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.
It's finally here. After 12 months of excitement and controversy inside and outside the cage, another year of MMA has come and gone. With the passage...
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.
ONE Championship delivered another incredible year of finishes in 2023, from its weekly ONE Friday Fights event series to U.S. primetime ONE Fight Night action. In the end, the promotion revealed its knockouts of the year through three martial arts disciplines highlighted by the organization. Here are the three winners for kickboxing, MMA, and Muay Thai Knockout of the Year.
