Middleweight contenders Jack Hermansson and Sean Strickland are expected to headline an upcoming UFC Fight Night event on Feb 5., per a recent report by ESPN’s Brett Okamoto. According to the report, both fighters should be signing their respective contracts shortly. The UFC event on Feb. 5 currently does not have a location or venue,
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3:34 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a middleweight bout between Jack Hermansson and Sean Strickland to headline an event in February, sources told ESPN on Friday. Contracts have not yet been signed for the 185-pound contest that will serve as the main event at UFC Fight Night on Feb. 5, but they should be
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Pedro Munhoz knows a thing or two about Jose Aldo and Rob Font. The experienced bantamweight has shared the octagon against both UFC Vegas 44 headliners in the past, and discussed the Dec. 4 clash on this week’s episode of MMA Fighting’s Portuguese-language podcast Trocação Franca. Munhoz, who submitted Font in 2017 and lost a
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Image via @khamzat_chimaev on Instagram (photographer not listed) UFC welterweight contender Khamzat Chimaev took aim at “fake gangster” Nake Diaz, saying that “I’m here to kill everyone.” Chimaev is one of the hottest fighters on the UFC roster right now. Since making his promotional debut on Fight Island in July 2020, Chimaev has had four
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Bellator 272 goes down tonight (Fri., Dec. 3, 2021) inside Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., airing exclusively on SHOWTIME (watch it here). Headlining the event is a Bantamweight title fight between division king Sergio Pettis taking on RIZIN 135-pound king, Kyoji Horiguchi. In the co-main event, Emmanuel Sanchez will battle Jeremy Kennedy in Featherweight
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6:26 PM ET Felicia Spencer, a former UFC title challenger who has competed against some of the top female fighters of all time, is retiring from mixed martial arts, she confirmed Thursday with ESPN. “I’ve made the decision to be done with my fighting career, if you want to call it a career,” Spencer told
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It didn’t take UFC welterweight star Khamzat Chimaev long to respond to Nate Diaz. Chimaev fired back at Diaz on Thursday after the Stockton, Calif., native brushed off a potential fight, saying Chimaev wasn’t on his level. The 27-year-old Chechen didn’t take kindly to that opinion, writing Diaz is a “fake gangster” and “the easiest
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Credit: Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports Jan Blachowicz vs Aleksandar Rakic is expected to headline a UFC Vegas card in March. The bout — first reported by ESPN on Wednesday afternoon — will pit the former champion, and top-ranked Blachowicz (28-9) against the third-ranked Rakic (14-2). The booking seemed a strong possibility after Blachowicz appeared as
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