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UFC Auckland is on the horizon, and what better way to mark the promotion’s return to New Zealand than with a blockbuster main event featuring Kiwi Dan Hooker against Paul Felder. Along with Hooker, various other Oceanic competitors will be making an appearance such as Ben Sosoli and Brad Riddell. One well-known fighter the card…
Despite being considered the pound-for-pound king by both the UFC and by the general public, Jon Jones is in a very shaky place as a champion. In fact, his reign is more tenuous than it has been at any other point, and the surprise is that the insecurity was created at the hands of one…
On January 31 at WLC: Battlebones, highly decorated Muay Thai competitor Naimjon Tuhtaboyev successfully took his Lethwei career to new heights, edging out a split decision victory over the dominant and menacing champion Too Too in the main event. This win earned him the World Lethwei Championship’s middleweight crown on top of taking out the…
Last year was a breakout year for Jairzinho Rozenstruik. The hard-hitting heavyweight competed four times and earned four knockout victories. In his most recent outing last December, the Surinamese fighter landed a rocket of a right hand on legend Alistair Overeem, decimating a portion of his upper lip with just five seconds remaining. That win…
As reported last week, RIZIN Fighting Federation has signed another potentially stellar Azerbaijan fighter in the form of Vugar Keramov (14-3), and he now has an opponent for his promotional debut. Later this month, he takes on former Pancrase title-challenger (13-8) of Guam. After spending the vast majority of his career at featherweight, “Vugi” had…
RIZIN Fighting Federation has continued to add some phenomenal talent to it’s bantamweight division, and those new names are featured in three new 135-pound additions to the RIZIN 21 fight card. This, of course, topped by DEEP title-holder Victor Henry (19-4) taking on Masanori Kanehara (27-13-5) of UFC, DEEP, Sengoku, and Fighting Network ZST fame….
City Kickboxing’s 2019 campaign was outstanding. The New Zealand gym saw Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski put on performances of a lifetime en route to capturing UFC gold. Now, after going 2-0 in 2019, Dan Hooker (19-8) hopes to cement himself in title contention in the shark tank that is the lightweight division. Hooker takes…
Tony Ferguson having endless cardio won’t matter against Khabib Nurmagomedov according to the latter’s head coach. Ferguson challenges Nurmagomedov for the lightweight title at UFC 249 on April 18 in Brooklyn, New York. It’s a fight the combat sports world has been anticipating for a while. But that’s not only because it was previously booked…
Earlier this week, Japanese-based kickboxing promotion RISE returned to Tokyo, Japan and brought with them a fun RISE 136 card emanating from Korakuen Hall. In the main event, a bantamweight title fight, as Masahiko Suzuki was gunning for his first title defense against the always exciting and flashy Rasta – a former Big Bang champion….
We are only a few days away from Conor McGregor’s return. The Irishman faces Donald Cerrone in a welterweight bout at UFC 246 on Saturday in what will be his first fight in the Octagon in 15 months. It will also be his first welterweight fight since August 2016. Will the extra weight benefit or…
