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Prajanchai PK Saenchai thought he would have a chance at two-sport gold at ONE Friday Fights 58. However, Jonathan Di Bella’s fight-week illness postponed their ONE Championship showdown. On Friday, June 28, the two will meet for the now-vacant ONE Strawweight Kickboxing World Title at ONE Friday...
Although it’s only late June, we’ve got some finality in this MMA weekend. Friday marks the last PFL card in its 2024 regular season. After Friday night, all six playoff brackets will be locked in, save for any playoff alternates who need to tag in due to injuries. This week, the SmartCage touche...
Jonathan Di Bella was once the ONE Strawweight Kickboxing World Champion. However, illness took the gold from him prior to ONE Friday Fights 58. On Friday, June 28, he has a chance to reclaim his throne against Prajanchai PK Saenchai at ONE Friday Fights 68. In an interview with ONE Championship,...
On Friday night, people stay up late to celebrate the start of a new weekend and the fact that they don’t need to worry about getting up at dawn to go to work for two days. If those weren’t good enough reasons to stay up late on a Friday, here’s another one: UFC Fight Pass […]
Former interim lightweight champion and potentially retired fighter Dustin Poirier will be using his voice instead of his fists at UFC 303. “The Diamond” has been added to the commentary desk ahead of the big pay-per-view. MMAJunkie.com first reported the addition of Poirier and the rest of the c...
It’s the last weekend in June. Where does the time go these days? The last weekend before the Independence Day holiday in America next Thursday is a jam-packed one, with no fewer than four cards happening on Friday night, three of them being MMA shows. While the PFL holds its last show of its reg...
In the 1990s, Universal Studios Florida in Orlando was a dream vacation spot for any child with cable thanks to its Nickelodeon Studios wing. While Nick’s TV production packed up and left Universal Studios for the greener pastures of Los Angeles, CA for good after its Splat! late-afternoon block ...
Anytime a combat sports promotion heads to a new market for the first time, it raises a series of questions: Will the fans come out to root on their favorite fighters? Will the fights themselves be entertaining? Will this first effort lead to more cards in that area? These queries, and others lik...
In one of the more intriguing fights on the show, Felipe Lima takes on Muhammad Naimov on this weekend’s UFC Saudi Arabia card. Here’s how the two upstart featherweights match up with one another Lima’s Fighting Biography Felipe Lima will arrive in Saudi Arabia on a wave of European boosterism dr...
MMA at the lunch hour (inside the United States) is a rare treat, but that’s just what the UFC‘s serving up on this Saturday afternoon. Today, the promotion makes its first-ever trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for UFC on ABC 6. Live coverage begins today at 12 noon ET/ 9 am PT on ESPN before […]
Dustin Lampros is pretty good at mixed martial arts. So much so that the 30-year-old out of Kill Cliff FC has put together a perfect 9-0 professional record. In July 2022, Lampros topped the Shamrock FC mountain by knocking off Brandon Bell to capture the SFC Featherweight Championship. Since the...
Another weekend of fights is about to begin! Tonight, on the second evening of summer, the PFL SmartCage sets up shop inside the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on the campus of The University of Utah for PFL 5. It’s the second and final chance for lightweights and light heavyweights to ...
ONE Fight Night 23 has had a shakeup at the top of the card. Jackie Buntan withdrew from her title tilt with Anissa Meksen due to injury, leaving the July 5 main event slot open. The new top draw will be Ok Rae Yoon vs. Alibeg Rasulov for the ONE Interim Lightweight MMA World Championship.
Two thrilling World Championship matches have been added to ONE Championship’s Atlanta debut. The organization will arrive in Georgia on Friday, November 8, for ONE 169: Atlanta at the State Farm Arena. On Wednesday, the promotion revealed its first two matchups for the event.
For a long time, if you said Bellator MMA, you also said Jimmy Smith, broadcast extraordinaire who spent over seven years with the company through their rise in MMA. After a one-year run with the UFC, Smith would go on to become a radio host on Sirius XM and spent time broadcasting WWE matches wh...
Westin Wilson (17-9 MMA, 1-2 UFC) picked up his first UFC win in a big way when he submitted Jeka Saragih in less than two minutes at the UFC event held Saturday at the Apex. Wilson submitted Saragih with a triangle armbar, but it was a series of grappling moves that set up the tap-out. […]