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The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Monday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. UK time. 1 p.m. ET: We recap another busy weekend in combat sports and more. 1:40 p.m.: Longtime promoter Frank Warren discusses the latest in the boxing world. 2 p.m.: PFL founder Donn Davis joins us in-studio to preview Friday’s championship pay-per-view. 3 p.m.: Dan Hardy joins us in-studio to discuss the PFL championships and more. 3:45 p.m.: Veronica Hardy joins us in-studio to preview her Dec. 2 battle against…
Bobby Green has some ideas for who he may want to fight after Dan Hooker. “King” will look to extend his current winning streak to an impressive three straight in the co-main event of UFC Austin in next weekend. After a stunning 33-second upset knockout of Grant Dawson last month, Green turns around unscathed for his battle with New Zealand’s Hooker in what will be the first five-round non-title co-main event on a UFC Fight Night card in promotional history. The lightweight clash precedes the main event between Green and Hooker’s fellow contenders Beneil Dariush and Arman Tsarukyan. Dariush makes…
Comedian Bill Burr somehow ended up in the middle of a controversy after his wife, actress Nia Renee Hill, was caught on camera giving former president Donald Trump a two-finger salute at UFC 295. The incident unfolded after Trump made his way to sit cageside for the event at Madison Square Garden while flanked by UFC CEO Dana White, Kid Rock, and conservative media personality Tucker Carlson. As Trump greeted the crowd, Hill simultaneously had her middle fingers up in the air and directed at the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential election. During an appearance on The Rich Eisen…
The Professional Fighters League will return to pay-per-view this week, and the price to watch the main card has been revealed. PFL’s 2023 World Championship card takes place Friday at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. The prelims will air on ESPN+, while the main card will be streamed for purchase on ESPN+ PPV for $49.99 for subscribers, according to the streaming service. The promotion’s debuted on pay-per-view for the 2022 championship card at the same price point. Friday’s event will crown six $1 million divisional champions, including the lightweight championship headliner between former UFC fighters Oliver Aubin-Mercier and Clay Collard.…
Jiri Prochazka had no complaints about the stoppage in his UFC 295 loss to Alex Pereira, but he might be the only fighter who didn’t get upset about the way the fight ended. The finishing sequence began with Pereira blasting Prochazka with a punch that dropped him to his knees, after which the former light heavyweight champion went for a takedown. Pereira then unloaded a barrage of elbows, causing Prochazka to go limp momentarily before the fighters fell to the canvas. A split second later, referee Marc Goddard rushed in to stop the fight, however Prochazka sprung back to his…
UFC Austin’s main card is official, and a scintillating lightweight showdown between Beneil Dariush and Arman Tsarukyan sits atop the marquee. Ranked No. 4 and No. 10 respectively in MMA Fighting’s global lightweight rankings, Dariush and Tsarukyan face off in a five-round non-title main event on Dec. 2 at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Dariush (22-5-1) seeks to right his ship after seeing his eight-fight UFC win streak snapped at the hands of Charles Oliveira’s first-round TKO stoppage in June. Tsarukyan (20-3) has won seven of his own past eight contests, capped off by back-to-back victories over Damir Ismagulov…
Former ONE Championship bantamweight titleholder John Lineker will test his “Hands of Stone” in a different sport on Jan. 18 when he faces Liam Harrison in a Muay Thai match at ONE Fight Night 18. The card takes place at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, and airs live on Amazon Prime Video in the United States. Multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting following a report by MMAjunkie. Lineker improved to 37-10 under MMA rules with a decision victory over Stephen Loman this past September. He’s won back-to-back bouts since dropping his ONE…
Former boxing champion and renowned analyst Andre Ward is still in shock from what Francis Ngannou did in the boxing ring against Tyson Fury. Despite being a massive betting underdog, Ngannou fought the lineal heavyweight champion to a split decision in their 10-round boxing match in Saudi Arabia. With the former UFC champ and current PFL fighter eyeing future boxing bouts with other big names, Ward won’t count Ngannou out against any heavyweight boxer moving forward. “Styles make fights, and we have to see, but after what he did with Fury, I’m not going to write him off anymore,” Ward…
Ailin Perez had two fights this week. On Saturday, Perez won a unanimous decision over Lucie Pudilova on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 82. But prior to that victory, Perez also had a run in at the UFC PI as she told reporters after the fight that the black eye she was sporting into the cage came from an altercation she had on fight week. “So, pretty much I’m someone just like everyone else. I don’t have a problem personally with anyone,” Perez said at her post fight press scrum (h/t MMA Mania). “What I did was I stated…
Benoit Saint-Denis wasn’t just tossing out some random name when he called out Justin Gaethje following his spectacular UFC 295 win over Matt Frevola. With a 5-0 record in the UFC lightweight division and five consecutive stoppages without even reaching a third round, the Frenchman officially announced his presence as one of the top up-and-coming names at 155 pounds on the recent Madison Square Garden pay-per-view. Now Saint-Denis has a number next to his name on the UFC’s official rankings, and he sees Gaethje as the perfect foe to give him the kind of knock-down, drag-out war he craves. “It…