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Watch Sergei Pavlovich vs. Tom Aspinall full fight video highlights from the co-main event of UFC 295, courtesy of the UFC and other outlets. UFC 295: Prochazka vs. Pereira took place November 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Heavyweight sluggers Sergei Pavlovich (18-1) and Tom Aspinall (13-3) collided for the interim heavyweight title in the night’s co-main event. The fight aired live on ESPN+ pay-per-view. Catch the video highlights below. For more on Pavlovich vs. Aspinall, check out the live blog by MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew. Round 1: This could be over fast. I’ll try to keep up.…
Diego Lopes looks like a future contender in the featherweight division after scoring his second straight win while kicking off the UFC 295 main card in emphatic fashion. It was a rapid-fire finish for Lopes after he emerged from a scramble with Pat Sabatini by throwing a punch that immediately rocked his opponent. Lopes followed up with another huge shot that rocked Sabatini before he desperately tried to grab into a leg to survive. Lopes never gave him the chance to escape as he continued dropping bombs until Sabatini just fell unconscious with the referee rushing in to stop the…
Mateusz Rebecki just keeps on winning. The Polish standout won his 16th straight fight and improved to 3-0 in the UFC with a first-round armbar submission of Roosevelt Roberts at UFC 295 on Saturday. Watch Rebecki’s slick finish below. Fighting an opponent who stepped in on less than a week’s notice, Rebecki gave Roberts no room to work. He went to his grappling early and despite Roberts’ best efforts, he was unable to shake Rebecki off of him. When Rebecki saw an opening, he snatched Roberts’ arm and found a submission from bottom position 3:08 into Round 1. Rebecki (19-1)…
Jared Gordon enjoyed a huge win in front of a hometown audience at UFC 295 on Saturday. As a native New Yorker, Gordon definitely wanted to thrill the Madison Square Gardon audience and that’s exactly what he delivered. After resisting Madsen’s pressure and pace early, Gordon turned the tables with a huge uppercut that rocked the former Olympic wrestler and spelled the beginning of the end. With Madsen pressed against the cage, Gordon clipped him with several hard shots and it was all capped off by a huge overhand right. Madsen crumbled to the canvas as Gordon followed up with…
Jamall Emmers opened UFC 295 with a bonus-worthy knockout, even if he’s unlikely to get it. After missing weight by a pound on Friday, Emmers made up for the gaffe with a spectacular first-round finish of Dennis Buzukja to open Saturday’s preliminary card at Madison Square Garden in New York City. See Emmers’ impressive work below. The more experienced Emmers pressured Buzukja from the start, keeping the native New Yorker off-balance before uncorking a left hand that knocked Buzukja down. Emmers quickly followed with ground-and-pound and the stoppage was elementary after that. The official time of the stoppage was 0:49…
Jamall Emmers opened UFC 295 with a bonus-worthy knockout, even if he’s unlikely to get it. After missing weight by a pound on Friday, Emmers made up for the gaffe with a spectacular first-round finish of Dennis Buzukja to open Saturday’s preliminary card at Madison Square Garden in New York City. See Emmers’ impressive work below. The more experienced Emmers pressured Buzukja from the start, keeping the native New Yorker off-balance before uncorking a left hand that knocked Buzukja down. Emmers quickly followed with ground-and-pound and the stoppage was elementary after that. The official time of the stoppage was 0:49…
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill found himself briefly trapped in the middle of a pro-Palestine protest in New York City on Friday. Hill said he was hit by something in the forehead when protesters allegedly smashed out a window of the van he and his team were traveling in, he said in a video posted to Instagram. In another video, the ex-champ was restrained from getting out of the van. He later called on his supporters to “come get these people up off our bus” as the protesters surrounded the vehicle. In another video posted on Instagram, a…
Bellator bantamweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov has been suspended six months for a failed drug test, and his Bellator 300 win over Brent Primus has been overturned to a no-contest. Ariel Helwani first reported the news, and California State Athletic Commission Executive Director Andy Foster confirmed it to MMA Fighting, adding Nurmagomedov has been fined $50,000 for the infraction. Foster said Nurmagomedov’s drug positive stemmed from a prescription medicine and declined to name the substance. He also did not say whether Nurmagomedov or his team had accepted responsibility for the positive test or signaled a potential appeal. Nurmagomedov faced Primus in…
Diego Lopes vs. Pat Sabatini kick off the pay-per-view portion of UFC 295 on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, and it’s a fight the Brazilian hoped to get for quite some time. Lopes is always watching jiu-jitsu and grappling tournaments, and his attention was piqued by a matchup between MMA featherweights Sabatini and Alex Caceres, Lopes was still competing in Mexico’s regional MMA scene, hoping to catch the attention of UFC matchmakers. He thought grappling a UFC fighter could get him a deal in the company. “I asked my manager to try and get me a grappling match with him,”…
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill found himself briefly trapped in the middle of a pro-Palestine protest in New York City on Friday. Hill said he was hit by something in the forehead when protesters allegedly smashed out a window of the van he and his team were traveling in, he said in a video posted to Instagram. In another video, the ex-champ was restrained from getting out of the van. He later called on his supporters to “come get these people up off our bus” as the protesters surrounded the vehicle. In another video posted on Instagram, a…