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Rising strawweights Loma Lookboonmee and Bruna Brasil will collide at a UFC Vegas event on Feb. 10, multiple people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting. The Fight Night show is headlined by middleweights Jack Hermansson vs. Joe Pyfer at the UFC APEX. Lookboonmee (8-3) has been victorious in five of seven UFC bouts, including wins over Denise Gomes, Sam Hughes and Jinh Yu Frey. She finished Elise Reed with a rear-naked choke the last time she entered the eight-sided cage this past February. The 27-year-old Thai fighter has only lost twice in the UFC, a pair of decisions…
Kongkairop wasn’t letting a chance for a highlight-reel knockout slip away. At a ONE Championship Friday Fights event in Bangkok, Kongkairop found a late finish of Rachan by pouring on the pressure and blasting him with a stunning standing knockout elbow. Watch the amazing finish below. The official time of the stoppage was 1:28 into the third round of the Muay Thai contest. Kongkairop’s continually walked Rachan down throughout Round 3, pushing Rachan to the ropes and firing combinations. Though Rachan attempted to answer back, it was Kongkairop who landed the cleaner shots to force Rachan into defensive mode. Not…
Urijah Faber isn’t one to hold a grudge. A UFC Hall of Famer and MMA pioneer, Faber’s career is known primarily for his run as the WEC featherweight champion and the series of rivalries he cultivated throughout his time in the sport, drawing attention to the lighter weight classes. Chief among those rivalries was his trilogy of fights with Dominick Cruz, but despite how heated things got between them back in the day, Faber says that now he and Cruz are one good terms with each other. “I never really had that big of a problem with Dom,” Faber told…
Glover Teixeira misses fighting when he’s in town for a UFC event, especially when his close friend and now-UFC champion Alex Pereira is in action. But at this moment, he feels he’s on a different mission. The former 205-pound champion announced his retirement after a thrilling display of heart against Jamahal Hill, coming up short for the vacant belt in a 25-minute battle this past January in Rio de Janeiro. He explained on MMA Fighting’s Trocação Franca podcast why he isn’t considering a comeback. “I told ‘Poatan’ [Pereira] when we were waiting to walk out [at UFC 295] that I…
Clay Collard had high hopes Nate Diaz would showcase better boxing when he faced Jake Paul in August. It’s safe to say Collard wasn’t impressed. While he stuck around until the final bell, Diaz ultimately lost a fairly one-sided unanimous decision to Paul in what served as Diaz’s professional boxing debut. Diaz has repeatedly called for a rematch while Paul continues to challenge him to run it back in MMA instead. Collard, who boasts a 9-6-3 in his own pro boxing career, erupted when addressing Diaz’s performance in the fight with Paul. “I was like they got Nate Diaz and…
Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day. As they say in the business, there are levels to this, and it’s always fun to be reminded of that when you see fighters who flirted with the big show fare when they return to smaller events. We have a few former UFC fighters to check on this week, but first let’s take a couple of quick stops in Colombia and…
When he’s not fighting other men in a cage, Anthony Smith likes to do risky stuff of the type that UFC contracts typically forbid. The cage-fighting is plenty risky, of course. It just doesn’t cover all those moments in between the trips to the cage where, according to the one-time UFC light heavyweight title challenger, life is on mute, and things can really go off the rails. That’s where things life off-roading and celebrity bull-riding come in. They provide a shot of adrenaline, and his media obligations take care of the rest. “I only fight a couple times a year…
Ashley Yoder has been a part of the UFC for most of the past seven years, but has returned to reality television — although this time, she wasn’t thrilled with the experience. Yoder, an 11-fight UFC veteran and former cast member on The Ultimate Fighter revealed she was a contestant on the new season of Squid Game — based on the smash hit South Korean drama of the same name — on Netflix. The show casts hundreds of contestants to compete in a series of challenges for the chance to win a cash prize. While the 36-year-old did enjoy some…
Bobby Green has a new opponent for the promotion’s return to the Lone Star State. UFC CEO Dana White announced Thursday that Green now faces Jalin Turner in the co-main event of UFC Austin, which takes place Dec. 2 at Moody Center. Turner replaces his most recent opponent Dan Hooker, who was forced to withdraw with an arm injury. According to White, Hooker injured the same arm as he did in the split decision win over Turner at UFC 290 this past July. The Green vs. Hooker fight was scheduled for five rounds, but with Turner stepping in on short…
The PFL has officially absorbed Bellator MMA in a blockbuster deal made official on Monday morning, and then PFL co-founder Donn Davis joined Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour to answer a lot of the burning questions surrounding it. While the news is certainly big, did Davis do himself and the promotion a disservice with some of the things he said? On a special Thanksgiving edition of Between the Links, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew discuss the deal a few days later and what it all means, Davis suggesting PFL now a “co-leader” with the UFC, why Dana…