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It's a brand new year of fights. After some MMA action occurred during the UFC's annual winter break, the 2024 calendar of events started immediately this Saturday night.
While the UFC and ONE Championship will not resume regular cards until next weekend, fans of competitive violence must wait only six days from the start of the year to get their fix on the action. Stop one of MMA's world tours in 2024, which sees the sport arrive in Long Beach, CA, and Thunder Studios for the first fight night of what will be many over the next 12 months.
Lights Out Xtreme Fighting, founded by former San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman, whose nickname is the inspiration for the promotion's moniker, returns to live action with LXF 13. Live coverage of this card begins Saturday at 7:55 pm ET/ 4:55 pm PT for free on Fubo Sports Network and YouTube. Fubo will undoubtedly be looking to build off its recent gains, as LXF 12 in November represented a 90 percent increase in viewership.
LXF 13 will also be available with ads on Freevee, a service of Amazon Prime Video. Barring any late postponements between now and the weekend, the final version of LXF 13 will feature seven bouts to kick the year off right.
Once considered one of the more shallow divisions in the UFC, the Middleweight division has seen a dramatic rise of new talent and top contenders emerge in recent years. The next man to break into the rankings at 185 lbs and make a name for himself is a Dagestani fighter who has been touted for greatness, Ikram Aliskerov.
New Year's weekend is just about here. Every year around this time, the closure of the old year is celebrated with parties, Hors D'oeuvres, champagne toasts, and the like, punctuated by a ball drop at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve to bring in the next 12 months of this journey called life.
The UFC’s Heavyweight division has felt like it has been in a perpetual state of limbo for years now, and with the departure of Francis Ngannou from the division and the arrival of Jon Jones to the fold, it seems to have ground to a halt. This article will lay out the main problems that the Heavyweight division is currently faced with and make a case as to why booking the fight between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic is a terrible idea for the division’s overall health.
Now that Colby Covington has finally been expelled from the welterweight division title picture following his one-sided defeat to Leon Edwards at UFC 296,...
'Twas two nights before Christmas, and all through America, MMA promotions were mostly silent, but not A1 Combat."With no other MMA cards happening this...
What more can anyone say about Colby Covington's performance over the weekend during UFC 296? While "Chaos" and his supporters had hoped for a championship belt underneath the Christmas tree, Covington walked away from the T-Mobile Arena with just a lump of coal to show for his performance.
The action that transpired late Saturday evening was the onetime UFC Interim Welterweight Champion's worst outing in the famed Octagon. You could watch that main event on a loop for the next 24 hours and come away with the impression that he was outclassed on just the first viewing.
With Colby Covington now having dropped three out of his last five fights under the top MMA promotion's signature, he has to answer several questions over the coming weeks and months while he waits to receive a contract offer for his next fight. What does this man have to do to try and stay in Dana White's good graces while also getting back in the championship conversation at 170 lbs.?
