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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was back at it again last night (Sat., Dec. 7, 2019) as UFC on ESPN 7 went down from inside inside Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. In the headlining act, Jairzinho Rozenstruik scored a memorable come-from-behind knockout finish over Alistair Overeem in the final seconds of the fight (see it
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1:39 AM ET UFC heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik capped off a magical 2019 run in a big way, as he knocked out Alistair Overeem in the final seconds of their heavyweight bout. Rozenstruik (10-0) needed every bit of the five-round main event to get the job done. Referee Dan Miragliotta waved the fight off at the
Alistair Overeem suffered a shocking last second knockout loss to Jairzinho Rozenstruik in the headliner of tonight’s UFC Washington event. After seemingly outpointing his opponent for the better part of five rounds, ‘The Reem’ was flatted by a Rozenstruik punch with just four seconds left in the fifth and final round. It was a devastating
Image Credit: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images The UFC Washington bonuses, live gate, and attendance have been released. UFC Washington took place inside Captial One Arena in Washington, D.C. Headlining the card was a heavyweight clash between Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Alistair Overeem. Rozenstruik earned the finish in the final round via knockout. The co-main
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was back at it again last night (Sat., Dec. 7, 2019) as UFC on ESPN 7 went down from inside inside Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. In the headlining act, Jairzinho Rozenstruik scored a memorable come-from-behind knockout finish over Alistair Overeem in the final seconds of the fight (see it
Jairzinho Rozenstruik thinks he can knock out Francis Ngannou too [embedded content] (Subscribe to MMAWeekly.com on YouTube | Photo courtesy of UFC) Hear everything Jairzinho Rozenstruik had to say about his last-second knockout of Alistair Overeem at UFC on ESPN 7 on Saturday in Washington, DC, and his desire to fight Francis Ngannou.
11:37 AM ET Alistair Overeem and Jairzinho Rozenstruik both made the heavyweight limit for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event in Washington, D.C., but one half of the co-main event missed badly at Friday’s weigh-in. One prelim fighter missed weight as well. Overeem (47-17, 1 NC) hit the scale at 248 pounds, and Rozenstruik (9-0)
Virna Jandiroba taps out Mallory Martin at UFC Washington. The two fighters met in a women’s strawweight bout at the UFC Washington event from the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C on Saturday night (December 7, 2019) that aired on ESPN. As seen in the fight, Jandiroba tapped out Martin in the second round with
A key heavyweight bout featuring former title challenger Alistair Overeem taking on surging contender Jairzinho Rozenstruik headlines tonight’s UFC Washington event. The former Strikeforce and DREAM heavyweight champion, Overeem (45-17 MMA), will enter tonight’s main event on a two-fight win streak, this after scoring back-to-back TKO victories over Sergei Pavlovich and Alexey Oleynik in his
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) makes its return to ESPN this Sat. night (Dec. 7, 2019) featuring a titanic tilt pitting longtime mixed martial arts (MMA) veteran and former champion kickboxer, Alistair Overeem, opposite undefeated 265-pound rising star, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, who won all three of his UFC fights by way of knockout. In the UFC on
[embedded content] (Courtesy of TMZSports) Jorge Masvidal is nearing two decades as a professional fighter and he’s ready to get paid like one of that top athletes in the world. Though Masvidal has been fighting professionally since 2003, it’s only in the last year that he has ascended to the upper reaches of mixed martial
2:54 PM ET A women’s MMA pioneer’s time in the UFC has come to an end. Liz Carmouche, who lost to Ronda Rousey at UFC 157 in 2013 in what was the first female fight in UFC history, was released from the promotion on Thursday, her manager Kyle Stoltz told ESPN. The decision to release
Image Credit: Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC Liz Carmouche admits the way she was released by the UFC caught her off guard. Carmouche was brought out to UFC Washington for fight week. Little did she know, the promotion had already decided to release her. A UFC official told MMAJunkie that matchmakers were unaware that Carmouche was
Tito Ortiz and Alberto Del Rio do not like each other and that was made apparent at today’s weigh-ins. On Dec. 7, Ortiz will be making his Combate Americas debut when he battles Del Rio, who also serves as the promotion’s president. The two have gone back-and-forth in interviews trash-talking each other. So, when they
Frankie Edgar replaces Brian Ortega, will fight Chan Sung Jung at UFC South Korea Brian Ortega is out and Frankie Edgar is in. The former UFC lightweight champion will square off with Chan Sung Jung (aka The Korean Zombie) in the UFC Fight Night featherweight main event in Busan, South Korea. Edgar had been slated
Combate Americas “Tito vs. Alberto” takes place TONIGHT (Sat., Dec. 7, 2019) at Payne Arena in McAllen, Texas. In the 210-pound Catchweight main event, “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz (20-12-1) fights former AAA and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Heavyweight champion Jose Alberto Rodríguez (9-5), better known in lucha libre as Alberto El Patron. Combate