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Fresh out of a brief retirement, Stephen Rea is a solid member of the Professional Fighters League team.Ray (25-13) will make his return to action in the main event of PFL Glasgow on Saturday, fighting on his home turf for the first time since 2017. Ray will face Lewis Long (20-7) at the Stadium on September 28th. OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland. He spoke to the media Thursday about the happiness he feels as a member of the PFL roster and what he’s learned about himself coming back from injury and two retirements. “I realized I had a lot of…
A 90-second explanation of the UFC’s new antitrust settlement. pic.twitter.com/sXG0HIrozd β Eric McGracken (@erikmagraken) September 26, 2024 Ultimate Fighting Championship has provided more funding to settle one of two antitrust lawsuits against the company.Former Bloody Elbow Staff John Nash first reported news of the new settlement on Thursday. The proposal would have settled one, but not both, of the two lawsuits against the UFC, while increasing the amount offered by the UFC. The new offer, agreed to by both UFC’s new parent company, TKO Group Holdings, and other parties, is worth $375 million. It still needs approval from Judge Richard…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship brings together classic “Striker vs. Grappler” matchups.According to MMA Fighting on Thursday, the promotion has confirmed a welterweight matchup between Michael Chiesa (17-7) and Max Griffin (20-10) at UFC 310. Two 170ers with vastly different styles will square off at UFC 310 on December 7th. T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Griffin later confirmed the pairing on Instagram.Chiesa bounced back from a career losing streak by tapping out Tony Ferguson in August. This victory ended the slump that started in 2021, and was his first win since January of the same year. In a tough match, Chiesa…
Undefeated Polish standout Jakub Kazuba is exactly where he wants to be right now.Kasbah (12-0), who won the 2023 lightweight season of the Professional Fighters League Europe, is happy with his training in Florida. He returned to PFL Europe for the 2024 season in hopes of pocketing an extra $100,000 check rather than move on to the tournament-based league’s global season. His campaign has been going well so far, with a decision win over Kain Musa in March. The 29-year-old will face Daniele Scatizzi across the cage in the semi-finals on September 28 in Glasgow, Scotland. Having started his career…
#UFCMacau It’s starting to take shape πWhich match are you most looking forward to? pic.twitter.com/0qEawTiuEg β UFC (@ufc) September 26, 2024 Ultimate Fighting Championship’s return to the “Las Vegas of the East” looks solid on paper. On Wednesday night, the organization announced a series of new matchups for UFC Macau, also known as UFC Fight Night 248. Earlier in the day, the promotion removed the Petr Yan vs. Deiveson Figueiredo headliner. A whopping seven pairings have been officially or announced for the first time to fill the majority of the November 23rd schedule.The lineup for fight night has not been…
PFL will hold a “Battle of π’πππππππ: Battle Of The Giants matchups are set πThe countdown to collision is ππβ³π₯#PFLSuperFight | #Prepare for impact | October 19 pic.twitter.com/npBUbpv6Bb β PFL (@PFLMMA) September 26, 2024 As anticipation builds for the Professional Fighters League’s pay-per-view event “Battle of the Giants,” fans now know the full lineup for the bouts taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 19.The PFL announced its full lineup Thursday morning, which includes two big welcome bouts to the organization, a rematch for the Bellator MMA title and three title fights, including a clash between two of the…
Stephen Thompson is not a fighter used to pre-limit fights at this point in his career. Barring any last-minute changes, UFC 307 will see “Wonderboy” face off against Joaquin Buckley in a welterweight bout on Oct. 5 at the Delta Center in Utah. As of now, the Thompson vs. Buckley bout is scheduled as the featured prelim bout of the night on ESPNEWS and ESPN+. For pay-per-view events, promotions typically offer at least one featured bout in the first half of the card.”We’re used to being on the main card, but wherever UFC puts us, we’re going to go out…
Jamahal Hill believes Khalil Rountree has some traits that could give Alex Pereira a tough fight, but ultimately predicts the Brazilian will come out victorious in the main event of UFC 307. Pereira will defend his light heavyweight title against Rountree on Oct. 5 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rountree comes into the championship opportunity on a five-fight winning streak but has yet to go beyond the third round in his promotional career.”It’s going to be a knockout. It’s going to be a knockout, 100%. Khalil’s not fit enough to go five rounds. He’s tiring out…
Ali Abdelaziz is unhappy with his loss to Magomed Ankalaev in their light heavyweight title fight at UFC 307. Ankalaev is 10-0-1 in his last 12 Octagon appearances, including one no-win, but the Dagestan standout will not be facing current champion Alex Pereira at UFC 307 in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 5. Instead, that opportunity will go to Khalil Rountree, who has won five consecutive UFC bouts but recently failed a drug test.”Some fighters, like Khabib, have a long way to go before they get to the title. [Nurmagomedov]”Like Kamaru Usman and Islam Makhachev, but once they get…
Khalil Rowntree was on the verge of retirement before his career really took off, according to John Wooden.”I think it was his third or fourth fight, and he told me he wanted to retire and go into construction,” the Syndicate MMA coach recently told Daniel Cormier’s YouTube channel. “He was like, ‘Yeah, I think I got a good construction job, and I’d be getting paid.’ And I was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, no no no.’ I was like, ‘Just give me a year. Give me a year and I promise I’ll support you with anything after that. Just hang in…