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Will Fleury (center), Oktagon 68 Credit: Oktagon MMA Martin Buday has wasted no time in getting his fighting career back on track following his rather surprising release by the UFC, and has now been booked for a title fight with Will Fleury at Oktagon 81 in December. Promotion officials announced the heavyweight title fight via […]
Tom Aspinall, UFC London ceremonial weigh-in Credit: Jay Anderson/Cageside Press The UFC is back in Abu Dhabi this weekend for UFC 321, which will see the highly anticipated showdown between England’s Tom Aspinall and France’s Ciryl Gane. A match-up that has been talked about for years has taken on new meaning, with Aspinall now the […]
LFA bantamweight Kasey Tanner has turned past setbacks into fuel and now stands on the brink of a breakthrough. Riding a potential three-fight winning streak, he looks to punch his ticket to the UFC with a win over Michael Cyr at LFA 220 on Saturday night. Tanner (8-1) got a shot at a UFC contract […]
Alexander Volkov enters UFC 321 with redemption in mind. Just months removed from a high-profile loss to Ciryl Gane, the Russian heavyweight now faces the rising Jailton Almeida in a pivotal bout that could determine who stays alive in the title picture. In a rapidly evolving division, Volkov starts Saturday with urgency and a clear […]
Interview with Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady (1:37) Kicking off this UFC 321 edition of TTP is our interview with UFC lightweight Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady. Al-Selwady discusses his slew of cancellations and how he managed to deal with the disappointment of it all. He also discusses how both his team and his faith helped him through those times. Then […]
Abu Dhabi – Virna Jandiroba dreamed of becoming a UFC champion before ever joining the promotion. The former Invicta Strawweight Champion comes into this fight on an impressive five-fight win streak and is the clear No. 1 contender, but it wasn’t always that way. Jandiroba has had to endure setbacks to get to this point, […]
Mike Malott pushed back on any suggestion that his low blows against Kevin Holland were egregious at UFC Vancouver on Saturday, insisting the infractions were incidental and not serious enough to change the course of the fight. “Honestly, I was just focused on the fight. Don’t get too hyped and frustrated with things you can’t […]
Abu Dhabi – Mackenzie Dern has not taken the fast track to her UFC title shot. That arrives this Saturday in the form of a rematch with ex-Invicta FC strawweight champion Virna Jandiroba. The opportunity was made possible by Weili Zhang giving up her 115-pound title to take a fight with flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko; […]
Vancouver – Between rounds at UFC Vancouver on Saturday, Aiemann Zahabi and Chito Vera came face to face in one of those rare, ‘only in MMA’ type moments. Similar to Lawler vs. MacDonald, minus the gnarled split lip and carnage that was Rory MacDonald’s face. Still, a very cool moment, one that Zahabi, a split […]
