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MACAU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 22: Lone’er Kavanagh of England poses on the scales during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in at Andaz Macau on November 22, 2024 in Macau, China. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) Expect to hear a lot about Lone’er Kavanagh in the coming days. And expect to hear his UFC Mexico City Main […]
Edgar Chairez and Felipe Bunes, UFC Mexico City weigh in Credit: Youtube/UFC The second of three main card flyweight fights at UFC Mexico City on Saturday featured Mexico’s Edgar Chairez alongside Brazil’s Felipe Bunes. Chairez, 2-2 in the UFC so far, picked up a win over CJ Vergara about eleven months ago; Bunes hoped to […]
Jack Della Maddalena, ceremonial weigh-in at Noche UFC Credit: Gabriel Gonzalez/Cageside Press The UFC returns to Perth, Australia in May for a Fight Night card that now features a main event. During Saturday’s UFC Mexico City broadcast, promotion officials announced that former welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena (18-3) will face Brazilian contender Carlos Prates (23-7) […]
Santiago Luna and Angel Pacheco, UFC Mexico City weigh in Credit: Youtube/UFC Kicking off UFC Mexico City on Saturday was bantamweights Santiago Luna and Angel Pacheco. Luna was one of six Mexican fighters on the six-fight main card and a perfect 7-0 to start the night. Pacheco, the underdog, had lost his last two. Pacheco […]
Christian Quinonez and Kris Moutinho, UFC Mexico City weigh in Credit: Youtube/UFC After an entertaining loss to Sean O’Malley on short notice in 2021 and a subsequent knockout at the hands of Guido Cannetti, it looked like Kris Moutinho’s UFC dreams were coming true. However, a strong run on the regional circuit brought him back […]
Photo courtesy of Wes Schultz on IG (@partytimemma) Wes Schultz’s first attempt at Dana White’s Contender Series didn’t go the way he imagined. In a back-and-forth battle with Mansur Abdul-Malik, who is now 3-0-1 in the UFC, Schultz had to go back to the drawing board. However, watching his former opponent in the big show, […]
Photo courtesy of Keanan Patershuk on Instagram (@keananpatershuk.mma) When Keanan Patershuk steps into the cage on Saturday, he will be confronted by a young prospect with a penchant for the microphone in Canada’s Hunter Lee. The two will compete for the vacant Unified MMA middleweight title in a highly anticipated battle. While some might have […]
In the ring, Johan ‘Jojo’ Ghazali is a finishing machine: explosive, fearless and built for highlights. Outside of that, the 19-year-old Malaysian-American flyweight Muay Thai star has found a completely different outlet: golf. It started as a calculated networking campaign, but grew into a full-blown obsession that follows him to Thailand. There he trains under […]
Before Ayaka “Zombie” Miura became one of MMA’s most dangerous submission fighters, she spent her days putting bodies back together. The Japanese atomic weight worked as a clinical educator at an osteopathic center, where he studies joint mechanics and human anatomy with a precision that most fighters never develop. That background proved to be the […]
Brandon Moreno, UFC 270 official weigh-in Credit: Gabriel Gonzalez/Cageside Press It’s not the originally announced main event, but UFC Mexico City moves forward with former two-time flyweight champion and Mexican fighter Brandon Moreno at the helm. Instead of Asu Alamabayev falling out, Lone’er Kavanagh accepted the call to fill in on short notice. The English […]
