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It was one of those transcendent battles that forever changes the two participants. Entram Gym’s Juan Adrian Luna Martinetti on Tuesday outlasted Allstars Training Center rep Mark Vologdin to a three-round unanimous decision in an unforgettable bantamweight barnburner during Week 9 of Dana White’s Contender Series at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. All three […]

Daniil Donchenko trades in fight-ending damage. The 24-year-old Ukrainian on Tuesday put himself in position to compete for an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract, as he dispatched Matt Dixon with first-round punches in “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 33 welterweight semifinals at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The decisive victory thrusts Donchenko into a showdown with […]

Rodrigo Sezinando kept his wits, and the cooler head prevailed. The Nova Uniao product on Tuesday called upon suffocating positional control and damaging ground-and-pound, as he took another step toward an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract with a unanimous decision over Diego Bianchini in their welterweight quarterfinal on Season 33 of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series. […]

Patience paid for Roybert Echeverria. The Goat Shed Academy export on Tuesday overcame an inauspicious start to dispose of Tumelo Manyamala with a rear-naked choke in the second round of their flyweight quarterfinal on Episode 7 of “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 33. Echeverria brought it to a close 3:14 into Round 2, providing Team Sonnen […]

Team Sonnen needed a proverbial knight in shining armor, and it took the form of Matt Dixon. The Hurricane Training Center rep on Tuesday cleared the first hurdle standing between him and an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract, as he disposed of Alejandro Sanchez with punches in the first round of their welterweight quarterfinal on Episode […]

Idiris Alibi stepped up to the plate, called his shot and let his skills do the rest. The undefeated Team Cormier rep overcame a point deduction for an eye poke and inched ever closer to securing an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract with a two-round unanimous decision over Furkatbek Yokubov in their flyweight quarterfinal on Episode […]

Season 33 of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series lifted off with Episode 1 on Tuesday, as 16 participants—eight flyweights and eight welterweights—from 10 different countries set out in search of an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract. Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen will serve as coaches for the 12-week season. Advertisement “Both of these guys are very […]

[embedded content] Jake Paul plans to make Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. quit in their upcoming boxing clash. Paul and Chavez Jr., son of former three-division world champ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., will trade leather in a Dazn pay-per-view card on June 28 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The two met at a press conference […]

Sherdog’s live Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul coverage will begin with the first preliminary bout at 5:30 p.m. ET. J.L. Kirven will have results of the undercard and will be joined by Brian Knapp and Mike Fridley for full play-by-play and round-by-round scoring of the main event at approximately 11:15 p.m. ET. Undercard Results Live […]

When Simeon Powell saw Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko go down at Wembley Stadium with 90,000 fans in attendance in April 2017, the then-teenager knew what he wanted in life. Having just commenced dabbling in muay thai, Powell was on security duty for the heavyweight title clash. However, what he didn’t expect was to be […]

[embedded content] Despite working together in 2017, Ultimate Fighting Championship chief Dana White and Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza are anything but friends. On Tuesday, following the eighth episode on the 2023 season of Dana White’s Contender Series, White conducted a post-fight press conference to discuss various matters from the bouts that night to current events around […]