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Aline Pereira, the younger sister of UFC middleweight Alex Pereira, will make her professional MMA debut in LFA. LFA announced the news of Pereira’s signing on Wednesday. Pereira most recently challenged for the Glory Kickboxing super bantamweight title against Tiffany van Soest last year. She’s accumulated a 6-2 record in professional kickboxing stints in Glory

Arnold Allen believes if there’s a UFC featherweight interim title, he needs to be involved. ‘Almighty’ is fresh off the first main event of his career last Saturday against Calvin Kattar. In the main event of UFC Vegas 63, Allen scored a second-round TKO, after his foe suffered a knee injury. – Advertisement – With

Rose Namajunas has come to terms with the result of her last fight. At UFC 274 in May 2022, Namajunas suffered a second career defeat to Carla Esparza in the evening’s co-main event (watch highlights). The split decision loss for “Thug” saw her lose her UFC Strawweight title in the process. Since then, Namajunas has

Biaggio Ali Walsh talks pressures of a combat sports career in shadow of grandfather, Muhammad Ali Biaggio Ali Walsh, the grandson of GOAT boxer Muhammad Ali, will be stepping into the PFL MMA cage on November 25 for what will be just his third amateur fight. The prospect, who remains in un-professional status (for now)

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski has hit back at claims he’s holding up his division by pursuing the lightweight title. For years, Volkanovski has hinted towards a future pursuit of champ-champ status. And as his dominance at 145 pounds, where he’s currently unbeaten in the UFC, has continued, the Australian has stepped up his calls

Former NFL running back Le’Veon Bell knows that he’s got a fight on his hands against Uriah Hall. The former Pro Bowler has had stints with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets, among others. After finishing out the 2021 NFL season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Bell decided to focus on a new path.

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Henry Cejudo earned his “Triple C” nickname. An Olympic gold medal, titles (and defenses!) at both Flyweight and Bantamweight inside the Octagon — there’s more to Cejudo than a cringey online persona. However, it’s been well over two years since Cejudo last made the walk to UFC’s Octagon, as he announced

Daniel Cormier on Jake Paul and Anderson Silva boxing match: ‘Anderson was the better fighter’ Former two-division UFC champion Daniel Cormier watched the Jake Paul and Anderson Silva boxing match and gave his takeaways from the fight. Paul defeated Silva by unanimous decision and scored the biggest moment of the fight when he dropped the

Oct 31, 2022 Tyson Pedro will spend the best part of the next three months training alongside the likes of Israel Adesanya, Kai Kara-France and Alexander Volkanovski at City Kickboxing [CKB], after the Australian light heavyweight was added to the UFC 284 card set for Perth next year. Pedro will fight China’s Zhang Mingyang at

Former UFC welterweight and current BKFC star Mike Perry has his eyes on a showdown with one of combat sports’ biggest names. After nothing but wins since departing the Octagon, Perry is looking to continue his success with another notable matchup next time out. So far, Perry has rebounded from his 1-4 form in the

Joseph Holmes has a ton of confidence heading into his UFC Vegas 63 matchup against Jun Yong Park. Holmes is coming off his first UFC win as he defeated Alen Amedovski in the first round back in May. After the win, he wasn’t sure what would be next for him but he’s glad to be

Cris “Cyborg” Justino isn’t ready to sit back and give up the greatest of all time (G.O.A.T.) mantle to her old foe, Amanda Nunes. Whether or not one is over the other, or someone else is above both, Cyborg and Nunes are both strong candidates in the G.O.A.T. conversation. That was the case heading into

Sean O’Malley doesn’t think a bout against champion Aljamain Sterling is the biggest fight in the division Top ranked UFC bantamweight contender Sean O’Malley is in line for a title bout in his next outing, but he thinks there’s a bigger matchup to make in the division. O’Mally (16-1, 1 NC) rose from the 11th

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Aljamain Sterling has shut down any reports of him fighting Henry Cejudo at UFC 284 in Australia. After Sterling defeated TJ Dillashaw by TKO in the second round at UFC 280 to defend his belt, there was a report that said he would face Cejudo at UFC 284 in February. Cejudo has since confirmed that

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Even on holidays, the UFC machine doesn’t take a break. Automated UFC roster tracking account, UFC Roster Watch, announced the release of eight athletes from the promotion. Occasionally, these fighters are simply in negotiations or suspended by USADA, but that doesn’t appear to be the case for any of the following

Jake Paul says Nate Diaz would be ‘easy work’ Jake Paul is still riding high from his win over former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a boxing match on Saturday. Following the win, Paul called out former UFC fighter Nate Diaz. He took further aim at Diaz during the event’s post-fight press conference. On

Oct 26, 2022 The reality that he is now one of the “old dogs” of the UFC might still be hitting home, but Australian Robert Whittaker [24-6] is thrilled to have the opportunity to right a previous wrong when he faces Paulo Costa [14-2] at UFC 284 in February next year. Fresh off another dominant