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Set to conclude their semifinal pairings in the welterweight, lightweight, featherweight and bantamweight divisions, the PFL is gearing up to put on another stellar show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and PFL MENA 3. In the PFL MENA 3 main event, Mohammad Alaqraa faces Ayman Galal. In the second to last...
From the Onyx Arena in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the PFL brings to the table a bevy of incredible bouts with their first stacked MENA event of the year. Headlining the card, Mohsen Mohammadseifi faces Ahmed El Sisy. Before that, however, Izzeddine Al-Derbani battles UFC alum Yanis Ghemmouri. Fighters...
Booking an incredible night of fights in the city of Jeddah, the PFL will introduce their latest MENA event, PFL MENA 1 including a main card slotted with 12 fights composed of some of the Middle East’s top aspiring talent. In the PFL MENA 1 main event, accredited wushu practitioner Mohsen Mohamm...
Dustin Poirier can handle the heat of a spicy chicken wing as good as he fights in the Octagon, that’s for damn sure. After defeating Conor McGregor at UFC 257, Poirier recently appeared on the very popular YouTube web series “Hot Ones“. We learned a lot about the Louisiana native whilst he munch...
This is the latest in my What To Watch For series and this time I’m covering Mamba Fight Night. Mamba Fight Night 8 goes on Friday, January 31st. It’s a card filled with professional and amateur MMA bouts as well as multiple amateur kickboxing fights. There is a myriad of great, largely unheralde...
In the opening months of promotion, Donald Cerrone‘s Cowboy Fight Series promised “the best prospects in MMA.” Amidst the fight announcements of top regional amateur and professional MMA talent were stud wrestlers set to make their debuts. Both D1 All-American Pat Downey and U23 world champion Ri...
Dion Rubio earned an amateur title shot with his performance at Cage Titans 41. Cage Titans 41 Post-Fight Interview: Dion Rubio Rubio defeated James Squires by 1st round submission. The Rhode Island fighter looked impressive in his third amateur fight. Squires began fast and landed a few shots on...
A jubilant Shane Dougherty expressed pleasure towards his unanimous decision victory at Cage Titans 41. Cage Titans 41 Post-Fight Interview: Shane Dougherty Fresh off his victory over Sean Murrin on the main card of Cage Titans 41, Dougherty felt content with his dominating performance. The openi...
Megan Poe drives nearly 90 minutes each way from Pennington Gap, a small town in Virginia, to Team Oxendine in Johnson City, TN, to train multiple times a week. As an amateur mixed martial artist, she’s not even paid yet to step into a cage and fight another woman. It sounds grueling, but it’s so...
Amateur mixed martial artist David Robins (6-2) will compete in what will likely be his toughest challenge to date in less than a week. He’ll partake in the USA Mixed Martial Arts Kick International Federation’s three-day national event, potentially fighting three times in three days from May 26-...
Singapore Fighting Championship (SFC) formerly announced its foray into the local Mixed Martial Arts landscape on Saturday night with its debut event, which went down at the historic GymKraft venue at Guillemard Road. For years, especially since the launch of promotions like ONE FC and REBEL FC, ...
For a country that’s dubbed the hub for Asian MMA, there isn’t really a road map for Mixed Martial Artists to turn professional in Singapore. That’s an irrefutable truth that every local hopeful will agree upon. In North America, there are competitors who make the transition from collegiate wrest...
It’s been over a year since British Columbia appointed their new athletic commission. Previously the province did not have a commission, the city of Vancouver had their own. When the newly appointment crew made their debut, there were many critics. The mixed martial arts scene had been so used to...
Former UFC fighter Will Chope (21-7) was expected to make quick work of MMA debutant, Matt Pellino (0-1), but the fight didn’t turn out to be as easy as he might have liked. Chope earned a second round submission win over Pellino in the main event of Saturday’s MIMMA 2 Finals card, which took pla...
Later this month, the Malaysian Invasion Mixed Martial Arts (MIMMA) amateur promotion stages the finale of its season two tournament, which will see the 2014 winners lock horns with the champions from last year’s competition. As with season one, however, the finale will also host a couple of prof...
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is the fastest-growing sport in the world, and with so many young men and women training every day, World Series of Fighting officials will look to tap into that pool of talent and provide a clear path to future stardom in the professional ranks of the sport when they lau...