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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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