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Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jiri Prochazka believes he knows exactly the mistakes that cost him the chance to win back the title against Alex Pereira at UFC 295. “There were small things that I didn’t keep in the preparation, and it was the details that was the main thing in that fight,” Prochazka said Monday on The MMA Hour. “I’m very happy for that. That fight reminded me of these mistakes, because more than anything, I like to make myself better in fighting, in life, in everything, day by day. “That’s why I’m happy for that, and that’s why…
The Mixed Martial Arts Hour is back in your life! Below is a rundown of Wednesday’s show, which begins at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. UK time. 1 p.m. ET: All of your questions are answered on the latest edition of On The Nose. 1:20 p.m.: Top UFC contender (and esteemed Parlay Boys member) Julianna Peña discusses her next move and the UFC bantamweight title picture. 1:45 p.m.: PFL executive Donn Davis deep dives into the announcement of the PFL vs. Bellator mega-card on February 24. 2:10 p.m.: Xtreme Couture headman Eric Nicksick talks Sean…
The Sean Strickland story is one of the most surprising in middleweight history. 2023 was the year of the underdog in MMA and arguably none proved that more than MMA Fighting’s Fighter of the Year, Strickland. The reigning UFC middleweight king won three bouts in a row after looking like he was tumbling down the rankings into gatekeeper status with back-to-back losses to close out 2022. Here we are in the first month of 2024 and “Tarzan” will defend his title for the first time against Dricus Du Plessis in UFC 297’s main event this Saturday night. Strickland’s crowning moment…
UFC 300 has added its second title bout — of sorts — with a BMF clash between Justin Gaethje and ex-featherweight kingpin Max Holloway. Additionally, Jim Miller has gotten his wish to fight at the banner pay-per-view event, drawing vet Bobby Green, UFC CEO Dana White announced Tuesday via social media. UFC 300 takes place April 13 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. White this past week announced a women’s strawweight bout between champ Zhang Weili and Yan Xiaonan, adding the first piece of gold up for grabs on the ESPN+ pay-per-view. Gaethje makes the first defense of the belt…
Stamp Fairtex has her first ONE Championship title defense set. The promotion announced on Tuesday that Fairtex will defend her newly won atomweight title against Denice Zamboanga at ONE 166, which takes place March 1 at Lusail Sports Arena in Qatar. Fairtex captured the vacant championship with a third-round stoppage win over Seo Hee Ham at ONE Fight Night 14 in September. The 26-year-old rising star has won three straight bouts, and is 11-2 throughout her tenure with the promotion. Zamboanga, a former training partner of Faritex, enters her championship opportunity on the heels of back-to-back decision wins over Heqin…
The poster for the second UFC pay-per-view card of 2024 has now been revealed, with a featherweight title fight set for Anaheim, Calif., on Feb. 17. The featherweight title is on the line with champ Alexander Volkanovski defending against Ilia Topuria in the main event of UFC 298, which takes place at Honda Center and airs on ESPN+ pay-per-view. A featured middleweight bout pits ex-champ Robert Whittaker against Paulo Costa after the two were scheduled to meet at UFC 294. Additionally, welterweight rivals Ian Machado Garry against Geoff Neal in a bout rescheduled from their originally scheduled meeting at UFC…
UFC CEO Dana White dropped two big fights for the upcoming UFC 300 event, including an all-action lightweight bout for the BMF title between Justin Gaethje and Max Holloway. With some of the negative vibes surrounding the event in its early stages, does this announcement begin the trend towards positivity? MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, Shaun Al-Shatti, Jed Meshew, and Eric Jackman react to White’s massive announcement, the Gaethje vs. Holloway five-rounder, discuss what it means for the lightweight title picture and Islam Makhachev’s next move, if this fight means the rumored Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad welterweight title fight could…
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…
Strawweight contender Tatiana Suarez has hit another snag, withdrawing from a UFC 298 matchup against Amanda Lemos due to injury. OC Register on Tuesday reported Mackenzie Dern is set to step in against Lemos for the Feb. 17 event at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. A UFC official subsequently confirmed the shift to MMA Fighting. The Suarez vs. Lemos fight was expected to headline the ESPN/ESPN+ portion of the prelims for UFC 298; Lemos vs. Dern is likely to keep the same spot. Suarez, The Ultimate Fighter 23 winner, burst back onto the MMA scene this past February after a…
Rodney Petersen, also known as Not Logan Paul for his upcoming appearance Misfits Boxing 12, said he’s “lucky to be alive” after suffering a serious concussion and receiving eight staples in his head from an altercation with Nate Diaz. Petersen, an amateur MMA and celebrity boxing vet with an 0-6 record, told Misfits he welcomes a second, sanctioned fight with Diaz after getting choked out by the UFC vet on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. “If he wants to fight me in the ring, yeah, but as far as the street goes, there was no money to be made in…