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The fighters competing at UFC 298 received a cautionary note from the promotion about drug testing for marijuana and weight cutting rules surrounding the upcoming event taking place in Anaheim, Calif. The UFC advised the fighters regarding drug testing related to marijuana as well as possible fines that could be issued if a positive test goes over a certain threshold. In an email obtained by MMA Fighting, fighters were told under rules from the California State Athletic Commission, any positive drug test over 150 ng/mL would be considered over the limit. Any athlete testing over the threshold would receive a…
Chris Curtis doesn’t want anyone worrying about Sean Strickland. The friends and training partners both had fights at UFC 297, but only Curtis walked out with his hand raised after a split call on the scorecards. Curtis won a decision over Marc-Andre Barriault on the main card, while Strickland headlined the event, narrowly losing his middleweight title on points to Dricus du Plessis. But according to Curtis, Strickland is already putting the loss behind him, something that Curtis thinks he should do more often. “Something I’ll say about Sean that I wish I could adopt—I always say there’s not much…
UFC 300 is expected to deliver a loaded lineup for the promotion’s historic April event. Following one of the most chaotic years in recent memory, the UFC will bring UFC 300 to its home base of Las Vegas on April 13. UFC CEO Dana White has promised one of the most stacked, and perhaps, unpredictable lineups in company history. With four title fights already on the books for the first quarter of the year, including Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis for the middleweight title, and Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Raquel Pennington for the vacant women’s bantamweight title at UFC…
Henry Cejudo could soon make his final UFC walk. An Olympic champion and former two-division UFC champion, Cejudo meets top bantamweight contender Merab Dvalishvili on Feb. 17 on the main card of UFC 298. It’ll be Cejudo’s second UFC appearance since coming out of retirement in 2023, and after losing a split decision to Aljamain Sterling in his previous bid to recapture the title, Cejudo admitted that he’ll be forced to make some tough decisions if he falls short again to Dvalishvili. “This is for the No. 1 contender spot,” Cejudo said recently on The HJR Experiment. “I think after…
KSI still isn’t happy with Tommy Fury. KSI and Fury have a long-standing beef that finally came to a head this past October when they two faced off in a six round boxing match in Manchester, England. Fury won a controversial decision that KSI immediately protested as a “robbery,” even submitting a formal appeal. KSI’s appeal was ultimately rejected and the YouTuber has since continued to take shots at Fury, with the latest coming via social media on Tuesday. Last week, Fury underwent surgery for a hand injury, posting to his Instagram account and saying that he had put this…
A new Bellator light heavyweight champion will be crowned in March as the brand is set to debut for the first time under the PFL umbrella. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that Bellator’s return will take place March 22 in Dublin, and in the main event, Corey Anderson faces Ireland native Karl Moore for the vacant title. A venue has yet to be revealed for the event. Ariel Helwani was first to report the news. The booking is set after Vadim Nemkov vacated the title as he makes the move to the heavyweight…
Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler certainly planted a lot of seeds this past weekend in regards to their fight being shifted from June to April’s UFC 300 event, but could the UFC be on the same page as the two former world champion competitors? On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck discusses the current UFC 300 lineup, the possibility of McGreor vs. Chandler being the main event, and his opinion on if the battle between TUF coaches is the promotion’s first choice. Additionally, listener questions include the UFC’s middleweight division, UFC Vegas 85 this…
Jake Paul’s next opponent in the squared circle is officially set. On Tuesday, Paul announced he will face Ryan Bourland in the co-main event of a boxing card on March 2 at El Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. The event will air on DAZN. Paul (8-1) burst onto the scene with a rivalry against the sport of mixed martial arts, competing against former UFC fighters in five of six contests between April 2021 and August 2023, picking up victories over Ben Askren and Nate Diaz, along with two wins over former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. Since defeating…
Matt Brown has spent almost his entire career competing as a welterweight, but in reality, he knows his body isn’t actually built to set foot on a scale at 170 pounds. Despite going through dozens of weight cuts, the 43-year-old veteran admits that every experience has been different in some way and he’s endured plenty of mistakes over the years. That’s why Brown knows that two-time PFL lightweight champion Kayla Harrison likely has an arduous journey awaiting her as she prepares to compete as a bantamweight for the first time ever. No matter how much work she’s done to get…
Aljamain Sterling can’t help but notice a curious coincidence when he looks at UFC 299 and sees what the UFC has planned for Sean O’Malley’s first title defense against Marlon Vera. “In terms of styles, it’s still a good fight. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to watch. It’s just kind of funny that the UFC felt the need to stack this card so much to make it feel like Sean is the draw,” Sterling said Monday on The MMA Hour. “It’s actually comical, because I know people were kind of trying to s*** on the [UFC] 300 [card]. I’m…