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Four challengers are ready to stake their claim to be the best in the world. At Friday’s official UFC 295 weigh-ins, vacant light heavyweight championship main event competitors Alex Pereira (204) and Jiri Prochazka (204.2) successfully made weight, as did co-main event heavyweights Sergei Pavlovich (259.8) and Tom Aspinall (261.6). Pavlovich and Aspinall fight for an interim heavyweight title after reigning champion Jon Jones was forced to withdraw from a fight with Stipe Miocic that was originally set to headline Saturday’s show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pereira seeks to become a two-division champion after previously claiming…
Israel Adesanya has the last laugh over his longtime rival Alex Pereira. UFC 295 goes down tomorrow night in New York City as the promotion returns to Madison Square Garden for a big night of action headlined by two title fights. In the main event, the vacant light heavyweight title will see former titleholder Jiri Prochazka take on the former middleweight king Pereira. The attempt for “Poatan” will see him try and do what Adesanya couldn’t in March 2021 by claiming a second divisional title. Adesanya’s last win saw him become a two-time UFC middleweight champion with his second-round knockout…
At the UFC 295 official weigh-ins, all 26 fighters on Saturday’s fight card will step on the scale early Friday morning in New York City. Watch a live stream of the official weigh-ins above. In the main event, former light heavyweight champ Jiri Prochazka and ex-middleweight champ Alex Pereira can weigh no more than 205 pounds, the maximum allowed for their light heavyweight title fight. In the co-main event, Tom Aspinall and Sergei Pavlovich are limited to 265 pounds for their interim heavyweight title fight. The UFC 295 official weigh-ins will start at 9 a.m. ET. The UFC 295 ceremonial…
Ex-Bellator champion Julia Budd has been released from the PFL. The move comes after Budd dropped out of her upcoming fight against two-time champion Kayla Harrison, which was scheduled to take place at the upcoming PFL Finals card on Nov. 24. With Budd out, UFC veteran Aspen Ladd is set to take on Harrison at a 150-pound catchweight. PFL CEO Peter Murray confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Thursday. “She’s been released,” Murray said about Budd. “That is correct [she is no longer in PFL].” In the initial press release confirming the change in the fight, PFL officials stated…
Vince McMahon — the executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings — is selling a huge chunk of his ownership in the combined company that merged the UFC and WWE together. According to a prospectus filed on Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, McMahon, 78, plans to sell 8.4 million shares of his stock in the company, which amounts to approximately $700 million in value. That stands as around 25 percent of McMahon’s total stock in TKO, which was approximately 28 million shares as of August. As a result of McMahon’s sale, Endeavor — the powerhouse agency that purchased the…
Mike Perry and Eddie Alvarez appeared ready to get to work earlier than scheduled after a heated faceoff for their “King of Violence” title fight at BKFC 56 on Dec. 2. Following a press conference that saw the former UFC fighters exchange insults, they finally came together for a customary staredown, and Perry wasted no time chirping at Alvarez. “You’re so short,” Perry said to Alvarez. “I’m so good at this boxing s***. I swear I’m so good. You don’t stand a chance.” With BKFC president David Feldman doing his best to stay between them, Perry and Alvarez broke apart…
Watch the first UFC 295 staredowns after Thursday’s press conference in New York City, featuring former champs Jiri Prochazka and Alex Pereira as well as Tom Aspinall and Sergei Pavlovich. The quartet answered questions for the media on their title fights and then squared off for photographers in New York City, which hosts Saturday’s pay-per-view at Madison Square Garden. The combatants were nothing but respectful during the gathering, emphasizing competition over grudges. Aspinall put his arm around Pavlovich before their interim heavyweight title fight that stands in for the cancelled title fight between champ Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic. Prochazka…
It’s a busy week for Callum Walsh and Tabatha Ricci as boyfriend and girlfriend compete at Madison Square Garden in boxing and at UFC 295, respectively, and “Baby Shark” feels they could be sharing the same card in the future. Ricci will face Lupita Godinez in the preliminary portion of UFC 295 this Saturday, two days after Walsh looks to go 9-0 in boxing opposite Ismael Villarreal for the WBC US silver super welterweight title at MSG’s The Theater on Thursday night. Ricci won’t be in attendance Thursday since she will have to step on the scale early Friday morning…
Even with the loss of Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic, the UFC 295 title fights are incredibly fascinating with the returning Jiri Prochazka taking on former middleweight champ Alex Pereira, and Sergei Pavlovich and Tom Aspinall battling for the interim heavyweight title — both fights nearly pick ‘ems from a betting perspective. On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck discusses the top two bouts ahead of this Saturday’s UFC 295 event at Madison Square Garden, the intriguing and almost unpredictable nature of them, and Pereira’s chance to become a first ballot UFC Hall of…
The UFC returns to Madison Square Garden this Saturday for UFC 295 with two world title fights — Jiri Prochazka vs. Alex Pereira for the vacant light heavyweight title, and Sergei Pavlovich vs. Tom Aspinall for the interim heavyweight title. With Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic no longer happening, how do these title fights, and the event as a whole, hold up on paper? On an all-new edition of Between the Links, the panel will discuss the Prochazka vs. Pereira main event, what could be next for the winner, and if Pereira wins, what does that mean for his combat…