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Former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos will attempt to stop the hype surrounding Islam Makhachev when they meet at UFC 267 on Oct. 30 in Abu Dhabi. Multiple sources confirmed the matchup to MMA Fighting on Tuesday after dos Anjos initially revealed the offer for the fight on social media. At the time, dos Anjos

The UFC has released a promotional video ahead of their next pay-per-view event this Saturday night. UFC 265 will take place at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and will feature an interim heavyweight championship bout in the main event as Derrick Lewis will fight in front of his hometown crowd against the surging Ciryl

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Though MMA bouts can be wildly unpredictable, there are some results that even the most casual viewer can see coming from miles away. Case in point: When three guys fight one guy, it’s probably not going to go well for the one guy. That axiom played out in brutal fashion Saturday at an Elite Fighters

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

UFC Vegas 33 needs a new co-main event just hours before the card is slated to begin. Rani Yahya revealed on Instagram that he tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of his scheduled bout against Kyung Ho Kang on Saturday night. “Hey guys, my fight just got cancelled,” Yahya wrote on his social media account. “I

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

UFC Vegas 33 headliners Uriah Hall and Sean Strickland made weight without issue on Friday morning in Las Vegas, but there were two misses on the scale including inaugural UFC flyweight champ Nicco Montano, who came in seven pounds heavy for her bantamweight bout against Wu Yanan. Due to Montano’s overage at 143 pounds, or

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

Juancamilo Ronderos has received a sanction from UFC anti-doping partner U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for cocaine. USADA announced Thursday that Ronderos (4-1) was suspended for one month following a positive drug test for cocaine and its metabolite benzoylecgonine stemming from an in-competition sample collected for his UFC debut on May 22 at UFC

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

The World MMA Awards 2021 nominees have been announced. MMA Fighting, a five-time winner for MMA Media Source of the Year, has been nominated once again for this honor. Shaun Al-Shatti and Ariel Helwani, whose MMA Hour show will return on Aug. 16, have been nominated for journalists of the year. Helwani has won this

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,

Din Thomas has no problems using the word “robbery” to describe several decisions at UFC Vegas 32. When a fighter is denied their hard-earned money due to the incompetence of a judging professional, there’s no other way to say it. “I see how hard fighters work in order to do their job and be good

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

Stipe Miocic believes he should be fighting Francis Ngannou next and he’s not happy about waiting for a trilogy with the series tied between them at one win a piece. The former UFC heavyweight champion expressed his frustrations in an Instagram post made by ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong asking about who he should sign

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

Miranda Maverick did everything she could to earn victory against Maycee Barber at UFC Vegas 32. During the contest, fans saw the flyweights batter each other for 15 minutes inside the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. But while pundits thought Maverick had done enough to earn the decision on the judges’ scorecards, it was Barber