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Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight Irina Alekseeva was suspended for one year after testing positive for testosterone over a year ago. The Combat Sports Anti-Doping Agency (CSAD) announced the sanctions in a statement on Friday, criticizing USADA, UFC’s former anti-doping partner.Alekseeva tested positive for a substance abuse disorder consistent with the administration of exogenous testosterone in a urine sample collected by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on June 21, 2023 while she was the independent administrator of the UFC Anti-Doping Program (UFC ADP). However, USADA did not report the results of this sample to her and UFC until October 31,…
Six of the seven bouts scheduled for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, held on Mexican Independence Day, will feature one fighter representing Mexico.Iridium Sports Agency, the management team for Raul Rosas Jr. (9-1), announced Friday that Rosas will face Kiren Awori (25-11, 1 NC) at UFC 306. The Sept. 14 event, also known as “Noche UFC,” will take place at the Sphere in Las Vegas as part of a 10-bout event. The bantamweight bout has since been confirmed by other media outlets.”El Nino Problema” rose to fame after earning a contract on Dana White’s Contender Series and becoming the youngest UFC…
Sherdog’s live coverage of UFC on ESPN 60 begins at 5:30 PM ET on Saturday. Betting Preview | Scouting Report | Odds: Petersen (+110), Usman (-115) Round 1 Sherdog Scores Jay Petrie scored this round: Scotty Smith scores: Tyler Treece scored the round. Round 2 Sherdog Scores Jay Petrie scored this round: Scotty Smith scores: Tyler Treece scored the round.Round 3 Sherdog Scores Jay Petrie scored this round: Scotty Smith scores: Tyler Treece scored the round. Official Results Betting Preview | Scouting Report | Odds: Carolina (-115), Pudilova (-105) Round 1 Sherdog Scores Jay Petrie scored this round: Scotty Smith…
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship champion Cody Garbrandt is looking to bounce back from the first submission loss of his career.Eurosport NL broke the news on Thursday that Garbrandt (14-6) will return to the Octagon to face Myles Johns (15-2, 1 NC) at a TBA event on the UFC Fight Night card on Oct. 12. Both fighters confirmed the bout at the UFC Apex on their Instagram pages. No main event is currently scheduled for the show.Garbrandt’s longest two-fight winning streak dating back to 2016 was ended when he was tapped out by former flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 300.…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has begun preparations for its event in Salt Lake City.The first bout of UFC 307 has been set, with Movsar Evloev (18-0) facing Aljamain Sterling (24-4) in a key featherweight bout. The two have been hinting at the bout happening for the last month, but French social media account MMA Propagande first reported the matchup on Wednesday. Sterling confirmed the bout on social media on Friday. The card is set to take place on October 5 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, with Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway in the double championship main event,…
Tomorrow night’s main event has been decided 🔐Virna Jandiroba The official weight was announced as 115.5 pounds![ #UFCVegas94 | Live on @ESPNPlus | 8pmET/5pmPT ] pic.twitter.com/cz2OxjMdZF — UFC (@ufc) July 19, 2024 Every fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship made weight ahead of this weekend’s bouts, but still lost one bout.The main event of UFC on ESPN 60 is a five-round bout between Amanda Lemos and Virna Jandiroba. Both fighters made weight and cleared the 116-pound limit. All other fighters also made weight, but one bout just didn’t make it to the finish line. Brad Tavares (185.5) and Junyoung Park…
Tomorrow night’s main event has been decided 🔐Virna Jandiroba The official weight was announced as 115.5 pounds![ #UFCVegas94 | Live on @ESPNPlus | 8pmET/5pmPT ] pic.twitter.com/cz2OxjMdZF — UFC (@ufc) July 19, 2024 The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to the UFC Apex with an intriguing strawweight main event.advertisement The main event of UFC on ESPN 60 is a five-round bout between Amanda Lemos and Virna Jandiroba. Both fighters made weight at the 116-pound limit. All other fighters also made weight.Lemos (14-3-1) recently lost a title bout to champion Weili Zhang but bounced back with a unanimous decision win over Mackenzie Dern.…
As his record attests, Ultimate Fighting Championship up-and-comer Jean Silva is tough beyond words.Days after his hard-fought three-round bout with Drew Dober at UFC on ESPN 59 on Thursday, Silva shared X-rays of his hands on Instagram. Silva defeated Dober by technical knockout after an elbow left Dober with a large cut on his eyebrow, but Dober wasn’t the only one to get a souvenir: Silva revealed that he broke both his hands in the first round of his “Fight of the Night” win.”As everyone saw, the fighter that fought Dober was extremely tough,” Silva said in an Instagram video.[Between]…
Cody Diarden recently revealed why he accepted a fight against teammate Bruno Silva after initially turning it down. Darden (16-5) and Silva (13-5) are scheduled to meet in a flyweight bout this weekend at UFC on ESPN 60 at The Apex in Las Vegas, and Darden said he was initially hesitant to accept the offer to face his American Top Team teammate.”I’m not sure I’d be able to beat him,” Durden said at the UFC on ESPN 60 media day.”I didn’t really want to fight my teammate, but we have the same manager, Ali Abdelaziz,” Darden said at UFC media…
Brad Tavares jokingly expressed disappointment in his teammate Dan Ige’s sudden acceptance into a bout at UFC 303. Tavares (20-9) is scheduled to face Junyoung Park (17-6) in a middleweight bout this weekend at UFC on ESPN 60 at the Apex in Las Vegas. Tavares and his Xtreme Couture teammate Ige were originally scheduled to face Jose Mariscal;But last month, Ige was tapped to face Diego Lopez at four hours’ notice to replace Brian Ortega in the main event of UFC 303. Ige lost a unanimous decision but gave Lopez a run for his money, forcing the Brazilian into survival…