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UFC Vegas 75 Bonuses: Shattering records, snagging $50k The UFC Vegas 75 bonuses are in with main eventer Jared Cannonier shattering records and taking home an additional $50,000 for his efforts. UFC Vegas 75 Fight of the Night: Jared Cannonier defeats Marvin Vettori Marvin Vettori started strong, wobbling Jared Cannonier in the first round of

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJun 17, 2023, 12:44 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun ATLANTA — Larissa Pacheco shocked the world in 2022, when she upset Kayla Harrison in the lightweight finals to win her first PFL championship. She appears well poised to win

Israel Adesanya on post-UFC 281 arrest Days after his UFC 281 loss against Pereira, Israel Adesanya was arrested at JFK Airport due to having brass knuckles with him. The weapon was a gift from a fan. Israel Adesanya didn’t know it would pose a problem at the airport. Ultimately, charges were dismissed. Chatting with Ariel

Jared Cannonier returned with a vengeance on Saturday night, putting on a dominating fight against Marvin Vettori that earned him a unanimous decision win and $50,000 in Fight of the Night bonus money. The performance was a far cry from his last two fights where the “Killa Gorilla” fought very tentatively. In his previous bout

Jared Cannonier: ‘I’m still at the top of my game’ Jared Cannonier put on a stellar performance at UFC Vegas 75 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. He not only set a record for most significant strikers landed in a UFC middleweight bout, but secured his position as one of the top contenders in the

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJun 18, 2023, 01:47 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Former UFC title challenger Jared Cannonier turned in one of the top performances in middleweight history on Saturday, as he set a new divisional record for strikes landed in a

The Octagon returned to Nevada for tonight’s UFC Vegas 75 event, a twelve-bout fight card headlined by Marvin Vettori vs. Jared Cannonier. The highly anticipated middleweight main event proved to be a coming out party for the 39-year-old Cannonier. After being rocked early in the opening round, ‘The Killa Gorilla’ went to put on the

Jared Cannonier completed dominated Marvin Vettori last night (Sat., June 17, 2023) at UFC Vegas 75 live on ESPN/ESPN+ from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, to win a crucial middleweight main event. The co-main event saw lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan score a brutal TKO stoppage over veteran Joaquim Silva. In addition, UFC Vegas

UFC Vegas 75 Post-Fight Press Conference Video The big winners of the night fielded questions from the media during the UFC Vegas 75 Post-Fight Press Conference at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Jared Cannonier battered Marvin Vettori in the fight card’s main event, setting the UFC record for most significant strikes in middleweight history.

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJun 17, 2023, 12:21 AM ET The story going into the fight was all about Patricio Freire. “Pitbull” is the best fighter in Bellator history, the only athlete on the roster to have four different championship reigns across two weight classes. On Friday night, Freire was trying to make history by

Tonight, the light heavyweight main event featured champion Vadim Nemkov taking on Yoel Romero at Bellator 297 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Ill. After a delay to begin the Bellator 297 preliminary portion, the card cruised through with five fights in a little over an hour, plus the highly-anticipated three-main card fights to lead into

Professional kickboxer Ulric Bokeme lost more than just a match Saturday afternoon (June 17, 2023) at GLORY Collision 5 from inside Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands, as the 32-year old middleweight had his front teeth knocked out in a TKO loss to Michael Boahpeah. After a few minutes of back-and-forth action the two middleweights had

Nobody in boxing wants to fight heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, but mixed martial artists from Jon Jones to Francis Ngannou keep beating down his door. Fury says that he has been in talks with both, including fielding a recent offer from the UFC. How the Tyson Fury, Jon Jones, Francis Ngannou fiasco started Talk about

Jun 17, 2023, 12:45 AM ET There’s plenty of action across MMA over the weekend with PFL Regular Season: Heavyweights and Women’s Featherweights and Bellator 297 in Chicago on Friday night and UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Saturday. In Friday’s action, defending champions Ante Delija and Larissa Pacheco got wins, but only one

Current UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones and former title holder Francis Ngannou exchanged words during tonight’s PFL event in Atlanta. It was only a month ago today when news broke that ‘The Predator’ had found a new home under the PFL (Professional Fighters League) banner. Francis Ngannou had of course parted ways with the UFC

Jon Jones and Francis Ngannou finally came face-to-face Friday night (June 16, 2023) during a cageside encounter at PFL 5 from inside Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Jones and Ngannou share a history that goes back years. While they never actually squared off inside of the Octagon, the two heavyweights were always on a

Video Emerges of Conor McGregor leading woman into bathroom Less than 24 hours after the news broke that a woman had accused former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor ‘violently raped’ her, a video has emerged of the two entering the bathroom at Kaseya Center. The unnamed woman alleges that the Heat and NBA security separated

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 08:48 AM ET Patricio “Pitbull” Freire had just regained his Bellator featherweight title a few minutes earlier when he approached Scott Coker in the bowels of SAP Center in San Jose, California. “Pitbull,” Bellator’s franchise star, had a proposal for Coker, the promotion’s president, that night in April