Новости за 14.07.2018

Raoni Barcelos has finally arrived.

The former RFA featherweight champion signed with the UFC back in 2017, but it took a while before he finally entered his first UFC fight week. Now set to debut against Kurt Holobaugh at Saturday’s UFC Boise card, Barcelos wants to show it was worth the wait.

Barcelos experienced a roller-coaster of emotions over the past 12 months. After successfully defending his RFA belt for a second time in 2016, Barcelo first had his subsequent LFA bout cancelled... Читать дальше...

Blagoi Ivanov will make his long-awaited Octagon debut this weekend when he meets former heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos at UFC Boise.

Alexander Volkanovski didn’t mind sitting on the sidelines for a ranked opponent and a U.S. debut on the back of four consecutive wins in as many tests in the UFC’s Octagon.

For the first time since joining the UFC, Zak Ottow will be heading into a bout as the more experienced fighter. Coming off of a win against Mike Pyle, an MMA lifer who began his career in 1999, Ottow’s matchup this weekend couldn’t be cut from a more different cloth.

Alexander Gustafsson wasn’t too impressed with Daniel Cormier’s comments regarding him following Cormier’s heavyweight title capture at UFC 226.

Jessica Aguilar was supposed to fight Jodie Esquibel last month at UFC Utica. She went through a training camp, cut weight and arrived at Adirondack Bank Center in upstate New York City. But the fight didn’t go off.

CURITIBA, Brazil — Chute Boxe was at the top of the world in the PRIDE days, collecting trophies and titles in PRIDE with Wanderlei Silva, Mauricio Rua, Anderson Silva and Murilo Rua, among others, but the scenario has changed when most of the stars left between 2003 and 2007.

The dust has all but settled on an eventful UFC 226. But not quite. So before we get back onto the conveyer belt of MMA events, let’s take a look at a few lingering items from last week, as well as a bit of a look forward.

UFC Boise is here, and this one is sneaky good. This card doesn’t have a lot of star power, but it does offer several competitive bookings that show promise of being fun fights. UFC Boise is headlined by a heavyweight matchup involving former UFC champion Junior dos Santos and former WSOF champion Blagoy Ivanov. This event also features what seems to be the beginning of Sage Northcutt’s welterweight career, an exciting featherweight booking in Dennis Bermudez vs. Rick Glenn, the return of Chad Mendes, who takes on Myles Jury, and much more. Читать дальше...

MMA Fighting has Boise results for the Dos Santos vs. Ivanov event July 14 from the CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho, plus a live blog of the main and co-main event and live UFC Boise Twitter updates.

There must be something that agrees with Julia Budd at the WinStar World Casino and Resort because every time she fights there she gets her hand raised.

MMA Fighting has Bellator 202 results for the Budd vs. Nogueira fight card Friday night at Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla.

Will “F*cking” Fleury is a real original.

The Irish middleweight sports a handlebar mustache and prides himself on making his opponents as uncomfortable as they possibly can be for as long as they’re locked in a caged enclosure with him.

An SBG fighter, Fleury was signed by Bellator after moving to 4-0 as a professional. As far as he’s concerned, he’s waited nearly a decade for an opportunity to showcase his skill set to the world, and competing under the Bellator banner is an opportunity to do exactly that. Читать дальше...

Oddsmakers don’t appear to have much faith in Amanda Nunes’ ability to snap Cris Cyborg’s 13-year unbeaten run.

Daniel Weichel has refused to get caught up in Patricio Freire’s online allegations of PED use ahead of what he feels will be the highlight of his 16-year professional MMA career.