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Strawweights Tatiana Suarez and Amanda Lemos will clash in a key matchup just added to the growing UFC 298 card set for Feb. 17 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. UFC officials announced the pairing along with the current fight card set for the February pay-per-view. Undefeated with a perfect 10-0 record, Suarez looks to cement herself as the No. 1 contender in the division when she returns to action in the New Year. Since returning from a neck injury that kept her sidelined for nearly four years, Suarez has rattled off two wins in a row including an…
Jon Anik, like most, is intrigued with the stakes in the UFC 296 welterweight championship main event between Leon Edwards and Colby Covington — both for what the fight means in the current landscape of the division, as well as the legacies for its combatants. Anik, who will call the action on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas alongside Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier, sees the matchup between the current champ and former interim titleholder as an interesting one stylistically. The longtime play-by-play voice has seen the headlines surrounding Edwards possibly calling for a middleweight title shot with a…
Mateusz Gamrot and Rafael dos Anjos will clash in a lightweight fight as one of several new additions to UFC 299, which is set for March 9 with a location still to be determined. UFC officials announced the new fights on Tuesday. After serving as the backup fighter for the lightweight title bout at UFC 294 in October, Gamrot makes his return with hopes to extend his current two-fight win streak, which includes victories over Rafael Fiziev and Jalin Turner. Overall, Gamrot has gone 6-2 since joining the UFC roster as a two-division champion from KSW. As for dos Anjos,…
Stephen Thompson thinks fans will hear “And Still” at UFC 296. No stranger to UFC title fights himself, Thompson is picking Leon Edwards to retain his welterweight title when he meets Colby Covington in the Dec. 16 main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. This is the second title defense of Edwards’ reign, following a decision win over Kamaru Usman in a trilogy bout this past March. Thompson gave his breakdown of the fight on a recent episode of The MMA Hour. “I like Leon,” Thompson said. “Colby Covington, we saw what happened with Colby Covington and Usman. Of…
Heavyweights Jailton Almeida and Curtis Blaydes are set to clash at UFC 299 on March 9. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Tuesday. Almeida and Blaydes were originally scheduled to meet in November, but Blaydes suffered an injury that forced him off the card. Almeida ultimately dominated late replacement Derrick Lewis by unanimous decision to improve his record to 20-2 overall, with a perfect 6-0 résumé in the UFC. Widely considered to be a future title contender at heavyweight, Almeida faces his toughest test to date when he returns to action…
Eddie Hearn believes the next fight for new two-division boxing champ Devin Haney is an obvious one. “Remove the politics, the Ryan Garcia fight is the natural fight to make,” Hearn said on The MMA Hour following Haney’s dominant victory over Regis Prograis this past Saturday. “Ryan should be looking to fight the champions at 140 [pounds]. He’s on DAZN, obviously with Golden Boy. There’s a conversation that, for me, should happen and evolve very quickly. I think that is the fight for us and Golden Boy and Garcia and [Devin] Haney to make. “For me, you want momentum, you…
The referees and judges for the two title fights taking place at UFC 296 have now been assigned by the Nevada Athletic Commission In the main event, Leon Edwards defends his welterweight title against Colby Covington with referee Herb Dean serving as the third man in the octagon. This will be the second consecutive fight where Dean has refereed a fight for Edwards after he was also in the cage on the night the reigning UFC welterweight king defended his belt against Kamaru Usman back in March in his native England. The judges scoring the UFC 296 main event will…
UFC bantamweight Miles Johns will have to sit out until February after he tested positive for a banned substance surrounding his most recent fight on Sept. 23. On Tuesday, the Nevada Athletic Commission announced an agreed adjudication agreement with the fighter after he tested positive for the M3 metabolite, which is found in DHCMT — better known as oral turinabol, an anabolic steroid. As a result, Johns was ultimately suspended for four and a half months with his eligibility to compete again coming on or after Feb. 6, 2024. He faces a $2,300 fine, which was 10 percent of his…
Ian Machado Garry has stolen a lot of headlines heading into his UFC 296 matchup with Vicente Luque, and while more have been negative than positive, the undefeated welterweight is leaning into it. “The Future” recently released a hype video ahead of his highly intriguing 170-pound tilt with prior teammate Luque, and addressed — and seemingly shrugs off — the haters. Check out Machado Garry’s UFC 296 fight week hype video below. Machado Garry hit topics such as being a Conor McGregor “fan boy,” getting allegedly kicked out of gyms, hating on his wife and family, being a hype train,…
Jake Paul is trying to put his money where his mouth is. Earlier this month, Paul announced his next boxing match will be against the little-known Andre August on Dec. 15 at Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Fla. The matchup came as a surprise to fans as August is major diversion from most of Paul’s previous opponents, who have been either former MMA fighters or influencers. Instead, August is a 10-1-1 boxer from Houston with minimal profile. But that’s exactly why Paul says he wanted to take the matchup. “There’s a lot of reasons,” Paul explained on The MMA Hour.…