Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJul 28, 2023, 06:59 PM ET SALT LAKE CITY — An anticipated welterweight fight between Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson and Michel Pereira has been pulled from Saturday’s UFC 291 card, the promotion announced Friday. Pereira missed weight by three pounds Friday morning, coming in at 174 pounds. The non-title welterweight limit is
MMA Fighting has Spence vs. Crawford results live for the Errol Spence vs. Terence Crawford fight card at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on Saturday night. When the main event begins around 11 p.m. ET on PPV.com, check out our Spence vs. Crawford live round-by-round updates for our live blog of the main
Some of Holland’s best highlights have come in battles with UFC veterans such as Jacare Souza, Alex “Cowboy” Oliveira, Tim Means, and Santiago Ponzinibbio. He’ll look to continue that trend against Chiesa. It will be Holland’s 19th fight in the UFC, which is wild to think about, considering he made his Octagon debut less than
UFC 291 takes places tomorrow, Saturday July 29th at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headlining the event is a ‘BMF’ title fight between Dustin Poirier (29-7 MMA) and Justin Gaethje (24-4 MMA). It will be the second time ‘The Diamond’ and ‘The Highlight’ have battled it out in the cage. The duo
Welcome to Midnight Mania! We’re just hours away from the highly anticipated rematch between Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier. The two threw down in the 2018 “Fight of the Year,” which saw “The Diamond” pull forth a knockout victory in the fourth round following much back-and-forth action. Five years later, the two will battle once
Jul 28, 2023, 07:56 AM ET Nate Diaz had just had his hand raised after ending a three-year absence from the Octagon with a rugged victory over Anthony Pettis in summer 2019. It was a crowd-pleasing performance, as Diaz’s fights typically are, and when he stepped to the microphone for an interview inside the cage,
At the Spence vs. Crawford weigh-ins Friday, Errol Spence and Terence Crawford will step on the scale. Spence and Crawford have to hit 147 pounds, the welterweight limit for their main event showdown on Showtime. Watch the official weigh-ins above from Las Vegas. The Errol Spence and Terence Crawford official weigh-ins are expected to begin
“It was miserable up there,” he said. “It was kind of like the Army of Darkness cabin in the middle of the woods kind of s**t, where bears were crossing and stuff. And man, it was hot. We had no fans, no laundry, and it was the best thing I could have ever had. It
Weigh-ins are taking place today, Friday July 28th at the UFC host hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. The main event will feature former interim lightweight champions Dustin Poirier (29-7 MMA) vs Justin Gaethje (24-4 MMA) battling it out for the “BMF” title. ‘The Diamond’ and ‘The Highlight’ originally met back in April of 2018
Alex Pereira successfully made the light heavyweight limit. That probably doesn’t come as a surprise considering “Poatan” previously made the cut to middleweight. Sacrifices to his conditioning and durability, along with a knockout loss to Israel Adesanya at UFC 287, were the catalyst for a jump to the 205-pound weight class. LIVE! Watch UFC 291
Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje believe there’s more on the line than a belt this Saturday. The lightweight fan-favorites headline UFC 291 at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, meeting in a rematch of their epic UFC Glendale scrap in April 2018 that Poirier won via fourth-round knockout. At Thursday’s pre-fight press conference, Poirier and
“Being a competitor, you always want to get these fights back,” he continued, addressing the rematch and the drive to draw level with Poirier, who enters off a third-round submission win over Michael Chandler last November. “The trajectory of our careers — he got both McGregor fights, those were huge opportunities that I missed out on
Trevin Giles eyes stoppage win “I haven’t been familiar. I’m not a huge mixed martial arts fan, to be honest. I don’t watch a whole bunch of fights, I enjoy doing it, I enjoy practicing it,” Giles said. “But, a lot of the guys who are up and coming, if it isn’t people who aren’t
Welcome to Midnight Mania! Despite his protests, it’s been the better part of a year since Khamzat Chimaev competed inside the Octagon. Last time out, he manhandled Kevin Holland at UFC 279, but the impressive win was largely made irrelevant by the disastrous weigh-in that saw him miss by nearly a full weight class. Since
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJul 27, 2023, 02:03 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun The UFC is finalizing a lightweight main event between Rafael Fiziev and Mateusz Gamrot in September, UFC president Dana White told ESPN Thursday. The 155-pound contest will headline UFC Fight
Two big fights are headed to the UFC APEX this September. MMA Fighting confirmed with sources with knowledge of the additions that a lightweight bout between Rafael Fiziev (12-2) and Mateusz Gamrot (22-2, 1 NC) and a featherweight bout between Bryce Mitchell (15-1) and Dan Ige (17-6) are expected to take place at a Sept.
Justin Gaethje’s UFC career started off with a bang. One of the top fights of 2017, Gaethje’s TUF finale win against Michael Johnson was as good of a start to a UFC career as you could ask for. Within the first few seconds of the fight, the two fighters were already going at it. A
BJPENN.com Fighter Picks Jan Blachowicz vs. Alex Pereira: Stephen Thompson, UFC welterweight: I’ll go with Blachowicz because he is so big and I think he can outwrestle Pereira at 205. Chris Duncan, UFC lightweight: Jan Blachowicz. Probably just outwrestles Pereira similar to what he did against Adesanya. Kyle Nelson, UFC featherweight: I’m thinking Pereira, I
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