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A packed weekend of combat sports begins on Friday with another day-night doubleheader from ONE Championship. Following ONE Friday Fights 66 in the morning hours (USA time), primetime brings with it another marquee event. Friday night, while Cage Warriors 173 happens stateside in San Diego, CA (m...
You may not know the name Tyler “Sugar Free” Scott quite yet, but the 34-year-old Midwesterner plans to change that this Friday night at LFA 185. Scott, who fights out of Dominion MMA, will square off against surging Joey Hart.
At ONE 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut II, Mikey Musumeci gets a shot at redemption. The talented ONE Championship grappler will square off against Gabriel Sousa, the last man to defeat him. The matchup has Musumeci chomping at the bit for the bell to ring on June 7.
Throughout the run-up to Saturday night’s UFC 302 pay-per-view in Newark, NJ from Prudential Center, No. 4 lightweight contender Dustin Poirier (30-9, 1 NC MMA, 22-8, 1 NC UFC) was noncommittal when the topic of discussion was the question of whether or not this past weekend’s main event versus ...
Denice Zamboanga will not get her shot at gold at ONE 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut II on Friday, June 7. Stamp Fairtex edited the event due to injury, but the talented atomweight will still compete. “The Menace” will square off against Noelle Grandjean to send a resounding message to the Thai supe...
While it’s still technically spring for a few more weeks, tonight, Prudential Center in Newark, NJ brings some heat with the UFC holding court in the home arena of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. A packed month of June in MMA kicks off with UFC 302. Live coverage begins tonight with the early prelim...
Antonio Mammarella will have a tremendous opportunity to announce himself to the world on Friday, June 7. The Italian athlete will meet Adrian Lee at ONE 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut II. Both men will make their ONE Championship debut and try to stand out as the future of the lightweight division....
On the last night of the fifth month of the year, not everybody in America will be watching the night session in day one of the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament from stadiums around the nation. This evening, competitive violence is on the menu in Houston, TX. Boxing is the focus tonight as OTX...
Jailton Almeida is “mentally undefeated” in the UFC Heavyweight division. Call it what you want, the Brazilian prospect’s hype train came to a halt in his last fight at UFC 299 as Almeida was pulverized by a series of short punches from Curtis Blaydes, suffering his first official UFC loss. The T...
Sean Strickland is on the fence about serving as the UFC’s safety net. In the next title fight that’s all but confirmed, two-time champion and the man Strickland took the belt from, Israel Adesanya’s targeted to return against current middleweight king Dricus Du Plessis later this year. There’s n...
Saturday night could play host to Dustin Poirier‘s final fight. A professional fighter dating back to 2009 and a UFC athlete since 2011, it’s been a long road for the former UFC interim lightweight champion. After tapping out in two undisputed title fights against Khabib Nurmagomedov and Charles ...
UFC 302 is bringing the heat to the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, June 1. The card features lightweight champion Islam Makhachev will look to defend his belt against Dustin Poirier, who is looking to secure undisputed UFC gold for the first time in what could be the last s...
It’s a big weekend in combat sports, so big that it starts on a Thursday night. Later this evening, Karate Combat returns to UFC Fight Pass for Karate Combat 46 from the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX. Live coverage can also be streamed for free on the promotion’s official YouTube channel...
Alyse Anderson will try to get a little redemption in Denver, Colorado when she makes her ONE Championship return. She last competed against Stamp Fairtex at ONE Fight Night 10 and lost by TKO, but is motivated to erase that memory inside the Ball Arena. “Lil’ Savage” will meet Victoria Souza at ...
June 2024 is set to be one of the best months in combat sports in recent memory. In boxing, we have a number of big fights, however, in the world of MMA, we have some mega fights to look forward to. We take a look at these upcoming bouts throughout June. Combat Sports Schedule – […]
June 1 is the start of meteorological summer. In MMA circles, June 1 starts the summer of competitive violence. The sport’s top promotion, the UFC, starts off this three-month stretch of action with the first of two pay-per-view events in the month of the summer solstice. On June 29, Conor McGre...