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Mixed Martial Arts, or simply MMA, is quickly becoming the world’s pre-eminent combat sport. The sport’s history dates back to ancient China, and has had a number of modern precursors, however, it was fully realized in its modern incarnation in the 20th century, when several fighting cultures, in...
After going undefeated in ten fights to start his career, Richie Palencia has signed with Bellator. An official from the promotion told MMA Junkie that the reigning LFA bantamweight champion has agreed to an exclusive, multi-fight contract. Palencia, 31, has an unblemished 10-0 professional MMA ...
It may look like Jake Paul has moved forward from his canceled bout with Tommy Fury, but the brother of boxing world heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, thinks that the two of them will meet in the ring. Fury found himself under Paul’s verbal fire since withdrawing from their originally scheduled ...
The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is on the road to the second edition of its biggest, annual event – KnuckleMania. It will take place on February 19th in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The heated meeting between Julian Lane and Mike Perry will serve as the ma...
Courtesy of PFL Anthony Pettis informed via his Twitter profile that he didn’t quit on winning the $1 million prize money offered by the Professional Fighters League each season. The former UFC lightweight champion will take part in the upcoming 2022 season, which is expected to kick off later t...
Despite his efforts, Kleber Koike Erbst didn’t get a chance to showcase his fighting skills at RIZIN 33 event, however, Bonsai Jiu-Jitsu member had two reasons to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Firstly, his teammate Roberto Souza has successfully defended his RIZIN Lightheavyweight title, and after th...
GLORY announced today the launching of the Rivals series in 2022. It will be a series of joint events co-promoted by GLORY and other kickboxing and combat sports promotions from around the globe. The main goal is to showcase the world’s best kickboxers and strikers. In an official press statem...
Former KSW Middleweight champion, Michał Materla makes his promotional return on January 15th in his hometown of Szczecin. “Magic”‘s opponent will be experienced English fighter, Jason Radcliffe. “The Assassin” Radcliffe has a 17-8 record and has won two of three fights in KSW. The Englishman ma...
After making a big splash in his Bellator debut, it does not appear Anthony Johnson will be back in the Bellator cage anytime soon as he focuses’ on something bigger, himself. Scott Coker Gives Anthony Johnson Update Anthony Johnson made his debut back at Bellator 258 when he had a comeback knock...
Caption: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MAY 01: (L-R) Cody Stamann kicks Merab Dvalishvili of Georgia in a bantamweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on May 01, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Cody Stamann (19-4-1 MMA, 5-3-1 UFC) will look to return to the wi...
Another week brings another induction into the ADCC Hall of Fame and the newest inductee is a man known in both the submission grappling and MMA worlds – Dean Lister. A Brazilian black belt under Jeffrey Higgs, Lister spend eight years training and competing in a gi, but always had the ambition ...
Kron Gracie was up and coming MMA fighter who made the transition from the Japanese circuit to the UFC in February 2019, picking up a submission win over Alex Caceres in his debut. A renowned grappler with an ADCC World Championship to his name, he was riding a five-fight winning streak when in O...
It looks like Scott Coker has an opponent for Cris Cyborg’s next Bellator Women’s Featherweight title defense, the UFC veteran, Cat Zingano. In his interview with MMA Junkie, Coker said that he is planning to bring back Cyborg in the first few months of 2022. The main issue is that there aren’t ...
An important fight between young light heavyweights is set for Las Vegas, as Johnny Walker and Jamahal Hill will fight at a Fight Night event on February 19th. The fight was first reported by Meni Mayer with MMA.Ideas, with the date being confirmed today by Guilherme Cruz with MMAFighting.com. Wa...
Every year the sport of MMA gets crazier and crazier. And every year, we try and predict some potential outcomes. In this piece, we revisit January’s predictions, assess them and see how well or how badly we did. You can check out the original article here. 2021’s MMA Predictions Revisited 1 – Co...
British boxing is booming at the moment. There are a number of high-level competitors, champions and contenders in a number of different divisions. Although the poster boy of British boxing, Anthony Joshua is coming off a loss, it doesn’t tarnish British boxing’s future too much. We take a look a...