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MACAU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 23: South Korea’s Sooyoung Yu competes against China’s Bargain during the bantamweight RTU tournament finals during the UFC Fight Night event at Galaxy Arena on November 23, 2024 in Macau, China. – Hit Jereishi. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Baergeng Jieleyisi and Suyoung You faced off in the final match of the Road to UFC 3 final scheduled for Saturday at UFC Macau. The women’s strawweight and men’s flyweight finals both ended in explosive knockouts, so there will be some tough turns in the bouts. Early on Saturday, you showed some solid feints, level-changing moves, and then…
MACAU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 23: (RL) Dong-Hoon Choi of South Korea competes in the final bout of the flyweight RTU tournament during the UFC Fight Night event at Galaxy Arena in Macau, China on November 23, 2024. Beating Britain’s Kir Singh Sahota. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)The flyweight finals of Road to UFC 3 pitted Kill Sahota against Donghoon Choi on Saturday at UFC Macau. The match on this preliminary card, where the winner is about to sign with the UFC, left the crowd unsettled by the lack of early action after landing a terrifyingly exhilarating head kick in the…
Macau, China – November 22: (LR) China’s Shi Ming and China’s Feng Xiaokang during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at Andaz Macau on November 22, 2024 in Macau, China Confront. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)The Road to UFC 3 tournament concludes Saturday at UFC Macau, with women’s strawweights Shi Ming and Feng Xiaokang looking to earn UFC contracts in the 115-pound final. Feng Xiaokang, a practicing doctor, managed to keep her martial arts career on the down-low by not letting her patients know that she was pursuing mixed martial arts. Meanwhile, Shi Ming’s family somehow believed that she was not…
MACAU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 23: Carlos Hernandez defeats Mongolia’s Nyamjargal Tumendenberel in a flyweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at Galaxy Arena on November 23, 2024 in Macau, China. hit (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)UFC Macau’s preliminary card features a key bout between flyweights Nyamjargal Tumendembele and Carlos Hernandez. Hernandez was looking to redeem himself from two losses to standout Japanese flyweights, Tatsuro Hira and Rei Tsuruya. Nyamjargal made his promotion debut with an unbeaten record of 8-0 in the night’s opener and was looking to keep his perfect record of seven finishes intact. The question heading into…
Petr Yan reminded his teammates that he still has all the tools to someday regain power in the Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight division.“No Mercy” outboxed, outfoxed and defeated Deiveson Figueiredo by a five-round unanimous decision in the UFC Fight Night 248 headliner Saturday at Galaxy Arena in Macau, China. Yan (18-5, 10-4 UFC) won the card by an identical score of 50-45 from the judges, ending the three fights that plagued him from April 9, 2022 to March 11, 2023. He further distanced himself from his poor health. Figueiredo (24-4-1 UFC, 13-4-1) didn’t have an answer for the volume and…
MACAU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 23: Xiao Long of China punches Quang Le of Vietnam in a bantamweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event held at Galaxy Arena on November 23, 2024 in Macau, China. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Bantamweights Xiao Long (China) and Quang Le (Vietnam) met early on Saturday as part of the UFC Macau qualifying card. Both fighters are 0-1 under the UFC banner and were looking for their first wins inside the Octagon. Lee landed a sharp left hook within a fairly busy first minute. Long continued to take those punches, but Lee continued to have…
Miktibek olorubai is a wild beast of nature. The Kyrgyz mixed martial artist’s second favorite sport is one that is just as challenging, if not more so, than MMA. Olorubai recently revealed that his other love is the traditional sport of kok bol. Originated among the nomadic tribes of Asia, kok bol is known as kok pal in Kazakhstan and buzkashi in Afghanistan, where it is also the national sport. The sport, also played by Uzbeks, Tajiks, Uighurs and other tribes, involves two teams carrying a goat carcass to the opposing team’s goal post on horseback wrestling. Competition is usually…
Tom Aspinall believes performance will be a factor in the upcoming rematch between Cyril Gane (12-2) and Alexander Volkov (38-10). Gane and Volkov are scheduled to rematch at UFC 310 on December 7th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The two met back in 2021, when the Frenchman won a lackluster unanimous decision over Volkov.But Aspinall believes things could play out differently this time. Volkov bounced back from his loss to Gane with a decision win over Marcin Tybura, but immediately followed up with a submission loss against Aspinall. But “Drago” has since racked up four straight wins, including three…
Dustin Poirier retweeted tweet thanking Conor McGregor for knocking him out after he was found responsible for sexual assault#UFC #mixed martial arts pic.twitter.com/CENfSL8ZEr — Championship Round (@ChampRDS) November 22, 2024 The verdict in Conor McGregor’s civil case has prompted strong reactions from some of the biggest names in the martial arts world. The High Court in Dublin ruled on Friday that McGregor was responsible for sexually assaulting Nikita Hand in 2018. Hand claimed that McGregor and James Lawrence raped Nikita Hand that night, but the court did not hold Lawrence responsible for the sexual assault. Notorious was ordered to pay…
BREAKING: Nikita Hand speaks outside court. pic.twitter.com/H1K4eit8Ug — Paul Healy (@Healyhack) November 22, 2024 A jury has found Ultimate Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor responsible for the sexual assault of Nikita Hand in 2018.McGregor’s trial has concluded, with the High Court in Dublin finding that McGregor assaulted Hand during their 2018 encounter. She previously testified that he and another man, James Lawrence, raped her at the Beacon Hotel in Dublin on December 9, 2018, but the jury did not find that Lawrence had assaulted her. There wasn’t. According to the Irish Mirror and RTE, as a result of the civil…