The 16-fight lineup for Bellator 300 was confirmed after Friday’s weigh-ins in San Diego, but the session didn’t pass off without drama. Five of the six fighters set for championship action on the main card made weight for their respective title fights, but one fighter, former women’s flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, will no longer be eligible to win the title ...
Former two division champion Carl Frampton is backing Leigh Wood to retain his WBA featherweight title on Saturday night, when he defends against former beltholder Josh Warrington in Sheffield. A defeat could be the end of the road for Warrington's career. The Leeds fighter is coming back from a decision loss to current IBF champion Luis Alberto Lopez, which took ...
The UFC returns to the Apex for a Fight Night event on Saturday night, with the 22 fighters set for action all hitting their marks on weigh-in day in Las Vegas. Lightweight headliners Grant Dawson and Bobby Green both hit the non-title limit of 156 pounds for their main event matchup, with middleweight co-main eventers Joe Pyfer (185) and Abdul ...
Devin Haney is aware that he has been relatively susceptible to the straight left hands of southpaws throughout his career. The former undisputed lightweight champion from Oakland, Calif., is nevertheless confident that southpaw Regis Prograis will not have the same success as his previous opponents with that particular punch when they meet in the ring on Dec. 9 at Chase ...
World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion Terri Harper will face veteran and former undisputed welterweight queen Cecilia Braekhus in defense of her crown this Saturday at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England. (photos by Mark Robinson) Harper will be making the second defense of the championship she won last September by defeating Hannah Rankin by unanimous decision. Although the ...
Bellator lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov says he’s too young, too fast, and too good for Brent Primus as he prepares to face the former champ at Bellator 300. Nurmagomedov and Primus were bumped up to the main event spot at the historic 300th Bellator show after the planned heavyweight title bout was forced off the card, and Nurmagomedov spoke to ...
Former UFC middleweight contender Derek Brunson’s free agency didn’t last long, with the hard-hitting 39-year-old already booked to fight with his new promotion. Brunson has signed a multi-fight deal with the PFL, and is all set to make his promotional debut on the biggest event of the PFL calendar. Brunson will take on former two-time PFL welterweight world champion Ray ...
Zhilei Zhang may have to resort to “Plan C” given recent developments in the heavyweight division. The hard-hitting southpaw heavyweight from China is coming off a rousing, definitive third-round knockout of Joe Joyce last month, a rematch of their first fight in April, which Zhang also won by stoppage. After the fight, Zhang indicated that he wanted to glove up ...
LAS VEGAS – Bob Arum isn’t concerned that Shakur Stevenson will follow the path of his mentor and eventually align himself with Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions to get the fight that he wants most. Terence Crawford left Arum’s Top Rank Inc., his longtime promoter, following his 10th-round stoppage of Shawn Porter in November 2021. That move later led to ...
Grant Dawson and Bobby Green may be about to throw hands in the main event of UFC Vegas 80, but Grant Dawson has a ton of respect for his more experienced opponent. Dawson and Green are set to face off in a five-round lightweight bout at the UFC Apex, with Green set to pose the biggest test of Dawson’s 22-fight ...