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The UFC has released the cold open for Saturday’s stacked UFC 266 card. Featured in the promotional video is the rivalry between featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega, which only grew during their time as rival coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 29. Volkanovski seeks the second defense of his title after winning a pair […]

In a very short period of time, ONE Championship lightweight champion Christian Lee has nearly wiped out every top contender the division has to offer him. After he won the title with a second-round TKO over Shinya Aoki in 2019, Lee dispatched highly touted Dagestani prospect Saygid “Dagi” Arslanaliev and then needed less than four […]

Dan Hooker will fight at UFC 266, though there was a point where that was far from certain. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent lockdown in New Zealand, Hooker was having issues getting his visa to travel to the U.S. for his fight with Nasrat Haqparast. But thankfully, he has acquired the necessary […]

MMA Fighting has Bellator 266 ceremonial weigh-in video for Friday’s event at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. In the main event, former Bellator light heavyweight champion Phil Davis welcomes perennial middleweight contender Yoel Romero to the Bellator cage at 205 pounds. The opponents can weigh no more than 206 pounds, the maximum allowed for […]

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At the UFC Vegas 37 weigh-ins, all 30 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Las Vegas are set to step on the scale Friday for the event at UFC APEX. MMA Fighting will have live video of the proceedings when available. In the main event, light heavyweights Anthony Smith and Ryan Spann can weigh no […]

One of the most decorated college wrestlers in recent history will officially make the move to MMA on Sept. 24 as Penn State great and three-time NCAA champion Bo Nickal has booked his first fight. Nickal made the announcement on Thursday with a fight booked on a boxing/MMA hybrid card in Pensacola, Fla., which is […]

Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort will compete on the same night for the first time since their historic clash in 2011, and “The Spider” doesn’t seem interested in facing “The Phenom” again. Silva, who stopped Belfort with a front kick in the opening round of their highly anticipated middleweight title bout back at UFC 126 […]

Kyoji Horiguchi, a former champion in multiple promotions who is widely considered among the best active 135-pound fighters in the world, agreed Thursday to return to Bellator MMA.   The signing of Horiguchi (29-3) was confirmed on social media by Bellator president Scott Coker as the promotion only added to a bantamweight division overflowing with […]

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