Brazil, handed Emmanuel Sanchez his first stoppage loss with a technical submission by guillotine choke in Round 1 to
Cris Cyborg thinks there are several reasons why her second fight with Leslie Smith could look different from the first. During Friday’s Bellator 255 broadcast, it was announced that Cyborg’s next featherweight title defense will be a rematch against Smith set to headline Bellator 259 on May 21 Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. Cyborg
Michael Chandler is basing his belief that he will break Charles Oliveira at UFC 262 on past evidence. Michael Chandler is on record in recently stating that he believes that Dan Hooker was a tougher test than Oliveira will be, and one of the reasons he came to that conclusion is because Hooker never gives
Conor McGregor has made things official for his trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier. One day after Poirier signed his contract, McGregor took to social media to confirm that the trilogy has been finalized for UFC 264 on July 10. McGregor also promised to show the MMA world what “Mac” is all about when he meets
LOS ANGELES – BELLATOR MMA and SHOWTIME Sports today announced BELLATOR 259 on Friday, May 21, will be headlined by a featherweight championship rematch pitting current 145-pound titleholder and the top-ranked women’s pound-for-pound fighter Cris Cyborg (23-2, 1 NC) against Northern California’s Leslie Smith (12-8-1). The event airs live exclusively on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and emanates from Mohegan Sun Arena