The fight card for Bellator 300 is gradually starting to take shape, with the announcement of five preliminary card matchups, including a bout with major championship implications for the women’s featherweight division. No. 2-ranked contender and former UFC women’s bantamweight title challenger Sara McMann is set for action at the San Diego event, where she’ll take on the No. 5-ranked ...
Pat McCormack looks set for his toughest test to date later this year after plans for a North East headliner were ruined. Eddie Hearn, who promotes the Olympic silver medal-winning amateur, was supposed to announce a main event between Cyrus Pattinson and Lewis Ritson for November 11 last Saturday. That fight would have been confirmed for Matchroom’s return to Newcastle ...
The two fighters involved in one of the biggest bouts in women’s boxing history could run it back in a completely different sport following Savannah Marshall’s arrival on the PFL roster. Undisputed super middleweight boxing champion Marshall was announced as the PFL’s latest big-name signing earlier this week, where she’ll join the new PFLW lineup that already includes her nemesis, ...
One of the best heavyweights in combat sports returns to action on November 4 as Rico Verhoeven takes on Tariq Osaro for the unified Glory heavyweight title at Glory Collision 6. The kickboxing king, who has defeated a who’s who of heavyweight strikers, including Badr Hari, Gokhan Saki, Peter Aerts and more, currently holds the Glory heavyweight title. But the ...
Facing Josh Taylor made a lot more sense for Teofimo Lopez when he held all of the titles at 140 pounds. His reasoning was as simple as could be, become a two-time undisputed champion. Now depending on who you ask, Lopez either was or wasn’t an undisputed champion at 135 pounds. Considering that he held the WBC’s “Franchise title” along ...
Two legends of the UFC’s featherweight division go head to head for the first time in the main event of UFC Singapore as Max Holloway faces off against “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung. Holloway will be competing in his 28th consecutive UFC bout, while Chan will make the walk for his 12th, but, despite both swimming together in the ...
Bob Arum hopes to see a more aggressive Efe Ajagba on Saturday night than the Nigerian heavyweight’s promoter has watched since Arum’s company signed Ajagba three years ago. A lack of aggression has stunted the hard-hitting Ajagba’s growth, according to Arum, whose Top Rank Inc. has matched Ajagba against unbeaten Kazakh knockout artist Zhan Kossobutskiy on the Jared Anderson-Andrii Rudenko ...
Three more fighters earned UFC contracts after the latest episode of Dana White’s Contender Series in Las Vegas, with Welsh welterweight Oban Elliott earning himself a deal after one of the best Contender Series fights of the season so far. Elliott went back and forth with Oktagon MMA welterweight champion Kaik Brito in an all-out war that went all the ...
Maureen Shea finally made her ring return to the ring this past Saturday night. Now she hopes her next fight is a long-awaited world title shot. Shea defeated Grecia Novas Mateo by unanimous decision in a stay-busy at the Coco Locos Restaurant Sports Bar in Sosua in the Dominican Republic. Scores were 80-71, 80-71, and 79-72 for Shea, who improved ...
The UFC Octagon heads east to Singapore, where the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang plays host to a fight card packed with significant names, including a main event featuring two UFC featherweight legends. Former 145-pound world champion and pound-for-pound great Max Holloway takes on the enigmatic finisher “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung in the headliner, with both men looking ...