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RIZIN 18 is over a month away and the main event was just announced earlier this morning at a press conference. Headlining the show will be RIZIN FF and Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi (28-2), he’ll be taking on top ranked bantamweight Kai Asakura (12-1) in a non-title fight. T...
Ricky Simon remembers watching Urijah Faber back when “The California Kid” used to compete for the WEC, where he had a run as the promotion’s featherweight champion. Faber’s Veteran Presence Simon spent much of his amateur run and early professional career while Faber continued to make a name for...
On July 6th, 2019, Luke Rockhold returns to the octagon against Jan Blachowicz. This fight takes place at light heavyweight, a first for Rockhold. This move was well foreshadowed as the former middleweight champion has long struggled with the weight cut. With that, coupled with various injuries, ...
Fighting out of WNY MMA and Fitness in Buffalo, New York, amateur light heavyweight prospect Jamie Hare will be returning to action on July 13. Hare will be fighting at World Fighting Championships 109, which will take place from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He will be looking to bounce back from a ...
Eryk Anders (11-4 MMA, 3-4 UFC) returns to the Octagon to fight Vinicius Moreira (9-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at UFC on ESPN 3 this Saturday in Minneapolis, MN for a light heavyweight bout that could potentially carry high stakes for both men. Anders started his UFC career with a 3-1 stretch that saw him k...
Over the last decades, MMA has become one of the most popular sports in the world. But this sport has never been ignored. Even from the early days of Royce Gracie and Tank Abbott to today’s great Khabib Numagomedoy and Jon Jones, people have been cheering for their favorite fighters. There’s no d...
Jordan Dowdy (7-4 MMA) will look to earn his fourth consecutive win when he fights Kevin Brown (5-6 MMA) in a co-main middleweight bout at Nemesis Fighting Alliance: This Is War. Prior History The two share some history going into their fight. Dowdy said he’s cornered Brown before, held pads for ...
Young prospect Mike “The Savage” Kimbel returns to the cage at Bellator 222 on June 14th at Madison Square Garden. Kimbel will be facing Sebastian Ruiz at the “World’s Most Famous Arena” in a bantamweight tilt. Mike Kimbel was complimentary about his opponent heading into this prize fight. “He’s ...
Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Darrion Caldwell is extremely confident going into his rematch with RIZIN bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi. Though the first fight did not go in his favor, he appears not to have let it affect him mentally. He is promising a different outcome in this fight....
.One more fight at RIZIN 16 has been changed four days before the show goes on in Kobe. this time due to medical reasons. A 59 kg/130 pound kickboxing match between Kunitaka and Kizaemon Saiga will now be Kunitaka vs. Ryuji Horio (19-11-3). Saiga was not cleared to fight by the ophthalmologist, a...
On Saturday, the UFC’s Octagon is set to return to Stockholm, Sweden for UFC Fight Night 153. In the main event, Sweden’s favorite son, Alexander “The Mauler” Gustafsson will take on Anthony “Lionheart” Smith in a battle of light heavyweight contenders. For a high-level fighter, specifically an i...
Michigan native Tim Eschtruth (4-1) has never fought outside his home state. Eschtruth, who trains at the Scorpion Fighting System, has not had to travel very far for his five pro fights. On June 2 at RIZIN 16, he will get his wish to travel far away from home when he has his first fight not […]
RIZIN 16 has a lot of great fights on the card. If there is one fight that is going to be a guaranteed brawl, it’s going to be Japan’s Mamoru “Fullswing” Uoi (21-6-5) vs. Hawaii’s Kana “The One Man Riot” Hyatt (16-19). The two clash Sunday, June 2 in Kobe at the Kobe Memorial World Hall. How […]
BTC 6 goes down Saturday, June 1st at 6:00 PM ET. The event emanates from Central Arena in Burlington, Ontario. There’s a trifecta of title fights at the top of the card and all throughout, the crowd will be treated to several surging prospects. Young fighters are hungry to perform in front of p...
Dagestan’s Rashid Magomedov (23-3-1) didn’t have an easy win at PFL Season 2 Week 2. The UFC veteran took on Tajikistan’s Loik Radzhabov (11-1) in a lightweight bout to see who would advance in the stacked bracket. The judges gave all three rounds to Magomedov, 30-27. The win nets him 3 points in...
Brazil’s Natan Schulte (15-3-1) got an easy win over China’s Bao Yincang (13-7) when he submitted the Sanda fighter with a rear naked choke in the first round at PFL Season 2 Week 2. The win earns Schulte six points, three for the win and three for the first round stoppage. As of this writing, he...