LFA lightweight champion Richie Miranda retained his title on LFA 215 and scored a unanimous decision in a war with Ilay Barzilay on Friday evening. Miranda (12-1) sets up a performance for the Ventura crowd, but it was not without adversity. After dominating the first round, he went after Barzilay in the second that almost […]
Hollywood, FL – Light Heavyweight Rasul Magomedov of Bahrain achieved a unanimous decision victory over Guilherme Viana At PFL Hollywood last Thursday, improved to 8-0 in the process. It was a solution that was not easy, because Magomedov had to survive an early knockdown and had to work his way back in the fight. Yet […]
Johnny Walker, UFC Charlotte Ceremonial weigh-in Credit: Bryson Hester/Cageside Press The second journey from the UFC to China in 9 months, but first to Shanghai since 2017, a rising Chinese star in a matchup that guaranteed fireworks guaranteed. Although the fight itself was delivered on the fireworks, it is no longer up to Zhang Mingyang, […]
Hollywood, fl-na losing back-to-back fights, first in the 2024 PFL light weight finale and then in its first fight of the PFL World Tournament in the middle weight earlier this year, Impa Kasanganay returned to the win-column at PFL Hollywood with a TKO finish of colleague UFC Alum Andrew Sanchez. There are many options for […]
Hollywood, FL-Jonathan Coachman (you may know him from his days at WWE television as a normal “coach”) has been at the PFL for years and takes over the post-fight media people from Ray Sefo and other execs during the PFL World Tournament. That coach Fielding questions after PFL Hollywood had on Thursday, which closed the […]
Hollywood, FL – Russian heavyweight Oleg Popov claimed the victory in the PFL World Tournament on Friday and defeated UFC veterinarian Alexander Romanov to do this. Now he has set his sights on another former UFC star: Francis Ngannou. Ngannou has only fought once since drawing at the PFL, in MMA anyway. Two attacks in […]
Raja Jackson attacks Syko Stu Credit: Kick Raja Jackson, son of MMA legend Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, could be in a lot of hot water. During an independent pro wrestling show streamed on Saturday on Kick, the younger Jackson, an MMA hunter himself, came in the ring in what seems to be a non -written segment, […]
Kyle Dauus, UFC Orlando Media Day. Credit: YouTube/UFC If you were not on early, or locally enough for Shanghai, China that it didn’t matter, you missed a number of entertaining finishes at UFC Shanghai on Saturday. The Fight Night Card, who marked the return of the promotion to mainland China, produced some explosive action, enough […]
Johnny Walker and Zhang Mingyang, UFC Shanghai Weeg-in Credit: Youtube/UFC The Chinese Zhang Mingyang entered his first UFC head event at UFC Shanghai on Saturday and took on Brazilian Johnny Walker in a solid test on 205 pounds. Mingyang came from a victory over Anthony “Lionheart” Smith in Smith’s pension fight. Mingyang immediately got the […]
Brian Ortega and Aljamain Sterling, UFC Shanghai Weeg-in Credit: Youtube/UFC What is a UFC card without a small weighing drama? For UFC Shanghai, that drama came when Brian Ortega and Aljamain Sterling weighed. The last two hunters who came on the scales flew rumors that Ortega had been admitted to the hospital and was out […]