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LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 18: (LR) Opponents Anthony Hernandez and Brazil’s Michel Pereira face off during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at UFC APEX on October 18, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV. do. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Top 15 middleweights Anthony Hernandez and Michelle Pereira closed out the night at UFC Vegas 99 on Saturday. “Fluffy” Hernandez and “Demolidore” Pereira have a lot of potential, depending on who votes on the rankings committee (and whether they’ll still be around later this week, based on Dana White’s dissatisfaction with the UFC’s official rankings). A win would give him a chance…
LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 19: (LR) Rob Font elbows Kyler Phillips in a bantamweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 19, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV. to do. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Bantamweights Rob Font and Kyler Phillips faced off in what fans expected to be an explosive co-main event at UFC Vegas 99 on Saturday. Prior to the match, Font stated that he hoped not to have to go to the hospital after the match, but was willing to go down that road if necessary. He also added Firas Zahavi of TriStar…
LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 19: (Right) Charles Johnson kicks China’s Sumuda Elji in a flyweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 19, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. . (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)While the flyweight division has been in full swing over the past few months, producing some of the best fights, it was Charles Johnson and Sue Mudaerji who represented the 125-pound division on the main card of UFC Vegas 99. Johnson won three straight fights and earned two post-fight bonuses during that time. As for Sumudaelj, he lost in his UFC…
LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 19: Cameron Smotherman punches England’s Jake Hadley in a bantamweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 19, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Cameron Smotherman made his impromptu UFC debut on Saturday, replacing Brady Hiestand at UFC Vegas 99 against Jake Hadley, and had quite an impressive journey. Smotherman was in Saudi Arabia to help Raufion Stotts with his PFL Battle of the Giants vs. Marcos Breno. Smotherman got the call to fight Hadley on short notice and hopped on a plane back to Las Vegas…
Anthony Hernandez weathered an early flurry of attacks at UFC Vegas 99 on Saturday in Las Vegas, ultimately earning a one-sided fifth-round TKO victory over Michel Pereira. The hot middleweight contender stopped Pereira with an elbow at the 2:22 mark of the fifth round in a bout that could have been stopped sooner as Pereira ran out of gas after the opening frame.Seconds into the main event of UFC Vegas 99, Pereira hurt Hernandez with a front kick to the liver, then continued with a flurry of punches and knees as Hernandez lay injured against the cage. Hernandez recovered and…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to its home base of Las Vegas Saturday at 4 p.m. ET with UFC Vegas 99. The event is also known as UFC Fight Night 245. BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Despaigne (-440), Lane (+340) Round 1 While the Professional Fighters League vies for a share of the attention of fight fans today, the UFC counterprograms its main card with prelims of very little rankings significance. It remains to be seen who will win the battle of the eyeballs, but the UFC’s show starts off where PFL’s will end: with heavyweights. Big men…
LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 19: Darren Elkins punches Daniel Pineda in a featherweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 19, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Featherweight veteran Darren Elkins looks to do some damage to Daniel Pineda in the first fight of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 99 main card. Elkins entered the fight coming off a win over TJ Brown, while Pineda was looking to erase a two-fight skid at UFC Apex on Saturday. The match started with Elkins landing a huge overhand ball. Pineda landed a spinning back kick…
beginning. round. Finish it![ #PFLSuperFights | #BraceForImpact | BUY NOW | https://t.co/kWyJTEGRvW | https://t.co/2BtPH3wso4 ] pic.twitter.com/Zuyv8eN81H — PFL (@PFLMMA) October 19, 2024 Francis Ngannou delivers a first-round technical knockout (3 minutes, 22 seconds) of 2023 Professional Fighters League tournament winner Renan Ferreira in the main event of “Superfight: Battle of the Giants” held at Mayadeen on Saturday. , and made a strong return to the world of mixed martial arts. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Ngannou showed no rust from his over two-year hiatus from mixed martial arts. After two high-profile boxing matches against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, many wondered if…
LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 19: (Right) As Almabaev of Kazakhstan defeats Mateusz of Brazil in a flyweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 19, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hit Nicolau. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Saturday’s UFC Vegas 99 preliminary card concluded with a red-hot flyweight battle as Mateusz Nikolaou takes on As Almabaev. Almabaev was in great shape heading into the bout, posting a perfect 3-0 record inside the Octagon and 20-2 overall. The flyweight from Kazakhstan was catching up with Brazil’s Nicolau, who had lost back-to-back fights to Brandon Roybal and…
In the end, the matchup between the most grizzled veterans in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s featherweight division delivered exactly the kind of action that fans and opponents had been hoping for.40-year-old Darren Elkins and 39-year-old Daniel Pineda engaged in a bloody back-and-forth battle to win “Fight of the Night” at UFC Fight Night 245 at the Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday. Each will receive honors and a $50,000 bonus. The fight hinged on a collision of Elkins’ sturdy, reliable wrestling and Pineda’s toxic grappling game. Pineda overcame the punishment with his face swollen and bleeding within minutes, and the…